Sister Road Trip 2009

Well Katya and I embarked on our first ever road trip on Monday. It was quite an adventure. We headed to Hanover P.A. around nine-thirty in the morning with a small Agenda list thingy.

We listened to all our favorite music, sang along at the top of our lungs, and we talked and talked and talked.

Katya became quite the photographer in the car...I suspect she was a little bored. So here is the world from her perspective.

Oh and did I mention that red lights are perfect for sister photoshoots?

Katya seemed to like the yellow cars. I, however, am still partial to gunmetal gray.

Another Duckie Truky as we call them.

Well I forgot to take pictures I guess of our time with Aunt Joy. Haha somehow we managed to complete the entire road trip with only pictures of ourselves...anyways, we had a lovely visit and then around five went to my grandparents house for the night. (But before I go on I must state that I hate one way streets and think cities should learn to function without them. They make for very long, confusing trips through town.)

Ah yes...a sleepy picture for you.

And a silly one.

Coloring in the kitchen.

I was excited to be going to bed while Katya seemed a little less thrilled

Tuesday morning we spent time with Aunt Phyl and Uncle Bill and watched the inaguration with our grandparents. Then we headed home...and listened to all the same music. =) We don't like change.

We had an uneventful drive home and will be planning our next road trip soon. Probably sometime in June. Maybe next time we will venture farther out. China is still in the planner for my 35th birthday!!!

(I just like this pic and pretty much had to include it.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Standing in front of the fake tree on Christmas Eve with the parents.

P.J. Pants on Christmas Eve!!! I think this should be a Bowers tradition. Oh and I signed myself up for a Winter Break Course at MC...call me crazy. So Kristin and I will be in Rockville Monday-Thursday from 2-5:45pm starting Jan. 6th. Fun times ahead. Enjoy the rest of your Christmas Break everyone! Merry Christmas!!!

I really should post...

Well if my all my sibs have blogs and post regularly I figured I should at least put up one post every once in a while. I was just in NYC with my dear friend Anna S. for her eighteenth bday celebration to see Phantom. (Gotta love the cell phone pics) And Tomorrow...I'm going back! This time with the Poalma's and my wonderful mother, to see Janice in Dear Edwina. It's going to be a wonderful and cold day!!! Can't wait. =)

The Lutz

http://www.amelialufang.blogspot.com/. Pray for Liv and her family as they are in China adopting little Amelia!

~J

My life the past month or so...

Here are my picassa web albums....

http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/Banquet2008

http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/PhillyAndGraduation

And you can click on "...public gallery" to see the rest.

Okay thats all.
~J

edit: And this one too...http://picasaweb.google.com/rubberduckie823/17thBirthdaySurprise

Happy People =)

Jeremy and Angela are engaged!!!!!

~School is better than I thought.......

Ahh...the last day of summer. (Like what the calender would say.) I must say this school year has been awesome! I can't wait until it looks like this outside!!! Today after my piano lesson, Anna and I took a back path as we walked to her sister's house to meet up with her mom. Its our favorite to take the backpaths as when the leaves change it is absolutely lovely! Then in November when they are all laying around on the ground, we will get to hear the crisp cruching noises as we walk over them. My glasses will fog up when we reach Jessica's house and soon...her baby will be born!

Hm....I love most of my classes...and tolerate the others. Homework isn't terrible yet, so when I have a smallish amount of homework, I spend my afternoons singing. I have been working on some show tunes...which are hard because I am not skilled enough to accompany myself yet. So it's awkward to stand in front of the piano and have to pluck out the melody lines...and hope I am singing it in the proper time signature and such.....oh well, perhaps one day I'll be good enough at piano...but not yet.

I can't wait until it gets colder. Today I put on my winter coat and walked around outside for a bit. But then I realized it was way to warm to be wearing it. (Though I really, really wanted to.)

Well that's just about it.

~J

Tribute to Polka Girl

Well, today is a very special day! It's Lizzy's birthday!

Ahh yes....volleyball. Two years of hilarious memories...prob. some of our first "real" ones. "Be one with the floor." Spontaniously conbusting! "Josie, sit down." Practicing with face paint on the way to practice and not being able to get the paint off in time....=) Having our coaches confuse us...especially when we were #5 and #15, both with long brown hair and glasses. Boy.....we looked like nerds in 7th grade!

Baha! Science class! Comprehension Chicks, Tackle This, Bouency=happiness. Me getting out of doing the crayfish disection because I insisted I was allergic. ;) You always skipping class to do History homework....that drove me crazy. You and your mom lauging at me....for being....me. Learning how to knit and making all those ugly scarves for charity.....CPR on my birthday. "Don't laugh! Pay attention class!" Putting the fake body in the front seat of Mrs. Fortier's car and watching her reation. =)
Surprise parties! (I don't have any pics from yours.) Haha! You being so surprised that you slammed the door in everyones face and ran away. Me winning the "who knows liz the best?" game. (Haha, who else?) Me arriving at my surprise party and not realizing it was a party for me....and being in my pajamas....=)
Gettysburg!!! Me following you around the entire time cause I wasn't friends with any of those ppl yet. Leaving Anna at that place and loosing her. Crying in the car when Mr. Emelio and Mr. Hollandsworth were saying that, "We lost one in action."
Ah....Europe. Yes everyone, I am going to talk about it. Live with it. Working for what seemed like an eternity in a warehouse........"Dance is Red!" "Thank you for that helpful piece of information!" Writing all over thos orange slips of paper. Trips to 7eleven. Shooting bb guns and paint ball guns. "Now the point would be to hit the target..." Chocolate hour. "Smile, it builds self esteem." "Make your own elevator music." Sending crazy emails about how excited we were about Europe. "It's just around the corner....one day it will just jump up on us. Boo!" "I dare you to go around saying that to ppl." Waiting to Polka dance. =) Where your nickname originated....

