Living the Life!

2010-04-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

Life throws curveballs, then you learn how to catchem!

2010-04-11T22:36:00.000-07:00

Our beautiful little family has blossomed from 2-5 in one year. The twins were born December 28, 2010. Jayda was born at 9:50am at 6lbs, Skyler at 9:52am at 6lbs 10oz. Skyler had to stay in the NICU for a week for breathing prolbems but they are 3 months old now and both healthy little chubsters. I am now posting again since they are oficially sleeping through the night! yeah! Malaki is adjusting well to the babies, a few rocky moments here and there but most of the time he likes to entertain us while Im feeding two babies at once! He is my angel!

2010-01-31T14:43:00.000-08:00

Minutes before delivery and not a moment too soon!

I swear I could have popped for real! Ouch I was

so swollen!

Ahhh memories at the beach...

My little lion...

My how things have changed! lol

Our Big O'le Family!

2010-01-31T14:21:00.000-08:00

Sorry it took so long yet again to post the news... its been a little busy. December 28th I gave birth to two little miracles- Skyler Charles Johnson and Jayda Naomi Johnson. Jayda was born first (c-section) at 9:50am and Skyler 2 minutes later. Sky was 6lbs 10oz and 19.5" and Jayda 6lbs even and 19" even. Skyler had to stay in the NICU for 1 week for breathing in fluid but is doing amazing. Both twins have their days and nights mixed up and dont sleep at night. Cliff has been my saving grace getting me through the sleepless nights. The women in our church have been incredible and coming over each day for a few hours (sometimes more!) to help with whatever I need-usually a nap! Lots of dinners and treats and love have been pooring in! We are blessed in truck loads each day!!
Malaki was officially adopted on November 20th, 2009 on national adoption day! We had a big fat party that night and then we had him sealed to us in the LA temple for eternity! Then we topped it off with having him blessed in church that sunday. I was on bed rest since I was having problems with pre-term labor for the last 3 months of pregnancy but I was determined to have my son all to myself as soon as possible. The court was amazing! It was nice to have a good memory of it instead of the usual trauma that took place at that courthouse of wondering if I could keep my son. I never have to fear that again.
Malaki has been amazing with all the new changes, he even likes his new siblings (when we are not holding them).
We are extremely blessed and love our kids so much! Its so weird to say that... I have kids! wow! so cool!
Hope everyone is doing great! Have a great week!

Our Growing Family

2009-07-28T11:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.juliemulkayphotography.com/

My homie Julie Mulkay blesses our family with these awesome pics all the time!

Love you Julie! She didnt yell at me once even though I couldnt stop lauphing the entire

photo shoot and goofing off! ha ha!

My nephew Jordan and Ki at Ming Lake in Bakersfield, Ca.

Jordan is malachi's favorite buddy!

Cliff, Ki and my gorgous nephew Jordan having fun in the sprinklers!

Malachi is a little fish in the water! He just can't get enouph!

Ok sorry it took me so long to update this. For those of you who dont know, it's been a busy several months for us with many many trips to LA for 3 rounds of invetro fertilization. Round 3 (our last round of treatment) actually worked! Even the Dr. was surprised because things were just not working out. God aparantly just had a different plan and timing for us than we had planned. So Malachi is now 11 months, turning 1 year on 8/7! and Im pregnant, with twins! yes thats right. I'll go from no kids to three in one year! Were due January 25th but planning for December and Im terrified but so excited. Mostly still in shock.
We have our hopefully last court date for Malachi this thursday in the morning. We are confident everything should go fine but the thought of the .001% chance of losing your baby will drive any mother insane. I am definatly learning how weak I really am and how much faith I lack but am gaining so much faith everyday we go through this journey. I will keep you all updated this Thursday on how the court goes but if all goes well we no longer have to stress about the birth mother wanting visits and we can adopt around October. You bet there will be one heck of a partaaay when this is all over. I cry every time I invision our adoption date and having a delivery of twins right after. God is delivering miracles every day of our lives and I feel so blessed to experience them first had.
Love you all!

