And the journey continues....

So here we are now.  We have been married for 7 and a half years! It has been beautiful, crazy, and full of adventures. We bought a home.  It sits on 2.5 beautiful acres of peace and quiet.  I have fallen in love with living in the country.  It is so quiet and the stars are so incredible!

Now that we have our own slice of paradise, it is time to expand our family.  As I have written before, I can not carry a child.  We come to this new journey.  We will be fostering to adopt.

It is likely that at some point, if all goes smoothly, we could have a child or children in our home by summer.  It looks like summer will be an exciting one!!!

So please be in prayer for us.  Please prayer for guidance and wisdom as we navigate these waters. It is uncharted territory and sometimes scary for me.  Pray that we are prepared for what come through our door.  It is also a time to celebrate that we have a loving home and family to welcome a child into.

I look forward to walking through this journey with Chad.  It is very exciting!

Thank you for loving us and walking along side us1

My Story

I was recently asked to write my story for a family in Budapest Hungary. It is a blessing to be able to share who I am and what makes me who I am. I figured I would share it with you as well :)

I was diagnosd when I was four. I was tiny. I was fiesty! My family was pretty unsure what to think when they first heared "Turners Syndrome." In a blur of doctors and tests, they quickly realized that I was still the same child as I was the day before. My parents were my cheerleaders, support, and biggest advocates. Having Turners for me meant continuous ear infections and a suppressed immune system. I was always getting sick with this and that, but my mom and dad taught me how to take good care of myself. They always asked the questions that needed to be asked and made sure I had the best care. I had wonderful doctors and have been very blessed in my life. Many children who go through lots of medical care grow to fear or hate doctors. I have quite the opposite feeling about doctors. I never hesitate to call my doctors or talk to them about something I am concerned about. God has always provided wonderful doctors that have taken great care of me. I have also been fairly lucky to have only minimal health issues. The most difficult issue to date since I am now married is that I can not get pregnant. It has been emotionally difficult for me to feel inadequate, but God has changed my heart. He created me. I am perfect to God. God has walked with me through my entire life. I became a Christian as a fifteen year old with friends that showed me what it was like to live like Christ. God came into my life and showed me what a beautiful creation I was.
I have always said that I have brown hair, green eyes, and Turners Syndrome. It is just part of who I am. God knew I was going to have Turners as he knit me in my mother's womb. He knew it before the doctors did. He also knew that he was going to take great care of me and knew the issues I would face. As a girl, we struggle with issues of self image. A Turners woman has an even bigger battle to face. Our bodies are not shapped exactly the same and do not function exactly the same, but God created us this way. We are just as beautiful as the next girl. God knew I was not going to carry a child so he blessed me with an amazing husband who loves me despite my flaws. God knew that I would struggle with weight and hypothroidism so he put people in my life that could teach me how to eat right and live a healthy life. Having Turners is just a part of who I am. It is not something wrong with me. I am beautiful. I am a child of God and he loves me the same.

Long time, no Blog

Hello dear blog world. Not sure who reads, but I shall write anyways.

It has been a wild ride the last 8 months. Our dog had puppies and October-January is kind of a blur of vets, dog poop, and selling puppies. Now they are gone and all is back to normal.

Nothing else much going on. We are sitting here eating pizza and watching tv. A normal Saturday afternoon. It is 6:30 pm and i am still in my pjs. It is a beautiful thing! I cleaned, but mostly got to be lazy which I haven't done since school started in August....remember the puppy thing so I did not get to relax over Christmas break...... oh well.

We spent Christmas with his parents this year. It was a blast with all of this aunts and cousins and immediate family. We got the first day of our trip to spend with just the 5 Larry Johnsons. It was a very fun evening. I really wish Kimberly lived closer. I hate that she is all the way in Oklahoma. :( I love when we get to see her.

Tomorrow we are going to a first birthday party for our friends sweet baby girl. She is precious, very fiesty, but precious. It will be a tons of fun.

I am learning a lot this second year of marriage. We are going on 18 months of being married now. Each month, each day is different. It is a blast having my best friend around every day. I am very proud of him. He started school this week to do something to better the future of our famliy. It was a very important decision for us. it was something that needed to get done. I was a bit in an internal struggle because if he started school then we had to put off adoption for at least 2-3 more years, but if he did not go to school, then it would not set our family up to be the best we could be. Now, we get 3 more beautiful years together before we welcome sweet babies into our life. It is a precious gift God has given us to take the time together. I am so very proud of my husband for doing this.

