The Howes House

Shelby's Photography... a few of my fav's

2009-07-10T10:03:00.001-07:00

Last night Larry seemed to brag on Shelby's photography ability, talent and skills forever. So I was inspired to blog a few of our fav's. Enjoy!

My little punkin pie princess is turning 14!

2009-06-18T14:07:00.000-07:00

How did she grow up so fast?

Sweet lil Boys

2009-05-08T14:04:00.001-07:00

I love these boys.. Even when i am being gunned down because somehow while folding laundry i turned into a bad guy and needed to be shot for a crime i dont remember commiting. I couldnt even escape death in the potty. Yesterday Jason burst in with, "Argggggggggg ye scurry pirate" and proceeded to cut my arm off.
It was very hard to do all my chores with just the one arm too. Next time i would rather it be a leg. At least then i could get a cool peg leg and hobble around on it. Never saw a pirate with a peg arm..lol

The Addy house

2009-03-24T12:55:00.000-07:00

I was looking through all the pictures on the computer and found some really great ones of our old house in Addy. Some of you got to visit us out there before we sold it, others didnt. So if you never got the chance to go out there or have no clue what Im talking about when you hear me say the Addy house..here is a look at what life was like in my dream house.. with all the land to go with it:)

Side view of the house.. from the driveway..

The back yard..

Back of the house.. spring time..

Breeze way

Upstairs rightside fireplace.. exit to deck

Left side upstairs fireplace.. My sitting/reading area

Upstairs kitchen.. i miss that fridge!

Downstairs family room.. you can see the Hot tub room in this picture.. left corner

All dressed up.. Momma's gonna lock me up!

2009-02-21T16:45:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of Shelby and friends at the President's Day tournament. If she wasn't such a good girl I honestly believe I would have to lock her up in the attic. ( maybe I will anyway..hehehe )

Sarah Beara

2009-02-13T08:12:00.000-08:00

Momma's Girl

So pretty!

I love my lil friend... ( Lindsey is not so sure ..lol)

I love this little girl. She is so sweet, funny and just adorable! I dont know what we ever did without her. She has started talking just a little. She can tell you NO, say belbe (for Shelby) she loves on you by puting her head down and saying ohhhhh ohhhhhhh. If she wants to smack something she usually tries to get away with it by adding the word Nigh..which means Nice..lol
Im so blessed to have her. She is so much fun and brings so much joy to our house!
Praise the Lord for giving me such wonderful family

Laughs with Jason Lane..

2009-01-30T07:20:00.000-08:00

Im pretty like Shelby:)

Do i look like the HULK? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Yep my cereal can swim.. I poured the milk all by myself while you went potty!!

Look.. now I can eat and drink like a puppy!!!! WATCH (actualy what he said)

Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:

Nathan turns 15!

2009-01-12T15:41:00.000-08:00

All The Boys!

This weekend we had a late bday party for Nathan. He got to invite 3 friends. Daniel, Jon and Ben. They had a wonderful time showing their manly skills then went bowling with Larry and Bro Kobernat:) The Morrows also came and Tina was such a blessing by serving up all the banana splits!!

Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW!!!

2008-12-20T12:04:00.000-08:00

Sarah's 1st time in the snow!

our backyard!

Last week it started to snow and snow and snow some more! It is beautiful and we are really enjoying playing it it. Here are a few pictures of all the white stuff!!

To my family.. here are the answers before you ask. No I'm not driving in it much and when i did nothing good has come of it. No wildlife comes to ourback yard for me to shoot it and use the backyard as a freezer so dont ask little brother!! No i do not live in ALASKA and no we dont see the northern lights here. Yes it does get dark at 4:30pm. Yes school did close for 2 days but the Wal-Mart stayed open!! :)

Go ahead and cry about it....

2008-10-23T09:41:00.001-07:00

Did you just tell me no?
Really.. you mean .. no

I Dont like it when you say No!

I'm gonna cry about it

Shelby was able to capture in pictures something that i will be able to use against Sarah for the rest of her life..lol
Here, for all to see, is my sweet little girl throwing a fit! Someone took something from her or Shelby told her nooo nooo, and this was the result!
I believe this is only a glimpse of things to come! LOL

Horses, Chickens and Dogs Oh my!

2008-10-04T06:57:00.000-07:00

A few weekends ago we went to Papa and Nana's. it was a lot of fun for all of us. The little boys got to run around and play, chase the chickens and we all rode the horses. Here are a few pictures of the fun!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Sarah.. Health food junkie!!!

