Nick Names

Brooke Tagged me for nick names so here it goes.

EmmaLynn-

Emmalynny

sugars

sugar pie

sweetie

sweet girl

pretty girl

baby girl

loves

pumpkin

Daniel: 

daddy

Dannie (anyone who knew him growing up)

Dan  (grown up nick name)

Crash Johnson

hun

babe

sweetie

Naomi-

momma, mommy

Nomo

namoi

bozo (sad childhood nick name)

Net nerd (really mean nickname from my sisters when i was little)

nomes (Brittnie)

Omi ( neices and nephews who didn't know how to say my name)

Mayomi ( Neices and nephews again)

sweetheart

hunny

beautiful

and that is about it... 

I don't know if I can do this...

Let's see.. I am supposed to list 7 random things about myself.  I will certainly do my best. 

1.  When I sleep I have to have 2 skinny pillows under my head and one pillow over my head. I also occasionally like to stuff a body pillow between my legs, It makes my back feel better. The Pillow over my head is like a comfort thing. keeps me warmer, and keeps light out if any. I also like the room as dark as possible even if it means putting a dark blanket over the window and blinds. 

2. When I get frustrated or upset or irritated... I clean...clean, clean, clean.... Till everything is spotless.  I find once I am finished I have cleared my head and forgot what had made me so angry.  This is sort of a way to vent... It works quite well most of the time. 

3. I love salad. particularly spring salad mix with spouts, tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, and fetta... and I make my own salad dressing. yummy mix of spices and olive oil and cider vinegar. I even got my sister in law hooked on it!

4. I like to be out and about. Some days when I don't have anything to do I will just get EmmaLynn in the car and just drive around to different stores and walk around.  Or just drive around  and find new places. 

5. I love church music. I listen to it all the time... In the car at home. EFY cd's, Jenny Phillips, Katherine Nelson... just a few of my favorites! I like other music too and do listen to the radio also, but I get tired of it and listen mostly to church music. kinda corny? oh well.  :) 

6. I have a somewhat addictive trait in my personality. When I find something I like.. I have a hard time changing or stopping. Not anything bad of course. Like if I start a series of book.. I have to have them all and read them without stopping. I started well a book on tape during the paper route. The Great and Terrible Series. I listened to all 4 books in 1 week, and I am dying to have the next book.. it isn't out yet. If I start playing a game like word worm online or something like that.. I don't want to stop. I can do it, but it is addicting to me. This is why I am glad I have never tried any drugs or alcohol or any of the bad stuff. 

7. I love summer. I love the heat of summer. I love the water in the summer. I love going camping, and boating. I love going to water parks. I love the sky in the summer. I love the campfire in the summer and I love going to my husbands Family reunion in the summer. We go white water rafting every year in Sunbeam Idaho. I look forward to this every year and I can't wait for it this summer. I would love to live somewhere warm all year long! 

 On the other hand I kinda like winter. I like to ski and like driving in fresh fallen snow when no one else has been on it. just a few inches. But I like it to go away fast! So summer is still better!

The rules are: 

1: link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog

2: share 7 random and or weird facts about yourself.

3: Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs

4: Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

I am tagging Eleasha and Brad, Brooke and Shaun, and Bethany & Joel...  I don't have anyone else to tag, sorry... does that count as 6 at least! :) he he he. oh well. 

A taste of warmer weather to come!

Well this last weekend was absolutely beautiful! It got up to the 40's! It made me want to go outside and take EmmaLynn to a park... It is still pretty cold and still a ton of snow that needs to melt so I didn't do it... Soon enough it should start warming up.

 My sister in law had her baby this weekend, which makes 17 grandchildren on the Johnson side of the family with 18 soon to follow this April. It makes it easier to have someone else having the babies that way I am not too baby hungry before we are ready for another. 

The paper route eased up a bit with the roads finally cleared of all the ice and snow. I am hoping it will stay that way.  At least as long as I have to keep it up. 

