Finals are done

The holiday is officially begun

Kyle doesn't feel well

Grateful he doesn't need a pail

By his bed

Just to rest his weary little head

I am playing in the PG (Pleasant Grove) Basketball league with a friend from college and some of her friends. It has been so much fun. The first game we played against a group of high school girls from American Fork. I enjoyed being on the court. The last time I really shot the ball was the day before I had Warren. I love playing and getting to know the other players on the team. This week we played another group of moms. We won the first and lost the second. The season will continue after the New Year. I need to practice.

Deal of the week 6 boxes of crackers a $1.88. (Triscuts, Wheat Thins) thank you Buy Low and a customer who shared a coupon with me.

I gave Warren a little trim again and left him with two very distinct hair cut lines, he still is as cute as a button. We are loving his smile more and more, his laugh, and his little dance, it is so stinkin' cute hopefully we can get it on camera one day so we can post it. When he wakes up in the morning he looks at this lamp that is in his room. I take him over to it so he can touch it and then I turn it on to see what he'll do. Today he let out this cute little laugh the first time we did it this morning, so I did it some more. Having him around is so much fun. Babies appreciate the small things and are so curious about the whats around them. It makes life so much more interesting.

We are looking forward to Christmas to spend time with family. Merry Christmas to you all!

Finals Week

Let the party begin, almost. Kyle has finals this week, then one more semester. Last Friday we attended a closing social for the teachers at the ELC (English Language Center). There was a white elephant gift exchange we got velcro and wall mounting tape, I was really excited, they will be so useful. After the party we got in the jeep to go home. It didn't start... mmm... what was the matter? My dad came to pick us up and to take Warren and I home. My dad and Kyle returned to the jeep and got Triple AAA to tow it to the shop. (I am so grateful for them, they rescued Warren and I one day when I accidentally locked him in and me out.) They found out that the ignition was broken. We'll be back in business tomorrow. In the meantime my parents let us barrow their car. For which we have been tremendously grateful for many reasons. 1. We needed to get to church, I guess we could have walked. 2. Shopping at Walgreens. 3. More shopping. Thanks for letting us use the car!!!

Week in Review

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Yeah, the first real snow of the year how exciting! On Saturday I was able to get 2 boxes of Special K Blueberry cereal for $.60, thanks to Smiths and coupons. I am so excited to try it! I went to a Relief Society activity too. We were able to go to the temple this week too, thanks to the Lind's for watching Warren for us. I was able to see a couple of the people that I worked with, which some I've been hoping to see for a long time. It is a sweet experience to talk with those sisters in the temple who have been such a great influence in my life. I also had an embarrassing experience this week too... yikes maybe I'll share it another day. I learned that there are some questions you don't ask. Warren tried sweet potatoes this week and is a big fan. He also earned the title of super soaker, launcher, or whale this week. One morning after feeding him he spit up just like usual but it was like there was a waterfall coming out of his mouth or like the water from a whale's spout. One of the cushions was damp for 4+ hours. Kyle is counting down the days till he is finished with this semester, making plans for the TESOL conference and his Master's project.

Books

Last night I was reading to Warren, pages on books make such fun crinklely noises... thin page... Jacob 3 is going to be taped in now.. thank goodness for tape!

We had a delightful Thanksgiving Day! We spent the morning at the Mills' and enjoyed dinner there with Mom, Dad, John's family, and Bub. Later we drove up to the Johnson's and filled our plates with pie... YUM... so many choices... Kyle hopes for more cream pies next year. Mom, Dad, the home clan, Snows, Snyders, and Lenny's crew were there when we arrived. What a fabulous time. We forgot the camera so no pictures, but lucky for us others did.

Kyle went shooting on Saturday and I went to the BYU vs. Utah game with my brothers John and Bub and John Wadley joined us too. The game was enjoyable.. and long... Thank you for watching Warren, Jessica and crew.

Warren had a first this week he rolled from his back to tummy. Yeah for growing boys!

Hair Cut #2

Warren's First Laundry Duty...Socks

While I was folding laundry this week Warren was doing what he does best reaching and grabbing. We'll work on the matching and folding some day.

2 Hour Project x ..... hrs.

So I wanted to make a project for an up and coming family party. I thought this should only take 2 hrs. I took the design of a Halloween wall hanging that I made about 9 years ago and came up with a Christmas design on a smaller scale. A goal I had was to use material that I already had and not go to the fabric store. I almost did it, but I ended up going to buy some embroidery floss for detailing. Now it is the third day of the project and YES I finished. Kyle helped out with design elements and Warren helped by taking naps.

