Fowler Family

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."

This saying is on a plaque at my in-laws house and I LOVE it.
It is a good reminder to enjoy the little moments because they are what bring joy
into my life.

I have been really trying to focus on the little things that are precious and have realized that even my typical day is full of them. So here is an overview of the past couple weeks and the little moments that have meant a lot to me!

A couple nights ago I was able to have a piano recital for my students.
All my students were able to make it except for one.
I love these kids!

Teaching has been so fun, although very challenging. But it really made it all worth it to see them play for their parents and friends.

Troy and been so supportive. He helps out when he can with the kids so I can teach and the night of the recital he went over to the clubhouse and set everything up and then sent me home afterwards and cleaned up everything by himself.

Lucieli and Radhika

I love playing duets with my students.

Shreya and her Mom, Pravi, are some of my favorite people ever!

Me and Sabarish

We had fun eating cookies, brownies, and pop afterwards.
Madison is playing a song for her sister. I have only taught her for 7 weeks so she was very brave to get up and play in front of everyone. I am pretty sure we are related to Madison. Her dad (from Idaho Falls) is related to the Waltons in Star Valley, and so are we!

Aspen, my very first student here in Iowa.

A couple days before our Recital I had a Pizza Party at my house for all my students!
It turned out great, and we had a lot of fun.

Grace Tidwell
This girl is awesome because her name is Grace Elaine, which is my niece's name and she is also going to be 6 this summer and acts so much like my niece. We also call her Gracie.

Playing a Fowler Favorite: The M&M game.
I had a few games planned, but we had so much fun playing this game that we ended up playing it the entire time.

And introducing two brand new students:

Katelyn and Kylie!!
I was going to wait until they were older but they have been begging me to start teaching them, so here we go. . .

The weather has been so warm and we have had so many fun moments siting outside in the sunshine, playing for hours at the water table and in the little swimming pool, riding bikes, going for walks, and playing at the playground.

We also decided to plant our own garden.

You have to plant corn when you live in Iowa
We also planted cilantro, green onions, carrots, green peppers, and some flowers.

So we bought dirt at walmart and ended up not having enough so instead of going back to get more, Troy grabbed the shovel, I got the container, and all 5 of us walked right across the street to the corn field and, shh. . . don't tell, but dug up a little rich, clay like, Iowa dirt.

Yum, don't mind if I do. . .
Masons favorite food: dirt, crayons, paper, and side walk chalk.

Boys + Dirt = Love

This was definitely one of those seemingly small moments that was so big for me.

The hot, humid weather has paid off. Here are some tiny plants peeking through the dirt and it had only been a WEEK since we planted the seeds.

Mother's Day Weekend/My Birthday Weekend was full of so much fun.

Our neighbor gave us and some of our other student friends tickets to go to a
Professional Bull Riding event.
It was such a small thing for him to do but it meat a lot to us and it was fun to be able to go do something that we would have never been able to pay for.
We were lucky and got some really close seats.

The PBR Event was on Friday. On Saturday we went miniature golfing, on Sunday we enjoyed Mother's day and on Monday we celebrated my birthday. We went out to eat and then went to the park.

The weekend before that will also be remembered.
We used to always go to the pet store so the girls could see and pet the dogs. Well, that pet store has been closed down for awhile, so we decided to take the kids to the Animal Shelter.

We fell in love with this dog:

His name is Tobey and Troy and I both agreed that if we were currently living in a house, this dog would have been adopted that day. He had the sweetest personality and was so gentle with the kids. It was hard to leave him and we really miss him and talk about him every day.

Katelyn and Kylie, with their friends Brooklyn and Aubrey were able to go to a 2 hour open gym at their gymnastics.

They are a lot more brave than I am!

They love jumping off the platform or swinging on a rope into this foam pit.

Trying to get a pictures of all four of them was impossible! Me and Ash chased them around until we finally gave up, but I got a couple of cute ones. Just wish Aubrey was in them!

Brooklyn and Aubrey gave the sweetest cards, written by their parents, but spoken by them to Katelyn and Kylie. I was asked to read them over and over, and they will be kept and cherished in their baby books!