Blessing Day

We blessed Kennedy last week. It was pretty awesome. I think it’s fairly normal to worry that at some point during the blessing your kid is going to grab the microphone and start screaming like James Brown, thus embarrassing you horribly in front of family, friends, and neighbors, all while the bishop frowns in your direction while shaking his head. Needless to say, we did our best to get her prepared for the big day. It turns out that our worries were unfounded and only slightly exaggerated. Kennedy did a great job chillin’ in the circle and she even flashed me some big ol’ smiles which I was grateful for.

We had most of our family over for some grub afterwards and that was a good time.

Once everyone was stuffed an unable to put up a fight, we forced them all to the stairs where I shot them… with my camera.

Johnson Family

Jensen Family

Piglet took some lovely pics too, she’s definitely got “the eye”

Kennedy hasn’t stopped yapping about how much fun she had with her cousins.

Thanks again for coming everyone, don’t let the stinky diapers keep you from returning soon!

Oops, Sorry Mom

I imagine that's what Kennedy was thinking after she spit up all over my face. Word to the wise...don't hold a baby over your face after she's just eaten :) It had been 20 minutes so I figured I was ok. Oh well, it gave us a good laugh that night!!

Zak decided to get it on video before he helped me and Kennedy get cleaned up. I know most of our family has already seen this video, but it's kind of funny so I thought I would still post it. Sorry it's a bit jumpy and kind of hard to hear.

I know I know, I'm a Horrible blogger lately!! I'm going to try and be better. Zak has been the valiant blogger up until now, but he says it's up to me since he's very busy this semester. He is just so good at it so I was perfectly happy to let him post. But I'll try to do my best and post more regularly.

Well, we haven't been up to much since we've been back in Utah. Just trying to get settled back into our house and getting things organized and ready for school to start again. We have been able to visit with some family and friends though, so I'll post a few pictures that I did remember to take.

A visit from Jana Banana and Grandma Rose

We went up to North Ogden to visit Gma and Gpa Vaughan

Not only did Kennedy get to meet her Great Grandparents, we were treated to a delicious garden meal and they also sent us home with lots of fresh garden produce-Thank You!

Kennedy got to play with Uncle Christian for a few days while he stayed with us.

We have been getting 'real' smiles from Kennedy since she was 4 weeks old and are loving them!

Just some random pictures:

We just had a wonderful weekend with our family and we blessed Kennedy in church yesterday so I'll post pictures of the fun soon.

Long Overdue

Ok, ok, I know it's been way too long. The last few weeks have been busy, but I really have no excuse. So, to start things off, we successfully navigated the road back from Texas to our cozy home in Orem. By "we" I mean "me" because Kate and Kennedy flew directly from San Antonio to St. George (courtesy of Johnson airlines, thanks Jer!) while I drove the 1,200 miles all by my lonesome. The drive really wasn't too bad, so I can't complain.

Erin is the one in blue. Her husband also did an internship with USAA and I was in the same class with him over the past year of school. We all became good friends over the summer and Erin was kind enough to fly with Kate and Kennedy then meet up with her family and husband in Las Vegas. She is also expecting soon, so I guess it worked out good for both.

Despite being totally nuts going out to Texas this summer and having a baby, we are really glad we did it. Who knows, maybe we'll move back next summer for a more long-term commitment.

Upon my arrival in St. George, I found this:

and this:

She's already got them wrapped around her miniscule finger.

Grandma Barb and Grandpa Kerry held a lovely barbeque in honor of Kennedy to introduce her to more of the Johnson side of the family. Here she is meeting her cousin Arden:

After taking those, I kinda forgot about the camera and didn't take any more pictures during the BBQ. However, to my delight I did find a few gems similar to this on there afterwards:

For those of you who don't recognize the face, that is my foolish, unshaven and elder brother Andy.

We had some car troubles while we were in St. George and ended up staying an extra day, which was good because we needed to take Kennedy to see grandma and grandpa great (Muir). It's a good thing we did too, because grandma elicited what we believe were some non-gassy smiles out of Kennedy and I had the camera handy.

We are glad to be home, and despite the fact that we are still dealing with unpacking all of our boxes, things are going great. We missed Utah.

Closing in

  The end is near. This is the last week of my internship and we will be heading home sometime soon after. Kennedy is doing good. She's been a little more difficult to photograph over the last week or so, and so the pickings are slim. However, I did manage to snap this one the other day. She makes the funniest faces all the time.

I almost forgot about this one. Do you see what a mischievous sister I have? I had to constantly watch that feedbag of hers to make sure it wasn't moving, especially when it came time to leave.

                

Our Family is Flippin' Awesome

Ok, so I know that we shouldn't brag but we really have a fantastic family and I just have to let them know it. Also, I understand that when you have a 10-day old, you aren't supposed to be able to utter anything other than "I feel like a zombie" or something, but we had a really great week. First of all, Grandma Rose has been here since the day after Kennedy was born and she has been such a great blessing to us. She's sacrificed a good deal of sleep and energy to help us adjust to parenthood and we can't imagine how we would have survived this first while without her. We will really miss her when she leaves on Tuesday. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

To add to the amazing spoiling that Grandma Rose has been showering us with, Grandma Barb and Auntie Piglet came to visit on Thursday. They spoiled us rotten up until the very minute that they left today and we are really missing them now. We really enjoyed their company and their help and we seriously can't say enough about how awesomely thoughtful they are. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

So you'd think that we really couldn't have it any better, but you would be mistaken. Late Friday night (Saturday morning actually) Grandpa Jim flew in to San Antonio and surprised us! He could only stay for the morning but we were really happy to see him, Kennedy was talking about him all afternoon. Thank you for coming!

Kennedy is doing really well and she even lets us sleep for long stretches at night. She is so awesome, and makes me laugh all the time with the funny things she does. Everyone that came this week commented on how small she is. I guess our pictures make her look like a chunk, but she is quite petite, at least for now...

Thanks again to everybody that came to visit. We will be coming home in a couple weeks to see the rest of you.

Sunday Dress

                       

For Grandma Barb

My apologies for the poor lighting. I just figured out how to get the videos off the camera and compatible with the blog. More to come...