Being on the airplane...."I had a dream that she jumped out of the window!" The terrible food. Blec. My dream about the stuadess being a serial killer. "Where is she!" "Beef or Pasta?" Seven trips to that CVS-like place that I swere didn't have a door. "What is squash? I don't see any squash!" Walking around the Brittish Library crying....because everything was so amazing. Les Mis! Ahhhh! Cosette's voice! "Josie, are you okay? Are you homesick?" "No! Her voice is soooo beautiful!...It's not fair!!!" The walk home........interesting.........

That wonderful night in France....the eyebrows in the mirror....our waitress who got mad at us for asking for more water.=) Me shocking Mr. and Mrs. Wyzga and not knowing why. "Josie why are you lauging?" "Because all of a sudden I had the funniest picture in my mind...." The one and only time I have ever almost gotten upset with you. "Don't worry, she told me." ;)

The wonderful day in sienna, when we did absolutely whatever we wanted. Getting lost. Eating vanilla gelato. Napping in the Del Campo. Listening to Yellowcard, Carole King, Keith Urban and I forget who else. The umbrellas! Sharing belts cause you forgot to bring one. Me not overpacking for once. The trian to Rome. "I think tomorrow I am going to...." "You didn't wake me up?" "Look its a prop! Now I am good, now I am bad." "Josie you look like a racoon!" Lily and I videotaping the police officers and thier super cool drug dog.

Baha! Florence! Listerene! Getting to know everyone much better than we ever thought we would. Seeing David. Spalding! Octopus and Calamari and that wierd fish. You ruining all of our "serious" pictures.
Like that one. You smiled! Anyways....The food....the beverages....throwing the pennies over our shoulders in Rome, writing Case funny letters at three am while drinking Orangina and eating good chocolate. "There's nothing in....here. BYE!" "What the heck are these?" Doing geometry at dinner... Being on the metro...and freaking out. The puppet show on the subway. My body gaurds...
Thinking we never ever wanted to go home! Matching on accident on the way home from Venice. Doing all of our gift shopping at the very last minute cause we forgot.
Leaving. =( Snife. (Sniff....snifee. I can't spell.)
Sharing a love for music. (Though we have different tastes.) Supporting eachother during I Cantori concerts....literally. ("I hope we don't fall off!") Going to concerts. Or concert I should say. Baha! "She's standing up! It's the music!" "Did you see that girl? All of a sudden she like, was healed because of the music."

Baha, our drumsticks....."I touched all of them!"
Frederick....sigh. Me not telling you guys that I knew....because I didn't want things to change. Talking for hours and hours about it. All the wonderful talks. ;) Going to your new house for the first time. Looking into the future. "Framily" New York!!! Tea with your Aunts...exploring, "I told u this wasn't our floor!" The elevator!" "Right by the police station?" Walking around for four hours and buying nothing but two bagels and two pepsis. =) Watching tv with your uncle...our wierd dreams. Getting breakfast and not knowing what to do with the dishes. "Do we leave them on the table?" "I don't know, lets just see what that guy does." (Of course we waited for like thirty minutes until he finnally left, and left the dishes!) Makeup, hair, nails, shopping, Beauty and the Beast!!!
Zebras! Penguins, Storks, Lizzards, Fish, Pelequins, Moose and all of our other funny animal memories. Our mouse, Alfred, "There it is!" Wham! Katie's bird. (Wanting to drown it) Movie nights, where I always would fall asleep. Long walks.
Cape Cod!!! Twice. "Whambombadoo!" "Liz, can you translate please?" "Puuuuuussssshhhhh." The Spider at the little house...."it's okay, I have everything under control! BAAAA!!!!" "Unclean!" "Where is baskin robins?"
Oh Lizzy, I hope you have a Happy Happy Birthday! Thanks for everything! I love you, (and will give you your real actual card later.)

~Josie

A Summer Picnic with Friends

One warm day in Summer, Kristin had Liv, Lidsey, and I over for a picnic! (And it's taken me this long to put a blog post up about it!) Kristin made us this super good chicken, served with salad, potatoes, iced tea and many more yummy things. (She is an amazing cook!) Anyways, after a hike out to the perfect picnic spot, which involved crossing a river with two picnic baskets, a huge towel, four purses, two cell phones, eight pairs of flip flops, and four lauging girls, and a lovely meal and LOTS of talking, we decided to do a short photoshoot with Liv's camera! Here are the pictures. We played this senario game, where each person takes a turn shouting out a senario right before the timer on the camera goes off. Here are the good ones.....
"You just got the part that you wanted really bad in the musical!"
......Haha, I don't remember this one! But I like Kristin's face the best. =)
"You just got proposed to!"
"A bird just pooped on your head!"

Well that's all. Have a good week everyone!
~J

The J.A.K.E. Photoshoot!!!

For a while now, we have been begging Jen to do a photoshoot, with the four of us and her mad camera skills. So in Cape Cod at sunset one afternon, she did!
This one is my favorite. (The above one.)
But then, the wind blew my hair into Katie's face.
So she got sad, and we were sad cause she was sad, so we sat.

But then something made us laugh. (.......Do I laugh like that?)
And Katie got over the fact that my hair had blown into her face and we took a picture together.
Then Anna wanted one with me.
And so did Polka!
And we wrapped it up. There are like a million more....I'll put them up sometime soon. Thanks Jenny for doing this! Vacationing with you guys was awesome! So many memories and good times. =)

~J