Memory Lane

It's funny how easy it is too come up with other things to do when you have a sink full of dirty dishes!

Lily and I were looking at all of the pictures that are on my computer.  She is Star of the Week the first week after Christmas break.  This means she and her teacher put together a poster all about Lily.  We were picking pictures she wanted to print and bring in to attach to her poster and there were so many fun old pictures to see that I thought it would be fun to put some of them up on the blog....

plus, I really don't feel like washing those dishes right now!

There are years that are missing, but it's still a fun walk down memory lane!

 Who would have thought exactly one year later there would be a little 2 month old boy 

and a 2 week old boy added to both of these families!

Happenings...

In the last month since Halloween a lot has happened...

We hired some painters to paint the dining room...

They were cute and cheap...

But, liked to pose a lot...


 I hosted book club...

 The house was clean, so I took a couple of pictures....

 {I'm putting it out there Lauren...}

We did not have book club in our room, but it seems to be the only pictures I took that night...

 This picture is blurry and a little dark, but you can see the new color in the dining room...

{I will take better pictures of all the rooms at some point}

We brought back the hired painters to tackle the basement...

 Oskar supervised...

Again, they really liked to pose!


 The little one had his first bite {with good luck kisses} of cereal...

 He liked it!

And, I don't think anyone has mistaken him for Hungry!


The biggest one had her first school performance...

a medley of patriotic songs for Veteran's Day.

 Hanging with the sisters...

 Sometimes, no matter how cute a princess looks...

 she doesn't always behave as a princess should...

and then some looks go back and forth...

Until princess like behavior is resumed.


And, we celebrated Thanksgiving...

Sometimes, I think Greg feels the way Oskar looks in this picture...

When you have a little bit of this....

 and a little bit of this...

and a little bit of this...

coming at you at the same time...

it's enough to make any man rub his face in weariness!

I'm glad the two Johnson men have each other...

The End.

Halloween

 Our Halloween festivities began with Lily coming home for lunch on Friday 

to get into her costume for the afternoon parade and class party.

 While Hannah Grace wasn't in her costume she wanted to be a part of the photo shoot...

and brought her prop cell phone.

 School parade!

 After school the girls spent the afternoon playing the with little girls from down the street.

 As I was taking their pictures, I realized Lily was leading a "fighting" school. 

I couldn't figure out if the sticks were swords or light sabers.

 Teaching them all her fierce moves.

 

I realize it looks like the Johnson girls were beating down on the neighbor girls, but every so often Lily would shout, "It's night time" and all four girls would fall to the ground and pretend to sleep.  Then Lily would walk around and wake them each up.

 

 That night I tried to get a nice picture of all three together.

 As you can see I was taking a little too long and soon lost everyone's attention to the TV that was on behind me.

 Halloween day was sunny and bright and not too cold!

 We met up with some of Lily's friends from first grade and did a little trick-or-treating with them.

Then went over to Grandpa's to trick-or-treat with him on is street.

It turned out to be a beautiful day, no winter coats needed like last year.

And, it was so nice that none of the homes we visited had any type of horror

decorations as so many homes seem to have.

  A couple of skeletons, but nothing that made these little girls feel scared or uncomfortable.

{Although, Hannah Grace looks a little doubtful of the pumpkin man she's standing next too!}

Needless to say everyone had a really fun day and everyone is very tired.

Right now I have both Oskar and Hannah Grace taking naps right now.  I put them to bed at 10:30 this morning!