Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Father's Day

Today is Father's Day and I just wanted to write about the awesome Father's in my life and thank them all for all they do for me.  There is of course my Father, that raised and taught me all kinds of important things.  He was always a good provider and dad to all his kids.  Then I got married and we had kids so Ian is a Father to our kids.  He is also an amazing Father.  He provides great for our little family and he always helps me with these two adorable kids we have.  Today we also got to spend time with Ian's Father and he is one of the greatest examples I can think of of a good Father.  He has raised and taught his kids lots of great things all the while also taking good care of his wife.  I am thankful for all these men in my life and I will look forward to their help in raising and teaching my two little boys how to be good men and Fathers some day!  Love you all :)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Scooter Day

A few times a year, my brother spencer and I (Ian) take a scooter day. Always on a Saturday, I ride a Dragnfly, and Spencer rides his scooter. He can go faster than my ride, so he slows down for me. Isn't that nice of him.
We start the day by meeting at Petco Park at 9. We immediately head to our oldest brother T.C.'s house.
It's usually about this time we blow a tire. So naturally we head to Tom's for a new tube. Tom was awesome. He filled the air with colorful language, fun conversation, and a sweet map to all the San Diego bike routes. It was awesome, opened a whole new world of two and three wheel fun.
Our plan was go to Coronado. We found a route through IB so we went for it.
We made some stops, and saw some cool things. We had a blast riding the bike route.
The machines ran well.
We had a great time cruising around Coronado. We even found an awesome open house. The house was beautiful. Spencer took some great pictures of that. We did some more riding the we started back. We had the wind at our back. It was some fast and fun riding. We finished the day with a Padres game. Our families met us there. It was a wonderful day.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Mason 6 months

Since Mason was born Dec 5th its easy to keep track of how many months he is...on the 5th of the month he is that month old.  So Jan he was one month and now its June, the sixth month, he is 6 months old.  He is a blessing in our home.  He is a very good baby, not much fussing or crying over nothing.  He loves to watch Patrick play.  Patrick can talk to him or jump or dance for him and he laughs.  Patrick plays peek a boo with him, and the other day I was pushing Patrick in the swing and holding Mason.  I have never hear Mason laugh so hard each time Patrick swang up to us Mason would laugh so hard, I think he thought Patrick was doing that on purpose just for him!  Mason is teething right now so he bites down on your fingers pretty hard, sputtering with his lips, and lots and lots of drool :)



 Now Mason is 6 mo I am trying to feed him cereal...its still pretty messy and slow going!
 Patrick didn't want to be left out! 
I think a little actually got swallowed!

Padre Game

For our nephew Sean's birthday for the last couple years we have gone with our family to a Padre game.  We go sit on the grass and have a fun time, this year was no different.  We had fun hanging out with the Johnston clan! 
Take me out to the Ball Game!
cousin Rachel was making Mason laugh pretty hard!


 Nice face paintig...no wonder Mason was laughing, Huh!?!
 Patrick wanted to be cool like his cousin Rachel and wear his bandana on his head! 
The boys of course end the night with rolling down the grassy hill about a hundred times! 

Winter Hardships

January and February were difficult in the Johnston home.  We kept getting and giving each other the Bronchitis bug of the winter months!  Poor Mason was hospitalized for a week when he was 2 months old...he got bronchilitis and could not breathe :(  Patrick had it too and so did I, but poor little baby could not breathe because of it so he had to have his lungs suctioned and be on a breathing machine, then on high flow oxygen, then down to normal oxygen, then ween off all that so we could go home.  I stayed with him the whole time so it was once again hard on Patrick too, once we come home with a new baby and he is almost getting used to the new routine we leave again!  I can only imagine what he thought about it all.  I was of course uncomfortable but mostly worried about and just wanting to take it all away from poor little precious Mason.  Since I couldn't take it away I was just there by his side to comfort when I could.  I am so thankful for Health and when you don't have it is when you are most aware to be thankful for it. 

The Ronald Mcdonald house across the street is the only place I did go once Mason was feeling better while the nurses watched him I took Patrick across the street to play on some toys and we ate a free lunch, that was sure a blessing! 

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was at home!  We just had new little Mason so we stuck close to home.  We had a fun family Christmas.
We decorated the tree...
Tried to get some cute santa hat pictures!
And made snow man ornaments at our friend, Adam and Kim Nisson's house
I am thankful for my little family and the fun times we have together and also thankful for all my extended family and the times when we can get together with them too.  Christmas is a special time of year that makes me more thankful for all we have. 


Quick update

I have gotten teased about my very out dated blog.  Then we had a releif society class on blogging and journaling.  I am not doing either!  And I have two adorable kids that I need to remember things about.  So I am making it my goal, yes once again, to do this a whole lot more often.  I have two sister in laws that I know of that do awesome blogs, they are great examples to me too. 

So, I will start with the amazing event in our lives that occured last year, early December!  Mason Reed Johnston was born 12-5-11, he weighed 5lbs 2oz. 21 inches long.  He was born at 36 weeks, here is what I looked like.
On Dec 4th I was at a bbq at my cousins house and playing with Patrick in the backyard but my back was aching a lot. That night I could not sleep very well because I could not get comfortable with the bach ache and contractions I was having. The next day I just got up and tried to go on with my day, but as the day went on the contractions seemed to be getting more close and more intense. So I decided to get driven to the hospital and get checked out. They checked me out in triage and then sent me to a room to wait and see if i progress, my doctor came to check on me about 5pm, I had been there for about an hour. She said I had progressed since I first got there so she was taking him that night, when the shift change happens I will be the first in the operating room. So they preped me, I walked to a table laid down and they gave me a c-section to give me our sweet baby Mason!





He was super small, but all healthy and strong.  The NICU people were standing by and checked him out first, but he never had to go with them and he didn't have to stay in hospital at all without me. 

 Happy Mama!
Patrick got to come see his brother the next day!  He was happy with it, but I don't think he quite understood everything.  We had Ian going home some but Gary and the Johnston Grandparents really made Patrick feel better.  Staying home with Gary kept his life and schedule as normal as it could be and going to sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa Johnston was an adventure he could have! 

My dear sweet friends from my ward came and said hi too, Robyn Welcker has a birthday right after Mason and Debbie Douvaghapivong is another sweet friend that we love. 







We had many great visitors...the Johnston grandparents visited and also helped with what ever they could and so did Gary.  He helped a lot with Patrick and also visited with flowers:) So sweet


He was still super small when it was time to go home, so the clothes were big, but we just bundled him up and brought him home so happy to have him in our home!