Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Snow... keep it comin!

WE LOVE SNOW!!!!! It finally came!!! Last year we never got to play in it so it made this year that much more fun :) The kids had sooo much fun building our first snowman of the season! 
Here are some pics of the beautiful beast...

Speaking of beasts.. my kids look a little beastly in their snowsuits haha i love it!



 Parx was an excellent helper this year.. he pushed his snowball until he couldn't push one more inch..(it was a little bigger than this when he gave up ha ha)



 awwwww ya!
 THE FINISHED PRODUCT!!!!!!!






Friday, December 14, 2012

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

I got in the shower the other day and put the boys on my bed watching Bubble Guppies!!! Usually Bridge just hangs on the bed with parx.. reads some books... wanders into the bathroom and back to the bed! But not this time... he scurried downstairs.. found his favorite treat and decided to feed it not only to himself but to the stairs!!!!!!!!!! Bridge was covered from head to toe but i didn't have time to take a pic cuz seriously i could barely touch the kid- He went right into the bath tub!!!!!!!! Our stairs are still a little pink but we are workin on it haha 


Randomness... Parx seriously watched an entire movie from underneath the Christmas tree!

SNOW!!!!! Parx just likes to eat snow! He says it's his favorite food :)  Today we had some snow actually stick but I will update pics of the boys later...



Family of four

We are again back to a family of four... WORST week of our lives.. But mom added some humor :)

This story is just so I can remember if this happens again.. don't read if you get grossed out easily!

Baby #4 you wont be forgotten!

Pregnancy #4 ended somewhere between December 1st and 2nd at just over 13 weeks.  My Miscarriage at 13 weeks was very different than the one at 6.5 weeks!  The week we lost the baby we were in the doctors office tues, wed, thurs and hospital fri and sunday.  It was a long, emotional, confusing week for all four of us.  The kids were passed around like crazy and I know they could tell something was going on.  Our unborn baby was fine in the ultrasounds done all week until Sunday...on fri our baby was perfect with a heart rate of 168...the doctors had/have no clue why we lost the baby.  We even have a pic of our beautiful baby from the day before it was gone!

Anyways, fri, sat, and sunday i contracted for an average of nine hours a night...like intense labor and there was nothing we could do for the pain because the baby was still doing so good!  I passed one large clot fri that sent us into the hospital but we were sent home after they cleaned out the other clots and did two ultra sounds... we were also told by our ultrasound tech that she was 90% sure it was a girl!!! lame.  fyi though, i would have been just as sad if she said she was 90% it was a boy :) sat and sunday i was supposed to take it very easy and be on complete pelvic rest (no lifting over 5 lbs.. with a 17 month old that is real tough) ...well it all happened again sat night but 100 times worse....six giant clots and 12 hours of contracting (mostly on the bathroom floor).  I was too prideful to go in AGAIN so i delt with it and finally went to bed at 430am....sunday night the same thing but i couldnt imagine staying home through the pain again so first clot i headed back to the hospitsl (oh and so did the rest of moses lake...i wanted to punch every person in the face that was a head of me in line for an ear infection...just telling the truth).

WARNING..the rest of the story is a little nasty!!!

i put a new pad in right before heading to the hospital and within 30 minutes i could feel myself just bleeding all over the place.. i knew things were gettin ugly in the waiting room.  I had to ask the front desk for a new pad and went to the bathroom. By the time I had passed a clot the size of my hand (maybe bigger) and filled the entire toilet with blood there was blood on the floor, toilet seat, my pants... it was outta control.  They got  me back as soon as possible and my heart rate was low... blood pressure high... i was hemorraging. So they did a pelvic exam and tried to get the bleeding under control before doing the ultrasounds..Finally we were wheeled into the ultrasound room (the doc prepped us that he suspected things had changed) and the baby was gone.  We bawled when we saw that screen with no baby... we had seen our baby 4 times in the previous 5 days and every time it was perfect!  I think that was the hardest part for both us... we saw it rub its eyes already.. it was having karate practice another day... our baby looked and seemed so normal! So no one knows if the baby had something wrong with it or if I have something wrong with me!

Side note.. I had NINE pelvic exams that week! NINE!! And don't ever let someone tell you that a small catheter only pinches... but Morphine is bomb after you feel like your head is going to explode and legs stop shaking.

We will continue to try to expand our family but until then we will hug our babies a little tighter and be sooo grateful for the two great blessings we already have on this earth!  Parx and Bridger make me smile everyday! Ty and I are both doing surprising well... i joke that i have no heart and am totally insensitive but i know that there was nothing more we could have done and that it is just part of our families trials in this life.  Ty and I feel much closer than we were before and the crazy thing is I didn't think we could get any closer!  Our marriage has always been wonderful but right now I feel more loved by him than I ever have in our 5.5 years of marriage! He is so awesome and we have had many conversations about how it so much easier going through trials with someone you love... i couldn't imagine life without that man!

Our ward and friends in Moses Lake were absolutely AMAZING.. I cannot express my gratitude for such wonderful friends during such a hard week.  They jumped at every opportunity they had to serve!

Now for some humor.. seriously I think I have the worst luck ever! Or my mom does... or we both do! My mom showed up monday night to help with the kids and dinner and everything else a mom would help out with... Tuesday morning we got up and took Parx to hoopster tots and were home at 11:15.  Mom decided she would play soccer in the front yard with the kids while i went inside to lay down.  A few minutes later Parx came in and said, "grandma fell and hit her head.. my ball is stuck under the car and i need a sword." So he grabbed a sword and ran out and i thought nothing of it... a few minutes later he ran in and said, "grandma hit her head i need the broom.. my ball is stuck." and he ran out with the broom.  If you could only have heard his tone... seriously i thought nothing of this.  Mom managed to get herself to the back door... she hurried and locked the kids in the backyard and knocked on the door.  I thought it was Bridger knocking so it took me awhile to get to the door haha.. Bridge is always knocking on doors! I got to the door and mom looked like she had been hit by a bus so she came in and laid down.. she said she'd prob be fine and just needed to lay down.  Well, Ty came home and saw her and she was tellin him about the pain so he decided they should just go in.... SHE BROKE HER ELBOW AND THREE RIBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Give me a dang break... now who is supposed to help us???? Luckily, friends came to the rescue again and my dad was here Wednesday night for the rest of the week and weekend!!!

