Praise God!

Hi everyone! We just wanted to thank you all for your prayers - they were heard by God! At Evie's cardiologist appointment we got great news! Her murmur turned out to be what is called PPS (Periphrial Pulmonary Stynosis). Basically - the valve that goes from her heart to lungs lets a little blood back through as it pumps blood out to the lungs. PPS is often heard first in babies between 2 and 4 weeks and usually goes away on its own. The cardiologist told us this is not an unusual thing and that he only needs to see us back if it hasn't gone away by 9 months or if at her normal check ups it gets louder. YEAH! She wieghed 8 lbs. 7 oz. - which means she is gaining a little over an ounce a day - which is perfect!
Above I put some photos of her first big tub bath and after...love you all!

Evie's second appointment

Hi everyone! We are asking for prayer for Evie's heart. Today at her second doctors appointment the doctor heard a heart murmur and refered us to a cardiologist. Right now we are not overly worried because her grandmother (Leesa) has a mild heart murmur and these kind of things are hereditary. We are scheduled to go to the cardiologist next wed. Dec. 27th. Please pray that this murmur would be insignificant or even just go away by then. And that Evie would continue to be a healthy baby girl with a strong healthy heart.

Good news that we got from the doctor is that her jaundice seems to have gone away and she has gained back some of the weight that she had lost since birth. She was born 8 lbs. but at our first doctor visit she weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 0z. so the doctor put us on a supplement. Today she weighed in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. - which the doctor said was good (apparently they want them to gain an ounce a day.)
Evie continues to be the sweetest mild tempered baby, she rarely cries and she has already started holding up her head for little spurts at a time! She makes the best faces and every now and then hints at a smile. We love her so much and praise God for her every day!
We love you all = Tommy, Cristi, and Evie

Christmas Present

Our christmas present: Evelyn Caroline Johnson

Evie is here! Evelyn Caroline Johnson she was born on Dec. 8th and weighed 8 lbs. even and she was 21 inches long.

Praise God! He has more than blessed us with this bundle of joy. I was going to put all the pictures of the last few days on here - but my sister did a really cool post of all those pictures and I really like it - so go visit her sight at lizinneworleans.blogspot.com.

Hopefully we will put a video on of her soon. That's if grammy puts here down.

love you all!

Tommy, Cristi, and Evie Johnson

GUESS WHAT!

Tomorrow (Thursday the 7th) we will be going into the hospital around 8 pm. And they will begin to induce us! So we should have our little girl sometime Friday (the 8th) morning! Yeah!
We are really nervous and really excited so we could use a lot of prayer. We love you all and will post again - the next time as parents! AHHHH! :)

love
Tommy and Cristi

Jingle Jerks?

so we usually call people who put up their decorations before thanksgiving Jingle Jerks. This means that they go from one gimmie holiday to the next with no time to stop and be thankful. Well...this year Tommy and I were jingle jerks. In fact - I think we led the jingle jerk pack. We put up our Christmas stuff Nov. 1. We just didn't want to have to worry about it here in December with baby coming any day. So since Halloween night our neighbors have stared in shock at the Christmas decor and tsked and shook their heads.....what a relief Thanksgiving was - now everyone would have their decor up. And boy have they put some stuff up - just about every house has some kind of fake reindeer, blow up Santa Claus, twinkling light or garland. I was really impressed and then I started to notice that the decorations keep growing and growing - if one house puts out a small reindeer - the house next to it puts out steriod enhanced reindeer. I began to think - did Tommy and I create a ripple effect in time by putting out our decorations early? - did we somehow throw the gauntlet of Christmas decor challenge down?- were we going to be to blame for the losing of the reason of the season?
And then I heard from a neighbor...Our homeowner's association is actually giving a prize out this year to the best Christmas decorated home...ha ha ha ha....well we probably disqualified ourselves by having ours out so early...the neighbors just view us now as really competitive.

Anyway - here are some pictures of our home at Christmas.

