Jordyn Paige Johnson!!!!

We welcomed the newest little member to our family on 12/27/2008. Jordyn Paige Johnson was born at 7:26 p.m. weighing in at 6 pounds 10 ounces and 20 inches long.

She is a wonderful baby and we have enjoyed her so much. It has been pretty crazy around here the last 2 weeks and it is hard to believe that our baby is now 2 weeks old.

Jaycee has been a wonderful big sister. She has loved Jordyn from the time that she first came to see her in the hospital. She has been such a big help too. I was pretty nervous about how she was going to react when we brought Jordyn home, but she has been nothing short of perfect!

Here are a few more pictures that we have taken over the past couple weeks.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was very exciting for us this year. We had so much fun watching Jaycee's face as she was surprised with all the presents Christmas morning. I realized just now that we did not do a very good job with the picture taking, as we took mostly video. So, here are a couple of pictures from before the presents were unwrapped. More pictures to post later after I get them from my parents. You can always count on the grandparents to have their cameras snapping pictures.

We learned our lesson this year with the little beetle to leave the favorite gifts until the very end. Jaycee saw this car and would not even look at any of the other gifts that she had bee given. It was so bad that Dad had to take the car and hide it (Jaycee cried) to even have her unwrap anything else from under the tree. She absolutely loves this little car!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Last, but not least, we took Jaycee over to see Santa at the mall. We were a little nervous because last year she just screamed and screamed. She actually did really, really well. She was being shy and hardly looked at him, but she sat on his lap so we could get a cute picture!

Okay, I am finally caught up with the majority of what has happened in the last month. We hope you all have a very, very Merry Christmas. Hopefully we will have a new baby to post about next!!!

Too Cute

Here are a few pictures of Jaycee that I have taken recently that I had to post because she is just too cute. She loves to wear her daddy's hat and his gloves if they are around.

I love Jaycee in this big furry coat. She looks like a little Eskimo.

My sister watched Jaycee for a little while when I went to one of my OB appointments and she took these pictures of Jaycee and Jack reading a book. They are so very cute together.

Ohh, and I cannot forget to post the picture with her and Mitch on the snowmobile. She is learning early to love daddy's hobbies!

Treehouse Museum in Ogden

I took Jaycee with a mom's group to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was really, really neat. Everything there was for the kids to play with and Jaycee loved it. There was nothing there that she could not touch or play with. Best of all, she could run around from room to room and I didn't have to worry about her going somewhere or touching something she shouldn't. They also had a lot of really neat things for the kids to do. I did not get a whole lot of pictures because Jaycee was going crazy bouncing around the museum and playing with the different things.

Let it snow, Let it snow!!!

Mitch and Jaycee have had a ball with all of the snow that we have been getting recently. Mitch came up with the idea of pulling Jaycee around in a sled and/or her little ambulance behind the lawnmower. Jaycee absolutely loves this, especially in her car. The other day, they drove around the whole neighborhood and backyard. The next morning, Jaycee was very upset to realize that her dad had gone back to work and would not be able to take her around in the car. She told him so on the phone. It was very cute. I could catch the words "snow", "outside" and "mower". It is so much fun to see these two outside playing together. I wish that I did not feel like hippo, or I would be outside playing too.

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.