Here is our little guy cozy in his car seat. He likes it a lot

Happy Birthday too Me

Thank you to Kyle for surprising me with some Roller Blades, CriCut blades, and thermals, yeah for being warm, as well as a date to dinner. Thank you Stephanie for watching Warren, sorry that he was tired and cranky for you. Thank you mom and dad, they are quite the chefs these days, for a delicious pre-thanksgiving feast for a birthday meal and the Thanksgiving decoration. Thank you siblings for my favorite birthday phone calls. Thank to my mother-in-law for the yummy popcorn that we can enjoy while watching movies or just to have around and the delightful card too. Thank you to birthday wishes that were sent via FB.

Blue Frame Photos

Our brother-in-law, Tim, and his sister Michelle our starting a photography business and took some cute pictures of our family. Check out their other pictures and pricing at http://www.blueframephotos.com/

We'll post other pictures later.

Our little SUPERHERO

The Kent Family, (Jonathan, Martha, and Clark aka... SUPERMAN)

Scary Cake II, the '09 Spider Spectacle

I used a red velvet cake mix, chocolate frosting, tapioca pudding (thanks mom) licorice, rock candy, and coconut(toasted and colored)

Do your Ears Hang Low?

This week I attempted to give Warren his first hair cut.  The last time I ever gave anyone a hair cut was about 15 years ago.  My brother asked me to cut/shave his head so he could have a sweet looking bowl cut.  I had been doing it to my older brother's hair, of course he had already had a defined line.  When I had finished one side was definitely higher then the other and I think I ended up having to shave the rest of it off because it looked so bad.  Sorry John.  Cutting a baby's hair is very tricky!  It took about two rounds and Kyle's help when he came home to distract him and get him to look away.  I only cut the side burns though because I like to give him a fohawk.  While, as I have been nursing him the past few days I noticed some stray pieces of hair.  Because it is still long on the top and I noticed it was longer in the back it looked like we were attempting to give him a mullet.  Today I tried to even it out and decided that after Halloween maybe I'll cut the top.  Here are some before and after shots.  Notice the wings on the side of his head in the before shot.  I'll edit the photos so they're facing the right way hopefully tomorrow.

  

Mommy's Staying Home

Mommy decided to stay home because I am so Adorable, Beautiful, a Cutie full of Charms, a Darling, Exciting, a Feather in her arms, etc.

These past few weeks I have been helping Mommy work on her IEP files and clean out her classroom. BOY she has a lot of stuff!!!!! I am so excited that she can stay home and read books to me, take me to the library, and sing preschool songs. Yeah for me!!!

There Were Three in the Bed

There were three in the bed and the little one said roll over, roll over...
So they all rolled over and one fell out...
There were two in the bed and the little one said roll over, roll over...
So they all rolled over and one fell out...
There was one in the bed and the little one said...

Good Night!

AHH!!

Among many things, one of my favorites is watching Kyle hold, make faces, or sounds to get Warren to smile.

This one is cute too.

Future Heisman Trophy Winner? Future Fireman?

One day Mommy caught me posing.

I thought he was working on his Heisman pose so I couldn't resist.


Visiting Uncle Stephen at the Lehi Fire Station open house

Whatever he ends up doing in this life whether it be a football player, firefighter, or another occupation of choice, our greatest joy will be to see him serve others and gain a testimony of Christ and the other amazing principles of the gospel.

Blessing

Me,
WarReN cLinToN joHnSon,

named after two of my great grandpas.
(Don't I look handsome? Thanks to my cousin Porter for letting me use his tie and shirt.)

Mami and Papi

Grandma and Grandpa Mills

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson

Almost everyone who was able to be there that day.

My Mills cousins, aunts, and uncles were all in for a family reunion. It was great to have them there on this special day. I am grateful that Tim and Stephanie let us have a luncheon at their house after church that day. I am grateful to be here on Earth and for the blessing that I received. My first and not last blessing from my daddy. I look forward to asking for more in the years to come and know that they will help me.