Dan was so sweet to me the other morning he went and got the papers for me so I didn't have to get up as early! What a guy! He is such a sweety and so good with EmmaLynn too! She gets so excited when he comes home! She loves her Daddy! 

EmmaLynn is all over the place now! It is so fun to have her walking and she is learning words now. She will say "no" and does it so cute... she is a feisty little girl. She was playing with her cousin and anytime he tried to push a button on the leapfrog piano, she would push his hand away and say "NOOOOO"! Time to teach her to share the toys, but it is so cute! That is, as long as she isn't saying it to me when I am trying to get her to eat her food!  She also learned how to say "UH OH" so when something falls she says "uh oh". The other morning I woke up to hear her saying it over and over again.. when I opened her door she was just laying there looking at the ceiling saying "uh oh" it was soooo cute!  Every now and again she will say momma.... but usually when she is upset.  She also has 2 of her top teeth coming in at the same time.... I love watching her grow and learn new things! The next thing I want to teach her to say is "oh no".  

Her birthday is right around the corner I can't believe it. Time has just flown by and faster as she has gotten older. 

There is a group of girls in my ward that started a play date every week so the kids could play and the mommys can hang out and talk. It has definitely made life a little more exciting! The girls are so fun and they also do a girls night once a month! It has made moving here a bit more worth it.. I don't make friends too easily unless they start the conversation. I guess you could say I am shy, but once I get to know people it is easier to have friends. It has never been a bother in the past cause I do have my sisters and sister in laws that I hung out with and every now and again see some of my high school friends...  It just makes it more fun to have other people in the ward to hang out with! Plus EmmaLynn loves to be around other little kids it helps her build social skills... So these are the new things that have come about in my life recently. Life is great! 

EmmaLynn

EmmaLynn just got up and started walking last wednesday at the play group I go to! It was so fun to see her start to just walk around everywhere... she had been going little bits at a time before like I had said before. Now she will walk all around the room... it is so cute cause she has a pivot foot to turn around! It is sooo cute. 

more pictures!

pre smile picture

Here is her famous smile with raised eye brows!

here is her face after the first flash of the camera!
and here is the face after the next flash!!!! she looks angry.. she really wasn't it is just a funny face!

 

here is a video of her first steps we got her to make... lol... she is now standing up and walking several steps at a time... then doing it again.

Snow, Snow, and more SNOW

Well this weekend and now this week is getting pretty old.. It has been snowing practically non stop! It started snowing last friday snowed  most of saturday all day and through the night we got about a foot of snow.... then of course sunday morning we had to get up and do the paper route... so not fun! I have Dan help me on Sundays cause the papers are huge! we got stuck 2 times then had to turn around and go back home, switch all the papers to his dad's huge truck Ford F350 quad cab.  good thing we did that and didn't try to go on with out it... we still didn't even get home till 8 am... We started at 2 am mind you!  We had to get ready for church right when we got home so.. needless to say I could barely function through the 3 hours of church...so it stopped snowing... but monday some of the roads were plowed I tried doing the route in my car.... got stuck 3 times.. then switched to my father in laws truck at the end.. yet another good thing cause the last sub division had tons of cars that were stuck..... there is no way I would have been able to get through it in my car...  but it still took me from 2 am to 7:30 am..... so by monday evening all the roads had finally been plowed.. Today it started snowing again..... but not so bad... got the route done in my normal 2 1/2 hours.  However it is still snowing and supposed to keep snowing all day... we are supposed to get another foot of snow... lol. I don't know what I was thinking starting a paper route in the winter! It is beautiful and all, but I don't like to do my job in it!  Hoping the plows get around sooner rather than later! 

Pictures...

I would have more on this post but for some reason the sight changes some of my photos the wrong way... 

Here is EmmaLynn with her Lauhging hippo and soft doggie! She loves them!
She likes to hug them and pat them on the back like she does to me when I hold her and pat her back.. she started to pat me on the arm too.. SOOO cute!
She likes to wrestle with them too!