Christmas and all that Jazz.....Jr. Jazz..that is

I can't believe that Christmas is only 16 days away....where the heck did the time go??? The last time I looked, I was sitting down with my family for Thanksgiving dinner now here it is rapidly approaching Christmas and I feel that I am going around and around in circles and not getting anything done...well, I guess that is not true...I do have my Christmas tree up, along with my Christmas village and most of the packages wrapped...Harley is one freak'n spoiled boy....but the gingerbread house is not done...and this year I wanted to count down the days in a special way with Harley and did I get a change to even get started on that....NOPE!! So does that make me a slow mom or an unprepared mom?? I so hope not. I am hoping that Christmas will come even with out the advent calendar done and my hopes of a gingerbread house finished. Every year we have done one....it is now one of our "Johnson" Traditions....it is so much fun making up new traditions every year.

This year we were able to put up our Christmas tree together and we were even able to listen to Christmas music while we did it. Dave has a thing against Christmas music, but I was happy that he let us listen to it this year. It was a lot of fun to have Harley help us put up all of the tree ornaments this year. The only sad thing that happened this year with the Christmas tree was that half of our lights went out on it...what do you expect from a tree that is eight years old. Dave said that it was ok, because we had color lights that we could cover up and then next year I get to buy a new tree!!! YIPPEEE!!!! FOR ME!!!

So, an update on Harley::

Harley started karate about 2 months ago and has now have three stripes on his belt and on this Saturday he will be testing for his yellow belt. I am so freak'n proud of him. He has been working really hard at learning everything from his instructor and he has now told me that he would like to be a karate instructor when he gets bigger. It is so funny to see him practice with his Daddy....if Dave tries out a move and he does it wrong Harley is right there to tell him he is doing it wrong and then he shows him the right way to do it. It is great to see how much he has learned in such a little amount of time...

Besides the Karate on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Harley also goes to the gym with us and works out, well, actually he plays with other kids in the gym in the daycare...he loves doing this and has been such a little motivator for me. I have a hard time really wanting to go and exercise, but for him I will do anything. He always tells me in the morning what we are going to be doing that night....Mondays = gym, Tuesdays = karate, Wednesdays=gym, Thursdays=karate....oh, yea Saturdays = gym and now Junior Jazz.....

Starting in December, Harley has been enrolled in Junior Jazz....it was so much fun to see him working on what the instructors have been telling the boys about basketball. Harley told me that he was going really slow dribbling the ball down the court because he was listening to his instructor and wanted to do it just right because he is the best basketball player ever. Oh, yea...that is my son alright. Best at everything. Harley has a couple of friends that also plays on his team. Brandon's son (the other attorney in our office) Andrew is on Harley's team. These are some pictures that I took during their first team game. They have a couple of whole team practices and then about the third or forth game they will play against each other. I had a lot of fun watching Harley and how he was really trying to do things just the way the
coach told him to do.

I told Harley that he should get number 34 jersey because that is how old his Daddy was and of course he loved that idea a lot.

Ok, Now it is time for me to sign off...going to gym with Hubby....more to come as Christmas comes near!!!