Katherine's Page

Katherine is tall and graceful. She has beautiful true brown eyes and lovely thick dark hair and a great smile. She is 10 years old, soon to be 11 and a 6th grader at Forsythe Middle School. She is our 1st born Granddaughter and Owen's sister.

Katherine was know as Kate from the day she was born until the 1st day of Kindergarten when she advised her teacher "you can call me Katherine". She has been Katherine ever since to some family members and remains Kate or Katie to others. Her early childhood friends call her Kate, but her school friends call her Katherine. She is happy either way. I call her Katherine, her Papa solves the problem and just calls her Rag Mop. Her mom, dad & brother mostly call her Kate. Except her mom more often calls her Birdie. Nicknames are a southern thing and huge in the Boggs family.

Katherine set out very young to out read her brother and now reads and comprehends at college level. She just finished reading "Heaven is Four Real". It is wonderful to see her read for pleasure. She loves Greek Mythology and will say her thanks and prayers to the Greek God’s –for example if it’s a beautiful day with the sun shining, she’ll thank Apollo since he’s the God of the sun…
Here is a list of some of her books

1. Percy Jackson (Greek Mythology) series 3 times. She even wrote him a letter.
2. Spiderwick Chronicles 2 times
3. Alcemist
4. Blubber
5. Where the Red Fern Grows (multiple times)
6. Are you there God it's me Margaret
7. The entire Bone Series (the book was 3 inches thick)

This is just a few of the many, many books she has read. I think she is currently reading "The Help".

Katherine likes crafts and sewing. She has made several outfits for her pal Patrick a build a bear dog that has gone every where with her and taken part in every celebration for many years.

Kate is clever, and smart, and witty with a wonderful sense of humor. Example a few years back we were discussing the band the Beatles and then starting teasing about Beetles and somehow ask Katherine how to tell the difference and she said because one is spelled Beetles and one is spelled Beatles. I think she was about 7ish.

This is her most recent picture taken especially for this blog.
I'm sure I have left off many, many things. But this is a snapshot of how I know Katherine on this day.

We are most proud of her and the direction she is heading as she transitions from Little Girl to Tween. We love you Katherine Theresa Powers with our whole hearts.

First day of school September 2011.

Grandson Owen's Page

Hello Family, Friends and Guest,

I have decided to dedicate a page to each of my grandchildren as I know them at this point in their life.  I will start with Owen the oldest and work down.  Each will be a separate blog.  Papa watched Owen when he was a baby, from about 8 weeks to 16 months.
Owen is 13 years old and in the 8th grade at Forsythe Middle School.  He has a most beautiful smile and a great head of hair.  Owen is very kind and kind hearted to others.  He is especially gentle to his two little cousin's 3 years old and 9 months old.  He has new friendships and long standing friendships.
He loves working on the computer playing Video games. Yep Owen sure does LOVE video games.  He has been using the computer since he was about 18 months old.  I have a picture of him somewhere on his knees with a pacifier in his mouth at about that age on the computer.  He has even taught himself to play the keyboard and piano from the Internet.  He plays video Music and shows other how on You Tube.  He also plays Trombone in the school band for 4 years now.  He is very good and I love to watch and hear him play.  You can listen if you like here http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBlacKoopa
Owen tries to explain a game to me, but for me it is like the adults in Charlie Brown, WA,WA,WA,WA,WA.  Still I try to follow along.

Speaking of school, it comes pretty easy to Owen so he really doesn't have to work REAL hard to get good grades.  He likes school and as we all know that is have the battle.  One subject he likes a lot is physical science you know with Bunson Burners etc.  Of course another is Band.

Owen likes a lot of different foods and the good thing is, he is willing to at least try new things.  His favorite TV show at this time is Lost and he knows it in and out. He can be witty and he is just starting to take an interest in clothes.

Owen has many nicknames (damn southern in fluents) ODog, Owie, OlieConolie, Onun, Otis & Oak Tree.

Owen is still willing to talk to his parents about anything.  We are very proud of him and the direction he is heading.  Keep Up the Good Work.  We Love you, Bon (Papa too)