The Daily Dow: December 2008

Tayler

Tayler is 11 now and growing up more and more every day. She is a great helper and I must say it is nice to have her around all day. She is in 6th grade and is schooling through K12 which is a great online school. She is very responsible about getting her work and chores done. Every once in a while she needs some....pushing, but she always gets the job done! Ever since she and Kelsey have been home they have gotten along much better than they ever have. She loves to skate and is quite good at it. She is taking Gymnastics right now and is tolerating it very well! We love to tease her about her face full of freckles but secretly we adore them! She loves, LOVEs music and can hardly sit anywhere without singing.

Lucas

Lucas is all boy! He is big time into sports and wants to be a professional baseball player when he gets older. He just finished soccer and of course he was the best on the team! He is in 4th grade and is doing so awesome. He is striving for straight A's and although his terrible handwriting might not allow him to achieve it, we still think he is brilliant! He is a sweet boy and has lots of compassion. He is very good at playing with the foster kids and seems to enjoy having them (most of the time). I think he secretly likes it when they cry at night and he gets to go sleep on the couch! It is a good thing that Lowell has him to help balance out the girl hormones that will soon overrun us all!

Kelsey

Kelsey B. It is a good thing she was not born a hershey bar because she would have been eaten up long ago by all of us who simply adore her! Kelsey is a force all of her own. We figured she would be extremly athletic when she was jumping on the trampoline before she could walk. We were right. She is a menace on the soccer field and will probably take over her baseball team next year. After a short homeschool stint, she is back in "regular" school and things are going much better than last year. It has taken some work, but she has a great teacher and has made some new friends. She would still rather be home if she had a choice, but I sensed a hermit in the making and knew she needed to give it another try. But she is a doll and we love her to death!

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Wish me luck!

Well, we are off to Tahoe in the morning and I hear the high is freezing and the low is below freezing. Wish us luck that we don't get frozen in a huge block of ice! Hey Di, I hope you make it out of Utah with all your toes! -Sariah

Happy New year!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Make a Smilebox greeting

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

swimming hole

After camping we brought the Gibson's home with us for a few days. It was so stinking hot! We went up one of the mountains to the Madden's and they took us to a swimming hole near their house. We had a lot of fun!

Kelsey took a while to decide if she would jump off the little "cliff".

It took a long time, but she finally made the jump.

It really does look bigger from the top. That is Lucas taking the plundge.

I am sure when it warms up again, we will be headed back, we had too much fun.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Camping in Morro Bay

Well, I was trying to figure out where to start this blog thing and I decided to start with this summer. I already sent pictures of our Boston trip and I can't see where the Tahoe pictures are so I decided to move straight ahead to the 4th of July. We had a great big Dow/Gibson Campout at Morro Bay and it was so very nice to escape the Bakersfield heat. Lowell found a fun place for us to camp just a few steps away from the beach. We had John and Jeanette, Lowell and I with our kids representing the Dows. From the Gibson clan, we had both Brice and George along with their families. We had a great time swimming in the freezing water and playing cards. Thanks for coming guys!