So this summer, Johnathan turned one year old!!! Here are some pictures we took during our celebrations.
Showing my son just how to demolish a cake.
eating his first cake EVER. on his actual birthday.
yes, this is the cake that was GOING to be in the shape of a car...then I gave up and put cars on it haha.
loves his cake.
For his birthday, Grandpa H. gave Johnathan a Cars2 mat, but was unable to attend the birthday party. Dad, this is a picture of him right after we let him get on it. though, the first thing he did was start pulling it apart...and even now, if I were to put him on it, he'd start pulling it apart...and then play with the pieces.
Thomas the Tank engine from Mark and Sonia. :)
Johnathan got a lot of really fun presents. He has enjoyed playing with them all. Thank you to all who attended and made the day quite happy.
Also, we celebrated the fourth of July. 
And Albert's mom and sisters came over for Pioneer Day (and just for fun too.)
Johnathan likes it when Kimmi feeds him
banana mustache...and beard...
playing with Sammi and Melissa
couldn't get them all to smile at the same time.
:)
Oh what a cute happy baby.
playing in the grass (which he is no longer afraid of.)
he's decided that he likes playing on the sidewalk more than the grass still...despite the fact that it's super hot.
loves his strawberries...still...I gave him a whole one
and he put the whole thing in his mouth.
Some mornings, when Albert gives me enough warning of when he's going to be getting home, I'm able to greet my husband with a spread like this...
home-made pancakes, home-made syrup (don't let the Aunt Jamima bottle fool you), scrambled eggs (fried eggs didn't work out haha), toast with REAL butter on it, bacon cooked EXTRA crispy (just the way he likes it), peaches (mostly for me...they weren't ripe enough for him), and of course SALT!
Trying to get a good picture of Johnathan in his suit for my mom...little bugger wouldn't smile when I wanted him to smile
Albert stole half of the salad and put it on his baked potato.
See mom he DOES eat healthy! (and I have his permission to post this one haha)
-Johnathan has started to walk...a lot...still only a few steps at a time, but he's doing it more and more frequently.
-You know how in the movies when the wife is about to tell the husband something that'll make him mad/upset, she gives him cake or pie? Well, in our family, that's lasagna...Albert has discovered that he cannot stay upset at me if he's got a plate of my lasagna in front of him...I have decided to always keep some for emergencies. :)
-Albert was recently told that if he keeps going with the way he's eating and gets down to a certain weight, his diabetes could go away.
-He also found out that his diabetes has had NO effect on his eye sight (which is WONDERFUL)
-I've decided to finish a story. like for reals. and I'm going to try to finish it by the end of this year...but for sure by my next birthday. :)
-Johnathan's new favorite phrase: "bah!" he says this usually when I'm on the phone and am telling the person goodbye. it is also his response when I tell him to tell daddy bye when I have Albert on speaker phone. :) too cute.
-he still likes to talk a lot...and kind of sing sometimes too. :) also, screaming...he likes screaming
-I tried to make tres leches cake from scratch and it TASTED good...but when Albert first saw it he asked why I'd made flan. :P maybe next time I'll do better...if there is a next time...
-I got a pay raise for working at the library for 3 years (can't believe it's been 3 years already)
-Sometimes my husband throws "temper tantrums"...like when he really wanted a book on CD from the library that we were behind the person in line for and it was the last day for them to pick it up before we got it...and then they picked it up. I brought him the book and he wasn't THAT happy about it at the start...but right now he's laying on the downstairs couch dividing his time between watching the Olympics and reading the book. :)
-We gave Johnathan some peanut butter for the first time
In the end he decided he liked it.
-I got called to be on the extra Relief Society Meetings committee. (oo! don't you wish you were in MY ward!)
-Albert got called as the 13-year-old Sunday School teacher and taught his first lesson last Sunday...I feel like the boys responded well to him...the girl who is in the class wasn't there.
-We have a bunch of apples that are soon to go bad, so I may be making an apple crisp...seeing as we'll be leaving for VA soon and we don't want rotten apples in our house...yuch!
-Yesterday Albert got home late...and found out that his lab that was going to last 24-48 hours long was cancelled AGAIN because all of the cancer cells got contaminated and I had to tell my sister "never mind on babysitting" AGAIN...so he brought me churros (I love churros...like a lot!...almost as much as I love chocolate) :) Yesterday was a good day. : D
Overall, we're still good, still happy, still loving each other. We don't really have anything to complain about, which is a big blessing. We are blessed if we pay a full tithing! <-our testimony continues to be strengthened about that. So yeah, life is wonderful! I have to switch laundry over. So I bid you all good night/day, and wish you happy happenings in your lives.
