tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21477938988320391062011-04-21T20:42:18.938-07:00Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-88492546303679886112007-11-24T12:10:00.000-08:002007-11-24T12:23:48.601-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/R0iFzu3zClI/AAAAAAAAAEg/yQduBDQYv8w/s1600-h/100_8580.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/R0iFzu3zClI/AAAAAAAAAEg/yQduBDQYv8w/s400/100_8580.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136502498817935954" border="0" /></a>Carolyn and Mike drove down from Minnesota on Thursday for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Since I was spending the week at Kimberly and Brent's and Carolyn's Grandpa John was doing a turkey dinner at his house, I told them it would be okay to drive there and I would see them on Friday... What was I thinking? This meant I didn't see any of my children for Thanksgiving... made me a little sad and it was my idea. After the kids drove straight through and got to John's just in time for dinner... they decided to stay up all night so they could be the first shoppers on Black Friday... Crazy kids. You can see that they crashed and pretty much slept like the dead until we woke them for dinner. I got to visit with them while they were putting a puzzle together.... something Care got from her Grandma Mc... a love of puzzles, luckily Mike enjoys them also.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/R0iF0O3zCmI/AAAAAAAAAEo/E-KrqWZ5Kos/s1600-h/100_8585.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/R0iF0O3zCmI/AAAAAAAAAEo/E-KrqWZ5Kos/s400/100_8585.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136502507407870562" border="0" /></a>Kimberly snapped this picture of the three of us. It's a sweet picture and the kids seem very much in love... no news yet on a wedding date... more later.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-8849254630367988611?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-67406983537316955032007-10-20T17:05:00.001-07:002007-11-22T14:40:19.783-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqYXPgzg0I/AAAAAAAAAEE/OboawkZpGO8/s1600-h/100_8127.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqYXPgzg0I/AAAAAAAAAEE/OboawkZpGO8/s400/100_8127.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123575051155899202" border="0" /></a>Here is a cute shot of Hyrum and his sweetie, Jane. They came to pick me up from Kimberly's after we spent the day together.<br /><br />ps... Hyrum asked miss Jane to marry him on November 15th... oh, and she said yes. Yeah for them.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-6740698353731695503?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-66639442771235763782007-10-20T16:40:00.000-07:002007-10-20T16:54:15.861-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a small excerpt from Jeni's most recent letter:<br />Basically, I'm getting transferred, BUT because there aren't enough sisters (I guess they couldn't get a mini-missionary).. they're just keeping my new companion and I here... Yup, we're going to be a trio. The best part is that we don't know how long. It could be for a few days or a whole transfer. We'll see. So tomorrow at transfer meeting he'll tell us where we're going but we just don't know when. The other weird thing is that I'm training, but we'll be a trio with my senior companion. We're not sure what's going on with that. I could possibly be the first junior companion trainer that I've ever heard of! But it should be fun! We're going to go pick her up in a few hours!!! EEK!<br /><br />Jeni says winter is there and she had to get her fur lined boots... If you would like to read more about her mission, just let me know and I will forward her letters.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-6663944277123576378?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-87684337100392147042007-10-20T16:06:00.000-07:002007-10-20T16:39:51.533-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqQsvgzgzI/AAAAAAAAAD8/dWWo1YUgLnU/s1600-h/jeni.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqQsvgzgzI/AAAAAAAAAD8/dWWo1YUgLnU/s400/jeni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123566624430064434" border="0" /></a>Jeni with her companion, Sister Barker, and Zhenya holding her son Sion. (Zhenya is the Primary President in the Branch Jeni is serving in.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pictured below is Jeni with Valya &amp; Babooshka Olga<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqKvPgzgxI/AAAAAAAAADs/SzQD2z6-ras/s1600-h/jeni.a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 285px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxqKvPgzgxI/AAAAAAAAADs/SzQD2z6-ras/s400/jeni.a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123560070309970706" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-8768433710039214704?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-37182856513841780392007-10-20T14:27:00.001-07:002007-10-21T18:41:57.817-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxpzPPgzgvI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jMk0IdZmBtw/s1600-h/100_8078.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RxpzPPgzgvI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jMk0IdZmBtw/s400/100_8078.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123534231786717938" border="0" /></a>Kimberly and I went for a nice walk at Watkins Mill State Park. I stopped for a rest as Kimberly was snapping pictures.... all day!!! She snapped this picture also. She says it's a sweet picture.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-3718285651384178039?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-52329537086320824432007-09-08T14:07:00.000-07:002007-09-08T14:14:04.164-07:00<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RuMPNSwvR5I/AAAAAAAAAAU/Mbcz5sZmPv4/s1600-h/IMG_1804%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RuMPNSwvR5I/AAAAAAAAAAU/Mbcz5sZmPv4/s400/IMG_1804%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">So here is the most recent photo Jeni sent... As you can see it is flooding... she still looks <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">gorgeous</span>.... here is a small excerpt from her most recent email: "<span style="font-style: italic;">So life is good. It's been kind of a crazy week. The weather cooled down for most of the week!!! AMAZING! I've worn sweaters for about 5 days! We were actually really excited to wear pantyhose! I never thought that would ever happen to me! The fun thing is that the first day of the cool weather was the day of rain. It rained ALL DAY LONG and a lot. I waded through a river to get out of my apartment. I'll send a picture with this to show the fun that came from that.</span>" This was just a very small excerpt, if you would like me to forward her email, just let me know... more later.<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-5232953708632082443?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-66338636134007097362007-09-07T19:51:00.000-07:002007-09-07T19:52:23.796-07:00<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RuIOIiwvR4I/AAAAAAAAAAM/BUjOB8H_wWM/s1600-h/collage.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjHAw8IEaCg/RuIOIiwvR4I/AAAAAAAAAAM/BUjOB8H_wWM/s400/collage.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I loved these shots... they are all farely recent... Love the shot of Mom at John's graduation... Care Bear got cut out... but I figure she was in all the other photos... I will have to get a current one of Hyrum... Love you... off to bed now.... btw... bottom left pic... Carolyn and her fiance, Mike.<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-6633863613400709736?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147793898832039106.post-4956489729670918812007-09-07T19:08:00.000-07:002007-09-07T19:09:46.703-07:00So Kimberly forced me to do this... she has assured me it will be fun.... this may be my one and only post... jk... more later<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2147793898832039106-495648972967091881?l=bowenbanter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bowen Banterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07755579657579905185noreply@blogger.com0