When the white stuff turns out to be fun..

 We got pounded with snow over the last few days and it's still coming. The snow fall took a quick break so we headed out for some sledding..

 Josh's two favorite things....

 Addie and Emma had a great time in the snow.

IT WAS SO COLD THOUGH.

 haha from the look on her face you'd think it was a big hill. We have an open field retention pond right by our house. It was an excellent sledding spot.. and when we got

frozen we walked home to warm up.

 I am loving my new camera! I LOVE the close up's it does!

 Our neighbors thought of the sweet idea to pull the

kidos behind the four wheelers.

They let Addie take some wild rides. ha she loved it!

Looked like lots of fun!

Thanks Johns! You sure know how to step up sledding!

 The frozen little princesses..

aww. cute.

Christmas preperations..

 The girls making cookies for Santa.

 The girls had their gift exchange the other day. Emma got Addie these cute little Best Friends necklaces! It says: Sisters At Heart. SOO true!! The girls love them and wear them everyday. Addie even wakes me up in the morning, bringing in the necklace so I can hurry and put it on her.haha. And Emma gave her the sweetest little musical ballerina jewelry box! I was so excited! I haven't seen one since I was kid. I still remember the Christmas when me and my big sis got them and how thrilled we were. Now the girls have matching boxes too. Such sweet and thoughtful gifts.

We love you Kim and Emma!

What a lucky girl I am! Look at these cuties on the

sunday before Christmas!

The Night Before Christmas

This is Gramps Johnson with his 2 Great Granddaughters. Lily is almost 4 months, isn't she the sweetest little thing!!? My little Addie is quite the doll too I must add. These girls just melt Gramp's heart.

Christmas morning

 These pictures came up out of order. But after we opened gifts as a family we went over to my parents and opened gifts all together. Addie got this super cute tent from Grandma and Grandpa.

 I was SO sick Christmas Eve and Day. Ugh. I had the worst cold. My nose was out of control, my voice was squeaky, and I was coughing up a storm. This is the only pic of me that looked decent. I was so exhausted. I didn't take very many pictures because of sickness, now I'm sad looking back.

 This super cute My Little Pony book came all the way from Virginia! It has tiny little ponys to play with too. Thanks guys!

 Addie LOVED Christmas this year! She got to divy out all the gifts. She crawled under the tree and read who the gifts were for and handed them to Josh and I. She was so much more into it this year and ripping her gifts open. I loved watching her. It was precious.

 This year Addie asked Santa for a computer... haha. But what do ya know... that's just what she got! :) And she got these new cute, snuggly pjs from Nana Johnson.

 Look at the smile on this face! Its so funny how much excitement comes from princess magnets that only cost $1.00

"Hooray!! Santa liked the cookies I made! Look mommy! He ate them all up!"

Tender.

 My sweet Grandpa flew in from Arizona last weekend to ordain my dad a High Priest. It was such a special thing to have them here. Grandpa's health has been really bad for awhile and he just had his third major knee surgery. You wouldn't know it from these pictures but he is in A LOT of pain constantly and I'm sure it took all he had to get dressed up all fancy and perfom the blessing. But he said he would not have missed the oppurtunity to give that blessing himself! We are so blessed to have such amazing men in our lives. I look up to these men SO much!

 Haha, classic Grandpa face!! I love him so much!

Grandma with the great granddaughters. At least we got one of them to pose... Go Addie :)

Twinkle Toes.......

Addie's First Ballet Recital was this weekend. She was the most beautiful ballerina I have ever seen! She was so excited to go on a "big stage". I thought she would be nervous looking out at all the people. But it didnt even faze her. She didnt miss a step and smiled the whole time. She looked so grown up on stage! I got all teary eyed, she did so wonderful! I'm so proud of her and for being so brave when trying something new! Look how good she is on her toes already! (above)

 She was so excited to be able to get in her costume all day. Here she is posing after FINALLY getting dolled up.

Of course here's Addie with her BFF Emma. She was the leader of the group and showed all the younger girls what to do. She was a perfect example. Addie wouldn't of done so well without Emma. Thanks girls, you put on a great show!

Santa Baby

 Our city put on this cute free Christmas Party with Santa (of course), cookie making, scones, fire with smores, freezin hayride (it was 14 degrees!), and crafts for the kids. We had a lot of fun.. too bad it was so cold though. For Chirstmas this year Addie asked Santa for a computer and a camera! haha. What kind of 3 yr old asks for electronics!? She just wants to be just like mommy I guess. :) She has been a VERY good girl this year so she has a pretty good chance of getting those things. ;)

 Addie's first attempt at roastin a mallow.... yup it got scorched! but it was fun in the process. It was so freezin outside that you could see your breath. Addie thought it was so funny to "blow smoke" out of her mouth. She went around steaming on everything.

 Time for cookies! Yum.. quite enjoyable on those

cold, rosey cheeks.



