Oliver's Blessing Day

Oliver was blessed on April 13, 2008. Today he is 6 weeks old. He still looks very little to a lot of people, but to me, he is already getting bigger. He was blessed by his dad. Brian did a great job of listening to the Spirit. Oliver wore the outfit that Brian wore when he was blessed. It was a little big (Brian was over 8 pounds when he was born and Ollie still isn't that big), but he still looked dashing!

More cute pics of Oliver

He's just so cute that I can't help myself! So here are more pics. Uncle Scott was in town for business all the way from Texas and came to visit. Then there's Oliver sleeping peacefully by his daddy. And more sleeping, just today in his bouncer with his arm sticking out. What a cutie!

Cute Little Ollie

Oliver is the cutest little boy. Here he is wearing a great green outfit that we got from Aunt Marie. I love the ears on the top of the hoodie! With his tongue out like that he looks like a cute, little frog!

Oliver Brian Bowles

Our cute little baby boy, Oliver Brian Bowles, was born at 2:26 pm on March 4th 2008. I was sick all day long the day before, so Brian and I went into the hospital. We got there at about 12:30 am on Tuesday. I was diagnosed with H.E.L.P syndrome, so they hooked me up to all kinds of IVs and drugs and we spent the night there. Then at 8:00 am, my doctor broke my water to induce me, seeing as the only cure for HELP is delivery. Things actually went pretty well and now our baby is here. I feel much better now that he's out! He is such a sweet boy.

Last summer we got to go on a cross country trip. Brian had a friend getting married in the Washington DC Temple. We decided to drive all the way there so that we could stop in Nebraska on our way and see some of our old mission sights and friends. We also wanted to get out and see the country before we had kids when a trip like that would be much more difficult. I was about 8 weeks pregnant at the time, which only strenghtened my natural motion sickness by about 10 times, but it was still very fun and a great experience that we will always remember. Here we are with 2 of our favorite families from Hastings, Nebraska and in front of the DC Temple with the newly married couple. August 2007