Beginning of Christmas Season

Chase and Faith have been wanting to put up Christmas decorations for awhile now. It's just a lot of work...huh, moms? It really is fun to see how excited the kids get about it all. Kirk left town last Monday...but had to get the tree up before he left (according to Faith). So, we spent the next few evenings putting the lights on and hanging the ornaments...at least on the upper half of the tree.

Here's Chase helping with the lights.

Faith and I worked out a good system. She sat on the chair and handed me ornaments (since most of them had to be hung high).

Faith's throne.

The sisters at the Jim Brickman Christmas concert. Thanks Ross for taking the pic.

Thanksgiving

So Kirk is watching The Office while I'm updating our blog. We record it each week and usually watch it together. I guess he knew it would take me awhile...so he couldn't wait. He's still in trouble for watching an episode w/o me a few weeks ago. He deleted it "on accident" after he'd watched it. I'm not sure what my point is other than I really like The Office and it's taking a lot of will power to sit here right now.

So, for my entertainment and hopefully yours, here's a little something to laugh at. While we were getting ready to make our trip to Utah for Thanksgiving (and the Coldplay concert...awesome bytheway), Crew and Ty kept occupied by playing with these...yes, tampons.

On the way to Utah. Faith is under the green blanket, Chase is under the red. Amazingly, this seemed to keep them from fighting. Ty and Crew kept eachother entertained.

Here's Faith and her cousins Cambry and Mia. They decided to make picture books and sell them.

The day before Thanksgiving we spent the afternoon at Classic Skating. The kids loved it. Here's Kirk and Ty.

More cousins...Marissa, Miranda and Lucas.

Kirk's sis., Liz and her daughter. She is probably upset from Kirk teasing her.

Chase spent the first part of the afternoon like this.

But with a little help from Miranda, he spent the later part like this.

Cambry, Faith and Chase.

Grandma Johnson and Ty.

Miranda, Chase, Cambry and Faith helping make the rolls. Thanks Grandma Johnson for letting them help...they loved it.

A little treat after the roll making. Cambry, Faith, Allison and Wyatt.

All the Johnson cousins/grandkids. All twenty one.

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson w/all (except Faith) their grandkids. Now we know where Ty gets his facial expressions from.

And finally, on our trip home I became desperate to make little Crew happy. So he got an Oreo. We had a great time with our family on Thanksgiving. We really do have much to be grateful for. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Johnson for a great time!