Can anyone even believe this story??? I mean seriously what are the odds??? It seriously did make for some good humor to everyone but mom.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Family Pics 2012...

Family Pics October 2012.. by Julie Waites Photography in Moses Lake, WA!!  We were very scared that Bridger was gonna be a little punk and not smile (cuz he wont smile or look at people he doesn't see daily most of the time) but he proved us wrong! He was still kind of a stinker at times but in the end we got some AMAZING pics!! Parx did sooooo good.... we think it was a small miracle that they captured so many awesome shots... and might I add that this isn't even all of them!



WOW! I just can't get over how handsome my boys are :)

And this is the last captured moment of Bridger's curls... he was getting called a girl WAY TO MUCH!


My favorite moments... my boys playin together!

Seriously, how did they get one of them together lookin so darn cute?!? Small miracle for sure!

And the hubster and I after 5.5 years of marriage! LOVE YOU BABE!!!


Friday, December 7, 2012

Parx 4th birthday and Thanksgiving

I'm sooo behind once again with posting!! It's been a crazy and eventful few weeks at the Johnston house... never ever ever a dull moment around here.  First off, we went home to Boise for Thanksgiving and had such a great time... we did almost all of our very favorite things that weekend!  Thursday we ate a YUMMY dinner/lunch and all jumped in the car and headed for the Owyhee to go fishing! The fishing was pretty good and we had lots of fun... too bad all our actual pics of fish are on Ky's phone but i still got some cute ones and managed to take a pic of one fish!

This kid was determined to catch a fish with a stick... haha so cute :)


My one pic i took of a living breathing fish...
 Parx and I got carried across the river by dad... we were short on boots but it was fun :)
 Parx got a shoulder ride... and Ty of course probably had the most fun of all! He LOVES fishing!

Friday we woke up and went horseback riding... our other favorite thing!!! It was a blast but of course all those pics are on phones too... I really suck at bringing my camera!  But the boys loved it as much as we did.. by the end Bridger would cry when he got off and it made us want horses 10 times more than we already do!

We had a small birthday party for Parx while we were home for Thanksgiving...

AND..................... PARX IS 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F-O-U-R!!!!!!!!!! 
Blows this mama's mind... how can i have a 4 year old??? This kid rocks my world and makes me sooo happy!! Parx has a mind and personality all his own and always has... He is either crackin me up or making me want to pull each and every hair out of my head :) He is a little spit fire and full of life!! He just has so much energy and needless to say we drive each other crazy all winter long and love each other all summer! Moses Lake really blows in the winter.. there is NOTHING to do! I hear it's worth it because the summers are so awesome but we'll see how sane I am in a few months!  Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARX!!! MOM AND DAD LOVE YOU MORE EVERY MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, AND YEAR THAT GO BY!! 
(no matter the season)

Here are some pics of my BIG 4 year old...




The little crew.. minus bridger

Every kids favorite part... PRESENTS...


He's been asking for a dinosaur cake for months and months...


and Bridge liked it too!

These next pics are of his ACTUALLY birthday... December 6, 2012.. what's a birthday without a Dairy Queen cake?? 

So proud to be 4




Can't wait to post the story of how mom got in that sling... worst/funniest week of my life!

one more big smile before bed time! Love you Big man!



Monday, November 19, 2012

What's new with us?!?! LOTS!

First off!!! We are pleased to announce that baby #3 will be joining our little family sometime around June 7, 2013... wow that seems like an eternity! For those who don't know-we had a miscarriage about 11 weeks ago and must have gotten pregnant within weeks (maybe days) all i know was that it was fast so i feel like i should be almost 18 weeks now (it's a weird feeling). The miscarriage happened at 6.5 weeks... So that being said we are sooo excited and couldn't be happier and of course praying things go better this time :) Here are some pics of our cute little nugget... 1st ultrasound was at 10.5 weeks (one week ago) so it actually resembled a baby! My previous 1st ultrasounds were always at 8 or 9 weeks and looked like a little gummy bear or lima bean thingy... but not this one! Baby wouldn't move though... all curled up and snug!



Parx man started soccer tots... It's only once a week for a month and then he heads straight into hoopster tots! It's been so fun watching him out there.. he is a pretty good little athlete! He just has a problem when they do the "small soft" kicks.. he prefers the extremely hard ones!

 There is only 4 in the class! Even though you only see three haha



 And my cute husband has got to be the sexiest referee there ever was :)  He just started refin basketball for the first time and is loving it... and we love to go watch(we only last about half a game though hah)

And of course some randomness... is such a funny kid and he can figure out ways to get into anything.. the halloween candy was up on that empty shelf above the tv so why not stack two chairs to get to it?!?! In his mind it was a marvelous idea!  It did work and I had to find a new spot for the candy..

Also this pic just cracks me up... just watching a little movie with my construction goggles on.. no big deal!
Bridger is finally starting to say some words and mimic a lot of our words... I think i'm almost positive that he calls me ASH instead of mom... but he has ball, dad, watch, hi, and dog down pat! I'm sure there is more but that's all i got for the moment.

We also recently got our family pics taken.. they are awesome and i will post soon! I think my computers life span is about to max out..