The Howell Family

We got to go to Gracie's dance recital this year and had so much fun! Finley danced the entire time and mommy even danced since it was the 35th Anniversary Reunion Show, but no pictures of that! I cannot wait until Finley can take dance, maybe this coming year if they will take 2 1/2 year olds, but I don't know. Mrs. Brenda said that she would, but Hartsville might be a little far to drive for dance lessons!!

Please Lord....

This is how I found Finley one day while she was playing in her room. It got really quiet so I looked down the hall to check on her and she had latched the gate to her room while she was trying to get her purple chair out, became frustrated, so she sat down in her chair and was saying.."Please Lord, please help me get my Tinkerbell chair out of my gate, please Lord, oh please Lord..." over and over again. Precious.

Mother's Day 2011

On Mother's Day, I woke up to my 2 cards and the sweet plaque that Finley made at school and it has her two little chubby hands on it as the tops of the palm tree and it has the scripture reference from John 12:13 where the people ran out in the streets with palm branches to meet Jesus.

And I cannot believe that we did get a few pictures of me and my sweet girl after church.

After church, we went to Lillianna's first birthday party and unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures, but we had a great time. This was the present Lillianna gave Finley for her birthday. She lives her baby that wets her diaper!!

She played with it for the rest of the day!!

She always says, "sweet baby" and "tiny baby".

Happy 2nd Birthday to Finley-May 5, 2011

We had such a fun day on Cinco de Mayo..my Finley's birthday. We went to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia and had so much fun. The weather was perfect and boy has it changed since I have last been there!!!

Finley slept in our bed because she woke up in the middle of the night and she is like her mama, she likes to have people around..doesn't care too much about being alone.

Good morning my sweet 2 year old!!!!!!!!1

Finley was waiting patiently in the recliner while mommy finished getting ready to go to the zoo!!!

When we got there, the little guy at the front said they were out of maps already!! What!! So Daddy found a much better map of the zoo on his cool smart phone.

The infamous turtle that everyone must get on at the zoo. I am not sure what was going on with the settings on my camera at first, but that is why there is such a blur.

Do you see....

a Daddy's girl anywhere?

Anywhere?

Maybe here?

We loved watching the gorillas, I cannot believe how big they are.

And Finley went right up there with the other kids during the presentation.

I could not believe how close we were to the kangaroos. We were literally steps away.

Feeding the giraffes was so much fun, I didn't want to stop.

This was a sweet billy goat that we fed because the first group we started with had a goat on crack or something. He was going crazy to get the food and eat it as fast as he could.

Finley getting ready to ride the pony. That was her favorite. I wish we had a pasture, because I would so go buy her a couple of ponies.

This was the first pony ride on Blondie. Blondie was sweet and older. The trainer said she was retiring this year.

Well, when Finley found out she had to get off the pony, she cried...

and cried......

until she got her second pony ride.

Finley loved feeding nectar to the birds. They were all over you once they found out you had some good stuff for them.

Finley just shrilled with delight.

At the end of the day, we came home and ate and had our birthday cookie time. She only wanted us to sing to her and blow out the candles 5 times and she would have done more, but we have to teach her self-control. Ha!