Singing carols on the hayride

Early Christmas...

On Black Friday, Josh went out shoppin in the wee hours for the first time. We were in need of a new laptop and a new camera. I thought if we were lucky we would be able to find one. But Josh came home with both! And for a great price! :) He wrapped up the camera and left it for me on the counter and said "Happy Early Christmas". Hooray I LOVE my new camera. It's one of those fancy SLR ones. I need to learn how to use it. But I love how it does such good close ups.

Winter begins...

Us at Chuck-E-Cheese's. Check out all the prizes Addie made out with! :)

 Ready to go play games!

 The scarf ladies

 I love these pics they do.. and only for 1 token!

 Our first big snow of the season. Addie's first SnowMan! She loved making with daddy.

Our first time at Jungle Jims. We had lots of fun here.

Getting the Christmas lights up before the snow comes. Good work guys

New adventure.

As many of you know, Josh and I have been trying to conceive for over the past 1 1/2 years. It has been a long, painful, and hopeful time for us. We have been to many doctors and countless visits. We have tested everything possible and tired it all.

Last year we did two Artificial Insemination visits. Neither was successful. Then this summer we decided it was time to do Invitro Fertilization (IVF). We were so sure that IVF would work for us because I had gotten pregnant so easily with Addie and my body knew now to be pregnant, obviously. We figured it was a given.

But it was not successful either.

We were heart broken. All the pain, time, money, hope, and everything that went into that IVF cycle and it didn't work! But one thing helped get us threw it. I still had 2 strong, frozen embryos to use for another cycles. So as soon as my body was back to normal after all the hormones I had to inject into myself, we tried it again. And the 2nd time we REALLY that it would work. It had to. It was our last shot with IVF for a long time.

We prayed so hard. We went to the temple. I got priesthood blessings. This time it had to work.

But the phone call I got a few weeks later was a shock.

My blood pregnancy test was negative. I held the phone in my hand and couldn't speak. I asked the doctor if there was a mistake and maybe I tested too early. She said no. The test was right.

Heart broken. Again. Josh and I tried to pick up the pieces of our hopes for another child. It took a while to be able to even talk about what we do from there.

Now we have decided it is time for us to pursue ADOPTION. We are excited about this new adventure. I know it brings along a lot of stress, hope, worry, ect. But we are ready to continue working towards making our family grow. Whatever it takes.

We met with an adoption agency today and got started with them. We are currently working on a TON of paperwork, ect but we are started in the process. This is exciting!

So to you, our family and friends. If you ever hear of anyone thinking about or looking into putting a child for adoption. Please think of us. Recommend us. We need to spread the word that we are ready for another precious child in our home to love. Wish us luck! :)

love it.

 I couldn't get my other video of Addie to upload. (so it's on Facebook.) I love hearing my sweet girl singing songs!

HalloWEEK!

 Halloween Night is finally here! But the rain and cold came with it. :( BOO HOO! It didn't put a damper on Addie's excited at all. We just bundled her up like a snow princess and followed her around with an umbrella. She actually had a great time. Luckily at least the POURING rain stopped for a few hours.

 Our costume for the neighbors party. We are from the Bachelor! Jake is "Jake" in his pilot getup. I am Vienna and Kim is Ali. Josh is the host, Chris Harris.

Cornbellies

Bring on the corn maze!

We went to Cornbellies at Thanksgiving Point last week. We waited too long and man, it got cold! This was when it was still decent. But not much later we had to load up with coats, gloves, and hats. We didn't stay too long because of the cold. Dang. But we still got some cute pics. :)

They had a little play house with a ladder that led to an upper floor. Addie LOVED this play house. She kept having us knock on the door and "come in her house". She would of been happy just playing there for the entire night. We would finally convince her there were other fun things to do, but after a few min away, she was begging for the play house again. :)

Check out the cow ride... yahoo. So fun! haha jk.

The princess carriage. We were so excited and waiting for the Pumpkin Princess to come out and take pics with us. But she was sick and never came! Ah man! So to ease Addie's disappointment... I let her play in the house again and she was just fine. lol

Bumpy hayride with daddy. burr..

This was at the Uncle Joe and Aunt Melinda's house. They throw a mean Halloween Party each year. All the kids look forward to it. There are so many games, tons of food, and winning prizes left and right. Addie loved "going fishing" for a prize. We loved it! Thanks guys! 

Look how ADORABLE my niece Lily is!! Oh my heck! Her Hawaiian costume was the cutest! What beautiful little cousins.

This was my favorite costume of the night. Jessica was a Hula Girl and Tyler is a tourist! haha. So creative! Tyler's costume was hilarious!

These were some of the sweet prizes we won. Way to go guys! We got so many prizes and candy ect! What a great party. 

My beautiful little Princess Belle. She is so gorgeous! She loved wearing some of mommy's makeup for the party.

Addie and Nana