Thankful Thursday: Thanksgiving Edition

This was the Johnson's year for Thanksgiving and we hosted at our house.  What a great day! So for today's for Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for:

Playing games...

Hudson's sweet belly laugh when Uncle Brandon threw him in the air...

A beautiful day with great-grandparents...

Uncle Brandon and Reed shooting the BB guns...

Playing on the Gator...

The boys playing in the dirt and having a GREAT time - I'm thankful I didn't have to ride with them back to the house!

It was a great day with the family - SO much to be thankful for!  Hope you all had a great day full of blessings!

Our Little Indian

Last week the Kindergartners had a "Thanksgiving Feast" with a short program of a few songs and poems.  He made his Indian vest and headband - it was very cute and I could tell he felt like he was quite a big deal!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for-

• butternut squash for lunch and an oven to bake it in.
• my sweet boys.
• Thanksgiving holiday and being with family!
• a warm house.
• my health.

The Pick Up Line

Every day when I go to pick up Reed from school, Hudson sits in the back and watches a movie. He is usually rested from his nap with a snack and a drink so he's happy as a clam.  Today I forgot the drink and snack and the movie just wasn't cutting it (could it be that the same movie has been running over and over for a few weeks now?)  I decided to let him out of his car seat so he could "run" around in the car.   I rolled the windows down and he was having a blast going from window to window in the back seat while I went through the mail.  A few minutes before school let out, I buckled him back in his seat, but his shoes were no where to be found.  I searched the car - front,  middle, back and far back...  Seriously, where could they be?  Then it occured to me.  The open windows... Great!!  I checked around the car, under the car and even on the sidewalk.  (Imagine with me if you will - here I am rushing to find two 5 inch long khaki colored Crocs in a giant pile of leaves next to the curb.  They might as well be camoflauge!!  Kids are starting to file out and cars are starting to move...Ugh.)  I only have two pairs of shoes for this fat footed little monkey, so I was going to find those suckers.  As I'm scanning the ground finding nothing, I vaguely remembered that as Hudson and I sat waiting for school to be out, I saw a woman walk by our car and in my side mirror I noticed that she stopped and bent down.  Maybe she found them and she took them to the office!!  So I pull over out of "traffic", unbuckled Hudson and start to the office, grabbing Reed on the way.  I'm up there every week to help, so the ladies know me and when I ask if they had a pair of Crocs turned in, they look very puzzled.  I go on to tell them that I'm pretty sure my 21 month old pitched them out the window and they both got a little giggle out of it. Nothing had been turned in but they say they'll keep and eye out for them.  I left the office and tried to figure out anywhere else they could have been "turned in" and head down to the custodian's office who also gets quite the little giggle out of it.  (If they think this is amusing, they should spend a day with me.)  After no luck with the custodian, I decide to just head to the car and hope they turn up.  I decided to take one more glance and there on the sidewalk, about a car length from where our car was sitting in the pick up line, are two khaki colored little Crocs.  I guess the kid has quite the arm - maybe he'll be in the big leagues.  :) Just another day in the pick up line!

Mine!

In the last couple of weeks, Hudson has been saying a popular word among toddlers. He wraps his arms around whatever thing it is that he's claiming - coloring books, toys, whatever - and exclaims "Mine!" It's not super often, but he has been saying it here and there.
Just now, I was checking my e-mail and he came up beside me, laid his head on me, threw his little chubby arms around my waist and said "Mine!"
How sweet is that? That little monkey sure can get his momma's heart!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for-

• the health of my family.  We have some coughs and sore throats here and there, but for the most part, we are all healthy and thriving.
• being the girl in my house full of boys.  I really love my little snuggler, my sweet kindergartner and my best friend.
• watching movies on the couch today. I've been needing some down time!
• country livin'. :)

More Mainstay Pictures

DadDad took these at Mainstay Farms... Too cute!

The Pumpkin Patch (and lots of other stuff, too!)

We had a super busy weekend.  On Friday morning, I went to Bible study like always.  I had to leave a little early because I had signed up to volunteer at Reed's school for Harvest Center Day.  They had face painting, wreath making, etc., then we moved to the cafeteria for Pumpkin Ring Toss, Scarecrow Relay, Popcorn Relay and Gourd Bowling.  Somehow I got the rockin' job of setting up bowling pins after every Kindergartner threw the gourd. Awesome.  Seriously, the kids had a blast, and that's what it's all about. Reed and I got home and had about an hour before we were having our family pictures taken.  We got dressed in our coordinated outfits and were ready to go... all except Hudson.  Lately, if he isn't able to do exactly what he wants to, he throws a fit.  Crying, going limp where you can't pick him up... ugh.  I wanted to get at least one good one for Christmas cards, but Hudson was a bear.  I guess we'll just have to see how they turn out...  Then on Saturday morning we got up and headed to Mainstay Farms.  Gammy, DadDad, Uncle Eric, Aunt Sara and sweet Grace came along also.  It was a lot of fun and I think the kids really enjoyed it, too.  Here are the boys jumping around in the hay (in their awesome Halloween shirts). :) 

I could not get these kids to both look at the camera at the same time.  This is how every picture turned out...

As far as trying to get a family picture... Well, this is the best one we got-

The rest of the time was this...

Does that give you any idea how our family pics went on Friday night?  Well, it should...  :) 

 Check out this little sweetie and her punkin' ... :)

Best pic I have of the kids...

This is when Hudson was trying to push Grace off of the platform they were sitting on. 

 Nice, huh?

Brian and Reed in the tree house

We had a great morning and I got to be home about 30 minutes before I had to leave to go work the booth for Reed's school carnival.  I threw on a makeshift "grease monkey" costume (jeans, boots, one of Brian's Ford shirts with a wrench in my pocket, a Ford cap, pigtails and mascara smeared on my face) and headed to the school.  I spent the next 2 hours blowing up and tying balloons to give out for tickets. I actually have skin rubbed off my fingers from tying so many balloons.  DadDad stepped in and took care of the last hour for me so I could go Trick or Treating with my boys.  THANKS DADDAD!  By the time we got home on Saturday night, I was done in.  We had a fun weekend, but I'm glad it's over!