more christmas pics!

A very merry Christmas for the Johansen's

O.K so I had to steal these pics from my sister Brit's blog cause I am a terrible mom and forgot to get pics of my kids opening their presents! Well really I was more concerned about ry... she had a very high fever all day and night! So I will try to take pics of them playing with thier toys tomorrow and post em' ... but things are a bit crazy cause of the big move coming up. But this is Maddox and Brit with the hat he hot from Grandma Lindblom, and the other is the kids with Grandpa Lindblom. ( Maddox in the awesome blanket he got from grandma and grandpa and Ry in the way cute puma outfit she got from Uncle Tyler! thx guys!) Everyone made Christmas awesome! I will give a more detailed account later when I am not so exhausted! Love you all!

AHH can you say stress!

well we have a week till we leave ans i am just kinda stressing out!! i still need to finish packing but i am worried i won't have enough time with the holidays and stuff. ugh i hate moving. we still dont even know for posative if we for sure have the apartment! seriously! they are waiting to give us the confirmation till they get a letter from the school that says we are going there and how much our loan is. do we have to cut it so close? wht if thye get it and decide well we dont like the amount you will be having in loans sorry no deal than what do i do go homeless?! I am freaking out!!!! well we are packing up the uhal on the 31st around ten am so if any one wants to help please do!

fun in down town mesa!

so we went to downtown mesa this last weekend with Jessica and Chris and Jaimie and Bradd ( we met Jaimie's boyfriend Bradd for the first time such a cool guy!) (we love ya Bradd) any way there was a car show and art festival and so we looked and cars and alot of art brock and i bought 2 pieces from an artist who had an interesting talent she drew these pics using all numbers! so i bought a couple to put in the kids room. and while we were there we tool pictures with the statues it was fun then at one of the booths santa was there selling pictures he took! he was a very good photographer. so jaimie and jessica sat on his lap and took a picture ha ha ha. he was a very nice man. and we had alot of fun!

17 days and counting!

Well we have seventeen days left with all our family and friends here in Arizona before we go on our adventure to Texas for at least four years! I just want to let you all know how much we will miss everyone! Thank you for being or friends and being there for us through out the past years we have spent together! And please don't forget us! We will be back every so often like at christmas time. Don't be strangers any time you wanna come to the warm Texas coast and visit we would love to have you! We are going to get a relatively big house so that means at least one or two guest rooms for ya'll so you all better come visit us! Keep in touch call and email and obviously blog. We also got a web cam so we can do video chats! yay! We love you all!

More pics! courtesy Photography by JO

i love taking pictures with jo! she just captures each moment and mood happy or pouting and i love that! i love rian's pouty face because she uses it so often! and then with maddox it was funny cause he loved the camera he actually started posing lol it was just to cute! thx again jo!

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Jo does it again!

My friend Jo did it again! She took our family pictures and they turned out wonderful as usual! Even though my grumpy kids made it as hard as possible for her lol but I love the pics I have seen so far! Thank you thank you thank you so much jo! To see even more cute pics of our family and others go to her blog which is over on the side photography by Jo.

cheese!

Maddox has this really cute cheesy grin it is just so darn cute! When ever he is really exceted and happy he just cannot seem to be able to smile big enough! But he sure tries ha ha ha... I love it! It is my favorite face he makes it makes me laugh every time! We call it a nothing but gums lol.

attacked

so while i was cleaning up a big mess rian had made. (she colored with a crayon on the walls in the hall.) she found a bright orange permanent marker somewhere. Then she decided to attack maddox and gave him make over lol i caught her before she could finish the job... but still! poor baby.

i got bangs lol

so i decided to try to style my hair with bangs for a bit... well actually probably just when i put it in a pony tail...

christmas tree

we set up the christmas tree saturday and the kids loved it and like to play with the branches.