Ocean City 2009

So this past week Shane, Johanna, and I along with Shane's parents and his sister, brother in law and our niece Kendall went to our cottage in Ocean City for the week. This year the girls had so much fun with each other and were able to interact. We had our share of timing them out but overall they played well with each other and liked the company. Johanna called Kendall, here baby but when I told her to call her Kendall, she did say come here Kendaaaalll...It was really cute! Johanna also started saying so many more sentences on vacation and just loved the beach! She ran in the sand and ran to the water (unlike last year when she cried when she went in the sand). On the last day, Shane and I were sitting out in the living room waiting for Johanna to get up from her nap when all of the sudden we heard a noise. We turned around and it was Johanna! She said she was up and she climbed! When asked why she climbed, she said "I wanted to open the door". She laughed and we laughed! It was so funny! She showed us how she got out of the pack and play, she is such a character! Also, on vacation it was the first time Johanna said "I love you". She said it to her cousin Kendall in the bathtub, she said I looove..you..It melted my heart, since I have been waiting for that for a long time. Many memories that will be remembered for a lifetime. Enjoy some of the pictures!

My Beautiful Daughter's 2 year old Pictures..

So for Johanna's two year old pictures we got our wonderful and talented friend Lyndsay Link to take the pictures. She is an awesome photographer and needs to be supported. So take a look at Johanna's pictures. You go to this link http://www.ellebee-photography.com/ and then go to client galleries and then look under the May 2009 section with Johanna's picture first. The password is Johanna (which I forgot in the previous post, thanks Kara:))... This will take you to Johanna's pictures. If you need pictures anytime soon consider Lyndsay she is great!

Swing set, Almost there...

So Shane has been putting together Johanna's play set the past couple weekends. He has done such a great job, and has done it all byhimself. He is such a wonderful husband and have to give him credit on the blog. The directions said it would take 40 hours or more for two people to put it together and Shane put it together all byhimself under that hour limit. Johanna will have MANY years of fun with this play set and hopefully all of our friends and family will be able to join in the fun for years to come!

Almost Finished product!

My Husband...Bob the Builder..

So most of this blog is dedicated to talk about Johanna and her milestones and accomplishments. But I had to include my wonderful husband today since he has been working (and is and will stlil be working for many weekends to come), on Johanna's new play set (The one at Sam's Club). It has so many pieces but Shane is just working and working without complaining. He is doing such a great job and wanted to show off some of the pictures. More pictures will come later this week as the work progresses....

Not much to say...

So we have not had much going on the last few weeks and have not posted in a long time it seems like! Just wanted to update on some pics of Johanna and us! She is getting so big, saying so many new words each day. And also starting to throw little fits when she does not get her way...ughh..do not like that! But I am so happy it is summer time and we can enjoy the sunshine..Will have some pics soon to show off our new play set! The pictures are the ones that were taken when we went to visit Shane's parents and went to Chad and Sandra's wedding (Shane's cousins).

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!