The Craig Family

Hello to all!
As you all know, January was a wonderful month for Paul and I. The funny thing is that it was uneventful until the 30th. Seriously nothing happened. But here is a quick recap of the events of the 29th and 30th.

Paul and my baby was due the 1st of February. We found out on Jan. 25th that my doctor was going on vacation on the 31st and would be gone all week. We really wanted my doctor to be there so we decided to induce before he left.

I went into the hospital on Sunday the 29th. They gave me a pill that was suppose to help start labor. The next morning, we found out that the bill helped me dilate to a 3 but I was not in labor. My doctor came in at 8 am and broke my water and then the labor began. It took 2 and 1/2 hours to get to dilate to a 5 and 45 minutes after that, I was at a 10 but the baby wasn't crowning. They wanted the baby to naturally descend on her own so we waited for 2 hours. At 1:30 the doctor decided that the baby was not moving on her own so I would need to push her down. I pushed for 2 hours and at 3:26, our beautiful baby girl was born. The cool part for me was that my doctor let me pull my baby out. Once the head and shoulders were out, he said to grab her and I did and pulled her out. It was wonderful.

So now we have a beautiful baby girl. Her name is Lilah (Paul's grandma) Ann (My mom). She is just beautiful.

We stayed at the hospital for 2 days and brought Lilah home on February 1st. We love having her in our lives :)

Love Mollie and Paul

PS Thank you to all your well wishes and presents :)

Mollie before going into the hospital

Lilah after she was born
Our Doctor with Lilah
Paul giving Lilah a bath
Paul bringing Lilah home
Paul holding Lilah...she loves curling up into the vital position. I think this is what she looked like in the womb :)


The next pictures are of the Nursery.

The picture above the changing table is a collage of her grandparents. We wanted Lilah to get to know them

Johnson Family

Hello Family-
I hope everyone is doing well. January was a good month for the Johnson Family. We had 2 birthdays, a baby blessing, and just life in general. Warren has been busy going to the new satellite offices, and I have been doing the same thing - taking kids everywhere and helping them with school. I did get called to be the choir director in the ward and I am excited about this new calling. I am still helping with the scouts in the ward, but I get to also be the choir director.
Enjoy the pictures - Right now, everyone in the house is sick - including Blake. I got to take Blake to the ER last night because of his breathing, and he is doing fine - but just a really bad cold.
Here are the pictures from the month of January -

Sweet Little Taylor loves to get herself ready for the day. Her outfits are always a random assortment of patterns, colors, and designs.

Kaylee had a wonderful 10th birthday. She got a jewelry tree, clothes, doll clothes, necklace, a songbook, and a game.

Kaylee had a fun birthday party with 6 of her close friends. They had pizza, ate ice cream, played a game, opened presents, and watched "Calamity Jane." It was a fun late night.

Blake has grown alot this past month. He is growing out of his cuddling phase - but every once in awhile, he still needs a quick love.

Blake also discovered his hands a couple of weeks ago. They surprise him and than he stares at them for awhile.

I had a great 34th birthday. It was very relaxing and I enjoyed the chicken, onion, squash dinner and of course, my ice cream cake. Kaylee would like me to inform everyone that she was there to celebrate my birthday, but she is taking the picture.

Blake was blessed on January 1st. He did great, but was wide-awake. Apparently, he stared at everyone and his eyes were going around and around looking at all the men.

At the end of the blessing, Warren held Blake up so high - so proud of his son.

Pat flew in for a short weekend trip and Mollie and Paul were able to be apart of the blessing. It was a great day.

Love y'all and hope everyone has a great February!!

Happy New Year from Wellington

It is February, but this blog is all about January, so Happy New Year!!! We were busy during the month, but I don't have a lot of pictures. We, of course, were at the Archives working hard preparing and filming probates, but besides that we did take time off for fun. We saw several movies through out the month, Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of TinTin, War Horse and We Bought a Zoo. We had to see TinTin because we know people who worked on it. They work for Weta Productions and we sat through all the credits to see their names. On the 6th we had a senior missionary couples dinner to welcome the Turners who just arrived from the States. They will be working on the South Island in the small town of Westport. They are from Castle Rock, Colorado. On the 21st we had another senior couples dinner in Levin, but we first went to the Southward Car Museum. It is the Southern Hemisheres largest private car collection, so needless to say I only have a few pictures, too many cars, dad will have more.

I thought that this car was really unusual because it is made of copper. I am not sure it has ever been driven, but it was fun to look at

The downstairs was filled with cars, but one of a kind of cars. A Ronald MacDonald car, one of the first handicap cars, and below firetrucks.

I don't know if you can read the newspaper article, but this sweet couple had the same car for 39 years, put 78,000 miles on it doing shopping and drive around New Zealand, had very little trouble with it, and when they got to old to drive they gave it to the car museum.

On January 28th, we innocently went off for a short hike around Makara Beach and to have lunch. It turned into a 4 hour hike the was about 4 miles long. The elders were with us, and of course they had to climb every rock insight. It was a beautiful day and even though the hike was a little harder then we thought it would be, we had a great time. We pasted a wind farm, and old battlements left over from WWII that were used in the defense of the Island.

At the end of the month we went to Christchruch to help the two missionaries there, that are filming probates. They have had a hard time figuring things out, so hopefully we were able to help them a little bit. We were luckily that we had the Ditchburns right with us to teach us as we went along. This is dad with Sister Chilius and Sister Nation in the background.

Of course the best news of January was the birth of Lilah Ann. We were in Christchurch when we found out and were able to celebrate with the sisters there. We took my computer with us, so we were able to video chat with Mollie and Paul and see Lilah, so cute.