We're not in VA anymore - we're near Kansas

The Bowick Family has found it's new home - Searcy, Arkansas. We are very excited to be part of a new church family here.

We moved in Saturday, July 11th, thanks to the help of many people, especially Jon & Preston McLester from Orlando. They drove all our stuff from storage from Orlando up here for us...all we had to do was rent the van and fly them back - they blessed us SO very much! Numerous people from Fellowship Bible came out and unloaded us. Some of the ladies also unpacked my kitchen for us and have been blessing us with a couple of dinners as we settle into the new place.

Eldin is doing great with only a small set back of strep/cold, which he was nice to share with me and the baby. I'm currently 34 weeks pregnant and HUGE. We also have announced the name that God has blessed us - the new baby's name will be Ellis James Bowick. Ellis comes from Elijah and means My God is The Lord. We also wanted to honor Tony's step-dad Art Ellis. James is a strong biblical character and also in honor of Abbie's dad James Graham. Ellis is due August 25, 2010 - we will see :).

Tony will officially start work on August 1st, so we are blessed to have him at home to help us unpack and settle.

At some point I promise to post pictures! Unfortunately, I'm not able to at the moment. My goal is to post some needed updated photos BEFORE Ellis gets here, because after that this site will be about the Bowick boys :).

Update

We are in now in Virginia after spending a little over a week in Charleston, SC. I would love to upload/share some pictures, but this is just a quick update. We had a wonderful time in Charleston and hope to return sooner than later. We had a long, but safe drive up to King George, VA (near Fredericksburg).
Last weekend we went to the National Zoo and had a great time seeing all the animals - Eldin is still talking about it all. This week has been a little rough as Eldin has had a small relapse of an ear infection and I have gotten a full blown nasty sinus infection. We hope we heal as fast as it came on.
This weekend my parents are adding to the family with a new Golden Retriever Puppy! This is turning into a zoo itself - with the new puppy we will have a total of 4 dogs and 1 cat. Then in a few weeks my brother and his family will be visiting adding another dog to the mix and our beautiful niece, Olive.
I hope to post zoo photos, but until then I wanted to update that everyone is doing well. Baby "B" is doing good and giving his brother a run for his money with the kicking.

Please don't forget to thank any veteran or active military person you know and please pray for our leaders and those in the military.

Easter 2010

2010 Easter was a great celebration of our Amazing Lord! We had a great time during all the services. Eldin would repeat "Jesus" and "Risen" - oh so cute! Although his favorite part of the day probably was driving the cart with Terry Coon at IRC. We are so blessed.

Candy and his Basketball from his Easter Basket

2nd Birthday

We had a wonderful small birthday celebration this year. We shared the time with family friends, The McLesters, and "Uncle Bob" dropped by and gave Eldin the world. The McLesters hid Eldin's gift under balloons instead of wrapping. Little did we know, but the balloons needed up stealing the party. In trying to do something small we went with a cookie cake this year. Publix gave us a HUGE cookie cake. The cookie was almost an inch thick throughout! It was insanely and insanely good. Eldin opened gifts from family that could not be there in person, but will get their personal hugs soon.

Aunt Holly, Uncle Daniel, and Olive gave me an AWESOME outfit

Cappy & Gram gave me a great puzzle book, sailor hat, & a Rescue Center for my cars

Grandma Rose and Larry sent me a HUGE box with fun stuff

Preston helped me look & show off my awesome gifts

Blowing out the candles

Under a Spell

Papa & Nina Giggles

Easter Celebration

Ready to Hunt

Showing His Loot

Hunting Eggs with the Bunny (aka Aunt Kelly)

Hunting with the family

About to have his first Train ride

IRC UMC has an Easter Celebration each year and this year Eldin really enjoyed himself. He did amazing at hunting eggs. He tried the bouncy house for a small bit and then made a bee line for the train. He LOVES trains, automobiles, bikes, planes, etc. We waited patiently in line and then when it was his turn he had a blast. After the activities we went inside to have a hot dog and chips. For the Easter service there was a huge bridge built and Eldin enjoyed playing and peaking through on the bridge.