Mmmm Juice

It's Saturday

"Oh it's a happy day for me, I'm going to be the President of the company." Alright so I'm not actually going to be president of anything, but the first person to tell me which movie that is from will win a dollar. That's right, I'll mail you a whole dollar!

Anyways life is good with us. We finally got our internet setup and I finally got it wireless so we are now super hip people. It's actually pretty cool, we got a wireless router that will allow us to play music from our laptop through our sound system. It's wickity yo. Also I found out that itunes will correct some errors it finds when you rip a CD so I've ripped a couple scratched CD's and itunes has (I think) found the right songs online and made sure that mine match the online copies and corrected them where they do not. I've listened to some and some of the small skips are gone but the big areas of error are still messed up. Oh well.

You'll likely notice that I included some pictures below. They are of my "new" bike. Actually my dad's old road bike which I've fixed up a bit. Basically I rewrapped the handlebars, bought a new seat, put new tires on it, and of course got a speedometer for it. I call this stage one. I'm not sure what stage 2 and beyond include but I think the bike needs to be taken apart at some time for some deep cleaning, and I'd like to rerun the cables. But for now it works great. I've put about 15 miles on it, mostly today, and let me tell you, this seat is comfy. Perhaps not for everybody, Erin didn't like it, but then it is a man's seat. I find it remarkably comfortable. It's pretty nice riding down here, there are absolutely no hills. I had to drive over a bridge just to find the opportunity to get some speed. So if you are driving down sometime I'd advise bringing a bike. It'll be fun.

Erin's a little sick lately. She has a cough and phelgminess which gives her a "sexy" voice. It's fun to mock her. My job is going well. If you want more information about what exactly I work on click on TRAD. It's massively interesting.

So The Office finalied it up last night. Did you miss it? Don't worry you can catch it at www.NBC.com/TheOffice. I'm sure Erin would like to discuss it with you so give her a call, remember her new number is 281.714.5532 and mine is 281.636.0022.

Well I should go,

Bye

Tour

Look! We have finally gotten our apartment completely together and have assembled an extraordinary apartment tour experience for you. Please click on the "Seabrook Apartment Tour" under "Places to Go to Waste Time" to embark. Enjoy!

Houston or Bust pt 3

Hello all. Long time no talk. Much has happened since we last spoke. Mommy, Daddy & I have completed our tour de la Kansas, a cross country(ish) move, Daddy’s first week of work at NASA and have almost gotten everything unpacked. The only thing that remains is getting internet in our new apartment so we don’t have to travel to a coffee shop to communicate with the world (not that we have ever minded going to coffee shops and this one is especially nice and quirky).
So to bring you up to speed, the week of April 21-25 was spent by visiting all our friends and family throughout Kansas. Monday we traveled to Manhattan to see the Floresch’s and to visit all of Mommy and Daddy’s favorite old haunts. We got the chance to go to both of our beloved coffee shops/café’s, hike the Manhattan hill, wander City Park, and explore Aggieville one last time before the move which was all wonderful. We also got the chance to catch up with Austin & Melody, the Floresch’s, and all of Daddy’s tae kwon do friends. On Wednesday we drove to Hays to visit college friends and the tae kwon do school there. On our way back from Hays, we stopped by to visit both sets of Mommy’s grandparents. On Friday we started (and finished) the process of filling our u-haul truck with everything we own. It looked long and arduous from my vantage point in the Pack ‘N Play but seemed to go rather quickly once Daddy was able to get started.
That brings us up to last Saturday. On Saturday morning we handed over the keys to the Maryville apartment and all jumped in the truck to head to Daddy’s tae kwon do tournament in Topeka. It was pretty fun pulling up in a u-haul and the excitement seemed to show in Daddy’s performance. He got first in both forms and sparing and seemed to have a lot of fun in the process. After the tournament, we got back in our big truck and headed to a very empty G & G Johnson’s house for the night. I awoke the next

