Had to Share

Marcia emailed me all of her pics from Christmas last night. There were alot of fun ones, but this one was my favorite. We sure love Uncle Maf! He is such a good sport.

I'm an Aunt!!!

Mallory Joy was born yesterday to my sister and brother-in-law!! She is precious and we are so excited that she is here. She weighed in at 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. Almost identical stats to her cousin Abby. It was such a great day! I am aleady planning my next trip to go see her and give her some good spoiling.

Christmas 2007!

We have had a great Christmas week! We started out the week celebrating with our in-town family and then traveled to Houston to celebrate with our family there. We hope you have all had a great time with family and friends. Merry Christmas!

Johnson Family Christmas

We just got home from having our first Christmas celebration of the season. We always travel to Abilene the weekend before Christmas to have our time with the Johnsons. Minus a trip to the walk-in clinic with Abby for an ear infection, we all had a fun weekend. The kids just played and played and we just laughed and laughed at all the things they came up with. Nathan got to spend Saturday afternoon with his Uncle Ryan painting at Mimi's pottery studio. He would stay there forever if we'd let him. He loves to have a project to work on.

Abby is working very hard sweeping Mimi's floor in her beautiful mardi gras beads. This broom and dust pan is a hot toy at Mimi's. Nathan loved playing with it too when he was her age.

Abby with her "cereal bowl". She takes her "cereal bowl" very seriously. That's what she would eat at every meal if it was up to her.

We love Aunt Lyssa and Uncle Ryan!

After a hard day of playing and painting at the studio. Nathan crashed. He slept through dinner and then came back strong when it was time for presents.

Abby is finally warming up to Grandad!

Cars, Crossbows & Catapults, and more!

Abby got her Dora big wheel! She was very quick to point out where Boots was. He is her favorite.

Everybody needs some new dress-up clothes!

Merry Johnson Family Christmas 2007!

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas!

We are definitely getting into the Christmas spirit around here. The last few weeks have been full of many fun times. We went to a Christmas tree lighting, decorated Christmas cookies on a COLD winter day, and saw Santa at school.

I sure love my guys!

We definitely won't win any cookie decorating contest, but we all had a great time decorating our Christmas cookies with lots of sprinkles and icing.

Abby is still not sure about Santa. This is the Santa that came to school last week. Abby would have nothing to do with him when her class went in, but she could do it with Nathan. I have to agree with her here, though this Santa was a little scary.

Busy Weekend!

What a great weekend we have had! Saturday we went to Cabelas to see Santa. Nathan walked right up and sat on his lap, but Abby was having NO part of Santa at all! She was yelling, "No, No!" So this year's picture is Nathan only. Last year we had both of them in the picture and the year before we only had Abby. Who can predict what the reaction to Santa will be? Maybe next year we'll have both of them again.

Saturday night we had a great birthday party for our friends Kendall & Kaitlyn. It was at their gymnastics place and the kids had a great time! Nathan loved the zip line.

Abby bonded with Mr. Chris!

Red icing from Elmo cupcakes!

Abby is in her HUGE big girl bed!!!

Abby has moved out of her crib!! This is a bittersweet moment for me. I love that it has been a smooth transition, but wasn't quite ready to do it. About a week ago, Abby threw up in her bed due to a cough she's been battling. Luckily Clay and I always check on the kids before we get in bed and found her bed all yucky with vomit. Gross, I know! Her bed was totally trashed. So we just decided to try her out in the QUEEN size bed that is in her room for when we have company. Well, that was the end of the crib. She has slept there every night since then and every day for her nap. I think she really loves it. She doesn't really try to get out either. Today when she woke up from her nap she just laid up there talking and playing with her books in the bed until I went to get her. She's done a great job! Next to go is the paci. Hopefully it will go as smooth. "I'm a Little Stinker" is what her shirt says here. She definitely lives up to that. The funny thing about this shirt is that it was mine when I was little! She loves to wear it. It's a great soft comfy stay-at-home day shirt.

Just a minor throw back to the '70's with my name on the back in the velvety letters!