Christmas Day 2008

Christmas this year was awesome. Johanna was able to have to open her presents and she was able to react more this year. She wanted to play with each present she opened! It was so cute! She got a lot of presents! Some of the big ones were a new kitchen, tickle me cookie monster, a baby set with a stroller, pack and play and highchair, dr. suess stuffed animals with the books, and money to get a new swing set for the spring. We spent Christmas day at home opening presents and then in the afternoon we went to my mom's house for lunch with my family. It was a great time and we are truly blessed to have family and presents this Christmas when other family's are struggling.

Waking up to open presents...

Opening presents with daddy..

Making eggs for daddy in her new kitchen

Great grammy Lucas and Wallace..showing them her presents.

Johanna with grammy Rydbom, do not know what happened to picture..

Bad picture...

All played out, napping with daddy..

My cousins and me....Again the picture turned out weird..

All of the cousins and grandparents Wallace..

My mom and me






Opening some presents and grammy's house...

Johanna with great grammy Wallace Me and my hubby

Christmas Eve 2008

Christmas Eve we always go to my grandma's house (Johanna's great grammy Lucas) and we have dinner, go to church and open some presents. Johanna was so excited to get her new crib and she climbed continously in and out of it, she thought it was for her to sleep in. She also got a new baby that talks. She did great in church for the first 10 mintues and then we had to play in the nursery because she was too busy. We are so blessed to have family around so close and to have the opportunity to spend time with them.

Beautiful princess...

Pappy and his baby girl

Ahh she is sleeping..

Beautiful girl take two..I cannot believe she is getting so big!

Daddy and his princess...

Christmas in New York!

This past week we spent up in Rochester, NY (Fairport, NY) to be exact. We went up and visited with Shane's parents and relatives for the week. It was such a great relaxing week. We were able to sleep in almost every day (even Johanna slept in, what a blessing!). We were able to catch up with relatives we do not get to see much and just be together as a family. It was such a nice vacation and such a blessing to spend everyday with my daughter and husband and family. You could not ask for a better vacation! We were able to take Johanna to a children's museum where they had replicas of Curious George, Seasame Street, and Bearenstein Bears to name a few. Her favorite activity was riding in the taxi from seasame street (she did not want to get out). We also took her to a children's play place where she loved bouncing and playing with baby dolls. This week also she really has started putting words together, she says "you sit", "I want ____", "mommy come color with me", "sit", "juice", etc..She has really started to communicate better and use her words. Praise the Lord for the great weekend and the much needed rest and relaxation. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the last day we were there we got 12 inches of snow, which was so pretty and fun to play in. The only thing that stunk was that it stopped me from visiting my best friend in Casenovia, NY but we will visit when the weather is better! She loves these cars!


Peek a boo!

She was making her bears (which she picked out mooses! at build a bear, a yearly tradition at the Heckman Household!

She picked out the two mooses this year!

Riding on a carosel at the museum, she held on by herself!

The Bearenstein Bear exhibit, brought me back to my childhood!

Mema and Johanna in a house at The Bearenstein Bear Village

On a plane with Grammy!

In the sand, it was beads!

Riding in the taxi from seasame street place

By the tree

Brushing her teeth with her new toothbrush that when she puts in on her teeth it sings, she loves it!

Chillin watching cartoons

Daddy getting a kiss from his peanut!





Great Grandpa Heckman and Johanna
Great Grammy Heckman and Johanna


Grammy Dee Dee and Johanna reading. All week she would say "sit" to grammy and they would read in that chair.

Before she went out on a walk.


Holding her baby! She loves babies!


Playing with mommy in the 12 inches of snow!

Too cute, she loved it! And she actually kept her hat on!

She loved diving in the snow!

Just some cute pictures of Johanna...

Today was a lazy saturday, and it was so nice to just hang out with Johanna. We had so much fun, this was her putting on shoes (which she loves, not her own but daddys and mommys shoes). She was a ball of energy and was talking all day. It was a great time and we were able to cuddle, color, and just have fun. This was a great start to our vacation this next week in Rochester!

Shane's First Deer!

So today Shane went out with my dad, gram, pap, and uncle to hunt. He has went hunting the past four years and has never been lucky enough to get a deer. At about 8:30 am I got a call from Shane, and I was a little unsure why. When I anwsered the phone he said he got a deer, we were so excited. I am so proud of him and the deer was a pretty big deer. Heres to eating deer the rest of the year...yeah!

When we let Johanna see it she wanted to pet it, she really got excited!

Nice deer, even though it is all bloody, she still wanted to pet it

The proud hunter with his kill:)

Thanksgiving/Festive Pictures!

She did this when I said cheese!

She was sick so such great pictures but had to post this:)

Sleeping beauty, the 45 mintue nap she took on thanksgiving because too much activity going on.

The family, both grandmas and my mom and dad.

I want to eat mommy

So we had thanksgiving at my grandma's house and it was so nice spending time with family. Johanna was feeling sick so she was a little cranky but overall we had a nice relaxing day with eveyrone. I am so thankful to have such great family who all get along and work together real well, praise the Lord, he is so great. I cannot believe this is Johanna's second thanksgiving and second Christmas, time flies. The other pictures are Johanna seeing the Christmas tree for the first time. She likes to pull off the ortaments this year.