One

Happy Birthday Lyla! Lyla is One today! I cant believe where the time has gone. Its seems like yesterday, literally, that she was born! She is such a sweet loving member of our family! We love her so much! She is always bright eyed and smiling. She loves to give kisses and love and snuggle everyone! I'm so glad she came to our family, we just wouldn't be complete without her!

Lyla's first picture! 3/18/2009

Our first family picture with 3 kids!!

Lyla's blessing at 4 days old!

I love the sweetness of this picture!

Still on of my all time favorites of her!! Love it!

Lyla at almost 1!! We love you so much Lyla! I love how excited she is to see everyone in the morning, or anytime of day for that matter, but she is so full of Hi's, and smiles!! I just love her to pieces!! We hope you have a wonderful birthday! We love you!!

I Had a Birthday!!

I had a wonderful birthday yesterday! Thank you so much to my wonderful family for making it a special day! I don't really care much for party's and such at my age, but its sure fun to have them! The kids were so excited to give me cards and a new watch! Love it! Doug and I decided that for our birthday's, since they are only 2 1/2 weeks apart, we wanted to go see Phantom of the Opera! So we went last week! It was so fun! We both have been wanting to see it for a long time! It was awesome!! So back to yesterday! We went to lunch at Costa Vita, I love that place! Then we went to the park with our besties!! That was fun! It was really windy though! Then Doug and Amy had a little party planned! So Robert and the girls came, and Sam!! It was so fun! Amy made me a yummy cake, and Doug made me homemade hamburgers!! Loved it!!

We stopped at the fountain in Southlake! The kids had fun!!

Lyla wasn't much for the wind!

The park! Lyla's first time in a swing! She was a little scared!

She warmed up a little after we put a sweater on her!

Me blowing out candles! The kids loved singing!

Amy and I! We don't have many pictures of us, so we took one!! Yay! Love you all! Thanks for a wonderful birthday!! Next week is Lyla's! Cant believe it!

More Abigail

Abigail is the cutest baby! Marlee and Paul are doing so great with her! They just love her to pieces! I'm so happy for them! I'm so glad that Abby is well and home with her mom and dad! It was a stressful few days for them! Abs will be in good hands for the rest of her life! I'm so glad she picked Marlee and Paul to be her parents!! A family is forever!!

Paul with Abs in the NICU!

Marlee with Abs in the NICU!

Isn't that just a precious face?!

She a glow worm!! The day before Abby got to go home, they put her on lights!

Coen loved it too! All day before we got there, he kept saying~ "Abby's gonna be so cute"!

Oh my how Lyla loved her! She just kept grabbing at her! It was so cute!

She loves her tongue!

Please excuse me in the picture, I just thought it was a cute one of Emma with Abs!

She's Here!

Abigail Johnson!! She finally made her debut today, February 17, 2010, at 4:59 pm at 8 lbs, 20 1/4 inches long! She has curly light brown hair! She is BEAUTIFUL! Marlee did a great job! A long hard night and day, but it was all worth it!! Paul did great too! :) Marlee and Paul couldn't be happier! They are so in love and so proud of their princess!! We love you all!! Welcome to the world, a harsh one, and to the most loving family!!

Snow Day

You Northerner's ain't got nothin on us down here in Texas!! I lived in Canada for a few years and know what its like to have snow, and this here today brought back so many memories!! It is so beautiful outside! And lots of fluffy white stuff!! I'm so amazed at how much snow we are getting. Its been pretty steady coming down since I got up at 4 am! I'm loving this! I wish we could have a big family party today and just play in it. I wish my dad and grandma and grandpa were here to play too!! I love it! Can you tell? I have some wonderful memories with my family and playing in the snow, and now I have some with my kids!! In REAL snow!!!

This was at 9 this morning!

Starting our snowman!

Some of these are fuzzy, but you can see how much fun the kids are having!!

Coen starting the snowball fight!

Coen had fun making some snow angels!!

Emma joining in our fight!!

Our snowman!! (notice the tomatoes for the buttons and eyes and mouth) haha!

Lyla came out for a minute! But it was too cold for her, and she is a little sick! So she sat at the window and had a snack and laughed at us playing!

My handsome husband!! He hates the cold, but had fun with us this morning!! What special memories we have made!! (this is posted at 12:30 pm and we have almost 5 inches)

Lyla's Bath

I realized I haven't taken any video or pictures of the little darling in the bath for a long time! So we had some fun! Lyla is so stinkin cute! We just love her! She has the biggest grin and just smiles and talks all the time!! She is so much fun!! Lyla put this necklace on all by herself! She was so proud!!

Just pure excitement!! I love it!

This one makes me laugh! She is giving me the "well do you want some or what" look!! I love it!

My Latest

Here are my latest creations!! I'm pretty proud of them!! Ive never done curtains before! We decided that we were going to put all the kids in one room and make the other a play room! So we did it the same blue that's in our living room, we got bunk beds and I made curtains!! I love it! I haven't finished putting everything back on the walls yet, but you get an idea!!