Babies!!!

Anna Marie Johnson

Born: April 30th 2011

Time: 4:35pm

Weight: 7lbs 1oz 

Length: 21"

Easter 2011

We had a wonderful Easter weekend full of Church, Easter basket hunts, egg hunts and family dinner. My friend Lisa came down to visit over the Easter weekend and we had a good time shopping, hanging out, and of course eating out. :)

Still no sign of baby girl yet, but there is progress being made. I have been having more and more super painful contractions and every time I go for a check up I have dilated even more than the last week. Reid hopes that baby girl comes late as he has been busy painting the house and working on other housing projects. I on the other hand want this girl out, its starting to get really hot here in Arizona!

Baby Baby Baby

Well... I'm 37 weeks and 3 days. That marks the time at which Colton was born. I guess this little girl is comfy and wants to hang out for a while longer. :)  I don't mind though, I am trying to finish up my semester right now (only a couple weeks left) and also trying to get my house looking a little less nasty.

I went to the ob/gyn today for my weekly check up and she said I'm now dilated to a 1 1/2 centimeter. So that means that from Thursday till today (Tuesday) I have only gone from a 1centimeter dilation to a 1 1/2. I'm glad to hear there is some sort of progress with all the pain I have been experiencing. :)

Past weekend: We had a wonderful Easter lunch at the Bartlett home on Saturday. We all got to search for the money bunny eggs and had a great time!

Primary kicked me out on Sunday because I keep having crazy contractions. Its probably good not to be chasing around sunbeams all day. I'm so grateful they kicked me out!

Easter weekend: My friend Lisa from Houston (but now living in Utah) is coming to visit me! She will be here from Friday afternoon to Monday morning! I still need to run out to the store and get goodies for our little Easter egg hut. :)

Reid has been keeping busy. Our little car broke down on the high way on Saturday. Luckily we have towing insurance and it didn't cost us a thing. We got the car towed to our house were Reid then put in a new belt, alternator and battery. Its running again! The funny thing about Saturday's car breaking down is that we were out car shopping when it happened. We got a mini van (ugh). Reid loves it, weirdly enough. I on the other hand would rather drive the 91' Toyota Camry. Haha. Its a 2004 Ford Free-star in really good condition. Senior owned.

We set up the baby's room this weekend where Colton is napping temporarily right now as I carpet cleaned his bedroom yesterday and its still not quite dry. Its so crazy to think we will be parents of 2 little rug rats soon.

Haircuts: Reid and Colton were about 2 weeks past due on needing haircuts. Reid buzzed Colton's hair off and I cut and buzzed Reid's off. They are looking good with nice summer cuts!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend!

Colton teething on a french fry. (Prior to his haircut)

The car!

Our friends Rick & Settina from church came over this past weekend to help us do some routine maintenance on our car.... air filter, spark plugs, oil change ect.

I had to take these pictures cause Colton thought he was SOOO big helping the guys out. : )

Family

This past weekend was full of excitement. My (Meagan's) visiting teachers threw me a baby shower for our little baby girl that will be coming to the world relatively soon. I'm so grateful to have such wonderful visiting teachers, friends and family! It rained this weekend and got fairly chilly, it was SO NICE. It felt like a nice spring day in Kansas. Saturday night we had our friends Rick and Settina over for ice cream and games. Sunday we went to church and actually made it by the opening song (I know, I could hardly believe it myself!) I team taught/babysat the sunbeams, Colton was in nursery and Reid taught the 9&10 year old boys. Rick and Settina then came for lunch as we needed to borrow some tools from them and shared our lunch in return. We then went to their home for dinner. : )

Colton is teething right now and couldn't be more cranky. Its his last 4 for a while (the canines or corner teeth)!

Reid has a lot on his plate right now and is taking it as it comes. : )

Meagan is trying to get school done before the baby comes as the semester ends on her due date. Its all online so she is able to work ahead (even the tests).

Our 2 Indonesian students are going to a new host home on Saturday.

With work deadlines, baby due dates, school dead lines and teething toddlers we sure do have our hands full!

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice spring weather, it will get hot soon!

Where did the time go?

