Crazy December

First off, Id like to apologize for our Thanksgiving post. It looked fine and normal on our Mac, but when I later saw it on our Dell, it looked terrible. So this time I'm blogging on the Dell, so hopefully there won't be any ginormous pictures.

Moving on, December is almost half way over! We've been pretty busy, but I think the really busy weeks of December are still ahead of us! Here's what we've been up to lately.

Evan has had a few chances to see the Big Guy...some attempts have been more successful than others. But he has yet to cry when meeting with Santa.

 Evan has also been helping Reed get ready for his finals this week.

We got a Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving. Evan really likes it. We stratigically put it in a corner and then put up a baby gate. The tree is still up...so far.

This weekend Reed played in a local volleyball tournament. The team's name was "Old School". Reed and former BYU teammate, Mat Taylor, were the 2 youngest on the team. We went to the tournament with the hopes of some decent competition and fun volleyball. We got both and the team ended up finishing 2nd! Not bad for a bunch of old guys! (Sorry for the not so great pictures)

Evan enjoyed playing in the bleachers and snacking on apple slices during the tournament. He was a very good fan until we started losing in the championship match. He's quite the gym rat!

And just for fun-here's Evan getting ready for church!

Next up...a wedding, a week in a cabin with 8 kids ages 7 and under, and Christmas!

Grateful

We had a great Thanksgiving week down in California this year. All of my siblings were there this year (except Ryne, who is serving a mission in Montana)! It's been a while since we've all been together, so we were really excited (PS-sorry all of the formatting is messed up. Stupid blogger.)
Here's the whole group with my Johansson grandparents on Thanksgiving day:

 

Evan and cousin Bailey racing cars

 Evan trying to share a pretzel with cousin Reggie

These two look like they just got busted...but are actually just playing nicely together

Evan and Bailey playing with Grandma's candle holder (FYI-those are fake candles, we didn't let them play with real flames)

 The three older grandkids playing with Grandma's chalkboard

Evan enjoyed pushing Reg down the slide

 And Reggie enjoyed pushing Evan down the slide

This was the first time my parents had all four of their grandkids together at once

 As you can see, the grandkids loved it. They love their grandparents, they just hate pictures. 

All the grandkids love Uncle Trae (?????)

 Evan giving Uncle Bryant a friendly right hook

 As you can see, we have so much to be grateful for!

Art

Last night we got to go to the opening of an art show. But it wasn't just any art show. It was Reed's oldest brother, Todd's art show, Evens. It was really cool. We had a lot of fun at the show and seeing Todd. He's really good at what he does and we love being able to learn more about it.

Judging by Evan's less than good behavior, he hasn't discovered his love for the arts yet. Thank goodness for Halloween candy and grapes!

If you're in Utah, his show goes through December 3. Here's the link if you're interested.
If you want to see some of Todd's work, here's the link to his website.

It's the Great Pumpkin!

Evan has been loving all things Halloween including:

ghosts

pumpkins

 Dressing up as a dinosaur

Halloween parties and balloons

and trick or treating at Macey's and the mall

Happy Halloween!

Evan Signing Time

Check out this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gl-I24rPjY

Homecoming Parade

Yesterday we took Evan to the BYU Homecoming parade and had a lot of fun. Evan growled when he saw Cosmo and every time he saw a float that had a cougar on it. He got us a lot of candy and got himself a balloon-and Evan LOVES balloons!

 When we were waiting for the parade to come Evan enjoyed running around in the street

 

Waiting for the parade with Aunt Marie and soon to be Uncle Taylor

 

Enjoying the parade

All tuckered out, but happy with his balloon and Laffy Taffy

Go Cougars!!