Hello

For our latest information read the Howell blog! Thanks Geoff and Adam for your offer to help Mom with the boutique. Tammy talked to Tim, and he said he would help her on that end. So neither of you will need to come.

We hope that all of you have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. By the way, are any of you available the Monday before or after Christmas to help us with a family home evening at Heritage Place. I know you all had so much fun doing it as children and you have to admit it has been awhile. Bring your violins. However let me know this week because I have to let the Heritage Place know Sunday.

Dad

We are still alive

Hello everyone!!!!!!!!! We are still around. As you can tell we have been extremely busy and haven't been able to find time to post all of our actions. But that is a lie we are just lazy. I have been busy at work, pouring doll molds, exercising (getting ready for the Wasatch Back Relay next year). I am excited about it. Mom has been really busy getting her dolls on Etsy (Yesterdaysdolls) and also getting them ready for a boutique in Provo the day after Thanksgiving. She has made lots of porcelain dolls and also getting some paper dolls ready to sell. We will see how that goes. That is about all for now, more later.

Flaming Gorge Trip

We had a lot of fun with our family at Flaming Gorge this past weekend. The time went way too fast, however. The river run trip was a lot of fun, and the scenery was way cool. Mom especially had fun going over the rapids. It was good that everyone was there. We missed Dallas and Troy though. Thanks to Mindy for organizing it and for all of her work.

Sorry we haven't written for so long. Our life is mostly boring. However, we did enjoy enjoy a Family Get-together with our family and Tim's family. Everyone from both families was there except Brandon. This was on Sunday, July 13. We were so happy that Mindy and her kids could come visit for a few days. I took a couple of days off from teaching so I could tag along with her and have fun. We visited Jason and Dallas, met at a park with everyone who could come, and ate out. We enjoyed watching a baseball game, where Jason, Dallas, Brenda, and Geoff played. They wholloped the other team pretty good. We enjoyed shopping at TaiPan with the girls. We were sorry Felicia wasn't up to coming since she had just had surgery a few days before. I was sad to see Mindy and her kids go home, but knew they had to get back. The house was too quiet after they left.

Last night we went to the fireworks for the 24th of July. It had been awhile since we had gone. We went with Geoff and Felicia. Adam and Shannon met up with us soon after we got there. It was really really fun.

Flower arrangement

This is a flower arrangement that your mom made for the living room. It is on the stereo in the corner by the curio cabinet.

We enjoyed conference and look forward to it. I especially enjoyed attending Priesthood meeting with my sons. We went to eat at Pace's afterwards and enjoyed it. I enjoyed listening to President Monson it is wonderful to know that we have a prophet today and that the Lord loves us enough to speak His will to us today. It is nice to know that we can know the things that we need to do and that we can return to live with him as families.

I've been busy with the usual stuff, you know, like teaching violin lessons and going to the D.I The funnest thing I've done lately is look at houses with Geoff and Felicia. Thanks for taking me with you! I really love the house they are buying. It will be so nice when they get moved in, but we'll miss living close.
I have also been enjoying watching American Idol. I LIVE for American Idol. There are some really good singers, and acouple that are NOT! I'm hoping for David Achiletta and Brooke White, both of which are LDS.
I'll write more later. Be good, and don't fight. Love, Mom