My Favorite Time of Year!

WOOO Freaking WHOOO!! It is by far my favorite time of year! I love the leaves changing, having to wear sweaters and fuzzy socks, drinking hot chocolate, Christmas lights, and Carmel Brulee from Starbucks! Kyle calls me Kamalouwhoo.... yes yes I reek of Christmas spirit and I love it! Thanksgiving is like the teaser for Christmas, I mean dont get me wrong I enjoy Thanksgiving (mostly for the food) but there is something about the Christmas season that just makes me a happy camper :) I have already put 2 Christmas trees up, now before you fall over, I have not turned them on yet.. Kyle wont let me... But they are up and prepared for next week :) This year I went a little non-traditional with my downstairs tree... I had this thought of a gold, bronze and powder blue... well i went a little crazy -- It is almost a little too mismatched, and not really Christmasy, but thats ok I think I will keep it up this year and maybe go more traditional next year. Now the upstairs tree is very traditional (mostly because I already had most of the stuff) I got new candy cane stripped netting and white ornaments. It actually looks pretty good... This week I will try to take pictures and post them, speaking of pictures I am on the hunt for a new camera! So leave me a comment if you have a camera you swear by :)

Happy Holidays :)
KJ

Pictures ! (finally)

So in the past 3 or 4 posts I keep saying "next time i will put on pictures" ... well that next time is here... so I wont write a lot just put up some pictures.. I blogged about most of them so feel free to wonder through the archives :)

My love Baby Anna

Still More to come....

Halloween

We had an amazing 1st Halloween handing out candy. Kyle and I originally got dressed up and then we realized that we were the only people in the neighborhood dressed up.. :( so we took our costumes off and prepared for the madness with a glass of wine. (ended up being almost 2 bottles)... Not to disappoint though we did let Lil Debbie wear her costume for a whole 4 1/2 minutes. I think she hates being dressed up :(


So we ended up having probably 150 kids maybe more come by, which was PLENTY! We had the great idea to put in black lights in our outside lights! Well "great" was quickly replaced with "horrible" when we realized that the lights weren't lighting up very well and we were afraid that people would think our porch light was off and not come see us! PANIC! I ran through the house turning on every light (and when i say ran i literally ran). We have plantation blinds in our home so I immediately opened them and the light shined on! (sweet silence)... well that wasn't good enough for Kyle he thought that people would still think we weren't home! Now how many of you would think we weren't home if you saw the following:

Entryway light through the door
Pumpkins lit up on the porch
More pumpkins with changing lights on the walkway
4 different windows open with all the lights on
2 crazy people with their wine glasses walking out to the street, turning around and giving the thumbs up!


I mean really?? So what do I do as a good wife? You guessed it, ran to the garage, as Kyle is yelling "ALL CLEAR HURRY HURRY", grabbed the HUGE ladder, set it up on our porch, climbed to the tip top of the ladder and grabbed the black bulb.... now those of us who "lived" for black lights and glow in the dark stars on our ceilings have probably just realized the crucial mistake I made! Black lights get so much hotter than regular light bulbs, although a regular light bulb would have probably burnt my skin as well... yes I now have 3 fingers with that dry cracked feeling on the tips, like i have dipped my finger tips in super glue! Oh but that isn't the end of it because me being in full on "panic" mode I had already started unscrewing the bulb when I realized it was quickly dissolving my fingertips... I yell for Kyle to grab me a towel - yes a TOWEL - Oh no not my lover bear, he comes back with 1 I repeat ONE paper towel. So I grab the paper towel and advise him in a calm voice that my fingers are on fire and one paper towel is a joke. So while I am standing on this huge ladder, fingertips slowing burning off, we get tricker treaters.... Kyle, oh so big hearted Kyle, decided that giving the cute kidos candy instead of getting his loving wife a towel... UGH! So after removing the black lights and putting back in our normal lights we preceded to get lots of trick or treaters and it ended up being a great time. I also am getting feeling back in my fingers, which is kinda nice :) I hope everyone had a great Halloween. I will leave you now with a picture of our little Bus, see Kyle and I were suppose to dress up as hippies and Debbie was our "magic" bus. Well you can tell she just hated her costume...

Update on the Johnsons

So I just realized I haven't blogged oh in about 5 years! (exaggeration) Kyle and I have been so busy these past few months, I mean it seems like 3 days and it has been seriously 2 months. Kyle had back surgery again 3 weeks ago tomorrow - UGH - he has been staying at home and not going to work, which for him I guess is great... for me however I get home from 8 - 9 hours of work and I am tired..... oh not kyle is has been home all day and is ready to hang out. HAHA needless to say I have actually been a good wife and I have ventured into cooking quit a bit these past few weeks. For the most part I feel as though I have been successful, although you wont see me on any cooking show :). Kyle is doing much better and is planning on going back to work tomorrow! Other than that we have just been hanging out...

I am super excited about Halloween this year, normally we would get dressed up and go out with our friends or to a Halloweens Party... but this year because of Kyle's back surgery we have decided to stay home and dress up and hand out candy. I think we are in a good neighborhood (longhills) to get an enormous about of little trick or treaters! I cant wait to see all the fun and super cute costumes. So if you are in the area come by the Johnson house and show us your costumes!!

Have a great Monday!

Baby Anna

I don't get to see sweet Baby Anna as much as I would like (which is every minute of every day) but when I do get the chance to go to Michelle and Jeffrey's house I can't get enough of her!! I thought I would upload a picture of this past weekend when Baby Anna slept on me for over an hour :) She seriously is the sweetest thing on the face of the earth and I wish I could put her in my pocket and take her home -- well until she pooped then I would have to return her!Please ignore me and my 3 chins in this picture :)

Summer comes to an END !

I have been a really bad blogger, but my goodness we have been uber busy! Lets see we went to Mexico in the beginning of August for Carrie's wedding - It was absolutely amazing!! I will have to upload some pictures! We went on a "party boat" to Isla Grande and rented a golf cart and drove all around the island and shopped - so much fun! Other than that Kyle and I spent most of our time just being lazy and enjoying our private plunge pool that was off our room!! We stayed at La Amada and it was beautiful!! We have been so busy with Kelsey and Clark's wedding coming up in September :) Other than that our house and work has kept us both on the go!

One good thing about summer coming to an end is FOOTBALL!!! Kyle and I love to watch football (well more Kyle than me) This year we wont get to go to Fayetteville as much as we would like but we are going to Dallas to watch the Hogs play Texas A&M again this year -- last year was toooo much fun so we had to go back! Also Kyle is playing in 2 fantasy football leagues this year which actually gets me into the game because I can actually cheer for certain teams in the NFL! I am so ready for football season, cooler weather and lots of grilling!!

My next blog I am going to get pictures up so be looking for them.... Enjoy the rest of the week!

First day without shots!

Good Morning! Yesterday was my first day to still be on the diet but not take the HCG shot.... umm well I cheated a little bit (story of my life) but for the most part i was good :) It really wasnt that bad, i wasnt as hungry as i thought i would be! Now where i cheated at .... I have discovered the most AMAZING french onion dip EVER!!! Fresh Market has this french onion dip that is spicy and just unreal -- dip a pita chips and it is HEAVEN! I am running again now and still trying to loose a few inches in my thighs... For the most part i am very pleased with the results, as I wasnt expecting to loose a ton of weight!

Have a good Thursday!