Exercising!

Matt put on a family exercise video from Comcast on demand a couple weeks ago and Mark and Makenna just had the best time doing it! It was so funny! Mark was concentrating really hard on most of the stuff, but he did so good! Makenna had to stop at the end and take a phone call. =) Maybe they'll take after me and enjoy exercising!

Mark's present from Chapin

Here are a couple videos of Mark getting his present from Matt's cousin Chapin at the Johnson Family Christmas. He was obviously thrilled. If you listen closely you can hear Mark ask him, "Where's the pic?" Chapin had bought the guitar previously in Poland when he was out in Europe backpacking. It was very thoughtful of him to think of Mark and we are so grateful to him.

Visit with Aunt Kate

Aunt Kate giving the kids their presents
Makenna with a couple of Aunt Kate's stuffed animals

Just Makenna looking Beautiful

Makenna running to Daddy

Aunt Cebra and Mark

Aunt Cebra and Makenna

Grandma and Grandpa J with Mark


We went to visit Matt's Great Aunt Kate over the holiday in Michigan City with Matt's parents and Aunt Cebra and Uncle Mike. She was very excited to see the kids. They had a great time visiting with her. They especially loved the santa clause that she had that moved and played songs. They were dancing to it and Mark was singing along. It was a great time!

Christmas with the Johnson's

Mark Jammin on his new Electric Guitar

Singing us a song while Jammin on the guitar

Receiving all of her messages from the Princesses

Getting Ready to open her present

This ball may be pink, but I've got my game face on!

Here are some pictures of our Christmas over at Craig and Judy's house. Makenna was all excited to get a Disney Princess phone and Mark's big gifts were a baseball set with bases and everything, and of course his brand new Les Paul Electric Guitar. He was thrilled and couldn't stop playing it. They had a great time!

Christmas Morning

Makenna putting on her lipstick

"Hold on I have another call"

Mark putting out the fire

Mark was all excited Christmas morning. After reminding him of what day it was, he was pumped to run downstairs. We unfortunately had to wake up Makenna b/c she wasn't awake yet and we wanted both of them to go down together. Mark was ecstatic about his fireman hose and fireman mask, but wondered where his firetruck was. Every present he opened he said, "Maybe this is my fire truck." (But it wasn't. My mom had bought him one so we didn't and he only gave us 2 days notice on that one!) But both Mark and Makenna had a great time opening thier gifts. Makenna ran up to her baby and said, "Baby, Mine!" When Matt asked her who brought her that baby doll, she replied with, "Santa." It was too cute. They had a great morning at our house and then we headed over to Matt's parent's house for Christmas over there. It was a busy morning, but we had such a great time!

Getting Ready for Santa

Here is a video of Mark getting ready for Santa to come. He put out some carrots for the Reindeer and cookies for Santa and milk for both of them. Pay attention to Mark the first time you watch the video as you normally would. Then the second time you watch the video you have to keep watching Makenna the whole time in the backround after Mark is done putting the carrots on the plate. Apparantly we have a little Dare Devil on our hands that we were completely unaware of!!! Also included is a picture of our tree with the kids presents. The unwrapped gifts are the one's from "Santa." Enjoy! (Oh, also before you watch the video, I suggest you go to the bathroom first and have a box of tissues handy to wipe the tears from your eyes from crying after laughing so hard. Well atleast that's what I had to do....call me a bad parent...that's okay with me!)

Christmas Eve

Wow-Sorry it's been so long since I have updated this, but it was one hectic Christmas Season this year. We were blessed with spending time with good friends from out of town, family near by, and family miles away. We couldn't have asked for a better time. Which meant that I didn't have time for updating the blog, but I did have the time to take almost 1,000 pictures. It may take me a little while to get through all of them, and you may be looking at Xmas pictures and videos until Valentine's day, but just bare with me. I was very excited to get a new camera for Christmas from my parents so I have been trying to figure everything out on it as well. So here are pictures from Christmas Eve before we went to church at Craig and Judy's house. Enjoy!