Mother's Day and Anniversary!

It's been another fun week in the Howell home.  Travis continues to work hard and Jimmy and I play hard.  Probably the most exciting part of our week was on Thursday when there was a big tornado scare in Dallas!  The tornado sirens went off everywhere, and we were all urged to find shelter.  Travis's work made everyone get in the stairwells of the building, and Jimmy and I were at a friend's house and we went down to the first story and just tried to stay away from the windows.  Jimmy wasn't very good at that.  But luckily, we are all still alive and the tornado didn't come close to us.  In other news, Jimmy has the whole walking thing figured out.  He also is a big fan of dancing.  At our trip to the library, they had a lady there who dressed up as the characters of Sesame Street.  While she was dancing as the cookie monster to a song, Jimmy walked up right to her and started dancing with her.  It was pretty cute!!  We had the missionaries over on Sunday and that was good to have them.  I also babysat for about 5-6 hours for another mom in the family, and Jimmy enjoyed playing with her little girl.  On Friday, we finally watched Hobbit 2 and enjoyed that.  Saturday was our busiest day.  I went to a baby shower in the morning and then we all went to the zoo.  In the evening, we dropped off Jimmy at a babysitter's and then Travis and I went to Cheesecake Factory to celebrate our anniversary.  Life is good!

Jimmy and I sitting on a turtle at the zoo, in case you can't tell

Daddy took Jimmy into the parakeet cage.  He liked it!