A week at the Johnson's

Aja is just showing off her rolly legs and baby gut.  Mine is getting bigger than hers now, but for a while she looked more pregnant than me.  Here are some of her new activities...putting on our sunglasses, playing with Johns cell phone, and wearing his shoes.

Aja had a sick week as you can tell by the snot running down her face.  I love how she is clinging to her medicine in this pic.  She loves to carry her medicine bottles around and she will not let you take them away.  I have an addict in the making.

Aja holds her binky to the side of her mouth and tries to talk.  It comes out all slobbery sounding, not that you can understand her to begin with.  I think it is time to retire the "ginky" as she calls it.

We went swimming and sidewalk chalking at our condos.  Aja loves to draw!

Aja loves this little bunny.  She drags it around everywhere with her, including outside.  And then she forces you to kiss it.  It is gross, but she is just to cute to resist!  I try to wash it as much as she will allow me to sneak it away.

Johnson got a bee sting on his forehead while biking!  The bee got stuck in his helmet while he was biking and attacked.  A couple days later his left eye swelled up and it has been like that for a couple of days.  That is the third bee sting our family has had since moving to San Diego.  There are too many bees here.  And I have been pooped on twice by a bird.  Maybe we are just unlucky people!

The Latest...

Holla out to all!  Well, here is the latest news for us.  We had our 18 week ultrasound and the baby is doing great.  Of course the baby curled up in a ball making it really hard for the technician to get the measurements they wanted.  Both my kids have done that.  I am hoping it is a sign that I am going to have another calm child.  Cross my fingers!  They also told us we are going to have another little GIRL!  Sweet.  That is actually what I was secretly hoping for this pregnancy.  So Aja will have a little play buddy.  And I don't have to buy anything!  Can't complain about that.

Here we are hanging at Oceanside!  It reminded Johns and I of the road trip we took here in college with our USU buds...we hooked it up here in San Diego.  This beach was fun.  There was a pier, a park, and awesome sand.  Perfect beach conditions.

Showing off the belly.  I am showing a lot faster on my second pregnancy, just like everyone told me.  For every centimeter my belly grows, I think my butt gains one right along with it. And I bet you all wanted to hear about it.  Aja is hanging out in the background.

Aja is starting to pick up some fun eating habits!!!  Like...dumping her bowl out after she is done, or throwing all her food off the tray. We are just lucky if the bowl doesn't end up on her head.  We are now having to bath after half her meals.  It is hard to let them start feeding themselves and having no control of where the food really ends up.  The spaghettio's pic is my fav!

Partey in Utah-as usual!!!

I went home to Utah this over labor day weekend.  I went home of course to visit family and friends but my primary reason was to go see Heathers new baby.  Well, she is not that new anymore...but she was new to me.  She is about 7 weeks right now.  And she was a cutie.  It was fun to see how Aja reacted with a baby, especially because we will have a new addition to our own family in the next 5 months.  I was surprised how much I had forgotten about having a newborn.  I am going to be a little rusty.  But seeing Heather was a good refresher course.

This is a pic of me and my Mom at Firehouse eating lunch, yummm.
Hez's baby, her name is Alison.  I am still surprised by this full head of dark hair.  And it sticks straight up in the back.  I loved it!
Aja being pleasant, she has definitely gotten more of an independent attitude.  But considering she was perfect before, I can't complain.  I had to get a picture of her telling me what's up!
My dad with Alison, he is so cute with newborns.  They always love him.
We went up to Camp Steiner, a boys camp in the Uintas.   I let my child run around in a diaper in the lake.  Ya, white trash, but she was loving it.  She was running into the water as fast as she could, she tripped in face first a couple of times.  Thankfully, there has been no signs of Giardia...yet!  I can't believe the kids would play in it.  It was such cold water.  Steiner is the boys camp with the highest elevation, so it is pretty cold.  This was the only time of the day I was not wearing a hoodie!


That poor little Alison got so many kisses and hugs from Aja!  I was excited Aja was so soft and sweet with her.  I can only hope that is still the case in 5 months.
I went to see the 2nd parents!  They left on a cruise a couple days after I saw them.  Now that is the vacationing I should be doing!  Maybe next year when I am not pregnant.  I hope you had fun Kevin and Wendy.  


Desiree had a family shower at her house.  This is my fav cousin, we were roomies up at USU when I met Johnson.  She is due the end of September.  3 weeks to be exact.  She looks adorable, her belly looks like she strapped a basketball on under her shirt.  

