coming soon...ish

Want to know something exciting?

This little peanut is going to be joining our family August 25th (tentatively)!!

We are so excited! A little nervous, this is a human being we're talking about here, but mostly excited!

How far along: 11 weeks

Maternity Clothes: not yet

Stretch marks: not for a while, hopefully

Sleep: still sleeping easy. I used to be tired ALL the time, but not so much lately.

Best moment this week: getting a class canceled! Right now there's not much exciting baby news since being pregnant just feels like being sick all the time right now.

Miss anything: finding food appetizing

Food cravings: Qdoba - why must it be so far away :(

Anything making you queasy or sick: not eating and ice cream

Have you started to show yet: nope

Gender: my sisters are guessing a girl but I have no guess or "intuition"

Labor signs: negatron

Belly Button in or out: in

Wedding rings on or off: on

Happy or moody most of the time: happy! but occasional random mood swings which I've never done before

Looking forward to: our appointment on Tuesday - hopefully we'll hear the heart beat!

A jam packed Christmas break

We have had such a busy couple of months. Here is a quick recap of what has been going on in our life.

Sledding
A couple days after we got to Colorado there was a snow storm that brought about a foot of snow with it. So we grabbed the sleds that have been sitting in my parents garage for who knows how long and packed down the snow to make a pretty decent sledding hill. We spent hours sledding down the hill.

Even my grandma went down the hill multiple times...in her slippers. Yes, my grandma is the coolest!

We also spent a night decorating my mothers ridiculously delicious sugar cookies.

We had lots of fun on our Christmas break in Colorado but now we are back home and school will start next week so its back to real life. And real life now includes a job for Kyle! Kyle is one of the newest employees at Kiwi Loco. It's a frozen yogurt shop near campus and thanks to a good hook up through one of Kyle's old roommates, Kyle got the job! We are excited because of many reasons! 1. Jobs are impossible to find in Rexburg 2. It will be nice to have a second income, especially since I don't work many hours 3. Kyle won't be in school this next semester and he likes to have something to do and he would go crazy without a job!

So here's to fro yo paying our bills!

Also exciting since last time I blogged, there have been TWO engagements in the Johnson family.

Kyle's little sister Janae got engaged to Reggie just after Thanksgiving! This had been a long time coming and we are so excited for them. They are getting married in the Manti Temple on April 6th.

Kyle's little brother Kory also got engaged just a couple of days ago to Krissa. We like Krissa a lot, she is so good for Kory. They are getting married in the Idaho Falls Temple on April 28th.

So April will be the month of love in the Johnson family this next year and I am excited for both Janae and Kory. Janae is not in school this next semester and Reggie is, so instead of doing another semester long distance, Janae is living in our basement for this next semester which means we will be seeing a lot of Reggie and Janae. Kory and Krissa will both be in school next semester so hopefully we can spend some time with them too. It should be a fun and busy semester.

Oh yea, I have a blog

Have I been running around like a chicken with my head cut off for 3 months? Yes.

Am I thrilled to see the end of the semester finally come? Yes.

Am I dying for Christmas break? Yes.

Have I negelcted this blog? You betcha!

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Holy hannah, friends! The last three months have seriously been the craziest of my life! 14 credits, two jobs, one husband, and a calling in nursery and a temple ordinance worker. Mass. Chaos.
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This semester I worked cleaning the temple Monday-Saturday and worked as a TA for an Anatomy lab. Every day has been spent going to class running to the temple to clean running back to class and sometimes back to the temple. It's been a constant back and forth and running here and there. Finally about a month into the semester my boss allowed me to hire another sister to help me clean carpets on monday mornings and she was able to come clean on Wednesday so I got a day off! That was a life saver!
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Kyle and I have also worked this semseter as ordinance workers in the temple on tuesday mornings. And it was earlyyyyyyy! We had to be there by 5 in the morning and worked until 10:30-ish. It was such a neat experience. Next semester will be even busier and so we had our last day this week. We have loved getting to spend so much time in the temple together and being able to associate with some great people!

