Luke's Baptism!!!

I still can't believe Luke is old enough to be baptized!

Or that I'm old even to have a kid being baptized!

Luke's baptism was a beautiful day.

He had a lot of family and friends on his special day.
He was so excited, but a little nervous too.

Matt was able to baptize him.

Luke's silly little feet, floated up during his baptism, so he had to get "re-dunked."

The witnesses were his two righteous grandpa's. 

Aunt Sarah played the piano and Aunt Adrienne lead the music.

Grandma Clark gave a great talk as well!

And Grandpa Johnson gave the closing prayer.

Luke was confirmed by his dad, who gave him a beautiful blessing.

Afterwards we gathered at our house for dessert!

We're SO proud of our little Lukey, and his choice to get baptized!

Christmas 2015

This year, I was put in charge of doing the decorations for our Ward Adult Christmas Party!
Insanely, we had NO budget. :)

But who needed a budget anyway? Most of my stuff didn't cost much.

I had so much fun putting this together.

We were given these awesome logs, that my dad so kindly cut for us.

The tables with lanterns, were borrowed. And then I basically foraged for the rest.

 Some of the pinecones were sprayed gold or glitter gold.

 It smelled so good and looked amazing!
We also had a live band playing that night. What a fun, special night it was!

Our First Christmas in our new home!

We had a pretty great Christmas in our new home! 

We're so thankful for our Savior, and for these cuties!

James' Blessing Day

Finally, we blessed James!

With James being born on the 1st of the month, Matt's schedule and General Conference, 

we haven't had the chance to bless him until now. We've never blessed such a big baby before!

He's also just turned 4 months old!

It was a much different experience than we've had with the other two.

We didn't have any family here. I was a little sad about that. 

Thankfully we have a great ward, with lots of friends and "family" 

there. Just so I remember Matt had our friends Allan Belcher, Trey Banbury, 

Ben Larson, and Bishop Weight (aka my Ob doc) in the circle.

We invited Matt's attending, Dr. Weight, who is also my OB and delivered Devin and 

James (well, his feet :) and is also a Bishop on the west side of Cleveland. He and 

his wife came for the blessing. I guess you could say they were our "parents" 

for the day. We were happy they could come. 

After lots of rain the past few days, it turned out to be a gorgeous fall day.

Matt did a beautiful job on the blessing. I'm so thankful for this healthy baby boy of ours, for a beautiful family that Heavenly Father has blessed us with and for a husband who holds the Priesthood

and could give our little James his blessing. 

This was the best family pic we got.... :)

On our way home from church we stopped at a park to take some more photos.

 James is SUCH a happy baby!!!

He's very social. He's always smiling and chuckling and 

sometimes even full on belly laughing.

He's a great little sleeper!!! 

And, he likes everyone, but I'd say he definitely is a mama's boy....well for now. :) 

 I just love those big brown eyes and I'm pretty sure those funny little pointy ears are a Johnson thing. 

 It won't be long until he's running wild with his silly big brothers!

[a house full of boys]

Tootin' my own little horn.

In our ward I am the Relief Society Activity Leader-person (I can never remember the correct name for it). Basically, I'm over all the activities. And I have a lovely and amazing committee that helps me! :)

Well, last night was the debut of our Fall dinner, that has been weeks in the making! 

So much planning and preparation and then....BAMB it's over.

But, it ended up being a wonderful night and we had a great turnout too.

I feel like I am a fairly simple person, so I tried to keep this simple, but I wanted it to be very nice too. Our RS President told us that she wanted it to be a very special night and a night that the women in our ward felt like it was worth leaving their homes to attend. 

The theme was really just Fall and a little bit of Daughters In My Kingdom book.

 It was a progressive dinner. So after each course the women would rotate to another table. Each table is numbered and each place setting was numbered. If you sat at 3, after your course you would move and sit at table 3, and so on.

 For dessert we had 3 different kinds of brownies. 

Chocolate Mint.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip.

Peanut Butter Blondies.

It was A LOT of work, but worth it in the end.
Love the RS and love those lovely ladies. 

The Garden's at the Kirtland Temple

On Sunday afternoon while my parent's were in town, we visited the Kirtland Temple. It was a lovely day!

The flowers were just gorgeous. No peeps in these pics. More from their visit later on.

Mom, now you can pin these! Haha jk. :)