January brings lots of different things for people. For some it provides a new-found commitment to attend the gym regularly. Some set goals to play more with their kids. Some vow to eat healthy foods. For me, it brings a desire to de-junk! With a family of eight we quickly accumulate a lot of unnecessary …
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Poo Potty
Yep, that is what we are often hearing around our house, “poo potty mommy”. We have finally potty-trained our six and final child. I can’t say that I will miss potty training my kids, because honestly, I won’t. However, it is sure a great feeling to know I am doing it for the last time. …
Drew turns 4!
Drew had his 4th birthday party yesterday. Anyone who knows little Drew knows he LOVES dinosaurs. They are the first toy he plays with when he wakes up and the last toy he plays with when he goes to bed. So it came as no surprise when he wanted a dinosaur birthday party. Thanks to …
Sledding….brrrr!
The kids were dying to go sledding so we woke up early and headed out to beat the crowds to the hill. Upon arrival, the wind hit us like a frozen ice wall. It was SO cold. The kids were troopers and they weren’t about to let a little wind and cold stop them. Even …
Merry Christmas to all!
We had another fabulous Christmas this year. It began at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson’s house for our Christmas Eve gathering. We ate loads of yummy foods, did our annual sibling gift exchange, the kids performed the nativity and we ended by playing the candy bar game. After we got home from Grandma and Grandpa’s house, …
Christmas 2011 Festivities
December has kept us busy! We have continued most of our holiday traditions, and added a few extra as well. We’ve been to see the lights at Temple Square and Thanksgiving Point. We also went to a live nativity, baked Christmas cookies, attended a guitar recital, a gymnastics program and school Christmas programs too. It …
Diversity Means…
Jacob entered the annual Reflections competition at his school last month. This year the theme was “Diversity means…” He chose musical composition. He wrote and played a short little number on his guitar. He ended up winning the highest award possible, “Award of Excellence” for Highland Elementary and went on to the next level of …
Who would have known…
Drew has been waking up nearly every night. The excuse is usually that a witch is in his room and he is scared (*Note: Three year-olds are too young to watch Wizard of Oz). I always take him potty and tuck him back in bed. After a couple of weeks I started getting frustrated. I …
Ellie turns 2!
This year Ellie’s birthday happened to fall on Thanksgiving so we chose to celebrate on Wednesday instead. We decided to keep things fairly simple so we did what Ellie loves most, going swimming! We went down to our ghetto pool in American Fork. We nearly had the whole place to ourselves. Ellie had a blast! …
‘Tis the Season
Here at the Johnson household we got Christmas started a little early this year. The previous evening of snow brought with it the Christmas Spirit. After building a snowman in the morning, all the kids were begging to set up the Christmas tree. After a little persuasion, I agreed. Normally I wait till the weekend …
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