Too Much Time on My Hands

Further evidence I've had WAY too much time on my hands can be found in my having bothered to create not one but two versions of the same photo slideshow.

The first version is our usual format, an Adobe Photo Album PDF slideshow. The pictures are mostly from yesterday and the days leading up to Christmas, but there are also several others from the weeks since we last created a slideshow after Rex was born.

The second version, my personal favorite, was an opportunity to showcase a song from one of my Christmas gifts from Margie, the soundtrack from the movie Open Season, with songs written and performed by one of my all-time favorites, Paul Westerberg.

Sorry for being such a blog hog the last couple days ... or in our vernacular, I guess that would be either a Blogger Clogger or a Blagger Clagger.

Christmas Knievel

As promised, click here to see a Pittsburgh- Johnsons Christmas video.

The main attraction is Felix performing stunts on his new slide. The video is a little less than three minutes.

We'll have to post some video of Rex separately. Additionally, we will probably also put together a little photo slideshow to share.

Merry Boxing Day, everyone!

More Photos of the Boys

Felix enjoying the manger












Relaxin' Rex

Clowning Around

Felix and I were clowning around with his camera (i.e. our old camera he broke, which is why the pictures are blurry) tonight, and the picture at left resulted, among others.

Thought I'd share it.

Keith with other Notables!

Janet wanted everyone to see this list of Award Winners from the Springville Museum of Art. Please note that Keith received an Award of Merit. His name is among the names of many other famous Utah artists. Great job, KJ! (please remember that I'm tech-challenged and don't know how to size a picture from a scan!)

Blog At A Standstill

The Blog has come to a screetching halt as far as new posts and comments go. I am as guilty as anyone, but I must call everyone to repentance. The blogmaster will forgive...

Anyway, I heard there were grumblings (Keith) that we hadn't posted about our new van. Yes, we bought an'04 Toytota Sienna from Gaylen. We like it a lot. We will have to post a picture of it before we head to Denver. We are planning on leaving Thursday morning at about 3 a.m. I'm hoping we can all get some sleep before there is too much traffic on the road. Riley is very excited to see Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. We also recently bought a NordicTrack treadmill at a Fitness Liquidation Sale (Christmas for both of us). We got a steal of a deal and have both enjoyed getting a little exercise. With the high being in the teens each day it isn't fun to run outside.

Trying again---photographic proof of work

Here's the proof---I hope!

Book Celebration!

This is proof that I do work occasionally. On Wednesday, one of the local elementary schools received the books purchased with a $10,000 donation from Wells Fargo Bank. At the end of the presentation, the adults helped the students put stickers in each book indicating who the donor was. These were 5th graders, so I was back in my element working with them.

Yeehaw!

I'm home sick, AGAIN! I got a cold over Thanksgiving weekend while Keith was here, and missed a couple of days of work recovering from that. Then, just when I thought I was kicking it, I got sick again. Turns out I never really got better...my cold just turned into a nasty sinus infection. :P Isn't it "funny" that I never had a sinus infection before last year (that I knew of, anyway!), and I've had 3 since last June! Crazy, and not fun!

Anyway, I figured that since I am down for the count, I would take this opportunity to post some pictures from my adventures in Nashville. I don't have all of them on my laptop, but I'll share a few that I do have loaded:



This was from the Country Music Hall of Fame. I'll tell you, I learned more about country music that day than ANYONE ought to know! It was quite interesting, though, and reminded me of a couple of country songs that I want to put on my iPod...#1: The Gambler by Kenny Rogers. :)



After spending a good part of they day at the Hall of Fame, I walked to this restaurant for some barbeque. I hate to admit that this was a planned destination from day one, because in a TV spot John Mayer went to this restaurant to eat. So my plan was to go eat there and try to sit in the same booth that he did. Mission accomplished! The food was REALLY great (the lady at the Hall of Fame said she would have recommended Jack's if I would have asked for a barbeque recommendation), and here is a picture of me in John's booth of choice:



It may be a little pathetic, but it was a fun adventure, and worked out really well since the restaurant was SO close to the Hall of Fame! It was meant to be!



This was just a picture from the "deck" of the ridiculously HUGE convention center on the first day of the conference. It was a chilly morning, but so pretty with the mist and the colors! Despite what you might think if you watch CSI, we don't get a lot of mist/fog in Vegas, and we definitely don't get much color on our trees! It was such a peaceful, gorgeous sight, I had to take a picture!

I also went to the Hermitage which was Andrew Jackson's home, and to the Belle Meade Plantation where they used to raise champion horses. That outing was an adventure in and of itself because the tour bus driver was holding a microphone and singing to us while he drove! Now THAT's entertainment at it's finest!

Riley's Birthday Party

I just wanted to post a link to a web album of photos from Riley's Birthday Party. There are also a few pictures of her throwing her blankets away - that was a very big deal. These were the blankets she would suck on to go to sleep! She has been coping well with post blankey life!

Here is the link: http://www.picasaweb.google.com/ToddValerie

Please see below for this year's list of Christmas gift-exchange assignments. Merry Christmas and happy giving!!!

	HAS
Lizzy	Keith
Todd	Lisa
Valerie	Lizzy
Amy	Todd
Scott	Valerie
Margie	Amy
Keith	Scott
Lisa	Margie

The big reveal...

I did it...

After approximately 5 years of not cutting my hair significantly, I have gone and completely cut it all off! It was a little traumatic at first, and I'm still getting used to it, but I THINK I like it! I like it in a different way than I liked my long hair, but I like it! So here I am at work, taking pictures of myself to share! It's a little wind-blown, but you get the general idea!

What do you think??