It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. . .

Well we did family pictures this last Saturday. I thought I had prepped myself, mentally, for lil' Miss Pretty to be uncooperative, but I still was a little shocked. For some reason, she didn't want to look at the camera -- AT ALL! Oh and she wouldn't let me put her down the whole time. But we did get some cute ones of our princess. This is just a sample of what she did the whole time.

Momma and Miss Pretty. I love her lots!

One of my favs! She only let us hold her hand for a split second and then she was done!

But she did let me know that she's ready for her driver's license!


This was the happiest that she was the whole time. They turned out cute!

Checkin' out the farm animals.

More farm animals.

Momma and Daddy.

My favorite one of them all. The only smile!

Our photographer, Stacie, was a trooper! Thanks so much!

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Sleepless in Salt Lake - Dr. Dreamy to the rescue!

We had a sick lil' babe this past week. It started out a couple of weeks ago,

Miss Pretty was having these coughing fits at like 1 in the morning.

Last week, they turned into throwing up (fun!). I was a bit concerned because she was

throwing up a lot, so, naturally, we paid a visit to Dr. Dreamy (sigh).

Turns out, she had an ear infection (didn't see that one coming!)

Apparently some nerve that triggers coughing, runs right along

the ear drum, and the inflamed ear drum was triggering coughing and

that, coupled with her lovely gagging reflex, courtesy of the Lloyds,

was probably causing the vomit comet to emerge! After her yummy

amoxicilin kicked in, she was back to normal!

Here are some cute pics of her. She's a lot of fun! Playing with her baby, feeding her and

washing her face.

Playing outside with her daddy!

We can't wait for New Moon tomorrow! Yay!

Then comes a baby in the baby carriage. . . .

Make sure that you read my other post below. . . I just had so much to post, but didn't want to make it too long and have my faithful readers get bored halfway through!

Okay now don't think that my post title implies any news for us Johnsons (not yet, the vomit comet is still too fresh in my brain!) Read below to find out our family announcement.

Here are some pics of Miss Pretty and her daddy. I came home the other day to a glorious fall day and Miss Pretty in our newly fenced backyard (courtesy of my wonderful husband!) Daddy was raking leaves and Miss Pretty was sweeping them with a broom. She was very intent on doing a good job so she kept a pretty concentrated look on her face the whole time! It was too cute! And NO I haven't cut her bangs! For some strange reason, the top of her hair doesn't want to grow, but the back is getting long. What's that saying? "Business in the front, party in the back" It does look really cute in pig tails though!

Hot off the press, I'm a new Auntie and couldn't be happier! I love my lil' nephews and nieces so much!! Last night J-Lo and I went up to see our newest Lloyd addition. Baby Ava Kaye was born yesterday (just a day shy of my prediction, dang it!) She was ready to join us though! Weighing in at 6 lbs, 11 oz and 21 inches long. She looks a lot like her momma, so dang cute! Both baby and mommy are doing well! Due to the stupid piggy flu, there's only 2 visitors allowed in the room at one time, so J-Lo and I had to switch off. For some reason Levicorpus thought he needed to be in there too, sheesh! Congrats to the new Mommy and Daddy!

The Monster Mashizzle in the Dub Vizzle

I can't believe that Halloween is already over and Thanksgiving is on its way! We had a fun Halloween this year. We always get together as a family and this year we headed on over to my sista's casa for some yummy soup and lot's o' laughs! J-Lo and I took funny FB profile pics and laughed at ourselves, while the chitlins ran amuck and the men watched boring sports. Miss Pretty looked adorable in her "Pink Monster" atire. Enjoy some pics:

So glad to have my Papa here still to enjoy these lil' girls! He had a dinner roll and they were like voltures, those two! They battled it out for it!
My cute nephew Spidey, making his baby sis laugh! Love this pic!

J-Lo and Corky. . . representin'!

I just love Miss Pretty so much!
Scary Gramma in Spidey's GI Joe mask!
She's definately her mother's child!

In full costume! Love it!

Get this thing off me mom!!

Carni folk. . . small hands. . .

East High is having it's annual carnival!

Mark your calendars for Monday, October 26!

