Easter Tradition..Coloring Eggs..

So my mom always colored eggs with me growing up, and I was so excited to start the tradition with Johanna this year. She really liked it and took the eggs out of the dye. It was quick but a lot of fun, looking forward to doing this each year. It brought back some good memories to me. She is growing up so fast and love seeing her try new things and build new memories. Enjoy the pictures!

Through God's eyes...

Last night Shane and I went to a third day concert and Brandon Heath opened for them along with Revive. But Bradon Heath really struck me with two of his songs in particular. The first one was "Give me the eyes". It was an awesome song about how we need to ask for God's eyes to view people. In order to unconditionally love people and not judge them we need to constantly ask for God's eyes (how he sees people). God always looks at people as magnificent and wonderful in his eyes even if they are not so pleasant on the outside or inside. He loves them just the way they are and he meets them there with his loving eyes. This song really convicted me to remember that no matter what people are like or look like, that my eyes could have an affect on their lives and I need to remember to have love in my eyes. People change people, people hurt people, and people love people just by showing another one's eyes. This really challanged me to remember that once glance could either encourage or discourage someone and I want to give someone love through my eyes. The other song was red sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_MyivQtnGQ........This is the video link to youtube...This song talked about how we need to love and show love no matter who it is, it is not our strength but through God's love we need to show other people love, even if we do not feel alright, we need to show others hope in and through our lives.

Beautiful Johanna

Tonight we went out and got icecream! Johanna did such a great job today, she listened well and even went poopy on the potty twice and peed once or twice. We wanted to just go out and have fun so we got icecream to celebrate Johanna doing so well. After we got some icecream Johanna wanted to ride on the horsey. We let her ride twice and she loved it! Smiled the whole time. After she was done riding we said we had to go, she bye to the horsey, "Bye horsey", and kissed it goodbye. She said "night" as we were walking away. These moments are precious and love that I can spend them with her.

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Oh Oh Oh Ohhh..Oh Oh O Oh......The Right Stuff..

So the other night two of my good friends and I went to see the New Kids on the Block. We had a blast from the past. It was Carrie (my best friend's bday), and it was so much fun! I thought it was going to be cheesy, but we had such a great time. They played for two hours and did not stop! It brought back so many memories and I got some good pictures too. New Kids know how to put on a good concert, they were very entertaining. And also I got to relive my younger days, it made me feel old....

The Grand Finale...Hangin Tough....

Jonathan Knight...This one is for Carrie...

Us (Carrie, Courtney, and me), we were such nerds..Notice my shirt..it was from when I was in 7th or 8th grade, a classic..Also, the button was when I was in grade school. The doll was Carrie's doll, I had the Joey doll but did not bring it along..

Our Little Escapee

So Johanna decided to think it was a good idea to get out of her crib. The other day Johanna was taking a nap and everything was seemingly good...until she decided to get up from her nap and start talking. Shane heard her talking (I was not home at this time), then he heard a loud sound. He was a little concerned but after a couple minutes it was quiet again so he just thought she hit her crib aganist the wall (which she does quite frequently). Well after about 5 mintues Shane heard more sounds and then it sounded like drawers opening and closing. He went upstairs to check on her and he opened the door and Johanna said "Hey"! With a bracelet on her wrist and blankets in her hand. Shane said what are you doing? And picked her up and put her back in her crib for a nap (because this happened only about 10 mintues after we put her down for a nap). He told her we do not get out of the crib when we nap, she said "okay" and went back to sleep. When I got home, she got up about 5 mintues later. I went up to get her. I changed her diaper and then put her back in the crib. I asked her to show mommy how she got out of the crib. She went over the the edge of the crib held on and dropped out of the crib. She then said, "help" to me. I said no you show mommy how you got out. She dropped down and gave me a smile. That was her first escape. Then on sunday she got out again. We heard a loud noise and she escaped again! We put her back in the crib but she bounced the rest of her nap! Needless to say we are looking for a bed....

Tiny Tot Gymnastics

Johanna loves to go to her gymnastics class and she is starting to listen better to the teacher. She loves to interact with the kids. The other day the teacher let them play with bubbles, she loved it! Also, nana came to watch and Johanna loved that!

Warm Weather Days

Today it was such a nice day! It was great to have a day where we could not wear jackets! Johanna and I went to visit great gram Lucas and we went to get icecream and played outside. It was a nice day. We had lots of fun!


Loving Icecream...I thought this picture was priceless!

Johanna loves cars right now! She always says "my car" and "I ride", she screamed when I had to take her away from the car.

Hey there mom! Being silly in the car:)