2008-09-04T20:40:00.000-07:00

As most of you know, Sarah does not like sweet things. Up until now she made "yuckie" faces and would not eat any fruits or anything remotely sweet. That was until she discovered the OREO.. it was all down hill from there. Shelby captured her downward spiral into junkfood oblivion as it took place. Please view these photos at your own risk. They are ... real! We did not crop anything out.. what you are about to see are true and actual photo accounts of a junkfood junkie on a real binge!! Oh the horror!!!!

Shelby's Photography

2008-09-03T16:30:00.000-07:00

Here is some of Shelby's latest works of art! Enjoy

Lets paint our sister!

2008-07-10T19:55:00.001-07:00

The other day the boys were being creative with paper and paint. They were painting all kinds of amazing pictures. Some were so amazing I couldn't even tell you what they were!As they were busy painting pictures for daddy, I walked into the bedroom to make my bed and when I came back out they had taken their creativity off paper and were making their sister their new canvas! Jason had also painted himself blue and green, his favorite colors! He was very proud of his artwork!!! I had to just laugh! I told them how they should only paint on the paper and not each other and especially not their sister! These are wonderful times, wonderful memories! Kids truly are a gift from God! Enjoy the pictures! Jason painted the one that sorta looks like a dog. ( he is obviously the artistic one of the younger 3)

Jason's fun time in the bathroom!

2008-07-10T19:40:00.000-07:00

It started out as a normal trip to the potty. You know the routine... get on the potty.. go and get out right? Well not for Jason!! He went in.. sat on the potty and then looked around and found the powder. That's when the fun began! As you can see from the pic's he had a wonderful time creating a canvas of white through out the bathroom. It was fun for him until I opened the door and the look on his face was nothing but Uhhh Ohhh! I just started laughing and me and Shelby started taking pictures! These are the moments that so much fun! I love my kids! There is never a dull moment!

Surgery for Justin

2008-07-03T08:21:00.000-07:00

Last monday Justin had a
tonsllectomy. Our nurse
Lakay was great. She had
the horrid job of starting
his I V. She had a bit of
trouble because of the
new needles they
switched to. So he had to
be stuck 4 times. Even
through that he did really
good. He asked to get to
see them once they were
out and we even got to
take a picture! Here are all
the surgery day pictures
for your blogging
enjoyment. (sorry if you
get grossed out)

Sarah Ellen ... The prettiest little girl around

2008-06-20T11:11:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to Sandpoint ID. to see the Samples. We had alot of fun and Angie got the camera out and worked her magic on Sarah. She is so good that i wont ever get pictures done anywhere else. Nobody can do what she does i tell ya.. she is the best!!! For those of you who dont know Angie, I have her website listed on my blog in favs. so you should check it out!!! The pictures that Im posting are the ones Shelby took with my new camera phone. She loved being in the stuido snapping pictures along with Angie. To see the ones from Superwoman Samples ..ya gotta go to her site:) Here are the pictures of my beautiful, sweet, amazing, wonderful baby girl!!

Fun with our food...

2008-06-09T18:24:00.000-07:00

This was one of our family nights. This one was Shelby's idea. Larry held out a bunch of kitchen gadgets and the first one we touched we had to eat with. I got a spatula:) Larry got a wisk and it was alot of fun to watch him eat! Here are a few pictures of the fun we had!!! Enjoy!

Dawn VS Cascade = BIG MESS

2008-04-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

Its Tuesday night ..we have had family devotions and are now enjoy a crazy game of chicken foot domino's, we are all laughing and being too loud but having a lot of fun. The game is over so we go into the kitchen to have dessert and there are bubbles streaming out of the dishwasher covering the floor. Shelby had substituted Dawn for Cascade (because we had just ran out of Cascade) She reasoned that they both wash dishes and just figured she could use both in the dishwasher. Of course i just figured that she KNEW that there was a reason I bought both. One to wash dishes in the sink and one for the dishwasher. I had never told her that Dawn was not made for the dishwasher so she just did what she thought was right and in the end we had a BIG laugh at her expense! I told her that it was for SURE going on the blog. ( you can only imagine how happy that made her!) Here are some pictures for ya... be sure to mention to Shelby that you saw her art work of bubbles on the blog:)

Swing Set....From God

2008-03-30T21:26:00.000-07:00

As you can see we got a new swing set. It is AMAZING and we all love it! I had been praying for a swing set since last summer. Tina Marrow filled in for Mrs Rich during nursery one Sunday and while we were talking she said something about wanting to get rid of her swing set. I told her i would LOVE to buy it. After talking to Larry he said we could get it for the bargain price of 100$ but it couldnt come until all the snow was gone. Praise God the snow melted and the weather was nice for awhile and I called Tina and said we could finally pick it up .... while we were talking she said i could just have the swing set .. thats right! She GAVE it to us!!! It has been such a blessing! Its like having a park in my front yard! God is so good to us!

