Grandma's Leaves

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson made a huge pile of leaves for the kids to play in. They had a blast- so did Grandma and I :) Here are some pics.

The Birthday Boy

Today was my baby boy's birthday. I cannot believe how the time has flown but believe it or not, he is TWO! So for his birthday he wanted chicken nuggets for lunch and we decided to try out Jumpin Jacks for a few hours. It was a blast. It was nice to just focus on having fun for awhile. I feel like I get so caught up in life I don't take time enough to just have fun with my family. We had a great time together. Sure do love this boy though. He is incredible. I am SO SO grateful everyday for him. He keeps us smiling and on our toes. Our life would not be complete without our sweet, wonderful, crazy Jaston :)!

I have to add a disclaimer on my cake and my photography skills. I had high hopes for the cake with a road and grass... yeah time ran away from me today, the icing wouldn't copperate and Jaston wouldn't let the car stay on there for two seconds so whatever! As for photography- I have taken the lunge into shooting in manual mode and am just in the experimental stages so we are in trial and error mode at the moment with photography and photoshop. Just testing the waters to see what I like the most. This is my first attempt shooting anything for real in manual so forgive the randomness and graininess. I will get there.... eventually... maybe...

Yeah, not the greatest pics but look at those two handsome faces- how can you reject this pic?

Skylee actually took this one- not too bad. Maybe I will have a real photographer in the family.

We were exhausted by the end of our tirade :)

Until next year...

We Love Christmas Time!

We have been super busy with Christmas-like activities and we love it! We went to the Dicken's festival last night. On Thursday one of my sweet friends, Coy, asked us if we wanted to go to see the mall's Santa. Both of my kids were so excited to go see Santa and of course when we got there Jaston wanted nothing to do with him. Skylee asked Santa for a bike and games for her leap frog. That was a busy day and they crashed hard that night so I had to add pics of them since they are little angels when they are sleeping :) PS: ignore the error on the typing on the picture-if you can't figure it out great. If you do find it sorry, i can't edit it once I make the collage so oh well! Several months ago Skylee asked if she could go see Jesus. I finally figured out she wanted to see baby Jesus at the nativity at the temple. So for Family Home Evening Monday we went to see Jesus and the beautiful lights at the temple. The kids loved it and had a blast with Grandma in the leaves. We sure are spoiled to live by their grandparents-both sets.