First lost tooth

One morning about a month ago, Mindy told said "Mom, I have a loose tooth!" I find myself saying "You're too little to _____" so often! Mindy is growing like a weed and I just can't stop it. I just cannot believe how fast they grow. This year she will be starting school too.
On February 1st I asked Mindy if her tooth was getting any looser and she opened her mouth and her tooth was completely flat on her gums. When I told her we needed to get a string and pull that tooth out she balled!! I myself was such a chicken when it can to pulling teeth so I had some sympathy there! We tried a few times with a string and it just kept sliding off. So, I grabbed it with a dry wash rag and it came right out without her even knowing! She was so proud and SOOOO excited to put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy! Sure enough the tooth fairy came (and Mindy said she had a dream that night that her tooth fairy was pink with purple wings) and she left her a dollar! She is one lucky girl!

Valentines Day 2012

The girls got a package from Granny on the 8th. It had a Pinkalicious Valentines Day book, candy, and some winter hats and gloves for each of the girls! They loved it all! Then on the 10th we got a special package from Aunt Judy---Strawberries!!! They were so big and yummy! Such a fun and delicious treat!

On Valentines Day we had a tea party with red juice, scones, and sugar cookies. Its always fun to dress up and party together! Later we had a yummy dinner then played toy story Yahtzee. When the girls went to bed we laughed and stayed up late playing Settlers of Catan with Judson.

Mia is going to be 1 on Saturday and I cannot believe it!

Some pictures

I had a minute to update the blog at the office today so I thought I would post a couple of pictures. The laptop is fixed and I have finally downloaded some pictures!!

This pic is from October-I love it! After scriptures and prayer Monte always gets to be a horse :)

Here is Mia on Dec 1st all bundled up and ready to go outside!

The girls in their christmas jammies from our friend Dana

Makayla loves to help me in the kitchen. She is helping me make homemade noodles. Such a good and happy helper!

Little Miss Mia with her one top tooth! So happy and ADOREABLE!

The girls playing with their present from Uncle Alex and Aunt Stephenie. Its a play do ice cream maker -- and it sure makes a mess!! The girls love it!

The Luckiest Girl Ever

Santa left a note for Mindy on Christmas morning that told her she had been a very good girl this year and that he had a present for her that couldn't fit down the chimney so she needed to go outside to see what it was....Mindy has said many times:

"I'm the luckiest girl ever" and "my pony is so stinkin cute"


She was SOOO excited to get outside and use her new halter and lead rope from Granny so she could "train" and ride her horse. She kept asking Granny, "but how did you know to get me a pink halter and lead rope?!"

She has told everyone about her new pony from Santa. When she walked outside and pet her new horse she said "I am going to name her Lightening". She later told us that she named her Lightening because she knew that she would be really fast just like lightening. She just can't stop talking about her pony!

I think this picture pretty much says it all!

Since we have been home Mindy has gotten up every morning and just cannot wait to get outside and be with her new friend! Today was sunny and in the fifties so we headed outside. Lightening wouldn't let me catch her so Mindy did it all by herself. She brushed her, led her around, "trained" her to get into the horse trailer about 3 times, and rode her while I led her around. She is so happy! This is the gift that keeps on giving :)

Some pictures from Monte's iphone

As you already know....We don't have the Internet at our house..... Unfortunately, the laptop where ALL my pictures are stored is broken and getting fixed (for over a month now)....AND I lost my camera for 3 weeks!! I'm so glad I found my camera, but I don't have the laptop to download any pictures to....So, as a result, here are some random snap shots from Monte's phone (sorry, they are out of order too!)

Mindy after church on November 11th

Makayla wearing Mia's beanie and being silly during dinner- December 2nd

Trying to take a picture of the girls together in their jammies.....does anyone else have this problem? :) Nov 13th

Poor Mia was in this stinkin stroller many many times while we were building our fence. She was usually very good just watching us. We finally finished our fence just in time to bring them home after Thanksgiving. I love looking our the window and seeing the horses. We have missed them the last 2 years. Mindy has been begging to ride Roper. I keep telling her we will have to wait for a warm Saturday :) (maybe in a couple of months???)

