We're moving

Sort of. OK, not really. At all actually. But what we are doing is consolidating our blogs. We know what you're thinking: "But wait! I enjoy reading the frequent updates to your blogs; how on earth are you going to manage to squeeze all of that into one blog?" Well, we're superheroes. That's how.

So here is how it's going to work. We will now exclusively use our other blog, picturethepossibilities.blogspot.com. We will be combining our photography and family blogs. For safety purposes, we will not use our kids' names or post any comments with our kids' names in them. We'll figure out something to call them in our blog (probably something creative like "this kid"). And if you are only interested in our family updates and are not at all interested in the photography stuff we post, well, sorry. You can feel free to skip the photography parts.

So, that's it. We're not actually moving. So look forward to exciting posts to come at least as fast and furious as they have in the past, now on only one blog!

And here is a random picture, because all blog posts are better with pictures.

This Kid

Emma

Well folks, we now have two and a half dozen people in our family! There are two parents and a half dozen kids.

Emma was born on December 1, 2010 at 12:19 pm. She weighed in at a healthy 8 lbs 6 oz, meaning she was our second smallest baby (our smallest was 8 lbs 4 oz). She was 20.5 inches long. That means Jay's mom and Brandi were right on with their guesses on the length, and David was only two minutes shy of the actual time of birth, so you three let us know what kind of candy bar you like!

Our kids had some pretty great guesses, but Matthew's was particularly great. He guessed Emma would weigh 3 lbs and only be 5 inches long. Jayden told him that Emma's head alone would be at least 5 inches long, so Matthew amended his guess to 7 inches. We're glad he was way off!

Emma is an angel! She has been perfect. We have been blessed to be six for six with easy going babies! Both she and Sherrie are doing very well.

And here are some pics:

Welcome to the Crazy Awesome Johnson Family, Emma! We love you!

Let the Guessing Begin!

We go in to have a baby tomorrow! Sherrie's c-section is scheduled for 11:30 am. Feel free to post a comment with your guess for time of birth, weight, and length. You can guess the gender, too, but we won't be too impressed if you get that right since we already know we are having a girl. Of course, my brother and his wife thought they were having a girl until a little boy came out, so ultrasounds can be wrong!

Oh, and whoever guesses the closest in all three categories will get a prize. Maybe. At the very least, you'll feel really cool. We might even acknowledge your coolness on our blog. If we ever update it again (which is very iffy if you look at how often we post!).

For reference, our heaviest baby so far was 9 lbs 9 oz. Our lightest baby was 8 lbs 4 oz. They've all been between 19-21 inches long. And they've all been born between 12:00am and 11:59pm (all on different days and different years, though).

Good luck, and happy guessing!

The guessing will be officially over after 11:46am (which is right when the baby will be born). Nevermind, Sherrie says it will be closer to noon. She's wrong, and I'm right, but we'll see tomorrow.

OK, guessing officially ends AFTER the baby is born and we let people know the information. Because after that, you're not guessing, you're simply repeating. Nice try, though.

To My Best Friend

Words could ever express how grateful I am for you. I don't think it can even be done in a song. Especially one by me, because I don't write songs. You make me want to strive harder to be the person that I never knew I could be, but you seem to think I already am. You make me laugh. A lot. I love that we can be together talking about nothing, or even actually saying nothing, and it is enjoyable. I love you for who you are and for who I am when I am with you.

I can't believe that it has already been 11 years since you became all mine. Forever. It has been the best adventure of my life. With my favorite person ever. I look forward to the many adventures that are waiting for us.

Thank you for always being there for me. Thank you for always treating me like a queen. Thank you for being crazy awesome. Thank you for everything. I love you with everything in me.

Happy Anniversary!

And thanks for these. They are beautiful!

I LOVE YOU! SO MUCH!!!!

Broken bones

We always expected to have our fair share of broken bones. We have four boys, and they come up with some crazy stuff. And we know that more than half of what they come up with we won’t hear about for over 20 years. So, it is not surprising for us to take a trip to the Emergency Room and find out that there is a broken bone. What is surprising is that in our family thus far we have had two broken bones; and both times it has been our daughter, trying to save the life of one of her brothers. Or something like that anyway.

This time she was riding her scooter down the sidewalk while one of her brothers was coming back up. She swerved to miss him, lost her balance, and fell and landed on her wrist. So on to the Emergency Room we go for our 3 hour extravaganza. (Which is actually not bad compared to the length of some of our Emergency Room visits.)

She indeed broke her wrist. They said it snapped back into place, but they wanted her to wait a week to see an orthopedic surgeon to make sure that any swelling went down before they cast it. Not even going to get into how fun it was trying to set up that appointment. That would be a blog post in and of itself, and this one is going to be lengthy enough as it is. We’ll just get to the part where we took her x-rays, not her, her x-rays, to the orthopedic surgeon on base who took one look at it, and said it needed to be reset. Oh, and he was also leaving within the hour to go on vacation for a week. Awesome. Needless to say, after some more fun on the phone that lasted way longer than it should, she had an appointment to see a different surgeon. That worked out great for us. After more x-rays (he didn’t like the angle of the other ones) he said that she did indeed need to have it reset.

They told us to come back at 2 for prep and then she would go in to surgery at 4. She did so great.

They were having trouble putting the IV in, but she was a trooper. She thought it was pretty awesome that her anesthesiologist was a Husker football player that had gone professional. She even asked him to be the first to sign her cast.

Once everything was all ready they took her back without us. They put her to sleep, or mostly, but she doesn’t remember anything.

Afterward , all the nurses raved about how great she did and what a sweetheart she is. She is pretty great. Now when her wrist heals she will be able to rotate it. Yea for specialists.

We love our amazing girl and hope her recovery goes well. So far she is doing great.

Cute kids

Yeah, we kinda like them.

It's a...

...Do you want to know? Are you curious about what we're having? Well, then scroll down and you'll find out that we are having a...

...BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Or a hot one. It wasn't too bad after the sun went down. We could actually stand being outside.

Oh, by the way...

Or at least it will be in December! There is someone in our house that didn't lock herself in her room and cry when she found out what we were having this time.

It really was a beautiful day, though.