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.

Where we are living now

So I mentioned we have moved so I thought I would add some pics of our new house. It's still fun and new and I haven't unpacked everything yet so less clutter at the moment.

Master bath

Here is Skylee's room at the moment- I'm thinking we may want to re-decorate considering she is not a huge cowboy fan.. but for now I have other things to worry about.

Not to mention the mess- might as well be true life pics right?... maybe.?

This is Jaston's room- don't know if you can see it but his mattress is on the floor to the right of the bed. That is really his bed right now. So far at night he has been great out of his crib- nap time is a different story...

Kids bathroom

The Living Room- Finally go Christmas up last night. LOVE Christmas!

Jaston points at the tree and says "Kissmass Time!"

Skylee wakes up every morning asking if she gets presents- we are workingon the Christmas is about Jesus thing- not going so well yet.

This is the back yard- we are hoping to get it fenced in soon but so nice to have somewhere the kids can go play. Our other back yard was just gravel. They love the sand box.

The Kitchen/dining room area.

My favorite wall- just put this up and I love it!

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Update on the Winger's Life

Well, it has been a crazy few weeks. Our plan of moving December first got pushed up three weeks. We are now moved into our new home. Two weeks ago our water heater decided to die on us. We didn't want to put a lot of money into fixing it for three more weeks of living there so we decided to move the next day- regardless of the fact that I had ZERO boxes packed. It was Sunday so I couldn't do much so Monday morning we started packing and moved. It was insane and still is a bit out of control but I really feel like the Lord had a hand in this. My anxiety usually comes on with changes and I could feel it hitting hard when we finally set a date to move when we had to move so abruptly there was no time for anxiety I just went into survival mode and so far it hasn't even hit. I'm a little worried about Sunday when I have to go to a new ward.

It was really tough to leave my amazing young women and the leaders that I have worked with. I have been in that young women presidency for about two and a half years and was in for a few years as the Beehive Wed night leader so I have been with those girls for around four years. Some of my Beehives are now Laurels. Needless to say it was hard to leave. I will miss those girls and my sweet friends in there as well.

So, we just barely got the internet in our new home and I feel I can connect with the world :) It has been good for me to cut down my internet time for sure. I think I got a little excessive for awhile there. The kids seem to be doing pretty good and loving living in the new house- as do I. It is beautiful, everything is brand new and it was furnished which is nice. Right now we moved across town to Washington Fields into Jeff's Mom's home. She recently bought a home- like closed on it three weeks ago new - and she is allowing us to rent it from her until we figure out the next step in our life.

This decision to move has been a tough one but we feel we have been led by the Lord throughout this whole process and we have felt his hand in this. I feel truly blessed and hope I can find the reason we were supposed to be here right now.

So over the past few weeks while life has to keep going even though we were moving chaotically we did have a few events that I wanted to document. The first is Jeff's triathlon- I love to see that Jeff is finally getting back into tri's. He loves them and while he was doing his master's he just didn't have time. So it's really fun seeing him getting back into his passion. He found a way to sign up for the Iron man for $100 rather than $600 so he is planning on doing the Iron Man next year which I think is insane but it's on his bucket list so I guess I will support him in his insanity. We will see how it goes later.

The second is last weekend we went to my Grandma's in Monroe and had an early Thanksgiving with the whole crew (minus one of my Dad's bros and family). It was a blast! I just love spending time with my extended family.

We did get to have Thanksgiving with Jeff's family on the actual Thanksgiving after Jeff got off work- yes, he did have to work Thanksgiving- can't remember the last time he had it off... And then me and Kels went Black Friday shopping. SO much fun. I think it's hilarious what people will do to save a few dollars. I love to people watch on Black Friday. Plus I get a few good deals out of the mess. I got a new steam mop, a new bike for Sky and a few other odds and ends for friends and kids and hubby for Christmas. Plus I got a twenty dollar gift card to Boulevard. It turned out to be super super fun and crazy.

So that is our past few weeks in a nutshell. Life has been busy and haven't had time to digest the fact we actually moved and are in the next chapter of life whatever that brings. Ok the end :)

The House

So call me sentimental but since we aren't going to be living here in about a month I realized that this is the first and only home my kids have ever lived in. Taking into consideration their ages I am pretty sure they won't remember it so I want to document some pics in our yearly book to show them where we lived once upon a time- for the first four and a half years of Skylee's life and the first almost two of Jaston's. So here are a few pics of our humble abode for the past four plus years. She's been good to us.

Skylee Moments

Today Skylee was watching cartoons and apparently it got over and started into Harry Potter and I didn't know it. She came in and told me she was watching Peter Potter. I asked her if she meant Harry Potter?- Yeah, Harry Potter she said. Then like ten minutes later I hear her telling Jaston- "See Jaston, Peter Potter." and I hear Jaston's little voice, "Petah Pottah, Petah Pottah." So I guess in our house he goes by Peter Potter. I think it works...

I was pulling all of our food storage out from under my bed today to move over to the new house and apparently number ten cans are great building blocks. Skylee was stacking them and making towers. At one point she was sitting on top singing "Humpety, Dumpety sat on a wall... Humpety Dumpety had a great fall..." and then she paused so I finished it for her- " all the King's Horses and all the King's Men couldn't put Humpety together again."
She looks at me all confident-like and said "No, they could put him back together again. I'm sure they can! In Dora they put him back together."

While I was in SLC for five days Jeff texted me and let me know that one night when Skylee was saying her prayers she prayed that Mommy wouldn't forget her- just about broke my heart and then when I got home I hear her say real quiet to herself- 'now I have my family back.' Kinda put it back together a little. :) Sweet girl.

Skylee was heading to bed the other night and I said, "Good night my little monkey." and she turned and giggled and said, "Well, I do like to climb," and ran into her room. She really is my little monkey her and her brother climb EVERYTHING! Sure do love those two though they keep me smiling.

Also a Jaston moment- he is just so stinkin cute and such a stinker right now. :) I love the way he talks though. He always says phrases and the last word always comes after a big pause. Like for instance he just told me, "I'm stinky.....Mom." And I love when I ask him something and he answers yes it Yeah with a TH at the beginning; "Theah." Love it. He is usually pretty happy and goofy and into everything. It's amazing how different boys and girls are.