Allow myself to introduce...myself. Abigail Elise Johnson

Abigail is here and lovin it. And she is adorably adorable. She was born on Monday Feb. 2 at 2:48 pm at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla California. Steph performed like a champ in the delivery (Johnson had a much less spectacular showing- he spent most of the time in the bathroom and then in the ER but thats a whole other ridiculous story) and is loving the fact that she is a now mommy of three kids. We decided that Abby and Aja look like little twiners as babies, but you can all be the judge of that. We love our new little addition to our family. And she's such a stinkin cutie!

Aja's 2nd Birthday!

Aja had a birthday this last week and is 2 years old!  My kids are only going to be 2 years and a week apart.  Not very good planning on my part.  I have Christmas and then 3 weeks later I have 2 birthdays. Maybe I can combine their birthday parties.  Because kids are really cool about sharing stuff like that, right!  The highlight of the night was when Aja started her hair on fire!  It took her a minute to figure out the candle blowing thing. Once she figured it out we had to do it 10 times, she loved it.

She actually had more fun painting her face with the frosting than actually eating the cake.  She is more of an ice cream kind of girl.  We made her a bear cake because she has a thing for bears. She probably has 8 stuffed animal bears, and we have to take them everywhere with us.  

Here is the shocked look on her face when mom starting freaking because her hair was on fire. Luckily she didn't get hurt, it was really funny.  It is kind of hard to tell in this picture but the bottom middle part of her bangs are a melted black blob.  

We took her to the Wild Animal Park for her birthday!

I just had to add this picture.  Aja put my long white socks on, she thought she looked  pretty cool.  And this is her little guilty face because she knows she is not supposed to be playing on our computer.  Which means that is exactly what she spends half the day trying to do!

Update on the new baby!

Sooo...update on the future Johnson baby!  What to say?  Well, right now we are planning on me being induced on January 30th.  I am not due until Feb 6th but there have been a few minor problems going on that have my OB feeling it would be safer to take the baby at 39 weeks instead of waiting for full term.  I just finished up work this last weekend (YAAAAA!) and am planning on having the baby by next Friday.  I have been going to the OB twice a week for the last few weeks and he is putting me on a fetal monitor and checking my amniotic fluid.  You all thought the once a week appts were bad, try going twice a week.  So far everything has been fine, and we are going for the 39 week mark.  But if there are any complications before my induction date they will induce me that day.  The OB concerns are that my stomach is measuring about 8 centimeters smaller than it should be, and I haven't gained weight for about 2 months.  And after doing an ultrasound about 2 weeks ago, he said that my placenta is wearing out early.  Yipee!  So just to be safe we are going to force little Abby out in about a week and a half.  So there is the low-down for you all.   Other than that things are great!  We will keep up updated.

THE FOUR CHRISTMASES- #1 The Rupp Christmas

We had four Christmases this year...I wouldn't say they were quite as chaotic as the four chrismases in the movie (especially because I haven't seen it yet) but they had to have been pretty darn close.  We had a lot of fun at the Rupps.  There were about 20 of us staying at my parents...meaning there was always something going on.  AdriAnne was in town with her family of 7 people.  It was fun to be able to spend so much time with them.  I haven't seen them for over a year.

You can't have Christmas in Utah without seeing the classic temple square lights!  It was the first time this year I really felt like it was Christmas.

Johns went snowboarding with the boys.  It was Johns, Jared Garner, and my brother Josh.  They had powder up to their waists.  Johns was in heaven!  I think they all spent a couple hours of the day digging themselves out of a tree well.

This is AdriAnne, my oldest sister.  I don't think a lot of my friends have had the chance to meet her.  Her family lives in New Mexico.  And I never stop hoping that they will eventually move back to Utah.  It was fun to see them over the holidays. 

Jasorama and Hezaroo!

This is my beautiful sis, Rachel, and her boyfriend, Tanner Leishman.  These little goofballs are getting pretty serious.  And I would not be surprised if we had a wedding this year in my family. They have a ton of fun together, and really adore each other.  Ooooh, the good ol' days of dating!

#2 The Farnsworth Christmas

We went to the Farnworth extended family Christmas party the first night we were home. Then we spent Christmas day over at the Farnsworths.  We had an amazing Christmas breakfast as always.  I overate as usual.  Even thinking about there carmel pull aparts makes my mouth water.  Or maybe I am just hungry and don't have any room in my torso for food right now. Probably a little of both.

We went sledding which was a blast.  I have not been sledding in at least 2 years.  I will definitely need to get more of this in next winter.  I sandwiched Abby between Aja and Johns and it worked out just fine.  I don't quite know how Aja felt about it.  It was always a battle to get her on the sled, and then at the bottom she would be all smiles and say again.

