11.29.08

Here we are with a few events....Elijah was baptised 2 weeks ago at the Divine Word Catholic Church. Father Dave performed the ceremony and it was a crazy snowy day. A few close calls, a fender bender or two and the event was on it's way (no one was hurt).

Eli was smiling a lot during the ceremony and made lots of direct eye contact with Father Dave, who loved it. Thank you to everyone who helped us make this a wonderful experience...we are proud parents.


Elijah Zachary Johnson


Eli during the ceremony...

All 6 kids in a pew....I was proud that I got them all together for at least 45 seconds...

Proud Mama & her boy...

The kids table after the baptism. Josie, Patrick, Ella, Ninah.

Eli, hanging out in the big bed.

Post-bath time. Love that hair!

Whaddup?

Cia, Ninah & I took a nice hike & snowball fight at Penitentiary Glenn after the snow. They both did great.

C'mon Ninah!

Ninah & Cia at the tree lighting in Chagrin Falls last night.

Rania & the brood, just after the lighting.

Here's the family....What a happy bunch!

Rania & Eli in his outfit from Brian & Sara - thank you!

11.11.08

Holy cow-a-bunga...I have not posted in almost 30 entire days, and the last one was just photos....I am getting to be a bit of a slacker on the blog.....Sorry folks....So, what have we been up to? Ninah is doing fantastic in school and Cecilia is living up to her devil halloween costume. Little Eli is great, he is living up to his initials, E.Z.

Rania is adjusting to being house mother of 3, making 2 seem not so hard! She is getting her body back (although, she never really lost it - aside from the baby boy in the belly!).

Rockwell is going very well for me still.....and I have been doing a few cycling (cyclocross) races over the past couple months, nothing better than paying to put your body through some good pain.

So, in traditional format, I will post photos below....most of them speak for themselves.




Ninah in Halloween garb for school...

Ninah (as Rockstar Hanna Montana!)
Ninah, Cia, Josie





Josie, Ninah, Isabella, Cia

Chagrin River CX race (me)

Todd Field CX Race Series

Cecilia for Halloween

Eli.....he's a pimp.

the kids pumpkins (Ninah's, Ella's, Cia's)