Johnson birthday party

Kristin invited us to Brandon and Ryan's combined birthday party at a fun tumbling place. The girls had a great time running around and Cambria enjoyed the swing and jumping into the foam!!

Best Husband Ever

So I need to pay tribute to my wonderful husband!! Everyday he is amazing but there are some days when he surprises me with extras! Saturday I found out about my missing vertebrae and the Chiropractor told me to take it easy for the weekend and not make the bed or vacuum or other various activities in the home. Tim stepped up and took over and was wonderful. He made dinner and cleaned up on Sunday and vacuumed and cleaned and did laundry on Monday. (which a side story, he kept telling me that he had to work Monday so he woke me up to take him to work so I could have the car to go to the chiro again and when I went out to the kitchen the girls were sitting down to waffles and omelets and a plate was waiting for me. Then he told me he didn't have to work, surprise!!) Then today I had to go to traffic school at 5:45 so I picked him up from work and he drove us down town for my class. He and the girls had to wait for me so he took them to yuckdonalds (only their second time there and hopefully last) and then drove around down town Salt Lake until 7:00. What a wonderful man!! I feel so blessed and lucky so I had to put this out there!

Interesting Things

So for those of you who know me well, you know that I have had back pain on and off for a long time. Last summer I had to go to the Chiropractor just a few weeks before my half marathon to get quickly put back together again. Well last Saturday I had to go again because it was hurting so bad. I found a Chiropractor close and went. I have never had an xray done except for my broken arm and he suggested we take a couple just to see what was going on. Well I am missing my 5th vertebrae. Crazy stuff I know. He told me about 3-4% of people are missing one and other have 6. Mine started to develop but never completed. I do have a nice curve of my spine though! So the 5th vertebrae is supposed to carry 55% of your weight and is a key component in exercise and lifting! Since I don't have one my #4 is picking up the slack hence all of my back pain and problems. What am I to do you ask? Well I need to heal my current pain and then learn how to correctly strengthen my lower back muscles so that I can prevent future back pain. Great things you can learn when you are almost 29 about your body! here are pictures of my xrays the best I could get them.If you start at the top square it goes 11, 12, 1,2,3,and ends at 4.
This xray was like a crooked pictures that you want to straiten! Everything is shifted to the right.

Valentines Day

Tim was wonderful as always and made Valentines dinner! We had spaghetti and garlic bread and beans. As you can see Audrey was loving it and had a bath afterwards! She did use a fork for the first few bits!

My super cute girls!!

Cambria and Audrey being cute one day sharing a drink! I sure do love my girls!!

Cleaning

I was being nice and cleaning and organizing all of Tim's gym clothes. I emptied this drawer so I could fold everything and I had a new tenet move in! She even brought some things she wanted in her new house! Now I'm having troubles keeping the clothes in that drawer, she has laid claim!!

Waking up from a nap

I heard Audrey awake from a nap so I went in to get her and this is what I found!! She had pulled herself up and out of her crib onto the dresser. Scary! So I changed the girls room around and now Cambria's bed is where the crib used to be and Audrey's crib is where Cambria's bed was. Crazy kid!

A Great New Year

There must be something about the word NEW that is just exciting. A new year is here and I'm excited! Yesterday I decided to reorganize my life. I'm going to get my pictures organized and labeled as well as on the computer, make DVDs of videos I've taken of our family and a few other things. I feel re energized and pumped to get things done and see it happen! I have restarted Cambria's job chart and a few discipline ideas! If she wants to do things like watch cartoons she can watch 3 if she gets dressed, puts away her clothes and brushes her teeth, so far today she has gotten dressed and put her clothes away and has yet to brush her teeth but she has also forgotten that she wanted to watch cartoons! This is working out great!!! Tim and I are doing a two week eating program to help get rid of the 4-5 pounds we gained during the holidays and to put us back on track for our weight loss goals!

