Sledding

Since Uncle Will and Hene had never been sledding before we knew that we needed to take them while they were here for Christmas.


It was tough work for Kaylie walking through the snow with about eight layers of clothes on.

Uncle Hene

Poor daddy was the designated sled for Kaylie. She loved every minute of it but wouldn't go down by herself.

Tre went up and down the hill a million times. Just watching him made me tired.

Uncle Will

Taking a break before he had to walk all the way back up the hill.

Uncle Will and Hene

8 WONDERFUL YEARS!!!!

Benny and I were married eight years ago Dec 22, 2000 in the Los Angeles Temple. (Yes thats right I had flowers and sunshine in December) Definately one of the best days of my life. You think at the time that you couldn't be more happy or more in love and yet eight years later I am happier and way more in love then I was that day. I have to wonder what I did to be so lucky to have ended up with Benny. I love you. Happy Anniversary.

Winter Fun!!!!

And the fun has begun. The snow is here, the cold is here, the crowded stores, the numerous "how many days until christmas?" question---- don't you just love the holiday season. The best part of christmas is spending time with family and friends. We love all of you and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!

Happy Halloween

Could you have expected anything else from my children. Of Course Kaylie was a Princess, (although she didn't need Halloween for an excuse-she is a princess everyday in her own mind). Tre was Ironman. They had a blast all week long going from pumpkin carving, carnivals, trunk-or-treats, ward parties, and trick-or-treating. Thank goodness Halloween night was warm. We didn't even have to wear coats over our costumes. Now that is amazing for Idaho!!!!

Update

Well this might be a boring post for most of you but I thought that I would just fill you all in on the last four weeks since I posted.
-- Benny is home!!!! I can't even explain the relief I feel to have him home. Although life hasn't slowed down much just having him here makes life seem so much easier. We love you daddy. We are so glad to have you back.
--Volleyball has been going since the middle of august and is keepin me very busy. I love coaching and love my girls. GO BOBCATS
--Football also started and is keeping Benny very busy. I think since we met and since we've been married (dating actually) we have only had one fall where we weren't both coaching or playing at the same time. It makes fall very busy.
--Also I guess I should let everyone know that we are expecting number Three. We just had our 20 week ultra sound everything turned out well and we will be expecting a baby the first week in feb. That is right we are half way through, Thank goodness!!!! (And no we are not finding out the sex of the baby)Tre wants a boy and Kaylie wants a girl so they fight quite often about it. Tre told me "Mom, I pray every night to jesus that he will send me a brother" So I don't know which of my children will have their prayer answered.
--Tre is loving Kindergarten and is learning so much. He especially loves riding the bus and recess. I guess he knows what is truly important. :) He also started soccer and is loving it. He has scored a few goals and is very competitive- imagine that, benny and I having competitive kids who would have thought.
--Kaylie just keeps us laughing, she always has something to say and has quite the attitude which I'm sure she gets from her dad:) Well you all know where she really gets it. She just keeps us on our toes.

Life is busy but going well. Hopefully I will do a better job at keeping up on our blog.

First Day of School

Thursday was Tre's first day of Kindergarten. I kept wondering how he was going to do the first day and to my surprise he did absolutely wonderful. I myself probably had a harder time than he did. He was a little nervous and was holding my hand but as soon as we walked into the school he dropped my hand- he was too cool for mom. I guess my little boy is all grown up now. :( He was very concerned about whether dad would think his new school shirt was cool and he actually told me that the shoes I picked out for him wouldn't match his clothes so he went and picked a different pair. He is definately Benny's son.

This is Tre sitting and waiting for his teacher to start class. I have more pictures of the first day of school but they are on my camera and I got this one from my mom's cameras so I will post more later.

Hadley Jane Pettingill

Congrats to Steve and Zoe and their new baby girl, Hadley. Born Aug. 20, weighing in at 8 lbs and 11 oz. She is as cute as can be and you can tell that my children already love there new little cousin.

There is more than one way to ride a bike

When there is only one bike and two of you, you have to be creative so you both can get on. I'm just glad they weren't fighting and that they found a way to have fun together.

Going FISHING!!!

We went to the duck races in idaho falls yesturday and got to do all the fun kid activities. The highlight of the day though was fishing for trout with their bare hands. Tre actually caught about five fish but put them all back in the water.

They had all paid and were waiting for their turn to get in the pond to catch a fish.

Kaylie and Spencer both decided that this was something that they did not want to participate in

If you look really close you can actually see that Tre has a fish in his right hand (there were just to many people that I never really got a good picture of him holding one of his fish.)