Sweet Sarah...3 months old

2008-02-14T12:03:00.001-08:00

Can you believe that Sarah is already 3mths old? She is so sweet and beautiful. She is coo'ing and smiling all the time now! Here is a picture big sister Shelby took! Yep i know she looks just like me...lol

SPOONS

2008-01-24T09:53:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays are our family game nights. Last week was our spoons tournament. You all know that i am pretty competitive but the kids totally put me to shame! Just take a look at these pictures and you'll see what I mean. It started out normal enough but after the first person got an S the game was ON and nobody wanted to be the looser! We had so much fun, laughing and cutting up! This was by far one of the most fun fulled family night yet! (I was not the one sliding across the table for a spoon this time...:)

Playing in the Snow

2008-01-10T20:32:00.000-08:00

We have really been enjoying the snow. Wednesday we decided to build a snowman after getting a TON of snow the night before. On Tuesday night the kids played out in the back yard burying themselves in the snow. (CRAZY KIDS) Here are some pictures of all of us having lots of fun in the white stuff!

New Hair Do!

2007-12-23T16:08:00.000-08:00

For Christmas Shelby got a new do! I took her to Karla's and she performed her magic and made her even cuter than she was! I cant believe i have TWO babies that are teenagers! I think this is my favorite hair do of all time and i think she is the most beautiful young lady in all the world!

Nathans Birthday

2007-12-23T15:57:00.000-08:00

We had a surprise Birthday party for Nathan on Tuesday. It was alot of fun. He got a new Bible and a Lego type action figure (neo shifter). The look on his face as he opened his presents was priceless! He had begged for the Bible all year and when the Book Man came to our church he really poured on the begging but we told him that we just couldn't afford it right then and to wait. He didn't like that answer and huffed off to sulk in the van..lol Meanwhile I bought it and had Amy Burkholder take it home and hide it for me:) The Lego thingy i got when we were shopping at wal-mart. I found it and asked if he thought Justin would like it. He expressed that YES his brother would like it but so would he. He stressed that he really liked the green one and I told him i would get the green one for Justin because it was his fav. color and in the buggy it went! He looked like he had just lost his best friend for the rest of the shopping trip! So anyway, when he opened his presents the first thing he did was apologize!!! It was a great time! But i cant believe he is now 14!!!

Sandpoint & The Samples:)

2007-12-10T09:40:00.000-08:00

This weekend we took a trip to Sandpoint to visit with the Samples family. Saturday night was the Christmas Ladies Meeting with guest speaker Amy Burkholder ( My A ) She spoke about our Sweet Savior! Each point in the devotion referenced a candy bar. Each time I see a Rocky Road candy bar it will remind me of the rocky road that Mary and Joseph had to travel to get to Bethlehem. The checkout line at any grocery store with candy will from now on remind me of this devotion. While all the ladies were fellowshiping at the house, the men folk went on a manly trip to a hunting store which was closed so they did the manly shopping at Wal-mart..lol. Then had a manly dinner at Burger King. After they returned Angie took our family pictures. That was a ton of fun in itself. (trying to make two toddlers and a newborn pose for pictures.... funnnnnnnnnn!!) Of course when I'm there I dont have the accent!!!! The baby boys really took to Asa! Jason warmed right up to Angie too. He had her kiss a boo boo twice!!! The bigger kids enjoyed playing video games and sledding in all that snow!! It was a fun weekend and we enjoyed our time with this wonderful family!

A month late but its better late than never right?

2007-12-06T09:49:00.000-08:00

For Amy's birthday we all went out to eat at Azteca. It was a fun time! Yes we were the loudest bunch there and we also seemed to be having the most fun.

After we had stuffed ourselves with huge amounts of yummy mexican food, we headed off to Build A Bear. Amy built a bear for Baby Burkholder and we all put a heart in so he or she will know just how much The Group Aunties love him or her. After that we walked the mall a bit doing some shopping. I should say that Amy, Jackie, and Cindy walked! I was pushed around in a wheelchair! (I was still pregnant and on bedrest ) It was a great night filled with fun and laughter! Here is a pic of her wearing the traditional Mexican Birthday Sombrero and one of Jackie at build a bear!

Justins Birthday!!!

2007-12-06T09:18:00.000-08:00

Tuesday was Justin's birthday! Can you all believe he is 11 already? He is growing up so fast. He gets more Amazing, and Handsome every year!! So for his 11th bday we had a spiderman theme and he got a pair of Heelys and a bionicle! He was super excited about the shoes and tried for a long time to try to skate around the house. I guess this is actually harder than all the little kids zoomin' past you in Wal-Mart make it seem. Im sure having a broken little toe wasnt helping anything:) But i bet he has it down in no time!

