Mia's 2nd Birthday!

Mia is officially two! She is such a joy to have in our family. She is almost always happy. If she is crying about something all I have to say is "can you show me happy" and she will say "yap" and smile through her tears. She talks really well and is a quick learner. She has 3 scriptures memorized. The most recent one she has learned is Moses 1:39. We started memorizing it last Monday and by Wednesday she could say the whole thing with just a little help. She loves playing with little toys and being a "Maggie puppy" with Makayla. She is such a cutie we just love her personality!
On her birthday her and Makayla got up at 6! she got to open her presents before Mindy went fi school. Her favorite ones were "grandpa's cow and her favorite book: little lost cowboy. After we got Mindy off to school we went with her nursery friend to the bounce house. She loved jumping and was even brave enough for the big slide. After that we went to Sam's Club for pizza. Later that evening we all went to Red Robin of course! Then when we got back home we had cake and ice cream. After scriptures she could wait to get I her new bed!

A change up

Mindy and Mia both got new beds today! Mindy is now down in the basement in Mia's old room and Mia is in Mindy's old bed. Mindy will be sharing a room with McCall when he can no longer fit in the cradle. Mindy is excited to have a new room, Mia is excited for a new bed, and Makayla is completely content in her same old bed :)
Everyone went to bed great. Mia didn't even get out...We will see how tonight goes!

February day

It snowed today! Makayla looked out the window and said "it's snow flaking!" Shecloves it when it snows because its a good excuse to have hot cocoa. She couldn't wait for Mindy to come home from school so they could play together in the snow. It took at least 30 minutes to find and put on everyone's snow gear! I actually found a pair of snow boots that I forgot we had for Mia to wear. Mindy and Makayla wore their milking boots :)
They were so fun to watch out the window. They were throwing snow balls at each other standing less than a foot apart, making snow angels, and helping each other onto the trampoline. They didnt last too long being out in the snow with cloth gloves!
Here are some pictures from our day.

A cute package

Baby McCall pictures

McCall is now one month and I cannot believe it. He has grown so much. He's going to be a little chunk!
The first picture was taken of him on his one month mark. I love to see him smile!
The yellow shirt says "little brother". He is in his car seat taking a nice nap outside. It was 62 degrees with no wind on Saturday. It was awesome! We worked and played outside for hours.
The next picture he is 3 weeks old in his Sunday outfit. The cute sweater was made by Aunt Judy (complete with a Boise state patch too!)
The last pic is all the kids in their feet PJs ready for bed (my second favorite time of the day!)

McCall Bronco Johnson

I have been feeling so guilty that I haven't posted pictures of McCall yet... but....Just the thought of blogging is overwhelming!

Here is a short version of his birth story:
McCall was born at home on December 20th at 6:50 pm. He weighed 8.4 lbs and was 19 1/4 in. My parents and siblings came into town that morning. My mom went with me to my midwife appointment while the rest of the clan hung out with the girls. I voiced my concerns to my midwife about not being seen until after I was 42 weeks (my 42 week mark was Christmas Day). She checked me and let's just say it hurt and she sent me home to rest. We went home and I laid down at around 1:30 for about an hour. After getting up and watching tv and visiting for a little bit, my mom went to get some food for the kids. When she got back I was uncomfortable enough to not keep a straight face so we headed down stairs to start timing my contractions. My mom was a great help. We timed my contractions for awhile and they were getting to be about a minute long and about 5 minutes apart. I called Monte at about 3:30 to let him know I was in labor. I then called my midwife and she said to call back in an hour. After laboring for a bit I called Monte to have him come home. He gave me a beautiful blessing and he was a great support for me. I called my midwife just over an hour after I called her the first time to let them know that my contractions were more intense, lasting over a minute, and now only 2 minutes apart. Alex took the kids to Sister Porters. The midwives arrived just after 5:00. I had a lot of back labor and was having really intense contractions. I had a hard time trying to stay relaxed. It was a pretty painful delivery because he was born posterior (face up). When he was born the midwife said "what is it Daddy?" And Monte said "it's a boy!" I just couldn't believe it!! Finally a boy :) when the girls got home they didn't know what we had so when the came in the room and I told them it was a boy their faces lit up and they were so excited! They all love their little brother and especially love to kiss him on the head. Mia even loves him but she said to me tonight "Daddy hold you McCall, Mommy hold you Mia"
We are so happy to have a healthy baby boy!
Enjoy all the pictures!

Merry Christmas!

Mia 22 months, Mindy 6 years, McCall 4 days, and Makayla 4 1/2 years

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The Girls were so excited to put up the Christmas decorations. Mindy woke up Monday morning and the first thing she said was "is tonight family night so we can put up the Christmas stuff?"
Mia kept putting the boot stockings on her feet and walking around in them. She loves shoes :)
The girls really enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree. We decided to just let them put them wherever they wanted and we would fix them later. It worked great. They were happy and didn't fight and they got to put them any where (including on top of each other).
Putting up holiday decor with kids has always been really stressful for me. I can't stand it when they just open up boxes, get stuff out, then throw it on the ground and find the next thing. It seems like they always end up running around because they are so excited and driving me crazy. I told Monte I wasn't going to yell at the girls this year. They were really good and I just kept reminding myself that they were excited. I did really well....I only lost it once when one of the girls took a super dusty lid off a box, put it on the ground, then stepped on it.....all while I was telling them not to!
I felt so happy as I watched Monte take a picture of the girls in front of the tree. We really did have a good time. I am so grateful for my family....can't wait for baby #4!

Primary Program Sunday

My Mom and sisters came for the primary program today. I put sponge rollers in their hair last night so they looked so cute in their new Sunday dresses from Aunt Jude and their curly hair. Makayla and Mindy sat next to each other on the stand and Makayla just couldn't keep her fingers to herself. Mindy was really patient with her. Monte and I kept making eye contact with Makayla and then we would fold our arms to remind her to keep her hands to herself and every time we would do that she would give us a grouchy look and point at us! The little stinker :) the girls did great and Makayla even had her parts memorized.
Right now all the girls are having fun playing with play dough together. They love it when they get to play with their aunts!

Halloween

We had 3 princesses this year! Mindy was Merida from Brave, Makayla was Rapunzel, and Mia was Snow White or according to her "pincess Mia"
Makayla fell asleep on the way to Wichita and Mindy took her wig off after 3 houses. No one had a clue what princess she was. Mia was good about letting us push her in the umbrella stroller. One of us would go to the door with the older two and the other would push Mia to the next house and get her started towards the front door. So Mia only went to every other house and got half the candy but she didn't mind one bit. Makayla was done after about an hour of trick or treating so Monte took Mindy around to some more houses while the rest of us headed back to the car. The girls had a great time and are still enjoying their candy'