It's a girl!!!

Hello all,

16 weeks!

This will be our first official post where we are committed to the blog.  Before this we played around with the idea of keeping this up as a communication tool but didn't know if we would commit. Well, we are now committed after talking to family members and their requests for this.

As most of you already know (and by the post title) we found out on February 7th at 1:00pm that our healthy kiddo is a baby girl!  We are just very happy that all the labs and tests that the little bean goes through come out with perfect results.  She is establishing high marks already.  I have to attribute this to two things: great, fantastic, amazing genes from both sides of the family and pre-natal vitamins!  We both have alarms on our phones so we remember to have Laura take her vitamins at 6:30pm every night, give or take an hour.

We are both planners.  Laura with her tasks and lists excels at planning and me with project management as a key facet of my career, there is no end to the prep work we are planning with Kiddo #1.  We are going to pull up 1000 sq ft of carpet and replace it with baby/kiddo/dog-resistant wood flooring.  The planks are already sitting in the garage, it just needs to be installed.  We are accepting applications immediately.  Note: Be able to work long hours with some (absolutely no) pay.  We look forward to seeing resumes.  Please include a cover letter and at least three references, pictures of previous flooring jobs preferred.

In prepping and designing the nursery, we had to clear out that room of pretty much everything. Since this used to be about half storage, that translated to needed more storage.  Which of course means that I needed to start laying some flooring in the attic.  But to get up there more easily means I needed to install an attic ladder. And so on and so forth. Project and project and project....

Right now we have a blank slate in the soon to be nursery, a garage full of beautiful golden teak flooring, beautiful lady pregnant with our baby girl and two dogs we are training to be miniature horses (saddles not included).

In other news, we have had requests for pictures of the completed Koi pond.  Although it was complete in October or thereabouts some folks have not seen the final product.  We still need to plant in the section to the left, and I think I will be forever retrieving the side rocks out of the pond where the dogs push them in to get a drink of water. Oh well, the fish are thriving as well as all the other life at the Johnson place.  We will keep you all comprised.

~Nate (and Laura)