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We are SO excited for Christmas break! We are going to Colorado for the break and I can't wait! I love Colorado. Plus, I am happy to get a nice break before we start another crazy semester. The next one will be even crazier than this one! I'm still working at the temple and I am currently enrolled in 20 credits! Yes, 20! Am I suicidal? Yes. But I just want to graduate.
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So here's to another crazy three months! If you don't hear from me again for a while, no, we have not died. I'm just running around like a chicken with its head cut off!

Where has the summer gone?

We have had such a fun summer! And I have completely neglected our blog. But have no fear, I am back to document the fun life we have been living for the last couple of weeks. [ok, it hasn't been that exciting, but it has been a fabulous break from school!]

We finished school and went on a camping trip with my family for a few days. We had lots of fun playing in the sun and in the river. We had epic four-square battles and went on a hike that was "bug-tastic" {Seriously, even our 98% deet bugspray didnt cut it!}

Since the camping trip we haven't been up to much. I got a job at the end of the semester working up at the temple Monday through Saturday, so we have been pretty tied down to Rexburg, but I am so grateful for the opportunity to work at such a great place.

In big news, Kyle turned 25 last week!! He is now a quarter of a century old...wierd! He had a pretty low-key birthday since I had to work in the middle of the day. But check out the awesome cake I made him!

Farewell My Magical Childhood

If you have not seen the newest Harry Potter movie yet, YOU. ARE. MISSING. OOOUUUUUUTTTTT!!!! It was SO unbelievably EPIC!! I absolutely LOVED it. I am deeply sadded by the end of such a magical part of my childhood, but it sure went out with an epic AVADA KEDAVA!!!!
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Although I will miss the excitement that came with each new book or movie, the magic will always be found in one of the fabulously engrossing books or epic, but slightly inaccurate, movies.
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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~ Dumbledore

Summer Lovin Had Me a Blast

Summer finally made it to Rexburg!!!

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And we couldn't be more excited! We've spent the entire weekend playing in the sunshine!

Kyle and I both had all of our classes canceled on friday [ok, I maaaay have skipped the only one that wasn't canceled] so we started our weekend early with a picnic on Thursday afternoon and the next few days continued in a similar fashion.
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We've spent a LOT of time on our bikes this summer.
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Kyle and I brought up our old bikes from Colorado and it has been the best idea we've ever had! My sister and her husband also got bikes this summer and a bike trailer for my nephew so the five of us have had a blast exploring the hidden trails of the city of Rexburg.
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We also thoroughly enjoy watching the people of Rexburg! Call us creepers, but I know you all secretly enjoy people watching. And let me tell ya, Rexburg has a supa fly population to observe! If you haven't seen the video "the people of Walmart", please enjoy it now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM&feature=player_embedded
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We are thinking of making a video called "The people of Rexburg"
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Anywho, We've thoroughly enjoyed our summer so far and can't wait for school to be over in four weeks so that we can spend less time on school and homework [bleh] and more time soakin up some sun! :)

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

This past weekend was my grandpa's funeral. It was a long, hard, sad weekend.
But the things that were said about my grandpa during the funeral were nothing but those of admiration, respect, and love. There was not one person who did not mention the unfallable nature of service and teaching my grandpa always had.

He truly was a great man. I can't think of time when he was not serving, teaching or working hard, often all at the same time. Even in his last few weeks, when his own body was physically failing him, he was still concerned about serving others.
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My cousin was the grandchildrens representative for speaking at the funeral. He spoke of the three loves my grandpa had in his life. A love for his country, his family and his Heavenly Father.
Grandpa sure loved his wife, his sons, and his grandchildren and he never failed to find an opportunity to teach us. Teach us the value of work, budgeting, or laughing.

All because two people fell in love.
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He was a man who lived what he taught, strived to become more like Christ and help others along their way. He will be remembered as a man who was worthy to be welcomed home by his Heavenly Father, with the rewarding words "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
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Grandpa was a good man. He lived a good, long and full life.
As I listened to the tributes to his life, I felt honored to know such a man. I hope I can live the lessons he taught me. I hope I can become as magnificient of a person as he was so that I too might be worthy of the phrase "Well done, though good and faithful servant."