Easter

The Easter Bunny came over night!!! As heard from Noelle throughout the day "Thank you Easter Bunny."

Egg hunt at Auntie Joyce's house.

Noelle was pretty good at finding the eggs

Noelle loved coloring eggs

Happy Easter from the Johnstons

Spring Fun

Noelle's school did a leprechaun hunt for St. Patrick's Day. She came home with shamrocks and gold.
They also had a spring bonnet parade. Each class made hats and paraded through the school. Poor Noelle was not happy and ran to us as soon as she spotted us. Here she is still not happy about wearing her hat.

Hoping the Easter Bunny will be coming.

EGGS!

Noelle is not in a phase where she keeps saying "take a picture of me Mommy!" We have been taking lots of pictures of Noelle doing random things. She immediately runs to the camera yelling "I want to see!"

Random past 2 months

It's been a while since we have got around to posting anything. The past couple of months things have been pretty busy around here for us and we just realized that we hadn't even taken many photos yet this year. Here are a few us up to date...

Creating a work of art for Dad for Valentine's Day

James, Dillon and Noelle all made gifts for the Dads, with help from the Moms of course.

a rare moment of sitting still.

a usual moment of not sitting still

the budding artist

cheeeese!

the ladies of the house

noelle's first haircut!

she was so happy when it was done.

Chirstmas at 80 degrees...

For us it's off to Hawaii for Christmas this year. We managed to get decent airfare (albeit a rather strange routing from Sacramento to San Francisco and on to Honolulu). We arrived last Tuesday and promptly traded our cold weather clothes for shorts t-shirts and rubber slippers. We have stayed very busy visiting with friends and family over the last few days. Lots of good company and good food.

Goofing around at the Children's Discovery Center with cousins Allison & Sydney

Christmas day at Aunty Kay and Uncle Calvin's with all the Iida family

Smiley Sydney

Allison getting a present from "Santa"

Cousin's, prior to gift opening extravaganza

Grandma Flo and Grandpa Ed with grand daughters

Everyone looking at the camera with eyes open, it's a Christmas miracle. :)

Sydney resting up on her new animal pillow

Noelle enjoyed opening her gifts (and others also)

A Christmas tornado came though here.

had a great day at the beach with cousin Allison

"Yuck! don't like that water!"

Checking out Christmas lights with cousins

two month update....

We have been pretty busy around her lately so here is a whirlwind update for the past two months since halloween.

noelle enjoying the first big rain of the season

noelle dismantling the nicely raked leaves

helping to decorate grandma and grandpa's christmas tree with a few good tips from grandpa

grandma/mom/mayor lighting the city of Stockton christmas tree

swimming in the leaf pile

christmas pageant at noelle's preschool

early stockton christmas with the johnston family

Halloween!

We started out the day carving pumpkins. Noelle helped with cleaning out the seeds and did a great job making sure we got them all.

It's squishy in there!

Are there any more seeds left?

We were determined to get Noelle into her bumble bee costume for Halloween. Since she was not happy when we tried, we had our neighbors Lawrence and Maria come over and put the costume on her. She wasn't too happy about it, but at least she wasn't screaming. As soon as we put her in the car to go to our friends Halloween party then the screaming began. But as soon as we got to the party she forgot all about her costume and had fun running around and playing. She even wore the antenna all evening!

Unhappy bumble bee

Happy bumble bee ready to party!

Woohoo!

Getting ready to trick or treat with her friends

Trick or treat!