Catching Up!

Ok, so I've fallen off the blogging bandwagon.  

I hail to my friend, Tracy Noble, queen of the bloggers :-) 

 I don't know how she does it, but Tracy's always on it with her blogging. :-)  

So, time to play catch-up with the Johnsen's!

By the way, for those of you that have been dying to know,

 baby Johnsen #3 will be here in about 6 weeks or less. January 23 

is the official due date.  No official names picked yet, but Jace and 

Lexi are still rooting for naming their baby sister, Oreo.  Ha!

Jace finished his soccer season towards the end of October. 

 I think by the end of the season we were down to only 3 players.  

Tough season for Coach Matt!

Jacob, Jace & Lexi went Trick-0r-Treating with Grandma Patti, 

Don and Grandpa Tom this year.  It was a cold night for sure!

Grandpa Tom was a crazy beaver, Jace was spiderman, 

Jacob was Darth Vader & Lexi was the fierce dragon from Shrek

Spiderman is so ripped!

Grandpa Tom turned 60 on December 8, so we celebrated

 with a yummy ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins!

Santa Jace & Santa Lexi posing by the Christmas tree

 Decorating the tree was a lot of hard work

 This is Lexi's expert tree decorating, hanging all the 

ornaments in one spot. Anyone want to hire her?

 Jace thought it was cool to try on the Santa tree skirt

Cheesin' with Santa

We went to Santa's Secret Workshop at Georgetown Elementary 

one weekend and the kids had a blast. There were tons of stations

 for kids to make ornaments, play games, things to eat, and a secret

 workshop where parents weren't allowed!  Jace liked the snowball fight

 station.This girl in the pink pants was chasing him around and pounding him :-)

 Lexi's first time sitting on Santa's lap and not crying.  

She was looking a little mischievous...

 more snowball fighting

Okay, til next time everyone!  Merry Christmas and Happy 

New Year from the Johnsen Family!  Hope Santa is good to everyone!  

October Fun

Some of these pics are out of order, 

but I think you get the idea :-)

Lexi's had so much fun this month she passes out on the kitchen floor at night.

We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch at Hubers.  Looks like it was a good year for pumpkins because there were a ton of big pumpkins to choose from.

 After a long hunt, Jace and Lexi finally found their perfect pumpkins!

Passed out as soon as we got in the car from a long day of fun at Hubers...

Now onto the gutting, carving and decorating ceremony!  Preparing to do battle...

(it was Lexi and Jace's idea to take off their shirts) ha!

 Ew! Lexi didn't like scooping out the pumpkin guts!

Lexi liked putting faces on the pumpkins instead

 Jace enjoyed carving the face on his pumpkin

Scooping out the guts

   

         

The finished spooky pumpkins. Can you tell which ones Lexi designed? Ha!

Starring Miss Lexi...

Lexi getting ready to work the bars at gymnastics class

Could she be the next Shawn Johnson?

 Lexi started her first day of preschool on Thursday. 

 She was excited about her big girl backpack.

 Trying to figure out how to work this thing

August News...

 Jace and Lexi finished up their summer session of gymnastics at SIGS.  They ended their class posing for the olympics.  Jace asked, "Why don't they have boy bodies, mommy?"  I guess next time they need a boy's cutout. After all, SIGS does have several boy's gymnastics teams :-)

We spent our last weekend before school started at Holiday World. We lucked out because it was an overcast day and not scorching hot!  Kids had a blast...

 We went to the Louisville Science Center on Saturday to check out their latest kid's exhibits.  This wall vacuum was pretty cool.

 Lexi was intrigued by the statue sitting on the bench in downtown Louisville.  

She was giving him wet willies :-)

 Lexi going through the foam noodle maze

 Jace started his first day of kindergarten today (Aug. 6).  He did great! No tears, just smiles :-)

Jace said he really likes riding on the bus. I can't complain. The bus stops right in front of our house. What service!

 This is a pic of Jace in his new classroom at his open house

 waiting for the bus to arrive!

Riding the flying salmon at Holiday World