Saturday, January 2, 2010

My New Niece




Here we are snuggling with our new niece baby Alivia (product of Tyeanna and Darren). Isn't she beautiful? She has the cutest head of red hair and likes to stick out her little tongue all the time. Holding her and smelling her sweet skin made me want to have another little baby...

Photos by Tyeanna Johnson

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Cousins Photo Shoot



Since the cousins were only together for about 12 hours on Christmas Eve we didn't have time to take them for a formal photo shoot so we made do with the lighting and background resources we had at home and did one ourselves. After a considerable amount of Photoshop editing I was pleasantly surprised at how well they turned out. What cute kids!

Tyeanna's Birthday

We decided to celebrate Tyeanna's birthday a few days early, since the entire family was together. We had been cooking and cleaning non-stop since the family assembled so to keep things simple we ordered pizza and made her "cake" from pumpkin chocolate chip cookies baked by Albertsons. It was a great party!

Tessa was so good to entertain the little ones. This is Tyeanna's little boy Ammon being charmed by the guitar.

And here is Tyeanna and Darren's adorable new addition baby Alivia. Isn't she beautiful? Happy Birthday Tye!

This is How We Iron Chef


For a complete summary of the first ever Goodall-Smith-Johnson Christmas Even Iron Chef Dessert Competition view my Wimzie Prints blog post by clicking here. We had so much fun doing it. If you're looking for a fun family activity I would suggest you try it out.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas 2009

As mentioned below, my entire family came to our house for Christmas this year. It was so much fun to have everyone all together for the festivities. Christmas eve we had our big dinner (Hawaiian Haystacks). I'm grateful we don't have furniture for our living room yet because that's the only room that would accommodate us all. After dinner we delivered our secret package and then began our first ever Iron Chef Dessert competition (boys vs. girls). I'll post more on that soon...

In keeping with tradition we each opened one gift on Christmas Eve. Calvin got this awesome tractor from Josh and Krista.

Christmas morning we woke up at 4:30 in order to open our gifts before Ryan had to head to work. Krista and Jaylie also had an early flight to Utah. As you can see from the above picture, Santa was very good to us this year! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and had a chance to reflect and remember Christ during all the hustle and bustle (I'm afraid we failed to even read Luke 2 this year for the first time ever! Time to slow down and remember the real reason for the season I think...) Merry Christmas!

Buddies


My entire family came for Christmas, including my sister Tyeanna and her family (all the way from Logan, Utah with a newborn baby!) Their little boy Ammon is just 6 months younger than Calvin. They played really well together and just seemed to have the best time being pals. The day after they arrived, from the moment Calvin woke up he was saying "Ammon... Ammon... Ammon". Here are a few pictures of them hanging out...


Eating pizza (Calvin seems to be saying here "Don't touch my milk, dude!"

Eating cookies (isn't this a great picture? Makes me laugh...)

And finally, their first bubble bath experience ever. Neither one was sure what to think about it and it all ended in disaster but at least we managed to snap this cute shot before the melt down began.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dear Santa...

...I'm deathly afraid of you...

...Luckily, my parents love me so much that they let me have a ride on a cool car in the mall after that horrible, traumatic Santa experience...

...I know exactly what I want for Christmas but nobody can understand any of my gibberish so I'm pretty sure I'll just get a bunch of toys. As long as I have my "bankie" I'm a happy guy (unless you make me sit on your lap).

Please give Rudolf a cookie from me.

Love,
Calvin