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I had this picture made for Clay for Father's Day. Just wanted to share.

Abby is 22 Months Old

Abby is 22 months old today. I think this picture of me was taken in the late spring of '76. So I would have been right about the same age. Does she look like her mother or what!?! She wasn't too pleased about having her picture taken this morning, but she survived.

Tagged! Thanks Kendra!

Tagged

First memory - Various tidbits about living in Holland when I was 4. Riding my bike to the Dutch school, milk in a carton(gross!), and other things from this time.

First real kiss - Greg Pickens. sophomore year in high school . . .after my first date to homecoming. I too was wearing a lovely dress. Purple and puffy.

First love - Adam Dossey. My sophomore year in high school. He was a senior and I thought this is it. We're getting married. He went off to college and that was the end of that.

First thing you think in the morning - I don't want to workout now. When else during my day can I fit it in.

First pet - never had a pet growing up. Still don't have one.

First question you'll ask in heaven - I think I'll be so consumed with other things questions won't matter.

First thing you think of when you hear the word vacation - Let's go to the beach!

First best friend - Trinette Pinson. Our moms were pregnant at the same time with us and our birthdays are 10 days apart. We are still best friends and like to say we've been friends since the womb. Also Meredith Erwin. We became friends in Kindergarten and are still friends. Meredith, Trinette, and I all grew up together and were all 3 best friends. Still have the charm on my charm bracelet.

Last time you dressed up - who knows. Maybe in a few weeks on our 10th anniversary trip we'll get a chance to dress up.

Last thing you ate -Oatmeal Carmelita. Oatmeal cookie crust with chocolate chips and caramel. Devine!

Last CD you bought - I can't remember.

Last good book you read - Nicholas Sparks' A Bend in the Road and James Patterson's Honeymoon.

Last time you cried -Teared up today listening to KLTY in the car. Good praise music is just overwhelming.

Last time you told someone you loved them - this morning . . .to Clay and Abby. Need to call Nathan later today and give him some I love you's.

Last really funny thing you did - Today at the mall Clay was leaving Abby and I to go back to work and I kept insisting he needed to go back up in the elevator while he was walking toward the escalator. Guess I think that since I have the stroller and have to use the elevator he needs to do that too.

Last thing you watched on TV - Watching Little House on the Prairie right now. I'm a huge fan!

I tag Kim, Kara, and Kellee. I want to see how the sisters are alike and different.

Grown Up Weekend!

Clay and I got to go to the lake this weekend with another couple and NO KIDS! We had a great time relaxing out on the lake. It was so nice to be leisurely and casual and not have to follow any schedules. We even tried to sleep in a little, but I guess we're growing up because we were all up by 8 on Saturday. Abby stayed here with Gramma and Grandpa John and Nathan went to Abilene to stay with Grandad and Mimi. When we called yesterday to arrange our pick up time for Nathan they said he needed to stay a few more days. So Nathan is still in Abilene having a fabulous time. Abby and I are having a fun day without him, but we sure do miss him. Abby keeps asking, "Where's NaNa?" It sure is quiet without him talking to me all day. This is the perfect chance for me to clean out his playroom. Hope he doesn't miss too many things when he gets back!

Funny Abby!

This is Abby's new face that she makes when you try to take a picture of her. This was during her first trip to the waterpark this year. She's definitely alot harder to manage there this year than last. Since now she's mobile and all. She wants to go go and keep up with Nathan and all the other boys.

Abby had pudding one night after dinner last week for dessert. She obviously enjoyed it and can say chocolate now. She calls it, "sha sha". Which sounds an awful lot like what she calls her sweet friend Charlotte who lives in Atlanta now. It's funny because chocolate is also one of Charlotte's very favorite things.

Happy Father's Day

Feb. 2007

I'm totally playing catch up today with all my blogging. Happy Father's Day to Clay! What a great dad. Nathan and Abby LOVE their daddy so much. Nathan loves to go to the driving range with his dad and pretty much anything else Clay will take him to do. Cabelas is one of their favorite hangouts. Abby asks me all day long about daddy. Today we were going to go shopping and I asked her if she was ready to go bye bye and she says, "Daddy!" So of course we had to go meet Clay for lunch. She's a daddy's girl. Thanks Clay for being such a great father to our babies.

An Etheridge Family Tradition

Nathan and I carried on a family tradition that we always did when I was growing up. Watermelon! My dad brought this to us last weekend when he and my mom came to celebrate my birthday and Father's Day. So last week one evening Nathan and I cut it open and just ate straight out of the middle of the melon. This is the only way we eat watermelon at my parents. This tradition was started many years ago when my dad was a boy. His parents ran a grocery store out of the front room of their house while he was growing up in east Texas. So on hot summer days my Me-maw would bring a watermelon out under the shade tree and cut it open where they would just dig in. Most with spoons, but she always just used the knife that she cut the watermelon open with. This is how my dad grew to love watermelon and Nathan seems to be following in his footsteps.

The Johnson Men are on the Web!

Check out our church website. My boys are famous, again! This was on the cover of the church bulletin on Father's Day last year. Totally caught Clay off guard. Now they are using it on the website this year. I think Nathan may have just turned 4 in this picture or may still be 3 since he doesn't have his glasses yet.


http://www.rhchurch.org/index.cfm?pg=event&id=108

Couple More Funny Stories

I have to add these stories before I forget. Perhaps the best thing about this blog is that it's an easy way to document all the funny things that happen everyday that I will want to remember years from now.

1. Nathan and cheeseburgers. Nathan is loving cheeseburgers right now. Everywhere we go he wants a cheeseburger. Doesn't matter where we are, it's cheeseburger. Last weekend while we were on our vacation, Nathan was just swimming and having a grand time in the pool when a waiter walks by with a big cheeseburger for someone else. All of a sudden Nathan pops his head up out of the pool and says, "Did I just see a cheeseburger!?!" It was so funny. Luckily he got distracted with something else and forgot about it right then.

2. Abby is getting too smart. The other night we all went to Sonic for the free Root Beer floats. Just as we turn into Sonic she starts yelling out from the back seat, "Slush!" So of course she has to have an apple juice slush. Well then this afternoon Clay, Abby and I were headed home to eat lunch and we turn right in front of Sonic and she blurts out, "Eat!" and was shortly followed by, "Slush!" Well that just melted her daddy's heart and he just turned right into Sonic to get us lunch. Thanks, Abby and Clay!

San Antonio Weekend

Last weekend Clay and I took Nathan to San Antonio for his own vacation while Abby stayed here. We went with our friends, Mr. Tim, Mrs. Shelley, Marshall, and Drew. The boys had so much at Sea World and swimming ALL weekend. I think the grown ups had a great time too. It was very relaxing just having Nathan since he is so independent and such a sweet boy.

Abby's Weekend at Grandma's

This past weekend Clay, Nathan, and I went to San Antonio for vacation. We left Abby here with Clay's mom for 3 nights and 3 full days. We were so nervous to leave her. This was the first time that she stayed away from us all by herself. Usually Nathan is with her. She seems to have had a great time and to have done just fine. She slept good, ate good, and was just really sweet for Grandma and Grandpa.

She seems to have had fun playing in the little pool, but she does not seem too sure about these ducks.