Canning Canning Canning

Here are some of the amazing things that I canned this year. I wish I had more but it is a start

Tomatoes

Spaghetti Sauce

Peach Jam

 I also did peaches but I don't have a picture to show.

Cabin September 2011

 

 Our brother in law's parents own a cabin in Timberlake and they were generous enough to let us stay there this past weekend. We had so much fun we had our friends the Omer family and the Davis family come join us. It was so nice to just be able to get away and enjoy nature for a weekend. The fall leafs looked amazing. And I can't believe all the deer we were able to see. Here are some pictures we took. Thanks SOOO very much Claybaughs for letting us use the cabin





This Doe was right of the cabin porch

The Beautiful Red Fall Leaves

Our friend James sitting on the big couch/bed 

Niklas's First Day of Kindergarten

 Yes I did say Kindergarten. I feel like just yesterday I was bringing this sweet little boy home from the hospital. Now he is starting Kindergarten. I can't believe it, my little baby isn't so much a baby anymore. He was so excited to start Kindergarten this year. He loves his teacher so much. And he loves that he gets to ride the school bus each day. Sadly mom and dad wouldn't let him ride the bus the first day

Here he is outside of his class room next to the Frogs with their names on them

Here is Niklas sitting at his desk waiting for Mrs. Engler to come in

And now he told me that he wanted me to stop taking his picture and that he was ready for me to leave.

Niklas Turns 6

I can't believe that my baby turned 6 this year. This year he decided that he wanted to have a Star Wars themed party and Cory asked that instead of buying a cake that I just make one. Which I feel turned out pretty good considering this was my first home made cake. I still am in awe that he is 6 and not my little baby anymore.

Amanda's Birthday Present

So this year I turned the big 30. Yes I know I know it wasn't as horrible and I was thinking it would be. My sweet husband new that I wanted a new kitchen table for ever. So for my birhtday I was able to get this wonderful and beautiful new table.

Can I just say how much I love this table.

Niklas's Played T-Ball this spring

Wow I know it has been awhile since I blogged last. So I decided it would be best to start with Niklas and his T-Ball this last spring. This year he was on the Angels team. To make it even more special Cory was Nik's coach with our neighbor. Niklas had so much fun who knew that my son would love to play baseball so much. Here is a picture of the team. He played so much better this year. I can't believe that next year he will be playing coaches pitch. I love my cute little baseball player.

Niklas' 5 Year Photo's

I asked my wonderful dad to take Niklas 5 year photographs this year. And he did such a wonderful job. I love all of them so much. These are a few of my favorite ones. NOW I just need a little help deciding on one or two of them to print up and display in my house. Please feel free to let me know what you think any help would be great.

 

 This one is my favorite I think but would like to know what you think.

 I also just want to thank my dad for everything he does for my sweet little family. Thanks so much for doing such a great job with Niklas and his pictures. I know that Niklas sure loves his grandpa and grandma and is especially greatful for all that they do for him as well. Thanks again dad you are the best.



Niklas' First Day of His Last Year of Preschool

Niklas starte his last year of preschool this week. I can't believe it. He was so excited to go to school this year. Especially since he has two of his friends in his class this year. I hope this school year goes by a little bit slow because I am so not ready for him to start Kindergarten next year. Niklas really loves his preschool teacher Mrs. Sherry and already is learning so much.

Niklas' 5th birhtday at kangaroo zoo

So for Nik's 5th Birthday We decided to have it at a place called Kangaroo Zoo. It was so much fun and so much more relaxing than having it at my house. Thank you to all of our family and friends who came and helped us celebrate Nik's birthday.

As many of you know we have been wanting to paint Nik's room for a couple of months now. When we asked him what he wanted his colors to be he said Red and Black because those are the colors for the University of Utah his favorite college team. If you noticed we have raised him well so far. Here are some pictures of the effort it took to get it painted and the project being finished

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Niklas is playing Tee Ball

So we decided to sign Nik up for Tee Ball this year. He is playing for the Grantsville League since Stansbury Park won't let them play until they are 5. Which is crazy but oh well what can you do. Anyway it is a blast watching these cute little boys and girls playing. The first game was Saturday April 17th. It is so funny to watch them play every time the ball was hit all of the team in the out field would chase after the ball. Niklas is loving every minute of it. He is also getting better with every game. I have some pictures that I will post once I get them from my dad and downloaded. I do have to say that Grantsville goes all out for there sports. On opening day after the games they had a parade with all of the teams where they announced all of their names when the team got to a certain point. Then the Mayor of Grantsville threw the opening pitch and then they had the fire department shoot off fireworks. I was very impressed with the Grantsville League. I am so happy that Nik is enjoying the sports next up we will hopefully have him play soccer.