Surgery Day for Shelby

2007-11-26T15:22:00.000-08:00

Today was surgery day for Shelby. She had her tonsils and adnoids taken out. She did good through the surgery and the nurse said that the first thing she did when she woke up was take a deep breath and say "I can Breath" She is having trouble taking her meds so be in prayer for her to heal quickly. For now I am going to pamper and spoil her like she did for me when i was on bedrest.

Sarah Ellen Howes

2007-11-16T10:28:00.001-08:00

Our new baby girl was born Saturday Nov. 10th at 8:36pm. She weighed 7lbs 5oz and was 20 in. long. She is perfect and wonderful! Here is her photo from the hospital. Thank you all for your prayers!

God has a plan -- His way is perfect

2007-10-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

No matter what is going on in your life you have to remember, God is in control... He has a plan, and His way is perfect. You don't have to like it or understand it. Just accept that He is in control and know that whatever your going through He knows about it.... If He brings you to it, He will bring you through it!
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Lots of Good food and I didnt make any of it....

2007-10-17T08:53:00.000-07:00

So bed rest does have its benefits! Sunday Amy Kobernat came over and brought 2 big pans of enchiladas.They were SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!! The food was amazing but i loved the fellowship just as much! When she got here i honestly felt like poop but it wasn't long before she had me laughing and i was feeling much better. She is a wonderful friend and blessing!! But wait the blessings don't stop there.. Monday night Mrs Tucker and Mary brought some kinda potato,corn,cheese,ham casserole. It was very very YUMMY! Mary made the best cookies. They were so soft and chewy.. they were all gone before i could have the whole batch. I believe that the kids learned that if they didn't hurry they wouldn't get any...lol Last night Sarah Morley brought a (better than i have ever made) tater tott casserole. Then Amy B and Jake came by with flowers and chocolate!! Me and Amy hung out in my little section of the couch and talked longer than we probably should seeing how our men have to get up at 3am to go to work, but it sure was nice and it gave me an excuse to continue eating the chocolate she just brought. I wanted to be sure that she knew i appreciated the gift of yummy goodness!! I have the best friends/church family EVER! I cant wait to see what the rest of the week has in store. I know that Jackie is bringing something Thursday (has Jackie ever made anything that wasn't delicious?) Amy is bringing Chili on Friday and Bobby and Lisa are coming over Sunday between service for PIZZA (MY PREGNANT FAV) This is helping my bed rest time to just fly by. I am so so soooo blessed and spoiled. I could go on and on but i will end the blog here for now. Stay tuned for more tales and blessings from the sunken hole in the couch at the Howes House.

Bed Rest... Arggggggggggg

2007-10-12T11:02:00.001-07:00

So let me just tell you all right now how i DO NOT like being on bed rest. It is very hard for me to sit around and do nothing. Most of you know that i am a little obsessive about cleaning my house so to not be able to get up and "clean" is killing me. But don't worry I am being good and staying on the couch or in the bed. Jackie asks Shelby everyday for a report on what i have done..lol, Cyndi calls to check on me and she made me a AMAZING dinner last night. It was better than Olive Garden! Amy sends texts messages to keep me encouraged and my sister in law has been doing my laundry, getting things from the store for me and a bunch of other sweet things! Everyone is being such a blessing. My friend Karla even went running around town trying to find a pharmacy that could fill my prescription! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful group of friends and family! God is so good to me! Please keep praying that everything continues to go ok and that i dont go crazy on bed rest!

Cyndi's Birthday

2007-10-08T12:33:00.000-07:00

So I know that this is wayyyyyyyyyyyy past Cyndi's Birthday but I just had to blog it anyway.
We went downtown to the Italian Kitchen (very very fancy) When we got there we told the waitress that she should probably put us somewhere away from all the other customers cus we tend to be a little loud. LOL But she didnt. (thankfully they were not that busy anyway) To start off the dinner we all had a round of lemon water and Pepsi. Of course that gets us all crazy and so we go straight into opening the gifts. We wanted to do something special for Cyndi so we all chipped in and got her a spa day! She is such a great friend and is doing an amazing job of keeping her house running, faithfully serving the Lord and continually having a good attitude and smile on her face all the while she is missing her best friend / other half who is serving our country in Iraq. What a wonderful blessing she is to us all.:) So enough mushy stuff.. on to the funny... After the food and about the 3rd round of Pepsi we were laughing and cutting up so much that in the far corner opposite of us, a man started to stare and wonder what in the world must be in our sodas.. (this line is for you Amy) I wanted to shout over to him .. NOTHING its all the Lord.. We are just happy in Jesus!!! Happy Birthday Cyndi!

