Family Pics

The Howard family is beyond diligent with taking family pictures.  It's a trait to admire, because my side is TERRIBLE with keeping up on pictures.  Plus it's reliable so that means Evan and I can get an updated picture of us every year.  Not to say they turn out that awesome, but that's another story.  As a side note, the Howards are disgustingly good at taking pictures.  It's seriously not fair.  I have a weird smile, or squinty eyes, and there are the Howards, looking the same in every picture.  I have picture envy when it comes to having a group photo.  Needless to say, Evan looks awesome in every picture.  Which isn't fair at all, because someone had too much fun the night before and then his body realized he was 26 not 21 anymore.  So the poor guy was super sick, but in every picture he looked awesome.  I haven't decided which one I'm going to use, but I guess it's mandatory once you get married and have awesome kids like ours you have to send out Christmas cards.  So I guess I'll try my hand at it this year.  If you could let me know which is your fav, that would help me out lots.  Please and thank you.

 Option 1

 Option 2

 Option 3

 I know this is minus kids, but maybe an option?

 Everyone was paying attention!  Great group photo

 We tried to get the dogs to behave, it just wasn't going to happen.  But I thought this was a good one!

 My poor sick husband, at least Alta looks super cute!

Halloween

I know this is late, but I thought I would grace you with my AMAZING Halloween costume.  Needless to say, I've been planning this for months and was beyond excited to wear it everywhere.  We, I went to a Halloween party, Evan was out of town.  And since I knew about 50% of the peeps there, everyone thought I was that weirdo in the Peep costume.  Oh well, I know it looked fantastic.  On actual Halloween, we started with hiding from the neighbor kids when they rang our doorbell.  Yes, we are those people.  The ones that you know are home, but aren't answering their door.  We didn't buy any candy...whoops.  Also, who lets their kid go trick or treating at 5?  C'mon, at least wait until it's dark.  After we had one doorbell ring we hurried and left for Evan's parents house and went trick or treating with our favorite kids in the whole world.  It was so fun, we try to go with them every year.  Some highlights from trick or treating, Jackson getting the poo scared out of him from a scary guy on stilts.  Wyland and I running away from a giant cat that was attempting to eat my dog.  Overall a great night.  Thanks Kerry and Jeramie for letting us pretend we have kids so we can trick or treat with them!

As a side note, no I wasn't playing favorites and not taking pictures of our other dog.  Evan was taking pictures, and Alta was the only one paying attention.  Torre was busy chasing shadows and different colored lights that night.  Thank you.

Update

Thing have been busy, let me correct that, extremely busy.  Our lives revolve around work.  I have seen Evan for maybe two weeks out of the whole month of October.  He is gone a lot because of work now.  Which is so great, because he LOVES his job.  Now that ski season is getting started, and with RAMP being so new it's taking a lot of work to get RAMP off the ground.  A lot of work is good for me, because I think everyone who knows me knows I love being busy.  There isn't a better feeling then to look at the clock and realize that the day is over.  So most weekends Ev and I are working, whether he is home or not, I will be boxing stuff up to ship on Monday or we will be at events to promote RAMP.  It's been so fun to see just the exposure RAMP has gotten from August until now.  We are getting put in more advertisements, people are contacting us wanting to be at events, just things are coming together rather nicely.


On another side note, Evan currently has a crush on someone named Siri.  Yes, him and Siri have long conversations into the night about restaurants in the area, to having Siri compose his texts for him.  He finally got his iPhone he has long been eyeing for months now.  So now my parents and Evan can sit around and talk about how awesome their phones are while I play brick breaker on my Blackberry.  Personally, if they could bring the Razor back I would buy that in two seconds.


Other then that, our lives are very uneventful.  My children, Alta and Torre, are becoming accustomed to dealing with me all the time now instead of Evan.  So when Evan is home, he is now officially the "fun" one.  I can already see a flash into our future.  I'll be the evil mom, and he'll be sneaking them out of time out.  Oh well.  I do have pictures from Halloween, just haven't loaded them yet.