New blog!

Well, the time has come to part with this blog. We have moved from mi (michigan), so I need a new name. I am still working on the other one, moving my people I follow over there but that's about it. the new one is johnsons4america.blogspot.com. I don't really know how to set it up as a link, so you'll have to just type it in . . . sorry about that! But anyways, we look forward to seeing you over there!

Picture of Abby

I love this picture of her. She looks so sweet and nostalgic. I enlarged it and matted it with a cheap $3 frame from Wal-mart. It looks professional! Once in awhile you get that great shot, even if they are two years old!

Calvary Baptist Temple, Our House and Easter Pictures, . . . in reverse!

Here are a few pictures of the church. It is a small building, about 100 years old. It used to be an old Lutheran church. It has been really exciting being here. Our house is smaller than the one in Grand Rapids, but it has more living space so it really is bigger. I have three rooms I absolutely love. The kitchen, it's great and the greatest thing is, it's in the middle of the house. You can come to my house and I could have counters of dirty dishes and you would never know it, unless of course you had to go to the bathroom which is right off of the kitchen, but if that were the case I would take you over to my neighbor's house, she really sweet and you could use her's! No, seriously, it is great! It has a dishwasher (the best ever), a garbage disposal (how did I ever live without one before now?), and best of all, it's in the middle of the house. I can't tell you how that excites me! I have two more favorite rooms and I really can't decide which I like best. The laundry room. It's right off the kitchen and it is great. I can't tell you why but I love that room! Then there's the "all purpose room". It has the futon for guests, the children's toys, but only a few because I rotate them out now, less mess and surprisingly they play with them more. It also has my scrap desk and a book shelf as well as my sewing room. It is such an easy acess. I can be sewing or scrapping and the kids are in there with me. If they are in the front room I am so close that it doesn't matter. If I need to sew something quick I can, if I need to make a quick card, I can also do that. If I need to shove stuff in there so my house gives the appearance of clean :o) I can! I love it! The front room is nice and cozy and the dining room is coming . . . it just needs a table and chairs! The bedrooms are upstairs and that is wonderful! I love this house. Right now we are painting it and it is great!

The lamb pictures she did all on her own. She got that in or rather holding her easter basket. She loves that lamb. I told her we were going to take some pictures and she wanted to do it with the lamb. They turned out pretty cute. The hat you see was last year's hat and it got just about as much wear as last year, a few pictures and about 10 minutes worth of wear at church. Oh well, at least I didn't spend money on it this year! The Easter dress, the Lord blessed us with at a yard sale! Only . . . $0.25. Isn't God good? I personally think she looks like a million bucks, God provides not only our needs but our desires as well!!!!!!!! The other pictures were taken after her nap. The dress was wrinkled and ketchupped by this time so we put on something more comfortable. We were going for a bike ride anyways, so it was time to change.

The first pictures were taken right before she laid down for her nap. She had taken off her ketchupped wrinkled dress and was running around in her slip. She was supposed to be laying down taking a nap. I love how these turned out. I'm thinking of sepia toning them and enlarging them then putting them up in the house. I almost felt like steve troell when I saw these pictures, almost but not quite. I felt like he might say, they're good for a ammature! It would have been my crowning moment in my history of my limited photography!

Pictures!

I was going to go and get pictures of the kids taken, but these came out so good, that I decided not to. The only problem with not being a professional photographer is trying to get two children, one a baby and the other a toddler to both look at you at the same time and look cute. I have several of them together, but none that were really that good. If I had photoshop or something where I could cut one out and put one in, I would have a cute picture of them together. I’ll have to come up with some new noises so maybe that will shock them into both looking at the same time! I think they get too used to mom’s voice, that’s why they’re able to tune me out.

This was the best of them together. All the others were even worse than this. . . It'll come with time!

Isn't he so cute? He was really studying the grass and flowers. After awhile he had had enough!

This is her new "cheese" face! She will now smile upon command which is great for pictures!

He looks like his daddy ALL the way! I've had to cut his hair 3 times now. It grows so fast. When he was first born it was dark brown, but when I cut it off it was this lighter color!

This is her, I'm about to get into something face. . . like cutting her hair or something like that.

