Jessica gave birth to twin girls at 3:09 a.m. this morning, Mother’s Day (11 May 08).

On Wednesday, May 7, 2008, the day of her baby shower (and the day after Karl and Jessica’s 3rd anniversary), Jessica went into labor. The next several days were spent in relative boredom at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, trying to avoid giving birth at just 30 weeks.

But Jess got sick, and Saturday night her coughing may have triggered things because her water broke. Before long, a foot appeared!

Both babies were breech, so a “c-section” was performed, and at 3:09 (then again at 3:10 a.m.), Karl and Jess were parents.

Camille was born first (3:09 a.m.). She weighed 3 lbs., 8 oz (1605 grams), and was 16 inches long (40 cm).

Shaylee was born second (3:10 a.m.). She weighed 3 lbs., 4 oz (1480 grams), and was 16.5 inches long (42 cm).

Mom is fine but very tired.

The twins are in intensive care right now. They are so skinny but are doing well.

At a time like this, it is hard not to be so grateful for our Heavenly Father’s goodness to us. What a blessing to live in a time and place where our granddaughters can have such assistance as they start off their new lives here on earth. They were born 11 weeks early.

That makes May a busy party month for the Johnsons: Karl’s birthday, their anniversary, Mother’s Day, and now the twins’ birthday.

Thanks to everyone worldwide for your prayers and kind words.

I’m not saying Tom was excited, but he wore two signs (one in the front, one in the back) all through church.

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right now I am  with Sabrina right now. and we are about to leave on the scooters so i’ll be fast well i wanted to tell my readers that i and now bffeaef ya so we lockets and a bout to get pics
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I love Addie, She a cool a some dog , I think that when i am existed she is.

Me and Sabrina call ourslefs crazy one and two

My name is Sam Pittman and our family bought season tickets to the Utah Flash.It started out just being the parents then I wanted to go too. That’s when they got season tickets for the whole family.

These games are normally on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00, but lately they have been jumbled up. These games are really fun and they throw free stuff and we have caught t-shirts, beach balls, pizza coupons and more.

The players are WAY cool as well. After each game, I line up to visit with a couple of them and get their autographs. We were sad when they traded Michael Cuffee; we really like him. Michael was the first player who I had autograph my hat.

Below are some photos I have taken at Utah Flash home games, here in Orem, Utah.

Well lets see i have a BFFEAE (best friend for ever and eternity) and we love to things together we are so close. so one day we went to the mall and we bot the same Earrings and we took Photos  that said BFFE  but we did not care so we took photos and it was so fun after that we went to pretzel maker and got small pretzels and breasers .It was fun.So another day we went to the rec center. and we played like there where sharks and we had to go explore there cave so we opened are eye under water. then when we where done we had bad eyes that watered every second of the day i had to get drops but Sabrina where not that bad.So another time we found a place we could hide we mad it like a home and i can not tell you where it was, But i can tell you McKenna new about it two so we went up there when all three where there but some times me and Sabrina went up there with out her. another time we went to the flash game and we got sighs that said “FLASH FOX IS FOXIE”. and he said yes and gave us a hug .  As you can tell me and Sabrina do every thing together. We are even in the same class and stuff and we would hate if we were not we would kill are selfs. we are like sisters i love her she so cool and fun to be with when you are sad she makes you lafe and she so fun to be with she like a girl you can not stop beaing funny she so fun to be with and to have as a friend and i love her so much (Sabrina if you read this i love you)

Our family has season tickets to watch the Utah Flash. We really like going as a family to watch them play. Last night, for Family Night, we made a couple of posters for the game.My poster said, “Flash Fox be my Valentine.”

The Flash Fox is my favorite Mascot. He is really fun and funny.

When Flash Fox saw my poster, he pointed at it and nodded. Later in the game, Flash Fox came out onto the court wearing underwear with hearts on it. He held a sign that said, “Be Mine.”

Flash Fox ran through the audience and stopped at me and gave me a box of chocolates. We took some photos together. I put these photos into our family album of the Utah Flash.

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The great philosopher, Anonymous, once said, “Thinking that life should treat you fairly because you are a good person is like thinking a bull shouldn’t charge you because you are a vegetarian.”

Someday I may blog on the lies of liars and the incredible incompetence of those who should have protected our family from them, but probably not. Obviously life is not fair, and apparently it is not even meant to be.

If this life was about fairness, no child would ever be harmed, and all ice cream would be calorie-free.

However, one good thing about injustice is that it forces you to take directions with your life you otherwise would not have chosen, even if God wants you to. Take, for example, Joseph of the Old Testament. If it wasn’t for the cruelty of Joseph’s own family, Joseph would never have gone to Egypt to prepare for an impending famine that would have surely annihilated the children of Israel.

