Here is a wide array of pictures (poor quality courtesy of my iPhone) of the last few weeks. I'll get that battery charger for our real camera soon! Enjoy!

Dino Museum with Grandma!!!
Note B's leg.

Cutie pies!

The Fam!

Brigham's first swimming lesson last week. He loved it.

The kids before school. Jessica is Brigham's buddy.

This is Chanel, taking after her name's sake in fashion...

Brigham wrestling with L.E. out at the Haynie's home. Blurry, because they were going crazy!

More Dino Museum...

Sleeping in the car on Christmas Eve, in new PJs from Grandma and Grandpa

Brigham is zonked, too....and with his trust "Brown and Green" to comfort him, there's no turning back.

More of L.E. and Briggs.

More fashion....

Bubbles!!!!

Shaved head...like Dad.

Christmas Eve...we had some visitors to our home. Mr. and Mrs. Claus!!! John and Sheri Sundwall from our ward. They are always so sweet to our kids!

Grandpa John-John, or Santa Claus with B.

Why no pictures of Chanel? Oh, because she was screaming in fear.

B and Joshua at Grandma's house.

Happy kid at the doctor's office.

He had just come from the dentist, where I noticed a scratch on his eyeball. He got drops and we went home...the whole time...he was happy. Chanel was happy too, because she had the full attention of the Neeleman kids at their house. She didn't want to come with me when I went to pick her up! Thanks, Christine!!

This is our most prized possession. It's a print on canvas of Mark Mabry's "Ascension". It is huge!!! We were honored to receive this print from Mark a few month's ago. Jonathan and I hoped to get it framed, but knew it would cost some bucks! I sneaked it to Robert's in early December to get framed for Jonathan. A few days later, J's parents were here at our house, and he wanted to show them this awesome print. He couldn't find it in our house, so asked me where it was. I said, "oh, I put it up, so the kids wouldn't bother it." He was like, "soooo, where is it?" I said, "It's put away." Then, he caught on. His mom just smiled. We laughed about it, and I told him that it was SUPPOSED to be a surprise. Oh well. It looks so great, we don't care that the surprise was ruined.

Jonathan's Fire Academy Graduation

At UFRA (Utah Fire and Rescue Academy) for graduation!

Putman and J

Lawrence sitting behind J

Jonathan running across the stage to receive his certificate.

At Tepanyaki with our parents to celebrate graduation and Jonathan's 31st birthday!

Brigham's Christmas Program

That little cutie behind B in the black dress his Jonathan's cousin's daughter, Taylor. She goes to the same preschool!

Daddy came to support Briggs.

So did Nelly, the crazy hair girl.

She loved it, and danced and sang along.

Itchy hat! He did a little dance with 2 buddies, acting like a train engineer. The video didn't work. Sorry.

Brigham was the train engineer. He had so much fun...even though he looked like he might fall asleep by the end.

Brigham's stitches this past summer

The back of Brigham's head...at the doctor's office.

One joyful kid, even when he's been hurt. He felt pretty cool in his head-wrap.

I finally retrieved these pics off of my cell phone, even though this was during the summer. He fell out of Grandma Armstrong's wagon, onto a small rock, which split his skin on his scalp. He was so brave at the doctor's office. It was scarier for his mom, I think.

Christmas is Almost Here!!

Ready for church on the Sunday before Christmas!

Brigham went sledding, and was a mad-man!

Chanel is cheering on Briggs

Ready to sled!

Beautiful snow!

I couldn't figure out how to rotate this one.

Charlie...

Nelly

Nelly in her Wall-e pjs

Dancin' around the Christmas tree!

2 Surprise Visits!

Can you see the baby-fat that's coming back? Yep, we're back on bottles! Yikes!
Charlie, looking longingly out the door...but is ever loyal and obedient...waiting there for the call.

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!! I am learning how to use photoshop, and will hopefully improve shots like this in the near future. This pic is Nelly, all the way.

Caramel corn from Grandma!!! Such a great visit. We love Grandpa and Grandma!

Look at the love...you can just FEEL it.

Lots of laughs! Sorry about the color on this one...I don't know what I did.

Cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dimples to share.

Big ol' kid is gonna break Grandma's back! He's growing so fast.

Sweet, beautiful Grandma Karen...

Uncle Jared stopped by! Nelly thought she'd get more of him than she did...when he left, she cried and cried.

Feelin' the love.

Kisses? With all that hair!? Oh, yes. She loves every minute.

Here comes Daddy...

For the grand FINALE!!!

Grandpa and Grandma stopped by on Saturday to bring the kids a treat...unfortunately, I ate most of it...Karen's homemade caramel corn. Then, Jared came Monday morning before Jonathan had left for work for a bit. Hey, these kids will take 'em any way they can have 'em! Oh, how they love the Johnsons...all of them! Grandpa and Grandma just love on them like crazy! Uncle Jared gives hairy kisses, that make Nelly giggle...it's just way too much fun. We love our family!

The Fake Santa

Oh goodness. This was fun. Brigham was so excited to see Santa, and sit on his knee. When his turn finally came, Santa asked him if he was a good boy, and if he slept in his very own bed, and other cute little questions. Brigham came to me after and said, "Mom, that was the fake Santa". When I asked him about it, he said, "he was wearing human clothes underneath". Awww! So sad. His face was really bummed out. He is 4 1/2, and thought that the black t-shirt underneath meant it wasn't the REAL Santa. I explained as much as I could about Santa's helpers, but he's still pretty disturbed by the whole thing. We need to watch "The Polar Express" again...