Update with pics!

The past weekend..well Saturday anyway we went up to Bountiful as the Focus was making funny noises, so Tony dropped Elizabeth and I off at my grandparents and he took the car to Willey Ford to get checked out, except of course they couldn't get to it right away so my grandpa picked him up and brought him back, and my parents helped us out by lending us their pilot til we got our car back. About the time my mom got there it was past Baby Einstein time and Liz was letting me know as loudly as possible so my grandma, mom, Liz and I(the girls) went down to the basement to watch Baby Einstein, and just talk, and my grandpa, dad and Tony(the guys) stayed upstairs and visited. I think my grandma enjoyed "my First Signs" as much as Elizabeth did! But Liz can still sign more;)! She's getting really good at this signing thing! Her favorite right now is "again", but as of now she can also sign, "mommy", "daddy", "ouch", "more", "milk", sometimes "please", and "thank you". But along those same lines she is also a talker! Her favorite word is daddy, but doggie(which sounds real close) is a close 2nd. She can also say mama, no, ya, kitty, bye, uh-oh, and ouch. But more fun is her facial expressions! Which have multiplied greatly since she got her glasses, they're great!
About a week or so ago we bought a more size appropriate desk for our computer in the "office" area of our bedroom, as our old desk was Tony's desk from when he was a kid and not built for a computer, and took up 1/4 of our room. This nice 50 dollar one from Walmart has a place for everything and fits so much better, it makes our room feel so much bigger! But anyway we got the old desk moved out and put this new one together last Saturday, and it so nice! Then after Elizabeth's nap we went to the DI to get rid of the old desk, and then to Shopko to finish using up the gift card we had from my grandma, we found Elizabeth some size 4 sandals for summer but the best part was they were only 3 bucks! They had their Christmas stuff at 90% off so we picks up a couple things for next year. Then we headed over to Burlington's "Baby Depot" to look for a top of stairs gate, so I could work on the computer and Elizabeth could go back and forth between our rooms. And we found a nice one, but it didn't have a price, so we said if it's 40 bucks or under we'll get it, if it's more then we'll look elsewhere. We also found Elizabeth the PERFECT Easter dress! I'm so so soooooooo super excited about it! It's so nice and was only 20 bucks! She's going to wear it for her 18 month pictures in March. So we get to the check out and tell them that the gate doesn't have a price so they scan it and told us it was 35 dollars! YES!!! It turned out to be a little bit of a pain to put in because the screws they give you stripped out easy but Tony just used some other extra screws he has in a can, and it works great!
Well I think that's pretty much it for us, enjoy the pics!




My mom Linda Gail, my sister Linda Kay, and my daughter Linda Elizabeth

My little cutie


Such a little princess!

Playing with cousin Landon


Throwing a fit



Playing Wii Fit! ;)

Looking over her glasses..stinker!


New sippy cup with straw!

Playing in our adventure tent and tunnel!




She's getting so big!!


Pony tails!!


Riding pony with her teddy


Eating mac and cheese!

American Idol here I come!

wonder where my pants are?

Finally Christmas pictures!

So I forgot to mention in my last post that Elizabeth is off her binky! During the day at least she still uses it to sleep but in a couple months that will end, I was so amazed at how easy it was she took it soooo well! I just simply stopped giving it to her when she woke up! And Her hair is now long enough to put into two real pony tails!! I'm super excited! Well here are the Christmas pictures!


The Johnston Christmas Party!






Decorating Christmas cookies for the neighbors!



Christmas Eve at The Holbrooks!







Christmas Morning!

















Nelson Christmas dinner!

Just a little update

So a week ago Lizabeth and I went up and got her glasses adjusted, and I thought she's only had them for a week so I hope there's something even to adjust, he took them back and when he brought them back out to us he said they were totally of kilter! As for her looking over them, he said that's pretty typical, she wants to see what is "normal" to her, so he but bigger nose pieces on and tilted them up so she isn't able to look over them, and we've had no other problems! Hooray!!

Not to much has been going on 'round here, Tony's back in school,:( and Lizabeth and I are just doing the same old same old. Elizabeth did decide to hit an inconvenient growth spurt which has put her too big for alot of her 12 month clothes and most of her 18 month clothes are summer clothes, so we hit up a couple Kid to Kids, the DI and Carter's super duper sale, to get her by til warmer weather comes, most of the 18 month clothes are still a bit big, but better big than small!
We've been spending our weekends at my parents house as Tony is helping my dad put in my mom's craft room in the unfinished side of their basement. I've enjoyed playing Wii Sports Resort, it's lots of fun but way out of our budget! And It's nice to have someone else to watch Elizabeth for a bit!

Believe it or not...sad as it is, I'm still organizing all the billions of Christmas pictures we took, but as soon as I do I'll post them, they're way fun! Ok truthfully I've been slacking on the Christmas pictures because we got a digital picture frame(on black friday) for Christmas and I've been working on getting the pictures for it cause I'm way excited to see it in action!

As for Elizabeth she's constantly amazing me! Her newest developments are she can now sign "again" and "please". She can give a high five! And her feet are now a whopping size four!!(which at Payless is known as 9-12 months) I was beginning to think she was going to be a size three forever! Ever since she got her glasses she learns and does new things everyday! she's a pro at putting her rings on their pole, she can stack her blocks 3 or 4 high, she can even connect and stack her "legos", she points to everything(but mostly puppies) in her books. Oh and she can now go up and DOWN stairs but it still makes me nervous cause she's gotten into the bad habit of standing up and looking behind her which puts her off balance...SCARY!!
Oh the cutest thing happened yesterday...we were grocery shopping at Walmart and we were almost done but she was so cranky and being so so sooooo loud, so I grabbed a Baby Einstein book as we passed the books, and gave it to her just to appease her until we were done, and it worked! She calmed right down, and looked at it quite intently, and as we were checking out and tried to take it from her to put it on top of the pop fridge thing at the check out, but she wouldn't let it go for anything!! I looked at the price and it was only 6 bucks and we haven't bought her a book in a long time, so I broke down and bought it for her, she didn't stop looking at it till I ripped it from her hand when we got home and put her to bed!! She sure loves her books I tell ya!

Well I think that's about it, hopefully the next post will be lots of fun pictures!

PICTURES!!!

Here are the glasses pics you've all been waiting for!!










She's now getting into the horrible habit of looking over her glasses! I'm not exactly sure what to do about that so I'm going to go up and talk to the pediatric specialist up at the Moran optical tomorrow. She darn freakin' cute though!!