I'm 35 weeks and 4 days along in my pregnancy and can't hardly believe it! This pregnancy has flown by, I'm grateful that I haven't had to go into the hospital for any preterm labor like I did with Colton. With Colton I had a pretty intense pregnancy and delivery. So far with baby #2 it has been smooth sailing I hope and pray that my delivery with this one will be just as good as the pregnancy. :)

I got a wonderful txt message from a Houston, TX friend (who now lives in SLC, UT)... she is wanting to fly down and visit before the baby is due! I'm so excited and hope that it all works out so that she can come visit. I miss her dearly! I like to call her my famous basketball friend as she works for the NBA. (Houston Rockets and now the Utah Jazz). ;)


There was a death in our family last night, my trusty green bike that I got for my 10th or 11th birthday saw its last ride last night. I brought it with me from Kansas when I moved here about 3 years ago. Reid started riding it to work and back since I moved here and it finally died beyond repair. : (    RIP Green Bike!

Family Date Night

Tonight we went to the $3 theater in Tempe and saw the Disney movie, Tangled. It was ADORABLE and really FUNNY! Colton wasn't to happy to be there as it was a 7:15pm showing and his bedtime has been around 7:30pm. (Reid did his home teaching before the movie, so we were unable to go any earlier.) We then went and grabbed some ice cream snacks and cookies from McDonald's, ate them in the car and then headed home. Colton is now asleep, I just finished reading another chapter in this new book that I bought called "That's My Son" -Rick Johnson. And Reid is working on finishing up the taxes.

Ps. EVERYONE should read this book, its mostly about how to raise a boy but it has also opened my eyes to reasons why Reid, Massey and my Dad act the way they do...and how we as woman can better support them.

Well... Reid is asking for receipts... gotta go digging....

-Meagan Johnson-

I'm an Aunt (again)!

My sister in law Marissa Johnson just delivered a beautiful baby girl named Lucy Grace Foley Johnson. She is pretty darn cute from the one picture I got from the proud dad and grandma! :) We are so excited to have little Lucy join our crazy fun family.

Congrats again Cole & Marissa!

New York

We got home from our very long and eventful trip to New York, NY. Reid's boss took us out there. We were able to see some really amazing classical architecture as well as some intense Gothic architecture and my all time favorite, modern architecture. I really enjoyed the chance to get away from my every day life of being a mom to spend some MUCH needed alone time with my husband. We saw some pretty awesome plays while we were there including, Spider-man and Momma Mia. Spider man on Broadway was AMAZING to say the least. We got to do some fun tours as well including the NBC studios tour. I had a good time getting to know the wife's of the men that my husband works with. We all went to church on Sunday since we are all LDS. The church building in new york was so crazy, there was a temple on one level and then the next level there was a church building! We ate some pretty amazing food while we were there... I'm already having withdraws! I am 33 weeks pregnant and we walked everywhere, I was SO surprised that I didn't go into labor. Reid and I weren't very good at taking picture while we were there because the 3 other couples always had their fancy cameras out, hopefully I can get some of the picture  from them!   : ) We are back home and safe, Colton was very happy to see us this morning as we didn't wake him up last night when we got into town. We have 2 new students with us now until mid May, they are from Indonesia. I'm about half way done with my semester of school and the baby will be here in about a month, can you believe it?!

Time to get back to our crazy lives. Hope everyone had a great week.

Reid and I after about 1 hour of sleep on the plane

On a boat to go see the statue of liberty & Ellis island

Brooklyn bridge! (Reid took this picture for my sister Brooklyn)

Ellis Island

Ellis Island

Out front of the building at Ellis Island. (It was SO bright out!)

Name this architect.... I mean... name the architect who created this famous building... Give up? Frank L. Wright!

This was on the floor as you walked into the building.

The building Frank L. Wright designed.

Museum

Inside the museum

Central Park

Central Park

On a subway train with the co-workers and wives.

A new couch!!!

Many of you know that we have been kind of crazy with the Dave Ramsey plan and sold our new cars. In the process of selling them we had to come up with lots and lots of cash to pay off the difference since we had to sell them at a loss since we got them brand new from the dealership. We mostly sold our nice furniture, we had leather sofa's and a nice big wooden kitchen table with matching chairs. We haven been furniture free for about 4 months now. We found a table and chairs in the ally behind our house that we use to eat on but today we went out and got a new leather couch! And it was really pretty cheap (cost wise) and so we are still money ahead even after selling our couches and buying a new one.

I'm excited about this couch because it turns into a sleeper couch, but not one of those sleepers where its super uncomfy and looses its shape after a while. This will be nice for when my family is in town and I need a extra bed for someone to sleep on.

Thank you LeIsle (Reid's Aunt) for being willing to watch Colton at our home while we are out of town for a week!  Now you have a couch to enjoy while you are here!!! YAY!

