Vincent

August Reunion

There are so many birthdays on the Johnson side of the family to celebrate in August that we make it a reunion get together each year. This year we did it 'banzai style' (as in banzai water slide) at Gma & Gpa Tigger's house.

I'm telling you - there are so many August birthdays that we just make a bonfire with the candles on the cake.

Gentry & Ethan playing with her new 'light up & make sounds' toy.
Did I ever mention that Vincent likes baseball (and sherbet).

%&$@# Cats!

We have a lot of stray cats on our property. In order to scare them away I started tapping/banging on the window and yelling "scram" really roughly. The kids quickly followed suit and whenever they see a cat on our lawn they yell it too. The best part though is Lauren - when she yells 'scram cat' the scram sounds like 'damn'. On more than one occasion (once with my mother-in-law) she ran to the window and starting yelling '!@#$ cat !@#$ cat' really loud. I've had to tell people what she really means.

August Birthdays

Half of our family celebrate their birthdays within one week of each other in August, including these two girls who remind me so much of each other.

On Saturday night Gma Tigger & A.Laura babysat the kids. When we got home from our Stake Conference meeting we were greeted with decorations & homemade party hats to celebrate Chris & Hadley's birthdays. The kids were very excited.
Hadley got some fun princess & strawberry shortcake gifts.

Sunday we celebrated at Gma & Gpa Cooper's house where Hadley got a Cabbage Patch doll with bangs.

Lauren got to help Gentry blow out her candles.

Can You Feel The Love?

well, you're about to . . .

(not really - Hadley bounces on that ball all day & Vincent wears that glove pretty much all day too)

Summer Fun

Haircuts were in order for the end of the summer. Lauren insisted on getting a shampoo at the sink. The hairdresser was so surprised that a two year-old would do that but after watching her older sister do it, Lauren wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaking of Hadley - getting bangs cut makes her look SOoo much older doesn't it? (The jury is still out: luckily she liked them but Mommy is anxious for them to grow out. sigh.)
Chris & Vincent went to an Angels game (of course) sans girls. I think this is a picture when they got home & have no idea why Chris is sleeping & Vincent is standing like that -  I promise they had a good time!

Gene Autry Museum

Gma & Gpa joined us for an outing to the Gene Autry Museum this summer. It was a lot of fun. Highlights included:

Vincent - getting to wear his holster & toy gun & actually putting it to use for some pictures.

Hadley - dressing up as a cowgirl

Lauren - riding on pretend horses

Gentry - the hardwood floors (Mommy got tired of fighting her and let her pretty much crawl a self-guided tour of the museum)