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 :)

Another Thumb Sucker??

Mia can't decide what she wants to do.

For a little bit she took a pacifire. Then she started sucking on her bottom lip. But lately she has been favoring the thumb in her mouth. She doesn't actually sit there and suck on it-- but it keeps finding its way into her mouth!!!

I guess only time will tell :)

Today

Surprise! I cut my hair after 6 years of growing it out! It was a very traumatic experience for Mindy. All weekend long she kept telling me not to cut my hair because I wouldn't look like a princess or that I would look like a boy. She has been VERY observant of how people lately. For example today at Sam's Club she had to point out (out loud of course!) the man with a very long pony tale and the girl with the immodest dress. Anyway, back to what I was saying before, Mindy watched with her eyes filled with tears and her thumb in her mouth as my friend Dana cut my hair. Dana put a little band in my hair and then cut it and gave it to Mindy to keep. When my hair was finished she told me that I still look like a princess--so that's a good sign! I do feel bad though because both the girls want to be just like their Mama (just like all little girls do!). The other day I got dressed after Mindy was already dressed and she went and changed so that our colors would match. Then Makayla went and picked out an outfit to match too! I have been dying in this humidity this year and it is so nice to have a cooler hair cut. Mindy has asked me several times how long it will be until my hair grows back.....

These first two pictures were taken by Mindy. She is becoming quite the photographer around here! She is always asking to take a picture!! :)

Mia is 4 months old now!

So....this is what we look like TODAY :)

A Father's Day Gift

We gave Monte this picture in a frame for Father's Day.

Mindy just LOVES her "dada". Lately she will ask him non-stop if she can play a game on his ipod. She is always tagging along side Monte asking him questions and just talking :) she always ends each sentence with "huh dada". Monte and Mindy are best buddies.

Then there is Makayla......she is definitely a mama's girl but will occasionally give her Dada a kiss. Ever since Mia was born Monte has helped out a lot with the older two girls and so Makayla is slowly catching on that he is actually a good guy! She has such a cute laugh and Monte can always find a way to get one out of her. She especially loves him when he carries her to the trampoline (because she is scared of Harley) and jumps with her.

Little Miss Mia usually gets a holding session in each night with her daddy. A couple of weeks ago Monte was holding her at church and I couldn't believe how much they looked alike!!

Monte is a good daddy to our girls.I love that I can learn often how to be a better Mom by watching him be a great Dad

Photo Shoot

Mia in her blessing dress

I love this picture!

This is SO Makayla!

Mindy is getting so big!

I got a sweet deal through Groupon for Clix Portrait Studios. I got 7 pictures on a CD for like $70! SWEETNESS! The girls did great!

My friend Dana helped at the studio, curled the girl's hair, and help me get to the appointment on time!

Easter 2011