The Jansson Family

2009-10-06T15:56:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more pictures Mark.

2009-10-06T15:42:00.001-07:00

Here are a few pictures of the house. I forgot to take pictures of the downstairs because well it was a crazy weekend. Hope this helps Mark!

The Air up There!!!!!

2009-07-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

So today after the balloons Lori and I decided to take Emily and go hike timp We drove over and arrived about 8:15am .Lori took Emily to the bathroom and I went to buy the tickets. Mind you the last time I was at timp I was on a third grade field trip. So I went to buy the tickets. the ranger asks if I want the next available tour I say Yes. He starts to assist someone else and his co worker finished up helping me. they told me that it would 8:50am I assumed that was the time of our tour. So we go outside and realize we only have 30 minutes to the top. AHHHHH!!! Lori, Emily and I start trekking it up the mountain. Did I mention that the trail is 1 1/2 miles to the top at a 6% incline. UGH! So we basically run up the mountain with very few stops. (yes I was the lucky one carrying all the bottles of water that we had no time to drink on our way up!) We walk and walk encouraging each other the whole time. We finally make it to the top 45 minutes later, profusely sweating and exchange sighs of relief. We stop laugh and drink a little beverage. The tour guide then says that she has room for 4 more people in the tour. I let her know we would like to go on her tour because we were late and missed our tour by fifteen minutes she looks at our ticket and surprise, surprise our tour time was really 10:20AM. So we ran up the dang mountain for nothing. A hike that should have taken us an hour and a half to climb only took us half the time. So let this be a lesson to everyone. READ YOUR TICKET !!!!! In hind sight. Emily did amazing in keeping up with no complaints and Lori and I now feel a huge sense of accomplishment in doing such a long hard hike in half the time.

Our 4th of July Adventure

2009-07-04T12:18:00.000-07:00

So today is the 4th of July and we were up bright and early with the sun. How early? 5:20 am Why you ask? Provo's annual balloon fest. This is our second year. There are bout 20 balloons it is so worth it. The girls were such troopers this morning. As you can see we had happy moments Gillian had a sad moment, I didn't think a lip could go out so far. This was such a fun experience it is such an awesome sight to see all the balloons in the sky just a the sun is rising.

Our day of fun

2009-06-24T19:35:00.000-07:00

So today was the first day we got to use or 7 peaks passes it was around 86 degrees. So we were definitely excited to spend some of the the day in the water and sun. I am determined to get at least a light tan. I think it will be harder than I think. My dad deflated my sister and I. when we got home he said we looked like we had been bleached white! nothing new I am used to white. Anyway we had a good time at the water park until it got crowded. The beautiful thing about season passes is that you don't feel like you have to stay all day!!! The rest of today was spent with Lori doing the girls hair. cuts and color. They are pretty in Pink and they absolutely love there hair.!!!! I can only imagine what people are going to say about me letting the girls get pink hair. I think they look cute and it was fun to watch the excitement on there face when they saw there hair.

We Made It

2009-06-21T21:40:00.000-07:00

Well I made it through a very long difficult week, thank you to all my wonderful friends who helped me so much you will never know how thankful I am for your help and friendship.
After some long hours of driving we finally made it to Utah!!! We are happy to be here and are able to relax it feels great.

2009-06-19T21:47:00.000-07:00

Well today is Friday. The girls had fun helping grandpa with mowing the lawn and enjoyed every minute of it.

We also went to the strawberry days rodeo, we had a good time we enoyed our strawberries and cream ( and one for you Jackie) the girls and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I had to leave to take gillian home early. She was pretty tired and her eye was looking not so good. Poor Gillian ended up with pink eye. We travel and she gets pink eye lame we are all hoping we don't get it. We have enjoyed our time in spite of this eye issues.

Gillians moving up ceremony

2009-06-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

I am sure anyone reading this is in shock that I am actually doing a blog!! Miracles do happen.

So I have promised Mark that I will be better at keeping a blog and keeping him up to date with all the things the girls and I are doing this summer. So what better day to start than Gillian's pre-school graduation. I can't believe that she is going to be in kindergarten next school year. I think I look forward to it and at the same time it will be interesting to have both children gone at school all day. I guess It would be a good time for me to start getting a life.

