THANKSGIVING

So, I have been a total slacker with the posting. It has been so crazy with the holidays here. It seems like they just creeped up on us this year and it has been a whirlwind ever since! We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and had a wonderful time. I actually had to work (bummer), so Mitch and the rest of the family (mom, dad, aunt and uncle) were left to prepare the majority of the food. I was only upstairs (I work from home doing medical transcription) so I could supervise with a quick trip down the stairs. Thanks to everyone who came and helped out. Ohh, I totally forgot to take pictures too!

Also, we did our traditional Black Friday shopping again this year. I was at Walmart in Syracuse bright and early at 4:30, but not early enough. I went to get Jaycee a riding Barbee Jeep, but by the time I got there, they were all spoken for. People are crazy. There were people that had lined up for the electronics the night before! No worries, I did get her a Volkswagen covertible bug from a different store opening (more fitting I guess since Mitch is a Volkswagen technician). Mitch and I were shopping until 9 o'clock that night, but were very glad that when we were done that night, all our Christmas shopping was done.

Classic Fun Center

We took Jaycee over to the Classic Fun Center a little while ago here in Layton and she loved the blow up toys (Mitch did too)!!! They actually had quite a few and the ones with the large slides were her favorite. Mitch and I loved having her play in the toys because she could not get hurt. She jumped on them, ran off of them onto other blow up toys and loved it! It was great!

Reading

Jaycee loves to read books!!! She will sit for a long time just looking at them and talking out loud like she is actually reading what is written on the pages. Her newest thing (now that we have started potty training) is to take off her pants and sit on the toilet to read a good book. It is too cute and I had to take some pictures. She also loves reading to her stuffed animals, etc.

Cutest Cousins

Jack and Jaycee are so cute together. Everytime Briana and I get together we can't help but take a picture of these two. I can hardly wait until Jack Man gets a little bigger and starts giving Jaycee a dose of her own medicine (she actually is really great with him). He already almost out weighs her, so I know it should be good.

THE BIG DAY!!!!

We were so excited this year to take Jaycee trick-or-treating! She was so cute dressed up like a snow angel. She loved to carry her "purse" full of the candy and would not let anyone touch it after we were all done. She sat on our table for probably a half hour after we were done looking at it all and sorting it out. Halloween with children is so much fun!!!!

Carving Pumpkins

We had so much fun carving pumpkins this year. Every year, before we had kids, Mitch and I would carve up a pumpkin for tradition, but it is a lot more fun to have a toddler and a 94-year-old grandmother in the mix. Jaycee thought that the gooey inside was pretty cool and helped us all get our pumpkins cleaned out.

Nana was a great sport and did really well scraping out and carving up a pumpkin.

Of course after the carving was complete, we all had to have a couple pieces of candy to get ready for the upcoming holiday. Jaycee was nice enough to share some previously sucked on M&Ms with Nana. Nana didn't mind too much and just enjoyed watching Jaycee have so much fun!

Johnson Halloween Party

Every year Mitch's family gets together and has a Halloween party. This was one of the first years that we have been able to go, since we lived in Twin Falls and couldn't get down before.

All the kids looked so cute all dressed up in their costumes. Jaycee and her cousin Jared, who is just a month older, were so cute together. We realized that Jaycee was dressed up like a princess and Jared was a frog. We couldn't get them to kiss, but they would hold hands. They were so cute together!!!

Of course after all the fun was had, Jaycee decided she needed to sit down and it needed to be in the dirt! This is not the best picture, but I had to add it because this is so Jaycee. She loves to look "pretty", but getting dirty is just as much fun!!!