Johnson Smiles

Beau officially has one Christmas under his belt! It was a lot of fun to celebrate Christmas as a family of three for the first time. We celebrated with the whole Johnson side on Saturday, and with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Chelsea on Sunday. We spent Christmas Eve at home, and went to church, which was really fun since it was the children's pageant. Beau got to open one present on Christmas Eve, which was his new exersaucer. After that we read The Night Before Christmas, and went to bed. We woke up on Christmas morning to find that Santa came!!! He left Beau a swing, highchair, and red wagon...not to mention the stocking stuffed with goodies! After we opened all our presents we headed out for Grandma and Grandpa Daskam's where we celebrated with Great-Grandma and Grandpa Trachta, Jolene, Megan and Adam. We all got so much good stuff, we must have been VERY good this year!

Ok , I'm FINALLY starting to get excited for Christmas. About time, since it is only 4 days away! So today I am just going to reflect on the top 6 things that put me in the Christmas spirit. 1. Christmas TV specials. Note the DVD set to the left. That was a birthday present from Mom and Dad...LOVE it! 2. Hallmark ornaments. Every year since I have been born my mom has given my sister and I a new Hallmark ornament for our birthdays. It was such a big deal when we were younger to pick out the ornament we wanted...(who am I kidding, I still like doing it now!). I have one from every year, each one in it's original box, marked with my name and the year. It is so much fun to get them out at Christmas and see which ornament we chose each year, not to mention see how the packaging has changed. They all seem to bring back some sort of memory. This year Beau got his first ornament from Grandma, and I am so happy that this tradition is being passed to him too! 3. Baking/Eating holiday t...

We had our first Christmas of the season last weekend. The family is getting so big with all of the new additions that we decided to do it in a hotel this year. It was fun to see all of the babies together. They were all born within about a month of each other, so I'm sure next year will be CRAZY with them all mobile and running around! We were all amazed that there were no tears during our little photo shoot...what little troopers!