Anyway today was Gillian's "graduation" and the ceremony had started. The kids were being called up one by one and what happens when it's Gillian's turn? Well at the precise moment she was called up her name tag on her chair came of, she looks at me like her world had ended and she didn't know what to do. She is just staring at me the teacher and all the kids keep calling her name to go up to the front of the class. She just sits there paralyzed and big tears start to well up in her eyes. I keep reassuring her that it will be OK that her name tag came off her chair. my reassurances were obviously not good enough. the teacher had to come over with tape and put her name tag on her chair before she would go up in front of the class. then when she gets up there my camera freezes and I miss the picture well sort of. Anyway always an adventure when it concerns Gillian. Over all it was really fun to watch her moving on to the big time.

Halloween

2008-10-31T11:06:00.000-07:00

My cute little sister flew in this weekend to spend Halloween with us. I also put her to work cutting hair but that is another story. What a cool aunt she dressed up as Snow White to go trick or treating with the girls.

Gillian as you can see was a ballerina and Emily was the skeleton bride, boy was she in character.

Gillian can't quite be serious in pictures I wonder where she got that from?????

This was Mark's first Halloween home in two years. It was so nice to have him home. I think he had a lot of fun also. He did Emily's makeup and carved pumpkins with the girls he even go creative with the projector. projecting The Nightmare before Christmas through the sliding glass door onto the outside wall while the trick or treaters came. We even had jack the pumpkin king as one of our pumpkins!

The pumpkin Patch

2008-10-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

We decided to go to the pumpkin patch with a few friends we had a good time all except the annoying rain. As you can see the pumpkin patch was a bit muddy. I was a very memorable day!

Fun in Mexico

2008-09-12T10:17:00.000-07:00

They turned down our bed and put Hershey kisses on the bed spread.

The views from our room.

On September 5, 2008 we headed off to Mexico that's right just Mark and I. I guess you could call it our 12 year anniversary present to ourselves. We arrived at our hotel at about 9pm and it was so beautiful. My picture doesn't do it justice.

We checked in to our room that had a splendid view. We spent time at the beach. We spent a ton of time shopping. and eating and shopping. etc. etc. etc. On Sunday we went to Xel Ha (shell Ha) an Eco park they had swimming with dolphins snorkeling and much more. We spent half a day there then headed of to some Mayan ruins. Did I say it was so stinking hot. The ruins were awesome.

we had an amazing day. By the time we got back to the hotel we were exhausted. We had one more really warm day after this and then the weather got overcast due to the hurricane moving up the gulf of Mexico. We did however enjoy the rest of our time in Mexico.

2008-08-30T22:00:00.000-07:00

So I have not blogged in quite sometime as so many of my friends pointed out. So I am going to travel back in time and blog about things that have happened in the last several months. Mark came home from a four and a half month deployment at the end of August. A few days after he came home we had both of our parents come and stay, for Emily's baptism. The baptism was beautiful . After the baptism we hopped on a ferry and headed over to Seattle to take in the sights. We had a delicious lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, then headed down to pikes market to watch them throw fish and to buy gorgeous flowers.

Fourth of July

2008-07-04T16:01:00.001-07:00

Today we woke up at 5:30am to go see the hot air balloons in Provo I guess people come from all over the country to participate in the fourth of July hot air balloon race and games. It was pretty cool to see. The girls have never seen one up close but today they got to see 17 up close.

Fun with the cousins

2008-06-29T15:48:00.000-07:00

we went down to Spanish Fork today and visited with the cousins and aunts. The girls had a lot of fun. Emily and Gillian got to see their cousins they haven't seen in about a year. I played I think it is called rock band? Anyway I now realize why I never played and instrument can you say no rhythm. I did finally get the hang of the bass after a few songs and on the lowest level.

New Haricuts

2008-06-26T15:26:00.000-07:00

So today my sister cut the girls hair. they look so cute! I have at last found a haircut to tame Gillian's crazy curly hair in the back. She ran around all day telling everyone she has a stacked A line.

Emily's Party

2008-06-14T22:29:00.000-07:00

Today Emily had her birthday party. She won't be here on the 23rd when her real birthday is. She really wanted to be able to have a party with her friends. She had a pretty good time. It looks like her friends did also. Thank goodness birthdays only come once a year!!! I forget how hectic they can be. I did enjoy watching the kids bowl, and the happy smiles on their faces.

This is our famlies new blog.

2008-06-07T18:13:00.000-07:00

I am finally writing something in my blog. Jackie and Katie are holding my hand and showing me how. So now I won't have such a lame blog.