The Howell Family

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Note: Blog and more pictures are on previous entry.

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Brooke/Aunt Fofe/Grammie and Uncle Todd

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Brooke is so lucky to have lots of people love her! Grandma flew to Boise to take care of Brooke for Bryce's surgery. Brooke and Grandma flew to Vegas to party with Heather and Todd. They went to Todd's castle on his golf course, made homemade ice cream, went out to frozen yogurt, saw the flowers and the water show at the Bellagio, went swimming, put on make up, made barrettes, went to In and Out, read Ramona and Breezes, and colored. She had a blast. She is pretty lucky!!!! Thanks Heather, Todd, and Grandma. Bryce's Surgery went awesome. We are proud of him for his great attitude and independence. He was really blessed and feels like prayers were answered for him.

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We had a blast skiing this winter and the kids made lots of progress. The last week it was snowing and the kids couldn't wait to play in it!

This is Bryce on the chair lift with his coaches. I was a bad photographer becuase I am the slowest skiier in the family. The last week we got to see Bryce and his coaches a lot on the chair lift overtop of us, then he would lap us.

Fun with Brooke

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Brooke had a little Valentine's Day party. They made cupcakes, ate lunch and the got on the bus for school! It was fun!

She lost her 1st tooth on Tuesday and her 2nd tooth on Wednesday!

Sponge curlers!

Random Updates

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Wow!

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Nutcracker

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Brooke and I and our girlfriends went to the Nutcracker and had a blast again this year. We went to the lunch with the guys before.

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This picture Brooke is wearing my red coat from when I was a kid.

Bryce is in a choir and he had a performance Friday night. He did great! I am going to try tonight to get a video of his duet on the blog!

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Thanks Giving

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This is the 35 lb. turkey that Bubba cooked. It turned out great!

Babysitter and Craftaholic

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Brooke is already taking after her mother and cut her own pattern out and sewed an outfit for her dog. This was completely done by herself (seriously no help!).

Here is Brooke getting ready for her first class picture with her cute hair. Doesn't she look exicted?

Here is Brooke the babysitter.

Journey to the Center of the Garden

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The kids (Brooke and neighbor) wanted to have a picnic so they trashed my kitchen and made some sandwiches.

As I was pruning my tomatoes I noticed a huge nasty frog staring at me and screamed. Bryce was thrilled to have a new pet. He put it in a box with some dirt and it escaped. Later we saw it hopping around so I put on some gloves and caught it. We decided to return it to its home in the middle of the garden so it could keep eating bugs for us. I actually stayed there for days. Sunday Bryce kept leaning over to me during sacrement meeting to tell me that he hoped the frog was still there. Being the description expert that he is he said it looks like bubbling mud that doesn't move.

The Garden

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Little Dancer

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Brooke started a dance class. She goes in the morning before school and she loves it! The Studio is great and she loves her teacher. It's so much fon to watch her.

Kindergarten and 4th Grade!

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Aunt Val's Visit

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The End of Summer

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Thanks Grammie

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We have been blessed with lots of support the last month getting Bryce through surgery and up and going again. He is starting to walk again a little! We are so proud of him. He has a great PT. And he is allowed and encouraged to swim again so we are trying to get to the pool everyday. Some of the YW in our ward have played with Brooke and babysat and a couple of the YM have taken Bryce on walks and played WII with him. Grammie came last week and was a huge help. She even cleaned my fridge (it was pretty bad) among many other things. Brooke chose not to be in the picture with her because her hair wasn't done yet and she was in her jammies still. That would be too emberassing. Bryce earned his Cub Scout Wolf award last week. Despite the challenges it has been a great month and we feel very blessed and loved.

Puppy Love

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Brooke Kind of likes Chevy and he likes her too. The last three pictures Brooke actually took herself. I thought it was pretty cute.

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Brooke did an art camp this summer. This is her with her are teacher. She made lots of beautiful art.

This is Bryce's hip.
This is Bryce's knees.

Brooke told us that it was her fish Toilet Paper's birthday yesterday and she wanted to imporve his sad empty surroundings so we got him some decor.

Aunt Heather's Visit

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I had such a fun visit in Boise! As some of you know, I helped Lorraine put together this blog. Before I realized I didn't have my cord to transfer pictures, I snapped a few on my camera. So here's what I got:

Bryce's eye was amazingly disgusting! It's healing so fast.

Lorraine's garden is inspiring. I hope to get one like it soon!

These two are sure cute!

Bryce learned the "moonwalk" at sports camp last month. I rather enjoyed his rendition. And I think Brooke makes a great back-up dancer!

In honor of the late MJ, Bubba showed us his own skills.

Thanks Foofie

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This is Aunt Foofie's last day with us. We are so sad to send her home. She has been a huge help!

Bye Foofie and thanks Todd for sharing her.

This week's adventure.

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Enjoying an easy bake cookie and glad to be home!

Easy Baking and sharing!

Aunt Heather and Grammie brought us dinner. It was delicious!

After Surgery.

Before surgery. Bryce woke up at 5:30am and was brave and ready to go. We are lucky to have great doctors and everything went perfectly.

Rafiki on Bryce's Birthday

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Bryce's piano recital.

Learning to Blog

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Bryce wearing Hulk gloves at Rafiki on his birthday!

This is Brooke singing for her preschool graduation.

Brooke and I went to the Nutcracker in December. We dressed up and had lots of fun.

For Brooke's bithday we went to the park. She picked her cake design. She had a fun family party this year.

The kids at Grandpa and Grandma Witt's.

Bubba Cliff Jumping.

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Bubba took the young men camping to Flaming Gorge, Utah in June.