Snoozin' Football Fans....

 

Sunday ~ December 11, 2011
Sunday's at the Johnson house are football filled.  Dad usually will come down at 10:30 ~ between the three of us we have breakfast fixed and ready to eat by 11:00. Just in time for Sunday football! After breakfast we would all head downstairs and depending when the Cowboys "kick off" we would watch the game or Red Zone. Mom will usually come down at 5:30 so we can all eat dinner together and then play games after. Today the Cowboys don't kick off until 6:00pm... so the boys thought they could catch a little nap before game time.  I love Sunday's at our house!

 

Voice Male... Is Comin' To Town...

John and Richard singing my favorite...

Tractin' In A Winter Wonderland

 John Huff

Rick Murdock and Mike Bearden

 Richard McAllister

 Rick ~ Mike ~ Mike ~ John ~ Richard

A little blurry... but they were posing just for me!

 John ~ Mike ~ Richard ~ Rick ~ Mike ~ John

 I love their facial expressions...

On December 10th Voice Male came to town... it's been our tradition for several years now! This year we were lucky enough to get front row seats... right at center stage! I had to post the bottom pictures so that you can see their facial expressions and how much fun they have while entertaining! It was another great show and they introduced their new member ~ Rick Murdock. We miss Phil... but Rick did a great job and fits in well the crazy antics that fill the right hand side of the stage.  If you have never seen them in concert... you need to make sure that they are on your Christmas must do list for 2012! You can find them here.

Halloween Party 2011...

The party table...

Yes... I LOVE confetti...

 Kendra cutting the pumpkin bowls...

Dad ~ Aunt Peggy ~ Mom

Kendra ~ Josh ~ Vicki

Our Halloween Confetti Cake...

After the Logan High game we raced home to get ready for our Halloween Party.  Josh has decided that he loves soup bowls (and it is a Halloween Party tradition to have them). Mom made her famous Potato Soup.  We played games and then had treat time... my first home made confetti cake... well the cake part was a mix but instead of buying the special cake mix and frosting I had a plain white cake mix and cream cheese frosting in a tub and added a bottle of sprinkles to both the cake batter and for the decorations... I had read about it on Pintrest and decided to try it! It works perfect!

 

Logan High Football Pretzels...

Football pretzels...

 Jaden eating one of his pretzels...

While we were busy making Cowboy and Halloween pretzels (see post here) I thought it would be fun to make some special pretzels for Kendra's brother. Dad decorated them with red gel ~ some said LHS ~ others had just an "L" ~ some had smiley faces and some were special just for Jaden with #3 on them! Go Grizzlies!

 

Surprise Party for Kendra...

 Kendra and her cake...

Can you say Surprise?

You can see by the look on her face she was!

The table... complete with confetti...

 Balloons...

 The pink gift bags (she loves pink)

 Reece's Pieces from Aunt Peggy

 A coat from Grandma ~ Papa and Vicki

especially picked out by none other than Joshua

(since I'm not allowed to pick out clothes...

I don't know what's new and cool!)

 Supermodel Kendra with her million dollar smile!

It looks so cute on her and such a good color too!

Nice job Josh!

 

 Aunt Peggy ~ Grandma and Papa

The newest family picture...

Josh and I wanted to throw Kendra a birthday party... then we got to thinking... let's throw a surprise party... she wouldn't think anything about us having a party for her.  Kendra's birthday is on October 14th.. it just happened to be on a Friday... (Logan High football game night) ~ Saturday was with her family... Sunday Josh had to work so we decided that Monday would work perfect.  That was normally the night she and Josh worked on homework.  So on Friday... I sent her a text and Papa and Grandma called her for the birthday wishes. Come Monday I left work early to get the balloons and get everything ready... at 5:15 the call came and she was on her way. We had my mom and dad park in the garage so she wouldn't see their car and get suspicious.  Josh was out messing with my car in the driveway when she arrived.  Mom ~ dad ~ Aunt Peggy and I stood in the hallway waiting for the front door to open... SURPRISE... and she was... mission accomplished!  Steak ~ baked potatoes ~ corn ~ mom and dads homemade rolls and Aunt Peggy brought the apple cider fresh from Zollinger's Fruit Farm (I have to say... it is so delicious!).  Cake ~ ice cream and games completed the night of fun.  Happy Birthday Kendra... I hope you had a wonderful birthday weekend!

