The Final Day Date for 2023

 

We went to a new state park for our last day date of the year.

The water must be low as we were able to walk by one of the 

buoys. 

We liked being by the water and watching the 

Sun sparkle on it. There is something soothing about 

Being by the water.

Not sure what this structure is for.

I hope 2024 will be filled with weekly day dates.

Kimberly 

No bugs, No birds, our final Bird watching date of 2023

 

We went for the last bird watching drive of 

The year.  It was interesting to see what birds were around.

I was actually hoping to see some Bald eagles.

It was very pretty out and warm.

It felt like we were far from civilization.

I was disappointed in myself as I forgot to put the battery in my camera. I also forgot the binoculars. 

Here is a list of the birds we saw.

We came up with the phrase “ no bugs 🐛, no birds”.

We didn’t see very many birds and there were no bugs.

The bathroom porta potties were really cold 🥶 too. 

Kimberly 

The Bowlby Family Christmas Letter

Dear friends and family,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season.

This past year seemed to fly by.

My letter is a little late this year because work has 

Been very busy.

Here is a little of what our family did in 2023.

In May Gabrielle graduated from the University of Utah.

She worked very hard in school and graduated with honors.

She now has a nice job working for a nonprofit in Salt Lake City. She will be doing some classes this spring to get some human resource training and certifications. At the end of December she is traveling to Japan. This has been a big dream of hers. 

Jacob just finished his last semester at BYU. He also is graduating at the top of his class. He will do his graduation in the spring. He is taking some certification classes to possibly work at hospitals as a medical translator. He is also applying to government translation jobs.

He is the social butterfly of our family. He is always out with friends, I’m sure once he finds a job and pays off some student loans he will fly out of the family home and into a home of his own.

Jim still works on fixing giant machines. On his days off he works on old car projects. He and the kids took a vacation to New Jersey this summer. 

I still work at the local grocery store.  I love my job. I enjoy helping the customers and the associates at my store. I get to train my team on all the accounting stuff for the store. I have a great team. 

On my days off I play wild life photographers.

I love going out and exploring nature and places in Utah.

Hopefully in 2024 I will find new places to go.

Thank you for sending Christmas cards and wishes.

Kimberly 

This is what our cards looked like.

 

Finding the perfect Christmas tree.

My husband likes living Christmas trees.

So we went to his favorite tree place to choose a tree.

I believe this little tree was 69.00.

Should we get this tall tree?

How about this fat tree?

 

Do people really get trees that have been painted?

This is the tree. 

I will show photos of it decorated soon.

Work has been very busy. 

But the house is decorated, the present are wrapped 

and I am able to relax before work.

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas season.

Kimberly 

 

Preparing for the Christmas celebrations!

At my work meeting I learned how to 

make a snow globe.

It wasn’t really that hard.

Every year neighbors bring Christmas treats to our house.

I am always unprepared for this.

This year I have bought a 

Bunch of boxes of candies.

Anyone who drops off a gift will 

Get a pretty box of candy.

Dyna had to help me.

We also finished writing our Christmas cards.

Well I finished. She napped in the sun.

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas season.

Kimberly 

 

I’m ahead of the Christmas crazy, already wrapping presents!

I actually feel ahead of Christmas craziness, I am actually already wrapping presents 🎁!

Most of the presents I am wrapping will be shipped off

To family who live in other states.

The other presents are for neighbors and coworkers.

We don’t have a Christmas tree yet, 

So I put everything around our cat tree. 

I have been enjoying listening to Christmas music.

I have given up on not eating sugar snacks. January will be my time to get my diet better.

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas season.

Kimberly 

 

21 Days until Christmas, sending out Christmas packages.

 

There are 21 days to Christmas. Pretty much every Christmas present is purchased. My daughter and I made our favorite Christmas treat yesterday. Whoopie pies. 

I have been wrapping presents and getting ready to send them out in the mail. I’m sending Herseys hugs and kisses.

A little way to send love ❤️ in the mail.

I hope to wrap up most of the gifts I have purchased this week. Then I have a few weeks to just relax and enjoy the Christmas season.  My daughter and I also got big tubs of popcorn 🍿 and watched a Christmas movie this weekend.

What are your plans for the holidays?

Kimberly