Happy New Year

Hope everyone had a great New Year. Dan and I just got home from Cancun Mexico tonight. EmmaLynn did come with us too. We were able to go for the summer sales with Apex,  kind of an incentive to go with them this summer. It was great and we met some really cool people there. We had a really great time. We will post pictures and stories later.

Finally Christmas Updates.

Well we have been in Coeur d' Alene for the last couple of weeks. It has been a busy time trying to get together with family and friends. We have enjoyed the time with everyone and unfortunately we didn't get to see some people as much as we would have liked to. We have totally enjoyed the vacation from work and being able to spend a lot of time just hanging out. Dan has kept busy with shoveling the tons of snow that has dropped on us since we've been here.  Here are some pictures in kinda a crazy order...

Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's getting into her stocking. 

This is what EmmaLynn's hair looked like when we were boarding the plane to go home to spokane. We had to leave the house at 6 am. She slept till we got into the car to leave. 

opening her presents from Johnson Grandparents Christmas morning. With Kaylee and Kendall cousins. 

Stoking grub. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it all... 

On Christmas Eve we were picked up at the airport by Maranda (thanks again for doing this for us Maranda) And we were taken straight to my mom's to join with the rest of the family. EmmaLynn and Aviendha hanging out like little pals. 

Some of the family opening the exchange gifts. 

We did our Christmas at our apartment before we left. So on the eve of Christmas eve we celebrated with EmmaLynn at our apartment. This way we didn't have to pack all her presents and pack them back home with us.  A friend at work bought her this coat cause she knew we were going home to some cold weather and didn't have a coat for her. 

Her shapes box toy thingy. She had so much fun.. but then it was time to go to bed.. So going home will be new toys all over again. We can't wait to get back to the warmth of Florida where we can go to the park anytime we want and not worry about freezing our tooshies off. We will definitely miss family though. I hope everyone else had a great Christmas and  a Happy New Year.

Videos of my Sweet EmmaLynn

she has started to call me "baby".

Her she uses it in different ways " come on baby"  

"What's wrong baby" and finally

"come on baby sit down". It is sooo funny.  

She says so many funny things... the other

thing she says a lot is " look at this" or "look at that"

she dances to the wiggles.. She has begun to really like the 

wiggles. It is so cute. She has learned the words to the song 

5 little ducks went out one day and she sings it with

them hand motions and everything.

another video she has seen a few times, is Word World...

there is an ant on there who

becomes a GiAnt.. (giant) 

so she was running around chanting Giant Giant Giant.. 

She cracks me up. Check out the post below this one.. 

the pictures are way cute.

Daddy Did It

Here are some major cute pictures of EmmaLynn. I love her face in the first one. I took these pictures to show what a good job Dan did on her hair. He put piggies in for the first time and she looked so incredibly cute. What a good daddy he is. At least I know if I die, her hair will still be super cute.  hehehe :)

Five Christmas Favorites

Here is the tag game... If you wanna see some more fun stuff see my sisters Gailyn, Eleasha, and Sariah . Their answers are also things I enjoyed too. I soooo can't wait to be back home for Christmas... 

5 Favorite Christmas Songs (see my playlist)

1. Silent Night ( Sarah McLachlan)

2. What Child is This, and Tinseltown (Shedaisy)

3. Mary Did You Know ( Reba)

4. Drummer Boy ( Jars of Clay)

5. Carol of the Bells 

5 Favorite Christmas Movies

1. The Holiday

2. The Santa Clause 

3. Muppets Christmas Carol

4.  Serendipity ( that counts right)

5. The Family Man

5 Favorite Christmas Treats

1. Pumpkin Pie

2. Strawberry Cheesecake

3. Fruit Salad 

4. Christmas cookies from my sister in law Jenny

5. waffles with strawberries and whip (YUMMM)

5 Favorite Christmas Memories

1.  Having Christmas dinner with my cousins over at our house a long time ago when they still talked to us and considered us family.... and my mom and her sisters were talking about wedgies.. also going outside and playing at the basketball hoop outside... Damon broke the basketball hoop by hanging on it... SOOO funny. 

