Still a Baby
I love this chubby little girl...
Two Firsts!
First time BYU has actually won a first round NCAA tournament Game since 1993!! Â Thank you, it is about time. I almost gave up and quit cheering but I pulled myself together. We survived the first overtime and then we had it. Whew – stressful morning 🙂
AND Cali is sporting her first pony tail today!! She is 15 1/2 months and finally has enough hair to almost do something with it. She won’t leave any bows in but we will see how long this pony can last…
Cute Cali Girl…Â 
Shy Girl…Â 
I'm not to sure about this.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Our tradition is GREEN dinner! Yum. Ben’s Family growing up carried out the Irish tradition of Cornbeef and Cabbage but I’m not to anxious to go there – sorry. We are anxiously keeping up the tradition of Grandma Nettesheim’s Green Lime Cake for dessert and I noticed at least 2 of Ben’s siblings had their green cake ready to go for tonight also. YUmmy YUM.
“We have to eat green bananas because it is St. Patrick’s.” thanks Packer 🙂
Benji out ate his parents for the first time last night – he pounded three tacos!!
“yum yum! This is soo good.” who knew kids love grilled cheese for dinner?
Cali has a hard time at the grocery store – so much good food and she loves to eat. She grabbed a yogurt and popped a hole in the top, she proceeded to use her finger as a spoon and was content the rest of the trip. And finished the whole thing when we got home.
Benji Loves his Pre School!
That’s the latest around here. Ben is off to SCOUTS and I am thinking Baths and the TMNT movie for me and the kids 🙂
BRAVE BENJI
Those two words don’t go together well very often but they are starting to and they did on Saturday at the Lehi pool. Benji went on the big water slide with Ben! and then he begged me to go on it with him again! What? It was loooooong and Dark and I couldn’t stay sitting up BUT he loved it. To my Eldest brother Mike – I report that Benji did his one brave thing for the day, you should be proud.
We love the lazy river whirlpool and the baby area – so much fun!
15 months
Cali is officially walking! I’m not saying that she always walks but she can walk and does it without anyone’s help or prodding.
My other big news is that I was finally smart enough to ‘hide’ the Lite Brite! I have been picking up 100’s of little pegs, 100’s 🙂 of times a day for 100’s of days. I’m done. I put it away yesterday and I don’t plan on revealing it again for a long time. I am so proud of myself. Why didn’t I do this sooner?
Spring Fever
Another Busy 10 Days
My mom and Brady drove out here last Wednesday: Brady needed to come see all of us Utah people and tell us about his mission and my Mom got to come pick up her mom here in Orem for a birthday trip to Alaska! We loved having family here and getting to play everyday. Without giving a day by day, here are some of the details: The kids loved all of the attention from Uncle Brady and Uncle Joel. We played sooo many games of Dominion – we may have ODed, maybe not though – I’d play right now if anyone wants to 🙂
Brady has that missionary spirit about him still – he was very kind and helpful the whole time he was here. He took the boys to the Park and wore them out. They came home telling me how high Brady could kick the soccer ball – impressed. And Cali even liked him.
We went geo-caching for family home evening. I have no pics but I wanted to document it because it was the first time that the boys really got into it. They were on a treasure hunt and so excited to find the treasure and a few “dinosaur” bones along the way. And who knew that the Maceys frozen yogurt is as good and as good of a deal as their soft serve.
no pictures at Maceys but these are from our picnic in our living room yesterday…
Mikila also visited over the weekend and got sucked into the Dominion Games, the Hancock’s got sucked in to. BYU lost to New Mexico 🙁 but we dominated our soccer game, everyone scored! On Tuesday I went to the airport and picked up mom and Grandma from their Alaska trip. That night we had all of Mom’s family over to our house!! And my brother and his family came down from Eden so we had a super fun Pizza Party and got all of the details about Grandma riding the dog sled in Anchorage 🙂
Cali with cousins, Brinlee and Skylar
Grandpa Johnson
The DogSled Ride!
Mom and Brady left on Wednesday so we got our day to relax and catch up on sleep. Oh yeah – and we got a new niece on the 1st of March!
Scarlett Robertson
Today has been fun. There was no school so we went to the Lehi pool with the Falabella’s and the Hancock’s. I drug all 3 of my kids around with life jackets on and we really had a good time. I REALLY need to teach them how to swim though or I need an extra arm. Benji has improved so much since last summer and Cali is a water baby. She just took off in the baby pool. Packer was my lap child today – probably because some kid thought it would be fun to nail him with that water shooter right when we walked in and were putting our stuff down. He was nervous the whole time after that 🙁 oh well.
And then we came home in time to build Jolly the Snowman at lunch time with Dad! Winter is here and so is the weekend. Should be a fun relaxing one.
