We are having a picnic at La Jolla Cove.  Hello to all.  As you can see my 2nd parents were in town last week.  I was happy to have some company over Johnson's birthday.  I am a party, but I don't know if I am enough for a birthday party.  We dragged them all over San Diego, which we are getting pretty good at doing now that we have lived here for a year.  I think that being a resident for a year makes us official San Diegoans.   If there is such a thing.  We went to a Padres game, Coronado, Birch Aquarium, and of course the beach.  Aja slept in our room in a pac-in-play while they were here.  That little trick is not working out so good anymore.  She would wake up at the butt-crack of dawn.  Which I am sure at this point in her own room she would either fall back asleep or play in her crib for a while.  But in our room, the first thing she sees is mom and dad in there ready to play.  So for the first time I got used to a child who actually wakes up in the morning.  I better get used to it.  Aja is almost walking.  You probably all think, it is about time.  And you are right.  I am getting tired of carrying her around.  Even though she is still a light 21 pounds.  But that still wares on your arm after a mile boulevard walk!   She does not seem to concerned about walking.  We got her a walker to help speed up the process, and it has helped.  She is starting to copy words that I say, they don't sound perfect but she is trying.  She also has made an attachment to a fuzzy blanket.  She hugs it, crawls up and lays on it, and it is starting to seem she could not sleep without it.  Her love for it is cute, but I may have to cut her off soon.  Oh, it is so sad to take away something your child loves so much.  I will have to do the same trick with a binkie that Missy whipped out on Hadley.  Missy, let me know how it goes.  Things are great here, I hope everyone is doing great.  I love looking at all your blogs.  You are way to diligent at keeping them packed with updates.

Does this look like natural talent or what?  I would watch the news every night if this guy was on it.  Eric got a second job...goofing around at the Birch Aquarium where they let you do a news cast.  It was highly amusing as you could imagine.  Never a dull moment with the Johns!

We went to Phil's BBQ for Eric's 29 (ya that is not a typo) birthday.  This place has the most divine ribs.  I was never much of a rib fan until I ate here.  And now I crave it on a weekly basis.  MMM, if Aja weren't taking a nap I would go get some take out right now.

My fav temple.  It was so nice to get to do a session.  Now that I am a Mom it does not happen often enough.  Oh, this temple brings back memories of college road trips with USU buddies!  This is the place me and Eric first confessed our major like for each other.

Aja is cheering for the padres.  

We went to a padres game, this stadium is awesome.  It is in the middle of the city, right by the bay.  Every game I have gone to has a mist from the ocean.  We left this game at 10 innings because Eric had to get to bed for work the next day.  It ended up going 22 innings, which is close to the record 23!  Which means the score was 0 to 0 until the 22 inning.  The padres ended up losing.  Yea, not a lot of action in this game.  It was still fun though.

We are on Coronado island and you can see San Diego City across the bay.  This is the bay that they do the Red Bull airplane show.  I really want to go see it this year.

A new day in the life of the Johnsons

I just got back from Utah, which I hear recently got snow.  NOT cool!  I am really enjoying the sunny 75 degree weather, but still ready for the "lay out on the beach, soakin up some rays" weather.  Winter wears on me. Utah was a blast, Easter is a holiday that definitely needs to involve family. So that is exactly what I did.  The only problem was it left Johnson with no family. I can hear the violin playing!..  Don't worry, I hid an Easter basket for him full of fattening, sugar filled morsels.  I put pictures in the basket of Aja and I with Easter bunny ears on our head.  I made a bunny face in mine.  I whipped out the buck teeth, ya it was really ugly.  I will spare you all and make sure you never see the picture.  Johns has seen uglier than that, I am sure he was not even fazed.  Aja is fun to have around on the holidays, but she is still in that phase where they just don't really get it yet.  I tried so hard to get her to look for the Easter eggs, but she just looked at me like "whatever mom".  The good thing was I got double the candy.  I love having kids.  You get to take food to Sacrament meeting, I always have an excuse to get way overly excited for the holidays at 25..I mean 26 years old, and you can send them out to trick or treat for you.  I am sure the benefits go on.  Speaking of whatever...Aja has suddenly learned how to give a crusty.  She looks at you as if you are the lamest person on earth.  And she pulls that face about 50% of the day now.  It gives me a glimpse of how the teenage years are going to be.  

Johns has recently gotten into the blog.  He picked all the music, if you can't tell.  I told him he should write the next post.  I always like to hear what he has to say, it gives me a good laugh.  Johnson is doing good.  He decided to do all the activities that he can't do anymore with a child while we were gone.  He went mountain biking, to the movies, and out to eat.  Of course we can still go out to eat with Aja, but not without everyone staring at us (or maybe it just feels that way when half you childs food is on the floor and they are screaming every 2 mins).  I am just reminiscing about our latest Spaghetti Factory experience.  Good food, not such good company!

So if any of you pro-bloggers can help me out with something I would love it.  I tried to put a customized background off of a website onto my blog, ya know the whole code thing.  And when I previewed it, the right side of my blog and my slideshows were cut off.  Is that just going to occur on the preview, or is there something special I need to do.  If anyone out there in blog world can help let me know.  Thanks.  Hope everyone is doing great, we miss you all!!!

Update on the exciting life of Stevo and Johns

Holler out to all our peeps! We are doing the usual. We went to Utah last week with the intention of playing all week in the snow. Ya know, the whole snowmobiling, snowboarding, sledding stuff. And instead Johnson spent the whole week on my parents couch with the fab flu that everyone is passing around in Utah. Which in turn meant I spent the week at work being a nurse. And Eric was my worst patient yet! Just kidding (incase Johnson actually reads this which is highly unlikely). He is slowly recovering back here in sunny San Diego.
The weather has been great since we got back to Cali. I am so excited for Summer. Hopefully all of our friends and family will come visit (hint, hint).
Aja is 13 months now and getting cuter every day. Besides the loud, ear drum blowing scream she does when she feels the need. She is not walking yet, we have been trying to help her but she is just not interested. She finally has enough hair to pull back. It sticks straight up on the top of her head. Someone in my ward told me she looks like a "Who" from Whoville. I wondered what they were talking about until I saw the trailer for the new Dr. Suess movie coming out. And there is no denying that there is a very similar resemblance. Well at least with the hair-do.
Eric finally has weekends off at work. We actually have a life on the weekends. Well as much as having a child allows. It has been so fun. He has Fridays and Saturdays off now, and then in a month his employer is switching his days off to Saturday and Sunday. SWEET! Not to bad for the new guy!
And just in case any of you are fans, LOST has been awesome this season. It is my favorite one so far.

The beginning of the Johnson's...

Hello to all my blogger friends, we have to decided to join in on the fun. We are living in San Diego, CA where Johnson is in air traffic controller and I am a nurse. So in other words you don't want to fly in or out of San Diego, and you definitely don't want to get sick here. We are enjoying the California weather, especially after hearing about the massive snowstorm in Utah. Eric just checked out as an air traffic controller, ...meaning he is no longer in training and is officially working on his own. We are proud of him, he has worked so hard! Aja just had a birthday and turned a whole one year old. She is not walking yet, hallelujah! But she is soooo close. She just had her 6th tooth pop out. She is saying mama, dada, santa, hey, and aja. She also says a lot of gibberish.