November 6th-The girls outside just before going on our Sunday walk. Unfortunately it was our last one until Spring :(

I did their hair in braids and sponge rollers for church. It brought back lots of memories for me!

December 3rd- All ready for the Boise State game!

Halloween!!

Mindy was Pinkalicious (character in a book who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns pink!) this year. Pinkalicious is one of the girls' favorite books-we read it all the time! Mindy has been waiting since September to wear pink make-up and have pink hair! She had so much fun trick or treating. She was so excited and ran from house to house helping Makayla along the way. She even waited for Makayla to get to the door before she would knock. No one had any idea who she was. In fact, one lady asked: "Who are you?" and she confidently replied: "Mindy!"

Makayla had plans to be Ariel this year. Aunt Judy sent a cute Ariel costume and we bought some red hair spray for her too. On Halloween morning I fixed her bangs so cute like Ariel and then sprayed her hair red. She looked adorable and she LOVED her hair! Her Ariel costume was a little too long so she kept tripping on it all morning. Then, she had a little accident in her costume -which sometimes happens when you are newly potty trained and wearing tights :)-so I put her in the tub to get the red out of her hair (which took 3 times to wash and rinse and it still had a pink tint) and convinced her to be Rapunzel. Granny bought Mindy a Rapunzel wig during the summer so we put her cute purple dress on and her wig and called it good! As I was putting her tights on she said "Mom, Rapunzel doesn't wear tights!!". She hated wearing the wig so I told her she only had to wear it while we were trick or treating. The moment we headed to the car to be done for the night she pulled it off! Because of the darkness, lots of people passing us asked if the wig was her real hair :) she looked so stinkin cute!

Then there is our little miss Mia baby......Thanks to Aunt Judy she was a cute little ladybug! It was perfect-she looked so cute and it kept her nice and warm! While the girls ran around getting their candy Mia was happily being pushed in her stroller. Monte said she had to wait until she could walk before she could trick or treat with the girls....Which is probably a good thing because Mindy and Makayla got a ton of candy without her help ;)

Chickens!

The top three pictures are of when we brought the chickens home on Sept 14 and the bottom pics are from October 4th when we converted our shed into a chicken coop. The girls love the chickens. We have 7 Rhode Island Reds, 2 that we think are Barred Rock, and one that is brown that Monte named Butch. Mindy named one of the black chicks "Easter Egg" and Makayla named the other "Chicken Broccoli". I named the lightest chick "Chicken Nugget" but now all 7 of the Reds look the same so we have no idea which one it is! Other names include diamond, trampoline, chicken in a bobble, and sparkle....but they change depending on the day! Mindy is holding Butch in the bottom left picture. Butch is usually the one she can catch. She absolutely loves to try and catch the chickens. If they see her coming they run for cover! We have no idea which are hens and roosters.....i guess we will find out when the roosters start trying to crow :) The evening we (and when I say we, I mostly mean MONTE) finished the chicken coop and got all the chickens in there I had such a neat feeling. I just felt this overwhelming love for our new little home and our little family and our little flock of chickens. It was great to be together and make some great memories as a family. Getting the chickens and working on our fence has really given me a sense of ownership for our new home.

Boise State Baby

Aunt Judy gave this adoreable outfit to Mia when we visited in August. She has worn it every game day this year. We all love showing our Boise State pride on game day!

Its been awhile!

We moved and no longer have the internet at our house! In a way its nice becasue I don't waste my time on the internet BUT I pay my bills and blog online! I miss blogging the most- I feel like its a way to document life at the Johnson home and to let everyone know what our family is up to. I have SO MUCH to blog about that I wont be able to gt to it all! I've got to start somewhere-so I figured I would start with something current :)

Go BSU!

Here we are all ready to start the Boise State game on Sept 3! We were so excited for the season to start....especially MONTE! We let the girls stay up past their bed time to watch the game with us and that was a mistake! They ran around the whole time and kept acting their age so we put them to bed at half time :)