I am a freakin' house owner!

We are finally in our house!  Yipee-yo-ki-ya!  We have looked forward to this day for a long time.  I am loving the amount of space I have to live in, but am also a little overwhelmed with the amount of space that needs cleaning.  I guess you have to take one with the other.  We have been in for 2 weeks and still have boxes in every corner and stuff filling our third car garage space.  Our goal is to be unpacked sometime in 2010!  I have high hopes that we can get it done.  Johnson's favorite thing is that I cannot find him half the time.  He finds a man project to do (such as putting up the surround sound downstairs) and that is the last I see of him for the day.  I have to admit it is nice to have a little breathing room.  In Cali we were crowding each other!  Here are some pics...

Here are all our moving helpers!  Thanks to all the buff peops who helped out.

We moved a couple days after my birthday.  I cannot think of a better present than a house.  Hmmm...maybe a trip around Europe.  That will have to wait for next time!

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!

It's officially official!!!!!!

We are officially going to be Utahns again and we are so freakin excited! Eric got a transfer to the SLC tower as an air traffic controller as of April 12th...so if you Utahs are going to fly anywhere I would suggest doing it before than.  HA HA!  We are moving from San Diego on Aprill 11th and will hopefully be looking for a house once we get there.  Until we find that perfect house we will probably be crashing at one of our parents house. We hope they realize what is coming to them.  Having a toddler has brought on a whole new meaning of a clean house.  Aja is at that stage where it would be fabulous to have eyes on the back of my head.  She is a sneaky little tike!  We decided this is the perfect time to come back to Utah.  We will have a whole summer to prepare ourselves for the snow.  We couldn't be more excited to be moving back to our family and friends, we will see you all soon.

1 month old!

My beautiful new babe is now a month old.  She is starting to lose some of her hair and is getting that "old man" baby look. But she is still my pretty little bundle of joy.  I have loved having her new sweet, little, innocent spirit in our home.  There is nothing like a newborn to remind you of the important things in life....such as eating and sleeping, ha ha.  I am just kidding!  Every time I look at her it reminds me of the reason I chose to be a mom and encourages me to keep trying to do a better job all the time.

I put some pics of Aja down below so I could compare if the 2 girls look alike.  I was so sure they looked identical but now looking at pictures I think they definitely have their own look.  I still think they look more alike than I expected though.  You will have to tell me what you think.

The Suke's came to visit!

Di and Jared came down to San Diego with there family and we got together one day with them on Point Loma.  It was fun to see them and made me extra excited to be moving home. Thanks for hanging with us you two weasels!  Di-your family is growing so fast and they are so much fun...thanks for letting us tag along with you.

Le Tour de California

This was sick! The Tour of California finally made its way to San Diego this year so we were able to drive up into them there hills and check it out. This years was cool cause it brought all the best riders in the world. it was cool to see some of my favorite racers so close. And Lance Armstrong was there so it was cool to see him. They rode past pretty quick so we couldn't get too many pics, but i was able to get one of Levi Leipheimer who ended up winning the race. I'm sure no one that reads this blog could give a rats butt about a bunch of guys in spandex riding around, but too bad- i have control of this blog and You Will Read Every Last Word I Have To Say! HA!! 

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!