morning to an even emptier house as Daddy had

apparently left already. He left bright and early so he could arrive in Seabrook by 5PM to pick up the key. Luckily Mommy was still around and she took me to church and then to Wichita to hang with Candice and go shopping. It was a good time. When we got back to the G&G’s place it was no longer empty. They had returned and soon Courtney came by with a friend I like to call Jo-Jo. Well from there it was early to bed because we had to get down to Houston the next day.
The next day did come early as we all packed into our respective vehicles. Grandpa drove the big U-Haul truck towing the Mazda which is where I wanted to sit but Mommy wouldn’t let me. Grandma, Mommy and I then followed in the Focus. I really enjoyed the trip. It only took us about 12.5 hours! Once we finally got there Daddy was off work and met us and we hung out and ate and such. Tuesday we unloaded everything and Wednesday G&G drove home where they will likely want to stay for a while as they drove a couple thousand miles in less than a week.
Since being in Houston we have experienced many things not readily available in Maryville. Daddy is enjoying work for NASA. He gets to work on something called the T-rad system which is like a space caulk gun used to repair tiles in space if they happen to get damaged during launch etc, like in the Columbia incident. He actually got to handle the one they used on the last fight. Friday evening we drove to Galveston and I touched the ocean, getting there a full 18.28 times sooner than my mother and quite a bit sooner than my father as well. Saturday we drove to the Galleria, which is a giant, old mall in west Houston. On route we saw a: Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Bentley Continental GTC, Lamborghini Gallardo, two Aston Martin DB9’s and I think an older Aston Martin DB7 as well. Oh yeah that morning we saw a deer in the swamp behind our house. After the Galleria we visited an REI outdoor store and became partners in the Co-Op, then we drove to a giant park (yeah everything is bigger in Texas) and took a little walk with the intention of returning soon with our bikes.
All in all it’s been an exciting time and we are excited for what is next. So come visit.
Addilyn Elise

FYI our new address

2800 NASA Pkwy Apt 1608
Seabrook, TX 77586

Houston or Bust pt. 2

I (Tyler) made it to Houston alive. It was about a 9.5 hour trip through the heart of Oklahoma and Texas and boy howdy was it exciting. I found a nice little coffee shop with WiFi and now I'm blogging it up. I a little tired after my trip so this is probably a little disjointed. This picture of Houston is one I stole off of Google Images. The graveyard just happened to come with, or it a grim portent of things to come, I hope not. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go find some milk and cereal or I'll be cranky in the morning. Take Luck and Drive Safe..... in case you drive somewhere, sometime.

Houston or Bust pt 1

Hello I'm the Johnson's new Dell computer. They are very busy these days so they asked me if I could just blog it up on my own. So I did. Isn't Vista amazing? And yes I am referring to the Manhattan, KS based hamburger joint.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures they've uploaded to me lately.






Isn't she cute?













Isn't he claustrophobic?













She's so helpful.














And daring.

News and Such

Hello all. Now I realize that it's been a few weeks since our last post. I could give all sorts of excuses (I even started a post earlier this week but never got it done) but none of them would be sufficient. I'm a slacker. There it is.

Here are some pictures from the picnic we took last Saturday in St. Joseph. It was a beautiful, sunny day and we thoroughly enjoyed playing in a park and riding our bikes (except for a few encounters with some large birds that inhabited the park).

As I'm sure many of you know by now, life has been a little hectic in the Johnson household this week. Daddy got offered a job in Houston. He gets to work on the space suits at the Johnson Space Center! How cool is that?!! We only first heard about this opening last Friday when a fast talking man from New Jersey called and asked Daddy to spruce up his resume if he was interested. Needless to say, he was interested. So he worked his magic and sent it back. Tuesday he got a call to schedule the interview on Wednesday (there were a quite few more calls intermitently as well), and yesterday he got the call with an offer. Crazy, huh?! I don't know if it has really set in yet for Mommy & Daddy. They both seem a little dazed. I, personally, am jazzed (yes, I used jazzed). I've never seen an ocean and now I have a chance to live within miles of the Gulf. It should be pretty cool.

On a completely unrelated note, Daddy ordered us a new laptop and wireless router last night (we actually haven't had a wireless router before as the sentence seems to imply, anyway). Mommy & Daddy are very excited about this considering the fact that our current laptop will shut off if someone hiccups in Tulsa (we really need to get them to drink less). It has been very frustrating for the last few weeks because if you are doing something, you lose everything if you simply bump the laptop (or in Daddy's case, look at it). It will be a wonderful new addition and we are all very excited.

Anyway, I should get back to yelling and trying to pull things out of boxes.
As always,
Addilyn Elise