AUGUST 2018
(this blog contains my weekly emails to my precious family)
WEEK 1 ~ 8/5/2018
It’s a sweet sabbath day in South Jordan. What’s happening in your neck of the woods?
1) Thursday we retrieved CarLa from Infinity Coach Repair in Sumner, Washington and escorted her back to South Jordan. Lane drove this big beautiful monster bus straight through. My hero!
2) Momma-to-BEE shower for Randi. (Baby is due August 22nd) Many family members attended. It was delightful.
I snapped this photo of the Howell sisters before I made a quick exit to join MY sisters for a playdate!
3) Here we are at the playdate. Roundhouse Quilt Festival in Evanston, WY. 🤫My sisters surprised my mom by secretly submitting 2 of her quilts. It was so fun to see her expression when she discovered them hanging in their first ever quilt show. It was positively lovely!
We love that you are all connected. We love that you look after one another. We love that you support each other. We love that you take turns lifting and leaning. Most of all, we simply LOVE being counted among your parents (or in-laws).
This coming week:
Slater turns 7 TODAY!!!
We leave for a trip to Banff, CANADA with Tom’s family on the 7th…returning the 18th.
X is 29 on the 8th.
Cam & Kim celebrate 22 years married on the 12th.
Hi Family,
Carolyn and I left Florida to spend more time with you. Since some of our best memories with you, over the years, have been traveling and vacationing memories, we are attempting to expand on this with you and your kids. Our family is large. We think we can do better with one family at a time. But this makes us appear as vagabonds…gypsies…wanderers. And I guess it really is so. It won’t last forever, but we are enjoying the freedom to roam with you for a while. We hope you don’t think less of us for this.
If you wake up some mornings wondering, “where are Mom and Dad today?”, there are a few ways to know.
- Carolyn does a “Sunday Check-In” that gives a few clues, weekly.
- Carolyn is posting pictures on Instagram periodically. We can also see what YOU post there - we think 10 of you are on Instagram.
- Another tool is the app, “Find Friends”. This is fascinating to me. It literally tracks our phones (and yours) on a map and let’s you see instantaneously where we are. Lincoln can assist with this if you are interested.
- We can be reached by phone or text almost at any time. We love to receive random calls or messages, letting us know what is happening in YOUR lives. Some of our grandkids are actually getting good at doing Face Time calls. We love it.
For those of you who are not into any of this, we are not at all offended. We love you all and pray for you regularly.
Love,
Mom & Dad Howell
WEEK 3 ~ 8/19/2018
Hey!
We are home! (But then again we are always ‘home’ when we are in CarLa.)
Our days in Canada were awesome eh. Here is evidence...
Randi & Roy welcomed ‘Savannah Edith Scott’ on August 6th (2 weeks early)
Good advice:
Next week:
20th ~ Mer & Tyson’s 14th Anniversary
21st ~ Jon & RayDean’s Anniversary
21st ~ Lane & I attend one day of education week at BYU (my first time since 1982!!!)
23rd ~ We begin a road trip to meet up with YOU (Jerry, Britni, Callie, & Jami) at Ft Stevens State Park (Aug 25th to 28th). Do you remember Lane showing up there in 1996? Awkward.
We are home! (But then again we are always ‘home’ when we are in CarLa.)
Our days in Canada were awesome eh. Here is evidence...
Randi & Roy welcomed ‘Savannah Edith Scott’ on August 6th (2 weeks early)
Good advice:
Next week:
20th ~ Mer & Tyson’s 14th Anniversary
21st ~ Jon & RayDean’s Anniversary
21st ~ Lane & I attend one day of education week at BYU (my first time since 1982!!!)
23rd ~ We begin a road trip to meet up with YOU (Jerry, Britni, Callie, & Jami) at Ft Stevens State Park (Aug 25th to 28th). Do you remember Lane showing up there in 1996? Awkward.
I love you forever!!!
Momma (& Dad Lane)
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