Oh it Happened!!

Yesterday afternoon was not my day!!  First off, I had a meeting with Verizon, and I was bawling from  not cool reasons, so My eyes were puffy and I'm sure I looked awesome.  That's not the best part though...
I had to run into Target to grab some eyeliner, and I was talking on the phone with a friend, which I normally don't do when I'm checking out, but It was one item thought it would be quick.  It might have been, but I scattered change everywhere and Big T was screaming and kicking. It doesn't end there.  I was still on the phone and I walked out the automatic doors and had to put Big T down to rearrange myself and he walked to the opposite "coming in" automatic doors so I followed him and the door opened right over my foot! Yep my foot was stuck!!  I couldn't even get it pulled out before the door was closing again, it dragged me with it...no joke!! I finally got me foot freed from my sandal, and then had to yank and tug at my sandal to get it out from under the stupid door!! Shockingly, Big T didn't leave the store during the whole fiasco. 
To top it off, I was driving home and I noticed something fly by my face a couple of times, and then it hit me, like literally hit me!!  My son was throwing his cookie at me!!

Skinny Sliding

Of course the day Coach is gone, we get nice weather!!  It really is my luck, or my life!  I have it worse than Murphy's Law, always have and pretty much always will.  In my life things MUST go wrong not just Will.

But, Yeah for nice weather anyhow!!  Big T was so excited to play outside today he played and played, and I could not get him to come in!  He of course was soaked within 15 min of being let out the door!!  It didn't seem to phase him, he continued to play for the next 3 hours with soggy feet and drenched clothes.

We even ate our Lunch outside :-) !!

Big T was starting to get cranky so I figured it was nap time, so we came in the house and I stripped him of his clothes and went to get a clean diaper and dry clothes...came back to where he should have been, and no Big T!!!  

Apparently I left the back door open............

Yep this is Big T putting dirt down his diaper!!

Considering all the dirt down his diaper I figured I would take off his diaper outside, figuring I would just grab him and take him back inside...."Nope" (as Big T says)

The Visual pretty much describes how it went....not very successful!! You have to imagine hearing the skin sticking and not sliding!  I don't think I ever had the urge to go down the slide with a bare bottom, but I know now I NEVER want to.

5 Years!!!

Coach and I have been married for 5 years!!!  On the 3rd was our anniversary and we celebrated by first going to the Billings Temple.  That was amazing!!  I haven't been able to go with my husband for 9 months, and it just reinforced how important our temple covenants are, and how we are not meant to be alone!  My marriage is most important to me!! 
( A lot of exclamation marks because I am very passionate :-) )

 Later that night Coach took me to Walkers in downtown Billings.  I loved it!!  It was more upscale, so I got to dress up a little more, and the food was AMAZING!  Pricey, but amazing.  I had Alaskan Halibut with prongs covered in a white wine cream sauce, yyuuuuummmmmm! Plus an amazing Cesar salad.
Coach had a Lamb dish, which I think was tastier than my Halibut. 
One thing I love about more upscale restaurants is that your water glass is never empty!!  There it was never even halfway empty :-)  Love that!!

Kinda Scary, right???!!!

We spent Saturday in Billings as well with Coach's Grandparents.  Big T's favorite was going to see and feed the ducks.  He loves animals, in fact the way to keep him happy when driving is to point out all the cows and horses and sheep we see along the road.  The boy now can sometimes find them and notice them faster than I can!

I am so grateful for Coach's grandparents.  They are so amazing!!  Big T warmed up super quick to them, so you know it has to be true!!

I totally thought I looked stylin' I had a red necklace on that I made with my turquoise shirt, I just needed on my red high heels and it would have totally finished the outfit :-)

Self Portrait

I've been telling coach that I want some more pictures from his Iraq experience.  Ones that have more of him in them and just fun ones.  He brought up that I haven't taken any photos of myself, I gave him the excuse that it is really hard to hold my big SLR and take a photo.
So when Tristan and I went and played outside, I took one!  It is shot at an wide angle, cuz it had to be in order for me to do it hand holding :-)

But who really wants to look at me....

 

 Yeah, he's not any better looking!!

Now these next pictures BEWARE..you will be blinded with pure CUTENESS & AWESOMENESS!!

A Total Papa Johnson Face!!!!

 

So Funny..He won't let go and he is so close to the ground.

 

I have no explanation.......

Trying to blow off the dandelion seeds, but they were wet and stuck to his mouth!!

Baby Neigh's

Big T has yet to call a Horse a Horse.  He insists on calling them Neigh's ( ya know what a horse says).
My oldest sister came up to Idaho to pick up some nice bloodline cutting horses for her employer and she was able to make a visit out of it :-).  Which was great for Big T, he got to beat up on his Nephews who are 14 and 13, and hang out with his Auntie, oh yeah and he got to love on the baby foals!!!

Mommy watching over her baby girl

The other Mommy and her girl

I caught some Air

In life I have moments,and maybe others do too, where I feel like I'm doing okay, I'm surviving.  I don't really feel like I'm drowning per say, but I'm not flying either.
The other day I was like a bird sort of soaring, and I hit a thermal pocket and was risen to newer heights!!
I caught some much needed "air"
I was carrying around some hurt and anger, I had thought I had moved on and let it go, but apparently I hadn't. I let it go!!  I've come to sort of accept some things about me. That are me!!  I am going to stop wasting my energy on pointless crap and people.
I'm on my way to stop comparing myself with others.  There are tons of others out there that will always be more in shape than me, or more social and friendly, or more...... whatever, that's just life, right?!

I also caught some real air yesterday..not a lot, but enough to make me proud!! I'm not really into the jumps, but I couldn't let my nephews show me up!!  I ended up enjoying it more than I thought!!!

Easter Suit

Growing up every year us girls got a new dress for Easter Sunday.  I'll have to admit that not all the time did I like my Easter dress.  Did your mom's put you in matching outfits?  Mine totally did!!  I already hated dresses, so to be matching with one of my sisters was torture!  I look back at pictures, and when I was younger from 1-6ish the matching was cute, but any older, when I started caring what I wore ( or really just dressing myself ), I wasn't not on board with that tradition.

I still like the idea of getting a new Easter outfit for a tradition, and I'm betting that at one point I will make my kids match.  As a parent, I can see the fun in it now :-).  This Easter I bought Big T the cutest outfit.  I can not sew AT ALL so all of the future outfits will have to be bought, unless I talk my mom or my little sister into sewing something for me.

So here is the start of my own childrens' Easter Sunday outfit...with  pictures of course!!  This was a quick pic, because I was running late for church (imagine that) and it is actually this Sunday.   Easter Sunday here was Stake Conference, and I didn't want to drive the hour and half to attend.  I know, I know I should have, but I'm not perfect.

What a Handsome Boy!!