Home for Chirstmas

It's the most, wonderful time, of the year...
Reid and I hadn't been home to my side since our wedding. It was nice to be home as a family and to get along with my sisters (hey, sisters will be sisters). We left Christmas Eve and got in at 8:30 pm. The flight was really smooth and relatively short. (Thanks Chelsea for taking us!) You know how when you get off the plane, before they let you take off your seat belt, they tell the current time and temperature; well, it was 0 degrees Fahrenheit.. the coldest weather Reid has ever been in. Oh and did he feel it! Once we stepped outside it truly felt like Christmas. Reid said it didn't feel like Christmas because we opened all our presents early at home. When we got home, Jon had put in Big Fish and so we watched that and went to bed, but stayed up till 1am talking to my mom. I didn't hear any reindeer though :( Christmas day finally came, we opened up a few presents and got ready to go to my Aunt Susan's house for lunch/dinner. It's always been a competition between our cousins and us as to who gets to her house first and we won! (I actually don't know if they think that they have to beat the Wiehoff's to Aunt Susan's the way we do.) Auntie Susie took a family picture of us that is below
Dinner was wonderful.. I love ham and potatoes and corn and cookies and these little cream cheese pickle ham wraps.. yum. I think i filled up on snacks before dinner as tradition. We introduced Uncle Shane to Scum. I love Christmas being able to spend time with my family. I wish Reid and I had a ton of time off to be able to go to Alabama and Georgia too.
To keep this from becoming a 900 page novel there is just one last thing I have to mention that I think Ashley and Tim are going to want to hear. Friday was girls night before my grandmother came over for dinner so what did us girls do? Well we went to the movies and saw a great movie.
Guess what I want to start to read and does somebody have the books so that I can borrow them?
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and can't wait to see you soon!

Love,
The Johnson's

This one's for you Chelsea (and everyone else)

I already know, we have totally been slacking! What were we thinking? I feel like I am so busy at work recently (go figure with Christmas and all..) that I haven't been taking any breaks and then I get home and don't take any at home either. Plus when I want to be on the computer, Reid has been studying for his finals... and now he is DONE! I am so excited for that! He has two weeks off of school; he still has to work, but now he wont be doing a ton of homework. We did get to take a break though and have our pictures taken to make Christmas cards. I am so proud that I actually made cards this year even if all I did was take my memory card to Wal-mart and shop for an hour. By the way, thanks again Chelsea for taking them! I didn't make cards last year and decided that I had to this year. So here are some of our favorites!

I was so scared to get up on those logs because it dropped right down.

This is our actual Christmas card picture

And this is our "we're sad we don't get to be with you for Christmas" picture