Lily & Jake

Here are the pictures from my little photo shoot, that I did for my friend. I was very pleased with the result. I think we got some good ones. I had a lot of fun playing with & editing them.
My friend, Kat, got a very nice birthday present. A Canon Rebel EOS Ti DSLR camera. Ahhhhh...so while Matt & I are saving our pennies to get a nice DSLR, I used Kat's camera to get these shots. Thanks for letting me do this Kat. I had so much fun!

My absolute favorite of the bunch.

A day (or two) at the park with Luke's favorite (girl) friend.

My good friend asked me if I would take pictures of her two adorable kids. Of course I wanted to! I've been trying to get more and more practice as I am slowly learning all this photography stuff. The pictures turned out great!! I was so pleased. I will post some of them later. First I wanted to post a few darn cute ones I got during our little photo shoot of Luke & Lily.

Luke just loooves Lily these days. Her name is the only word he'll say with the "L" at the beginning. She bosses him around a little bit (she is the older one), "Luke push me on my bike" and he obeys her every word...it's actually quite funny & cute.

Here are some very fun pictures of both kiddo's & a look at their fun little personalities while interacting with one another.







Not sure what's going on here....but it looked so funny!



They are so cute together.










I think this one (below) is my absolute favorite!









I know this one looks a little weird, I just really liked his brown eyes. All the blue eyed kids stand out in photos, so I just wanted to point out Luke's big brown eyes.

the newest member of our family

Allow me to introduce...One of the last times we were home, Grandma Clark sent Luke home with this lovely dinosaur.
And just in the past month or so Luke has become obsessed with T.
It's actually pretty cute.
Thankfully, it hasn't gotten to the point where we have to take him everywhere with us.

T has to eat dinner with us, say prayers with us (Luke likes to fold his arms for him). When T gets a "bonk" Luke, mommy & daddy have to kiss T's head better. T likes to watch Elmo too. T sits in the high chair with a bib on & Luke feeds him & sometimes Luke gets a little frustrated when he won't chew & swallow.

Notice T's leash or harness?
Luke pulls T around & says, "Com'n T! Com'n!"

This is a fun age.

Loving Fall

Our good friends, Jeff & Sarah Nance, drove in Saturday night to stay with us on their way back to Milwaukee. We didn't get to spend a whole lot of time together, but it was still so great to see them!

After church on Sunday we all headed out to Kirtland to see the sites. It was a BEAUTIFUL day, but a tad chilly.

The missionaries there told us that President Monson had made a surprise visit the day before. We were a day late! I bet that was such a great experience for all the missionaries there.

After Historic Kirtland we drove up the road to see the temple.
I'm telling you we haven't had a day this gorgeous in quite a while! They couldn't have come at a better time.

We just love Kirtland.

These are the original colors of the doors & I have always loved them.

Jeff & Sarah

I got some cute little shap shots of Luke playing around.

After that, we said our good byes so they could make the long 7 hr trip home, Luke passed out in the back of the car so Matt & I decided to take a drive. The leaves are at the perfect changing point right now, with their colors so vibrant & beautiful. As we passed this location I told Matt to pull over so I could take a picture. So pretty!!!!

Monday Matt lucked out & got Columbus day off (because he was working at the Veterans Hospital) so we drove out to the zoo. We've taken Luke a few times now & he still doesn't seem to like it very much. He hates getting close to the animals.

This first picture, I just had to post. Since we've been having to put him in his coat, every time we buckle him in his car seat he freezes. He won't move a muscle. It is so funny. He'll stay like this for the whole car ride. It makes him look about 10lbs bigger than he really is.

Monday was not near as nice as Sunday, but at least it didn't rain on us much while we were there. It was darn cold though! (Thank goodness it's free on Monday's).

When we sat Luke down next to this monkey he made that terrified moan-scream, the one he made when he saw the gorilla. If you don't know what I'm talking about go here.
That's why he doesn't look very happy to be sitting next to it, even being on dad's lap.

This was about the only smile we got out of him.

Even though this picture is a tad blurry, it's still so funny. He was starting to smile for the picture & then realized that HUGE fish was swimming towards him (he doesn't understand that there is glass between him & the animals) & I caught this face. Hahah, he's so funny.

What? Oh, yeah I was there too. I'm just always the one taking the pictures, so Matt wanted the pictures of the trees & decided I should be in it too.

This was probably our last time going to the Cleveland Zoo!

Ooooooo babies!

Oh how I love newborn babies!

And I love them even more when they have such ADORABLE names! Ahhhh.

Allow me to introduce the newest addition to the Johnson family (making something like 20ish grand kids), little Oliver David Forsey!

He was born Tuesday, October 6th at 2:51 weighing 7lbs 4oz & 20" long.
Oooooh I just can't wait until Christmas to meet him!

Congratulations to my sister Mandy & bro-in-law Steve.
You guys make cute kiddos!
Love & miss you guys!

Just an update on us

It's been quite some time since I've done a little family (mostly Luke) update.

Well, Luke is growing up into a little boy. He's healthy, smart, developmentally more then on track, happy & as always, very energetic! He is also talking like crazy now. He started saying words here & there in the summer & now he's putting words together, not quite sentences yet, but enough that we usually can understand him. Although, there is still a lot of jibberish going on too, which is cute.

Some of his favorite words are: mommy, daddy, baby, papa, milp (milk), bread, banana, cookie, jump, fall down, broke, fix it, look, car, aweplane, ball, cherp (chair), bluth (blue), whoaw (show), mobiee (movie), up, down, no, don't, stop, mine (must have learned those ones in nursery), come on, byebye, luvlu (love you), kiss, hug, boo, book, susme (excuse me), tanktu (thank you), peees (please) & washie (sorry).

And right now he loves to: read books to us, sing us songs, dance, dance, dance (this kid's got rhythm, he may look just like his dad, but he's got moves like his mom! haha), play with cars, watch movies (we have a little couch potato on our hands), go to the park & library class, see his friends (Parker aka Karker & Sage), say "Noooo, nooo, stop" when he sees mommy & daddy kiss....

This boy is a handful, but so much fun. He has a great little personality & sense of humor. He is quite polite, other than the no, stop & mine phase we are going through. He is now 20 months & is just growing too fast. We love him to bits & don't know what life would be like without him.

Here's another pic of his recent buzz. Doesn't it make him look like a little boy, no more baby Luke....
We love you little boy.

As for me, I am staying extremely busy with, school work, working lots of crafts & projects for my house & for other people, trying to prepare all my Primary stuff before we leave for 2 months, keeping our place in order, getting Luke out daily (most of the time), editing pictures, working on Halloween stuff, helping throw baby showers & looking forward to all the fun activities we have coming up the rest of this month. I'm loving this October! I have definitely been getting in the spirit of Fall, baking up the wazoo & decorating. It's so fun!

Matt has the most exciting things going on right now. He's been doing a geriatrics rotation (boring), which is been awesome for us because he's had a lot of time off...woo!
And, as many of you know, he applied to 20 programs a month ago for residency. Well, we are pleased that he, so far, has 11 interviews. 2 in Cleveland, 2 in Denver (one being our top choice! wahoo), 2 in Houston, Utah, Phoenix, Seattle, Santa Clara California & Hawaii. We are very excited & hope to continue to get some more. And it just so happens with all our plans that I get to go to most likely all of them with him, with us being in Utah for the 2 months, so we'll be doing a lot of traveling before the end of the year, but are looking forward to it!!!
It's exciting getting close to see what the future will hold for us!