Fings I am Fankful for...(things I am thankful for)

These days it seems everything I am thankful for begins with an f. I meant to post this right after thanksgiving - but the pictures kept not uploading. Better Late than never....

Fings I am Fankful for: Faith, Family, Friends, Food, Fun, Fellowship, and Future.

Starting from the top: that's us with our friends Jim and Amanda Phelps. then it's us with my adopted sisters Beth Townsend and Kobi Kilgore (I am holding Beth's son Hudson).
The next picture are some of the cousins and husbands on my mom's side of the family (Dustin and Layne Smith, Tommy and Me, Lizard, Blair and Chris Thompson). The next shot is of Tommy and myself with my huge tummy - that's Evie our daughter in there (future).
And the last picture I have up is some of our family at thanksgiving - Tommy, myself, Grr, Granddaddy, Nika (little Dave's INCREDIBLE GIRLFRIEND -can you tell I really like her? :) and Dad and Mom.

These are just a few shots of some of the things that I am thankful for...

Labor Olympics

Ok - so yesterday at school we (my best friend Amy and myself) took our student council (about 25 high school students) to help out with the Special Olympics basketball. While we were there I shot a couple baskets playing around with students, did a few jumping jacks and just kindof messed around. That was until about noon. Then we went and ate El Charro (Mexican) and took the kids back to school. I made it to the front office to check back in with my boss - and it began...
I had this pain that kind of shot around from my back and into my stomach area, which then caused my entire abdomen to tighten...it was nothing terrible just really kind of uncomfortable. Well the school nurse was standing there saw my face and put her hands along my abdomen (she is an incredilbe nurse who has experience with this and was in an ER for a long time). She smiled and said "Wow- you're having some early contractions"...to which I responded "No, it's probably gas pain"...she just shook her head no. Well these pains continued for a while on and off in intensity - so I called the doctors office and gave them a recap of the day - they said to head on over to labor and delivery at the hospital if it was still going on around 3 pm and let them check me out.
3:00 pm - we headed over there and just happened to run into my doctor! Yeah! He checked me out and I am having small contractions about 5-7 min. apart but I have only dialated about 1 cm (still 9 more to go) and her head is at station negative one. There are 9 stations going from negative 4 which means the head is floating above the pelvic bone to positive 4 which means the head is out of the pelvic bone. O is right even with the pelvic bone opening. So she has dropped to almost where she needs to be. He said my cervix was really soft - which is great - means that the early stages of labor have started...
Now - I could stay at this stage for days - maybe even a week or two - it's really uncomfortable - a lot of pressure and tightening- so now starts the labor Olympics!! We walk several laps around the neighborhood several times a day, I trek up and down stairs, and I jump a little here and jump a little there. I feel somewhat like I need a medal for the labor Olympics :)

So to recap - we could have Evie any stinkin day now! So pray for us and pray that this fist stage of labor will progress quickly instead of taking weeks...
Love cristi

God Blesses

So God continues to awe and amaze us everyday with his blessings. We are so humbled by it, not just because he is such an awesome provider, but because he has given us more than we could ever use or need. We prayed for this child and God has granted us what we asked of him. We praise him as the great I AM. These pictures are just a testimony to his amazing love and the gift he has entrusted in us. In only a few weeks she will come from God's arms and be in ours!!

Let's talk SPOILED

so how many babies have two, even three nurseries? Here are the shots from Grammy's and Big Daddy's nursery for Evie (that would be leesa and stew) and when mamaw and papaw (Tom and Gina) get theirs done we'll post those pictures. :) Don't grandparents just make you smile!
Everyone has been telling me that it will all be about the baby now - and that Tommy and I no longer exist...hmmm....I wonder if that's why they keep calling me pod??....hmmm.....

The rest of Evie's nursery

Here are shots from the rest of the nursery - we are still missing one of the mirrors that goes behind the dresser - it is still being painted. Feel free to come visit us and see the room in person! We would love it!
We love you all
tommy, cristi, Evie, and Sampson Johnson

Evie's Room

Here are some shots of the nursery - basically just by the crib. We'll post more of the whole room later!