Christmas and the New year!

2009-01-02T10:31:00.000-08:00

My sleeping wolverine!
Julie Mulkday took these photos for my baby shower invites.. she is incredible!

Ahhh I love his chunky nakedness!

Too cute

My chunky teddy bear!

We got a fancy new panini maker for christmas....

ohhhh yeahhhh!

Ki lovin his new toy!

What he does best all day! Giggling!

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Our little miracle!

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Asleep on Daddy

ok so I was still learning how to dress him! hee hee!

Good thing he's so easy going!
Our first family photo

Minutes after recieving our miracle!

The happy family

What an incredible Thanksgiving and Christmas season this is for us. We are extremely blessed to have a little bundle of miracles all wrapped into one chubby package. We can't wait to tell you all more but for now meet our new addition!

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Idaho Fun!

2008-10-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

Ok so we recently had the opportunity to go to Rexburg Idaho so Cliff could help recruit for his work. We stayed only 4 days but it was heaven! We had such a blast just being in Idaho again, I truelly love that place! We were able to see Bishop Samuelson, my old boss and co-workers/greatest girls ever! We also saw a bunch of our wonderful friends from BYUI that we miss so much. We even made it to the Haunted Mill, if you know me very well then you know my favorite holiday is Halloween. Also we made it Big Judds and harrassed Kurt and stayed up all night long every night! We stopped by Florences chocolates there and she even remembered us! yikes I think we may have went there a little too often.. lol. Megan Riley is an incredible photographer and she set up an amazing "fair photo booth" in her closet so we lauphed for hours on end being stuffed in her closet! She took lots of amazing photos of the girls... way too much fun.

It was very cold but such a nice change. I can't wait to go back again! Love you all and hope you are all doing wonderful! Ok so I suck at blogging and can't ever respond back to anyone so if you have a facebook or myspace account look me up! Love you all! have an amazing Halloween!

Vote Yes on Proposition 8

2008-10-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

Ok so Californians have already voted on this with a 61% vote and yet these 4 judges think for some reason that we need to vote again that our first vote didnt matter. I have spoken with so many people have felt they should give up, that their vote would just get overturned again. DONT GIVE UP!!!! If everyone in history gave up and never stood up for what they believed in America would not be standing!
I have no problem with how people choose to live their own life or who they choose as their companion. I do have a problem with these judges trying to take away my religious freedoms and my voice and trying to hurt my future, hurt my children and their future and trying to tear apart this society. Marraige is sacred and should remain ordained of God.
I hope that all my friends in California will respect my opinion as I do yours and do not wish to make anyone angry but wish to encourage everyone to take a stand in what you believe to be right. Read up on proposition 8 if you haven't already. There is a lot more to this than you think. I hope everyone votes in November.
www.protectmarriage.com

Kiki and Dustin...

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We got to spend some time with my girl Kiki

who I absolutely adore! We worked together in Idaho

and became instead homies, Lots of fun nights and funny stories.

We love her hubby, he rocks! Wish you guys lived in Cali!

Brogan playin footy at the top trying to be like

his daddy and uncle cliff. the next pic is him cleaning up

my prank, we spent the night at the Williams and I TP'd their

house a little in the morning... lol, I cant live without some pranks in my life!

Fun in the Sun with the Williams!

2008-08-31T19:20:00.000-07:00

We spent the night with the Williams in Mission Veijo.. gorgous! wow! I have a new apreciation for so cal! We played on the beach at night, played at the park and watched our sexy boys play footy! We miss u guys! Move back to Bakersfield!

Jade Killer Johnson /aka: phatest kitty ever!

