1 Year

Wow. I can't believe it has been a year already. Boy has the time flown by. Abi is doing great. She had her 12 month check up. She weighed 19 lbs 14 oz and was 28 1/2 inches long. Both in the 25Th percentile. So at least she is growing proportionally. I can't believe all the new things she learns each day. She knows "no" she tries me but she knows what it means. She says mama and dada, ba(bye), claps when you say "yeah", waves bye, gives high fives, and loves to clap along to bingo. She loves to be sung to. She loves itsy bitsy spider, bingo, rock a bye, and many more I had forgotten since I was a child. She isn't walking yet, but I think in the next month or so she will be off and running, just in time to go to Bear Lake. She is going to be so fun this summer. More of a handful, but a lot of fun. We had her a birthday party on her birthday at my parents house. Too bad it was raining (what else is new these days) or we could have had it at the park. It was still a lot of fun. Abi got lots of clothes, which were much needed, now if it would just warm up enough to wear them and lots of fun learning and growing toys. Ethan and I got her a miniature little slide swing combo thing that she has enjoyed playing on inside Grandmas house because its too cold to go outside. Had grandparents, great grandparents, and some cousins and aunt over for cake and ice cream. We gave Abi her own cupcake to eat. We stripped her down to just a diaper and let her have at it. She was a little timid at first, but after awhile she was a total mess. It was a good birthday. Sad that my baby is growing up, but I look forward to all her achievements over the years. I love you Abi.

Abi's birthday cake

Abi eating her birthday cupcake

Abi opening one of her gifts

I had a great mothers day. Ethan, Abi and I went to a park and had a picinic lunch. Abi kinda played around on the playground, hard to do when you can't walk and want to eat the bark. After that we went to my moms house for dinner. My aunt Angie was up from Tucson, so her and my grandma joined us. It was good to see her. It had been just about a year. It is so fun being a mom. I love it!!

Abi playing at the playground

So not much else has been going on. Just stress. We sold our house!! Yeah. But all the stress of moving out, living in our dumpy basement apartment, and trying to get everything settled to build our new house. Wow this month has been stressful. I hope it is all worth it when it is all done. Nothing much new. Looking forward to Bear Lake this summer, the Relay for Life in July, and our house being built. Hopefully this summer will go fast, it usually does, but when I need it to it won't. Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right. I hope so.

UPDATE

So, I thought this would get easier, but no. I still can't find time to update. Oh well something is better than nothing. So, what has happened since the last post...

Well we have sold all but 1 of our puppies. Yeah. They went so fast. I am surprised and relieved. We still have 1 black male. He is so sweet. We let him and Sydney out to run around and play. He ran over to Abi and just curled up in her lap. It was so cute.

Abi and Sydney

Had a wonderful Valentine's Day. Ethan arranged for us to get couples massages. It was wonderful. I think Ethan enjoyed it more than me. We had lunch, then the massages, later dinner and a movie, Valentine's Day. I liked it was good. We also celebrated Ethan's birthday a couple days later. He didn't want to do anything except stay home with Abi and I. It was a great night of just hanging out. What a wonderful husband and father. I love you!!

Let's see... that following weekend we went to St. George. It was a very quick trip, but it was nice. We met up with Seth and his family to see Ethan's grandfather who wasn't very well. We had gone over to see him, but he was sleeping. They were able to speak to him before we left to say there goodbyes. It was hard to see him like that. He was a great man. So, the next weekend... we went to St. George for funeral services. Seth and his family were able to return and Micah flew in. Ethan's parents also were there. As well as cousins and aunts. It was really nice. Well ,until the claws came out. Family issues. Anyway, we had a good time seeing everyone. Abi enjoyed her first experience in a pool. She loves the bath, so I knew she would love the pool. She is going to be a handful this summer at the lake. It will be so much fun though.

Abi enjoying the pool- she loves to splash

Abi enjoying her first ride in a swing

.Look at these handsome guys... and girl

Our cute family at the funeral

So, what else.... oh we have listed our house for sale. It has been a very stressful thing. We want to get into another house that fits our needs better and there are a lot of really good deals. That just means its hard to send ours and make money. Oh well things will happen when they need to. Until then we just keep chugging along.

I think thats it... oh wait last weekend we went to Salt Lake for the state bowling tournament. It was a lot of fun. Ethan had to bum along. We had tickets to Daniel Tosh's show that night, so he spent the night and hung out a little with us. We did ok. Don't know if we will win anything, but we had fun.

So, Abi is growing like a weed. I can't believe she is 10 1/2 months. Holy cow how time flies. She has started teething. Yeah... I feel so bad. And yeah he has started crawling. She is all over the place. She is pulling herself up to things. One of these days she is going to just start walking. I don't know if I am ready for that.

Wow what a long post. I should really try to do it more often. I can say that I will try to post more often, but we all know that won't happen. Oh well. See ya soon.

