Here is a picture of Dan and Ben opening one of the crates from China with one of our wrought iron doors. Ben LOVES working with his Dad and brothers at the house.

Beach Pics

Here are some pictures from our trip to the Beach in North Carolina:

China Ball

Here's a picture of some of the corporate basketball. They took about 200 pictures of this particular game. If anyone's interested, we have 199 others.

To China and Back

These are pictures of Kent's recent business trip to China. He and his partner, Greg, spent about 8 days touring factories in Guongzhou and Shanghai (top left picture is at the factory where they made our wrought iron doors). They were able to find time to play a little bit of b-ball with 2 factory owners and some of their best players. The Chinese people they met were very interested in discussing the NBA and anxious to get some game time.

"Getting stronger"

The Bowler Family and their friends did their own personal 5K. It was their first annual 5K their main sponsor was Bowlers Inc. They did a custom course made by Amy Bowler and Dan Bowler (both runners of the 5K). They have been training every morning at 6:00 (some of the time) for two months. They are definitely "getting stronger".

Christopher Bowler-23 min. 39 sec.

Benjamin Bowler (on the bike)-31 min. 06 sec.

Daniel Bowler-31 min. 09 sec.

Steve Doughty-33 min. 16 sec.

Bradley Bowler-35 min. 06 sec.

Amy Bowler-35 min. 06 sec.

Emma Bowler-36 min. 55 sec.

Bonnie Doughty-36 min. 55 sec.

The Fastest Player

Ben completed his first TBall season this week. He loved every minute of it. He was awarded the gold-plated trophy for the fastest player and he truly was. He would race from the outfield to the lineup so that he could be first and then race to first base so that he could play that position - the only place where you get to actually touch the ball. He is already asking when he gets to play "real baseball".

Chris' First Date!

On May 17th Chris Bowler had his first date, and it was a Prom, too! He picked up his date (she actually thought we were going on a hike, so she wasn't dressed! It only took a 1/2 hour for her to get all the way ready :) in the "Great White Limousine Service". They picked up the rest of their group, there were 5 couples in the group. We were chauffeured by "Joe" (Kent). They went out to dinner. OK, well it was our friends house and we all brought part of the meal, but it was nice! Then we played some games and then we took off for the dance. The dance was great, and we took a group photo with a "professional". Chris' date (Ashley) had a really awesomely huge, purple dress. The only setback was that Chris kept stepping on it:) They danced for a while and they decided they wanted to go to Ashley's house to watch a movie. Her parents made them all Ice Cream sundaes and then Joe took everyone home. It was a great first date for Chris, he quite enjoyed himself.