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!

"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:

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)

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

What in The...World Market?

Here is my "World Market" story. Last week, mom, Johnathan, and I went to World Market...the store with tons of fun things to look at where they jam pack tons of those things into one not-such-a-big store.
Go with me here: I have Johnathan in his carrier inside one of the small World Market shopping carts (like the grocery store). Mom is off shopping somewhere else and I am pushing Johnathan up to the front to ask the sales girl about an item out front. I get my answer and off we go. I push him along the side wall checking out the vases, pick it up, check the price and put it back. I push him a little further, pick up the glass jar that would look oh so cute on my kitchen counter, check the price and put it back. Oh, the pillows down there are so cute...pick it up, check the price and put it back. Get the picture? I was just shopping...me and Johnathan, Johnathan and I...mother/son time...perfect. I get a little further down where they have all of the furniture so close together you have to turn sideways just to get through. As I was trying to get my shopping cart through, I bump one of the tables and chairs and look down to see if I woke Johnathan up.

Um, I look down and I realize, as I'm in a state of shock, I had been pushing the display cart full of the World Market's POTATO CHIPS WHILE MY SON WAS STILL AT THE FRONT OF THE STORE WHERE I LEFT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am loosing my ever loving mind! How embarrassing! I'm sure people were looking at me with this mound of potato chip shopping cart thinking, "wow, she must be having a party or something!" or maybe they were calling CPS on their cell phones, I don't know. All I know is that I quickly walked back to the front of the store to retrieve Johnathan.

I yell out to my mom who came from behind the towel section. I reenact the whole scenerio, she took this picture (kinda blury from her cell phone, but those are ALL chips!) and SHE wheeled the chips back to the front for me. Thanks mom! Soooooooooooooo, next time you think YOU'RE having a bad day - just keep this story in mind.










Okay, here are a few pictures of Johnathan and Julia. He found his hands last week and is just talking talking. It is the SWEETEST sound to a mother's ear. Check out the video here:


And this may be a little R Rated...but I HAD to share an item we got at the diaper shower. It's a PeePee TeePee. It's what you can cover the ol' dinga-ling-aling with when you're changing diapers. Viewer Discretion Advised:









My Aunt Mavie, my mom's sister, was in from Vermont. She is Julia and Johnathan's Great Aunt Mavie and we jokingly call her Graunt Mavie, but she prefers Aunt Mavie instead, so that is what we call her.




















We had the Bishop's and Roach's over for dinner on Friday night. Kind of a last minute deal. Here are pics of the kids eating their dessert.




















Last but not least...I think I'm seeing the pot belly that I've been waiting for starting to pop out on Johnathan now. I LOVE it! Hopefully at his next weigh in, Dr. Geutersloh will be proud!

One and Two Month Comparisons

I was looking at some old pictures of Julia on my computer at work yesterday of when she was 1 and 2 months old.

I thought it would be neat to show as Johnathan gets older, comparisons of the two of them when they were the same age.

One Month














Two Months

Okay - I'm Back!

Thanks for your patience. Wow! Such a busy life....they are all up there now. If you start from April 4th on up, you'll be all caught up with our not so exciting life.

Grab a cup of coffee...Love!