Monday, May 26, 2008

Catch Up (May)

First I am soooooo sorry for the tardiness in my blogging. I still have to blog all the way back to Mother's Day and soooo much has happened since then. I am going to start off with Mother's Day!

May 11th, Mother's Day:

We all went to church (Boppy, BMom, Pop, Nanny, and all four of us). Johnathan got dedicated that morning, which was so special. Then we took pics of all the moms together with their "child"... BMom and Jason, Pop and Nanny, me and mom, me and my kids, etc. Such a wonderful day. Here are pics of the dedication and the others:








































May 17-22nd (Jason Gone to Venezuela):

I made it through the week without Jason. It was better than when Johnathan was littler. He has a schedule now and it was much easier to be alone with them both. I attended two Premier Jewelry parties and a Mary Kay party when he was gone. Poor Johnathan had to endure being around all of us loud women all week....

May 17th: Brianna came to spend time with us the Saturday Jason left. We went to the spray park (see pics here).














Brianna is 1 month younger than Julia and is potty trained, so OF COURSE Julia wanted to use the potty like Bri. This was NOT in my plans as I was trying to wait until the following week when she wasn't in school anymore. Well, yeah....no that didn't happen. So after a couple of panty throw aways, I had her potty trained by the time Jason got back from Venezuela...well, all but number two. We have number one down, but number two isn't happening yet. She gets two raisins when she goes potty. Sounds weird, but she is CRAZY about raisins...we have to limit her.
Jason was excited about her accomplishment when he got back from Ven, which by the way he said was one of the best trips he has been on. It was our first collegiate trip and the students really soaked in everything being taught to them through the leadership material as well as the door-to-door evangelism stuff too.

Here is a pic of Julia and Johnathan. And that's it for May!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

"Professional" Pictures

As promised, here are some of the pictures that Beverly Toney took a while back...Johnathan has gotten soooo much bigger since these pics, but I'm so glad we took them.

Also, I'm going to be posting about my week (and prior weeks!) this weekend. I haven't blogged because my computer won't allow me to download pictures...I have "low disk space" and can't download any more pictures...eeeek! But I can at least write...

Okay, here are some of the great pics Beverly took:






































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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Weekend Update

This weekend was the first family reunion of three that we'll go to this year...JUST on Jason's side. Um, my little Howes family has never had ONE family reunion, ever...let alone THREE (well, not an organized one anyways).

Last year was the first year that we did not go to any of the reunions, so it was nice to see family again this year.

Here are some pics from the weekend:













What's Uuuuuuuuuuuup???? (Video)
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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Three Month Comparisons

They have some similarities...Julia had darker hair...

Julia at 3 Months in 2006 and Johnathan at 3 Months now










Julia at 3 Months in 2006 and Johnathan at 3 Months now












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