Easter Fun

We had a little hunt with our neighbors at the park by our house. The pics aren't great since I was stuck in a chair the whole time. It felt good to be outside for a while instead of cooped up on the couch as usual!


Our neighbors have a fun tradition... They drain fresh eggs, let them dry, then fill them with confetti. When you find one of THESE eggs, you get to chase someone down and crack it on their head!


First taste of a chocolate egg!

What happens when 'Cus pulls an all-nighter?...

He puts himself down for a nap on the couch at 9am the next morning while you're in the shower. Isn't that nice?

Benefits of Bedrest...

- sleeping in while your husband changes diapers and makes breakfast
- ordering groceries online
- people cleaning your house
- eating fabulous dinners that you don't have to cook
- not cleaning up after dinner
- reading 4 books in 2 weeks time
- actually making progress on your online scrapbook
- being told to "lay down" and "your working too hard" when you try to change the laundry
- lots of people babysitting your kids
- hardly ever changing a stinky diaper
- laying on the couch while calling out orders to, "bring me the phone, get Marcus off the table, is dinner ready yet?", amongst other things.

All of this is well worth keeping little baby GIRL Johnson healthy and growing!

Yep, that's right, we're having a girl!
Isn't SHE cute!

Boy or a girl?

I thought I'd have some fun with this one. Since I love geocaching so much I decided to "cache" the sex of our fourth child for your geocaching pleasure. You'll need to physically go to the following coordinates and find the "johnson baby cache" and you'll know if it's a boy or a girl! Having a hand held GPS unit will help immensly.

Using map datum "WGS 84"
N 33 degrees 38.554 minutes
W 111 degrees 53.835 minutes

For those of you unable or incapable of dialing in on such location, we'll let everyone know at some point in the future...

Have fun!

Ryan

A New Toy!!!

I'm so excited! I just got a new lens for my camera that I've been wanting for several years.

I've read about, tried out a few friends', looked at sample pics... And, I finally got it.

It's awesome! Why didn't I get this sooner?
I guess cause it costs $$$!
Here are the first two pics I took with it. Nothing spectacular,

but they show one of the reasons I've been wanting it.

See how in the 1st pic you can read "20D" on the box? And, in the 2nd pic it's blurred out nicely? This lens's aperture can be set as large as 1.4! (that's geek camera talk for "it can really blur out the background on portraits")

He's 1!

Aren't 1st Birthdays fun?
I know, the boy won't remember any of it.
But, it's so fun to watch them dig into a cake for the first time!

READY TO GO!

"Are you sure you're not going to tell me, NO?"

" Oh, Yeah! I'll take some more of that!"

Party Animals: Martinsen Grandparents, Johnson Grandparents, Dad, 2 brothers,

(not picutred, as usual - 1 mother)

Birthday Fun

Eli's birthday is Feb 3rd and Marcus's birthday is Feb 13th. So, we've had lots of fun this month.
Grandma and Grandpa Martinsen came by during lunchtime. They brought Eli a Happy Meal for lunch and Legos! Eli loves to build with them!
Then, Grandma and Grandpa Johnson came over for dinner. Well, they took us to dinner and then we headed home for cake, ice cream and presents!

Eli loves his new horse! He rides it around with his hat, pistol and whip. He is NOT a cowboy! He is Indiana Jones!