busy busy busy

Hello fellow bloggers. Wow it has been a busy busy month! We have moved to our new place (David's parents old house) and have been busy busy painting. We have finished painting the livingroom, Hailee's room and Kaleb's room. It's a lot of work but we love it! We also painted an old dresser that use to be my mother-in-laws for Hailee and it looks brand new and super cute! We still have quite a bit more we want to do but will have to do it in spurts (as we get them time). We love it here though, a lot more space and finally Kaleb is sleeping in his own room which means we get more sleep. Last night he only woke up once to eat. We got him to bed by 10pm and he didn't wake up until 5am! What a good baby! I haven't taken pics of any of our "renos" yet. I want to wait until everything is decorated nicely and then I'll share, which probably won't be for a while. One thing at a time. For now I wanted to share some pics that my OOOHH so TALENTED sister took of Kaleb and one really cute pic of Hailee and her cousin Gage. I have stinkin cute kids!! :)

So there you have it folks! A quick little update. We are all doing great and staying busy. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to drop us a line to say hi. We miss you all!!!

A little update

Hey y'all. Sorry about the lack of posts the last month but we've been BUSY (that's an understatement). David has been busy working pretty much full-time (including saturdays) and seeing tons of patients (tons meaning more than we expected for the first month!), so that's exciting! On top of him working and doing great we have been moving to a new home. Our lease ends the end of this month and we decided to move into David's parents old home to rent it for a while and then go from there. So the last few weeks we've been moving all of our stuff over in spurts. Today is the last day we'll be moving the rest of our stuff and then the fun part of Cleaning! And what have we done with the kids the whole time we've been doing this....they have been running around our feet causing more chaos! It's been fun that's all I have to say about that. I'm just glad I've been able to help this time. It seemed like every time we moved I was pregnant! hee hee ANyhoo, we are settling in and as soon as we get things more organized we'll post some more pics. Thanks for stopping by!

A pretty good week!

Much needed nap time with daddy...or should we say Dr. Johnston!
Love you baby Kaleb!
Hailee being my little helper...she's wiping off some spit-up. What a little mama!
Mister dimples! LOVE IT!!!
Dressed in his sunday best!My little angel!

So this last week has been an eventful one for sure. To start off David is now a licenced DC!! Yep folks, he's practicing now. He had his first full day as a Chiropractor this last Friday (August 1st) and saw a whopping 17 patients!! Lets just say he came home tired and with a permagrin a mile long! I'm soo proud of him.

This was also Kaleb's first week at home and he is doing great! The first few nights were not so fun, days and nights mixed up. But he is doing great now, sleeping 3 to 4 hours at a time! The kids are loving having a new baby brother. Every morning they come running into our room looking for "baby Kaleb". Aidan is constantly asking to hold him and Xander and Hailee are always giving him kisses. He's already back to his birth weight and then some. So he loves to eat! I even had my first day all by myself with all four kids and it actually wasn't too bad. I prepared for the worst and got the best! The kids were really good. I hope they continue on this good streak.

As for me, I got a new look. After having a baby I like to go out and get a hair cut to make me feel rejuvinated and pretty. So I got it cut short! And I love it. I also decided I needed a change with the color and bought a dark dark color....well lets just say it's dark now! Actually pretty much BLACK!! OOPS!! It was pretty weird at first but I'm getting use to it. You can kinda see it in the pic with me and Kaleb....I'll be sure to get some and post them sometime in the near future. Anyhoo, we are all alive and kicking and loving our new baby boy! Thanks for stopping by!

Introducing Kaleb Alvin Johnston

Look at that cute, chubby, round face! hee hee
Proud big brothers!
Hailee not to sure about Kaleb??
The cute outfit my sista bought for Kaleb...the hat is a bit big hee hee! And look at that Dimple!! LOVE IT!!
Ready to go home after a quick stay at the hospital (we took him home before he was even a day old!) :)

Well here he is.... the newest member of the Johnston family, Kaleb Alvin Johnston. Stats: Born July 24th at 6:25pm, Weight: 7lbs 15.5 oz, Height: just under 20". It was a hard delivery (came out looking to the side...OUCH!!) but every second was worth it! Now we have a healthy baby boy. The kids absolutely love him! He's constantly bombarded with kisses. Aidan is such an amazing big brother, always wanting to hold him. He's actually holding him now as I type this. He gets mad when we take him away. So CUTE!! Kaleb is happiest when he can hear the kids. His first night, last night, was a hard one because he's use to soo much noise and it was just too quiet for him, so he was up pretty much all night. We'll fix that soon enough! We are loving having him here and just wanted you all to meet him! Thanks for stopping by!