Packer loved the Pickle Nose
a day with my 2 year old
it starts at 6:55am when he opens the bedroom door and comes to my side of the bed (no way will he go to dad’s side 🙂 ) I successfully ignore him for about 15 minutes until he climbs into bed with me. Problem is he doesn’t snuggle and try to sleep, once in the bed he wiggles and squirms and asks to be tickled and puts his hands in your face until you just can’t handle it anymore. By 7:30 I give up on sleep and head down to get him his milk, breakfast and show. Everyone else in the house can peacefully sleep until at least 8:00 but Packer usually manages a loud something on the way down stairs and wakes up at least one if not both of his siblings – then its triple milk and breakfast and the sleep is much harder to get back to. 🙁
Then throughout the day he entertains himself with toys and anything that a 2 year old might see as a toy. Packer is a mess maker! Really he loves to move things and organize and keep busy but for this mom that equals a lot of little messes to clean up. Here were a few of his activities the other day:
Building a house of hangers
moving his books to this new shelf
and stacking each dish rag for a picnic
He is learning to play with his little sister and not just get mad at her. But they still have a hard time: Yesterday Cali was messing up his blocks so he threw a big fit and then finally came upstairs to find me and tell me, “You need to spank Cali’s little bum.” I think he has heard that phrase directed at him a few too many times!
lots of laughter during this game
and yesterday was a hard day because Benji was invited to a birthday party and Packer just didn’t understand why he didn’t get to go. He just wanted to go to the birthday. I felt bad for him and we talked about it and explained the situation but in the end he had to throw a few fits and be a sad boy.
timeout in the kitchen
He is just outgrowing the toddler stage and is really looking forward to his 3rd birthday in April. He is our Mr Friendly. He loves to sit on anyones lap and read books. He loves to be tickled. And we love him, even with the messes and tantrums.
SNOW BOARDING!
Ben and I went snow boarding Friday night!
I was going to put the pictures of all of our jumps and tricks but… well it was really cold so we didn’t get the camera out much and it was kind of dark since it was night skiing and oh yeah – we didn’t do any jumps or tricks! I think we barely made it down the mountain 5 times!! I still love it though. I love cruising down the mountain. I love that we have our own boards so we don’t have to rent and I love that Sundance is so cheap and SO CLOSE.
Today after church the boys found the snow goggles in the van – it was snowing a little so they had to go try them out. Aren’t they adorable!?
I love Sundays. I love the day I teach because then I am off for the next 3 to 4 weeks. Â And I love that Cali was licking the ketchup off of her plate after dinner last night. Check it out…
haircuts, shots, furniture and more
Is it really Wednesday already? time is just passing me by. Here is the latest and Greatest from us:
The Boys finally got haircuts! They were so over due but I was enjoying seeing what their hair did as it got long and how different their hair is.
AFTER:
This little girl doesn’t need a haircut yet – 14 months and counting. (21 pounds, 29 inches)
I got bedroom furniture! I upgraded from this: one plastic dresser of 3 drawers and everything else stuffed in the closet-
to: several drawers, a headboard, and a place for everything! I’m loving it-
Yesterday I didn’t look at the calendar until noon and by then we had missed our Dr. appointments. I am just spacing everything – where has my brain gone? Luckily they let us come in the afternoon. Cali had 6 shots! but she was easy and just cried for the minute that it took them to get all of the shots in her legs. She also has a yeast infection and the Dr wants me to get the little sores on her leg cleared up – she’s had it in her fat roles off and on for a long time. Sounds bad but really not so much. Now Benji had to get his shots for kindergarten – NOT EASY. He worried about it all day. He told me 3 things that I could do to help him calm down when he gets his shots and he was just nervous. The bad part was that he remembered that Pacen got 2 shots to go to kindergarten – well he had to get 5! and he freaked out. Our nurse brought in another nurse to help. He cried for each one but then he actually admitted that it wasn’t that bad. The anticipation of it all is what does him in. We were there until 5:30. The last ones out of the office and the first ones to McDonalds to console the 4 year old 🙂 Amazing what a plastic toy and a few chicken nuggets will do.
Cali caught in the act – SHE LOVES TO PESTER PACKER!
My brother made it home from his mission last  Wednesday! He sounds great and we are waiting for him to come visit at the end of the month.
We’re getting spring fever. The snow on our front lawn has finally melted but we’re still not into the 50’s yet. Packer is on his bike in the front yard as I type this. He is my outside guy and he is trying to get out there but the frozen fingers don’t let him last to long. He and Cali spent some time at the sandbox before lunch and Cali tried to be big and do Play-doh with her brother. The problem is her next diaper will be full of both Play-doh and Sand 🙁
That should do it for now. Maybe I won’t wait a week for my next post  🙂  Maybe I will.