NEW BABY!

My sister is in labor with my soon to be new nephew! She just drove herself to the hospital with contractions that are 5 minutes apart! Kellen Garry Dschaak will be on his way to the family soon! Can't hardly wait! Good luck Nicole!

Family

Lego wagon turned into baby wagon :)

Daddy & Anna

Our little monkeys

Anna 9 months old

Outside play time

Anna's 1st barrette

We are busy busy busy this year! Colton and Anna are growing up fast before our eyes. Reid is in Real Estate School as well as teaching at ASU on the days he isn't in Real Estate School. Reid just got called to ward clerk in our ward. Needless to say, we don't see that man very often as he comes home after we have gone to bed after a very full taxing day of watching additional children. We are hoping that he can put his "hobby" of buying and moving to new houses into doing that for other people and getting paid for it.   : )  Once real estate school is over he will be focusing on his Architecture exams and put the study guides and books that I got him to good use.

Anna has learned how to wave and LOVES to dance at any chance she can when she hears music. She is still doing the army crawl, I honestly don't think she will ever crawl on her knees because she is super fast as dragging and pushing her feet on our tile.

Colton is doing better with his vocabulary these days. I started doing home school preschool with him to get him ready for preschool and kindergarten.  Its a great feeling to see and hear him recognize a word or number that we have been working on during his down time.

1st tooth - BIG GIRL ANNA!

ANNA CUT HER VERY FIRST TOOTH AT THE AGE OF 8 MONTHS (JUST LIKE HER BIG BROTHER COLTON!). WE FOUND THE TOOTH AFTER A LONG DRIVE HOME FROM OUR CHRISTMAS IN KANSAS. SHE SEEMED TO DO REALLY WELL WITH THE TEETHING PAIN. SHE SEEMS SO OLD NOW WITH HER TOOTH. WE LOVE YOU ANNA MARIE!

CHRISTMAS CHEER

New tree (7.5' of beautiful Christmas joy) & accessories we got this year.

Photo's with Santa at the mall. My kids are polar opposites, can you tell? (Should have gotten these done after we got haircuts a week later. Haha, oh well.)

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a New Year. Reid and I decided that we are going to learn a new skill every year...this year....the piano. Wish us luck!

Colton & Anna

My good friend Danielle Arnold told me I don't post enough picture of my kids and that they are growing too fast.... so here is a update of my kids. As you can see Colton is trying to teach Anna all that he knows and Anna is actually learning. Colton taught Anna how to say "BABA" as in bottle. Anna is on the move, she love scooting around and smiling at her big brother. 

Its getting cooler in Arizona and we welcome it with open arms!

We had a nice weekend with Reid's side of the family at our home for Thanksgiving/Christmas, it really turned out nice and we didn't have a single accident with any of the children (THANK GOODNESS!).

Hope everyone is doing well and staying away from the flu that keeps making its way to our home. :)

Happy Thanksgiving week!

Happy Thanksgiving week!

We have been super busy from family birthday parties to writing church talks to planning to have family come for Thanksgiving. We are excited to have family come to stay with us Thursday-Friday. We will be doing a Thanksgiving dinner in the evening on Thursday and then have a big sleep over that same night with Reid's siblings that are in town. Then its BLACK FRIDAY. I keep asking Reid why they don't just make Black Friday a national holiday....cause I get more thrill and happyness from that then any other holiday and it would be concidered my favorite holiday if it was one. Oh well, I'm excited just the same... holiday or not.


Reid went to the temple topping party...where they put the top of the temple structure on. I got a pretty cool shirt that he brought home.

Picture of Reid and his co-workers on the Temple structure.

Any who, we are excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up. Colton is still trying to get over the fact that there is no more Halloween candy in the house, haha. Anna has learned to take a bottle (yay!) so Reid and I may actually be able to go on a date here or there. We are pretty excited about that. Anna is on the move, she is scooting around like crazy.

We put the Christmas trees up about 3 weeks ago to get the daycare kids and my kids use to the idea of not touching the trees. So far so good neither tree has been touched at all the entire time they have been up. I'm lucky to have such good kids of my own and kids to watch that they mind my things and don't destroy things. :) 


Well, I better get back to cleaning the house and getting it ready for people to come visit. I'm running out of time! HAHA.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

FALL FESTIVITIES WITH THE FAMILY

Saturday October 15th we met up with some of Reid's co-workers and went to a farm that had fall activities. There were horse rides, pumpkin patch, barrel rides, hay rides, tossing games, cattle roping, horseshoe throwing, moon jumping, face painting, petting the animals and so much more! We had a wonderful time... It was pretty warm but once the sun set it was just about perfect!

Ps. I also chopped off about 12 inches off my hair and got it colored more to my natural color again. :)

JOHNSON FAMILY 

 

 

 

 

Ziplock Fresh!

Isn't she cute?!

