Months Have Gone By!

I am online everyday and blogging most days but just not here! Forgive me for that! I am going to try to do better and put this blog on my schedule.

We had a great Christmas and thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson we now have a Wii! We love it and we are much more active as a family because of it. Even Lauren loves to bowl! Her high is a 105 if you can believe it.

Life keeps barreling by and we are trying to enjoy it. We have not had to many sick days this year so far. I have managed to get the last virus, which turned into a bad ear infection. If you known me long you know I get the ear infections with pain worse then childbirth! I am now on my second round of antibiotics to kill it off and it has been two weeks!

Charles is enjoying a little over a week off right now to let me fly to Atlanta, GA for a workshop on Affiliate Marketing. I am really excited to go as I get to me my accountability partner from Chicago, Angie! We speak to each or text of Skype most everyday of the week! We are going to have loads of fun. I hope Charles does to with the kids!

Ian has been able to walk for several weeks now but he is just now consistently trying to stay on his feet. He is fun! He likes to push the button on the television and the dvr, oh and the Wii! Lauren gets very upset when he turns off her shows.

Last night we had our neighbors the Allen's come over for dinner and Family Home Evening. They moved in last November. It was really fun. Elise and their oldest Jayden are in the same class at school. They tell us that they are "in love". Before the Allen's moved here we had heard about Jayden. Elise was already telling us that he was her "boyfriend". It is kind of funny! They have a little girl that is two years older than Lauren and they often play together. They have a little boy that is six months older than Ian and they were playing together last night. It was really fun to watch!

Until next time (it will be sooner than later)!

I Am So Behind Posting Here

I have been so busy lately getting a few websites up and going. Life just keeps on flying by! Here are just a few things that have happened since I really wrote last:

We went to our family reunion to the San Bernardino Mountains in California! This was so much fun! We went swimming at the pool and lake and played a lot of games! Below are some pictures of the event.

Jed went on his first waterslide!

We went to the Hopkins family reunion in Honeyville, Utah. It was so fun to see everyone there.

We also went and visited my sister right before school started in Idaho! That was fun!
School started!! Jedidiah started third grade and Elise started first. I can't believe they are getting so big.

Ian is growing so quickly He will be one years old in two weeks. While at the reunion he learned to crawl. He did the army crawl for sometime and now is up on his hands and knees. At his nine month well visit the doctor said he is a little weak (muscle tone) and we need to watch him. So I am anticipating he will not be walking for a little bit. He does cruise along the couch really well and he will sometimes let go and hold his own. Below are a few recent pictures of him.




Lauren turned three and three days later Charles and I celebrated our ninth anniversary on 09/09/09! Another number thing...Charles turned 33 on Sept 3rd and three days later Lauren turned three! We have some number things going right now!

We have officially started canning. Okay well Charles has! He canned 21 quarts of peaches in September and a few weeks ago he canned 21 quarts of applesauce! He did a great job!


Our last news is not great. We were suppose to leave for California yesterday for a river trip down at that Colorado river. We are most likely not going to make it. We are waiting for a final confirmation that Elise has the Swine flu! Yep H1N1! She has been wearing a mask for almost 24 hours now. If she has it she will wear masks for another six days. She will be contagious for a while! We are sad and disappointed that this has happened but I am so grateful she got the symptoms almost 12 hours before we were scheduled to leave. It wouldn't have been fun to be sick on vacation! Lauren doesn't quite understand yet. She keeps asking "When are we are going to the water?" or "When are we leaving to California?" So unless the strep culture they took comes out positive we will be staying put in Utah!

Okay I am a slacker!

I have been so busy lately that I haven't thought about this blog much. But today I got a tag from Mariah To do 8 things...so here goes:

8 Shows I love:
1. The Biggest Loser
2. HawthoRNe
3. NCIS
4. Psyche
5. Monk
6. The Amazing Race
7. Deliver Me
8. Oprah

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. I slept in until 9am (that is amazing)
2. Donate Plasma
3. Went to the post office
4. Spent some time on the phone with Digis (our internet was down)
5. Bought a new router
6. Worked on my new walking blog
7. Fed Ian
8. Helped Charles with his new blog

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Red Lobster
2. Olive Garden
3. Rockne’s
4. Arby's
5. Benihana
6. Pizza Hut
7. Cici's pizza
8. N/A

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. To create successful affiliate sites that are profitable
2. To have a few days a week to work on Genealogy
3. To be able to read all the books I want to with out getting to sucked into them.
4. For Charles to be able to be home full-time
5. To have a cleaning lady come in once or twice a week.
6. To build our own home.
7. To be debt free
8. To be able to give, give and give some more

8 Things I'm Looking forward to:
1. Getting my Walking blog up and going.
2. Getting a good check from affiliate marketing
3. Seeing my sister
4. Spending a few days at the Familiy History Library
5. Not giving plasma anymore! I can stop when my business pays for itself
6. Going to Disneyland (next spring)
7. Getting the kids back in school (one more week)
8. Most of all seeing my Heavenly Father!!

8 People I Tag (Considering I don't know who all reads this not to mention who would actually do it):
1. Christine Cahan
2.Mikell Gehret
3. Not good at tagging!
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