My new Business

I know that this is a different post for me. But I wanted all my friends and family to know that I am now selling Mark. by Avon. Please visit my eboutique at www.mymarkstore.com/amandajohnson2244. I am so excited to being doing this. For those who don't know what Mark is we sale makeup and jewelery and some clothes purses and etc. So please check out my eboutique and if you have any question feel free to email me at amanda.johnson_markrep@yahoo.com.

Play Group activity for March 2010

So today we had play group and the activity was going to the Church History Museum and saw the I Am a Child of God portion of the museum. It was pretty cool the kids got to color and play with blocks. The museum had a lot of different things to keep the kids entertained. It was really fun. Niklas had so much fun playing with Adie, Diesson, Paige and Scout. He was so excited to go with his friends. I can't wait for the activity next month. Thanks Leah for planning these activities for us.

Family Vacation March 2010

So after a long time. I decided that I need to update my blog. What a great way to begin with another family vacation to our home away from home Disneyland. We decided to take Niklas to Disneyland since I had been working a lot since the company I work for changed over our system to a new one in February. We went with our friend Adie and Hayley. We had so much fun. This trip to Disneyland tops them all. Niklas was so fun. He actually started to pose for pictures which is really new for him. We took him on basically everything this time except for Tower of Terror and Thunder Mountain. He was finally tall enough to ride the Grizzly Rapids and he loved it. Unfortunately are little friend Hayley didn't. The poor thing got completely soaked I wish I had a picture of her after. We also went on the Ferris Wheel which we have never riden before. On one of the days we were there Adie's mom Debra and sister Toni came. That was really fun to have them join us.
It was pretty busy for being the end of March but what can you do when every sports competions were being played and choir and band groups were there as well. By the end of the trip all the cheerleaders were starting to show up for their cheer competions. Even though it was a little crowded it wasn't to bad. The next time we go to California I am going to have to make sure we take Niklas to the ocean. He has been to California like 11 times and we still haven't been to the ocean. I hope that one day he will be able to forgive me for that. Anyway this was an amazing well needed vacation for our family. Hopefully we will be able to go again soon. But we will have to see.

Niklas Shinner

Niklas unfortunately decided that having bruises on his arms and legs wasn't enough. He was playing with his Geo-tracks last Thursday and was moving a section of track when he slipped on something and fell head first into the coffee table. He didn't have enough time to drop the track and catch his fall and his eyebrow met the table. When we first got a chance to look at the damage (about 30 sec. - 1 min later) the swelling was so huge that you could not see any part of the eye. I got an ice pack on him then we headed to the Bedtime Pediatrics. The doctor said there was no damage to the bone structure (head, nose, etc.), nor any blood vessel ruptures (fluid in the swelling was clear). He was quite the lucky guy to only come out of this with what will end up being a nice shinner. The doctor mentioned that the swelling would go down in a couple of days, but then the area around the eye would develop all sorts of colors. He was right, it was a rainbow of colors. The pictures start after we got home from the pediatrics. Taking a picture of the initial swelling didn't even cross our minds till we got home. The coloring (as of this post) is actually returning to normal. Yeah!

Our Silly Little Monkey

We had an empty box sitting around the other day and Niklas decided it would be a fun thing to play with. It's amazing that even with all his other toys (all over the house) a simple box caught his attention for awhile and was fun for him to play with. There was actually another box (on another day) as well that he was pretending was a car, it's too bad I didn't get a picture of that one.

8th Anniversary

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!

It's kind of hard to believe that it has been 8 years now. I just thought I'd post a message (for once) and tell Amanda - I LOVE YOU. Thank you for all you do for me and Niklas. Although you say I don't say it enough to you - just know that I love you very much. I have enjoyed being with you for the last 8 years and look forward to many, many more years together - both here and into eternity.

Canning Love it

So this year I decided to can again. I canned peaches, salsa, Tomatoes, and Dill Pickles, Well actually I only canned the peaches and salsa my aunt kind off did the rest for me. I had a really fun time canning my peaches, my wonderful neighbor Celeste wanted to learn how to can peaches and got peaches with me this year. Wednesday was the longest but funnest day I have had. I hope Celeste enjoyed doing peaches to. We first worked on hers and got all of hers done then we decided to work on my Peaches. We got done about 9:00 that Night. We also decided to also invite my other neighbor Melissa to come over and visit. Little did we know that she actually wanted to help. Thanks you guys for a really fun Wednesday. Sorry to Celeste husband for keeping her away all day and night.