We moved into the new house, in the process of renting out the other house and running around like chickens with our heads cut off.  : )

We are really loving the new house. It has a lot of things that we wanting in a home that we can "grow" up in.
Reid and my brother Massey have been killing it at the other house to get it rental ready by getting all of the projects done.

I'm starting a new gig at the house to make a bit of money since Reid's job is doing a fur-low on everyone's pay and hours. I will be watching some cute little kids! I'm hoping that it will help Colton with his social skills and timidness. I will be watching a 4 month old, 5 month old, 2 year old, 3 year old and 4 year old! This house will be rocking! Wish me luck!!!

I have been unpacking the house like a crazy lady. Its a lot of hard work moving from one place to the next! I always forget how hard and how much work it really is.

We are really enjoying the new ward. There are young families all over the place with tons of kids. The relief society presidency came over this morning at 7:15am (kill me, I hate mornings) to welcome me to the ward and bring me my favorite jam in the entire world. Have you ever tried the cannery blackberry jam. Its TO DIE FOR. Seriously if I had a case of blackberry jam and a couple boxes of biscoff cookies (not to be used together)... I would be in heaven.Anyways, back to talking about the ward... the elders had a BBQ last week and it was delish! It was great to go to and meet new people and swim a bit. They are trying to pull Reid into scouts again.... can't he just have a easy calling like primary teacher or something like that? Scouts takes up too much family time and the boys are usually inconsiderate. Oh well.

Well, its getting late-ish, I better head off to bed.
Hope all is doing well. Send some cooler weather our way!

Meagan Johnson

P.s. The title says "zip-lock fresh" because I have seen the movie Madagascar 1 billion a few times now... and that's what the zebra says to himself in the beginning when he is trying to psyche himself up to show off at the zoo in front of the kids. 

House

Well.... We are moving again. This time, Reid was the instigator of this move, but I picked out the house as I'm tired of moving. I wanted a house that had enough room/storage for all of Reid's garage stuff. A home office for Reid and a living room and family room (separate), and enough room that our family can grow into and maybe we can stop moving every couple years! (haha) My last criteria of looking for houses was I wanted it in the best school district and school rating as possible.

Ps. If you are looking to move and are wanting to search for the best schools in a area... try www.greatschools.org!


So here it is in all its glory:

(That cactus has got to go.... anyone know a company that would remove it? I'm scared its going to fall over.)

Blessing Weekend

Anna Marie Johnson was blessed in church on June 5th 2011.

The family was able to come and enjoy our blessing day with us at church and then came over for lunch afterwards. We are so grateful we have such supportive families!!!

The same weekend we were also able to get some pictures taken by Katelyn (Jensen) Phipps who I was able to get to know (breifly) through a couple friends, Amber B. and Ray & Ingrid D. We had our children's grandparents come for the pictures and are so pleased at how they turned out.

Here are some photo's from the session we did with Katelyn... enjoy! 

Memorial Day Weekend

Anna on the left and Lucy on the right!

From left to right, Anna (under the shaded car seat), Colton (sitting) and Chayse (standing)

Memorial Day Weekend:

Reid and I decided that we needed to get away from the hustle and bustle of our lives and enjoy a nice road trip to Santa Fe, NM. It was suppose to be about a 8 hour drive but since we had to stop about every 3 hours to feed Anna it turned into a 10ish hour drive. We spent the first night by ourselves in a hotel and since I was able to find a hotel with kitchens in each room we were able to cook dinner instead of battling with the kids at a restaurant. It was so nice to be able to just relax with Reid and the kids. The following day we met up with Cole, Marissa and their beautiful daughters Chayse and Lucy. I think it was more like a 4 1/2 hour drive for them from Lubbock, Tx. We were so happy to meet our new niece Lucy! Colton had a wonderful time with his older cousin Chayse. I enjoyed spending some time with Marissa and Reid was so happy to see his brother again! We stayed from Saturday to Monday afternoon and then made the trek back home. I think we did decide that we aren't the biggest fans of Santa Fe, NM.... it was always super windy and it felt even more dry than Phoenix (I didn't know that was even possible!). But we had a great time despite the windy conditions. Anna turned 4 weeks old this past week and had her well baby visit. She is 50th for weight and height. 9lbs 2-5oz and 21 1/2 inches long. They said she is still a bit jaundice so we had to go get her foot pricked again. :(  I should be hearing back today on the results. On a lighter note, my parents are coming into town TONIGHT and  I'm so excited to see them again. They are coming to town because Anna will be getting blessed by her daddy this Sunday. :)

Colton started saying prayers with us, when Reid starts saying the dinner prayers he stops what he is doing, folds his arms and then after we say Amen, he says.... AAAAAMEN. Gotta love it!

I think that's about it by way of new news... till next time!

Hospital Pictures of Anna

We ordered pictures and a cd with all the photos that they took in the hospital... my sister has been dying to see some "non cell phone" pictures of Anna. Here you go!