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Welcome to the Rowan Family Blog! I finally gave in and decided to make one so that it would be easier for family and friends to keep up with little Miss Callie and now little Miss Hailey! I hope to keep a good record of the happenings in their lives and the joys that come with being a family. God has truly blessed us with our girls and we are so excited to be parents to them and Chile!

Thursday, October 9, 2014

hello there.

Hello everyone!
Wow! I'm back again after a few months off... opps!  As I'm sure many of you can understand, it's a bit crazy busy being a mommy of young kiddos.  It makes me really sad that I have done such a bad job of keeping this thing updated though.  I have two wonderful children and I absolutely love writing about them and sharing pictures of them with you all but man oh man- they really keep me busy!  There just aren't enough hours in the day.  There is always something that doesn't get done.  Anyway... back to the kiddos!
They have adjusted so well to the move.  We are all loving it here and have settled nicely.  Callie is involved in several activities.  She enjoys soccer, gymnastics, swimming lessons and Awanas.  All of that and playing with friends and trying to get some preschool in keeps us quite busy throughout the day.  Matt is staying pretty busy with work, but we knew that coming into it- and it's really not as bad as I thought it would be (although I hear it gets harder). 
My sweet precious Hailey just turned 11 months old yesterday.  11 months old.  How? Can time really be passing by this quickly?  I just had her.  Now she army crawls with speed all over the house, stands up, cruises furniture, waves, and even has words!  Right now Hailey loves to say "Mama, Dada, Baba, hi, bye, and uh oh".  Tonight it really sounded like she said Hailey right after Matt did... but who knows!  We will see if it becomes a trend before we say that she can say her name!  She also refers to Chile as "Dah"!  She is in love with Chile.  The first time she sees Chile in the morning she gets the biggest smile on her face!  It is precious.  At 11 months old Hailey is wearing size 3 diapers and 9 and 12 month clothes.  Everything that I am buying now is 12 months but she still fits her 9 month stuff pretty well.  She runs a bit smaller than her sister did at this age.  She still has bright blue eyes and not much hair!  Hopefully it will be ready for bows and pony tails soon!  Her favorite hobbies include, trying to play in Chile's water bowl, making a mad dash for the pantry if it gets left open, trying to play with everything that big sister is doing and finding full glasses of water to pull off of the living room tables.  She knows what she's doing too!  When she sees Matt and I coming she starting crawling faster to whatever mischief she is about to get into.  Her personality is really starting to show and she is a funny one!  Hailey loves to eat everything but also still enjoys Mama milk.  She is such a wonderful easy going baby. I simply cannot imagine our family without her.  She is a precious gift from God and we cherish her.  
Big sister Callie is growing in so many ways.  She is about 41" tall and 40lbs.  She was so proud that she could ride all of the 40" roller coasters at Disney.  This girl is a thrill seeker and is scared of nothing when it comes to rides.  The faster and scarier the better.  (Little sister seems to be the opposite... she doesn't like being thrown up in the air at all!  Callie loved this as a baby!)  Callie is reading simply books all by herself.  She loves reading Dr. Sues books and continues to get better and better!  The other day I asked Callie what she wanted to be when she grows up and she said "an instruction worker".  Of course she meant construction worker.  Hahah... Matt immediately started talking about how she could be and engineer and design the buildings.  But Callie quickly corrected Daddy and told him that she wanted to build the buildings!  Hehe so cute.  
Mom recently came for a visit and we were able to go to Disneyland.  It was a blast. Well I guess I should post some pictures now!

Callie with Doc!

Mom was such a great photographer!  Me and my sweeties!

Callie dancing!

I love this sweet baby!  She insisted upon drinking out of my cup. So big.

All the girls at Cars Land.

Callie seeing her buddy for the first time at Disney.

This girl was a trooper in the stroller!

Callie and her buddy riding all by themselves.

Bumper cars!

Have  you ever seen a cuter baby!  We got sooo many comments about her as we walked. 

The castle at night!

Callie meeting Mickey!

Callie  and her friends with Mickey.

The whole gang.  Aren't we brave?

Dancing again.

Pluto!!

Hugs for Daisy.



Hailey checking Pluto out.  She wasn't sure about him!

Hugs with Minnie.


The park was decorated for Halloween.  It was so cute!

Me and my littlest baby.

Aurora waving at Callie during the parade.  


Princess Callie

Princess Cinderella baby.


My beautiful Momma! So blessed to have her.  The girls adore her and so do I.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

May and June!

May and June were crazy, crazy months for the Rowans.  We packed, we organized and we moved over one state to the west.  We are now finally settled into our California home and we are loving it.  Yes, it is different and very, very isolated- but that also makes it fun.  Callie loves living on base and it is so neat to watch her get excited about the normal base things.  She loves going to the "commisaria" as she calls it... we keep telling her its the commissary.  She loves that grocery shopping and church are only minutes from our house.  She also loves that there is a bowling alley on base. She stands outside and puts her hand over her heart when she hears the national anthem playing at 4:30.  It's just the cutest thing to watch.  I'm so glad that she is getting to experience this and that she loves it so much.  We are only about 45 minutes from anything you could really want so hey its not so bad.  It is hot though, and very windy.  But hey, we are used to that.  I know that God brought us to this base and I know that his plan is good and right.

Hailey didn't really notice the move too much. It messed with her sleep a little bit, but we are back on track now and she is doing great.  She is still just the most easy going little sweet pea I've ever parented! Ha!  She is growing much too fast for my liking.  I love being able to stay home with her and watch her grow, learn and discover.  She is on the verge of crawling and is almost 9 months old.  Didn't I just have her?  I can't even believe I'll be planning out her first birthday soon.  I just told Matt the other night that I just can't imagine our family before her anymore.  She is a wonderful and sweet little baby and I am so very thankful that God gave her to us.

Well here is a picture update of May.

Hailey trying bananas for the first time.

Hailey gagging after trying bananas for the first time.

She was happy after it was all over!

Callie looking so grown up!

My little sweet pea!

More bananas!

Mom! Make it stop!

Now here are some pictures from our Red Rock hiking adventure.  In May, Matt's sister Lindsay and her husband Steven and my adorable nephew were able to come for a visit.  We had such a great time with them!  We decided to go hiking one day with them and our some of our best friends! Callie  was a little bit of a drama queen about the whole hiking thing... but about half way through she straightened up and had a blast!

 The Clark Family!

 Awesome views!

 The Fox and Rowan clan! Hailey and Jackson weren't interested!
 Super Callie!

Callie and Kev! 

 :)

She wanted Mommy to help too! 





 Crazy Uncle Steven!

Love these people! 





Callie and Mrs. Corrie! 



Sweet one of Hailey and Daddy! She loved hiking! 











 Well that was a lot!  I'll post more of June and Callies bday/fathers day soon!
God Bless you all!

Erin