tag your it

i liked kyras tag your it -and so i pass it all on to you-it is interesting to think about some of the questions

I am: jamie renee johnson

I know: not enough about potty training as i would like too

I want: to be content with my family and life

I have: good friends

I wish: i could know what plan Heavenly Father has for me

I hate: cooking dinner-and then having to clean it up afterwards-

I miss: being young and able to eat whatever i like whenever i wanted to

I fear: spiders

I feel: nervous when i am not in control of a situation

I hear: absolutely nothing-i am at work and it is quiet!!!-which is nice occasionally

I smell: the laundry detergent on my shirt

I crave: these chocoloate lava cake things that they have at chilis -it is good but not good for me

I search: for my stupid car keys every day of my life-i can never remember where i put them

I wonder: why we go through the trials that we do sometimes -and get amazed realizing that Heavenly Father picked these ones for us knowing they will make us the strongest

I regret: not being a better friend sometimes

I love: watching gracie and ben play together -it is so fun to watch her get so excited to see daddy come home

I care: about having the bed made-i don't know why but it drives me nuts not to have it made-ben always laughs at me because even if i haven't had the chance to make it during the day i will make it right before we get in bed

I always: enjoy a good book-always

I am not: a very good cook still-you would think if you follow a receipe how hard can it be -but ben will attest to the nights we have had mac and cheese because the dinner i started was unedible

I believe: it is important to get our food storage ready-right now i am an on a food storage kick and ben always laughs at me because i have my lists of things we need and i get one a week and then cross it off the list -he can laugh at me now but i would feel horrible if gracie starved because i wasn't prepared

I dance: with gracie almost every day-she loves to turn the music on and we dance together-lately she has been bringing her baby in and making it dance as well -it is fun

I sing: in the car and primary songs-gracie always brings out the childrens song book and turns pages and points to a page and then we attempt to sing that song-it is her favorite thing to do lately and even ben will do it with her -it is so funny

I write: nothing now that school is done-yippee-i feel like i was always writing some paper -but not any more

I lose: at skipbo-no matter how hard i try i always to loose to ben-even when i attempt to cheat -but i still love it anyway

I win: the contest for having the cutest family-okay well maybe not -but i think so anyway hahahah

I never: clean the shower-isn't that odd-i clean everything else in the house but that is the one thing ben always does for me -i probably havn't cleaned it once since we have been married and yet it gets cleaned every week-by ben

I listen: to dr. laura - i love her advice-most of the time- although most of the time when i listen what i get out of it is that i need to be better-but still i love her advice and books-and show tunes saturday night-its a radio program on saturdays-if you couldn't guess and i love it

I am scared: bens going to buy a motorcycle one of these days-he keeps asking if he can get one and i keep saying no-but i am scared one of these days he will just come home with it -aahh

I need: new excersize shoes-mine died yesterday at the gym and rubbed a huge blister on my heel when i was on the treadmill because the back got all rubbed off and the plastic piece was hanging out -bummer i hate buying new running shoes because i never know if they will end up being as comfortable as i need them to be

I am happy about: life in general-even if it can be slightly overwhelming hahahah

my happy place

Gracie is my happy place-whenever i get stressed out or upset i can always go to my happy place-

The cartoon Opus-about a penguine- his happy place is at the beach with beautiful women fanning him with leaves and feeding him -- but my happy place is this little girl!

Even though she has turned two is acts like she is two occassionally i still love it-most of the time- hahahah

Especially the kisses-now that she can give hugs and kisses and says "luv you momma"

this picture i managed to get her trying to blow me a kiss i love it-even with her scar and all (you can notice it on the upper right side of her forehead-ya i probably should have taken her to get stiches -hopefully she won't be too made at me when she is a teenager hahahah)

busy, busy, busy

Things have been crazy lately, mostly because i finally finished school-so i had finals and that took up most of my time, but in the meantime our family has still had some fun.

The Johnsons took the whole family to Lagoon-which was way fun--I just love rollercoasters-anyhow we attempted to take gracie on merry-go-round and she liked it enough that we decided to take her on more rides-
Ben took gracie on the boat ride and as you can tell from her face-she was freaking out-so he buckled her in with Amare, her cousin, and then ran and hid and i took pictures from a far so she wouldn't see either of us- anyhow by the time the ride had ended she loved it and then she loved all of the rides except for puff the magic dragon-she did not care for that one-and we took her on the ferris wheel-and it was a little too tall for her liking-but overall she loved the rides-which is fun

Birthday Fun-

Gracie also had her second birthday on the 22nd of July-so i made cupcakes-which are easier for her to eat-i was interested to see if this year she would eat them-last year she wouldn't even touch the cake or anything- but this year she loved the frosting that was all she would eat-she would lick it off and then try to grab something else -it was fun