"Holy Hot Pink, Batman!"

Ok - so here are the first pictures of us painting the nursery. Yes, it is that bright. In fact when you sit in the living room and look down the hall toward the nursery door - there is a slight glow coming off the wood floor. I will post the finished picture asap. Basically we have added green and black strips and chair rail - with black trim around the doors and windows...don't judge - you have to see it to really appreciate it.

BABY BRAIN -
Incident one: We were at CiCi's pizza and I was making my way down the buffey line when I noticed many people staring at me - I knew I wasn't eating an ungodly amount, so what in the heck were they all looking at? I looked down just to double check my food amount when I realized....my plate was upside down. Hey - I was hungry and ready to eat.

Incident two: I pulled in the drive way the other night afterwork ready to crash I was so tired. I got out of the car and went into the house and sat down on the couch. I was just laying my head on the pillow when I noticed Tommy really hadn't said much to me as I passed him in the front hall. I looked up to find him looking out the door, then he turned and looked at me, then he looked out the door again, then looked at me with this quizical look. "What?" I asked him moodily. He responded to me with - "Is there a reason you left the car running and the front door open?" I was so excited about sitting on my couch that I actually left the keys in the car with the car running and the door open and then left the front door open. WOW - was that impressive or what.

American Mills Shower

Dad and Tommy's work hosted a beautiful shower for me. It was so much fun and let me tell you that DIVA...excuse me I mean Evie got some really cool stuff. Among which were a travel system (car seat and stroller) and a portable play yard and lots of university of georgia stuff (boo) and one Georgia Tech window shade (yeah!) and many more things. At the shower every time I opened a gift that had diapers in it everyone would say "well, there's one more day". I thought to myself surely they exagerate. So I started doing a little research - OH MY GOSH _ do you know how much stuff comes out of a baby in a day!!! HOLY CRAP - (literally). So - to the store we go for more diapers - we are going to need them...:)

Chubby Bunny

So - who remembers playing the game chubby bunny? Basically in the game you stuff your mouth full of marshmellows and you have to say the words chubby bunny - whoever could still say the words with the most marshmellows in their mouth won. I fell like I am playing that game... but instead of stuffing my mouth full of marshmellows I feel like I 've stuffed them all over my body. I am only 32 weeks in this picture and they say that I'll get even bigger in these last eight weeks...AHHHH - chubby bunny out.

Evie's First Baby Shower

The first shower was a huge success. We had lots of fun, played some cool games, and ate lots of great food. Evie received lots of cool toys, clothes, and other stuff we are still trying to figure out. A great big THANKS to Dana Overton for throwing this awesome shower for Spalding High Students and Teachers, friends, and family. Also, thanks to Aunt Liz for flying in from New Orleans to attend. By the way, Evie is doing great. She is starting to kick and move around all over the place. Can't wait to see everyone again.

Half Way

As you can tell, we have made it into maternity clothes. Well, Cristi has any way. Cristi is doing better in the "morning sickness" department. She is only taking her nausea medicine on occasion, as opposed to every day just a couple of weeks ago. We will be starting Evie's, Evelyn Caroline Johnson, room in the next couple of days. We will post pictures as we go along so you can see how it looks.

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"Budder Bean's" Heart Beat

On our most recent trip to the doctor, we got to experience the coolest thing I think I have ever done. We got to hear "Budder Bean's" heartbeat. It was sooooooo cool!!! "BB's" little heart is beating around 167 bpm. It is so amazing how fast "budderbean" is growing. I think "BB" is tripling in size each week. Anyway, we once again were reassured that everything is still on track and looking good. Please keep praying!! We go back to the doctor in about five weeks and will start doing ultrasounds to see how development is going. Which means it won't be long before we will get to find out what sex "Budder Bean" is going to be. So if anyone has not yet posted what sex they think the baby is going to be, you better do it quick.

The pictures above are from the doctor's appt.