Organ Family Christmas 2010

This year Organ Family Christmas was split into two. Organ Christmas #1 was on Christmas Eve-Eve in Searcy. We spent the day with Mike's parents and his brother Dave who flew in from Houston. Unfortunately Dave's wife couldn't make the trip, but we really enjoyed our visit with Dave. The day was spent like most holidays with food, a little golf and then the good ole holiday tradition of opening gifts.

Here is family photo #1

(you will see family photo #2 later)

We tried to get Martini to be Santa's helper, but she was not liking her outfit at all!



Then, the Monday after Christmas, the rest of the Organs gathered at our home to celebrate Organ Family Christmas #2.







Martini loved her two new bones so much so she couldn't decide which one to chew.



Baby "M" even got a few things.

After dinner we played a new game that Easton got for Christmas. It was just like Pictionary, but instead of drawing the object you had to build the object out of Legos.

Here is family photo #2

Funny Family Photos

For the past 4 or 5 years my family has taken group pictures during the Holidays. We get a couple normal pictures and then we take several goofy family photos. Here are the photos from last year (2009).

This year for our Funny Family Photo shoot, my Dad took on the task of finding our funny accessory. He definitely did not disappoint! Before taking the silly pictures, we did manage to get one great family photo. Enjoy!

Johnson Family Christmas 2010

Santa's Helper

The perfect gift! Just in time to put the nursery together:)

I wasn't going to post this picture until I saw BJ's face!

This was a special gift. Not only is it a painting of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy (BJ lived in Florence for the entire 2010 fall semester). But most importantly, it was painted by a great friend of the family, Martha McKee. The painting is absolutely beautiful!

If you can't read the shirt, it says "Biker Grandpa"

While BJ was overseas she bought Christmas presents for everyone. Here are a few things she brought us.

I just had to share some of the cute things that Baby "M" got for Christmas.

Aunt BJ brought this from Italy for Baby "M"!

Shane & Sara arrived mid-morning to open stockings and spend the day.

Family Time:

Grandpa & Grammy with their Grand-doggies

This last pictures sums up the day:)

Baby Brunch

I can't believe that it is the beginning of February and I am just now getting around to blogging about all of our Christmas Festivities, but I am super excited to get to share this post with everyone!

I have always known that when I became pregnant I didn't want to find out the sex of the baby, but a couple weeks before my 20 week ultrasound I realized that I hadn't really discussed this issue with Mike. Once we started talking I was a little surprised to find out that he wanted to find out the sex and this wasn't really an issue he was going to waver on. So we came to a compromise: we could find out the sex of the baby, but I didn't want to do it in an ultrasound room in front of a complete stranger.

He agreed and the following is the plan we came up with...
Since the ultrasound was going to be a week before Christmas I thought it would be neat to have the tech write the sex of the baby down on a card and we would wait to open it until Christmas Eve were we could share this experience with both families.

Mike's parents hosted a brunch for both families at their house on Christmas Eve morning. After stuffing ourselves with great food, it was time for the big reveal. Originally we were just going to open the card, but when we went in for the ultrasound appointment our tech told us we would get to take home a DVD of the entire ultrasound. So we decided to prolong everyone's anticipation (including ours) and we watched 30-45 minutes of the ultrasound video until finally there it was on the TV screen, 3 words that changed our lives forever...

I'M A GIRL!

Ultimately we didn't care what the sex was, as long as the baby was healthy. But I think Mike would have loved to have a boy and I really wanted a girl. Actually I wanted a girl sooooo badly that I had convinced myself it was a boy hoping it would prevent me from being disappointed. So I was genuinely surprised that it was a girl.

Once we all celebrated and were given plenty of name suggestions:), the Grandparents presented us with books for our little girl. The Grandfathers gave her "I Already Know I Love You" by Billy Crystal and the Grandmothers gave her "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney. Then, Mike and I gave each family a picture frame with an ultrasound picture so they would remember this special day. I even found a perfect frame for our house that Mike got to open.

This was such a fun and exciting day. I am so glad that we found out we were having a little girl in the presence of the people that love us the most. Hope you enjoy pictures from that morning.

I can not end this post without giving a HUGE thanks to my mom who took all the pictures that morning. There was so much going on I forgot to even get my camera out. Without her we wouldn't have had any pictures of this fun event. Thanks Mom, I love you!