The Howell Crew: Albert, Cindy, Natalie & Kaitlyn

2011-03-10T08:26:00.000-06:00

I can't beleive I have a 10 year old today!! Natalie turned 10 years old at 1:30 a.m. this morning. Wow how time flies. She has grown up to be such a sweet, caring daughter.

2011-01-26T12:33:00.005-06:00

I know I am REALLY behind on blogging. It's been crazy around my house between sewing, family Christmas get-togethers and birthday parties!! A couple of weeks ago my brother and his wife came home. We had such a great time! My girls LOVE their Uncle Cliff and Aunt Anna. We also went to my nephew's 1st birthday party. I have pictures below...he was so cute and his cake pictures are too funny!

Sweet Little Man!

Showing off his birthday shirt I made him

Ok here we go.....the cake

Oh isn't that cute finger tips in the icing being shy......yeah just wait for it!

drum roll...........

It went from sweet little shy man to shoving the whole cake in his mouth within seconds.

Too funny!!

Pictures

2010-11-22T09:58:00.003-06:00

I had a little photo session with the girls yesterday to try and get Christmas card pictures. I think we were successful.

2010-10-26T07:58:00.003-05:00

It is SOOO hard to believe that my sweet little baby girl has went from this.........

.......to this in such a short amount time!!! She has grown up so fast. Happy 6th Birthday Kaitlyn. We love you and you have been a blessing to our family. You definitely keep us on our toes!

Sewing

2010-10-01T07:59:00.001-05:00

Here are a few things I have sewed lately.

Sewing

2010-09-22T08:40:00.004-05:00

I really got into the sewing mood this past weekend and made the girls some shirts.

Here is a birthday shirt I made for Judson McGee. I can't beleive he is already 1!

Homecoming Parade

2010-09-22T08:36:00.001-05:00

We had a great time at the Homecoming Parade! It was SOO hot, but the girls had a blast so that's all that mattered.

2010-09-15T07:51:00.002-05:00

Day 2--Back in Black

Well day 2 of Homecoming week was dress all in black so I didn't take a picture because it's easy to imagine all dressed in black.

Day 3--Rock Star

Here are my two rock stars! Of course Kaitlyn had to be Hannah Montana and Natalie just dressed like a rock star.

Homecoming Week

2010-09-13T08:45:00.002-05:00

Well it's Homecoming Week once again for Kosciusko. Hopefully we can be creative and have outfits every day. So here we go.....

Day 1 -- Camo

Sewing a little

2010-09-13T08:39:00.005-05:00

Here are a few things that I have sewed lately.

2010-07-06T12:12:00.001-05:00

I found the culprit that has been mashing my Hosta! She was so cute I couldn't resist this picture and definitely couldn't make her get out.

2010-07-06T12:10:00.002-05:00

Just a few things that I have made lately.

2010-06-04T11:56:00.006-05:00

Here are a few pictures of our Disney trip. It was SOOOO much fun. The last time we went was in Oct. 2005. Natalie was 4 and Kaitlyn was 1. Wow how the time has flown!!

The girls sporting off their umbrellas that they bought in the China pavilion at Epcot. They wrote their name in Chinese on it.

Of course there is magic every time you look at Cinderella's castle and Kaitlyn wanted her picture taken any chance she could get in front of it!

This made her day. Her absolute favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty.

And this is Natalie's favorite...Tinkerbell.

Waiting to go in the first day at Magic Kingdom. The girls were so excited.

The girls were called out of the crowd at Hollywood Studios to compete in a trivia competition. It was so much fun. At every Disney Park all the Disney characters loved their shirts and the girls loved it every time someone said something. Now I'm so glad I took the time to make them a different shirt for every day.

It was hot but I managed to still get smiles from both of them.

2010-04-21T08:33:00.002-05:00

Here are some pictures that I took of the girls this weekend. They are growing up SOOO fast!

2010-04-21T08:26:00.006-05:00

I know it's been a while since I've posted. Here are some Easter pictures from both of our Easter get-togethers.

Howell Easter

Kaitlyn and Kaylee.

Gavin

My side of the family's Easter

Kaitlyn and Kinley

Breelyn

Haley and Ethan

2010-02-04T12:05:00.003-06:00

It has been a long time since I've had time to post anything and as a lot of you already know my sweet little nephew, Gavin Drake, was born January 13th! I thought I would post a couple of pictures, especially the one of his proud cousins holding him.

Since my last post, we found out that we are expecting another nephew. Albert's sister Lora is expecting a little boy too. He will be named Caleb Joshua. It's funny that the two brothers both had girls and now the two sisters are having boys!!

2009-12-23T12:22:00.000-06:00

I know that I have really neglected my family blog. I have been SO extremely busy with orders that I just have not had time to post. Here are the Christmas pictures I took of the girls. We hope everyone had a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

2009-10-21T12:09:00.004-05:00

Ok, I finally found time to post again. Last Saturday Kaitlyn had her birthday party. She was so excited. She loves cats and dogs so she wanted a cat and dog party. I normally spend a little more time on their birthday cake, but this is what she wanted. It's a cupcake dog bone cake. Easy enough and it must have been good because I didn't have very many left! Here are some pictures from the party. I can't believe she is 5!!! My baby is growing up and all though we have considered having another baby, she has been my baby for 5 whole years......where did the time go???

