I've been tagged...ENJOY!

This is all about my wonderful husband and best friend, Monte! So sit back, relax, and enjoy getting to know a little bit more about him!

1. What is his name?
Monte Robert Johnson

2. Who is taller?
Monte is...By about 6 inches

3. Who eats more?
Usually I would say that he eats more but life around our house has changed a bit in the last month. I would say that I probably eat more due to the fact that I am nursing and feel like I could eat a house half the time! And Monte is training for a triathalon and so his eating habits have changed some too!

4. Who said I love you first?
He did! It took me 4 months to tell him I loved him after he told me for the first time! Sometimes I wonder why he kept me around, but I am sure glad he did!!

5. Who is smarter?
I would have to say that together we are a smart team. Things that I don't know much about, he does...and visa versa. I guess you could say that we complete each other!

6. Who is more sensitive?
There is no doubt that Monte has a sensitive side...however I would probably be the more sensitive one out of the both of us!

7. Who does the laundry?
I don't even know if Monte knows how to work our washer and dryer?! However, sometimes he will surprise me and fold and put away the laundry. I always know if he has helped out with the laundry when I find my clothes in wierd places! It's the thought that counts! But I would just rather take care of it!

8. WHo sleeps on the right side of the bed?
I do! What does this question have to do with anything?

9. Who pays the bills?
The first 3 years of our marriage monte took care of the bills...Since then I have taken over. It was one less thing for him to have to worry about!

10. WHo cooks more?
I guess I cook more! If you count making sandwiches or breakfast for dinner cooking! I don't mind the cooking, I just hate the mess! Actually, I don't really prefer to do either!

11. WHo is more stubborn?
No question about it....Monte. He would probably admit it too!

12.Who is the first to admit they are wrong?
Me! I think I can count on one hand in the six years we have been married that he been the first to admit he was wrong or say sorry first! I guess that is one thing that makes us fit so well together.

13. Who has more siblings?
He does

14. Who wears the pants in the family?
We are both pretty equal in that area! We most often check with eachother on things before we go ahead and do them! Our marriage is not a dictatorship!

15. What do you like to do together?
Play with our kids, go to Sam's Club and Lowes (I am no longer a fan of Home Depot), hang out with our families, work in the yard or around our house, go on drives to see whats new or whats old, watch television, play games!

16. Who eats more sweets?
I don't know! We both have a definate sweet tooth, but I would have to say that his is probably a little larger than mine is!

17. Guilty pleasures?
The bran muffins at Claim Jumper! Don't be fooled by the "bran"...they are to die for!! I thank my sister in law Kjersti for introducing them to me every time I eat one!

18.How did you meet?
At the LDS Institute/University Ward in Reno! We knew all along who eachother was and in a way we were kind of stalking eachother without either of us knowing, and then we hooked it up at one of the ward activities. And the rest is beautiful history!!!

19. Who proposed?
He did...then I tackled him and laid a fat kiss on him!!

20. What is his best feature?
I love everything about him! Most of all I love his sweet smile and sexy blue eyes!

21. Greatest qualities?
I love how he loves our family! He is such a hard worker and wants to succeed at everything that he does! I love to watch him interact with Wyatt! Those two are inseperable and are so cute when they are together! I love watching them play together and I fall more in love with him when I see how much he loves our children! He is such a great husband, father, and friend! He is my best friend and I can't say enough about him to give him the credit he deserves! I feel so lucky to have him in my life!!

Babies First Photo Shoot!!

If you would like to see some really amazing and, of course, beautiful pictures of Megan click on Sam and Marielle's blog and then go to Marielles photo blog from there! They are so sweet! While you are there check out all of the other pictures she has posted. Marielle has such a good eye for taking really great pictures! Thanks Marielle for doing Megans pictures! I love them all and can't wait to see the rest!

A variety of pictures

Here is Megan at two weeks old! I must say that she is just the most beautiful baby girl!

Believe it or not I was told by three witnesses that while I was at the store with Wyatt that our little miss rolled over from her tummy to her back! Isn't that lovely? I hope this is not a sign that she will be crawling early!

Monte's brother and his family was in town last week to be here when Brett returned from his mission. This is a picture of Grandma with all of her grandkids!

Megan's first bath! She did fabulous and only fussed a little bit when I took her out!

Wyatt was a good helper during his sister's bath! He actually stayed happily occupied the whole time by playing with his cars and trucks in the water.

Annacy McCombs holding Megan. Annacy is going to have a new baby brother in September! She will be a great big sister to the new baby!

We are so in love with our sweet boy! Ever since we brought the baby home we have found that our little boy isn't so little anymore! He seemed to turn into a giant overnight!

Isn't he cute!!!

Our growing family!!