2008-08-20T15:11:00.000-07:00

So my good friend Julie Mulkay is a local photographer here in Bakersfeild and is absolutely incredible! She came to my home to use my big phat kitty as a model to add to her portfolio... I am so lucky to have friends in high places. So these are new pics of my phatty kitty Jade Killer, if anyone needs a photographer call Julie! I love her to pieces and she is absolutely incredible.
Ok Megan and Matt Riley dont hate me cuz i still gots mad love for your incredible skills too, you gotsta to come visit and whip out ur camz so i can send u photographer love too! lol
So Julie's info is (661) 587-4185 or you can check out her blog at http://juliemulkayphotography.blogspot.com/
Love you all... more info and photos coming
ps
if you have commented on my page and i havent replied its because i suck and cant figure out this blog crap and not because i dont love you.

Hawaii!

2008-05-13T17:47:00.001-07:00

So recently my parents took us to Hawaii... oh man i have the greatest parents! We stayed in Honolulu for a full week of bliss! I seriously did not want to come back home... it was better than a perfect trip! We got to go in the Owahu temple, beautiful, we spent most of our time on the North shore playin on the beaches. The second pic is my second favorite, me and my mom reading books together, so relaxing! We went to Hilohaties, a huge store of souvies pretty much, thats the giant shirt behind us in the thir pic at hilos. Then on our way to our condo we saw the most ginormous rainbow ever and drove through it! It was a ton of fun, now were back to workin our butts off again and hopin for another break soon. Hope u r all doin awesome, miss everyone! have a wonderful week! Aloha!

Our first Dodger game!!!

2008-04-04T13:37:00.000-07:00

Hey all! Hope everyone is doing great!

Recently me n cliff got free tickets on the field level

section 8 to see the Dodgers- they beat the giants by 1!

I use to b a Giants fan by default but Im now converted!

Awesome! Love you all have a wonderful week!

reno/taho trip

2008-03-22T13:52:00.000-07:00

Last week Cliff and I were able to go and visit my parents in their new home in Sparks. We partied like rock stars all week! We went to Pyramid Lake for the day with my nephew and bro in my parents boat, went to the Reno temple, played in Taho for a day and even made time to see Virginia City! Pretty fun stuff. For all of you who have posted comments be patient with me cuz im still learnin how to respond, so it may take a few days.... lol

Taho/Reno trip

2008-03-22T13:45:00.000-07:00

2008-03-07T17:40:00.000-08:00

Our poor baby broker her leg! NOt sure how but I came home from work to find her with it. A bone graphting, metal plate and pins were required, no one dare tell me "just put her to sleep" or "just hack off the leg" so not funny! my poor kitty. She is doing much better now, just gimpy. LOL

2008-03-07T17:34:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving time I finally got to see my family, I just love this pic because it shows just what goof balls me n my family are... I love my brothers face... he is hilarious!

2008-03-07T17:31:00.000-08:00

FINALLYYYY!!! I got to venture in LA and see Hollywood, Sunset BLVD... and Universal Studios.. Pretty fun day eh? Doesnt it make u wanna come visit us?

2008-03-07T17:29:00.000-08:00

These are my girls I work with and a friend having an nice girls night out! I love girls nights! Weeeeheeeeew!

Missy Higgins

2008-03-07T17:26:00.000-08:00

Ok sorry its taken so long to make any updates but Im really bad at this blog stuff! I keep trying to comment back to you guys but cant figure out how! im so lame. Anywho I have a friend in town who's a radio DJ and she gives me free tickets to local concert things and I got to see and meet Missy Higgins! So Laura I dont want anymore flack about not updating, consider it done girlfriend! LOL

Halloween!

2007-10-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone hope u all have an awesome halloween! anyone doing anything fun? i hope my people from idaho are going to the haunted mill like everynight its open! freak i miss that place.... anywho... thought ud like to see how i torture poor jade... shes a good which hee hee!

yo yo yo!

2007-09-28T16:38:00.000-07:00

hey everyone! im workin on it. nothing really new goin on but thought id let everyone know i still love and miss u all! hope everyone is good. bakersfield still sucks but the heat is getting better.
i entered a cake into our fair here and won 3rd place. i was pretty stoked. love u guys,,, have an awesome week!

no love

2007-08-16T17:46:00.000-07:00

someone should send me a blog of how to do this blogger stuff. I don't get it