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.

Poppy in the Potty...

So Johanna pooped in the potty the other day. We got her up like every other day and asked her if she wanted to go on the potty, and she sat down. To our surprise, she sat on the potty without having a tantrum. She sat there calmly reading a book, which she loves to do. It was amazing! Then after about two to three minutes, Shane yelled down to me to come upstairs. He said he heard a plop! Then after about six minutes, Johanna was done and she had pooped in the potty and had many more plops after the first one! We were so proud of her, we clapped and made such a big deal. Johanna was so proud of herself, she was smiling all over. Then after we praised her, she went back in the bathroom and would point at the toliet and say poop. We are so proud of her. She even pooped on the potty the next day in the morning, it seems like it is becoming a habit. I took a picture, but I do not think everyone would want to see that:)

18 months

Mommy and her girl!

Beautiful Family take one!

Peek a Boo!

1, 2, go daddy! That is the game Johanna and daddy play together. Shane says one, then Johanna says two and then go, she jumps and Shane catches her! She loves her daddy.

My beautiful family take two!

Our friend Lyndsay so graciously took Johanna's 18 month pictures at Legion Park. She did a great job! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful friend with such great talents! Even though Johanna did not want to look at the camera much, the pictures turned out great. Hope you enjoy them as much as we do. I cannot believe how big Johanna is getting. She is starting to look like a little girl and acting like one too:). She says many words such as kitty, duckie, mommy, nana, pappy, binkie, juice, anna, ci ci, no, uh oh, up, peese, "I poop", baby, where you go, ball, bear, shoes, book, boo, de de, and some other ones that I cannot think of. She also can point to all of her body parts and is able to take directions such as go throw this away for mommy, and she puts it in the garbage can. She is also sitting on the potty and saying "I poop" but still having a hard time getting her to go on a regular basis. She also is starting to understand more and verbalizes if she wants something or not. She also loves to color. She is growing up so fast and getting bigger and bigger every day. It is so much fun to interact with her now, hear her laugh and run around. She is such a loving little girl, she loves to give all of her friends hugs and loves to blow kisses to people. She has such a wonderful personality full of life and love.

Celebration Sunday!

So today November 9th is celebration Sunday at our church, Pleasant Valley Assembly God. It is such a wonderful day to celebrate God's love and faithfulness. In the midst of our budget crises in the world, God's budget is plentiful! He is such a gracious and wonderul God. He is bigger than finances and we should never forget that! God will never forsake or forget his people, he wants to bless them. So with that said, our church has truly been blessed by God with a project they have undertook a year ago. God has done numersous miracles in the face of disappointment and in the face of a project that seemed unsurmountable. But God showed his awesome power and performed miracles to make a city better! God is so good and great! It is awesome to see him work and revel in his handy work. I am so thankful that God puts projects in our hearts and that our church took his nudging and are walking faitfully with him to finish the project. To read a little bit about it please go to http://www.pvag.org/11th_Street.html.