2.  Wrapping each others Christmas presents and playing the game " I will tell you one of yours if you tell me one of mine" ( this is common among all of the sisters.. we are naughty)

3.  Shopping with my mom for stocking stuffers... those used to be the only things we didn't really know... she needed to get them and she just told me to act surprised. 

4. One Christmas I was so excited cause I knew what I was going to be getting I couldn't go to sleep... You would think knowing would help you sleep better.... It didn't... so I couldn't sleep at all. I heard my parents fill the stockings and when i thought  they were finished I went and got mine... probably like 1 am or something... anyway, I got caught and my mom made me put the stocking back and go back to bed. 

5.  A general memory was just on Christmas day we would all get up unwrap presents eat waffles with strawberries and whip, then spend all day playing with the games we got and listen to music if we got any CDs. we would snack and help bake pies and rolls and whatever else to have family over to enjoy it with. The fondest when my mom was still able to do it with us too... I will never forget what we did as a family.  

Tag 5 People

Ashlie

Brooke

Bethany

Kim

Paige

Christmas time!

Well, It is christmas time in Florida. I know I have said it before, but I am so loving this winter.  As much as I love it I am also extremely excited about going home to visit for 2 and a 1/2 weeks at Christmas time. I am sure I am going to freeze my butt off, but I am still so excited.  Work Is keeping me extremely busy. I have one training class after the other. I have been training classes since the beginning of November. and the last 3 weeks in a trainers training preparing to teach a new training class that lasts 3 1/2 weeks. I get to do 2 of those for now. that is going to take up all of December and January on top of everything else.  Here are some fun pictures for your enjoyment.

EmmaLynn and I Saturday afternoon out on our balcony that overlooks the pond.

EmmaLynn and I went out to feed the "ducks" and all sorts of birds showed up as soon as we started throwing the bread.  Tons of them, It was fun, and a little scary cause some seagulls were flying over our heads, I was afraid they were going to poop on us... Some of the birds got really really close. I was shocked. EmmaLynn loved it... Then she started eating the bread, so we went inside to get dinner going.

The Picture above is what happens sometimes when Daddy is in charge:) He sometimes waits till she is completely exhausted before putting her down. He says "She is just not tired enough sometimes" How cute huh?  He has some learning to do, but overall he is a really good daddy and teaches EmmaLynn a lot of things... That is why she is so smart. 

Daddy and EmmaLynn having fun one night. She was laughing so hard when he had her up like this... it was very cute.

BBQ Thanksgiving

This year, since we were nowhere near family for thanksgiving, we were invited over by one of the members of the bishopric.  They had steak and potatoes for their main course.  At first I thought they were joking when they said that is what they were having, but when we arrived there, sure enough that is what they had on the BBQ out back. It was definitely non traditional; however it was absolutely delicious.

We still had pumpkin pie and chips and snacks and jello stuff like that. We played a really fun game His daughter brought with her... The name of the game is kinda a turn off, however the game was really fun. It is called " Smart Ass"  it is not like the typical trivia game. It has things that you have to figure it out... so there are hints along the way to each one.. like who am I? or where am I?  and What am I? those were the 3 decks of cards with questions on them. Again it was pretty fun. I wish they could change the name of it.. maybe an edited version cause it is written all over everything.. It was quite funny though when she brought it out. She is moved out of the house, but he just shook his head and said something along the lines of " wow, I am so proud of my daughter" just laughed a bit...  We watched some movies also. Overall we had a great time and were happy not to be by ourselves on this holiday.

I wonder how many people went out on the crazy friday morning sales there were so many things we wanted to get, but we didn't have the money for it all..So we narrowed it down and decided the one thing that would come in handy would be the dvd player for the car. So we spent only 88 for the double screens that hook to the neck rest of the front seats. EmmaLynn loves it so far... Every time we get in the car now she says " movie"  It is so funny. We are definitely going to need that on our trip home this spring.  

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and is ready for Christmas and the New Year.  I know I can't wait.