Blessing

Me,
WarReN cLinToN joHnSon,

named after two of my great grandpas.
(Don't I look handsome? Thanks to my cousin Porter for letting me use his tie and shirt.)

Mami and Papi

Grandma and Grandpa Mills

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson

Almost everyone who was able to be there that day.

My Mills cousins, aunts, and uncles were all in for a family reunion. It was great to have them there on this special day. I am grateful that Tim and Stephanie let us have a luncheon at their house after church that day. I am grateful to be here on Earth and for the blessing that I received. My first and not last blessing from my daddy. I look forward to asking for more in the years to come and know that they will help me.

First little Adventures

Here Warren is at his second bath at home, hanging out with his green friend, and just chillin. He is a good little tike. We love 'em

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.

Well the post before this one is very outdated.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.

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. 

Ok my new goal is a weekly post! Short update: I was officially accepted into the MA. I will finish next April. Also I have been hired at the English Language Center to teach Applied grammar level 5. uuuuhhh?! I don't know about that assignment but it will be a really good assignment and I will gain a lot of teaching experience. This is the highest grammar level at the ELC and I am sure most students know the grammar better than I do. Ila's Spring break ends today and she goes back to teaching at her school tomorrow. (by the way "to" "morrow" used to be a phrasal verb seperating the "to" from the noun, same with "tonight") Other great Ila news, she passed the PRAXIS test. Wahoooooooooooooooooooo! This past week was Spring Break for Ila. She spent a lot of the time cleaning the second bedroom of our apartment in order to get ready for the little one. I studied for my final, which I took yesterday, and the rest of the time we enjoyed by watching Ila's stomach look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, because Warren moves all over the place making her look very mishappen. Mishappen in a good way ;).

The moment we have been all waiting for; "Ila actually showing that she is pregnant" pictures. With only 2 months left we have more belly to show off to our fellow Ward members and friends. For a little update we are doing very well as the semester comes to close. Ila will be on spring break and I have only one final.(wahoooooooooo!) Spring semester starts in a few weeks and I will probably be getting a paid teaching spot at BYU's English language center. At least it will be one class for one semester. My project is lining up nicely and we will know if it is accepted in about two to three weeks.

Happy Easter everyone and we hope we all remember what the season is really about. Today in church we heard several very well done talks. In one of these it was mentioned that we can look at the symbolism of eggs on Easter as parts of our testimony and that we are continually searching and growing our testimony much like when little kids go searching for eggs on Easter. The speaker further explained how as the eggs are meant to be found so are our testimonies and that  according to our level the eggs are hidden. Those who are younger often have less difficult and more open ways of finding their eggs where as the older children's eggs are more hidden. Much of this can be related to the gathering of our testimonies throughout our lives. We too must search out and find truth and our testimonies on our own. They are meant to be found but we must work for them and that often gets a little more difficult as we get older. we express out love and testimonies of this wonderful season and know that Jesus Christ is our Saviour and Redeemer. We love you all. Kyle & Ila (Warren sends his love through kicks and movement)