Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween?- Halloween 2010 written by Scott

"Everybody say Cheese!"
Halloween can be so depressing, it seems! This year it pits brother against brother, and brother versus sister. Batman must attempt to maintain justice and civility in the company of Dracula and the Wicked Queen. No wonder everyone appears so somber and forlorn, for tonight's outcome is veiled in uncertainty. Though...no matter what happens tonight...Sara did an excellent job, yet again, making these amazing costumes.

 "I vant to trick or treat"
Dracula shows off his cape, fanged teeth, and amulet.

"That's as evil as it gets"
This wicked queen has quite the sinister smile to accompany her elegant dress.

"we want to pump... you up"
 Batman seeks assistance from his cousin, Wolverine. It's about to get real fighty, real fast.

 "Michael and Autumn"
Batman's not the only one with friends. Dracula happens to know a neighborly witch.

"Dracula up to no good"
Oh no! Dracula already has the upper hand. He appears to be taunting Batman with a candy bowl.

"Quick! to the batmobile"
Batman narrowly escapes from the wicked queen before she can seize his candy bag.

 "Matthew and Ryland"
Batman realizes he may even need the help of a loyal pirate friend tonight.

 "Where to find more MeM's?"
Now that Batman has escaped, the queen will have to find her precious MeM's elsewhere.

"victory walk"
Dracula appears quite content with the spoils from tonight's exploits.

"I think she likes Halloween"
Wait...look at that smile. Maybe she's not so wicked after all.

"Trunk o Treat 2010"
Other than the skeleton losing his head, the annual trunk-or-treat was a success.

"another awesome carving"
Another Halloween finally comes to a close, and the pumpkin monster picks his nose?

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Oh what do we do in the Summertime?

We have cousins over for swimming
We Slip n Slide




We try to watch fireworks
We do some synchronized diving

We swim in swim meets

We watch swim meets
We go to more swim meets

We lose teeth
We fall asleep 

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Painting Projects

Last week I took on some painting projects around the house.
I painted this sign for Scott to take the the Suns/Spurs game.

Then I decided I was tired of looking at where my wonderful children had colored on my uncleanable flat paint, and decided to do something about it.

I thought I should finally hang up the family pictures we took forever ago too.


Things are finally starting to look nice around here.



Monday, May 3, 2010

Bad Blogger

Once again I've neglected my poor sad blog. This time it's been about seven month's since I've posted anything. So let's get caught up.

In December we...

Had the Johnson Family Reunion in Sedona.














Had a nice Christmas














In January we...

Visited the Mesa Southwest Museum














Celebrated Matthew's Birthday














In March we....

Visited the Phx Children's Museum
          


Celebrated Michael's Birthday

Monday, November 9, 2009

Michael joins the AZ Seals

Michael wasn't all that interested in doing any sports other than swimming, so he joined the AZ Seals, a local year round swim club. He's seemed to enjoy it so far. There's been a couple of cold practices now that it's cooling off, and it tends to be really windy down here. We'll see how long he lasts. :)


Getting some last minute pointers from Coach Lisa


Almost there.... don't forget you have to back to the other end too! One of the adjustments to the new swim team... swimming a 50 instead of a 25 for a race.



He actually did have a neat opportunity to meet Misty Hyman, an Olympic Gold Medal winner.

School Time

The boys have headed back to school for the year. They both really love to go to school. And I love them to go to school too! Macey hasn't seemed to bothered that they leave... she's been busy too.
Michael Started Kindergarten this year
Matthew is attending Pre-School again.


Macey has been playing dress up


Sleeping in her new big girl bed


and reading with daddy... she's cute.... don't look too close... her book is actually upside down.

Hmmm.... Some how I mananged to not post for about two months

Guess I should recap our end of summer activities....


Michael finished his swimming season with the Casa Grande Geckos.


My nephew Andrew got baptized


Macey celebrated her birthday with Papa


Macey celebrated her birthday with her cousin Ben


And I tried my hand at sewing a doll for Macey.... She might be still trying to figure out what it is.