Last ones!

And we're all headed back to get warm.

Then entire crew that was there to celebrate!

A few more...

Here's a few more of the Johnson clan!!

Grandma "J" and the grandkids...we're missing Katie, Jacque & Nikki, though. :-( Grandpa Gary and Calder checking out the COLD water!

Grandma "J", Dad, Uncle Dale, Aunt Rhonda

4 generations!!! Not to mention, there's that face again! :-)

Some new, old photos

It was SO cold and I was thinking "seriously!? I'm gonna freeze!" We were in Kirkland, WA at my aunt/uncle's place taking pictures. We ended up having fun, all the same!

I'm not sure what made him make that face, but it cracked us up!

Dad, Teresa, Jeff, Calder, Jo, me

awww...family kiss!



Calder LOVED walking over the "bridge"

I was going through a ton of photos that I have neglected over the past more than 10 years. Some dated back to my Sophmore year of High school...others during college, and some just after. I found a disk that I've had and, curious, put it on the computer to see what was on it. The photos above were there! I completely forgot about my goal to get these printed/scrapbooked a few years ago when they were taken!!! I can't, honestly, remember exactly when it was...fall/winter of 200?....something. Man, I'm SO far behind!!! *sigh* I need to catch the scrapbooking bug...I just can't get it together! Anyway, I thought it would be at least a step in the right (general) direction if I posted some on here.

I'll post a few more on another blog, as they have a limit as to how many I can put on one post.

Here's a shout out to the Johnson fam-damily!!! I miss you all!

Nap Time

This is Jasmine's favorite position when she's napping downstairs. She also enjoys sleeping on top of the air conditioner vent in the floor. She either has her head or her whole belly over the vent.

Also I wanted her to model her new pink 'backpack' for going on walks (and no I haven't taken the tags off yet...I want to make sure it will fit for awhile!!). Awww the joys of puppy-hood! :-)

Garden before...after!

Here are pictures of the garden boxes my mom helped me plant the first week we moved in (first week of June). We planted banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, red/green peppers, and 3 rows of lettuce (but only one row grew) in the first box without tomato cages; this is best seen in pictures 3 & 4, tomatoes and corn in the middle box (the corn didn't grow); best seen in picture 2 in the box on the right of the frame, and one more tomato plant, sugar snap peas, winter squash, sweet pea flowers, and cucumbers in the box closest to the corner of the fence; best seen in picture 2 in the box on the left, closer to the trash can. I use the trash can with a liner for weeding, and it works great! I had it in a different spot in picture #1, but like it better closer to the compost pile now in picture 2. The first pictures is what they looked like the weekend we planted them.
The cucumber plants, sugar snap peas, four of the five tomato plants and all the pepper plants have all grown like CRAZY!!! We've already gotten 4 banana peppers, and almost a dozen jalapeno peppers! There are even 6 tomatoes growing and just about that many flowers on the cucumber plants. No flowers on the sugar snap peas, yet. The tomato plants and snap peas are as tall as me, and the cucumber plant decided to creep up the cage where the sweet peas didn't grow. The last three pictures are what they look like today! Crazy!!! I love it!!
I'm hoping to build another couple of boxes for next year to start strawberries and rhubarb, and I may even start raspberries along the back of one as well. I'm actually starting to think I might have picked up a teeny tiny bit of my mom's love of gardening...baby steps...baby steps!

The House

Here are some pictures of our house, for those of you who haven't seen it, yet!

First- Timer

Hello to all! Welcome to our blog! I'm new at this stuff, so bear with me! I'm putting this together after my mom kept pushing and pushing for it to be done so she can see pictures easier. So...here ya go, Mom! :-D We'll start with a picture or two of the "kids"...our two dogs; Einstein, (2 1/2, brwn/wht) we've had for two years, and Jasmine (4 mos. old, brwn/blk) who we just adopted last weekend.