Welcome......

.........Nathan David Walton. Born March 27th at 1:55 p.m. 6 lbs 19 1/2 inches long.

More details and pictures to follow at a later date!

2 of our greatest blessings.....

Don't fall out of your chair, I'm finally updating!!!! I figured if this baby is coming soon, I better be updated!

It's always fun to take a few pictures when we're all dressed up and ready for church. Molly and Fos are pretty good at posing most of the time too!

Molly has really been into skirts and tank tops and sweaters. She LOVES finding any jewelry she can to put on for church too. It's pretty cute what a fashionista she has become. Sometimes she matches and sometimes not 100%, and I don't mind at all. It's going to be nice that she can dress herself when this new little baby comes.

He was all ready for family prayer

Doughnuts for Dinner

About 3 weeks ago, we ate a pretty big lunch after church so I didn't want to make anything big when dinner time rolled around. So, we decided on doughnuts. I had watched a food network show on how to make these easy things. You buy already made roll dough that comes in those pop-up cans, get a bottle cap and make your doughnut hole and throw them in the oil for about 30 seconds on each side, then top them with whatever you would like. Our house smelled like grease a few days after, but Scott and the kids thought it was well worth it! I'm not a huge doughnut fan, but oh my goodness.......these were super good. I think I ate all the doughnut holes and Scott and the kids ate all the doughnuts. Some had chocolate frosting with chocolate sprinkles, some white frosting with colored sprinkles and some with cinnamon and sugar. We will probably be having doughnuts for dinner again sometime!

Weekend Get-Away

Some friends of ours have a family cabin about an hour away, so they planned an adult only weekend get away. It was so much fun! Thank you Jason and Molly for doing that! It was just a few couples (where do you ever draw the line). It was a really fun group and it's always nice getting to know your friends a little better!

Scott, Molly, Jason, April, Joe, Jason and Heather up front. The first night we got there we went tubing. I guess I should say, "they" went tubing. I asked my doc about going and he looked at me like, "are you really asking me, that would be the dumbest thing you could do at this point". Needless to say, I obeyed orders and was the photographer (even though it was really too dark to take pictures). I know I would've been fine but just didn't want to chance it. Watching people come to the end was hilarious. They had about 5 layers of plastic fence up to stop those who didn't stop themselves. It was used frequently. So many people would plow through at least 2 of the fences if not 3. I just sat there and laughed! It was a fun night. We went back to the cabin, ate snacks and played games!

Some more of the group. Chelsea, Jason, Molly, prego me, Scott, Jamie and Ted

Just the girls

We woke up Saturday and went to rent snow shoes. Little did we know everyone else had the same idea. They had only 4 pairs left. We opted out of the snow shoes and found a snow shoe trail that was pretty packed down. So we just hiked in our boots. Only getting stuck a few times!

Friends, Aaron and Chelsea Rich

Scott just couldn't resist jumping into a few feet of powder. We hiked up this hill and found a perfect platform for him. I so wanted to try but I figured if sledding on a super safe hill was a bad idea, jumping off a tree stump and trying to flip was probably not much better!

My handsome fella

The group again

Cabin owners, Molly and Jason Sant. Thanks again!!!!!

Just like a kid. That's one of the MANY reasons I LOVE this man!!!!!

Rolling down the hill

Jason couldn't resist either.

And the swan dive!

Valentines Day

My true love was out of town on the actual Valentines Day, so we got to celebrate when he got back from Denver. We made this yummy big sugar cookie dessert and ribs and mashed potatoes too.

ROCK STARS

The kids came downstairs one day dressed like this and said they were "Rock Stars". They got little pretend instruments and everything, then made up a dance for us. I sure do love these two. Molly got play date privileges taken away last week and it was the best thing ever. They played great (for the majority of the time). I'm thinking they learned their lesson (at least temporarily). Dress up is definitely a daily routine for Molly and Foster is kinda getting into it too.

