Porch Party!

Yay, we finally got our back porch filled!!! It's pretty raw right now but we have big plans for it...

The steps from the back door leading to an upper level then to a lower level...



Imagine a pergola attached to the house on the upper level. We'd like to get an outdoor table setting, some white lights, and paper lanterns. I was thinking about grapevines running up the far posts- they seem to grow pretty easily out here...



Well, the porch ended up being bigger than we thought- but that just means there's more room to work with! I thought about using the space on the closer side of this pic for some tomato plants...



I'd like to find some outdoor rugs for the upper and possibly the lower levels...



We'd like to put a firepit and some wrought-iron chairs in this corner. Maybe eventually a grill...

It's a Boy!!!

Now for some Baby #2 news: IT'S A BOY!!! We are so excited! We've already got his name picked out: Nathan Andrew Johnson...but we'll call him Nate.

Sophia's First Birthday Party

Sophia getting ready for her birthday party. She's wearing an outfit Sharaze made her with monkeys practicing yoga on it- so cute! (fyi, she seems to always have bruises on her forehead from running into things...should we get her a helmet?)



"When's everyone going to get here?"
We ended up with about 25 guests including a bunch of babies Sophia's age. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun!



The party table- we were going to have 4 picnic tables at the pool but since it rained we narrowed it down to one. We also had a digital picture frame looping pics of Sophia starting from birth to her birthday...



Cupcakes! We ended up making 44 of them! Each one is a little different but the Teddy Grahams are having loads of fun!



Poor Sophie actually cried when Daddy blew out her candle...is this the beginning stages of pyromania?



Yum! (Believe it or not, she didn't get a crumb on her outfit!)

Happy Birthday Sophia!

Wow, we can't believe a year has gone by so fast. It's so neat to see how much she's grown...

Born August 14, 2007 6lbs 5oz



Sophia at 3 weeks old- what a little potato!



Sophia Lee Johnson: August 14, 2008
Happy Birthday Little Girl!

Sophia- 11 months!

Well, Sophia has reached 11 months old! She's got one more month of living in the lap of luxury before we told her she's got to get a job and start contributing to the household. (Yeah, right.) She's crawling like crazy- into EVERYTHING! I can't tell if Kit thinks she's being abused or if she loves the attention...


Sophia has developed quite a shoe fetish...




She LOVES Cheerios...and emptying her diaper bag...




Speaking of emptying the diaper bag...




Sophia shoves an enormous amount of Cheerios in her mouth...




She's discovered the chairs!




Terrorizing the camera...notice Kit in the background- she's resting from being terrorized herself...

Sophia in the Tub

We think it's a boy...

Well, here we go again...we're preggers! The due date is December 31st- Brian's REALLY hoping it comes before the 1st so we can get a tax break...always so practical. I had our 12-week ultrasound yesterday and found out "unofficially" that it's a boy. It's supposed to be too early to tell but the tech checked it twice and it seemed like there was a "third leg" there in both pictures. To me, it seems pretty obvious but we'll be able to confirm it at the 20-week appointment in August. Brian's trying to get me to say that it's DEFINITELY a boy but he's on his own for that one...