Johnson Reunion

The Johnson Reunion was held this week at my grandma and grandpa's house. One of the activities was making family floats from a bag we picked randomly. Some how our family ended up with the polynesian bag. The idea behind our float was that Kaylie (Mahana) was an eight cow

wife. She sat on her thrown next to spencer while the rest of the grandkids including tre were little tiki people that walked next to the float.

Splash Park

I spent my first week back in Idaho doing volleyball camp. My mom had my kids the whole time and planned out fun things to do everyday. She took them shopping and spoiled them one day, she made jam with them, and took them to see kung fu panda. On the last day of my volleyball camp they came up to rexburg and I went with them to the splash park after my camp was done. Kaylie would stay around the outside of the park and Tre would go right in the action. He loved the water slides and the big bucket that would tip over on the very top of the playground.

The kids making jam. They actually helped grandma a ton but I still think she was crazy trying to make jam with a two year old and a five year old.

Home!!!

After three planes, 14 hours, and one car ride- we finally made it back to idaho. The kids were very sad to say goodbye to daddy but were also excited to go home. The kids were great the whole day, I couldn't have asked for them to be better. But thank goodness that day is over.

The pilots on our first flight were very nice and asked of the kids wanted to sit up front in the pilot's seats. They both thought that that was pretty cool, they talked about it for the rest of the day.

Each layover we had they were busy with coloring and toys, I was doing anything I could to keep them busy.

Mom are we there yet!!!

Saying Goodbye to daddy

Today we had to say goodbye to daddy. This was definately something I was not looking forward to, and it made the kids very sad. As we left Benny at the the Greenville airport security section- Tre turned to me and said "Mom you have to stop crying because you are making daddy sad."

We will definately miss daddy, and look forward to when he can come home. We love you daddy!

Fireworks

Daddy went and bought a bunch of fireworks from sparklers, and fountains, to big ones that
shoot in the sky. It was a lot of fun-Thanks daddy for making the fourth so much fun.

All Tre wanted was sparklers. He loved all the fireworks but the sparklers were his favorite.



This was the only second that Kaylie held the sparkler by herself. She wasn't so sure about them.


Daddy helped her with the last sparkler and that made her happy.



This is where Kaylie would go when daddy shot of the big loud fireworks. She would cover her ears and run between the cars.

Frankies Fun Park

The BIG slide was a hit. Kaylie rode with daddy because she wasn't tall enough to ride by herself. She didn't think that was fair. She is our Miss Independent. Tre also loved it and didn't think that three turns were enough.

Then both kids got to ride the bumper boats. They especially liked the fact that the spray gun on the boat could spray mommy on the side.

The hit of the night was the go-karts. Daddy and Kaylie beat us and Tre decided that he would never ride with mom again because she is to slow. :(

Eating again

This was the start of our Fourth of July celebration. EAT EAT EAT. Then it was off to Frankies Fun Park.

Ghostly!!!!

I woke up one morning to find that my little princess had decided to put on some lotion. She absolutely loves lotion. She was definately a scary sight to wake up to.

Sky High!

This picture was just to fun to leave off the blog. Once again Tre was being thrown into the pool. They were throwing him as high as they could and as far as they could over the boys. He absolutely loved it.

Greenville Zoo

The other day we decided to go to the zoo with our kids and our friends the Maake's. The weather was scorching hot. 102 degrees. We went through bottle after bottle of water but the

kids had a good time.

Even the Elephants wouldn't leave their watering hole. All we saw were bums-big elephant bums.

Any excuse to stop and stand in the shade. The kids were afraid to sit on the bear but we finally convinced them that it wasn't real.

This zoo wasn't huge but they did have lions that looked like Tre.

The funniest monkeys I have ever seen in my life.

The giraffes were a hit as well because you could stand in the shade while you looked at them.

They also had fun at the play ground, I don't know why daddy thought he could play on this toy. But it was definately entertaining for everyone else

Sing Sing Sing

Last night I was sitting in the living room. Tre was playing in his room and Kaylie was sitting at the table. All of the sudden she started singing so I decided to record it for all to see. She is singing the ABC's then she sings twinkle twinkle little star followed by her own rendition of the barney song.

Midnight swim

The kids had been asking me and begging me if they could swim with dad. So Saturday night the kids went for a midnight swim with dad. Well it wasn't midnight but it was dark outside. The kids had a blast and loved being able to swim with daddy. I guess I'm just not as fun as him. We have decided that this will be something we can do on more of a regular basis, they get to swim but not in the blistering heat of the day. It is nicer to swim at night than it is in the day. So it works out good for all of us.