New Year's at the Johnson House

This New Year's (like last), we hung out with Elizabeth and Michael and their son Whitley.

We had a great time catching up, eating and playing Apples to Apples after the kids were sleeping.

Kate and Whitley enjoyed hanging out - Whitley showed Kate the new chairs that he likes to sit in.

They also shared each other's toys and went around the house.

New Year's Day, we said our goodbyes and hugged. They were so cute!!

Christmas wrap up

We had a wonderful Christmas.

We still aren't finished, but on a break for now. :)

Kate had her Christmas outfit. We had to distract her to get those shoes on. We went to my office Christmas party at Tom's house. It was fun, and Kate liked playing with the other kids.

I believe this was before we went to my friend Kim's party.

such a daddy's girl!!

We went to my family's Christmas at my aunt and uncle's in Auburn. Here's the little cousins playing together!

Grace and Kate had a lot of fun.

We also traveled to Lexington, and we had to have the right shoes on before we could go..

Goodness gracious, these shoes. Every time I turn around, she's wanting to put shoes on or take shoes off. :)

I could have picked a better photo without the camera strap, but blogger is being very difficult tonight!!! Sorry.

We got together with Mel, Lisa, Jennifer and Melissa in Lexington. Kate had a ton of gifts to open!

She started getting into it more as we went. Everyone was so sweet to do Kate's gifts first!

Whee! Kate decided to make a game of falling back onto aunt Jen. Over, and over and over!

Jen said, "we're bonding!!"

We also saw Lanndyn before coming back to Atlanta, but alas... no photos to share. :(

On Christmas day, we were at home. It was very relaxing. It was a normal day for Kate - she still doesn't know what's going on. (I should enjoy this, right?)
In fact, I even found our little santa in the toilet on Christmas morning!!!

Kate had been taking Santa away from his table all month (we even found him riding in the mini bus with the little people toys), but I didn't expect this. Poor santa.

We did a good bit of napping and TV watching.

My parents joined us for lunch and more present fun! My dad kept telling Kate to give Elmo something to drink.. he was thirsty.

There you go Elmo, drink up.

My parents had to leave to avoid the snow. Snow on Christmas was awesome though!

And now we are in the 3rd snow of the season. When will this stop?! It's really pretty, but I'm ready to leave the house now.

Lanndyn & the fair

Look at how grown-up Lanndyn is!! She's 11, and I can't believe it. She is the sweetest girl, so thoughtful. We always have so much fun being with her.

We recently took her and her friends Samantha and Kaila to the fair for an afternoon.

Bumper cars!!

This was different - a safari tent at the fair. with random animals. Lanndyn and Samantha were excited because they needed a photo of a zebra for one of their classes.

This moment was particularly funny because it was right before we saw the monkey that exposed himself to us. As Lanndyn said, "I'm scarred for life!!!"

Me, Lanndyn, Kaila and Samantha on the pirate ship. I had to get them to hold their hands up.

Friends in town

Last weekend was very busy. James had friends from Aiken in town to visit (Rob, Chad and Tucker) for the SEC championship game. Trey and Amy and their daughter Hannah Claire were also in Atlanta for Amy's graduation. Congrats Amy!!!

While the guys were all at the game (or somewhere watching it), Amy and Hannah Claire came over for Ladies Night.

We. had. so. much. FUN!

Hannah Claire brought over lots of fun toys that were new for Kate. She enjoyed playing with the Little People and her Pink Pig.

Hannah Claire enjoyed playing with Kate's toys, too.

We all played Ring-around-the-Rosie - this has to be Kate's new favorite game. We did it at least 10 times.

They ate their crackers, and ran back and forth from the front door to the back door over and over again. It was so cute!!

We hope we get to hang out with Hannah Claire and Amy again soon!