Johnson's Life

Not too happy.  No vent holes in the back.  Too hot, and too tight on right check and over ear. We had to take it in the next day to get it adjusted.

Day 3 and we finally found our happies.

It's time to catch up a bit on some major things that took place while I ignored the fact that I try to keep an updated blog.

Cohen's preschool went to a pumpkin patch on a field trip.  Parker, Baylee, and I joined in too.  A pumpkin patch Las Vegas style is so much different from Oregon!





Next in our efforts to have a fun Halloween was paining mini pumpkins.  We got these for free from the field trip.  Perfect!  The boys had so much fun!

Ah, yes.  Cohen is wearing his eye patch.  We're hopefully done with that soon!

Of course, we had to carve pumpkins.  Cohen thinks the insides are too gooey and disgusting to touch.  He gets really grossed out.  However, he loved coming up with a face and a SWORD on his jack-o-lantern.  That was really important to him.

Parker is eating the raw pumpkin carvings.  Yes, he really liked it and we had to tell him to stop eventually.

Happy Boys!

I really enjoy sewing costumes for some reason, but it's way too easy to get in over my head.  After counseling with Josh, I decided to buy a costume for Parker, make a costume for Cohen (which was a simple project, not every piece was from scratch) and make Baylee's costume.  I bought a witch hat for myself, and called it good.

I did make Baylee's costume from scratch, and patterned the under-onesie from one she already had.  Sometimes sewing little things is harder than sewing big things, I learned.

Staying up way too late to sew.  It just comes with the deal.

Just in case you weren't sure... Parker is Super Man, of course, Cohen is Jake from "Jake and the Neverland Pirates," and Baylee is Tinkerbell.

Letters to Santa

Christmas Eve pajamas!  The kids seem to forget every year that I have them open one gift on Christmas Eve, and that it's ALWAYS pajamas.  Funny.

Parker will always come up with the weirdest poses for pictures!  What a cutie.

Look what Santa left us!  His elves found some really good deals on toys this year.  We shared Christmas morning with my mom and Karen.  They got to join in on the excitement.  Dear Karen still doesn't know.... :)

One of Cohen's top gifts this year was a simple cross bow.  It's had hours and hours of use.

Christmas mayhem

Christmas mayhem continued.  I just had to capture it.

Baylee's first Christmas.  She was so excited.... right?

Really, she could care less.  But, she's cute.

This was the one and only picture we could capture with everyone on Christmas day before many more meltdowns occurred.  Baylee was the first to melt.  I think some of the parents were next.

This is the first year we took the family to see the temple square lights.  It was freezing but we had a great time!

Baylee's poor face was so cold, but daddy kept everything else nice and warm.

We crashed Josh's good friend's (Rob) family Christmas Party.  They figured Josh was family anyway since they've known each other since they were 5.  Now both our kids are 5, and they played Mary and Joseph in the Nativity.  Oh, they were so cute!

It was actually quite the program.

No one prompted Cohen to pick up and rock the baby Jesus.  He just wanted to.  What a tender-hearted little man.