The carnival begins at 5:30 PM. It's for all ages and it's SO much fun!

The proceeds go to support our different clubs!

There are a lot of fun High School Musical things to check out.

And you can even take a tour if you'd like.

Bring some dinero and have some fun!

My milkshake brings all the boyz to the yard. . . .

This is such a fun stage with Miss Pretty! She's very curious and quite the dare devil. She also has the funnest personality, makes me just wanna squeeze her sometimes. (Not to inflict harm, just to try to absorb all of her cuteness!)

She loves to go outside! The other day we put her stocking cap on because it was pretty chilly and she thought she was so cool! So she found it in her diaper bag the other morning and wanted it on because she thought that meant she'd be going outside. She wouldn't take it off for a while and looked so stinkin' cute! Notice her skin tight jammies! She's getting so tall!

Grandma Johnson bought her a baby stroller to tote her baby around. Well she thought she'd test it out.

She's mad because she couldn't get herself out.

She finally figured out how to ride her lil' car. She just gets high centered on the handle bars periodically, but other than that, she has lots o' fun on it!

And last but not least, many of you know how productive I was this harvest season! I'm still pretty shocked myself! We got all of our grapes juiced and got 6 jars of yummy grape juice!!

Here are the grapes being prepped for juicing!

Miss Pretty was such a good helper! She just snacked on them the whole time or squeezed them and said "EEEWWWW!!"

She goes in for her 18 month Dr. checkup with Dreamy soon! She's actually 19 months already! Some of the fun things that she's doing are:

*She no longer calls her blankie "ng ng ng". It's "beety". Which makes mommy sad because I loved it when she called it "ng ng!"

*She's so sassy! When we called her sassy the other day, she said "SASSY!" It was cute! (I know I won't be saying that in 13 years, but for now I'll enjoy the moment!)

*When I open the fridge or the pantry, she sits there and goes "hmmmm. . . " as if pondering what she should ask for!

*She can go down the stairs on her own now.

*She still tries to make friends with Gracie the cat! I think Grace is just too old and doesn't want to call it truce because she still boxes with her every chance she gets! Luckily she doesn't have any claws!

*She's quite the dancer! Just like her momma! Anytime she hears music, she tries to snap her lil' fingers and shakes her lil' booty! It's too funny!

Old MacDonald Had a Farm. . . eee. . . iiiii. . . . eee. . . .iiiii. . . oooooooo

3 months ago, we were spending sleepless days up at the U of U hospital praying that our dad would pull through and that we would get to spend many more fun times with him! Last night, I saw what the power of the Atonement can do for a family! We got to go out to the Ranch and visit my dad for the first time since we took him there 2 months ago. He looks amazing! What an awsome experience it has been to be a witness to a miracle! We took pies and hung out in the barn. The kids had a blast and had us hootin' and a hollerin' the whole time. My dad is doing so good and will be released into the wild in a few weeks. I took a bunch of pics of all the kids playing and got a cute one of Papa and Miss Pretty. The whole way to the Ranch, she kept saying "Bye bye. . . Papa.. . . byebye. . .papa".

Top 10 of our night at the Ranch:

10. Hanging out in the barn "loft" above the horse stalls. Imagine the aroma and the flies if you will.

9. Miss Pretty face planting it multiple times on the dirty floor and being covered in filth.

8. Lil' B man givin' his cuz "Baby Sis" a smoochy and the look on her face afterword was priceless.

7. The two llamas out by the barn "Dumb & Dumber"

6. Marie Calendar for making us her famous pies. . . .m m m m. . .

Ben's famous hand-in-front-of-the-camera trick.

5. J-Lo thinking the bird feces on the couch was paint.

4. Spidey takin' out Miss Pretty with the punching bag. . . she didn't even see it coming.

3. Spidey killing flies with his bare hands.

2. Seeing my dad! He looks great!

1. Lil' B man turning out the lights and being in complete darkness!! Bennie said "Don't move bud! So when he turned on the light on his phone to find B man, he was frozen with his hand in mid air by the light switch! "Hey who turned out the lights!"

Lil' B man cheezin' it up.

"I'm gonna knock you out. . . momma said knock you out. . . hoooo" Spidey playing with the punching bag.