PUPPIES

Yeah. Ruby had her puppies. Last time I posted I thought it was going to be awhile, but that was not the case. She had 14 puppies on the 14th. Only 12 of them made it though. : ( Its so sad. Had we had a better idea when she was due we could have saved them. I was home that Thursday afternoon doing my usual house stuff and Roman was barking for like a half an hour so finally I went out to yell at him, when I did Ruby came out of the dog house. Which was fine.. then I heard this squeeking noise. I thought maybe it was baby mice or a baby ferret ( we have had one visit us) I was too scared to go look, so I called Ethan and he said I hope its not a puppy. Dun dun dun... I hadn't even thought about that. Sure enough there was a puppy out there. She had damage to her nose and cheek and had some frostbite, but other than that she was fine. We call her scarface. The first one she had didn't make it. Ethan found him in the snow : ( Everything from there went pretty well. We have quite the variety again. Three blues, 2 male and 1 female, which we are keeping her name is Sydney. She had 4 brown ones, 3 female and 1 male. She also had 5 black ones, 3 female and 2 male. They are so cute and growing like weeds. I will be sad to see them go, but I know I can't keep them all. Anyway other than that not much new. Abi is still growing like a weed herself. Still no crawling, she is getting pretty close and still no teeth. Oh well, all in due time.

Happy New Year

Wow it is 2010! I remember when it was 2000 and how weird that felt. That was 10 years ago. Wow how time flies. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Christmas was great. Spending time with family is always a joy. It was fun with Abi this year getting to play Santa was fun, I am sure we over did it, but oh well, it was my first time. 2009 was a great year. I am optomistic that 2010 will be just as great if not better. One of many new years resolutions is to post more often. Things are settling down... well for a minute, Ruby is having puppies again. Yea, I think. She still has like 4-5 weeks, so until then things can settle down and I can hopefully post more often.

Abi with dad at the Johnson family Christmas party

Abi with her stuff from Santa

Abi opening gifts at Grandma & Grandpa's

All of Abi's presents, what a spoiled girl : )

Abi is getting so big. I can't believe she is 8 months old. She is learning so much everyday. She is about 19 lbs. and about 28 inch. After Christmas Abi got sick for the first time. She had a bad cough and was very congested, so I am sure she had a sore throat. It is so heartbreaking. There is not much of anything you can do for them. It lasted about a week. Poor little girl. : ( No crawling yet. I want her to crawl, but I don't. I will be so happy for her when she does, but that means she can get into trouble. : ) Still no teeth. I was about a year when I got teeth, so maybe she is taking after me. Just as long as she has teeth.

Abi test driving the high chair Santa brought her

Santa Clause

We took Abi to see Santa. She did pretty good. She wasn't really scared. She looked at him a couple times. She wouldn't smile for the picture though. She doesn't smile, she does just not for pictures. Everything is so new and different that she just wants to check everything out. Oh well. I am just glad she wasn't terrified. Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays

Wow, does time fly. I know I have been slacking on my blog, things have just been busy. Nothing in particular just always doing something. Thanksgiving went very well. I love being able to spend time with family you hardly ever see. This year has been fun to Christmas shop, I always enjoy it, but this year shopping for Abi has been especially fun. I am so excited to celebrate the holidays, family and just the feeling and spirit you have around this time of year is amazing. The only down side to December... besides the cold...my birthday. Yah remember when you were a kid and you looked forward to your birthday, that stopped at about 22. I am 27, holy cow thats old. I had a hard time at 25 and 30 is going to be a nightmare. I guess its gotta happen. On a better note.. Abi is getting so big. I can't believe she is 7 1/2 months. She is learning new things all the time. She has been sitting up by herself for the last 3-4 weeks. She is making new faces and sounds everyday. One of these days a real word is just going to pop out. She is so much fun. Hopefully more posts to come shortly. Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Kansas City Road Trip

We are back from our road trip to Kansas City. It was long but short. The drive was long, but the stay was short. It was a take stuff out pick stuff up trip. We took out a bunch of water barrels, Stephens hot chocolate and Cox's creamed honey, in return we brought back a bunch of tools and Ethan's parents' belongings. Didn't get everything we went for, but it was to be expected. Anyway, Abi did so good during the drive. I was so worried so would throw a fit the whole time. She slept 90 % of the time on the way out and about 50 % of the time on the way back. The trip overall was pretty good. We got to see most of the family together. We only got to be with the family for a couple days. Megan and her family were in Omaha, Ne most of Saturday, getting sealed in the temple. - Congrats.I don't know why we didn't see much of Micah. Oh well. Seth wasn't there, but that is because he was on his way home from Afghanistan. We are so glad he made it back safe. He was in our thoughts and prayers. I was going to do so good to get lots of pictures... I think I got 2 maybe 3. I want to use my new camera, but I forget and then its too late. Oh well. Anyway its good to be back. I am so excited for the holidays. This is my favorite time of the year. Here are my few pics from the trip.

Abi hanging out in her car seat during the drive

Abi and dad at one of many pit-stops