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Sunday, January 6, 2013

A few pictures

Here are a few pictures from our week/weekend. We haven't been up to anything special other than going to the park, cleaning rooms, playing outside, having a playdate or two, and working in the garage.
Flying airplanes


Loving our new garage bike hooks


Playing outside


Caters has had a cold this week- her first one I think? She is super healthy and rarely sick (maybe because she sleeps so much?). She has been all cuddles and a leaky faucet. She constantly says "I tuddle you mama?" and anytime she asks I'll put down whatever I'm doing and snuggle her. She gives the best hugs EVER.


This handsome kids LOVES his new bike and rides like a champ.


This one doesn't love her new bike, but will ride other ones.


Cute little brothers.


Handsome Ryan in one of his many new outfits. He is growing too fast!


We started sleep training this week. Knock on wood (hope it continues), but he seems pretty good. He'll nap in his crib from 1-2.5 hours during the day 3-4 times. I barely know what to do with my free arms. We put him down when he's still awake but tired and he puts himself to sleep. He also sleeps in his crib at night (no more carseat). He goes to bed around 11/11:30, wakes up around 5 for food, and then sleeps till 8:30 or 9am. My goal for next week is to get him to bed earlier and have him still only wake up once during the night. :) We'll see if he cooperates.

He also has been loving sitting in his swing. Just stares at the animals so happily. Such a sweetheart! He smiles at us tons and I am seriously IN LOVE with this little cutie- completely smitten! He gets cuter by the minute.



Thursday, January 3, 2013

It's a ROCKET

This was probably the favorite gift this year. Santa hit a home run. Good thing he had some help from a neighbor who spied this at CVS and told me I needed to let Santa know about it asap. 


I got sick over the holidays somehow. Watching these three put the rocket together (and seeing the kid's enthusiasm) was the absolute highlight of my vacation.





Best face ever.



Then it was time to get serious and break out the space suit.







G&G Smith could fit in too (look closely and you can see Grandpa Kim back there). Grandma proved to be great at zapping aliens.


Love it... and the kiddos actually play nicely together in it.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy 2013 and New header

I've got a new blog header for 2013 thanks to the beautiful photography of Meghan MacAskill. Check it out when you have a sec. Meghan captured the adorable picture of my three favorite kiddos (which was also featured in our family holiday card below) and then I just tweaked the header a bit... love starting fresh for the new year.

Happy New Year from our family!


We hope 2013 bring you loads of joy and happiness!


The theme for our family for 2013 
(in addition to our Family Motto "Enjoy the journey, stop for treats") 
is found in the quote pasted below:

“Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. … Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.” 

“Parents should act to preserve time for family prayer, family scripture study, family home evening, and the other precious togetherness and individual one-on-one time that binds a family together and fixes children’s values on things of eternal worth. Parents should teach gospel priorities through what they do with their children.” 
-Dallin H. Oaks

We will have a busy year trying to work on all of these goals! Love you all! 
Hope to see more of you in 2013!

Monday, December 31, 2012

And He's Growing... {Ryan @ 2 months}

I love these pictures that Kevin took of Ryan with his miracle blanket. I think the first one was when he was around 2 weeks old... and then the other one is from last night (at about 2 months old- his 2 month birthday was last Thursday). Man has Ryan grown. It is CRAZY! He looks like a completely different kid now.



The 2 month old Ryan...


  • weighs over 13 lbs (we'll know exactly how big he is when we go to the doctor next week)
  • wears size 0-3 month clothes
  • wears size 2 diapers
  • sleeps between 4-6 hours in a row at night... and then eats... and then usually sleeps another 3 hours. Lately he goes to bed at 11/11:30, wakes up at 5 or 6am for a feeding, and then wakes up for the day around 9am. Not too shabby... and then he'll throw me a curve ball a few other times a week and be up every hour or two or want to eat for 2 hours, etc. There still isn't much consistency... but I am not sleepwalking through the day any more and feel less like I am a demon. :) Hooray
  • smiles and coos (so adorable)
  • rolls from front to back when we put him on his tummy and it totally cracks Andrew up
  • takes very few naps... so we're working on that... most are like 20 minutes long... today he slept for an hour in his crib and I kept checking the video monitor wondering if something was wrong. I enjoyed every minute of my time playing princesses with Catie with my arms free
  • is sooooo sweet and happy and chill. We are hoping this continues. He usually is a little fussy at nighttime once the kids go to sleep, but generally is such a relaxed kid. I love to cuddle with him.
  • likes his pacifier, but isn't a total addict... still deciding if this is good or bad :)
  • loves to be moving around and checking things out... he is not a fan of people sitting down when they are holding him... so he is keeping me on my feet. I guess since I rarely sat down when I was pregnant with him this shouldn't be a surprise at all.
We feel so incredibly blessed to have this little sweetheart in our family. I am so excited to see how his personality works in with the rest of our kids. Catie and Ryan absolutely adore him and are always trying to give him kisses. 

Hopefully I'll get some better photos of him with my actual camera soon!

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Candy Train

Kevin's sister Shauna sent us a cute rice crispy candy train kit before Christmas. We talked about doing it every day of December and finally got a chance to do it last Sunday. The kids had a blast.


Catie mostly ate everything we put in front of her.



And tried to figure out new ways to use the frosting



Andrew was extremely focused on creating.


Kevin helped add a few final details and the train was finished!




Thanks Johnsons!

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas Vacation to Monterey

On Christmas Day we headed down to Monterey for a short trip (3 days, 2 nights). It went way too fast. Here are the highlights/lowlights and loads and loads of pictures!

Highlights


  • Girls Night out to Les Mis on Christmas night (while Kevin watched all 3 kiddos at the hotel... it was my first time leaving Ryan for that long)
  • Boys night out to Les Mis the following night (while I watched many many episodes of TV shows on Hulu Plus in the hotel room cuddling with Ryan)
  • Monterey Aquarium with the kiddos! The toddler enclosed area was the best place ever... I relaxed and Catie played. Yahoo!
  • Dennis the Menace Park- 3 adults, 2 kids (plus one that didn't move)... and we still couldn't keep up with them.
  • Ghirardelli!
  • Sweet Ryan sleeping 6 hours in a row at our hotel. Love that kid.
  • Awesome hotel with delicious breakfast every day, swimming pool, and an elevator that kept the kids so happy.
  • Lots of cute Catie & Andrew iPad sharing... that is the only thing they know how to share these days... but it is progress :)
  • Seeing adorable baby Sophie every day
  • Tons of time to hang out with Scott, Cat, Jess, and G&G Smith. We are so depressed they are gone now.
  • "Boys" (including Jess :)) bike ride on 17 mile drive loop 
  • Dance party at Johnny Rockets. Andrew did his booty dance in the middle of the restaurant and it was hysterical. 


Lowlights

  • ODing on Diet Coke and M&Ms... so sad. I haven't eaten either since Christmas... or much else.  
  • Sitting next to Mr. Sniffles at Les Mis... I think he passed along a lot of germs to me! Ugh!
  • Andrew screaming for the first 45 minutes of our road trip to Monterey
  • Andrew screaming a bunch on our road trip home AND Catie getting car sick. Crazy! No road trips are on our schedule again for awhile.


Overall, the trip was fabulous.
And now for loads of pictures!!

Telling Ryan about Les Mis

Riding the elevator

Lots of TV time and relaxing 


Dinner at Pizza My Heart Monterey


Dennis the Menace Park

Aquarium













And... so sad we had to go home.