New Bro-in-law!!!

My little sis Rachie recently got engaged!  They have a tentative date of August 11th.  Rach will be finishing up nursing school at that time and me and Johns will hopefully have moved back to Utah.  Perfect timing!  Tanner Leishman is the new soon to be brother-in-law and is a great fit for Rachel.  I am so excited for them, CONGRATS you two love birds!

"Gma" Rupp came to visit...

My mom came into town for a week to help me out.  It was really fun!  And now that she is gone I realized how nice it is to have help.  Thanks mom!

Johns and I went on a date on Valentine's Day and my mom watched the chillins for us.  The Vicks really got into her movie (Sisterhood of the traveling pants) and turned around to find Aja painting herself with waterproof mascara.  It took a couple of days to get it completely out of her eyebrows and eyelashes.  Luckily she still has both eyes!

Wendy sent a booklet of stickers to Aja for Valentine's Day and she plastered herself with them.  Her and my mom had fun sticking these all over her for a couple hours.  Thanks Wendy!

My mom and I snuck out one day to go walk along the beach!  It was a nice to get out of our little condo and get some fresh beach air.  Johns was a sweetheart and stayed home with both kids while trying to fix our clogged kitchen sink.

The classic 1st week of a newborn!

The classic blue steel!  We laugh every time she pulls this Zoolander pose.  

Abby is pulling her own hair.  This must either be a thing all newborns do or just a thing Johnson babies do, because Aja did this to.  They scream out in pain and you go to check on them and they are ripping their own hair out!  And then they sadly look at you like "what are you doing to me?"

Loving the first bath...

Aja being all cute and soft...for about 5 mins and then the true sisterhood starts.  Then the fun of shoving the binky in their mouth...smothering hugs...trying to pick them up...and jumping on the bed while they are on it... begins.  All 2nd time moms know what I am talking about.  If you don't, consider yourself very lucky!  In all truth Aja is a really great sister and she really tries to be so soft and sweet with Abby!

Aja and her best friend in the ward decided the baby would love to play with their pez despensers.  And as you can tell she is lovin it.

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!