THE JOHNSEN FAMILY

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Summer Fun

This summer has been packed with activities for Jace and Lexi. The first two weeks were spend doing swim lessons with Ms. Debbie. Thanks to her, Jace and Lexi are swimming without any floaties or life jackets in the deep end now! Yay!

Lexi doing a little finger painting

We went to visit Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Tom for the 4th of July and spent some time in Michigan with Grandma Patti and several aunts, uncles, cousins. etc. Here's a few pics of Jace and Lexi at the new splash park in Wolf Lake. Lots of fun!

Jace and his cousins completed a kid's triathalon at the Jeff Aquatic Center this past weekend. They all did awesome! We're pretty proud of Jace for completing his first tri ever!

Jace and Jacob waiting for their swimming wave to start (they had to swim 75 feet across the pool)

transitioning to bike ride (it was a 1 mile ride)

Last leg of the race. Running 1/4 mile!

He ran the whole way!

All the hard work paid off. Everyone earned their medals!

Lexi cheered everyone on with her chewy :-)

Sunday, May 20, 2012

April and May:Where Has The Time Gone?

It's been a while since I've posted any pics because I haven't been very motivated to do it, but the blog website just changed their format and I couldn't figure out how to use it until now... So here goes nuthin'...

Easter was spent with the family at Huber's.

Egg hunt was great and food was yummy!

Two partners in crime at Huber's egg hunt

Egg hunt at Kids of the Kingdom Preschool

Easter baskets on Easter morning

Easter morning egg hunt in our basement

Egg hunt at the Cromwell's: Look at all the vultures waiting to attack!

Easter pic with Grandma Patty

Lexi hunting for eggs; I think she may have found an egg laid by pumpkin :-)

All the boys jumped in the pool after the egg hunt.

The water was freezing!!

Jace played spring soccer again in the SIU league.

Coach Daddy took charge again, too!

Matt survived another birthday on May 1. The big "34"!

Lexi took her first field trip with her preschool class to the Louisville Zoo

Jace graduated from preschool on May 17, 2012.

This is his teacher, Ms. Suzann

Best buds Caleb and Jace.

What are they going to do without each other next year in kindergarten?

They live in different school districts and won't be attending the same school. :-(

Lexi singing Selena Gomez song

Jace scores a goal!!

Jace learns to ride his bike without training wheels

Grandpa Tom and Grandma Lucy came to see Jace graduate

Singing some songs with his class

I can't believe Jace is going to be in kindergarten this fall!

Where has the last 5 years gone? :-(

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

First Big Snow of the Winter

In less than a week, we've had extremely crazy weather with 70 degree temps, tornadoes, hail/wind, severe storms and now 20/30 degree weather with snow! Jace was happy that he finally got to put his new sled from Grandma Patti to use. He kept asking us when it was going to snow and yesterday he got his wish! We had between 4-5 inches of snow in our backyard. It was perfect for making snowmen and sledding down the hill in the back of our house. One day of winter snow was nice, but now it's sunny and back to 50/60 degree weather and the snow is almost gone...

Digging in the snow

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Happy Birthday Jace and Lexi!

Jace celebrated his 5th birthday last week and Lexi celebrated her 3rd at SIGS Sportsplex with a bounce time party. Jace's friends from school, friends & family came to party down with us on Saturday at SIGS. It was a full house, as you can see, by the pic below. The kids all had a blast! Thanks to everyone that came!