Mini Bowyer Bonanza 2023

Josh's Aunt Gayle hosted a mini reunion for the Bowyer fam at her house in August. We had so much fun catching up with family from all over-as far as Texas and California!  

The boy cousins always have a good time wherever we go.

We got to meet the newest addition to the Bowyer family, baby Murphy!

Gayle and Amy put on Grandma Bertie trivia and I think Josh and maybe Brit tied as winners?

We celebrated a couple of birthdays.

Of course there was tons of delicious food.

Rainy Kings Kaleidoscope Concert

Kings Kaleidoscope is one of our very favorite bands, so pretty much any time they come close we get tickets. We upgraded to the picnic table section again and boy we were glad we did that this time!

At this venue you're allowed to bring outside food in so we stopped and got food from Kuma's Corner which was right by the Hi-Fi Annex. Food was fantastic!

The kids could go right up to the stage, it was really cool!

Looks nice and sunny right? Ha, right in the middle of the opening act it started just pouring down rain. Tons of people came to seek refuge under our umbrella but it wasn't providing all that much protection honestly. It did keep us from getting soaked so that was very nice. 

After.

As always they put on an incredible show. So thankful they come through Indianapolis fairly frequently!
 

First Day of School

Crazy to believe the boys are in 8th and 5th grade this year! They started out strong and were fairly excited to be going back.

Got in a little golf after being at school for a couple of days!

Once again hunting Pokemon downtown. This time I joined them for a little bit and we got some great food from a food truck during the farmer's market!

Josh's parents took them to the drive-in. It was Ike's first time going. They both had a great time!

Pokemon with some of Dave's friends.

I am very proud of how my lavender did this summer! Not that I did much to it but I can take credit right?

Hot peppers from the garden. We had a pretty good year with the super hot peppers.

Dinner including roasted carrots harvested from the garden. Doesn't get much better than that!

 

Evansville Trip

Right before school started back up we went on an end of summer visit to Evansville. We hadn't been down much at all so it was so nice to see everybody!

Watching over the grilling.

Buster loves Josh so much but I don't think it's exactly mutual, ha!

Helping with dinner prep at Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Kyra's house.

I can't remember what this game was called but it was a lot of fun!

More buster love.

River walks with Gamma to hunt down all the Pokemon.

 

End of the Summer

Gosh it felt like the summer just flew by! We had lots of fun adventures and plenty of good times at home. 

We got to go with some of the residential kids to the Tin Caps game on maybe the hottest day of the summer. Whew we were sweating bullets but had a great time!

Augie took the boys out to play Pokemon Go one afternoon-of course they had a blast!

Last couple of pool trips, one with the neighborhood and one with the Fry family.

Had to document the fact that the boys get to go downtown by themselves for Pokemon purposes. They absolutely love being able to go alone.

And finally some great garden hauls as the summer winds down. 

 

Grandma Mary's 80th Birthday

The weekend after we got back from Colorado we headed to Madison to celebrate Grandma Mary's birthday. They held it at Clifty State Park and it was cool to be back in the Hanover area again! Unfortunately it was very rainy but we made the most of it!

The whole crew:

The boys went down the night before with Josh's parents to stay with Emily. We came down just for the day.

Ike and Zac really enjoyed this eighty and fabulous sign.

It finally cleared up a little so we took a short walk to see one of the waterfalls.

It was such a fun day celebrating an amazing woman! Here's to many more :)