Sunday, May 31, 2009





Here are a few pictures of Warren his first few days of life. The first picture is him in his little tanning bed at home to help with his yellow color, the next one is of his first bed at home, Ila and Warren at the hospital, and the last picture is of him and two of his nurses. This past week has been a lot of fun. Ila and Warren went to a dual baby shower that was planned for them and my sister-in-law Lindy and her little baby girl Lia. It was supposed to be before the two babies arrived but they wanted to come a month early. While they were there Stephen, Lexton (our 4 year old little nephew) and I went fishing at a pond next to the golf course by where the shower took place. We caught several large mouth bass. It was a lot of fun. We have had many visitors and friends stop by and we are grateful for their help. We are greatly blessed with good family and friends. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and services.

Sunday, May 24, 2009


Well the post before this one is very outdated. There are two more grand kids that came into the world this weekend. Lindy (my brother Lenny's wife) gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (Lia) early Friday at 12:01 am or something. Ila gave birth the next day at 9:00 am to a beautiful baby boy. In fact we were on the way to the Murry hospital to visit Lindy and Lia when Ila had a few contractions. They were very far apart and we didn't really think anything of it. In fact Ila asked me (like I really knew) what a contraction was supposed to feel like. I know there is pain involved and that your belly becomes hard.

Later that night around 10:30 Ila continued to have contractions that continued every 5 minutes. We called her doctor and he said it could be false labor. Ila was not due until June 20th. I was sure it was false labor. I wasn't taking it serious.

At 2:30 am after several hours of helping Ila breath and having contractions 3 minutes apart we called the doctor again and he had us go to the hospital in Payson. I still thought it was false even when the nurse said she was dilated to a 3. But the nurse decided to admit her. Ila continued to go one number hire in dilation each hour or two.

Finally at about 7:30 the doctor broke her water and around 8:15 she began to push. At 9:00 she gave birth to little Warren Clinton Johnson, 5 lbs 14 oz., 20 inches long. I guess it wasn't false labor. Like a bullet he literally shot out. (the doctor had to catch him) Thus his first nickname "the little bullet". All the nurses and especially the doctor were surprised at how fast he came out. I swear he flew at least a foot to the doctor. Fortunately the doctor was close and had a hand on the top of his head before he came. It was the craziest thing ever.

Ila didn't have the epidural, she wanted to try natural. Ila did so well with the entire process that several nurses thought she had the epidural and were amazed that she never made a peep. In fact I think she fell asleep during a few contractions when we first got to the hospital. The nurses said she should be on those videos that promote birth so as to show that giving birth isn't that bad.

On a side note, the first nurse, Suzanne, who admitted us was also the nurse that helped deliver Ila when she was a baby.

Well we should be returning home Tomorrow if everything goes as planned. The doctor says he is good size for being born a month early.

We have been blessed greatly by this healthy little boy and feel in aw that we have been given such great responsibility in raising him up unto the Lord. We know that we are blessed and will be given the strength to do what is necessary and right for him. This is such a miracle of miracles.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Well here is a small update. This is a picture during Easter at my mom and dads place when almost all the grand kids were together. Only one was missing. We had a lot of fun trying to get everyone to pose. I think this is the only one where the grandparents were looking at the camera. Turns out it wasn't the kids that had the hard time taking this picture.

Everything else is going well for us. Ila is getting bigger and ready to deliver in a few weeks. She has a couple weeks left of school and she will be done for the year. I am taking a class at BYU. I am also getting paid to teach English. It is kind of funny because they gave me the academic writing class level 5 which is one of the last classes students take before entering University level classes. 

It is softball season and I have already messed my shoulder up. I got into a little pickle and had to slide into second only to land funny. My shoulder didn't hurt much during the game just felt a little weird. In fact I even hit a home run (which I haven't done all season) After the game though it really hurt and I couldn't sleep all night. I could barely raise my arm. I hate getting hurt. I can raise my arm all the way now. I do like to complain though. ;)

We have been blessed with a lot of help lately getting baby clothes. Ila's parents and other family bought us several outfits that look really good. We also stopped at a couple of garage sales and picked up a couple outfits. We have really been blessed. Thank you all. We still have some things to get mainly a car seat which we will buy new. We feel better about buying a new car seat and getting everything else used. Summer has been fun so far. We are looking forward to the family reunions and camping. Hopefully we get to go.