Slacker...

Wow! I am such a slacker! It's actually been so long since I've posted that I had to figure out how to post... Well I did figure it out, now time to catch you up a little bit and post some pics of the kids!

Let's start with Nathan....he turned 7 last March and had a FUN Star Wars themed birthday...

He had friends from the neighborhood, church and school come. They played with light sabers, shot some storm troopers and the ate some Cake and ice cream. He loved it! His best friend even stayed the night with us so he could come since he was going to be out of town. How fun!

In March Audrey also decided to give scissors a try and trimmed the hair on a bunch of stuffed animals...and herself. Luckily we have a good friend who cuts hair and I was able to take her over and get it fixed. It turned out so cute!

Before the cut...

After the cut...

Let see, where to next...
In April I took the kids up to Idaho, we visited family and wen to Zoo Boise (no, not family at the zoo), we also did a little crafting.

Taking a rest at the zoo with Grandma Johnson.

Audrey and her cousins!

Hanging out with Alyssa at the Morrison Knudson Nature Center.

Audrey had her birthday in May and turned the big 5! She LOVES Hello Kitty, so that was her birthday party theme!

 

 She had friends from church over and we did some coloring, pinned the bow on Hello Kitty and decorated some flip flops!

Audrey with Grandma Jan!

 

Nathan started 2nd grade this year! He was pretty excited! And as you can see from his pictures, he's lost some teeth too!

Audrey started Kindergarten! Yep both kids are now in school!! 

Chris also started school this year. He took some summer and fall courses and is working on his third semester now. It'll be a while before he'll be finished, but he's enjoying it and we are excited for him to learn something new!

Fast forward to Thanksgiving and we had the cousins and Grandma Johnson come to visit us! This was the first Thanksgiving since Chris and I've been married that we've had family come visit. Usually it's just our little family and Aunt Gina, so this was pretty exciting!!

We kept busy visiting Temple Square, Gardner Village and more crafting!

Chillin' with the cousins, temple square.

Us!

And of course Christmas was in December, how can we forget that? First we went to Festival of Trees, first time going since Audrey was a baby. We took tracks and had lots of fun checking out all the fun ways to decorate a tree!

 

 Warming up our hands on the train on the way home.

We went and saw Santa to tell him what we wanted...

This was the closest she would get, she wants a tea set.

Nathan wants a Wii U.

Nathan also played basketball during November and December, keeps getting better and better...

 

In our Sunday best...

 

 

 

We had a great Christmas day opening presents, eating good food and spending the day together watching movies. Let's do that again!

Santa Nathan.

Audrey was very excited with her gift!

 

 

Well, I think that about catches us all up. Whew....that took a while. We have some fun stuff planned for this year and I'm planning on keeping you all updated.
Keep your eyes open for some more updates and new fun stuff too!!

Playing catch up - Spring Soccer

Nathan and Audrey both played soccer this spring...well Nathan played soccer (didn't even have to bribe him to this year, he did so good!), Audrey wasn't really into it. Here's some cute pictures I took at the beginning of the season...

This just makes me laugh. I love when they are having fun together! :)

Nathan having fun playing.

Audrey got to where she wouldn't go in unless someone was holding her hand. 

Here's her coach with her (she did love her red socks though!).

For Fall, Nathan is playing soccer again and loving it again. He's having lots of fun and we're happy he's found a sport he really enjoys. Audrey will be taking some dance classes.

Christmas pictures...

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We spent time with just our family and also spent some time with extended family. I love being able to spend time with people we don't get to see a lot throughout the year. It's fun to catch up with others and see how everyone has faired since the last time we saw each other. 

I don't have pictures of all we did...but we decided to try and do an advent calendar. We tried to do a fun activity each night of the month to count down to Christmas, some days we did better then others and most nights we did do something fun which helped make the month go by pretty quick, not to mention all the sewing I did. 

Some of the fun we had December included:
Visited Temple Square
Wrote letters to Santa
Made cookies
Took treats to our friends
Watched Christmas movies
Listened to Christmas music
Decorated the Christmas tree
Driving around looking at all the lights
Going shopping for each other at the $ store
and more, just can't remember all the fun we had right now!

Here are Nathan and Audrey showing off the letters to Santa...

 Of course mom and dad helped them write them, Nathan did sign his name and Audrey drew a tiny picture to Santa.

When we went to temple square we decided to take trax for a little treat for the kids since they've never been on the train before. It sure was fun, although next time we'll take them during the day so they can see everything that we pass by.

 

 

Christmas Eve the kids got to open up some jammies to sleep in and we took some pictures, my sister (Aunt Gigi) came over also came over and spent the night with us...

 I love to see them getting along and having fun together.

 I doesn't happen a lot, but they seem to be getting along with each other more and more.

 We sure do love them...SILLY and zombie and all!

And when they are cute and lovely with each other...it melts my heart! 

Christmas morning we had church at 9, so we got up and got ready and I pulled out the Cinnamon rolls I made the night before to warm up and rise while we were gone.

Audrey wore the cute jumper Grandma Johnson made her and Nathan wore his new suit.

After church we cooked the cinnamon rolls (YUM) and opened up presents. Then spent a couple hours playing with our new toys before heading to Chris' cousins house for dinner with Chris' side of the family. It was really a great day. One of the best parts of Christmas was that I didn't have to go in to work again until the first of the year! I waited all year long to get a week off for Christmas, it's hard, but SOOOO worth it too. 

We hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We are looking forward to another great year!