Here is our sweet precious baby girl! We are so in love with her and are so happy to have her in our home!

Monte took two weeks off to be home with us after the baby was born! Yes, I know...I'm outragously lucky! Monte and Wyatt have been playing non-stop and by the end of the day they are both pooped! This morning they both surprised me with a delicious breakfast in bed! All I can say is that I am not looking forward to Monte going back to work his usual 60-70 hour work week. It's been a treat for all of us to have him home!
Wyatt can't get enough of Megan! He is always kissing her and checking up on her when she is sleeping! He loves holding her...but not for too long...he's over the holding thing after about one minute!

Our beautiful All-American babies!!!

This was something special that we got for Wyatt for when we brought the baby home! He absolutely loves it and feels like such a big boy on his new motorcycle! Hopefully this is the only motorcycle he will ever own!! Monte and I think that it's pretty rad too! Don't you love the training wheels!

There wasn't a dull moment on his new toy!!

Wyatt Welcomes Baby Megan

Megan Diane Johnson

Born: 7*2*08 @5:40pm

Weighing 7lbs 7ozs and 20 1/4inches longWyatt welcomed his new baby sister Megan to our family today. Amber went in to be induced this morning at around 11:00am. She had a healthy baby Megan at 5:40 pm. Amber and Megan are doing great!!! Here are some pictures of our beautiful baby girl!! We love her so much and are so grateful for our wonderful family and for all of our many wonderful blessings. We truly are blessed!!

Can you believe that dark hair?

Wyatt loves his new baby sister. He was so gentle with her and obsessed with her.

We were very fortunate to have the most wonderful nurses,especially our very good friend Lauren Altom. She was so wonderful and was so supportive. We were so lucky to have her. Monte's cousin is also a nurse and was able to be there. She hooked us up too with a private room. Its great to know people.

Amber and Beautiful Baby Megan

Chris and Dad peeking in on the action

Monte's cousin helping out

Amber just before going to the hospital. Doesn't she look amazing!!!

Today is the day!

Hooray! We were able to get a spot at the hospital today at 10 am! We are soooo excited! It's kind of nice to actually know when we will be going to the hospital...it makes planning a whole lot easier! Stay tuned for updatesand pictures!

Is she here yet!??????

For those of you who are anxiously awaiting to see if we have welcomed our new baby girl into the world...we are still awaiting her arrival!!! Today is my official due date, which is also Monte's 30th birthday! He would love for this little babe to be born on his birthday, but we are not so sure when she plans on making her debute?! As for an update on how things are progressing...I am currently dilated to a four, and my doc can't schedule me for an induction until next week sometime because of availability at the hospital. My Dr. says that i probably won't make it to next week anyway but still plans on setting up a time to do it anyway, just in case! So, that is where we are at up to this point...hopefully we won't have to wait much longer...we are getting very anxious!

Green is Beautiful!!!

We have GRASS!!! We were finally able to plant grass in our front yard about one month ago. Monte seeded it and once it started to sprout it grew like crazy! It's been quite an exciting thing for us to have color in our front yard...seeing as when we moved in almost 3 years ago it was hideously landscaped with just rocks. It has been a long and expensive process to get to the point where we could actually plant some grass, so it is very rewarding to us to finally have grass! We still have alot more grass to plant on the other side of the yard, but that will probably have to wait until the fall.

Wyatt loves to be in the yard when his Dad is! If you didn't notice Monte in the last picture...he is mowing the lawn for the first time since he planted the seed.

Wyatt and Friends

Wyatt's cousins Jared Johnson and Annacy McCombs.

We went up to the park last weekend and got to see a huge Navy helicoptor take off from the park.
Wyatt and Monte just chillin before bed time

Wyatt and Ethan Hodes

Wyatt and Ethan love being together! Ethan and his family have been renting out our basement for the last year and just recently moved into their new house that they purchased out in Stead! It was a bitter sweet thing to have them move. We are so excited that they were able to buy a house but we are so sad to have them gone! We really miss them! We developed a really great friendship with their family while they were here!

Wyatt and Simon McCombs

These two just reek of trouble! Can't you tell! Here they are playing nicely with eachother at Grandma McCombs house. I emphasize "nicely" because these two seem to have a love/hate type of relationship going on! They love eachother very much but know just which buttons to push to get the other one going!

Baby Shower

I work about 7 hours/week doing some misc. office work for two of the best ENT Dr's in town that are right down the street from my house. And of course all of the ladies at the office wanted to throw a shower for the baby, especially now that we know the gender of the baby! So last week they threw this shower for me and the baby at the office. It was so thoughtful of them and they all gave me some really cute baby girl outfits that I can't wait to dress her in. The office also chipped in and bought me a sweet double stroller! It's a cherry red Combi side by side stroller! I am way excited about that too!
Wyatt was so excited about helping me show Monte everything that we brought home from the party! He pulled everything out of the bags and showed his dad and then held it up to him and would say "Look Mommy, cute! I like it!" It was pretty funny and kept him entertained for quite awhile!

