Hiram

I am so excited right now. Many of you know that my brother-in-law, Hiram is in Afghanistan. I am so excited, about fifteen minutes ago I was able to chat with him online. I guess it is just chance that we happened to be online at the same time. I also want to say that I am so thankful for all of the soldiers serving our beautiful country. Thank you so much, Hiram for all the time you have spent working to keep our country safe and free. We love you and you are always in our prayers.

Saturday Adventure

Every so often we go on a Saturday adventure with Peter's family. The adventure this Saturday was fossil hunting (which often times is). We were supposed to meet them out there only we couldn't find them before they were done. When we did find them we decided to go for a hike. It was pretty fun for Melynn, she got to run around and play in the foot hills of Dog Valley. Without my knowledge Grandpa, Aunt Katie, and Uncles Scott and Eric let her play with dried up cow-pies. At least she didn't eat any.

As for me being 7 months pregnant I get worn out a lot faster than everyone else, so Peter and I were headed back to the car when about 10 feet in front of me a giant raving monster jumped out and scared the day lights out of me. I screamed and by the time Peter had looked the giant raving monster had turned into a little jack rabbit. We both had a good laugh at my expense.

You're Funny Mommy!

The other day I bought a 12 pack of Mt. Dew for Peter while he was working on a lab with a couple other people. Peter was helping me carry in the groceries. I picked up the 12 pack out of the trunk and the end of the box broke open and all the soda fell out. I made a little bit of a squeal. Melynn started laughing hysterically. She would make the noise I made and continue laughing hysterically over and over again. It was so funny. Mostly because she was openly making fun of me. Now she does it all the time.

Family Pictures

Melynn had horrible chicken pox when these were taken but the photographer was nice enough to photo shop them out. If you look close enough you can still see them just a little bit, but I think she did a good job.

Favorite "The Office" Quote

This right now is my favorite Office quote.

Michael: Who knows what the number one cause of death in the U.S. is?
Dwight: Shotgun weddings!
Jim: That's not what that means.

So funny.

Sneaky! Sneaky!

I love this stage that Melynn is in. As trying as she can be sometimes she couldn't be cuter. In this stage I can tell Melynn "no, don't do that" and she knows what I'm saying. When she doesn't listen to me it can be frustrating, but sometimes she is so cute. It's really funny when she knows that she is doing something that she shouldn't, I catch her and she immediately drops what she is doing and runs off like I never saw anything.

Last night we had some friends over and we ordered pizza from Two Jacks. We got half ham and pineapple and half pepperoni and olives. We set the pizza out on a low table for people to help themselves. After about a minute we noticed Melynn paying a lot of attention to the pizza box. We pulled out the camera and captured the following:

Nail Biting!

The other night we noticed that Melynn was chewing on her toe. We could not figure out why. I first thought that it itched so I pulled out the Cortizone, but as soon as I applied it her toe was immediately back in her mouth. Finally we figured out that she thought her toe nails were too long and she was biting them to get them shorter. As soon as we clipped her toe nails she was done. Well...she tried to continue biting them but then figured out that she didn't need to. Although every once in a while she tries to chew my fingernails. Enjoy the video and a couple of pictures.



Here is the video of us figuring out why she was chewing on her toe.

The Johansen Disco Elves

I got this idea from some friends of ours.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Twilight Movie

For those of you who have seen the movie Twilight. Please don't say anything. We have not seen the movie and even though I have read the books I don't want to know anything about the movie. I am trying to keep an open mind and there might me a chance that I will like the movie. I'm sure that I will say what I think of the movie when I see it. But until then please refrain yourselves from saying anything to us. Thanks.

Peter's Blog

I know that a lot of you like to tag and I'm not big on answering them, but Peter is. He recently answered the tag from Chrissy and Jenna. So check out his blog. Peter's Blog Link. They are all true/false answers. Enjoy...I know I sure did.