Skiing at Alta

We decided this was the year we needed to take the kids up skiing. We want it to be a family outing we all enjoy, so better start now. We took them up to Sundance first with my brother and sister-in-law (both ski instructors) and their kids. They caught on pretty quick. It was nice having people who knew how to teach too. Our goal was to let them have fun. No pushing them into doing things they didn't want to do. So, as soon as they asked to be done, we were done. Fos took skis off for a while and played then would put them back on to do a few more times down the hill. After being done for the day, they kept asking if we could go again and again. So the following Friday Scott had off from work and we went to Alta. The bunny hill is free there as well so all we had to pay for were half day rentals. The weather was perfect and it had snow a few inches the night before. So it was great! 

One of Foster's breaks playing in the snow. 

Our little future skiers!

Christmas Part 2

After Christmas, we headed up to McCall, Idaho to stay in a condo for a few days. We missed our brothers, but the 5 sisters, their families and our mom were able to make it. It was a blast eating, playing Big Bootie (and other games), sledding, ice skating and watching movies. Going through the pictures I'm realizing  since we got the GoPro, our still shot picture taking has been a lot less. I'm going to work on being better at still taking pictures!

Cal, Foster, and Tipton are all between 6 and 9 mo apart. They were cracking me up here. It was pretty hot in the condos so most the time these boys were running around half undressed. So here they are "pretending" to be asleep. Cal and Tipton were really good at this game!

Foster, not so much :) hahaha

It was nice to let the kids get out and go sled on this perfect size kid hill (mound from the snow plow)

My gorgeous sister Becky

Trais being oh so brave :)

Bundled up Bella

This is how Tipton sleds, this is how you would see him with his life vest on in a pool too. He is a funny funny kid

Sister Rachel taking a turn

Christmas morning

After going through our Christmas pictures, I realized we didn't get a lot of GREAT shots. With Scott's new GoPro and our other video camera, our still shot camera got put on the way side. Oh well, there are still some pretty good ones. Warning......lots of pictures!

I woke up to the smell of what I thought was bacon and my first thought was, Rachel was up making breakfast for everyone. So I hurried out of bed and downstairs to find the ham we had put in the crockpot the night before, being the culprit. The house was still dark and no sound of any children. So I went back upstairs, woke up my niece and said, "Dallie, go wake everyone up. It's Christmas morning". I didn't think the old aunt could be the first one up! So I delegated. Just then, Molly woke up and I couldn't contain my excitement so I got in bed with her saying it was Christmas and we needed to go see if Santa had come. With just the little bit of noise and Dallie going in to her parents room, it wasn't long before everyone was awake. We were in the bathroom brushing teeth when Molly comes running in and said, "I went downstairs and I know Santa came because there is a bike down there" hahahahaha, we started laughing so hard. Like mother like daughter. I used to sneak into the living room before everyone else just to make sure "he" came!

So we hurried to the stairs, I grabbed the camera and got one descent picture of part of the group, Scott set up the GoPro and off the kids were in to the living room.

We had a tradition growing up of getting cereal by our stockings so mom didn't have to make breakfast the week us kids were off from school. I think the kids ate cereal a few times a day!

Molly and Dallie

Molly on her new bike

Isabella

Foster requested a flashlight for Christmas. Molly got one too so they could look for spiders under the beds together

Dallie got a violin

Emersyn

Madison and her new Scentsy candle

My sister Rachel and her new Barbies ;)

Foster's new flashlight and train set

Brother-in-law, Jason and his new cowboy hat

Isabella would close her eyes the whole time she unwrapped her presents, so Molly decided to try it.

Scott made Molly the cutest jewelry box. It's not a great picture of the box, but she was pretty excited. As soon as we got back home to Utah, she put all her special jewelry inside.

All us kids got my mom a Nook Color. I'm so glad she liked it!

Fos got this cute Viking hat from Cal......GO Vikings!!!!!

Scott sporting his new helmet (it's more of a GoPro mount)

Rachel and I preparing Christmas dinner

It was a great time being with family! I just love the holidays and just love Christmas! Thanks Johnson's for being great hosts!!!! Some day our house will be big enough for y'all to come and celebrate with us!