-which i guess is ok that she only wanted sugar because when we weighed her for her birthday she isn't quite 22 lbs yet- which is kind of little i think-so she could use the extra weight hahahaha

Dinosaur Park-

We got a membership to Dinosaur park and gracie loves all the dinos-anyhow it made me laugh because gracie saw all of the other kids putting their face in the picture and so she wanted to try -but unfortunately she was just a little to short -still it was funny because she tried so hard to climb up to the face hole-maybe next year hahaha

those lazy summer days

Summer has been fun for us with gracie this year-ben took her to a local splash park and tried to get gracie into the water but she did not really want to-she would just touch it with her finger and then step back-he did say that after a while she got less scared of the water-

I stayed with them for a little bit and snapped a few pictures but then went to the club to excerise while ben got some quality daddy time

The parks have been a favorite so far -gracie always comes up to me and says 'play' 'play' which i now know means that she wants to go to the park


This time we took the whole family-including eddie-he even went down a slide himself-ben pushed him- but gracie loves it she spends at least an hour and then i get bored and decide it is time to go and she crys and whines

This time wasn't so bad though-because ben told her we could stop and get an ice cream cone on the way home-so she was thrilled-it was weird though -she took two licks of her ice cream and declared herself done-which is fine with me i don't feel the need to shove sugar down her throat-but still weird for a child to turn down ice cream

Playing in Brigham

Yesterday we went to Brigham for the day just to play and have fun and mostly because ben wanted to go to a Pizza Hut buffet-which the closest one we knew of was in brigham-anyhow so we went with breanna and her husband david and naomi which was fun -but we were disappointed because they only served on kind of dessert pizza-which is my favorite part-

anyhow after than Naomi was really nice and watched gracie for us while we went to the movie-it was nice to sit and enjoy a show instead of being up and down a gazillion times -

then we went to the park to watch a baseball game but gracie got bored and so i took her to the playground -she was in such a good mood that i pulled out the camera-but silly monkey -everytime i tried to take a picture she just wanted to make sad faces -so that is what i took- anyhow afterwards we went back home and ben washed the car-which was in desperate need -he was so funny because on the w

ay home we had to take the back roads to try and stay away from Willard Bay so that the bugs wouldn't hit the car-oh well -i guess if it makes him happy-

but then we used the firepit in the backyard and had hot dogs and smores-we even roasted starbursts-because people did not belive me when i said they were good-and ben tried to roast a chicken nuggest-it did not go over very well-but gracie sure liked the marshmellows-i thought for sure she would wake up with a bellyache from eating so much junk-

All in all it was a very fun day

the fourth

grandma johnson with gracie

the fourth of july was fun for us-we had everyone over for breakfast in the morning and celebrated ben's birthday -then we went swimming with the family-which was a lot of fun -and then we came back to my moms for dinner and the fireworks-it was a long but fun day-and gracie hardly even made a fit about it

my sister chelsea-what more do i need to say-this picture says it all

mel, me and mom

we also did a pinata-like we do every year -but this year we let gracie pick it out -a monkey-afterwards me and ben kind of wondered about letting her pick a pinata she liked because she might get really upset when she sees people beating it to death-anyhow she was fine with hitting it-which i don't know how i feel about that-but afterwards when it was in pieces my dad-grandpa-gave her the head and she was so upset and was trying to put the head and the body together -so finally my mom -grandma-distracted her with the candy and then threw the pieces away -so it all worked out!

gracie hitting the pinata-with dads help of course



gracie with her aunt breanna and her cute dog -whose name i cannot spell-

when we did the pinata we had to move gracies swing so that it wouldn't be in the way-well she did not like that -she sat in the swing forever with this sad little look on her face-which made me laugh - i know i'm a bad mom-anyhow it was so funny

the fireworks were fun for the boys-meaning mitch and ben- mitch was told he couldn't buy a $200 pack of fireworks so instead he bought one big one for $15 -which i don't know if it was worth it-but we all clapped anyway

mitch's $15 dollar firework

and i forgot the saddest part-when i went to sit down on the picnic table -it CRACKED- it really made me think twice about eating that second ice cream bar-but i did anyway hahah-

flossing

This morning was so funny- gracie and i always brush our teeth together in the morning -but today i was running late and she was pulling things out of the drawers so i set her up on the counter to brush her teeth while i tried to get her hair done-well i finished with her hair and then she spit and rinsed off her toothbrush so i tried to put her down but she started freaking out and grabbing at the drawer and saying something in baby talk that i can not understand-i thought that when you became a mom you understood baby talk --this is not always so i have realized-anyhow all of a sudden i realized she wanted to floss. So i got her out the floss and sure enough she starts pulling it between her teeth-i guess she has seen mom do it enough that she thinks it is important-anyhow it made me laugh -who knows maybe she'll grow up to be a dentist hahaha