I've decided that my blog is going to be my journal or photo journal so I've found out how to print it into a book, now I just need to back blog on a few months and print it out by the end of January. I'm way excited to see how it turns out and see what I want to change on my blog for 2010. Well this is the new me for the new year, getting a few things in my life organized and doing things that make me and my family happy! Happy New Year

Christmas 2009

This Christmas we stayed at our apartment then went to Idaho that afternoon. Cambria came into our room around 7:30 and brought Audrey. She said mom, dad come quick santa came! He didn't bring me anything I asked for but brought a great surprise!! She is too funny!!
Tim likes to get something for each of us just from him so he got Cambria a cute new hat and Audrey a Strawberry Shortcake doll.
The girls got to open their Christmas jammies the night before and were sooo cute. We also went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse Christmas Eve with Aunt Mary and Lori and then went to Aunt Mary's for dessert and to exchange gifts.
Cambria was shocked and surprised that Santa left her a thank you note on her magna doodle! This year Santa got a glass of water, a protein bar and a clementine! She decided Santa was getting too fat with all the cookies so she left something healthier!
From Santa Cambria got a Polly Pocket Mega Mall with lots of tiny pieces!!
Audrey got a set of colorful blocks, but was loving checking out Cambria's Polly mall.
I got Tim some oil calone and some clothes some worked out and the rest we took back.


While Cambria was taking a bath I let Audrey have at the Polly mall and she had a great time!


It was a great Christmas we had a great time. Later we went to my mom's and had a turkey dinner, we set up tables down stairs so that we would all fit. Then we opened presents from each other and played around. The next day Kristin and family came and we exchanged a few other gifts and played some games and our white elephant gift exchange. The weekend was fun and we were even able to play couples games now that Meagan is married. Meg took our kids back to her house on Monday and we went to celebrate our 8th anniversary. We went to lunch at The Garden in the Joseph Smith Building, returned some gifts then went to see a movie Sherlock Holmes. Tuesday we did more errands and shopping and then decided that since Meg didn't have to teach school we would leave our girls one more night! Wednesday I went to pick them up and it took me an hour and a half to drive to Clearfield because of weather. It was great to have a few days to ourselves and it was also great to have our girls back!

Gingerbread House

I got a really cool Gingerbread House at Costco and so we attempted to make one this year. We should have maybe followed the instructions more closely. It said for best results to put the house together and then let dry for 3 hours. We just went for it and did it all at once!

Audrey sat in her high chair for a long time but then wanted to be involved and eat the candy!
Are we having fun yet?
After we were finished (which i ended up finishing it) it didn't look too bad from afar!!

Ward Christmas Party

Our ward had a fun Christmas Brunch this year. I made a breakfast casserole, there was some singing from the primary and a few songs with everyone and then santa and then it was over. Here is Cambria telling santa what she wants. We didn't try Audrey cause she didn't like santa on the Polar Express train ride.

Cambria's 5th Birthday Party

We had a color party theme for Cambria so we got her an easel that has a marker board, chalk board and a role of paper. I drew a little surprise on the marker board side for her.
Audrey loved the cake!
Doug and Kristin, Ryan, Morgan and Brandon came as well as Meagan and Natalie.



So at first she was kind of like thanks for the gift but really wanted to check out the other presents. This was a better reaction from last years present. I am adding a picture because the face is worth a thousand words and this pictures says it all!
Classic!! What is this and why did I get it for my birthday? Let me just explain a little. I had a Cabbage Patch when I was her age and so I thought she would like one too. After a few weeks she kind of played with it. I also love Brandon's face in the background!!

I am learning new cooking things all the time! I saw this cake on line and thought I could do it. I could only put it in the fridge because of lack of room in the freezer and later found out it needs to go in the freezer so that it cuts crisp. It is supposed to be a painters pallet! Happy Birthday Cambria!

Polar Express Train Ride

Cambria has wanted to ride a train for a while so Tim found out about the Heber Valley Railroad and that they do a Polar Express Train ride. It worked out that we were able to go on Cambria's birthday! She loved it and had a great time. We had two elves for our train car and they came and asked the kids names so I told them it was Cambria's birthday and later our whole train car sang happy birthday to her! The elves brought us cookies and hot chocolate and asked the kids what they wanted for Christmas. Later we followed along as our story teller read aloud the Polar Express book. Mrs Santa made her way through all the train cars and we soon approached the North Pole where we looked out and saw santa. This whole time we were going backwards and at the North Pole the engine switched to the front and santa got on the train with us. He came and met all the kids and gave them a special Christmas bell that they could only hear as long as they believed! On our way back to the train station we sang Christmas carols and had a great time over all!


Waiting for the train to start.

My mom and dad came as well as Meagan and Ryan.

Audrey wasn't to sure about Santa.

Cambria thought it was great but was expecting the train to go a little faster! She didn't know it was the Heper Creeper!!

Temple Square Christmas lights

Sunday evening we took the girls down town to check out the lights. We had lots of ooh and aahs from both. It was a very pretty night! Lots of other people had the same idea!