Kaitlyn blowing out her candles.

Here she is opening all the wonderful presents she got including the "lots of money" she requested!

We rented a big slide and after about 10 minutes and Kaitlyn seeing if she could flip down it, I was beginning to wonder if I should have gotten the bounce house instead. She is definitely my daredevil!!

Yum, Yum!!

Ok, here is the only picture that I actually got Kaitlyn to be still long enough for me to take. She is still sporting her huge bruise on her chin that she got from a collision with some little boy's hard head at school!

Last of all, I had to make her a birthday shirt. I thought it turned out really cute, especially the little dog and cat with their party hats on. We had a great time and Kaitlyn received so many nice gifts. I just want to say thank you to everyone that got to come and we missed everyone that didn't.

2009-10-06T10:34:00.006-05:00

I know that I haven't posted in ages, sorry. But if you follow my sewing blog you can see why. I'm really going to try and do better, it's just lately I have literally been walking in the house, going straight to the sewing machine and usually finding myself still there at 3:00 in the morning! Last week I did get a break when I joined Kaitlyn and her class on a fun field trip to the Nicholas Boyd Pumpkin Patch. Here are some pictures from last Thursday.

Here is Mrs. Kristi's Class.

Kaitlyn loves this "swing" (it's a rope tied to a feed sack). I could hang one just like it in our yard and I guarantee the first words out of her mouth would be "Momma, I'm not swingin' on sack!!"

Here is Miss Independent going for the biggest pumpkin there was! I don't know where she gets her "I can do everything by myself" attitude at?????? Must be from her daddy!

Deep in thought over something or maybe one of the many serious conversations on the wagon as we were traveling through the fields. Believe me, we were entertained left and right!

Here is Kaitlyn and my niece Kaylee Howell. This is her first year at PDS and I think she loves it!!

2009-08-10T08:16:00.004-05:00

Jitters, jitters everywhere! Natalie had butterflies this morning about here first day of school. She was not as nervous as last year, but I guess that first day is always a little exciting and nerve racking at the same time. Kaitlyn on the other hand was ready to go! She was ready to see her friends.

Here is Kaitlyn's PDS school bag. She told me to make it as pretty as possible. She loved it, so maybe it will help those first day of school jitters.

2009-08-03T09:33:00.002-05:00

I haven't had a lot to post lately. I was super busy this weekend with sewing orders. I also made another cake this weekend for my mother and father-in-law's birthday. Hopefully things will slow down soon and I can be a little bit better at blogging more often!

Long Weekend, Cake Icing and Family

2009-07-28T08:42:00.003-05:00

I had a long weekend, but it sure didn't feel like it. We had a family reunion Saturday and my grandparents 68th Anniversary Reception. It was definitely a long day. Friday I spent ALL day baking and decorating 3 cakes for their reception. I taught myself how to decorate cakes about four years ago when I wanted to start making my girls birthday cakes. It's definitely time consuming, but a wonderful feeling of accomplishment once you finish. Needless to say when I got finished about 11:30 Friday night, I had icing from head to toe, but I thought they turned out pretty and my grandmother loved it......that made every minute spent worth it!

Bears, Birds and Trains.....What Fun!!

2009-07-06T12:36:00.005-05:00

We ended up going to Memphis. It was a lot of fun for the girls. We spent all day at the Memphis Zoo and had a blast!

They absouletly LOVED watching the polar bears! We have been to the Memphis Zoo several times in the past, but this is the first time that the bears were so social!

Feeding the birds was another favroite! You can buy a food stick as you walk in and if you hold your stick close enough the birds will climb on. Natalie and Kaitlyn both ended up with at least 3 birds on their sticks.

And of course we had to ride the train! I let the girls enjoy the train ride with their Nana and Papa so I could get a picture.

Back from Daytona...

2009-07-06T12:09:00.002-05:00

I posted last week that my husband was leaving for a Nascar trip to Daytona, FL. Well needless to say I do believe he had a wonderful time. Oh, and if it's not noticeable in the pictures what driver and team he likes, well it's Dale Jr. #88!

Florida, Tennessee and Homesickness

2009-07-01T08:25:00.004-05:00

My girls and husband are SO excited this morning. We usually do not take separate vacations, but I guess this is really just a mini one. Albert is flying out in the morning for Daytona, FL. He is going with his cousin to a Nascar race. He is VERY excited, but also already homesick. He hates being away from home, but I'm sure once he gets to the track the homesickness will pass! My girls and I are going to take a mini vacation with my parents to TN!! Even though we have a pool in our backyard, the hotel we are staying in has an indoor pool, so that's all they can talk about.

Here are a few new things that I sewed last night.

2009-06-26T11:26:00.001-05:00

Sewing Site

2009-06-25T16:07:00.001-05:00

I added pictures to my sewing blog that shows some of the things I've made.

The Beginning…

2009-06-24T12:58:00.004-05:00

Hopefully I can be a dedicated blogger! Several of my friends wanted me to set up a blog with the items that I have been sewing and selling. So finally I have decided to do both, a family blog and a sewing blog. I have a link for my sewing blog on the sidebar. I have just started creating it so hopefully I will have pictures on it soon.