Stephanie Howell

Bonding at the Flea Market

May 31, 2008

Harper and I hit up the flea market bright and early this morning.

She loves having “special time” with Mommy and she was so

excited she could hardly stand it. She kept saying

OOOH!! Special time with mommy!!
Niiice! Good! Great! Special time!
Go Flea Market for TREASURES!!!
OOH! Jewelry! Please Mommy?
Sadie no Mommy special time . Sadie baby Daddy Special Time!

You know- She is a treasure to me. She’s a sweet, good, baby girl and I love her so.

J goes back to work on Wed. We are having a blast being all together. I think this afternoon

we will go have a picnic and fly kites.

We recently found out he will be deploying in July. I’m dreading it, but trying to stay positive

and concentrate on the special moments we have right now.

I do wonder if Harper will ask where he is. I think that will just break my heart.

Well, that’s enough for now. I hope you are all having a beautiful weekend!

Below are some photos of our “flea market treasures”!

xoxo

Roll Baby Roll

May 28, 2008

by george, she’s got it!!

and rolling made her sooo tired:

And her sister was VERY serious about playing with

the new toy(s) her GrandDad bought her:

The girls loved spending time with their GrandDad, Nonna, Pops, and Nana

this past weekend.

And Jimmy and I got to go on a date…

dinner out complete with a margarita!!

I totally forgot what that was like.

It was lovely and much needed.

On another topic,

reveal night last night at Studio Calico

was SO fun and crazy…

and gosh, I’m exhausted today, but it’s totally

worth it! 😉

The June kit is beyond adorable. I couldn’t stop creating.

I still have tons left.

Here are a few of the things I made…I will share more tomorrow.

Happy Wednesday, everyone!!

And We’re Off

May 23, 2008

for a weekend with jimmy’s family in beaumont.

which means a 4 plus hour drive.

yippee!!!! (not)

i’m sure they will both find a way to cry the whole time OR since jimmy’s in the car

neither one of them will cry and they will be perfect angels.

cuz that’s how it seems to work, haha!!

we had a pretty good week.

harper and i have been having lots

of heart to hearts

since her behavior at the baptism.

time outs work well with her.

she HATES to be in trouble,

and it breaks her heart to be punished.

but it works.

she listens to me and apologizes for her behavior

then doesn’t really do it again.

she’s a good girl.

i think she is just struggling with wanting to

be independent and wanting autonomy,

but also realizing

she can’t do everything she thinks she can.

it’s hard being a parent, huh??

but also pretty rewarding, i think.

here are a couple of pictures i haven’t shared yet:

here are a few prints i ordered on etsy.

i plan to frame them in our bedroom

on the built in shelves.

And one last thing, of course it’s a layout =)

This is one I did for Webster’s Pages.

The paper is all WP

the letters are SEI, decorated with a Uniball Signo pen

the ribbon is Michaels

well, that’s about it.

i’m off to pack for the weekend.

i hope you all have a beautiful, happy weekend and i’ll “see” you on monday!!!

so harper is obsessed with singing her abcs.however, she thinks it is “baby sadie e f g”how cute is that?i’m not correcting her. i’m pretty sure she’ll figure it out one day and i love hearing it the “wrong” way.she’s really making me laugh lately.she’s a ham, a performer, an extrovert.she may look just like her daddy, but she acts a lot like me.for example:

she loves this ladybug hat.and i die laughing every timeshe puts it on.thank you, michaels.this will be my entertainment for the summer!

and sadie, well she’s content to just chill and watch the action.like so:

these two make me so happy.well, clearly they make me pull my hair out too, but they make me happy. starting friday, jimmy has leave for almost 2 weeks.it’s his big vacation before he deploys this summer.i’m so looking forward to family time.i’m pretty greedy about our family time. we don’t have much. i thought i would leave you with a few more house photos.hope i don’t bore you with ’em, i just like sharing the process!! our bedroom… the pillows on the bed were 8 dollars at big lots! yesss.and the iron scroll at the end of the bed is going to be hung above the head, like a headboard.the room is not big enough for us to get the headboard/footboard we want, so for now we are going with the illusion of a headboard.

this is a 100 year old dresser that we purchased a couple of weeks ago.it was half the price of new dressers the same size, and we wanted something with character:

here are some shots of the living room.

and one of the hallway:

well, that’s it for today.check out the fortune i got the other day:

here’s to the hope of wonderful things ahead.xoxos

Score

May 20, 2008

check this bad boy out:

I got it for five bucks yesterday! yessss.
i’m so obsessed with it , i keep staring at it lovingly.hahah.

And guess what? Sadie slept until 5:30 this morning! yay!!!! I can’t even tell you how excited I was.
But let’s just say I was a bit..um….sore? in the chest area?? hehehe.
Too much information? Sorry.

I took some more photos of my scrap room to share with y’all.
Later this week I’ll take some more photos around the house.
Hope you all have a beautiful wonderful day!
xo

jars:

inside my antique sewing drawers:

prima basket!

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