Aja hung out on this horse for like 3 hours one day.  And after discovering it, she would run out of her room every morning, run up to the horse saying "nay".  Too bad they don't make these things anymore.  She couldn't get enough!

#3 The Johnson Christmas

We had a big family Christmas party at the Johnsons, and then spent the rest of our time with them up at the cabin.  Which is always the best.  It wasn't the usual snowmobiling, snowboarding event for me due to pregnancy.  But Johns got to go rip up some snow!  It was a winter wonderland up there, it was beautiful.

The boys went on an all day snowmobiling trip.  They were gone for about 7 hours.  I am sure they spent half of that digging each other out of the powder.  But they had a great time.  It shows on the after-event hairdo's 2 pictures down. OK- so Johns hair doesn't look any different, but does it ever?  I think it is permanently cemented into one position.  But his face shows his excitement-in a scary sort of way...

Aja loved Penny (Elisa and Cody's dog).  Of course!  All my children are going to love animals and are going to gang up on me with Johnson.  They are going to beg and beg (which Johnson has already started doing) and I am going to end up with more animals than children.  I have got to hold strong.  Penny is a beautiful lab though.  And she is full of energy, which Aja loves.

#4 Last, but not least Christmas

We had the chance to see most of our BF's over the holidays.  It was a partay as usual!  The boys didn't want to pose in the picture with us, so unfortunately not all of our hubbies are in the pics. Thanks again everybody for meeting up with us.  Seeing our friends made us even more excited to move back to Utah (whenever that day will come).  We will hopefully be making an announcement within the next few months.  I am 35 weeks along in these pictures.  So I am lovin them.  I can ever get enough of those prego pictures!

go UUUTTTEEEESSSSS and CHHAARRRGGGEERRRRSSSS!!!!!!!

not intense football fans here but had to give props to the two best football teams in the nation right now. thats right kids, congrats to the Utes for kicking Alabama's freaking butts yesterday, and the Bolts just handed po wittle Peyton and his wittle Colts a big L. what a game by Sproles eh??!?! on to the super bowl baby! 

Christmas Dress

Merry Christmas to all!  I am so excited for this upcoming holiday.  I get to go home and see family and Eric finally gets to take a vacation.  This is Aja's Christmas dress and she wore it to church the other day.  I thought she looked so pretty I had to take a few pictures.  She looks like such a big girl in these pictures.  She definitely is not my baby anymore.  I shouldn't dwell on it for too long, I will have a new baby in less than 2 months.  WOW!  Way to many diaper changes and sleepless nights coming my way.  What more could a girl want for Christmas?  I hope everyone has a great end of the year!!!

Happy T-DAY! Gobble Gobble

That's right!  I tricked my family into coming down to San Diego for Thanksgiving.  I think my Mom was a little scared of how our dinner was going to turn out when I didn't even have a pan big enough for the mashed potatoes.  She forgot she was dealing with a child who 1-cooks like once a month, and 2-only cooks for 2 people.  I don't ever make over 5 lbs of mashed potatoes for dinner.  But as you can see we survived the small kitchen and lack of cooking supplies and it was tasty!  Johns got drunk on Martenelli's and the holiday was fab.

I made Johnson pull out the turkey giblets this year.  I had my first traumatizing experience with this last year, and I figured it was his turn to discover this not so appetizing experience. Especially with me being pregnant.  He still ate the turkey so it seems like it didn't do too much damage!  And of course my mom the "fascinated nurse" was dissecting all the turkey organs to see the anatomy.  The heart was really cool to see, but I am a nurse!  I don't think others appreciate seeing their dinner organs.

We took a harbor cruise down through the city.  It was pretty cold here, definitely not the beach weather my family was hoping for.

As our boat pulled away from the ramp, the captain called a man overboard setup.  Some crazy tourists went out on a wave runner in the middle of the winter with no wetsuits.  The water is probably about 50 degrees right now.  They were over 100 feet from the wave-runner and one of them could not even swim so she was holding on to the others back.  They were so cold they could not swim back to the wave runner.  So we had to wait about 15 mins for the harbor police to come pick them up from our boat.  Everyone on our boat was crammed to one side staring at them.  I am sure it is something they will never forget.

Aja is having one of her newly discovered toddler tantrums in this picture.  She was such a calm baby I thought I might not have to deal with the classic terrible 2 tantrums.  Dream on! is all I can say.

We showed my family the San Diego tower.  They have been down here 3 times and never seen it...so it was time.  The view in the tower is amazing.  And it is always cool to see what Johns does.  ATC is really fascinating!  I am impressed with these guys.

Aja loves her "papa".  He is always teasing her...not a surprise if you know my dad.  He finds pleasure in teasing and torturing others.  Yet Aja is still drawn to him.  They cuddled on the couch for a half hour and read books.

LOVE YOU FAM!  THANKS FOR COMING TO SPEND YOUR HOLIDAY WITH US!