Mission Puzzle accomplished

It took tons of late night hours, 

my slightly OCD sister Audie, Chris and a few teens, 

to finish this hard Coca Cola Puzzle!

They sure are cute though!

Here it is, all modgepoged...

Snow Tracks in a Winter Wonderland

 So much running, playing, and walking in the snow...

Chloe stopped often to chew of the ice that would collect in her paws.

Chloe and Libby are like best friends.
They Love each other!

I love love love walking in fresh snow, feeling it crackle under foot...
the sound it makes, the extra workout.
The beauty of this pure white blanket covering mother earth.

Dangerous kids

 This was naughty, dangerous, disobediant and not smart!

But they hey sure had fun...

Loads of laundry

The Daily Loads of Laundry!

With 3 families, sledding trips, snoman making, trip to the pool,
muddy forest walks, 

we had to keep on top of it. 

Or we would have been buried under it...

Oh... let's not talk about the socks!

Can you spot the 3 dogs?

Hospital Pass Time

Games and more games...

We got some board games for Christmas and brought them to play with Alexi.
I'm glad this time we were able to spend some time with him while he was in the hospital.
He usually finds these stays quite boring...
This time he had lots of visits! :)

 

Hospital stay

Alexi had a 'Holiday' stay at the Hospital.

He got a Staph infection in his blood.
He is now on antibiotics for 4 weeks but had to stay in his steril room for a week.

The good news is that he had a nice huge luxury suite!

Emric stayed four nights on the couch, kept him company and played video games with him.

He was quite happy to make this sacrifice to be with his big brother.

(all night and day gaming, he was one happy camper!)

I just love this picture of Mike and Alexi!

Christmas Day @ 10:44 pm

Feast and Famine Board Game

Sugar and more Sugar Consumption

Sleeping

Watching Movies and more Movies

Puzzled by the Puzzle

Christmas Morning

Sarah Invited the Browns to stay a few days for Christmas.
It was so nice of her.
I'ts not easy putting that many people up for that long.
Sarah is so AWESOME!
She is a giant of a friend! So caring and unselfish...
I wish I was more like her!
:)

The Waiting for everyone to get out of bed...

some are more eager than others!
We had waffles following the opening of presents.
A Nakata tradition.

Muddy Forest Walk

Today, being Sunday,
 we got to see all our fellow church friends from the Liberty ward.
It was so neat giving hugs and greetings

After Church, our Men and our kids tagged along with Sarah and I
on our daily walk in the woods with the dogs.

The kids were actually dirtier than the dogs!
They had so much fun hanging on a huge tree vine and got really muddy!
They played the Hunger games...
And some of us had so much fun cleaning up all the mud on the clothes and the shoes...

Christmas Puzzle

The Johnsons have a tradition of doing a puzzle before Christmas day.
This one was a challenge! A challenge that I didn't even try to atempt!
I normaly love to do puzzles.

Fun DressUp Collages from Mo-Prom

Children's Alexi Update

So I took a little trip to Cincinnati to spend a little time with Alexi. 

He spent a week at Children's getting a pick line to feed him lipids and fat. 

They want to put some fat in that boy (his average weight has been around 95lb), 

so his body gets out of the "lets-survive" mode into the "lets-heal" mode.

Everything went very well. 

He put on 6 pounds while he was in the hospital!
The Johnsons call him "Fatty" now!

He also has more energy.

I so wish he gets better soon so he doesn't have to deal with this Crones disease.

It's taking so long...

I brought him home on Monday.

Nurses came a few times to make sure he was all set up and doing things correctly.

I was very happy to spend a little time with him every day.

We had lunch, shopped for food and clothes. 

We even watched a movie: "Sherlock holmes 2"

It took me, like, 30 mn before I knew what was going on in that movie!

Anyhow, I'm glad I was able to go (Vive SkyMiles!).

I was also able to see some good friends, unfortunately, not all of them.

But that's ok, because, I'll be back!!!! :)

Oh, lets not forget how happy I was to be with my friend Sarah!!!
She is so awesome and incredible!
She does so much for me and my family, especially Lexi!
I know it is a big sacrifice for all in their family, to have taken in Alexi for so long...

Mo-Prom

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