Johns is 30, OUCH!

Johns recently had his big 3-0 birthday!  This is the first time I have seen him bummed about turning a year older.  I have that breakdown every birthday!  I don't enjoy getting older.  I know I am only getting a year further from my prime.  But it was fun to have actually have his birthday in Utah with family around. He has not celebrated a birthday in Utah for 4 years.  My family had a combined Rach and Johns birthday.

Aja was really excited about the cake, can you tell?

This is Aja's first haircut, which was actually done in San Diego the day before we moved.  I have just been a slacker about blogging so I thought I would throw it in.  I tried to get her to read books and not pay attention to the scissors cutting her hair.  I don't want her to associate scissors with cutting hair (every mothers hope).  But I am sure that joyous day will come when I find her with a pair of scissors in her hand and bangs on the back of her head.  She was really cute about the whole thing.  Every time a piece of hair would fall into the sink she would say "Oh no" in such a concerned way!  We cut about 2 inches.

The whole fam celebrating Easter the day after we got home.  Aja loved the Easter egg hunt!

Aja LOVES dress-ups, I hope that does not mean that she will be a girly girl.  But she cannot get enough of them as you can see.  She had about 5 pounds of bling around her neck!

Beth just went to her Senior Prom.  Beth....is graduating????  This is my baby sister!  That is when I realized how long we have been gone.  This is Tanner (Rachel's fiancee) taking over the father position for my Dad who couldn't be there.  Her date doesn't seem to concerned, I think Tanner has to much of a baby face.

Living in UTAH!

I thought I should give a quick update on what we have been up to.  I do not have any access yet to my own computer so I don't have any pictures...sorry!  We are now living in Utah and things are going great.  We moved a week ago and we drove both cars and a mega penske moving truck across 4 states.  PARTAY!  Johns's Dad, Marvin, flew down and drove the moving truck for us.  Then Johns and I each drove one of the cars, but somehow I ended up with both kids in my car... I do not know how I got tricked into that!  The kids were really good up until the last hour of the drive and then they pretty much lost it.  I had a starving 2 month old and a 2-year old screaming "Mipunks" at me which means she wants to watch the Chipmunk Adventure.  But over all everything went quit smoothly considering the Johnson organization skills. 

 

We are living at my parents house until we can find our own.  We actually found a house that we love and are going to look at it again tomorrow.  It is kind of nerve racking buying a house.  It is one thing to look at houses. but its a whole other thing to actually buy a house.  I can't imagine spending that much money!  I thought the rent in Cali was bad.  The house we found is located in Kaysville in a neighborhood across the street from Cherry Hill.  It is a nice neighborhood with a few churches (only in Utah), an elementary school, and a couple parks located in it.  There are also a lot of kids in the area, so that will be fun.  I will let you know if we end up buying the house.

 

Johns begins working out at Salt Lake tower on Thursday.  He got a couple weeks off for the move.  He took a dude trip down to Moab this last weekend to go mountain biking.  They did 4 trails within 2 days.  They all came back pretty beat up, but there were no broken bones or missing teeth, so I was quite happy with the end results.  I hold my breath whenever Johns goes mountain biking.  He had a blast!

Aja loves being in Utah with all our family and friends.  She has never seen so many kids in her life.  There are endless options of kids to play with.  She cannot get enough.  And she gets constant attention from someone in my parents house.  She might be getting a little spoiled. But I guess she has been deprived of the family spoiling her for the last 2 years, so they are just making up for it!

 

Abby is doing good.  We are planning on blessing her within the next couple weeks.  She is getting to be a little bit of a chunk, I love those little arm and leg rolls!  Just like Aja as a baby. She was 11.5 pounds at her 2 month old appt.  She is still colicky in the evening but other than that is a really calm, sweet baby.

 

All is well here in Bount.  I hope all of you are doing great, and I will be checking all your blogs to get caught up with what is going on. 

Bye San Diego, you will be missed!

It has been way to long!  Between moving and getting sucked in to the whole facebook thing, I have not had a chance to post on this.  Things are going good here in Cali.  Of course this week is perfect 75 degree weather and I am stuck in the house packing and cleaning.  And from what I hear I am moving home to snow next week.  Bummer! 

I just wanted to take the chance to say good bye and thanks to all our friends in San Diego...I will miss them a lot!  It is such a bitter-sweet event moving back home.  I am excited to be home with friends and family but sad to say goodbye to everyone here.  We have loved living here and I will miss it a lot.

This is Aja's BF, Heleyna!  They spend a lot of time playing together and Aja asks to play with her daily.  Every time we leave the house she says "layna's"?  She will miss her.

Ammo and Alison, thanks for making the attempt to see us one last time.  Hopefully we will be  making a trip to Santa Barbara soon.

Girls movie night!  I could never get enough of these.

Ms Heleyna and Aja hoping they could have a sleepover.  Heleyna just got a new bed!

Josh and Ariel, thank you again for all the wonderful pics you took for us.  Aja is going to miss Kayla and all her kisses.  We will miss you guys!

Bye Keddingtons!  You have such a cute family, good luck with the new baby.  Sorry we will miss seeing him.

This is all I could get out of Brad in a picture, so this is what he gets!

Dianna, it was fun being prego and baby shower buddies.  It is a blast having kids the same age! Thank you for letting me come hang out so much and for helping with Aja so often.  You and Brad are great parents, I learned a lot from you.  Good luck in New Jersey.

Sue and Cameo, I love you guys!  You were amazing friends and above all, a blast to hang out with.  You were two of my very first friends in San Diego and you made it such a good experience for me.  You were my family away from home.  Thanks!