As in “yes sir!” and “no fank you, sir”.

At least she has good manners…

And then, here’s the kicker, the other day i get dressed 

and she says “OH! MAMA!! YOU LOOK HANDSOME!!!”.

hmmmm.

thank you??

i think we are having gender identity issues over here.

daddy needs to come home, stat.

Looks like we have the sickies yet again.

Harper has been feverish and super emotional since yesterday.

Crying,crying,crying, crying and more crying.

Which means mommy has a headache and is super short on patience.

I keep praying for strength and patience. I need to be a good nurse.

She can’t help the way she is feeling.

So looks like the forecast for today is full of lots of hugs, love, tinkerbell, and popsicles.

And prayers that Sadie and I don’t get whatever she has.

Is this what it is like once you have more than one child? Is someone sick

all.the.time?

I haven’t taken Christmas pictures yet…

I ordered the girls this dress from Hanna Anderson (thanks to a great holiday sale they had):

I did take these HILARIOUS photos the other day.

The girlies were in matching pajamas and cracking me up with eachother.

Yes, I know never to use a flash. Yes I know the color is off.

But I don’t care! Mama didn’t have time to “set up the shot”!

I had to go with the flow.

Pajamas are Carters.

I’m pretty sure H is talking in this one (as always).

Okay this one makes me laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. SO representative

of the two of them.

Mama, why won’t Sadie leave me alone???

awwwww!

That’s it from the Howell household. I’ll leave you with another LO I did for Right at Home.

xo

s

The Sadie Bug a year ago:

Last night:

Don’t you LOVE our tacky all pink 50’s bathroom? Hee!!

I love the original pink tile, but the walls, the bathtub? Ewww.

Come on. The little lady before us must have LOVED pink.

And country blue and tacky yellow Formica, but I digress.

It’s funny b/c I had so many things I was going to do to the house while J was gone.

And ALL of those things have fallen by the wayside.  I don’t think I knew that our 

focus was going to be on getting through the days, not remodeling the house.

Oh well, lots for him to help us with when he comes home.

Many of you have asked if I could share my Christmas decor.

I just didn’t get too into the decorating this year. 

There are a few things I want to share though, so I’ll do that later this week.

Hopefully I’ll get some photos today.

Hope you all have a beautiful day!

I’ll be back tomorrow with a fun giveaway.

XO,

s

my scrap room/the girlies play room used to be a porch, and it was later attached to the house.

there’s no insulation out here, so it is COLD early in the morning and late at night.

brrrr.

re: yesterday…for those of you that said I was the all red matchy matchy dorothy hamill haircut wearin’ teacher’s pet…you were right! hehehe!

harper’s new thing to say is “mama pell (smell) my breaf (breath)”

i don’t know where she got it, but it’s not my favorite thing she says.

nor is it my favorite thing to do. heee!

here are the chickies yesterday.

told you, i LOVE fall and winter clothes.

Sadie’s hat is Old Navy, her pullover is Gymboree, and the pants are Target. Boots are Robeez.

Harper’s hat and scarf were made by a friend. Her dress, tights, and boots are Target.

As you can tell, the leaves in our back yard need to be raked. That’s one of the things that falls to the wayside when daddy is away. We have a super sweet neighbor that was mowing his front lawn the other day and just decided to keep going and do ours as well. It made our week. (that was the pneumonia/ear infection week).

When it warmed up a bit yesterday, we hit up the flea market.

Apparently we haven’t been missing anything, it was BAD.

Once again it was almost all ginormous polyester (or something) panties,

sunglasses, fried snacks, and bunches of crap.

Which, as appealing as it sounds, is not what I was looking for.

But we did find a few things:

That’s about it for today.

Hope you all have a lovely Sunday.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a fun post.

xo

s

I was so excited, but couldn’t share until this month.

So needless to say, I’m so happy to spill! I am NOT a good secret keeper.

Thanks so much for this opportunity, Layle!

Here is what I made and here is where you can see everything.

I will be back tomorrow with some more layouts and a fun website to share.

Hope you are all having a beautiful day and that you are staying warm!

xo

yes, that may be me jinxing myself, but I think we are.

i don’t recommend combining one with pneumonia, one with an ear infection,

and one sick mommy all in one house.

i am very grateful the past few weeks are over.

God gave me JUST as much as i could stand. it was very close to being more than enough, hee!!

so moving on…

this one:

1. Has four teeth.

2. Has officially taken her first steps. She can’t do much more than four steps, but she enjoys practicing!!

3. Pulled down the Christmas tree twice already.

4. Squawks constantly. Harper says she sounds like a chicken.

5. Follows Harper everywhere.

This one:

1. LOVES ballet. I never would have guessed.

2. Loves school. See above.

3. Is always very very busy. And reminds me of that- MAMA I BUSY. LET ME WORK.

4. Loves getting on the scale at weight watchers. MAMA!! I WEIGH  TIRTY POUNDS!!

5. Does not like Sadie following her everywhere. Not one little bit.

As for this one:

 

1. amusing herself by taking very serious self portraits in the mirror with Harper directing. NO SMILE MAMA. WOOK SEWIOUS!!!! (jimmy calls them my space pictures- you know how alot of my space people take very serious, thoughtful photos).

2. was TERRIFIED to step on WW scale this week, yet somehow lost a pound. it’s called stress.

3. misses her husband terribly and can’t believe she will see him in 2 months.

4. has lots of crafty things to make but is being sluggish for some reason.

5. is finding herself way more into Christmas than she thought she would be.

Love to you all,

Hope to be back tomorrow with some special pages to share!

xo