Emmalyn's Newborn Pictures

My fabulous friend Morgan is so talented. She is able to capture the best moments of my children in her pictures. I'm so grateful we have been friends for so long and we are able to share these times together! I love you Morgan and thanks for all that you do for me and my growing family! Enjoy her fabulous pictures! I LOVE them!!!






She was 12 days old when we took these pictures and now shes 1 month old and I can't believe how much she has changed! Love my sweet baby girl but she needs to stop growing so fast!

Sweet Little Emmalyn

Emmalyn Annette is finally here!

She was born August 28th, 2011 at 12:58 a.m.

She weighed 8lbs. 1oz and was 19 inches long...My SMALLEST baby yet!!!

I was so excited to finally have a little baby! Her head was tiny too :) Not like my boys!


So here is the labor story....I was getting incredibly uncomfortable and getting very mad at my doctor because at the beginning of my pregnancy he told me he didn't want me to go into labor like I did with Caleb. He said he was going to take me early. Then once it hit August he changed his mind even though I was measuring bigger than I should have been. So by the end of August I was completely done because I had been having contractions for over a month with nothing happening! So I decided to take matters into my own hands :) I made some scrambled eggs and put in an ounce and a half of Castor oil. Let me tell you THAT WORKS! Within about 3 hours my contractions were like nothing I have ever felt before. They were less than 5 minutes apart and they were VERY strong. So Matt and I went into labor and delivery and I told him if they didn't take her tonight I was going to throw a fit until this baby came out of me :) Once we got there they hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were peaking off the charts and coming less than a minute apart. I fell in love with the on call doctor that night. He came in right as I was hooked up, watched my contractions and me for about 10 minutes, and said there is no way I was going to make it to my c-section date and he wanted to take the baby tonight. I could have kissed that man! So within a hour of getting to the hospital I was in the OR having a baby! It was fabulous!

My recovery on the other hand was far worse than the boys. I had a horrible anesthesiologist and was poked four times before my spinal took. When I woke up the next morning I had a spinal headache! HORRIBLE! I ended up having to get two blood patches in the back before the headache went away. So I got poked in the back a total 6 times! Next time I am requesting an anesthesiologist!

Any ways now onto my sweet baby girl! She is perfect! She is a very easy baby which has made my life great.

She does have acid reflux but we are working on getting her better. She is just so happy and has such a different personality and temperament then the boys did. I know this is funny but she sounded so different from the boys when I first heard her cry in the OR that my worries of having a boy come out instead of a girl totally went away!

Jonah and Caleb are both in love and always want to help. Sometimes too much but what more could I ask for?!



We are so happy this sweet little girl is here with our family. Enjoy all of the many pictures of the newest addition to our family!

Grandpa and Grandma Martindale. Little Miss Emmalyn's namesake Grandma Annette :)

July 15th....6 Years!

I can't believe it but Matt and I will be celebrating our 6 year anniversary tomorrow! It is crazy how fast the time flies by! We have changed and grown so much together over these last 6 years so it's always so fun to go back and look at our wedding pictures :)










I love you so much Matt and I am grateful for you every day! I love that you love our boys so much and are so excited to meet our sweet baby girl. I am looking forward to LOTS more anniversaries to celebrate with you! I love you forever!

Tahoe + Boys = PURPLE toes!

We went to Lake Tahoe last weekend while some of our family was in town and it was lots of fun! That lake is normally cold but with how cold our weather has been recently, it was REALLY cold!

My boys did not seem to care one bit though :) They were both happy throwing and playing in the dirt for 3 hours...Boys, boys, boys!


Me on the other hand, I felt like a beached whale :( It was a lot of fun to watch the boys play with their cousins and build sand castles but I felt abnormally large that day.


Any ways, the boys had a lot fun with everyone and Jonah kept begging me that we would come back again!

(I just love this picture of Caleb! He can be so cute sometimes!)

We just did Caleb's 2 year pictures with wonderful Morgan. She is so patient with my kids and I am so glad that she understands life with a two year old who doesn't want to listen! She ended up getting more cute pictures of Jonah than she did Caleb but we still got a few cute ones! Next time I think we need to take Caleb outside for pictures...That seems to be more his element :) Enjoy the cute pictures of the boys!



(This type of picture seems to be a normal thing when Morgan takes pictures for us. Caleb loves to throw his hands up and cover his mouth)



Sweet Jonah...I love these pictures of my little man.





Just a quick update on the third member of our family :) She is doing well and growing BIG! No surprise there! I am already measuring 3 weeks ahead of schedule so we will definitely be expecting our beautiful baby girl in August!

Soccer...Dirt....Boys

Lots has been happening in the Johnson household. Jonah had six fun weeks of soccer, the boys have been caught digging in the dirt WAY too many times, I finished school, and we MOVED! YAHOO!!! No more nasty, disgusting, bug house! That makes the struggles of moving while 6 months pregnant disappear!

Any ways, back to the posting. Jonah really loved playing soccer. He was very nervous at first to be with a bunch of kids that he didn't know (shocker there) but once he got past that fear (after the third week) he had a blast!


He loved learning everything the coaches had to teach him and he loved how excited we got when he stayed out on the field the whole time without getting upset....Weird I know, but when your child is as shy as mine is it's those types of things that count :)

Caleb on the other hand was ready to play the first week. He went out on the field, took a ball, and ran as fast as he could with it. He wasn't about to let us tell him no he couldn't play. I love that boy. Next year little man, next year.

While we were in the old house the boys were getting very bored with me packing all the time so I let them go outside. Then I go to check on them only 5 minuets later to find this fabulous hole they dug all on their own.

Wow, boys that is awesome.....NOT! They were so nasty dirty my bath tub was black. It was disgusting.

Oh how I dream of the days when my little girl gets here...then Matt ruins my day dreams by saying she will be out there with them digging. Probably true but let me dream!

One sad thing about leaving our old house was we had to leave the swing set ;( The boys really do miss it but the backyard in our fabulous new house won't allow it. So the last few days we were there I let them play on it as much as I could and I got some really fun pictures. This is Jonah pretending to play Jake in his favorite TV show Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

Cute boy :)
I love the faces Caleb makes. This is his typical face of late.

GLARE! I don't understand. He can be so happy one second and the next this....

Oh Caleb....
(Just as a side note, Caleb had a hair cut like three days after these pictures...CRAZY hair!)

He is doing incredibly well with the sign language we have been teaching him. Jonah is doing fantastic too. He helps out as much as he can. Caleb now knows more, eat, cookie, please, thank you, shoes, socks, and play. He is one smart little guy! It makes me so happy to finally have a way to communicate with him now and we have had a lot less fits since he has picked these words up. He is even putting some together. Only the important ones though like "More cookie please" and unfortunately I can't say no so he got away with having six cookies the other day :) Oh well he is learning!



Well, this is a super long post! Enjoy the pictures and more to come soon!