new pregnancy pics

We forgot to post the 25 week pic; so here it is...









And here's the current pic at 30 weeks...

A new update... 2 months late.

I cannot believe it has been 2 months since we last blogged! Time is just flying by! So many things going on, so many things to look forward to. So, let's just jump in!

Dave and I went to California to spend Christmas with his family for a few days. It was so nice to get away and see everyone again. The morning before we left, we had an ultrasound and found out that Baby Johnson is a boy! We are so excited to meet the little guy.

We took the ultrasound pictures to California to show Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Aunt Angela who were all very excited to get a glimpse of the little guy. Everyone was also very excited to see my belly which is much more evident there is someone else co-existing within me than last time I saw them.

We had a very relaxing Christmas Eve and Day and we got my favorite gift so far for the baby. This is from Aunt Angela and it makes me giggle everytime I look at it:

When we left Kansas, we left just in time to miss a blizzard that hit the Midwest later on that afternoon. This unfortunately made for some delays getting back into Kansas City, but only by a few hours. There was quite a bit of snow in our driveway when we pulled in and Dave jokes that he got a workout shovelling all of that snow later that day. The one thing about the snow here is that it is pretty light and easy to shovel if you do it right away. However, if you wait a day the sun shines down and melts the snow during the day, but then it freezes overnight as the temps drop. Needless to say, after a few days of not being tended to, we had quite a bit of ice under the snow that made cleaning it up much more difficult.

Ok... Dave here... my turn, my turn...

Then, so many things happened in January for Eastlake Lawrence. We started weekly services on the first Sunday in January. We started a series called DNA: What Makes Us... US. We were averaging about 90-100 peeps a week. Then, after the second week in Jan, we sent out our mailer to 45,000 households advertising our new series called "10 Things I Hate About Church" for Jan 24th. The mailer advertisement was about a week and a half early, so people saw that we were already meeting and decided to check us out. So, we were about 140 people in the middle of Jan.

So, for the week that the mailer advertised, we had 270 people show up to check us out. And, everyone seemed to say that they had a good time and that they were coming back! SO COOL! Then, the next week, we had 250 people show up. Most of those people said the same thing: that they felt welcome and confortable, and that they wanted to come back.

Now, for Super Bowl Sunday, we had 253 people show up!!! No drop in attendance at all. SO CRAZY!! God is really doing something here. I think that this shows us that Lawrence needed something like this; and that God is going to do a great work here. I am just so glad to be a part of it.

Last week, we also launched our first Growth Group session catalog. We have 7 groups available to join. Within 3 days of the catalog going out, 2 groups were full; and the others are filling up as well.


Now for some more baby info: On Feb 1st, we had a third ultrasound for baby Johnson. Doc said that everything still looks great and that there is nothing to worry about. We feel so blessed so far. Also, a friend from work needed to get rid of some baby stuff. So, she gave us a bunch of cool swag. She gave us a swing, bouncer, car seat w/ 2 extra bases, excersaucer, highchair, and other very gently used items. Most of these items still look very new.

Then, we found out that the infant car seat was recalled due to the handle breaking. Further, Becky saw that Babies R Us was doing a promotion that if you brought in a used car seat, highchair, etc, you would get a 25% coupon on a new item. So, we got a travel system for only 150.00. WOW!!!

That's pretty much it for now. Please continue to pray for us in Lawrence. God's doing big stuff here, and we want to do the best we can. Thanks