Relay for Life 2009

Pa-Pa's luminary @ Relay for Life. Can you believe it's almost been 3 years since he passed away with lung cancer.

My mom's trip

my mother has left with my grandparents to DRIVE to Phoenix, AZ and possibly even on to Loflin (sp?), NV. Yes...drive! My grandparents are in their mid 80's. My grandmother won't get on a plane, and my grandad has macular degeneration...so my mom is driving the old peeps!

We tried setting up twitter on her phone and for some reason it wasn't working....until it does i'm going to twitter the texts that i get from their trip! It should post on the right side of my blog!

This should be interesting!!!!

since i'm just learning about twitter...apparently you can sign up to recieve twitters as text messages on your cell phone....and i know that ALL of you are dying to do that! :)

Pictures - but not float pictures

Who is this sweet

little girl that is rolling

her eyes and saying

"WHATEVER"?

Easter!

<----How did that egg get on top of that picture?

Shy little girl

This site is funny. FUNNY.

http://www.foundshit.com/

Nothing new here - enjoy these pics

Short & Sweet

"Banging" when we were knocking out the wall. Of course naked.

At the ranch...

Will you be my V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E?

Eating a "snackle" bar...

Christmas @ the Howells :)

Merry Christmas Everybody! Ashley & Blaine- Wish you were here!!!

It's me - Mimi

Robin hasn't posted in so long I decided to take advantage of her blog. I have experienced some extreme sadness in the last couple of weeks.

My mail, as well as my neighbors mail, is delivered to a little mail station. In the little station are twelve normal size mail slots and two large boxes for packages. Whoever gets a package gets the key to the large box placed in their slot.

Every day I go out to get my mail and I'm so excited - I can't wait to see what I received from my numerous online shopping expeditions. First I look to see if the keys are in the large mailboxes. If the keys are there, no one received a package. If the keys are gone - well, that means they are in SOMEONE's mail slot. Oh I get SO excited if one of the keys is gone. Then I open my mail slot expecting the key to be there. Some days it is, I use it to open the big mail box and retrieve my package. But some days the key isn't there. It must be in someone else's mail slot. I immediately go into a deep depression. Someone else received a package. It wasn't me. Oh the sadness I experience. I hope I get some grief counseling for Christmas.

Reegan's 2 Year Pictures

Great Expectations has taken our pictures since I was pregnant! Our pictures have always turned out extraordinary and these are no exception! Annette catches the TRUE Reegan in all of her 2 year old glory!

BTW when Ree is in her ballerina outfit she is not a 'balle-rina'... I was corrected by her one day and she told me "I not a balle-rina mommy I'm a 'balle-reegan' " :) Ya gotta love her!!!

http://greatexpectationstx.blogspot.com/2008/10/reagans-2-year-portraits.html

'Pickards' from Aug-October

It's been a while since I've uploaded pictures. I wish i had a good reason....but i really don't! Maybe this post will catch me up a little :)

I love this picture. It was the first day of school. Ree has KILLER bed head in the mornings!

Ree LOVES to be naked. One min you look at her and she is fully clothed shoes and all...I swear 10 seconds later she is naked as a jay bird and so proud of herself !!!She was insistent that she help 'Bang'.(and yes....naked...hopefully she will grow out of this stage!)

Kob and Ree's new toy....

Ree's B-day! Playing her new piano from Aunt Kim, while chillin with G-Gdad. I can't believe my baby girl is 2. She is so much fun and has a killer personality! She has an incredible since of humor!

Can we watch this new movie now? WOO-HOO!!! I'm Driving!!!!
Ree got her first hair cut at 2 years old! Her Daddy watched VERY closely to make sure Martha didn't cut too much!

Heather and the kids came down for Columbus day weekend! It's always fun when they come visit!

:)

Uuuuggg

Is it possible to love my new job and hate it at the same time? I love my school, principal, co teachers....but the work load is so insane! I want everything to be perfect....new lesson plans because I've never taught 6th grade history....i grade everything...i give the kids a million chances to make up work even though i preach to them that i wont...and grading...uuuuggggg...AND I took on the yearbook...by myself, I'm insane!

We had administrator walk throughs today. These are walk thru's from very high up peeps at the admin building. I know that i do my job well but it seriously stressed me out! I haven't REALLY been observed in ATLEAST 4 years...really 5 or 6. I am always paranoid that i'll screw up! I did well and got "exceeds expectations". After i was so excited that they were gone, i found out they do this atleast 4 times a year....on top of PDAS! HOLY MOLY!

Our house is looking good, they say they'll be finished by Friday...we'll see!

I will post pictures....really!

I'm with Mere, i would be a better wife, mom and teacher if i could work part time....but i'd be broke!

Next post: dedication to Reegan....she turned two on the 18th....wow...shes two!!!! How fast time flies...

What we've been up to....

There have been lots of things going on in the Howell house. you've heard of some of it but now you can see some pics!

This is how it all started. We wanted to redo our extra bath and tile the 2 hallways...

and then this happened.... Furniture on the driveway before the sun was even up....On a better note. Why does Reegan have a diaper on her head? Because she doesn't need it on her hiney!!! SHES POTTY TRAINED!!!!!! Remember the pic of the front door earlier? red floor...gone....wall to the left of the door ...gone...and the other wall is down to the studs and will be gone soon!

this was a week or so ago. there is tile down in the living and dining area. the studs are still in the wall. we are waiting on it to quit raining so they can brace the wall in the attic.
We made ree's closet bigger! the left hand 3ft of her closet use to be a desk! Now its all closet! can you see the new carpet in there too??


I'll have to download the pics from this week in the morning. Pictures coming up: new kitchen cabinet doors and drawers, enlarged master closet, and completed extra bathroom!

Did i mention that the 'guys' as reegan calls them have been here for 10 weeks. 2 weeks before the flood and 8 weeks after!

Reegan was listing the people that live in our house today the list was: mommy, daddy, reegan, and 'guys'!!! Well...they pretty much live here!

BTW I LOVE my new job!!!! More on that later....it's 10pm and my bed is calling me!