WHERE DID MY FROSTING GO??

I was busy in the kitchen doing the dishes after having made the cream cheese frosting that goes on the pumpkin bars that were cooling on the counter, and all the while battling howie at my feet and tripping over him constantly. I had just finished the dishes and grabbed a spatula to spread the frosting on the bars when I couldn't find the bowl of frosting. I looked all around the kitchen and couldn't find it. Then it dawned on me that it was awful quiet and I hadn't heard a peep from howie for a few minutes now. I dashed to the living room to discover my little ANGEL had been chowing down on the frosting, as he called it "canny" (that's howie language for candy).

So instead of getting upset, which I thought about immediately, I took a deep breath and then reached for the camera. Wow, little boys are sure busy at 18mo. I had no idea! Today has been a perfect example of non-stop howie patrol.

SUPERMAN finds his long lost cape.....or towel??

Superman finds his cape! Daddy tied a towel around Howie's neck last night when he had his Superman pajamas on and Howie thought it was the most amusing thing. He walked back and forth through the apartment just so he could see the towel drag behind himself. He would look down and giggle and keep walking. He has never even seen Superman cartoons before and he still understood what the cape was for. It was a crack up for us to watch.

Howie having a blast with his new makeshift cape.

I like this photo on the left because it reminds me of Darth Vader, view from the back.

Howie thought: "This thing is so much fun!!"

Ahhh....the simple things in life that make us smile. Who needs expensive toys when you can have this much fun with a towel???

Fun in Grandma's Yard

We just got back from a nice weekend in Nyssa. I went to my girlfriend's wedding. Marci it was beautiful and you and Jared look very happy and so good together. What a great weekend to go home. On Monday May 15 Maria had her little boy, Crayton Dakota Schulthies. Mom and baby are doing well, but the whole family is adjusting to baby #4. On Sunday May 15th I attend Nyssa High School Gradutation. That was fun and my cousin Teniele graduated. It was nice and the partying lasted way into the night (Lori---3am)!!! Then Becky, sister from Arizona, flew in on Monday and we got to spend a little time together before leaving on wednesday. Howie loved grandma's yard. We played in puddles after the rain and ran lots through the sprinkler! He was so cute and so here are some really fun photos. Enjoy.

Mom, you are okay with this? Cool, splashing is fun.

Ready to pounce....

Howie walked along the sprinkler to feel it, then he would run through it.

Running away from the sprinkler.

Having such a fun time.

Look at that mug! How can you resist him??

Sorry that is has taken us so long to update the blog. Moving to St. George threw us all out of balance. Not to mention how long it took to hook up services for our internet and phone!!! We take the record for longest installation time and setup (hate qwest, such a monopoly with terribly high rates, whewwwwww got that off my chest). But now I will be frequently updating out blog. Check us out regularly. Lots of love.

Easter was great and howie loved hunting for eggs.
Howie didn't like the Easter Bunny very much. He liked him as long as he didn't hold him. :)

Coloring eggs was a lot of fun, messy, but lots of fun. Howie was fascinated with the eggs after they were colored.

That evening (saturday evening) we had a Rushton family Easter dinner and the little ones had a little hunt. By now, howie has had a sugar overload, more sugar that I ever give him. Howie pictured here with cousins baby Savannah and Riley.

Happy Easter from the Rushton Family!

playing in the sand at Rich and Sue's house in Mesquite, NV the weekend we moved to St. George. It was conference weekend and we had no food in the house yet, hadn't been to the store yet and were too tired to tackle those tiny tasks, so we fled to Mesquite for sunday session of conference and sunday dinner. Howie spent most of the day and evening in the sand box with the 'trucks', it was tough to pull him away from them.