Happy Thanksgiving!

Preschool Thanksgiving Feast 2009
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Jack's class made headdresses and came as
the Indians/Native Americans that helped
the Pilgrims that first Thanksgiving.
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The 4 year old class came as pilgrims and
the 2 year old class came as turkeys (too cute).
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After the feast the kids enjoyed some tribal drumming
from some members of the Crow Nation.
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Cool Stuff!

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Us Howes have so very much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Under Neat That

A friend sent this to me and I just had to share:

Okay, so this is how I imagine this conversation went:

Walmart Employee: 'Hello 'dis be Walmarts,

how can I help you?'
Customer: ' I would like to order a cake for a going

away party this week.'
Walmart Employee: 'What you want on da cake?'
Customer: 'Best Wishes Suzanne'

and underneath that 'We will miss you'.

STOP LAUGHING! You can't fix stupid.

Pebbles & Bam Bam

For Halloween I had grand plans of

making the whole family Halloween costumes.
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Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, & Bam bam
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I bought all the fabric & got started.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but
8 hours into my sewing project 2 things had
become very clear:
1. I desperately could have used a pattern
2. There was no way I was going to finish
all 4 costumes on time.
Bam bam & Pebbles
(Kent and I wore orange shirts for trick-or-treating.
My goal is to finish our costumes for next year.)
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It was too cold to go trick-or-treating bare
chested, but I thought the costume
looked better without the orange shirt.
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Here's my favorite part of Jilley's
costume- her bone bow.
This was the first Halloween everyone
was excited to trick or treat.
That's right, until now Jack's been a bit
of a party pooper.
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But this year Pebbles & Bam bam were
happy to fill their sacks with
other peoples' candy!
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Does anyone really like Payday anyway?
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Trick-or-Treat!

edge-a-ma-cation time

It's official Jackson's a preschooler!

Jack's 1st day of school picture

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He's part of the 3 year old Butterfly class at TLC Preschool

His teachers are Mrs. Kam & Mrs. Lucken.

And despite just moving to Ventura he does

know 2 boys in his class (from church).

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Jack, Dad & I are so excited to watch you

learn and grow this school year.

Listen to your teachers, smile, don't eat the paste,

but most of all have fun!

Open for Business

Jack's Auto Shop

Motto: You break it; we fix it!

Location: Middle of the hallway

Ventura, Ca.

Fees: We take all major candy bars

Testimonials: "Jack, alligned the wheels on

my walk and go. It's never run better."-Jillian Howe

Eye Spy

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Our new camera kicks our last camera's trash!

It's easy to use & I don't know when the

kids have looked cuter!

A perk of moving...

Boxes!

Jack was happily busy for hours with this box while all his loud,messy, expensive toys sat abandoned. Go figure.

Poor Jilley, it's really not fair to post this picture, it's not flattering, but I just can't resist!

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PS-We're 99% unpacked, just one box to go...

Something borrowed

Today I visited one of my favorite sewing/crafty blogs
Little Bit Funky*
and found this beautiful thought.

I find myself praying
a lot
to be a better mother to my children.
I love this visual reminder.

I've added this to my blog with
the hopes that it will be as inspiring to
you as it as been for me.

*Crystal said this image was free to grab,
that's why I took the liberty of adding to my
blog, but not without due credit (of course).
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If you "grab" this image too, make sure you
hop over to Little Bit Funky and leave
a little comment... I'm just saying.

"That's Not My Name"

Here's a sneak peak at my running tunes...starting Monday.

50/50

We're moving!

And believe us, there's nothing harder
than leaving somewhere you
truly consider home.


We're going to miss all our wonderful friends,
our amazing ward, Ruby's on the pier, all the convenient
shopping, living so close to Disneyland, etc.
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But we know this is the RIGHT move, at the
RIGHT time, for the RIGHT reasons.
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And we're excited to be moving to a
familiar place, with family, friends, and fond
memories to make this transition that
much easier.



Ventura California here we come!



Ventura is a hidden jewel along the California Coastline.
It's my roots, beautiful, family oriented, &
a beach town we can actually afford to
buy a home. We'll be staying with my
parents, for a year or so, while we save up enough
dough for a down payment on our dreams.

We know you'll understand, even if you find yourself
on the short end of our stick.

Now leave us a comment. We know it's going to be
a 50/50 toss of love it versus hate this,
but let us know what you think anyway.

And remember, we love you
Huntington Beach, really we do... .


Additional Info-
*Kent will continue on with Secure Net,
just from a different location.
*We're tentatively set to move August 22, 2009.
*We want to enroll Jack in a preschool
for the fall. Does anyone have any suggestions?