I have been a little on the emotional side in the end of 2010. So with 2011, I vowed to have a better attitude and better outlook. The first Sunday of the new year, our pastor preached on the verse "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and in all things give thanks to the Lord." It was pretty convicting because I had gotten into a habit of complaining about everything around me, mostly the dog poop. :) haha I realy am looking forward to 2011. 2010 was very rough and I hope to see some really great things happening in 2011.

Hello world

Well summer is continuing to drag on. I am home by myself all day with the dogs. We got a new dog. He is a 7 year old lab named Jasper. I did not pick the name but it works for him. We have been on the go since school got out in May. Only on the weekends though. The week days have been dragging on while Chad is at work. I have been running with the dogs, watching movies, cleaning, and laundry. WOO HOO! But our weekends have been awesome. We went to the Houston Astros game and spent the weekend in Katy with Chad's family and cousins. We went to Beorne for his family reunion. It was tons of fun seeing all the Johnson people again. We went to Schlitterbahn and played games. We ate tons of amazing food! THen we went to the beach with just his immediate family. It was a special time we just got to hang out and relax. Unfortunately his mom has gotten sick, so we cut the beach trip short. She had to have her gallbladder taken out. SHe JUst got out of surgery about 20 min ago. She is resting and will feel so much better very soon.
Well I am about to go to Ohio on the 13th. Haley just had her baby. Dillan Renne was born June 28, 2010 around 9 pm. She was 5 lbs and 10 oz. SHe is perfect and adorable. They are all doing well. I can't wait to go see them.
Not much else to say, but Love you!

Getting to know Mrs.J

1. Do you have a fetish?my house being dirty

2. Do you sing in the shower?If I am in a really good mood I will, i mostly sing in the car

3. Who was your first crush? Patrick Edward Coggins, Jr. He is a marine in Iraq right now. He is married with a baby girl. We were neighbors since we were 5. His birthday is Valentines Day and it always bugged me because from Feb 14 to May 19 we were the same age but I really am older :) Praying for ya PC, come home safe!

4. What do you think is the best manly trait a guy could have?Manly trait? I love that Mr J can fix, build, or grill anything. I mostly love that he can fix anything. He is so handy. I also love his sense of forgiveness and letting nothing stay between us.

5. Do you sleep naked?Ask Mr. J

6. What do you do when (you think) no one is looking?the same as when they are looking...

7. What's the first thing you do when you go online?facebook, blogs, then email

8. Summer is.....?No work. =] Just around the corner! Kids are out Wednesday. I am done next Wednesday! :)

A funeral for my attitude :)

I am celebrating the death of my bad attitude. I have been kind of negative and a butthead lately due to recent events.  I am choosing this morning and promised my husband that this is the death of that attitude. The message at church was very simple but hit me right in the heart.  I am going to be filled with the joy of the spirit and speak with loving kindness.  I will strive to be the essence and fragrance of Christ daily.  I will fail.  I will make mistakes. I may have a bad day or so, but I am going to battle with the strength God gave me to be joyful.  So here it goes! :)

We started going to a new church. We were kind of tired and not pleased with the church we were going to.  It has been a learning experience as a married couple to find where we fit in. It has been weird for me to find where Chad fits in to the thigns of the last 5 years of living in College Station.  With that said, my college church was definitly not the place for us and that is ok.  The Lord spoke very clearly to us on that point.  We are LOVING First Baptist Bryan so far and can not wait to see where it takes us.  

Well right now Chad is at the store and wouldnt let me go or tell me anythign about where he was going. I am guess it has something to do with my birthday on Wednesday! :) 

There is more to stay but I can sum it up by saying Summer is only days away now and school is out!

Springtime!

I do not like cold weather. I am sick from September to February! Actually..it is still march and I have 2 more days of Antibiotics for my ruptured ear drum courtisy of sinus infection. Spring is FINALLY here.  Right now Chad is making hamburger patties and fired up the grill! The sun is out and flowers are starting to bloom. It is such a refreshing time of year. I love seeing new colors and being outside.  I can finally breath again and enjoy being awake and out of bed :)

My kids are growing up so much as we get closer to the summer and they are almost Kindergarteners.  I am so very proud of how far they have come this year.  

I don't have too much to say except that thigns are going really well for us right now.  We had come together and found are place of contentment.  The Lord has brought me dear friends who has sent me messeages of verses and love. He has sent me an incredible husband. He has spoken sweet comfort to me and showed both of us his love.  Our family is his and he knows the plans he has for us.  

Love you all so very much! 

Karen