This was one of Joshua's favorite pictures. She loves this old floppy hat of mine she wears it all the time and I knew when Summer came I was going to try and get a few pictures of her it. The day was not planned. I was working and came outside. Our back yard was covered in these dandelions and it was an impromtu "photo shoot" but I ended up loving the pictures!

Random Thoughts

I'm thinking of changing our blog because we have moved from MI to OH. I don't know if I will yet or not. I'll let you know and I won't do it until we get faster internet here at the church! THURSDAY!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. Joshua came in and told me and I said, "Oh, Good! Now I can blog again!" THe look he gave me was one only a husband can give a wife when he realizes she didn't fully appreciate what it means to him to have internet, good things like, better service so he can get more done for church, so he can listen to church services at nvbc.org or templebaptistchurch.com without having to download it overnight. You know, important things like that . . . NOT blogging! He doesn't mind my blogging which I'm thankful for. He is really such a good husband! The best one I've ever had!! Seriously, He is the Best! I'm so thankful for him. But back to the beginning of this random thoughts, I have over 200 pictures . . . I've continued to take pictures even if I can't blog them. But I can't decide which ones to post! Not that they are all that good, but they are all a story in themselves. We johnsons have been busy in our little bit of green earth over here. The church is doing exetremely well. We are taking, or rather, Joshua is doing a discipleship/soulwinning program with them and next week we're going to take them out door to door! Pray for us . . . They have not been soulwinning in years! We got a zoo pass for the year and hopefully we are going on Thursday. The zoo pass was actually cheaper than us as a whole family going so I thought well, save some money and if the zoo is good we can go again and again. We can also use the pass at participating zoos for either free admission to some, or discounted admission. We go to the library often now, which is a lot of fun. In Grand Rapids we were always incredibly busy, we're still busy but we've slowed down quite a bit. So, I've written an extra long post because I was going to try and post some pictures and it's taken forever to tell me that it can't so now all your'e going to get is words . . . yeah for you, I know! Hopefully this weekend you'll get pictures. The kids are growing so much and I just can't tell you, I'd have to show you! Hope everything is going well for each of you and I'm going to go now! SEE you soon . . . hopefully!

Another writing post . . .

So here we are again with another writing post and no pictures. . . I will post some of our very cute house and wonderful church when Joshua's office is up and running. The other computer is still crashed . . . I did a doozey on it! Right now I am at the library here in Delta, OH, which is right across the street from the church and about 3 blocks from the house. Everything is going well. I opened the last box yesterday or maybe the day before . . . I can't quite remember! But it is done! Now, I just have to get to cleaning . . . you'd think the house would give me a break but it didn't. Do you want to know the VERY best part of this house? The kitchen is in the middle away from the front door. It could be a total mess and a visitor would never know it! ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL? Yes! It is is. It's also got a wonderful dishwasher and garbage disposal. . . I love the house and once you see pictures you'll love it too! It's great! Well, that's about all. I've got some more e-mail to check and then go and get some books for Abby. Will post pictures soon . . . I hope!

Moving . . .

Well, yes. It is with a lot of sadness but a lot of excitement that I announce that we are moving. Sadness because of the people we are leaving but excitement because we know we are following the Lord and it is exciting to see what God will do. We are moving to Delta, OH. Joshua has taken a position as some say "the head pastor" (which is kind of funny) of Calvary Baptist Temple. The reason that is funny is because The church is so small there's not room for another pastor. But yes, I know what they mean, he will be the pastor. I am personally very excited to get to hear him preach every week. He is SUCH a good preacher. I'm not just being a "dutiful wife" and saying that. He is honestly a VERY good preacher. He does an excellent job with the teens but when he stands up in the pulpit, especially at Delta he does a superb job. He is so good. He holds your attention (not that that is the most important part), but he also gives you meat. It has been neat to see the way the teens have grown spiritually, mostly due to his excellent preaching. We are hoping the Lord does great things with us and especially with Joshua. Anyways, back to leaving. We are going to be extremely and already are really sad to be leaving. We do have a house in Delta and are moving this coming Thursday. It's a nice house, two levels, three bedrooms, one bathroom, big kitchen (the most important part!) dining room, living room, laundry room, DISHWASHER!!!!!, garbage disposal, big back yard, 3 blocks from the library, 3 blocks from the park, 5 blocks from the church. . . we are excited, about getting there but not about leaving. We are going to miss everyone at Gospel Light terribly!