Mother's Day and Random Pictures..

For mother's day it was very relaxing. Woke up and Shane made me breakfast, then went to church and when I came home Johanna laid on the couch and fell asleep with me for about a half hour until she went for a nap (she has not done this for months with me). Then I got to scrapbook and take a nap then off to dinner at my mom's house. Dinner was awesome, and nice to spend time with family. Then we took Johanna to ride some rides, she was so animated and loved the rides this year. It was overall such a blessed day!

All the women, happy mother's day!

Happy mother's day nana~

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Today we took Johanna to our library and she got to visit with Clifford, the mascot from Blands Park, and a real houd dog that finds missing people. She loved it! She kept going up the Bear (the Blands Park mascot) and hugging him and saying "Bear". She danced with Clifford and got kisses from the dog. She especially liked these googles that were there as you will see in a picture below, she carried them around and wanted to wear them!

Mickey and Minnie Second Birthday Party

On Saturday we had Johanna's birthday party in PA. My whole family came and "Aunt Carrie" and "Uncle Justin" came to the party. Also, Lisa, Pete, Ci Ci and Livi (family friends came by). It was a great time! The weather was absolutely gorgeous, the best weather to date! Johanna got a lot of nice presents and we just had fun catching up with each other. The menu was Johanna's favorites foods which are hotdogs, macaroni and cheese, and baked beans. And last but not least, cake! My mom and me made the Mickey and Minnie cakes, pretty good for our first time making cakes. Both cakes together

Mickey Cake

Minnie cake

Great Uncle Marty and Johanna

Nana's girl

Ci Ci, Johanna and Livi

Carrie and me

Mommy and Johanna opening presents

Great Pappy Wallace, Great Aunt Gayle (in the middle) and Great Grammy Wallace

Great Grammy Lucas and Johanna

Great Pappy Wallace, Great Grammy Lucas and Great Grammy Wallace

"Aunt Carrie" and Johanna


Cousin Sarah and Johanna

Easter Day

So on Easter here were some pictures of her in her dress, getting the Easter baskets, and just having fun in sunglasses....

We got her bubbles in her Easter basket...

Eating her shoe before church...

The best picture I could get of her dress

Happy Birthday Johanna..

Today April 16, 2009, Johanna turns two! I cannot believe that my little girl is two already. The time has really flown by. She is such a wonderful little girl and God has truly blessed our lives. I cannot even remember life without her. She brings joy to our lives each day and gives us something new to laugh about each moment we are with her. She is pure joy and it is so awesome to see the love she has for others. She is such a loving girl with such emotion. She puts her all into everything and always smiles. She is so pleasant and wants to be around people and have fun! She is a ham. I am so blessed to be her mother and cannot wait to continue to experience her as she grows up through the good and bad times. She has learned so much already and says so many words (too many to write). She is even up to saying some sentences. She knows what she wants and how to tell you. But at the sametime her smile, hugs, and kisses melt your heart. She grabs your attention and loves to have attention put on her. She is tall for her age and seems to not want to stop growing. She has started to potty train (which is awesome, have a long way to go but she is trying). My prayer for Johanna this year is just that she continues to just have fun, love, and be happy. Also, that she continues to learn new things and grow to understand love is from Jesus and that no matter what family will always be there for her and always love her. Hope she feels that no matter where she is.

2 years old....

1 year old...

Baby....

Elmo Party

We had an Elmo party for Johanna up in New York over Easter weekend. This party was to celebrate Johanna's birthday with our New York family since they would not be able to make her party in PA. It was such a nice time and the cake was beautiful..

Great Aunt Jill and Johanna
Eating Cake again...

Still eating cake...

Her cake, is it not cool...

Easter Weekend...

This past weekend for Easter we went and spent a couple days at Shane's parent's house in New York. It was such a nice time, time to get away and relax. Also, to just catch up and spend time with family that we do not get to see much. It was very eventful. As you will see in the pictures we went to a Children's museum (where Johanna loved elmo's world), we rode on a train, a carousel while visiting the museum. Johanna said "I want to ride that", when we were going to ride the train. I cannot believe she is talking in sentences! Then on saturday Johanna and Grammy Dee (Shane's mom) and I went to a breakfast with the Easter Bunny. Johanna won bubbles because she was one of the best dancers when the clown asked the kids to dance, it was awesome! Johanna loved the Easter Bunny and chased him around the restaurant wanting him to talk to her. I am glad she was not afraid of him. Also, on Saturday we had the first installment of her second birthday party. Then on Easter Sunday we put some eggs in the yard and Johanna found them (her first easter egg hunt), we went to church, hid easter baskets, and ate dinner. It was such a great time, enjoy the pictures!

Easter Bunny and Johanna...Note she is chasing after him..She loved him!

Mommy and her girl...

Easter Bunny!

Clown and Johanna

Beautiful girl

On the carousel, which she held on all byherself...

On the train with mommy

Grammy "Dee Dee" and Johanna waiting to ride the train

In Elmo's bed at the museum...

Looking at Dorthy at the Elmo's world part in the museum..Johanna loves Dorthy! Anytime you ask her to say hi Dorthy..She says hi Dorphy....It melts your heart!