We're BACK!!!!!!!!!!

Outside that is!  Helllllllooooo unseasonably warm temperatures in January!

Let's take advantage and PLAY!

And take a ranger ride!  (Or a nap, Connor....) 

Wheeeeeeeee!!!

Jace "has so much work to do!"

(Plus he got a new grader and dump truck for Christmas that he has been dying to use outside!)

Aren't they cute?

Meanwhile, we got to celebrate Kyler on her Superkid Day in January.

And.........we helped Dad in the shop.  It was honestly a disaster.  Seriously.  How did you expect that would go? Sometimes we have fun though....

Just a crazy game of.....Life

We do crazy.  We do pigtails.  And apparently we do (a lot!) of "wipstick" aka lip gloss...

We do selfies.  I hate selfies.  But I read an article about pictures of moms with their kids (or the lack of....) so selfies are the only way we get pictures together, so, we do selfies.  :) 

We do crafts.  That Grandma B gave us for Christmas.  I helped Jace get it painted one day, and then Jed had to help him assemble it.  Connor wasn't any help.

We paint nails!  Fingers and toes!  And we paint them PINK of course!

And sometimes we let Connor take her own selfies.

Alexis is Baptized

Sweet baby Alexis Dawn was baptized on January 10th.  She pretty much slept through the entire thing....

Alexis and her Mommy and Daddy. 

Great-Grandma Darlyne and Great-Grandpa Richard Johnson were there to help celebrate.

"Great" Aunt Debi was there too!  You can see how excited Alexis was.

Alexis with her God-Parents, Aaron's brother Zach and Melissa's sister Jennifer.

The crazies.  Seriously.  How we think we can continue to take group photos is beyond me.....but somehow we always manage to get one that is good...or okay at least...

 The Powells, party of 3!

Sweet faces of Alexis....

December Randomness...

My beautiful, sleeping, baby, with her beloved Tigey and Blankie...

The "neighborhood" kids...at our Christmas gathering, right before Santa walked through the door and all the kids screamed and ran and hid...except the littlest girls who stood frozen and CRIED...Claire, Cooper, Jace, Austin, Kyler, Cassidy, Gracie, Connor, and Colton.  (Missing Ella...)

Our pasture Star...

And our house lights...

Connor in her high chair, kicked back, relaxing...

Jace's Superkid day!  This is a day in Kindergarten where his family comes and says what they love most about him...you can tell how special Jace is!

Continue Superkid day at home...and Jace gets to sit in the high chair!  Wait, what?

Dancing on the way to school because it's Polar Express Day in Kindergarten!  They watched the movie, and drank hot cocoa!

A little before-school picture of his too-short pajamas...that I had JUST BOUGHT a month before!  Oh well, it's Polar Express day, so who cares?

Connor, and her Minion backpack, filled with Jace's cows, helping carry trash out!

I don't know how this happened, but it did, and I loved it, and they actually laid there for a long time together!

Miss Personality...

We got to watch Brook one Saturday before Christmas, and we loved having her at our house!

And a couple of our Elf shenanigans this year...in addition to having a girlfriend (Tinkerbell) and putting his head in our Rice Krispie box, he also drew faces on the kids pictures in the living room!  That darn Willie!

Johnson Family Christmas...

The kiddos are getting good at having their own table, and actually eating there!

Jace, Connor, and Brook!

Connor and Grandpa got very involved in their toys...

The dog ears seem to make an appearance every year...

And I think Jace is losing his enthusiasm about them...

And another tradition: BINGO!  Jace is really getting good at this game!

Trees and Trains....

Very possibly our two favorite Christmas things...

And I'm so glad they are still willing to sit and let me take their pictures...even if their smiles are getting a little goofy, or they won't exactly look AT me...

Jace is always super excited to put a new ornament on the tree...especially when it's John Deere!  Connor got a singing Elsa ornament....yay....let it go....

I've been dreaming of this tree for awhile, and finally got it done this year.  And it is my FAVORITE.  I've got all of our "family" and yearly ornaments on it.  So fun to look back at our family over the years!

Skinny boy got his own Christmas tree this year, and he wanted a "red, white and blue, America" tree.  Can't argue with that!

And little miss can't be left out...there was a tree in her window, even if she didn't pick it out it was "HER" tree...

Don't mind her "Woody" shirt.  She likes shopping in Jace's closet...

We love the Christmas Train, but we REALLY love when we get to play with it for a little while after the Christmas tree goes down...

Such precision...

Oh, the faces of Connor!  Looks like she has never had her picture taken before

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way Jace and Connor are playing together (making a gate with their hands that lifts when the train gets close) and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way they look at each other and laugh.....