 

Painting Completed...

 

Getting the paint stirred up and ready to go...

 The awesome painters...

 The Dynamic Duo...

 The TV is still in the living room on a chair...

Josh didn't want to miss the baseball playoffs...

 I couldn't take pictures while my dad was suspended above the stairway...

but you can see how he did it...

Josh held the ladder... I held the paint...

 After years of my dad telling me...

"You are going to drive me to drink"

It looks like I finally succeeded!

 This pic does not show the true color... but it is beautiful

See those sweet "white" baseboards...

my mom painted all of those!

 Moving on to the kitchen...

 

I will have to get some pictures of the completed job in the kitchen and some better ones of the living room.  After the living/family and hallway was all painted... we had to wait 8 days for the carpet to be cleaned... can you say MESS!  The living room had a card table (great for eating on since the kitchen table was buried) 4 folding chairs and the TV. We lived in total chaos for over 2 weeks... no Halloween or fall decor in sight... take out dinners were our friend... but in the end it will be worth it I keep telling myself!  After the carpet was cleaned we moved everything out of the kitchen/dining area and moved it to the living room.  It only took dad and Josh 2 days to get it done and we were ready to getting the house put back together again... I still have things to get finished...but we have Halloween and fall decoration out and everyone is a happy camper!

 

Monday Night Football ~ Cowboy Style...

Can you say "Are You Ready For Some Football" and it looks like all my rowdy friends have come over! Josh's play-off game was at 7pm... and if they won the championship game would be at 9pm. The Cowboys game started at 6:15... what do die-hard fans do with this dilemma?  We DVR'd the game... went to the softball diamond (all the while hoping that we didn't win the game so we could go home and watch the Cowboys... as it turns out after wishing we'd lose...the championship game would be the following week!).  We raced home... Josh jumped in the shower and dad ~ Kendra and I made the garlic bread and warmed up the spaghetti and headed for the basement to watch the game.  I'm sure my mom would have freaked to see us carrying dinner down the stairs... but a die hard fan has to do... what a die-hard fan has to do and luckily no one spilled on the carpet and the best thing... the our boys whooped on the Redskins!

 

Pre-Paint Job...

Can you say WHITE?  I love the color white... just not on ALL of my walls... this is how my house has looked for the past 7 years... white... everywhere you look... white...white...white.  It doesn't say home... it says... cold!  In my "former life" (those of you who know me ~ know that I was divorced 18 months ago) and the former life didn't deem it necessary to paint... well it took me a few months to do it... but here we go.  This whole "painting burr" got started when we moved everything out of our family/living room and entry to have the carpet re-stretched.  It had "wrinkles" when we bought the house 7 years ago... and they just kept getting worse (kinda like my face these days... more wrinkles are appearing weekly)... so after the re-stretch I looked at all of the cold WHITE walls and decided I didn't want anything moved back into the room until it was painted.  Ironically my mom called a few minutes after the carpet man left... I got brave and asked her if she would mind going to Bennett's Paint with me to pick out paint colors... she said that her and dad were headed to Pepperidge Farm for cookies and she needed to talk to dad.  I laughed when she said she would call me back...because I knew dad was going to pop a gasket. She called back a few minutes later and said she and dad would meet me there... I asked "is dad mad" and she said..."yes"!  When I met up with them at Bennett's we found the perfect color and Martha went to work her magic.  I told dad that I had saved some money and that I was going to pay a professional painter to come and paint and that he wouldn't have to fuss with it.  Later in the day I started calling painters... they all wanted $300 - $600 per room.  Well I had saved... but not that much.  Dad to the rescue... he and Josh are going to be painting... stay tuned...