Johnson Annual Halloween Hayride...2007

already posted this but i liked his face better tonight..ha!

and couldnt leave Gene out!

cutest firefighter EVER!!! NO DOUBT!

the winiest "Cindiwella" i know!

my pretty little kitty!



anxiously awaiting trick-or-treating!

little boys just make me crazy...look how freaking cute these two are!!!

trick or treat!?

okay so the funny thing about this pic is DAJ in action....doesnt phase him that he is sporting a swiss milk maid dress w/ an air vent pumping and a wendy's blonde look alike plastic wig (possibly even had it on backwards)....and look at Mimi (one of his little chickens--the one by him in the blue dress....NOTHING AT ALL IS ABNORMAL TO HER EITHER! she's just hangin' w/daddy-o)...love the tennies and socks w/the dress too!

at one point in the evening they were turning cartwheels in the road

as the hayride stopped to the tune of "Thriller" blaring...really.

so a fun time was had by all...but everyone of course missed Jill (she stayed in philly w/hutt....spent the day taping tootsie roll pops to her ivs and posing her w/candy bars...ha!---yes, perhaps she is a bit stir crazy but it did make for some funny first halloween pics if i do say so myself..ha!)....All the while, half of Knoxville was feasting on EITHER David or Shannon's chili...can't have both as it has turned into a "cookoff" between those two...For those of you who know David...realize that only DJ would walk into kmart ON halloween and come out w/ the psumo swiss maid and hippo bikini costumes....that is only a few certain people would dare to wear this soooo they were on clearance TODAY---but lucky for him..these were probably very close to EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR! ....Anyway, i could go on and on but a fun time was of course had by all and thought you'd enjoy a good laugh at some of these pics...pardon the poor pics....not a great "night photographer".

Because I don't want to hear..."told you so"....

to ALL of my co-workers, clients, close friends, family that tried to tell me, i just wanted to tell YOU that you "told ME so" and you couldnt have hit the nail on the head more! Of course i am only giving you the credit so i dont hear "i tried to tell you...blah blah blah"...ha! yep, i am a moron....wont happen again though....i can guarenTEE (no pun intended) YOU THAT ONE! Em's back and wait till you see what she's got in store! LITERALLY! Lots of fun halloween from the Johnson's annual hayride to be posted soon....check back cause you'll laugh your butt off!

Haydn Simmons "or" Gene Tanner in the making!

okay, so this was HYSTERICAL! yep, my 9 year old decides he wants to be gene simmons! niiiccce...but you know i have grown to love gene and the simmons family jewels show...so we whipped it up...i think i did a pretty darn good job on the face! just thought id share...not sure we have a normal kid that decides to be luke skywalker, darth vadar or something like that...it was between the notre dame leprechan, bruce pearl, or gene simmons!? what the heck!

It's Closing in on us...

the holidays are swiftly approaching...just a reminder that b/c i have a whole xtra biz this year i am only taking on "so many" shoots so you had better get booked! I am already starting to "freak out" a tad bit...but i do plan on getting all caught up this weekend on the card orders that are making me nervous...Okay, so you'll probably want to get used to this face (pic above) b/c this kid takes "amazing" photographs and i may just plaster them all over knoxvegas bc/ there are sooooo many i love...good thing i've known her for a long time and have a personal friendship w/them b/c i may just hang them in my house too b/c i like the pics sooo much...ha! how funny would that be...ill have haydn, hadly, henry, hildy & keeleigh hanging over the couch! who knows, i really love them-and i love her too! okay, tired and giddy...later all. em

uh-oh ive been tagged...

okay, so i think i am supposed to list 8 interesting facts about myself? Not sure i am all that interesting...but i'll give er' a shot:

1. I vacationed in the Caymans growing up and always told my dad i wanted to move there and work as a "waitress on the beach"...well, i did it while at UT w/ my friend Steph and told my roomies i was going to find my husband bc all the guys i dated in college sucked...they of course all thought i was nuts...but about 6 months laters he followed me home....4 kids later...here we are! Sometimes i think he secretly wants to escape back to the island! ha.

2. I AM CRAZY! Seriously i know some of my closest friends know and i have discussed but if i try and do things out of order during the day I CANT! I normally ship stuff out in the morning..the other day i had a meeting and went home in the afternoon and bc it wasnt "emtanner shipping hours" i could NOT do it...really not exaggerating....I repeat I AM CRAZY!

3. I am CRAZY For the smell of rubber tires (like in the big you know "tire stores")....okay this will really prove how crazy i am...i noticed this when pregnant w/the twins...i would go to work w/Kris (it was a tractor place that smelled like this) and just disappear and go huff rubber tires...Kris knew about this but i did it discreetly....i still do it! i mean i want to run over to the wal-mart tire dept. just typing about this...so NOT KIDDING about this either! If I could just make Yankee candle come out w/the rubber tire scent i'd be in HEAVEN!!

4. I prefer plastic silverware for ALL meals bc i cannot stand for metal to touch metal...i cant even be in a room during the holidays when everyone is cutting up food...at my parents everyone knows NOT to do this but when more people are around i just try and disappear rather than try and explain this wierd obsession...So excited...Kris just brought home 600 plastic spoons that werent used from a work seminar or something..yea!

5. I was supposed to be crippled...the doctors told my mom i wouldnt be able to walk bc of how i was doubled over while she was pregnant...came out and fooled them all! Havent stopped since...pretty sure after they saw what i was like that was why they decided to make me an "only child"...dad tells me this all the time..he also used to tell me my "real dad" was coming to pick me up...he would seriously let me get a suitcase and bawl! and his brother told me santa got killed on 411 (the kingston pike in maryville)...hell, no wonder i turned out like i did!

6.I have had maybe 8-10 zits EVER in my whole life! and i DIDNT get ONE SINGLE stretch mark after having 4 babies (and a twin pregnancy)...thanks mom!!--dr. newton says genetics is the only explanation for this one!

7. i am soooooooo totally addicted to diet dr. pepper....i am not even going to reveal how much of it i drink a day! cant even begin to function until after 2 of them in the morning!

8. EVERY NIGHT i lock myself in the bathroom and sit it my HOT HOT (i mean i look like i am scalded) cast iron (so it stays HOT...i think that's what it is called...cast iron???) tub and read either people or US or flip through catalogs or read photoshop mags/books for about 2 solid hours...i keep redrawing water and everyone in the house knows this is OFF LIMITS...they all leave me be! have always taken a bath...every night of my life!! get it from my auntie linda i think! in fact headed to watch the Hills and then retire to "the tub"...good night! egt