Well well well, look who decided to
show up and share some of our life. Its
ME! The dad, the guy who doesn’t have the required equipment that baby Jaden is
so in love with. I am just the scruffy
guy that pushes the cart, refills the mom’s water bottle, always trying to
steal kisses from Jaden or mom (I’ll take either whenever I can). Any who… I thought I would get online and
share some of our recent life journey as well.
First up, GRANPA Howells. Off to San Francisco we go! We flew up for the week to hang out with
Grandpa Howell, he even put us up at his crib and everything. Uncle Dave and Aunt Liz are so awesome though;
they picked us up at the airport and drove us to Grandpa’s. Pretty cool of them and it was great to see
them. Once at Grandpa’s, we had a
great, great time there. I poked, prodded,
and nosy’ d my way around until I had him share practically his life story with
us. We dug out as many photos as we
could and just remembered all the good times.
Most importantly, as I am sure most of you already know from your many
experiences with me in the car, apparently great driving skills is something of
a Howell trait, it’s in our blood. My grandfather,
to date, is the 3rd best driver in the nation! Pulled out some news articles and images for
the “Ford Good Driver’s League”, which he won 3rd in and was the
last time the national contest was ever
held. Here is in the car he drove, and then off to DC from Washington State to compete nationally.
After seeing how safe he is in the
car, we decided to go cruise the neighborhood and see what all the OG’s were up
to. So we rolled down the windows and
hopped in his Six Four… tall golf cart and rode around.
It was really a great time with
Grandpa, wonderful to get to see him spend some time with Jaden, to get to hear
all about Grandpa’s life, and just get to spend time with him too. The only bummer was, we didn’t get to meet
his new main squeeze, but I am sure we’ll meet her soon enough.
We of course didn’t forget about
the rest of the family up north either and got to have a great afternoon BBQ
over at the Aunt and Uncles house too.
The whole fam was there, even our amazing “where in the world is Jenny”
cousin too. Great Aunt Sue introduced
Jaden to her first horse, Great Uncle Brad showed off his mechanic skills with
the 4 wheel Barbie jeeps, Aunt Lea and Uncle Zach and their kids were the whole
package of a loving family and spent some time with us too! It was pretty awesome
After the family time, Jaden,
Ricki, and I went in to the city by ourselves and just hung out. Ricki’s Aunt Lisa met us for lunch and drinks
one day, we took walks around the city, we even took Jaden on her first College
visit. We are very serious about
education in this family and I wanted Jaden to know from the start where her
dad was going to send her. She thought
it was a joke at first and had a good laugh…
But when I told her I wasn’t
kidding and this is where I was sending her as soon as she was a teenager, well…
she didn’t think it was very funny.
So that was our trip up to Nor Cal
and San Francisco. Pretty fun, relaxing,
can’t complain. My wife and baby were
both amazing and I loved every minute of it.
We have had a few other trips here and there too. We also shot up to Vegas for a quick weekend
a while back too. Really, all I have
from that is the car Jaden said I could buy instead of sending her to college. She wasn’t very impressed by it though.
But we had an AMAZING time, sorry,
what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!
Haha, just kidding. What happens
in Vegas on the hottest week of the year and you have a 6 month old with you,
is… NOTHING. We woke up, we had
breakfast, we napped, we went to the pool before 10AM and before the sun was on
it as to not DIE in the heat or burn our fair skinned babe, then we napped,
then we had lunch, then we napped, then we walked around the indoor mall, then
we napped, then we had dinner, then went to bed. And play repeat for a few days. Very, very relaxing!!!
Other than that, it has been life
as usual; work, house, baby, etc. Here
are just some fun pictures to share:
We were cleaning out the garage and
getting it ready for some storage and we found KITTY! Yes, this is Ricki’s childhood stuffed animal. Apparently, the story goes like this. Kitty went everywhere, Ricki never put it
down or let go of it, sooo it got a little nasty. This giant fur ball had to get clean. Debi says, no harm no foul, I’ll just throw
this stinky thing in the wash. Well out
comes the surviving matted cat like thing you see before you today.
Also, Jaden is getting closer and
closer with her best friend every day.
She can’t get enough of him; it is her most excited time. Ace on the other hand, well, he gets a little
tired of it some times
This little bundle of cuteness is just
something I had to share. Love this look
on Jaden so much, I had Grandma knit me a matching one in my size. And then there is the confused look mom gets when Dad is traveling and not in the bed when Jaden wakes up.