Tell me what you think!!!

(This is a picture from the website of the store we purchased it from, Furniture Plus. I strongly reccomend checking out this store, this couch was much cheaper than any IKEA couch and seems a lot better that the leather couches that IKEA has been putting out lately)

Earthquake + Tsunami = No Airport in Japan

This morning at 5am I was suppose to take Misato to the airport so that she could go home to her family in Japan. When I went to her room to get her to go, she said "there was a huge earthquake in Japan". Her family is safe! The airport was hit. We took Misato to the airport anyways to talk to the host home coordinators to see what to do next. They said all flights to Japan are canceled and to take your students back home and that they would contact us.

8.9 on the ricter scale! with a 7.5 after shock! Plus huge tsunamis hit Japan and other countries across the world. What a crazy thing to have happen while we were sleeping the night before she was suppose to go home to Japan.

Our hearts and prayers go out to all those in Japan affected by this horrible disaster.



Airport in Japan after earthquake and tsunami.

Factory in Japan after the earthquake.



Flu

I officially think that Colton and I are going to become hurmits in our home so that we don't keep getting so sick!

It all started with Colton, he got the flu on wednesday and had a good time puking everwhere. I guess you could say Thursday was the "adults" day as Reid, Misato and I were all puking by 8pm that night.

Reid had a flight out of town this weekend and its amazing that he even made it to the airport as he was probably the sickest of us all.

I'm a bit worried that this is going to throw me into labor but I'm trying everything in my power to stay hydrated... even if it means I drink some juice or water and 2 minutes later its in the toilet.

I thought Colton was over the flu because Thursday he didn't get sick at all and he was fine through the night. As we were taking Reid to the airport, Colton lost all the milk he was drinking, all over the car. SO nasty!

On a brighter, less nasty note... its suppose to be 89 degrees today!!!

Misato leaves for Japan tomorrow at 5:30am. We are so sad she is leaving us. We really have enjoyed her in our home and she has been a big help with watching Colton while I make dinner. I'm not sure what I will do without her!!!  ;)

We hope everyone is doing better than we are on this nice warm day.

With love,
Meagan Johnson

Lots of things on the mind...

Reid, Colton and I had a wonderful weekend! Friday, Reid went and got his hair cut and then ran home so that I could get to my appointment. I got a full head of highlights and a eye brow wax (1st time). Saturday, we went to breakfast with some of Reid's old friends. Then we ran home and got our foreign exchange student's boxes sent of via USPS. I worked on homework and tests for my math class and then we went to the Science center with some of Reid's work friends. We saw a very interesting exhibit called Body Worlds & The Brain. (Sorry, we couldn't take pictures)

 

We then went home cause we promised to take Misato out to dinner as a going away dinner. We took her to all you can eat Chinese, Japanese & American food.  She will be greatly missed! Can you believe she has been here since October?! 

Sunday we got up and went to church. Colton sure does LOVE nursery! Reid taught the 12 yr old boys and I had a visiting teaching conference 3rd hour. We came home and ate left overs for lunch before Reid had to run off to church again for a meeting. Later on after Colton's nap the home teachers came and brought a wonderful message and sweet spirit with them. We are so lucky to have devoted home teachers. After that we had home made bread sandwiches for dinner.... soooo delicious.Later on we went to Bill & Ravaes to say hello for a little while as we feel like we haven't seen them in ages! It was nice to visit and Colton got to play with his little cousin Emmin (Karl & Rachel's son). I made some good peanut butter cookies while we visited and then we headed home and went to bed. 

All in all I would say it was a wonderful weekend!

Colton found my winter hat and loves wearing it!

Colton got a haircut too!

New Highlights and brow wax! Only 9 more weeks to go in pregnancy.

Colton

Colton learned the word NO. Welcome to a life of the terrible 2's!

He also recently learned how to say... "More please" and "all done". He is a little smarty pants... if only we would have taken out that passifire a while ago. : )

We are excited to have Reid home soon! We have seen him all of about 3 hours since Sunday night when he went to work.

Monday we are going to have a play date with Colton's cousins at the park across the street-ish from my house. We are so excited for it!!!

Since our weekend trip to Kansas Colton has decided to bring back the 2nd nap. THANK GOODNESS. I have been able to get a bunch done and also get some much needed rest in since I have been playing "single mother" all week.

Its suppose to be 80 degrees today, bring on the park!