HUGE UPDATE!!!

So, so sorry for the HUGE delay in the update of the blog. It's been a really busy year and well, the blog was the last thing on my mind : ). Things have sort of slowed down so here's the year in a nutshell....

January: We found out that baby #5 would be joining us in August.

February: I don't remember a whole lot due to wonderful morning sickness : (

March: Taylor's 7th birthday.

April: We bought our first house!!!

 May: Mason's 4th birthday.

June: We celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary!!

 July: Claira's 3rd birthday.

 August: Kenton Dee Howell joined our family on the 20th. Weighing 7lbs. 13oz. The delivery was quite the world-wind!!! 18 minutes, that's all I have to say : ).

 This pretty much sums up Kenton's everyday living since he got here. We all love him very much and are glad he's here.

September: Taylor started the 2nd grade at a new school(since we moved it's a different elementary school).

There it is for now....I promise no more long breaks. Halloween pics to come soon!

December 2012

Of course, they had to sit on Santa Clause's lap : )

Taylor's art work was on display at the UW
Art Center(it's the castle on top)

Our annual ginger bread houses

Garrett made me a stocking hanger : )

I have always wanted an awesome Christmas advent calendar, but I refused to buy one.....so, 
I made one : ).

Halloween 2012

Right before going trick-or-treating.

My birthday cake.

Jack'o' Lantern Quesadillas.

Mac 'o' Lantern.

Hotdog mummies ; )

   

 Spaghetti with eyeballs.

Taylor's pumpkin that actually turned out quite creepy.

My surprise birthday present!!! I'm so excited. I had to leave my other piano in Ohio when we moved. It's in good hands(I gave it to my sister-in-law, Andrea) but it's nice to have a piano in my house again : )

Fall Begins...

Went to the Wyoming Territorial Prison and did a pumpkin walk and a  straw maze and
painted pumpkins.  All kinds of fun fall stuff.

Gotta love the cousins together : )

Candid straw wall photo : )

Gar's newest creation. Bunk beds for Taylor and Mason!!

Finished product. They love them!!!

Here in Laramie, they have what's called a "Downtown Kick-Off." All the businesses downtown have booths and advertise for business. This is Gar's booth. It's all happening, here real soon he will have a brand new clinic and patients!! I'm very proud of him and all of his hard work.

Oh yeah, and this is happening too. Don't know how I feel about it yet, but bring it on right?

Things Are Moving Right Along....

 Taylor started 1st grade last week. So far so good : )

Garrett's clinic is still under construction. They've started putting the dry wall up, so 

hopefully things will get moving a little faster.

And this pic is just for kicks : )

Major Update!!!

Well, I guess I'll start where I left off....Mason's 3rd birthday was in May.
Spider-Man themed obviously.  

Garrett graduated from the Optometry program at The Ohio State University in June.

We bought a 1986 Knickles bread truck to haul all of our stuff in. Yep, this bad boy fit all of
our stuff and made it across the country : )

Claira's 2nd birthday was in July. We spent the summer living with grandma Howell waiting for Garrett's paperwork to finalize, and had a family reunion and  took a few short vacations.

Finally, August 1st we moved into our new place in Laramie, WY. Garrett is licensed in Colorado and Wyoming, currently seeing patients in both states. His clinic here in Laramie, should be functional in October(the building is under construction).

In a nutshell, that has been our life....we had a few other things happen like Taylor can now rider her bike with no training wheels(which she loves), she has also lost about 5 more teeth and is starting 1st grade Sept. 4th, Mason has picked up on the awesome-ness of Tranformers, Claira is still a pistol, just a very verbal one, we sold the bread truck and got Garrett another Buick since we had to leave his baby in Ohio, and we have spent a lot of time with family and we're loving it!! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!

Well, my baby is 6 years old!!! For her birthday we just took a couple of her friends to McDonald's. She wore her pj's all day(per her request) and all in all it was a good day.