Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Late Valentine's Day! We had a wonderful day, making cookies and eating them. Then we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house to celebrate with them.

Christmas at Grandpa and Grandma's House

We had a fun time at Grandpa and Grandma's house celebrating Christmas. Our theme for this year was Mexico. The kids all loved the pinata and had a blast trying to wack it open. In the end Aunt Lara had to give it the final swing to let out all the candy. We had a wonderful time chatting and eating burritos and tamales and all that wonderful Mexican food thanks to Antonio and Kara.

Charlie our new Christmas Bunny

This is our newest pet Charlie. He was the special wish of Emily from Santa Claus. He was delivered by Santa's helper a couple of days before Christmas. He is a sweet bunny and all of the kids love him. He is a Netherland Dwarf and will stay really small. The kids love to hold him and let him run around downstairs on the family room carpet. He is funny and hops everywhere which makes everyone laugh.

Christmas Morning

The kids were very excited this year for Christmas morning to come, so they could open their presents. Emily and Joshua got up early and opened their stockings and loved what Santa Claus brought them. Deanna and Matthew stayed asleep much longer and waited for Mom and Dad to get up. We all had a wonderful Christmas morning. Alicia came over on Christmas Eve and spent the night we all loved that and she had a great time. Joshua's favorite present was his new book series Warriors. Emily was so happy to get a stuffed donkey from Santa. Matthew's was so excited to get a new bicycle.

Halloween 2008

The week before Halloween we went to Fog Willow's Pumpkin Patch and had a great time. We went for a hay ride and bought Pumpkins to carve and climbed and had fun.

The kids enjoyed dressing up, but their favorite thing was going out on Halloween night trick or treating.
They just love all the candy. Who would't?

Emily's Broken Arm

Emily was running around the house and decided to vault on the ottoman in the front room. As she ran, jumped then landed, she caught her body with her arm. She cried and cried holding her arm and we decided to take her to Emergency that night arriving at about 9:30pm. They were get at the hospital and Emily was very brave!

The x-ray showed that she fractured her ulna next to the elbow. She had a temporary cast put on that night. Then on Monday we went to the orthopedic doctor and they put on her RED cast. This was not very much fun for her, because they had a hard time taking off the other cast. Poor girl. She has adjusted well and will be getting it off on Nov.10th.

Kali, Josh, Matthew, Emily, and Deanna at the Swimming Pool

One picture is cute and the other has everyone doing a funny face so look closely.