Monday, April 16, 2012

Johnson Party of Five

Yes the title is correct!

The Johnson family will become a party of 5 in November. 

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Dance Moms

Okay so I will start off by saying that we have COMPLETELEY enjoyed our time not being so busy with softball.  We have enjoyed being at home together!  Doing so we have enjoyed watching a couple of shows as a family.  Our favorites:  Once upon a time, GCB, and Lizard Lick Towing.  Adam and I enjoy Swamp People.  The girls don't to much care for this one but we love it.  We can't wait for Toddlers and Tiaras to come back on.  Tillery started watching The Voice and I don't like those type of shows but we did watch last night to see who got sent home.  Last night we stumbled across a show ....  Dance Moms....  WOW!!!  If you have not watched this please do! It was amazing and so reminded me of the way that people act in any competitve sport.  Here is a clip:  The new season Dance Moms Miami aired last night and we can't wait for the next one...  Just what we needed another tv show to DVR...

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentines Day!



Happy Valentines Day
From the Johnson's




Friday, February 3, 2012

Until Next Season

My name is Courtney and Yes my family watches and loves Toddlers and Tiaras!




My family ( and yes including Adam, when he is home ) will sit down and watch this show.  We laugh so hard and our hearts go out to some of the girls during the season. 
Our favorite episode from the season featured a little girl from Georgia who completely won our hearts.  Tillery still yells "Honeybooboochild!".  Here is a clip so you can see for yourself.




As you can see the mothers on this show are INSANE!  And of course they love to portray us southerners as just that. Our favorite on the show is Makenzie. We fell in love with her a few seasons ago when she completely reminded us of Tillery. She had a "NINI". And her very outstanding attitude was a lot like that of our own. Here is a clip of Makenzie...



Adam and I always sit in amazement at the moms and sometimes dads on the show... They talk about diets to 6 year olds, wax a four year old's back, tell them how awful they did, and the list goes on.. The worst mom of the season defintely went to this crazy mom.



As you can see we enjoy this show and can't wait until the new season!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Boogie Shoes

So the girls have been taking dancing for a few weeks now and really enjoy it!  Taylor is taking tap and ballet. Tillery is taking hip hop.  This completely fits their personalities.  Tillery's costume will consist of black hoodie and pants with blue converse and a blue tutu and Taylor's costumes are more frufru.  I am so glad that they found something that they enjoy!  ( and that is is girlie too )

Friday, January 6, 2012

What a change in pace.....

As to my surprise...  The girls informed Adam and myself over the wonderful break that we had, that they no longer want to play softball.  They want to try something different.  We were both a little taken back at first.  All the time and money that we have invested so far.  I mean softball equipment is not cheap and neither is pitching lessons once a week.  But after lots of discussion and talks with the girls, we have decided to let them do exactly what they want to do.  Tillery will begin theatre this week.  She is completely looking forward to it.  Taylor will begin dance.  This is what they wanted to do and I am really excited for them.  We will keep you updated on their progress!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Welcome 2012!

As we begin a new year it is a great time to reflect on the last year...


Our family started 2011 living in a foster home.  Living with us was a 17 year old teenage girl.  WOW!  I do not look forward to those years with my girls.  We welcomed into the home several kids whose story would absolutely break your heart.  We welcomed Gabriel at the end of February.  We immediately fell in love with him.  It was a MAJOR adjustment to have a baby in the house again.  As we started 2011 we thought that we were suppose to Foster little did we know what we were about to embark on.  In April a great group of people form our church Golden Acres planted a church in Fort Mitchell.  We did this with no seminary education.  It was a group of several couples that put our heads together and we DID church the way we thought would work best for the environment.  We launched the church on Easter Sunday.  We had no idea how many we would have that Sunday but we were blown away by the great response.  Months of hard work had paid off.  We are continuing this effort every Sunday.  We have met some really great people in the Fort Mitchell area and we are looking forward to what is to come.  In May we said goodbye to the teenage foster child that had lived with us for 6 months.  At this point we decided for the sake of our children and our sanity, that we needed to move back into our house that did not sale and focus on our family and the church.  We moved home in June and we took little Gabriel with us.  We enjoyed traveling this summer to the beach and our time back at home.  We were playing softball and even had a travel team that traveled every Saturday and played ball.  The girls enjoyed this while it lasted.  We started school in August and the girls are now in 1st and 4th grade.  We have been busy with school projects this year.  In November we said goodbye to Gabriel, it was really tough on our family.  We look at it now as not having him leave us but adding to our family.  The wonderful couple that he is with, we consider family.  We enjoyed Christmas and New Years with family and friends.  We look forward to what 2012 has in store for us.  Welcome 2012!