Pregnant at 37 weeks

Here I am at 37 weeks with only 3 weeks to go!

I guess I have needed to update news about this pregnancy for a long time, so here it goes:

"Bed rest" really ended up just taking it easy for the first few weeks after the cerclage was put in and then I was pretty much back to doing everything I was doing before with a few exceptions. I continued to see a perinatologist every two to three weeks and she would monitor how my stitches were holding up and check the baby out as well. Which I couldn't really complain about getting to see the baby so often through the ultrasounds! So , that was a definate bonus! Throughout my frequent visits to the doctors the baby went breach at about 27 weeks or so and has been breach ever since. At about 32 weeks I went in for an ultrasound where the doctor found an abnormal growth about 4 cm in diameter right next to the babies bladder. Turns out it was a cyst or a tumor growing on the babies ovary...so now we know that we are having a baby girl! So my dr. refers us to a pediatric surgeon in town and tells us that the baby will have to have surgery within the first few months of life to remove the cyst!:( Not cool! Three weeks later I went in for my last checkup and ultrasound with the perinatologist and she was unable to locate the cyst after searching very thoroughly! I was extremely relieved but then I wondered if the baby really was a girl...I asked the dr. if she was sure it was a girl and she confirmed it by showing me a shot of the babies "girl gear". So as of right now the plan will be to do an ultrasound on the baby after she is born just to make sure the the cyst doesn't exist. I know that the Lord had a hand in this tiny miracle for our sweet baby! I know that many prayers were said on her behalf that she would be watched over and be healthy! We are so blessed!

If baby girl hasn't turned by Tuesday this week at my next appointment, my Dr. will schedule a time to try and turn her later on in the week, and take my stitches out at the same time. I have been hoping and praying that she will turn on her own!

Wyatt is excited about his baby sister...he's told us from when he first knew we were going to have a baby that it was a girl/sister! However, I think he believes that his baby sister is going to continue to live in Mommy's tummy forever!

Fun with our little boy

Monte put this together with some of Wyatt's cars the other night and Wyatt thought it was pretty cool! Our boy is OBSESSED with cars! It's pretty much pointless to have any of his other toys around because all he really cares to play with are his hundreds of cars! Not to mention that he is very protective of them when his friends and cousins come over to play...which is where the car obsession becomes a problem. What can I say other than that he is a two year old little boy...and...boys will be boys!
We went to Target the other day so that Wy could pick out some "Big Boy" underwear and hopefully get excited about wearing them and not the diapers anymore. When we got home I let him open up the package and look at each one. He thought that it was lots of fun! For each pair he pulled out he would say "I like this one" or "So cute". I thought that it was pretty funny how he kept calling his new underwear cute!

Here we are on a day where we didn't do much but stay home so Wyatt refused to wear any clothes, which made him quite happy and hyper, until he crashed and hit his mouth and chin coming up our hardwood stairs!

Wyatt and Arie

Wyatt seems to be enjoying the hug...I'm not so sure Arie feels the same way!
Arie is such a princess and makes sure we all know it! She liked dancing to the music with Wyatt! She danced like a dainty ballerina and he danced like any untrained boy would! Arie tried to show Wyatt how to dance with her and he just kept tripping and falling on top of her, which usually ended up in him wanting to wrestle with her! Hopefully we can fix this before he has his first real dance with a girl who is not his cousin!:)

Wyatt loves music and loves to groove!!!

Mother's Day

For Mothers Day this year most of my siblings were at their in-laws. So Monte, Wyatt, me, my parents and Chris all went up to Dale and Liane's house for dinner. It was as fun as Sunday dinner can be!:) It was nice to visit with Dale and Liane and the girls and Sarah's Fiance' Rob! Congrats to Sarah and Rob on getting engaged and setting a date! We are so excited for them!!!
Wyatt made Grandma a fruit loop necklace for Mother's Day! Once Grandma put it on, Wyatt wouldn't leave her alone and ate almost all of her necklace before we even sat down to eat dinner!

Grandma is so nice to share!!

Why is it that even on Mother's Day the women end up cooking the meal! I thought Liane looked pretty good heading up the BBQ! Nice job Liane, the meat was excellent!

On Saturday before Mothers Day we took Monte's Mom out to Pizza (at her request) and then went to the park afterwards so the kids could play. Wyatt absolutely LOVES his cousins Arie (almost 3) and Jared (almost 7)!

This is the tallest twisty slide I have ever seen, it was probably at least 12 feet high. Wyatt loved it and couldn't get enough of it!