Saturday, November 29, 2008

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!









Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

10.14.08












Sunday, September 28, 2008

09.28.08

What a beautiful weekend. Patterson Family Fun Fest with Colleen, Ella, & Izzy met us on Saturday for some good wholesome family fun....corn maze, tree houses, great slides, food, tractor rides...free apples. Then that evening for Ninah's ballet recital. She is doing great. I didn't get to watch 75% of the show since Cecilia was being such a delight...had to take her outside to burn off some energy.

Sunday I was going to do a cyclocross race we decided to postpone until the kids can watch....2 weeks, I think is the next one. Should be fun, it's been a while since I have done a bike race. We went to Rania's cousin's son's 2nd Birthday party and then to Nona's for dinner....it was a great full day. We couldnt have asked for better weather.

Here are some pics from the weekend
















Friday, September 12, 2008

09.12.08

Well...I am going to try to catch up over the past few weeks since Ninah started school. 1st things 1st, she loves it...as she always has. She rides the bus and hangs out with the older kids, telling us stories about how goofy she is. We are loving Kirtland more and more. We've met a lot of the neighbors and local kids. Jake & Kyle are two of the local favorites who keep an eye out for her...

So, let's see.....Angel & Justin were up about 2+ weeks ago for a friends wedding, so it was awesome to see family in Kirtland (on the Johnson side). It is always a bit hard for me knowing that all of my side of the family is scattered around Florida, NC, Indiana, Texas, PA, etc..... With life flying by as fast as it does (exacerbated with 3 children); it is sometimes hard.

Eli is doing well, back up to his birth weight about a week after birth. still has mucho macho hair, including fully developed sideburns, what a pimp! He's sitting in the baby bjorn as I write this. I still think he looks like me, deny it if you will......but ultimately, E.Z. Johnson will be my male heir to the throne. Cia & Ninah will have to duke it out (and that will be a close one!).

So, I started to reduce my running events.....Running ultra-marathons doesn't work all that well with the Johnson5. So, I have been running these 5k (rather than 50k) events....Holy freaking crap, those 14 year olds are fast! I'm not joking....I was like the oldest guy there last time, but I held my own and tied with the 15 year old fastest girl, thankyouverymuch. I'm not ashamed. So, here is the list of photos from the past couple weeks....Mo, I put one in there of Rania reading your blog, checking out your beautiful little girl!


















Tuesday, September 2, 2008

09.02.08 1st Day of School

Holy schmoly! Ninah started 1st grade today! I had the honor of taking her to Mrs.Greer's class this morning. Hard to believe our little girl is this freakin old...