Summer

Hi all!

The Eyes have had a busy summer, despite no official vacation this year! Sorry I haven't posted sooner, but we are short staffed at work and I am pretty much catatonic after dinner! LOL The kids went and stayed with my parents for 6 weeks the beginning of the year. Nathan and I took advantage of the time off and went for a weekend to visit Amy and Chris in San Antonio. We spent that Saturday down at the wax museum, the Ripley's museum, a haunted house, a 3-D ride, and the Guiness World Record museum. It was really fun to be goofy and act like kids! I think I might have actually turned the haunted house into a comedy, since I basically screamed from the moment the door closed until we walked out! Whether it was scary or not! LOL I don't take suspense very well, just ask Amy and Chris! LOL

Just a couple of weeks after that my nephew Tobin was born. I had the great joy of seeing him 3 weekends in a row! I love that sweet baby! He is such a doll!

All the Mapp kids got together the weekend of July 4th. Nathan and Crystal were in from Missouri, so we all invaded Mom and Dad's house and loafed around for a weekend. We were hoping to spend the weekend in the pool, but rain from Hurricane Alex drenched those plans! We finally were able to get the kids in for a bit Saturday, in the drizzle. We had fun playing poker and watching movies on the big screen provided by Nate and Chris. There are too many pics to choose from for that weekend! There are many more on Facebook.

Last weekend we went over to Pearland to help celebrate Kristy (Seth's wife) birthday. Seth and her friend, Dana, decided to throw a joint b-day party for Kristy and Eric, Dans's husband. They threw a kids-themed party with princesses and dinosaurs, complete with a giant, inflatable slip-n-slide. Boy was that fun!! We were acting like a bunch of kids on that thing! What was really pathetic was waking up sore the next day....FROM A SLIP-N-SLIDE!! LOL We ARE getting old!! LOL

All right peeps! Go check out my Facebook page for many more photos of family fun. We have another big event coming up at the end of the month- the Johnson family reunion!

Wow! It's been way too long since I posted here! I apologize! We have had a very busy last two months. Amy (my sis) got married April 24th, so we have been on the go a lot lately. This coming weekend is the first weekend we've had in a while with NO PLANS!!!! :) Well, except one. I plan on staying in my pj's all weekend! LOL

Hannah and Micah were both in Amy's wedding. Hannah was a junior bridesmaid and Micah was the ring bearer. My neices, Sophia and Olivia, were her flower girls. All the kids were very adorable and did their jobs beautifully! Micah did extremely well and stood with the groomsmen for most of the ceremony. Here 's a picture of the big day. We are waiting for Amy to post the rest!

A couple of weeks after the wedding, Hannah and I had a girl's night out and I surprised her with tickets to Little House on the Prairie, the musical! It was the first time I have been to the theater also, and we had so much fun. The package I won at auction included a gift certificate for a restaraunt in the lobby of the Hobby Center. When Hannah and I walked into the restaraunt, her jaw dropped! LOL It was a very upscale eatery and we were led a super cozy table for two. The waiter suggested a Shirley temple for Hannah, which she loved! She felt so grown up with her little "cocktail" and the fancy settings. The show was really wonderful and we enjoyed ourselves so much we are going to try to see Wicked when it comes back to Houston in October. We weren't allowed to take photos in the theater, so I don't have any pics to attach, but Hannah looked very grown up dressed for the theater!

Last weekend we drove to San Antonio to go to a second wedding reception for Amy and Chris. His parents hosted one for them so their San Antonio friends and family could attend, since some of them weren't able to attend the wedding. Amy and Chris have a sweet little apartment in north San Antonio. The reception that night was very nice and we were glad to get to spend some time with Chris and Amy.

Some fun pics:

Hannah and Micah are getting out of school soon. Micah has his big kindergarten graduation on the 25th! I can't believe my little baby is getting so big! As soon as I get his grad pics back I will scan it in and post it here!

Hannah

After much waiting and patience, Hannah finally achieved it!! She got her ears pierced!! Yay Hannah! She is so grown up now, with her long, lovely hair, her Uggs and sassy dresses, and her beautiful pink crystal and gold earrings. Sometimes we look at her and wonder just what happened to our baby! She also participated in a cheerleading mini-camp at TCS. The varsity cheer squad entertained the girls and taught them three cheers. They performed for us at the varsity basketball game this past Tuesday. They had so much fun and Hannah did so well, using her personality to the fullest! Here are a few pics of Hannah, our growing up baby!

Things

2010 has gotten off to a very interesting start this year! I'm looking forward to the weddings- both Amy and Katie have asked Hannah to be a junior bridesmaid and Micah to be the ring-bearer! Hannah is over the moon about being in two weddings in one year! :) She was a flower-girl twice when she was little, but a jr. bridesmaid is sooo much cooler! LOL She's at that age where little girls start dreaming of "when I grow up". She is starting to talk about "when I get married" and making my heart palpitate! :) Nathan was asked to be a groomsman in Matthew's wedding, too, so it will be a family affair.
Amy's wedding has been moved up to April 24th, so they are in high gear with the planning. She asked me to be coordinate the ceremony and processional. I guess she thinks I might be good at bossing people around or something! LOL :D Who'da thought?? :D I'm also going to help Sara with the bachelorette party/lingerie shower. We have some really great ideas! ;)
This past week at the office we have been training for our big EMR switch. I think we are ready to go green! It's taking us longer to room the patients, but it will get better with some experience. The software is really great, and once we get used to it, we will be able to send prescriptions directly to the pharmacy (no more written prescriptions for the patients to lose), fax consult notes to the PCPs, and print/fax all orders for labs, etc. We won't need a pen for anything! LOL If we don't go stark raving mad before that point! :) My boss is not the most technically savvy guy, so it was a rough week. I think he is seeing hope for himself, though! He even said it might not be a disaster after all! LOL
The bad part of the whole thing is that my blood pressure spiked again. It was high all week and on Friday, after a freak-out by the boss, it was 150/96. Not good. Going to have to go back on my diet again and drop a few pounds, since that always seems to reign it in. I did gain about 3 pounds over the holidays, which put me over the magic number my BP seems to like. As long as I don't go over that point, it will stay down; but BP has proved again that my body does not like to be any heavier. Great. I need to lose more this time so there is a bigger grace-period! LOL Nathan and I have been considering adopting a vegetarian diet during the week and having chicken or fish on the weekends. We aren't quite ready to go completely veg, but I think it wouldn't be too hard to be majority veg. Mom and Dad have been following the McDougal diet and she has several really good recipes for vegan meals. Nathan and I are both ready for a change. The things that worked for us before regarding our diet aren't working anymore and we are getting frustrated.
Ok! I guess this post is long enough and totally devoid of any really interesting topics! :) Just the ramblings of a woman up way past her bedtime! Night everyone!!

Pics from Christmas

I realized I never posted any pics from Christmas! Here a few shots of our fun times:



If you want more, I'm gonna upload the full folder to FB. :) Hope everyone is having a happy start to 2010!!