More Christmas Activities!

What a fun week we've had. I just love the holidays and all the fun stuff there is to do.

Lydia had her very first preschool Christmas party and I signed up to be there for a craft and game. It was so fun to see Lydia excited to see me and to also see her so confident in interacting with her new friends.

Aimee was there with me also so that was fun!

The Best Friends Brock, Lydia and Jordan. Lyd just loves these boys and I'm so happy they're in school together and will be next year as well!

Lydia's preschool class also had their first Christmas program. They had it at that care center in Bountiful on 2600. It was so funny seeing all the old people either asleep or having no clue what was going on in the room around them. Awesome.

Lydia did pretty well. She didn't sing much but at least she stayed in her chair and smiled the whole time! I just think she is the cutest little girl!! Love her!

Brock and Lydia smiling...not singing! Lydia is confident on stage dancing but not so much when she sings (just like her mama)!
Lydia would not stop staring, smiling and laughing at Brock. It was so funny!
Brock, Lyd and Jordan...always together! Good job Lydia!
On Friday the 17th Lydia had her last dance performance of the year with Legacy at Flip's. Lydia surprises me every time she gets on stage. She just gets better and better. This was by far her best performance. She smiled the whole time, did every move and improves each move every time she dances!
She loves to practice and likes to pretend she's Miss Mo, her teacher so I know that 20 minutes a day really helps her performance. Way to go Lydia. We're so proud of you!!
On Saturday, my sweet friend Margo invited a few of us to go to the MoTab/David Archuleta concert downtown and I am so grateful she did! It was AWESOME! David Archuleta did NOT disappoint! His voice was flawless that night and so smooth! Such a good concert, although I could've used a bit more Archuleta and bit less of everything else!

Ducka, myself, Alison and Margo waiting outside in the cold before we were let in.
We had to get there 2 hours early to wait in line to be sure we got in and got good seats! You wouldn't believe the lines! It was crazy! That little Archuleta is one popular kid in the SLC! I can see why...he's such a cute, talented kid! Thanks again Margo! You're awesome for giving us a girls' night out!

Afterward we went to this amazing pastry place but it was so dang busy that we didnt' get home til like 11pm. But it was well worth it! Thanks for taking us Margo!!!

You can't tell in the below pic, but the lines were insane. Although we got there two hours early, we were still a couple hundred people back in one of the MANY lines you had to get into! Well worth it though!!!
On Sunday we finally decorated our gingerbread house. I got it at Costco not realizing that the house came already built. I was ticked...even though it's a pain to put the walls and roof together yourself, we love it and we love the challenge so we hated that it was already together! No more costco Gbread houses for us! We also buy our own candy cuz the candy they give is LAME-O. It's so fun to be creative and think of new things to do.
Having said that, it was last minute buying the candy so we weren't too creative this year. We used to have a competition with our friends to see who's house was best so when there's pressure, you're always better. But this was Lyd's very first house building experience so it was fun to watch her and daddy do it together!

It turned out pretty cute! Good job Lyd's on your first house!
Gotta have a U flag right? It wouldn't be a Johnsen house without it!
So proud!
Jake has to be creative with pretty much everything he does. He can't be normal and just have a family picture on a christmas card that says "Merry Christmas"!

So we went out, I set up my tripod and got a picture of our family for our card.

Here's the picture.
And here's what Jake came up with. We did two cards this year so here are the two outside pics of the card.

And here's what the inside said:

I have to admit, it was pretty good! Nice job Honey! And Merry Christmas everyone!!!