Johnson Smiles

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We certainly did around here. We spent Christmas Eve day at home decorating cookies. It was kind of funny because I was talking to Beau about how we were decorating cookies for Santa. His response was "Mom, we can't give them all to Santa!" Now if you know Beau you are probably thinking the same thing I was at the time...that he wanted to make sure he got his fill of cookies too! Well, he surprised me. When I asked "why not?" He goes "because, we have to save some for Jesus...it's HIS birthday!" Oh so true, from the innocent little mouth of a 3 year old. One of my favorite memories from this Christmas morning was when we all went downstairs to check out what Santa brought. All the presents and toys didn't phase Cora...the first thing she spotted was that Santa had left cookie crumbs on his plate, and it was well within her reach! She boogied over there and plop...

Wow, September....I haven't been much of a poster this fall! Today is December 1st, which means the Christmas season is in full swing. We got all of our Christmas decorations and trees up last weekend, so we're looking pretty festive around here. The kids are starting to get excited for Christmas, and I'm trying to focus on giving with them this year. Beau may need some work in the surprise department though. We've had a little practice with birthday's lately. Megan's birthday was in November and we brought her birthday present to her at Mom and Dad's last weekend. When we were wrapping the present I reminded Beau that we can't tell her what it is! He said ok ... (we always exchange a book and a Christmas ornament for our birthdays). He gave her the Christmas ornament and she opened it. Then he picked up the other present and said " ok Megan, here's your book now". Good thing she already knew what it was! :) We also have one our our dayca...