Ethan's Hair

I had some fun twisting Ethan's hair one night. It's getting so long, but I've been trying to hold off on cutting it till his first birthday. We have a tradition in our family that the kids don't get their hair cut till then, but it's looking a little too scraggly for my taste, so we'll probably cut it in the next few weeks.


He loves the camera!



This was right after his bath. Thanks for the pj's Gramma Marcia!

Like Father, Like Son

Daniel's favorite food is pasta, mainly spaghetti and Ethan is following right in his footsteps. Here he is eating spaghetti on his own for the first time.

He's trying it out.

Thinking about it a little bit...

And he loves it! You can see the glee in his eyes.

Band Camp

Samuel had band camp when he got here in July, every morning till Noon for a week. Here are some pictures from the concert they had at the end. They played half a dozen songs and sounded great. I was really impressed with the music program at Samuel's school.

Here is Samuel right in front of Mr. Webber, his music teacher. He's playing the clarinet.

Here they are in between pieces.

During a piece.

And at the end for the applause.

He just got promoted to Symphonic band from concert band and likes it much better.

What a Cook!

Samuel is loving Texas so far and has fun cooking. One night for FHE it was his turn to make the treat and he asked if he could make a pie. I didn't mind! So he made everything from scratch, even the meringue, it was delicious!

Here is the crust he made.

We don't have a pie pan, so he used Pyrex.

And here is the finished product. The chocolate filing was super thick and creamy. So good.

For the Grandparents

Here are some pictures of Ethan and Samuel taken in July. Ethan is six months old and learning how to crawl.


What a stud.

Samuel is finishing up Eldest in this picture. He loves the series and is excited for the final books to out this month.

These are blurry, but you get the point. He's cute and he knows it. :)


He loves to eat hair. Especially mine.

Here he is trying to get the camera.


And oops, he got it.

He loves shoes and shoe laces, any kind of string actually. If there were a toy made entirely of strings that he could pull and chew on, he'd love it.


Belly Flop!

Getting up.


Learning to crawl.

He could get up on all fours but he couldn't go anywhere.

Almost Crawling

This video was taken at the end of July when Ethan was still 6 months old. You can see how hard he is trying to crawl but he just doesn't have it down yet. His little mind was still wrapping itself around the idea that he could move on his own. He wobbles but learns quickly. We have gone from anxiously awaiting his first crawl to now his first steps.

Happy Pioneer Day!

Ethan started the day off by talking on the phone, upside down. :) He loves to play with it.

He has six teeth now and has the same gap in the front two that my mom did. So cute!

We went up to the stake center for Pioneer Day and I have to confess it was my first time officially celebrating Pioneer Day. I was so impressed! They had tons of food, kettle corn, ponies to ride, potatoe sack races, water ballon sling shot, kiddie pools with ice water in them to simulate crossing frozen rivers, snow cones, and as you can see from the picture...face painting. Samuel went for the full coverage!

Ethan took a nap while we were there so I got a little dinosaur painted on his cheek. Getting my face painted was my favorite part of going to the fair, so I got some kissie lips on my cheek. I was having so much fun I forgot to take pictures! Ah well. :)

After a long day Daddy ended up putting himself down for a nap as well as Ethan! I kept waiting for him to come out of Ethan's room and when he didn't I went to check on him and this is what I found.

If you turn up your volume you can hear the low rumble of Daniel's snores. It's pretty hilarious. They slept for about a half hour like that.
I love you Honey!

Cookin it up!

I have definitely gotten more into cooking since I got married. If you asked my roommates in college I did big dinners sometimes, but it wasn't an every day thing. Now it's really fun for me. Especially since I found a great deal on a Bosch on craig's list. I LOVE craig's list! (If you don't know what I'm talking about just go to www.craig'slist.com and click on your town. If your town isn't big enough, click on San Antonio and a category like "household" or "furniture" and you'll see what I'm talking about.)


Here are some No-Bake Cookies I made for Daniel's home teaching families. For the past 5 months or so I've happened to make cookies the weekend he goes to home teach and so far they have tasted my no-bakes, my wookies (peanut butter with snickers in the middle), my chocolate-chocolate chip cookies, and of course the regular chocolate chip. We'll see what I can come up with next!


This is Daniel's birthday dinner. When G-ma Marcia and Papa Ed were here they gave us a pasta maker which I got some use out of when I made Daniel's favorite - lasagna. I made the noodles from scratch and it turned out sooo great! He loved it!


This is the handy-dandy hand mixer that G-ma Marcia got for us. It was great at mixing the cottage cheese mix for the lasagna.


And here's the cake. I didn't sculpt the cake or round the edges cuz I didn't want to waste cake and I knew Daniel wouldn't care as long as it tasted good, which it did. :) I made the frosting from scratch. Since then, I was given some cake decorating stuff so my next cake will be even better. Thank you to Aimee's cooking blog for some great recipies.

First Sink Bath!

This was Ethan's first bath in our new house on the night we moved in. It was also his first sink bath so I thought I'd get a few shots.


He loves the splash of the water! When he's in his tub he puts his face real close to the water and opens his mouth when he splashes.


He loves taking baths!

"Eater Boy"

It's funny the nicknames that you give to your children. For the longest time we were trying to pick one out for Ethan (I come from a family full of nicknames and it made us feel special and close to our Dad who gave them to us) but nothing that we came up with stuck.

Except for "Eater Boy"

From the very beginning Ethan has been a great eater, he was a champion at nursing from the very beginning and has not been allergic to any solids we have fed him so far and let's face it, he's a Johnson, and from what Gramma-Marcia tells me, Ethan gets his huge appetite from his Daddy. (Hopefully Ethan gets his metabolism to go along with it) So Daniel started calling Ethan "Eater Boy" and it has stuck.
We'll see how long it lasts before we find another reason to nick name him. :)



You can see how excited he is to be in his brightly colored "food" chair. He has gotten to the point that he recognizes that when he goes into the chair he's going to be fed. He's so excited!!


"Com'on Mom!! I'm hungry!"

One day I cooked some baby carrots and ran them through a little hand processor we got from G-ma Marcia - it worked great. Here are the carrots mixed with some rice cereal. He got so excited he grabbed the bowl and wanted to do it himself. The earlier he learns how to hold a spoon the better I guess.


At this point he was still grabbing objects with his whole hand. So here he is trying to get the spoon and food in his mouth.


Eureka! He finally got a good grip and started chewing. All of our baby spoons have little teeth marks in them. :)

As you can see he dropped the spoon and moved on to his bib for easier access to the carrots. He scooped them right up into his mouth.




We got a little bit of footage so you could see how in-to-it he is and how focused he gets.
We love our little Eater Boy. :)