A day with nothing to do....I finally get time to update the blog!! All About Abby..

Abigail's 5th Birthday Tea Party
The perfect party for our girly girl and social butterfly!

Resolutions.....Is it really April already??!!

Well so much for that resolution!! I've obviously missed a few months! I'll catch up later! A few highlights of the last few months: Abby turned 5 January 23rd! She's an amazing little girl and keeps our lives exciting. She's a social butterfly and her idol is Sharpay from High School Muscial. Everything has to be fabulous for Abby. She won't leave for school in the morning without her hair done just right and her lipgloss on! We're in trouble!!
February brought a release from my calling in the Primary Presidency. I enjoyed it, but was ready for the release. Having one spouse in a leadership calling at time is a good idea! I've been happy to give Paul more of my support in his bishopric duties. I was called a few weeks later to be the Activity Days leader and am loving it!
After a healthy winter, we have made up for it during March and April. Strep throat made it's rounds, as well as Fifth's disease, sinus infections, and currently rotavirus. (Never heard of it, you don't want to! It's a terrible intestinal virus that reeks havoc on children and their mothers!)
On a better note, Paul took his written board exams in March and passed! We are almost at our half way point. It has gone by so quickly!

New Years Resolution...Keep the blog up to date!

December flew by in an instant! It was wonderfully busy! It started snowing here on December 1st and never stopped! We never have to worry about having a white Christmas in Wisconsin!! December found Paul and I busy with our church callings, Paul trying to balance study time for finals and tithing settlement, and me trying to staff the Primary during the holidays and plan sharing times. Despite our hectic life, the burden's seem light and we both enjoy serving. We loved having Paul home for a few weeks of needed vacation. The kids enjoyed a few surprise days off from school for some family fun. The next few posts are all about our December fun. We play just as hard as we work!

Our friend Amy took these pics of the kids this fall.
Abigail, 4 years


Mikelle, 7 years

Sydni, 9 years

Joshua, 3 years

They're all growing so fast! We are so blessed to have them as part of our family!

Decorating our Christmas Tree!

Hann's Christmas Tree Farm.

Surprise Visitors!

We enjoyed a surprise visit from Aunt Tam(Paul's sister) and Uncle Jimmy(her husband and competitor for the favorite uncle contest) just before Thanksgiving. I checked the kids out of school and we headed for Chicago's O'hare Airport. The kids had no idea where we were going. There were a few tears thinking we were going to Utah and they were going to have to endure an endless car ride. Finally things clicked when the started to see signs for the airport and planes flying above. We had a great visit with them and a wonderful Thanksgiving with them and the Johnson crew!
Tamara and the kids painting the ceramic animals that Aunt Tam gave them.

Picking the perfect Christmas tree at the Tree Farm on Thanksgiving morning.

A visit to Wisconsin's ocean, Lake Michigan. A few weeks before the ice bergs formed!

A stop at the Jelly Belly Factory on the way home from Chicago to get a little sugar high!

Our first stop was the Chicago Temple. This was the kids first trip to the temple since our move to Milwaukee.

Time moves so quickly...

Here's the last few months in a nutshell. Joshua celebrated his third birthday on October 15th! He's growing up so fast! He loves anything cars and got a "hugemongus" racetrack for his birthday. However, he loves his Daddy more than anything else and counts the minutes until Daddy gets home and he's no longer the only male in the household! We hope to have him fully potty trained by age five! His sisters were trained at age 2!
Halloween was great and the kids had many parties and dressed up in multiple costumes! Sydni was "Nancy Drew", Mikelle was a witch, Abby was "Cinderella", and Josh was "Batman"