Whew! What a spring.

So we last left off after Faith's first birthday and Easter. Since then there is no stopping our household of activity. Ben started softball season, a must in the Howard family. He is playing on two teams this year, a team he played with last year for the city league and our church team. Sometimes he has so many games in a week I'm not sure he remembers what it is like to be home. Faith and I try to make it to the games that are at reasonable hours and are in reasonable weather.

Faith finally learned to walk the week of Mother's Day. I was beginning to think her legs would never work. Because yes, she was 15 months old by this time. Now that she has learned to walk we of course cannot get her to sit still. Now some children are into everything once they have found their feet. Faith just makes laps. She doesn't really touch anything yet. So that is a relief.

The month of May was a good month for Faith to see the family. Grandma and Grandpa Howard came over for a weekend. We went to the zoo, the men rebuilt the railing on our front porch, and the women got to shop in Hobby Lobby. Good fun. Then my youngest sister graduated from high school. Yes for all of you out there she is quite a bit younger than me since you are doing the math in your head and it is my ten year reunion this year. But congrats to her. Such an exciting accomplishment. During this celebration Faith got to see her aunts, Grandpa Danny and Grandma Darlene, and well tons more people that knew me when I was her age. Weird. It can be summed up in that one word. From there, Faith and I took off to Missoula for Erica's baby shower. Now she is having a little girl so out goes the baby blues and in come the baby pinks. Cale has no idea what he is in for. But he will be the sweetest big brother any little baby girl could ask for.

The last adventure up to this point was the car accident. Faith and I were headed home from the baby shower and ended up finding ourselves careening out of control on I90 and finding ourselves upside down in a ditch just west of Whitehall, MT. This was due to my mom trick of reaching back to hand Faith a sippy cup and moving the other arm a little too much. Once the car was upside down and no longer moving, I released myself from my seatbelt, unhooked Faith and let a passerby pull her out of the car. I in the meantime searched for my cell phone unsuccessfully, grabbed my purse, took the keys out of the ignition, crawled out of the car, called Ben to inform him I had rolled the car, and then totally lost it emotionally. Faith and I walked away from that crash. She has a bruise on her chin and a scrape on the side of her head. I am bruised and battered from head to toe. Neither of us has a major neck injury and we have no broken bones. So you can understand that I am smiling in the picture next to the totalled car. God was watching over us and we made it through.

I think that is all that we could have handled for this spring. Let us hope for a quieter lazy summer. We'll be seeing most of you soon. For those of you that we never see... Happy summer. We love and miss you.