Almost Home

Here we are at the hospital almost time to go home from the hospital. Jonah has done awesome and passing all the test in flying colors.

Jonah ready to go home. We are extremely nervous but have learned a lot. I could possibly be able to be a nurse soon without going to school. We did go home with a feeding tube and oxygen. He is really little and looks tiny in the car seat
The first day at home. Yeh!! Faithy has loved being back home and being able to hold Jonah.

Her favorite thing to do is to hold him on the boppy and watch a show. Jonah loves his little big sister.

Our little family has grown. But our next adventure sure started way earlier than we expected. We were home for 4 days and it got a little stressful at the end. Come to find out poor Jonah got staff infection in his incision. We went back to Primary Childrens on Saturday. They did another surgery at 11:00pm that night to open him up and clean out the infection. We have now been here for another week. But he is doing lots better. We will be coming home one more time and without oxygen. Jonah now has a pic line in his leg for antibiotics that he will have for six weeks. The bad thing is he will not be able to have a bath still for another 5 weeks. Lots of lotion is going to be used to make him smell good. But we are all greatful for the support and love that everyone has given us. Also greatful for Jonah and being able to be healthy as can be.
Jonah ready to get home from the hospital for the 2nd time along with Mom and Dad. We all need a vacation.

The Archibald Adventure

Well you are all probably wondering what has been going on. Well here we are on our adventure early. Yes! Jonah Theron Archibald came on January 23, 2009 at 7:05pm weighing in at 5lb 13oz. and 18 1/4 long. He was then taken over to the NICU at Primary Childrens by the life flight team. He was in the NICU for 3 days.
Here is where it was the first time we got to hold him. You could only hold him 1 time a day.
On Monday January 26, 2009 the Dr. Burch (in the picture) decided that he was ready for the heart surgery. He was in surgery for about 7 hours. They started at 7:30am in the morning.

This was him the day of surgery before they started. Isn't he cute!
We got to go up to the PICU at about 5:30pm that day and here he is. This is how he looked right after surgery.They closed his chest on Wednesday January 28. Here he is after they finished it took them about an hour and a half before we could go back and see him again. He looks a lot better not with a bulging bandage on his chest.
Here is his little foot they haven't taken foot prints yet because of all the things he has had on his feet. But his little feet are really dry and need lotion.
This was on January 31, 2008 He is looking lots better. He has been loosing fluid to make him look skinnier. They also have given him a feeding tube so that he can start eating YEH! He doing great the nurses say and Dr.'s. Jonah is already a obedient kid and doing all that he is supposed to. He is our SUPERSTAR!

We are all doing great Faithy is staying at aunt Holli's and is doing well we call her everyday and she is usually to busy playing to want to talk to us. Thanks for everyones support and prayers we are not done yet but getting there. We love you all.

What a busy Year!

All of the Johnson Grandkids
Faith at 2 1/2

No pouting!

Well we have been missing for a while from this blog. Just busy. There are a lot of things that have been changing lately. We bought a house and at the same time that was going on we found out that our baby boy we will have in February has to have heart surgery. We will be delivering at the U and he will be taken to Primary Childrens. We have been busy with Dr's appts. if you have imagine. Most of the Year our computer has been out of commission so no pictures, no internet, no nothing. We will try and keep this updated better when the baby comes but no promises.

Here is the current picture of Faith for christmas that we took with all of the kids also.

Halloween 08

We went to the pumpkin walk with some friends in North Logan. The theme was all about Hero's. All I can say is that people are pretty creative and have spent a lot of time putting things together.

Faith as the flower with her friend Hadley Sheen

Faith as a cute little girl

Faith as Ariel

as Cinderella

December 2007

Faith in her Christmas dress
Family picture for our Christmas cards

Faith's 1st time in the snow all bundled up and looking like she is freezing. At least mommy was.

Bar J wranglers in Jackson WY

Here is Faith on the Wagon making faces just like her father does when he gets pictures taken.
Me and Faith right before the concert started with the Bar J Wranglers.
Here are the Bar J Wranglers performing they are excellent
Faith riding her first horse.

Halloween 2007

This was the Archibald Family Halloween party for 2007.

We were at Alan and Lindsey's house. We carved pumpkins Faith loved it along with the help of Abbie helping her get the guts out. They did pretty good to not get to dirty.
We also went to the corn maze at American West Heritage center during October for our FHE together. Here is Greg and Faith all bundled up to go get lost in the gigantic maze.

It took us a good hour to get through.