First little Adventures

Here Warren is at his second bath at home, hanging out with his green friend, and just chillin. He is a good little tike. We love 'em

Here are a few pictures of Warren his first few days of life. The first picture is him in his little tanning bed at home to help with his yellow color, the next one is of his first bed at home, Ila and Warren at the hospital, and the last picture is of him and two of his nurses. This past week has been a lot of fun. Ila and Warren went to a dual baby shower that was planned for them and my sister-in-law Lindy and her little baby girl Lia. It was supposed to be before the two babies arrived but they wanted to come a month early. While they were there Stephen, Lexton (our 4 year old little nephew) and I went fishing at a pond next to the golf course by where the shower took place. We caught several large mouth bass. It was a lot of fun. We have had many visitors and friends stop by and we are grateful for their help. We are greatly blessed with good family and friends. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and services.

Well the post before this one is very outdated. There are two more grand kids that came into the world this weekend. Lindy (my brother Lenny's wife) gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (Lia) early Friday at 12:01 am or something. Ila gave birth the next day at 9:00 am to a beautiful baby boy. In fact we were on the way to the Murry hospital to visit Lindy and Lia when Ila had a few contractions. They were very far apart and we didn't really think anything of it. In fact Ila asked me (like I really knew) what a contraction was supposed to feel like. I know there is pain involved and that your belly becomes hard.

Later that night around 10:30 Ila continued to have contractions that continued every 5 minutes. We called her doctor and he said it could be false labor. Ila was not due until June 20th. I was sure it was false labor. I wasn't taking it serious.

At 2:30 am after several hours of helping Ila breath and having contractions 3 minutes apart we called the doctor again and he had us go to the hospital in Payson. I still thought it was false even when the nurse said she was dilated to a 3. But the nurse decided to admit her. Ila continued to go one number hire in dilation each hour or two.

Finally at about 7:30 the doctor broke her water and around 8:15 she began to push. At 9:00 she gave birth to little Warren Clinton Johnson, 5 lbs 14 oz., 20 inches long. I guess it wasn't false labor. Like a bullet he literally shot out. (the doctor had to catch him) Thus his first nickname "the little bullet". All the nurses and especially the doctor were surprised at how fast he came out. I swear he flew at least a foot to the doctor. Fortunately the doctor was close and had a hand on the top of his head before he came. It was the craziest thing ever.

Ila didn't have the epidural, she wanted to try natural. Ila did so well with the entire process that several nurses thought she had the epidural and were amazed that she never made a peep. In fact I think she fell asleep during a few contractions when we first got to the hospital. The nurses said she should be on those videos that promote birth so as to show that giving birth isn't that bad.

On a side note, the first nurse, Suzanne, who admitted us was also the nurse that helped deliver Ila when she was a baby.

Well we should be returning home Tomorrow if everything goes as planned. The doctor says he is good size for being born a month early.

We have been blessed greatly by this healthy little boy and feel in aw that we have been given such great responsibility in raising him up unto the Lord. We know that we are blessed and will be given the strength to do what is necessary and right for him. This is such a miracle of miracles.

Well here is a small update. This is a picture during Easter at my mom and dads place when almost all the grand kids were together. Only one was missing. We had a lot of fun trying to get everyone to pose. I think this is the only one where the grandparents were looking at the camera. Turns out it wasn't the kids that had the hard time taking this picture.

Everything else is going well for us. Ila is getting bigger and ready to deliver in a few weeks. She has a couple weeks left of school and she will be done for the year. I am taking a class at BYU. I am also getting paid to teach English. It is kind of funny because they gave me the academic writing class level 5 which is one of the last classes students take before entering University level classes. 

It is softball season and I have already messed my shoulder up. I got into a little pickle and had to slide into second only to land funny. My shoulder didn't hurt much during the game just felt a little weird. In fact I even hit a home run (which I haven't done all season) After the game though it really hurt and I couldn't sleep all night. I could barely raise my arm. I hate getting hurt. I can raise my arm all the way now. I do like to complain though. ;)

We have been blessed with a lot of help lately getting baby clothes. Ila's parents and other family bought us several outfits that look really good. We also stopped at a couple of garage sales and picked up a couple outfits. We have really been blessed. Thank you all. We still have some things to get mainly a car seat which we will buy new. We feel better about buying a new car seat and getting everything else used. Summer has been fun so far. We are looking forward to the family reunions and camping. Hopefully we get to go. 