Jacob

2007-09-10T12:58:00.000-07:00

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox

Jason Being All Boy

2007-08-30T19:53:00.001-07:00

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox

Photographer Shelby

2007-08-30T18:16:00.000-07:00

Shelby is the little photographer of the family!! She goes around snapping pictures of everything. I think she is amazing and does such a great job. Her favorite thing to photograph is flowers. Here are a few samples of what I like to call her "art work":) Enjoy!!

Nathan's 1st Day at FBC 8/28/07

2007-08-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

For the first time in his life (and maybe the last lol) Nathan LEAPED out of bed this morning! I didn't even have to enter his room. He heard me in the hall and before I got close to his door I heard him say.. "I have to start my day" then leaping out of his bed he hit the floor and all I saw was a flash of boy racing to the bathroom to take a shower! He was very excited to be going to school! He put on his uniform and went down stairs to wake Shelby up to ask her how he looked!!! She being the good sister she is mumbled under her breath and told him to go away!! OF course I had to take pictures of this momentous occasion (which he did not like, but who cares I'm the mom and had to do it) After he ate and did his chores, we left a little early so I could stop and get him a 1st day of school surprise coffee! THAT made him smile all the way to school. Now when we got to school and he was walking in he totally played it cool. He acted as if it was no big deal and he had to be trying hard to keep the smile off his face that had been there all morning (teenagers!!!!) So here is a picture of my handsome 13yr old Nathan on his first day of 8th grade at Faith Baptist Academe

Family day at Manito Park

2007-08-24T08:46:00.000-07:00

Saturday we went to Manito Park. It was

beautiful and the kids had lots of fun. Shelby was the photographer for the day and she took lots of great pictures. We also went to Riverfront Mall and then to Burger King. It was a wonderful day! ( I

should say it was an almost all family day... Nathan wasnt with us. He got to spend the night with his good

friend John they camped out over the weekend and he said that it was the BEST

sleepover of all time!! )

Jaocb Starts K3

2007-08-24T08:28:00.000-07:00

We actually started last week but I havent been on the computer to add any new blogs. This was his first days work. He learned the letter A and the #1. He can tell you that the letter A says a as in Apple A says a.. a.. a :)

Family Fun Night & Fireworks

2007-08-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

Saturday was a "Clue" marathon! We played on and off all day. So of course right before bed the kidos wanted to play one more time ( i had beat their pants off all day!!) So we get into the game and started to hear what I thought were shots but it was just fireworks. Close to our house was a parade and they ended it with fireworks. We went outside and it looked as though they were right above our garage!! It was AWESOME! The kids love it! It was a perfect night! Except I didnt win the last game. Larry did! (He has a good game face..scary actually) Here are a few pics of the Fun that we had!!

Mother Daughter Day

2007-07-31T16:57:00.000-07:00

Teenage girls can shop!! We were going from 10am this morning till almost 4 this afternoon! Of course the boys and Shelby had energy to spare! I was doing ok as long as the bathrooms were not too far apart! We started the day at Target and Shelby found the cutest pair of shoes on clearance (& she used her own money). Then we were off to Old Navy and the Valley Mall! We ate some Chinese and the boys had Wendy's then we were off to Bath and Body Works! We put on lots of smelly good stuff. We thought that we smelled nice but Jacob very loudly and clearly (so that everyone could hear) let us know that we were STINKY!! It was very funny! We ended the day at the photo center thing and had our pictures taken so we could forever remember this wonderful day!

The Big 30 for Jackie!!

2007-07-30T21:22:00.000-07:00

Today we (A, B, and C) took Jackie out for a Bday celebration! We all went downtown for a fun filled time of food and friends. And that is just what we had. It was non-stop laughs as usual as we ate and watched Jackie open her musical presents!!!!! We proved to the people around us that nothing beats being high on the Lord!!! Happy Birthday Jackie!! Your friendship makes us all RICH!!!

2007-07-27T16:04:00.000-07:00

Cute Kids

2007-07-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

Kids are a blessing from the Lord. Just look at these cute kids and tell me they are anything but wonderful!!! Jacob and Jason are always good for a laugh. Nathan tells the most unfunny jokes that end up being funny. He truely is just a clown. Shelby is the actor.. always poseing or making faces (here is her Nanny McPhee pose). Justin .. well hes funny when hes not even trying to be but its hard to catcch it on camera so here he is being his normal handsome self!