Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Italy.....Florence....Part 1.

A Beautiful stain glass window, in one of the many Churches in Florence.
Jeff sat on the stairs of an old church and fed the pigeons with Navy.

She thought it was Hilarious!


This is the Duomo of Florence and is the 4th largest cathedral in Europe. It was completed in 1463, and was built completely without scaffolding. It is very ornate and beautiful!



Inside of the Duomo, all of the floors are multi colored marble, and stain glass adorns the walls.




These are the east doors of the Baptistery. they were commissioned in 1401 to mark the city's deliverance for the plaque. It took 18 years to finished these bronze doors that depict 10 different scriptural subjects.





The Arch that lead into the original part of the city.






Shopping in the out door market. There were street after street of exactly the same stuff, at almost exactly the same price.







Tuesday, September 1, 2009

MEI MEI

This is Mei, she was our foreign exchange student from Japan. She stayed with us for 3 weeks this summer, and we had a blast! She is so much fun, and willing to try anything. Our whole family grew to love her so much! We miss her now that she is gone.
We went with another family in our neighborhood to go craw dad fishing in the river. Everyone had a great time.




Mei, Satomi, and Nozomi, fixed our families a traditional Japanese dinner, complete with sushi.








Our family with Mei on our last night together at Pirate Island Pizza. We now consider Mei part of our family!










Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ice cream!!!!!!!

After family night we all enjoyed an ice cream treat!

Olivia with her Ice cream!

Aubri with her ice cream!


This is a true story..........James lost a tooth eating ice cream.....I think that is worse than losing a tooth eating a banana.







Bad Dad gave Navy her first taste of Ice Cream, I think that she loved it!










Tuesday, August 18, 2009

My favorite pictures of Navy!

Thanks to my sister in law Skye, who took these awesome pictures of Navy when she was 9 months old. How lucky am I to have a professional photographer in the family!!!! Navy and Saylor in June.

































Olivia turns 9!!!

Olivia turned 9 on June 20th!
All she wanted was an Ipod and she got it!!!


Her friends, Sydnee, Aubree, Sami and Chelsea!





Monday, August 17, 2009

Trip to Mesquite Nevada for a little get away!!!!

The Johansen and Clark kids at the pool in Mesquite!! It was a fun few days for the kids to play in the sun, with our great family friends.
James coming down the water slide!!

Zach and Cade playing with guys next to the pool.


Navy hanging out by the pool!




Olivia coming down the water slide!



Aubri heading into the pool!







Great Grandpa Jay with Aubri and Olivia.






The month for Weddings....June

April, the beautiful bride.
The Steed girls.

Grana and Gramdpa Steed sitting by the waterfall.


The guys.



The Girls.



Our Family