REVELATION

REVELATION...

I'm always really hesitant to use that word, but for the sake of this post I had a revelation the other day in the sense that I realized something that I've never realized before. As I was in doing initiatories yesterday I was listening to the women speak. Sometimes I feel guilty when I do a lot of initiatories in a row because it seems so monotonous and you kind of stop really listening to the words and your mind wanders. For some reason, I was thinking as they were speaking that this is really God's voice, speaking through these great women. These words were given by him, and through his servants they are spoken. Isn't that an amazing thought? From that point on, I thought of the words as being spoken by God Himself, and it was such a great spiritual experience to do the ordinances that usually seem so monotonous and unexciting. It was great.

Halloween and More

HALLOWEEN AND MORE

Aaliyah being tickled into smiling for the camera in her Halloween flower costume. The funny part, you can see all of our Christmas decorations in the background because we never actually took any Halloween pictures... :)

...hence the pajamas under our mad scientist costumes...

Hmm...I think I'm done...

Aaliyah is so cute playing with her daddy. She grins as soon as he walks into the door and starts saying "da, da, da, da, da". It is so cute!

Daddy hiding...
Peek-a-boo!
Using daddy to stand up.

Looking for a good toy...

Family Pictures

FAMILY PICTURES

Ok, so these family pictures are a couple of months old, but I put the blame on the wonderful postal system of Idaho. We just received them in the mail this afternoon. :) These were taken in the gardens by the greenbelt in Idaho Falls in August by our dear friend Alyssa Perez Tolman. Unfortunately, Aaliyah was not in a friendly mood this particular afternoon after just waking up from a nap and she only graced us with a couple of half smiles. We are having Christmas pictures taken, so hopefully she will cheese it up then!

Baby M.I.A.

BABY M.I.A.!

So this afternoon I asked Justin to run upstairs to check on Aaliyah during her nap because we didn't have a monitor set up. A minute after he goes upstairs, he comes running downstairs and says "You need to come upstairs, quick!". Of course I go running up into the room where I had laid her on some blankets to take a nap. To my surprise, this is what I found... 

...no Aaliyah. I was almost in a panic and said "...Justin, where is she?". If you look closely at the zoomed in picture, you'll see that we had a clue...

...a little foot poking out from underneath the bed! So I pull up the blankets from the floor, and this is what I found!...

...a very mobile Aaliyah! She had crawled from her bed of blankets under the bed and was entertained by the wrapped up Christmas tree that was being stored there.

...uh-oh! Caught red-handed!

..."I can explain, Mom"...

"Actually, I'm speechless..."

It's a good thing she's cute! Needless to say, that was her last nap outside the safety of her crib!

Karli's company is doing a show soon...

The dance company we started is doing a Cancer Benefit in October, and this is the ad Justin made for the September/October issue of Idaho Falls Magazine.  Tell all your friends to come!

Funny Video

This was hilarious! We were just sitting and playing before getting her in her pj's, and she started shaking her fist at us! It was so funny! I guess this was her way of telling me that I'd better feed her now...OR ELSE!

July 4th!

JULY 4TH AND SUCH...

Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays ever. This year we got to spend it with the Love family, plus the extended Johnson family. We stayed the weekend at Justin's parents house in Idaho Falls and got to spend time with his brother Jeremy and his family, Tiffany, McKinna, and Jamison, and also with Justin's sister Rachael and her family, Randy and Cannon. On the morning of the 4th we all got up early to go sit on 4th street and watch the parade in Idaho Falls. It's always fun to see the floats that people make. After the parade, we went to the annual picnic/BBQ at Grandma Johnson's house. Yay for steaks, cookie salad, Jim and Camille's 7 layer salad, and Jennie's Salad (jello/graham cracker dessert)! After naps we all went to our plot of land on the river to watch the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration Fireworks Show. We actually googled the fireworks show and it is like #13 in the nation. That's pretty cool! We took some pictures of Aaliyah during the fireworks because it was so funny to watch her. She loved them! She just stared at the fireworks and then she started smiling at them. After about halfway through she fell asleep. Don't ask how she fell asleep, I guess she just takes after her parents and can sleep anywhere and through anything. :)  I also realized that I seem to only take pictures of Aaliyah lately. I need to start taking more pictures of Justin and I and other people. :)

This was me trying to get Aaliyah to laugh for the camera. She smiles and laughs all the time, but our camera is so slow that it always misses the moment! The pictures are backwards, but if you go from the bottom up, she is looking at me like I'm crazy. It's pretty funny with her big eyes! Lol, but then I get her to smile, you can see the end of her smiling in these first 2 pictures.

JULY 4TH PICTURES! :)

Freezer Meals and 'Fro Baby

FREEZER MEALS AND 'FRO BABY :)

So, this post is really late, but a few weeks ago my sister Somer and I made freezer meals. We try to do it a couple times a month, but it ends up being about once a month. This time we made burro hots, meatballs, mini quiche, and blueberry muffin mixes. Here are some pictures of the packed oven. By the way, when I build my own house I am going to have 2 ovens. 

I just needed to brag for about 2 lines. Today at church a lady walked up to me and asked if Aaliyah could be a baby model for her hair bow/headband business. She has a website and said that I could keep all pictures taken of her. I will post the pictures when I get them!

So, sorry these pictures are sideways. If you turn your head sideways you can see how really cute they are. About a month ago Aaliyah started doing this really cute thing...whenever you hold her up on your shoulder (for burping or whatever), she arches her back and picks her head up so that she can look you in the face. It is super cute!

I can't believe how curly Aaliyah's hair is! This is all natural everyone. We had just given her a bath, and I just rubbed a towel over her head to dry her hair a little bit, and this is how it turned out! She is so cute!