Ok my new goal is a weekly post! Short update: I was officially accepted into the MA. I will finish next April. Also I have been hired at the English Language Center to teach Applied grammar level 5. uuuuhhh?! I don't know about that assignment but it will be a really good assignment and I will gain a lot of teaching experience. This is the highest grammar level at the ELC and I am sure most students know the grammar better than I do. Ila's Spring break ends today and she goes back to teaching at her school tomorrow. (by the way "to" "morrow" used to be a phrasal verb seperating the "to" from the noun, same with "tonight") Other great Ila news, she passed the PRAXIS test. Wahoooooooooooooooooooo! This past week was Spring Break for Ila. She spent a lot of the time cleaning the second bedroom of our apartment in order to get ready for the little one. I studied for my final, which I took yesterday, and the rest of the time we enjoyed by watching Ila's stomach look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, because Warren moves all over the place making her look very mishappen. Mishappen in a good way ;).

The moment we have been all waiting for; "Ila actually showing that she is pregnant" pictures. With only 2 months left we have more belly to show off to our fellow Ward members and friends. For a little update we are doing very well as the semester comes to close. Ila will be on spring break and I have only one final.(wahoooooooooo!) Spring semester starts in a few weeks and I will probably be getting a paid teaching spot at BYU's English language center. At least it will be one class for one semester. My project is lining up nicely and we will know if it is accepted in about two to three weeks.

Happy Easter everyone and we hope we all remember what the season is really about. Today in church we heard several very well done talks. In one of these it was mentioned that we can look at the symbolism of eggs on Easter as parts of our testimony and that we are continually searching and growing our testimony much like when little kids go searching for eggs on Easter. The speaker further explained how as the eggs are meant to be found so are our testimonies and that  according to our level the eggs are hidden. Those who are younger often have less difficult and more open ways of finding their eggs where as the older children's eggs are more hidden. Much of this can be related to the gathering of our testimonies throughout our lives. We too must search out and find truth and our testimonies on our own. They are meant to be found but we must work for them and that often gets a little more difficult as we get older. we express out love and testimonies of this wonderful season and know that Jesus Christ is our Saviour and Redeemer. We love you all. Kyle & Ila (Warren sends his love through kicks and movement)

Super Update

Ok, This is long over due and we are sorry for not letting more people know. If you can't tell by these pictures Ila is pregnant. We originally didn't say anything because we had a slight scare at the 2 month mark. Turned out to not be serious. So we didn't tell anyone because we weren't sure if there would be a miscarriage. Well that was the excuse 4 months ago. Since then we have just been busy. It's a boy. Sweet. We are naming him Warren after my (Kyle's) grandpa. He is due June 20th. (Buttar's isn't your b-day the 20th?) Most people in our ward just found out too, so don't feel bad we left out everyone. Part of the reason for this is because Ila is taking her sweet time showing her belly. It really isn't very big. Only in the last month has she really started to show. We are nervous and excited as most of you have experienced this and know the emotions. So any pointers would be appreciated. I already heard about the cold air hitting the little guy when changing diapers and having a good stream flying through the air. 

We have also been a little more busy then usual. Ila took a PRAXIS test. so she was studying hard for that. She took it last week and we find out if she passed in about 3 weeks. I have just finished a teaching practicum course that took a lot of my time. Now I only have one class the rest of the semester. FREEDOM!!! This week I am heading to Denver for a TESOL conference. I have been applying for the MA TESOL program. The program here has been going through a major overhaul and my thesis proposal was rejected because they felt it would take longer then a year but they still wanted me in the program. Now I am submitting a project proposal. Which is turning out to be a much better course then the thesis route and a huge blessing. I am also working for a research group getting paid to do some of the easiest and most boring work ever. J/k It is really interesting but can get tiresome after awhile. I listen to non-native speakers of English as they repeat sentences they have just heard from a native speaker. I mark whether or not they say each syllable correctly. All my work is on-line from home with ear phones and the click of a mouse. Man if I would have known I could get paid more doing this then working for my old man I would have done this years ago. J/k I miss working outside and actually doing some physical work. 

Ila has been working crazy hours the last few weeks. She got home the other night late because of parent teacher conferences. She is enjoying the Relief Society. She puts all her extra effort into enrichment activities. I get stuck in our bedroom when the activities are held here. I just don't want to get in between the sisters and their enrichment so I hide in our room. (I still hear them giggling though) Our ward and neighbors are great. In fact I tutor our 12 year Korean neighbor boy with his English. His mom makes us Korean food ever time I tutor. I guess they feel like they need to pay us somehow. It is pretty good food most the time.