Landry's Birthday Party: Build A Bear

Once October started approaching Landry started having ideas about what kind of birthday party she wanted. It came down to 2: Sweet and Sassy or BuildABear. Once she learned that a Sweet and Sassy party would be girls only she decided to go with BAB. Landry's paraty was small yet very fun. I'm pretty sure the kids had a great time!

 

Once all of the kids arrived they sat down with Amy to talk about why they were there, learn some of the "rules" and talk about creating their animal. One of the rules was that they would have fun.

 

 

Each kid chose an animal they wanted. Once everyone made a selection it was time for stuffing. This is how they carried their animal to the stuffing station.

 

 

Eden, Kennedi, Peyton, Landry, Jake and Reed waiting to stuff their animal.

 

 

One part of bringing their animal to life was picking a heart to go inside, that's what's in their hand. You rub the heart against your side so that it's always with you, against your head so it's smart like you and against your bicep so it's strong like you. This part was really cute.

  

You rub the heart against your chin so that the animal could speak words of kindness. Jake and Reed rubbing their heart against their chin.

 

 

The birthday girl is paying attention so she knows what to do next.

  

Chase paid close attention too!

 

 

 

Landry stuffing her rabbit. She was first in everything because she was the birthday girl.

 

  

After all of the animal were brought to life it was time to give them a bath.

 

 

Scrub-a-dub-dub!

 

 

Once their animals were squeaky clean it was time to pick out their outfits and go to the front for a group picture. Left to right: Peyton, Eden, Landry, Kennedi, Jake, Chase and Reed. A small but fun group of friends!

 

After BAB everyone went to the food court for Chic-fil-A and cake.

  

Landry having a good time at her party.

 

 

I was so pleased at how her cake turned out. She was very set on having this kind cake. It was the perfect cake for the amount friends at the party. We had cupcakes for the adults.

 

 

Landry listening to us sing Happy Birthday to her.

 

 

She made a wish then blew out the candle!

 

 

What better way to end than with a ride on the carousel!
 

 

 Sunday we had a small family birthday party for Landry. It was so special having Erin and the boys, Skip and Tyler, Meme and Pops, Dustin and Danielle and Cooper here to celebrate Landry's 5th birthday with us! We missed everyone else that couldn't make it.

 

Happy Birthday Doodle, Daddy and Mommy love you super bunches!



Landry's 5th Birthday: Celebration of Life

 

 

It's hard to believe that Landry is 5 years old. Then again, she's so much more mature than the typical 5 year old...most of the time. She has given us so many memories that we will hold dear to our hearts. We look forward to many more.

 

At Landry's school they do what's called the Celebration of Life. The birthday boy or girl carries a small globe around a candle. The candle represents the sun and walking around the sun with the globe represents a year passing. At each year old the girl or boy shares a poster of pictures of their life. The class sings Happy Birthday and has a (healthy) snack brought by the birthday girl or boy.

 

Landry is carrying the globe around the "sun" as the class sings "Here we go around the sun, around the sun, around the sun. Here we go around the sun until the year is done."

 

Now she's sharing her poster of pictures.

 

 

 

 

Also, as a year is done a candle is lit. After all of the candles have been lit they get blown out.

 

 

 

 

Landry is gettting her birthday hugs from Mrs. Masooma.

 

Landry was given the choice of where she wanted her birthday dinner. She chose Red Lobster.

 

Daddy and Landry.

 

 

Mommy and Landry.

 

 

Blowing out more candles as we queitly sang Happy Birthday.

 

Reagan went with us to Red Lobster. She's not in the pictures because she slept almost the whole time we were there.

 

 

Here's a video of the class singing to Landry.

 



Plano Balloon Festival 2012

Eating a picnic supper waiting for the balloons. Reagan slept almost the whole time.

 

Some of the balloons.

 

 

The first balloon inflated and off was the Plano one.

 

Hey, there's something above your heads!

 

Cheese!

 

 

The balloons were so pretty and colorful.

 

They're off!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While we waited for the balloons we were entertained by some skydivers.

 

We look forward to next year's balloon festival.

Heads Up

Ahh, the infamous tummy time. Landry wasn't really a fan. Reagan is ok with it for short amounts of time. She's been practicing and is getting better and better. Here she is at 5 weeks old.

 

After multiple attempts to upload this video into this post I finally had to upload it to youtube. Here's the link:

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYb_s6CtH4&feature=youtu.be

Reagan Marie is here!

Reagan is finally here! Although I must say, this pregnancy went by so quickly. The first trimester was between the end of school and beginning of student teaching, the second trimester was student teaching and the third trimester began with graduation. This was a quick pregnancy for many of you reading this due to our not telling for so long.

 

 

 

Us at the hospital Monday morning, July 30 at 7:15. We arrived a family of 3.

We're happy and excited to meet Reagan!



While Landry was there for a little bit she watched the Disney channel.


 

I played Words with Friends and...

Brad checked the weather for the week. We were a little warm, just a little.
 

Pitocin was started at 8:48 that morning. Noon rolled around and I was 5 centimeters dilated. Dr. Bailey came around 3:30 and broke my water. Boy did that get things going. Things progressed so quickly that Liz, my labor and delivery nurse, almost delivered Reagan. Dr. Bailey literally walked in, into her smock/robe, held her hands out and caught Reagan at 6:28 that evening!

 

Hello Reagan Marie Johnston.

 

Brad and I had a few hours with Reagan by ourselves before Landry came to the hospital to meet her new baby sister.

 

 

Landry immediately loved Reagan.

Landry enjoyed holding Reagan and being all together as a family. She spent Monday night at Mrs. Joanne's house and Tuesday night in the hospital with us.

 

 

We left Wednesday around noon, a family of 4.

Landry couldn't wait to call a friend to share that her baby sister had been born.

 

 

Reagan does alot of this.

 

 

 

 

 

She does wake up here and there.

 

 

 

 

Landry and Daddy gave Reagan her first bath at home.

 

 

 

 

Landry was very gentle and caring.

 

 

 

 

Sweet baby.

 

 

 

 

Sisterly love.

 

 

 

 

Landry even likes holding Reagan. Reagan likes being in her big sister's arms.

 

 

 

 

Good morning!

 

 

 

Cupcakes from the Sip and See some dear friends hosted.

 

 

Reagan at exactly 1 month. Can you believe she's a month old already?!

 

 

 

 

Landry telling Reagan a story.

 

 

 

So precious!