The Johnson Family Blog

Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, and Great-Great Grandparents...

Dyl has been traveling the Carolina's visiting and meeting family and friends. First stop was the other weekend to the Isle of Palms to see Pop-Pop and Nana and see Great-Granddad too. Here are some photos.

On the beach, of course, with Nana and Pop-Pop.

Learning about the waves from Pop-Pop. Did you know Dylann means "of the waves/of the sea"? Surely we will break out the surf board soon. 

With her Moma on the beach.

Listening to one of Great-Granddad's many stories. He is an old Irishman, so when I say many, I really do mean many!

With Nana and Pop-Pop at her "cousin" Matt's wedding. (She is trying to pick Nana's nose.)

Then we headed with Dad the following weekend down to the NC beaches to visit Great-Nanny and Great-Papa.  Uncle Christopher and Aunt Sissy came too!

Who is that guy in the background?

And we couldn't leave with out visiting Mr. Danny at Chuck E Cheese's (thanks for the T-Shirt!!).  Dylann has never seen such a place!

Enjoying the concert.

Future Ski-Ball Champ!

But this post is about visiting family, so back to that... We came home but not for long. Today we headed to Greensboro to visit Great-Uncle Mike and Great-Aunt Judy and got to go out on the boat with Dylann's 2nd Cousin/God-Sister, Kaylee (and her parents!) Along the way we met up with G and Papa Simp, and Dylann got to meet the Simpson family and GREAT-GREAT Moma Preston.

Gracie, Kaylee's dog.  Good thing she is sweet. She could probably swallow Dyl whole if she wanted.

Learning about boating from Kaylee.

Had to try Daddy's favorite BBQ along the way.

The whole Simpson Crew with Great-Great Moma Preston in the middle.

And now we are finally home - for a while!!

Playing in the Water.

We went outside on the beautiful, sunny, spring day to play in a bucket of water. Here are some photos of our water-baby.

Notice the snaggle tooth... the other top tooth finally popped through, you just can't see it yet.

Look at the short-shorts... Well, they would be on anyone else. They come down to Dylann's knees.

How fast can a year fly?

We have spent the last week celebrating our sweet Dylann's first year of life.  Here are some pictures from the festivities...

After a yummy lunch of pancakes with some of my family, Mom and Dad gave me ice cream for dinner! I stirred in a few cheerios as a topping...

... and  made crazy faces with my candle afterwards.

I am getting pretty good with this walking thing...

... and a little mischievous in my old age. Poor Beau.

Some of my favorite friends and family sang me Happy Birthday...

... while my friend Walker played the drum.

I discovered that I can fit about 1/3 of a banana cupcake in my mouth at a time.

Mmmm, Mmmm good!

How about 1 more!

Afterwards, my friend Ella, Daddy and I played with my new bubble machine.

It was a wonderful birthday!!

3 tiny feet with tiny gold shoes. ( G, Aunt Sis and me! I think this is where I get my little feet.)

My grandparents and me.

Thanks, everyone, for a fun birthday!! 

Lots of new pictures.

Last weekend we went to Family Camp with Church at Windy Gap.

There was a giant pickle there, so our Dyl Pickle had her picture taken with it.

Dylann was tired...

...really tired!

I was trying to feed her lunch without a high chair.  She thought it would be fun to wipe her mouth with her foot.

Dylann's Friend JJ

Dylann wanted to be sure we didn't forget her, or her ducky.

The almost-1-year-old at home...

Her new favorite fruit... cantaloupe. 

Snow Day in March

Last night it snowed!!

So we had to go out and play!

Dyl decided to taste the snow...

...but look what happened...

Meanwhile, in the back yard...

...Beau was showing off his skills...

(look close, you can see the snow ball he is about to miss.)

... and Izzy is just enjoying being dirty in snow.

Drama Queen?

Dylann and I were reading books this morning.  Well, sort of. I would get through one page and she would pick up another book and  hand it to me saying, "Dah?...  Dah?..."  I would read a page in that book and continue the game.  

She is really  talking a lot. It is a whole lot of gibberish, but if you didn't speak english you may think she is actually saying something of great importance.  It has been confirmed by Aunt Sissy that she is saying "Mama." Although, it only happens in a whiney voice when she is upset or needs something.  So in her mind Mama either is me, or means: give me that, I want food, I want milk, I need that toy, I am tired and cranky but don't want to go to sleep, or something of the sort. I imagine that the meaning doesn't change much over the years, though... we will see.

While we were playing and reading...

... things apparently weren't going exactly her way, and this is what I got...

... which quickly turned to this...

I think I am going to sign her up for acting classes.

Sunny Day's

Dylann's Dedication

We dedicated Dylann yesterday at Church.  It was a great service where we made a commitment to raise her to the best of our abilities to know and love Jesus.  It was a special service.  The pastor unexpectedly made us stand up front and recommit to our marriage vows because our relationship is so important to Dylann's confidence in life and  her understanding of love.  Anyway, those are the  highlights... here are the photos of our silly girl.

Our Family.

The Ripley Side.

The Johnson Side with her God-Sister Kaylee.

Her Uncle Christophers.

Her Grandmothers.

Crazy Uncle Chris.

Paparazzi!! No more pictures!!

The new do for '09

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year Celebration. We had a crazy party at our house... (Catan board game with Ben and Sara.)  It was just too hard to ring in the new year with out our new little (crazy)  bundle of joy. So we woke her up for a few minutes, and this is what we got. Happy New Year!!

My new favorite picture...

... and since I have many, many pictures of my sweet baby, that says a lot.  

She was waiting for me behind the glass door.