December 2012-January 2013

Time to play catch-up!

In December, we got to celebrate Easton's 2nd Christmas.  David surprised me with Tandem bikes and Easton got a train set.  I gave David a Dremel tool set.  We opened presents at my parents house as tradition holds and announced that we were expecting baby #2.  To do this, we created a shirt for Easton to wear that said "I'm going to be a big brother".  We had grandma Joylene Johnson "help" Easton open the box that had the shirt in it.  She was so excited!  Easton then wore the shirt with a jacket over it to Grandma Bunzell's house.  David took the jacket off and David's sister Fawn started reading the shirt.  The whole family was surprised and ecstatic at the news.  We enjoyed our usual overnight French toast and quiche breakfast.  In December, my littlest sister Heather announced she was engaged to a boy named Andrew Perazzo that she met up at BYU.  FINALLY one of my sisters was getting married.

 "Santa" bought my two sisters bicycles for Christmas.  Kyle had to read the tags and check out who the bikes were for.  He was quite disappointed to find that one of the bikes was not for him.

 Gathered around watching Chris and Jessica's family open their presents.

 Around December-time, Grandma Sannette Judy invited all the family over to eat and learn the "Virginia Reel" dance.  We had a great time and Easton got to pretend to ride some of Uncle Kelly's four wheelers.  They were just his size!

Around Christmas Eve, our Johnson family clan also took a trip up to the Payson/Star Valley area to play in the snow.  Most of the sledding hills in the area were closed off and deemed to dangerous.  We found a hill next to a small gas station/café and had a great time sledding.  Easton did better this year with the cold and snow, but after about an hour, he became whiny and was done!  I wasn't able to find suitable snow boots his size so we went to target to buy some "rainboots".  I thought we could just put several layers of socks on to keep his feet warm and that the slick outside of the rainboots would prevent the melted snow for coming in.  I learned quickly that multiple layers of socks did NOT keep his feet warm--we needed insulation!  I was mad that I had wasted 20$ on those lightening McQueen rainboots.  However, Easton has been insisted on wearing them on a near daily basis since that trip.  So I guess we got our moneys worth!  On our trip, David decided to try and be clever and make a "pregnant snowlady".  He posted a picture of me standing next to it on facebook as a way to announce our pregnancy but in a more subtle way.  Only one or two people got it!

We also enjoyed our ward Christmas party which was  a "Mexican Fiesta".  We sat next to our friends Craig and Sarah Reynolds with their two cute girls Raylee and Adley.

 

 In January we decided to try out the new fire pit that David got for Christmas and we roasted marshmellows!