WELCOME BABY #4!!!

Hey everyone, it's David here and Chrystal told me I had to post something about baby #4. So we went to the hospital last night to get Chrystal induced. She was able to sleep until about 2 am when she started having contractions that steadily got stronger and closer together. Around 7:30am though the "waffer" that was used to induce labor fell out!! So that slowed things down, but she was still having contractions just not as strong or regular. Finally around 1 pm her doctor broke her water and starter her on the drip to get things going. She got an epidural and was comfortable but really tired. At about 5:30 pm her contractions started getting significantly stronger and I told her she'd have the baby at 6:25 (she guessed 6:15). However the baby's head was face up, which was starting to be very painful for Chrystal. For the first time in 4 deliveries I heard my wife screaming in pain, which alerted the nurse and doctor to come in right away. She started pushing despite the pain and as she did the baby turned 90 degrees and was now facing me (I was holding her left leg, prime position!). This, according to the doctor, would be more painful but Chrystal didn't care, she wanted that baby OUT!! So amidst the screaming and pushing soon the a little head popped out with his hand right by his face pointing at me (the doctor said "look dad, baby's waiving at you"). With another push the baby was out and instantly Chrystal and I both looked down below to see it was a BOY!! Chrystal let out the biggest sigh of relief and the rest is history. Both Chrystal and baby are doing great and should be home by tomorrow, so I'll post something later.
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Oh, by the way, did you want other details???? Okay, so he was 7 lbs and 15 oz (our biggest yet), was just under 20 inches long. I got to name him and when he was born the doctor asked me what the name was and I had 3 different names in mind so I told her that I had to look at him first. As I held him for the first time, he started opening his eyes and was soon staring at me. It was so cute. So I decided to name him . . . . . KALEB ALVIN (after my dad) JOHNSTON.

So there you go, we're super excited to welcome our 4th, and LAST, child into the world!!

My Talented Sister.....

....is amazing! My sister is here helping me around the house and to watch the kids (if this baby ever decides to come out!) when the baby comes. I've been trying to convince her for a while now to start her own photography business and she agreed to take some maternity pics for me and these are just a few of them. So AWESOME!!! She made a blog now for her photography stuff until she gets things figured out but I'm sure I've got her convinced now to do it and I couldn't be happier. Hopefully this baby will arrive while she is here so she can do some newborn pics too. If you wanna check out her photography blog here is her link

So go give her some encouragement for me! :) Thanks!

Trip to Jasper

Here we are at the top of the Tramway in Jasper. It was FREEZING and blowing but a beautiful view of all of Jasper.All of us squeezed into the good old Odyssey. Elder Black is by Hailee and Elder Capsin is between the boys.Athabasca Falls

The Alberta Rose... our provincial flower. Pretty EH!!

Mount Edith Cavell. We ate our lunch at the base of this mountain, not a bad view eh! hee hee

The boys eating some yummy sandwiches and chips...mmmm. A chipmunk and a few birds kept trying to steal our lunch.Hailee munching away...what's new.Eating lunch and having some fun enjoying the scenary.
The kiddos at the start of the hike at the base of Mt. Edith Cavell.

The view on the otherside of the ridge, a nice cold lake with a beautiful glacier.
The boys taking a much needed rest and snack. What great little hikers!

So this last Wednesday we took a road trip to Jasper. One of our Missionaries (Elder Black) is going home next week (that's right, done the mission!) so he and his companion got permission to go to Jasper for their P-day. So we were happy to oblige! We first went on the Tramway up to a top of a mountain so that they could get a really good view of all of Jasper. Then we headed to Athabasca falls. Then we headed up to the base of Mt. Edith Cavell where we had some lunch and then the boys (the missionaries, David, Aidan and Xander) went on a little hike over a ridge to go so the beautiful glaciers and a little lake. The boys hiked the whole way! (45 mins there and back) Hailee and I just bummed around the parking lot and looked for rocks (since we were locked out of the van and couldn't take a nap :( ). Then we took the Elders to the town sight where they did some shopping and of course we all got some treats. On our way home we stopped in Hinton for some supper at BP's. YUM!! It was a great day and the weather turned out a lot nicer than was forecasted so we were all happy about that.