The 2 pregos!  

Chillin with Josh, Sarah and the kids!

My brother Josh and his wife Sarah came into California for vacation with Sarah's family and they came to spend a day with us.  We went to the San Diego Zoo.  This pic is of Johnson with the Elliot family and Josh.

Here is Aja's favorite place to be...she pulls your hair and kicks you in the face.  It is really fun!  She was using Johnson hair to hold herself in place.  He has chopped it all off now. 

We went to the San Diego Airport tower to see johnson's place of work.  He looks like he fits in well...especially with that intelligent look on his face.  
You can't come to California without a trip to In and Out!  

CONGRATS HEATHER AND JASON

Heather and Jason just bumped their family number up to 3!  They just had their first baby. They had a beautiful little girl they named Alison Ann White.  She was born on July 17th in the morning and was 7 lbs 6 oz and 25.5 inches long.  I am so excited to see her when I go home to Utah in a month!

Thanks for the fun in UTAH!

We went on vacation back home to Utah...it was fun and really hot.  We were there at the end of June.  Sorry this is such a delayed post.  Since I have been pregnant...oh yeah...for those of you that don't know I am about 13 weeks prego right now!! But since I have been pregnant I have been pretty useless.  I have not even looked at this blog in weeks.  Now that I am in the 2nd trimester I should be better.  No Bueno the 1st trimester.  Nausea, constant hunger, and getting winded walking up 3 steps.  Yay for 2nd trimester time.  Here the girls are at firehouse in Centerville.  I don't think I will ever visit Utah without a meal from here.

Heather had a baby shower while we were home.  This post is sooo old she has actually had her baby now, her name is Alison Ann and she is beautiful.

Aja was mashing  her face against the screen door, it was highly amusing!

Here we are hanging with the Johnson's and Farnsworth's (Eric's side of the fam).  We went up to a condo in Park City and went swimming and biking. 

I had to post the picture of Johns and his sister reading because they are deep in the readings of Stephenie Meyers.   Yes, he is reading "The Host" and really liking it.  He has been sucked in.

A typical day at the beach

Aja casually playing in the sand...

...eating the sand...

...not sure what she thinks of her food choice, but nonetheless continues to eat and throw sand everywhere possible...

...Aja becoming one with the sand!  She had sand caked all over her scalp and everywhere else you could imagine.  But I laughed the whole time I was taking pictures.

RUPP FAM IN SAN DIEGO!!!

My family came and spent a week with us!   It was my dad, mom, and 2 sisters-rach and beth.  Yes, we all stayed in my 2 bedroom condo.  It was a bit cozy...but that is how it should be with family.  We played all week long, it was a ton of fun.  The condo was way to quiet once they left.  

First things first, we went straight to the beach.

Indie Jones stopped by to say hello and apologize for having freakin' aliens and tarzan wanabe in his new flick.

We played paddle ball, frisbee and boogie boarded.  We are weak and still wear wet suits, the water is just not that warm here.

Here is our changing room at the beach, it proved to be very effective....or at least we think so.  Others might have a story to tell.  

Walking along mission beach blvd.  It is always a busy, party place.  This is one of my favorite beaches.  You will never leave this walkway without laughing at a few weirdos.  Like men roller blading in speedos and boom box systems duck-taped to bikes with somebody jamming along as they bike down the blvd.

We went out to eat at least once a day.  Johnson and I have so many restaurants we love to eat at and we wanted to take the family to all of them.  I probably gained a few pounds, but mmmmm it was good.

We spent a day at Sea World.  It was a perfect, sunny day.  Poor Johnson had to work half the time the family was here.  So he would go to every activity for a couple of hours and then be on his way to work.  Here are the girls in front of the shark tunnel.  

DRY at the beginning of the day!  We just couldn't resist those water rides.

WET!

DRENCHED!  We left at the end of the day soaked.  We went straight home and jumped in the hot tub.  We spent a while in there getting warmed back up.

PADRES GAME!!!We ended it right with a padres game where they actually won!  They have not done so hot this season, but from what I hear they are pickin it up.  It was rainy and overcast, what luck!  There are probably 15 days in the whole year where it rains in San Diego and we picked one to go to a baseball game.   But we bundled up and it was perfect.  Aja was trying to escape and play in puddles the whole time.  She was wet from the knees and elbows down when the game was done.  We undressed her down to her onesie in the car.  

Aja was exhausted by the time we left.  We pulled her every direction all week long, and naps and a decent bedtime got tossed out the window.