Joseph may not have appreciated the injustices he suffered as he suffered them, but in the end he saw the astonishing love and wisdom of God’s will. Thanks to those very injustices, and Joseph’s great attitude and faith, Joseph found himself in a position to save his family.

As we were online booking flights to Indiana to look at houses, we received a couple of childish, mean-spirited emails. As a policy I keep others innocent to how some people treat me, in the supremely naive hope that keeping above pettiness may one day pave a path to better relations. So without disclosing specifics, what the emails said in essence is that these people currently have no desire to live any gospel principle which might result in things getting better between us, and in children living happier lives.

Conversely, Nicky and I are all about helping our children have happier lives, so we prayed and felt inspired to book flights to Utah instead. You know what? Our family learned that Utah is a surprisingly superb place to holiday.

Then we realized that relocating to Provo or Orem might be a shrewd move. Nicky and I are the parents of 7 children, including 6 teenagers. We have a daughter there at the university now, and we will have two more children going to school there after this coming school year. In fact, the Provo / Orem area is where all of our children want to go to school.

With all of our children headed to the same area, and perhaps someday some grandchildren as well, moving makes sense. And in a fervent companionship prayer, Nicky and I learned that our Heavenly Father agrees.

So, less than 7 days after sitting down to book flights to Indiana to look at houses, we purchased a house in south Orem, Utah. Below is a photo album of the new house in Utah. Click “Play” or the gold colored arrows to view photos of the house.

Life isn’t fair, even for good people, and even vegetarians get charged by bulls… but try not to let yourself worry too much about it.

“Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.” (D&C 90: 24).

Joseph explained to his brothers how life works for those who keep their attitudes well and place their faith in Christ:

“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” (Genesis 50:20)

I am considering moving my family to Terre Haute, Indiana so I’m doing research. Look what Wikipedia says about Terre Haute, Indiana:

• Comedian Steve Martin calls Terre Haute, “the most nowhere place in America” and “the armpit of America”. In his movie, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, actor and writer Steve Martin has the town destroyed by Nazis using cheese mold.

• In 1955, Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine, Stag. Although Terre Haute has had different nicknames (”The Crossroads of America,” for one), “Sin City” seemed to be its most popular moniker for several decades.

• The city also developed a reputation for being “wide open”, with gambling and a well-developed “Red Light District” only recently cleaned up.

• Terre Haute is notorious in and around the Midwest for its distinct bad odor which is the result of local industry (specifically a paper plant and a poorly located sewage treatment facility).

• Businessman Kevin Burke was elected the city’s mayor in 2003 and vowed to make cleaning up the city’s smell — and image – one of his administration’s top priorities.

• During the second decade of the 20th Century, Terre Haute was rocked by political scandal and that reputation persisted for several decades.

• As the coal mines were spent, and the importance of the railroads declined, the town is now labeled a “bad labor town”.

• It was recently called “A Model of Stagnation” by The Indianapolis Star.

• The city is known to have one of the highest per-capita number of restaurants in the nation. Most of these are chains, however. [For example, Anchorage which has a population of 277,000, has 36 fast food places according to Superpages.com. The 60,000 people of Terre Haute have 53 fast food places, including 6 McDonald's, 6 Burger Kings, 6 Subways, 4 Arby's, 4 Dairy Queens, 4 Long John Silvers, 4 Wendy's, 3 Taco Bells, 3 Hardees. The 53 fast food places does not include places like Applebees, IHOP, Dennys, etc. which they also have plenty of.]

• Terre Haute is the location of a large Federal prison which is the location of the United States Government’s Death Row. Timothy McVeigh was put to death at Terre Haute in 2001 for carrying out the Oklahoma City Bombing.

• A local hotel brags that it is a place where Al Capone used to stay.

I’m sure all that is accurate, but what it was, and what it is, isn’t necessarily what it can be.

I have been visiting with good members of the church in Terre Haute, some of whom have lived there most of their lives, and I am honestly excited about the prospect of moving there — more so than Nicky is at the moment!

“But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.” (Doctrine and Covenants 9:8)

These next days will be (pardon the oxymoron) filled with fasting, and we certainly will be “studying it out” in our minds. But above all, we will be asking Father if it be right.

The important thing is how would living there affect and shape our family?

And after that, how would living there shape and affect the youth and others of Terre Haute with whom we would associate? Can we be a force for good there? Or would it be like throwing a white glove in the mud in an attempt to get the mud “glovey”?

I have the faith that we will be guided in the best thing to do for our family; this is too important a decision, and children are too precious in His sight for it to be otherwise.