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Maddox is getting to be such a big boy!

While we fix up the lawn maddox likes to eat the dirt! lol

Rian likes to follow brock around on the dump truck while he mows the lawn

helping mom with the laundry!

Here the mosquitos are bigger than your thumb! not those little pea sized ones you have in az!
In some neighborhoods there is still alot of housing and building rubble lining the streets from hurrican Ike. its sad to look at but they are rebuilding quickly.

Rian and dad playing in the water at khema boardwalk.

The train at the boardwalk...

The huge wooden rollercoaster on the boardwalk

Ghost baby maddox ha ha ha

Playing in their makeshift castle on the back yard porch.

my little princess

Rian is our princess all day she wears her princess skirt and crown.

Maddox follows her where ever she goes.

She likes to sing and dance her favorite song to sing is "i know you" from sleeping beauty"
she pretty much just sings "i know you upon i know you" over and over again.

My Garden!!!

this is the before pics of my garden ...

then you put two and two together and get beauty! lol

the little green plant is a black berry bush that will take over that corner

I planted hyacinths and tulips and I forgot the name of the little flowers but you see them on the temple grounds in Mesa I thought they were pretty colors!

I cannot wait for my garden to grow big and take over the flower bed and give me yummy black berries to eat and make jam from!! yum yum! ( the black berries were to remind me of my late grandma Lindblom who had alot of these bushes and made blackberry jam all the time it was the best. I miss her!

I fugured out that tulips open during the day and close at night! These are my favorite flowers!

And this is going to be sweet peas! my squash plant is coming soon!

crazy week

This week has been slow... it has rained for the pst week and a half all day every day but it will be all warm and then the next second chilly then warm for hours and then cold for a bit again! its crazy like yesterday it only sprinkled in the morning and then the sun came out but it was in the sixties and cold all day! then today it is going to rain all day but the high is a warm 72! and tomorrow is another rainy day and the high is a warm 78! then the next is supposed to be sunny and 62 again! it makes no sence it should be cold in the rain times and warm in the sun! what is up with this place! every thing is backward lol but its all good! keeps us on our toes! lol well i jsut bought some flowers so i am off to make a flower garden and black berries! c ya post pics later!

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Coming home!

Well my little brother weston is coming home from his mission in march and so that means that when brock gets his two week break between trimesters in april we will be coming home to arizona!! I am so excited we will get to stay for hopefully the whole two weeks. Then we will get to visit and see everyone we miss so much! so we will fly home april the 16th. yay!!!!!!

so here are some updates.

Rian: She is a little pill but we love her so much. She is such a big girl and loves to blame everything on her baby brother. She is talking very well and misses her grandparents ... and nate lol she asks for him every day! They bonded over christmas when cait and nate came down and now he is her favorite person! It's pretty funny ( i think she has a crush on u nate! lol jk). She likes to play in her back yard and wants a puppy. she now tells me when she wants to take her naps she just says " um mommy.. i go night night now?" its cute.

Maddox: he is getting so so so big! He can stand all on his own and is trying to walk and has succeeded in a few steps every now and then. He loves his big sister and worships the ground she walks on. He follows her around all day. every thing she does he does and the other day she was saying cracker and he was watching her then looked at me and back at her and yelled "cracker!" we were all shocked! he said it one other time but never again. he lets ry do the talking. ( like he could get a word in with her around lol).

Brock: he is at school all day every day ha ha ha. Its harder than he thought it would be but he is still kicking but! He aces every test they throw at him and studies hard. His first two years are exactly like a dr. would take his first two years at med school. That's why in three years you all have to call him doctor brock johansen... and I will me mrs. dr brock johansen ha ha ha ha... anyway he is doing really well and all of his classmates are jealous cause he is so smart!

Me: Well i pretty much just stay at home with the kids still. My mom dad and i have a new weight loss company! Its awesome so if anyone wants to lose weight fast gimme a call! Its amazing brock lost 18 lbs in less than three weeks! He now weighs 206. All of his clothes are baggy. And I lost 12 in ten days. I am now 116 lbs and a size 3/4! I love it I have not been this skinny since high school.

well love you all! miss you all also!

fun with eggs!

So Iwas sitting in the front room working on the computer and i noticed that it was really quiet... and everyone who has kids knows that quiet rarely ever means something good! Any ways so I found the kids in the kitchen covered in eggs! Rian had opened the fridge took a brand new carton of twelve eggs out and shared the mess making process with Maddox...took me a whole hour to clean them and my floor. They were covered head to toe inside diaper and all, and my whole kitchen floor was covered in an inch thick of egg goo yuck. Surprisingly hard to clean! Ha ha ha but it was so funny to catch them in the act ry tried to pin it on maddox but how is a eleven month old supposed to get into the fridge and smear egg all over her lol so funny.

just us kids at play!

Dinner time at the johansen's is always a very messy affair theses days! with two kids and ox almost being a toddler like rian its twice the mess to clean! ha ha keeps mom on her toes.

Rian showing me she is all done!! ( she then started to lick the plate)

Maddox loves all of this new big boy food! but still prefers his ba ba.

Rian popping a wheely whith her baby stroller in the back yard.

and here she is mad at me for taking her picture.
Rian and addox playing on the patio in the back yard they love it!
She loves this stroller and giggling baby ( ox likes to chew on the doll)
This is rian and I on our adventure to get out of the house. we finally found a real mall! it was pretty big lol its calles the bay area mall... lots of really high end stores like scottsdale fashion square and it is by the ocean. it was really fun to get out of the house just us girls. we needed that hahaha. I got the kids flip flops and brock a new belt ( since he lost so much weight!! so far its 17 lbs) and I got a new purple shirt.

what a red neck town i moved in to!

so just a few red neck things i have happened accross... not the whole town is like this but parts are and its scary lol

on the road to texas ...

so the road was pretty blah most of the way ... it took two days and as you can see we did not see much but i did get a bloody nose! lol it was fun tho, being with brock with out the kids for a few days. up side is we can now buy firworks legally! lol suckers!! jk
































we saw some pretty funky things lol