College Life

If any of you are wondering why I finally broke down and got my own Facebook account, it was to keep up with my teenagers. This has been one of the ways to see what Tay is up to and how he is doing. Boys are not the best about calling home or keeping in contact and so I’ve became a Fbook junky.

Chalk Dance

Parker friends visit

Bridge Jumping

Hiking

 

Homecoming 2012

Football

Here in the Johnson house there is one sport we love more than any other and that is FOOTBALL!!!!

This was the first year in 10 years that we did not get to watch Taylor play. Did I mention how hard this was? All I can say is the first night Ponderosa played I sat at home watching the BYU game bawling my eyes out. Chad kept hugging me and laughing, saying"it's going to be OK, he will play again". You would think that the fact that Logan watches Taylor's football DVDs twenty times a day would help, but it only made things worse. Well a couple of days later it was Mckay's and Peyton's turn and I could not of been more grateful to be able to watch them play. I won't lie that it took a little time to get in to it. It is hard to go from watching high school football back to peewee but it only took a couple of games and I was hooked. Both of them ended up playing tight end and only ended up winning a couple of their games but loved it and we’re  so sad to see the season end. We also ended up going to most of Ponderosa's games and realized how fun it was to watch them with out all the stress of having your kid play. Mckay was the ball boy for a couple of games and it took a while to get use to seeing that Johnson on the side lines compared to the one we are use to seeing. Now we get to go watch Pondo in the play-offs , GO MUSTANG!!!!

Logan takes a fall



Yes, I'm that mother who takes pictures of their children falling instead of running to help them.
 

Peyton and the game ball

Peyton started playing tackle football for the first time and did not care for it in the beginning. You have to remember that Peyton is my child who does not like to work. The first thing Peyton learned was football is hard work and it takes up a lot of his free time. But as soon as Peyton played in his first game and saw that the coach hands out a game ball to the best player after every game, he had a change of heart. For the next 3 weeks he worked his tail off at practice and in every game and by the 4th game of the season he got his game ball.

All he has talked about is how he wants to be "like Taylor", even lucked out and got his jersey number.

He plays tight end and had some great blocks this game.

He also was on the kick return and ran to catch the ball and ran it back for 20 yds.

Hannah's Lost Tooth

Hannah finally lost her first tooth.

As you can tell she was just a little excited. She has been looking forward to this day since Kindergarten.
(Don't mind the spaggetti all over her shirt, I guess this captures our REAL life)

Back to School

Peyton at his teacher's "Meet-n-Greet"

Hannah at her "Meet-n-Greet"

Peyton's first day of 4th grade

Hannah's first day of 2nd grade

Mckay's first day of 7th grade

Whit's a senior and is sooo excited for this school year.

Tay in his dorm room at Utah State. This was definitely one of the hardest days ever and I am still missing him like crazy.

Logan on his first day of preschool

He has been talking about this day all summer.

He was so proud of his circle of red triangles and his necklace.

Let's Catch-up !!!

Wow, it has been a long time since my last post. So much has happened so this will be a quick re-cap of the happenings in the Johnson family.

Peyton's "9th" Birthday

He was just a little excited to finally get his Kindle

Sadies

Whit had her first date

Hannah was the cutest  in her school play

Whit had another great season playing tennis

Mckay's 12th birthday

He had been waiting along time for this day

Spring Break was unusually HOT and boy did we take advantage of it

Easter Sunday, Brooklyn was unfortunately down for a nap and did not make it into the picture

Tay ordained Mckay to a Deacon

She loved the Easter egg hunt

Whit looked beautiful in the school's prom fashion show

Tay's last Prom

Whit's prom dress
Unfortunately this did not turn out as planned. First off the dress had grease spots all over it when it arrived in the mail and was missing the sleeves we had paid for. She also ended up not going because of a strong feeling she had about her date. Her feelings turned out to be true and I could not have been more proud of her for making such a tough choice.

Senior night for lacrosse, I was a blubbering mess

Hannah is quit the soccer star

Chad and I finally went away alone for the first time since we have been married. Our cruise was amazing!

Peyton played flag football and loved every minute of it, even when he had to block "a girl".

Whit turned 17, where is the time going?

She was very happy to get her Tebow jersey

Tay at the teacher appreciation dinner

Tay with his powder puff team, they were the underdogs and ended up winning the whole thing

Dodge ball uniform

Tay's graduation party

Seminary graduation

My little green Power Ranger graduated from high school

Whit with all of her Power Ranger brothers

We went to Utah for my birthday

Peyton and Hannah love being with family and Sammy who is our unofficial daughter

Visiting Jed's grave on Memorial Day. Wow, do we miss him!

We visited the church history museum

My Grandma with Some of her great grand kids

Back again for the 4th of July and the Stadium of Fire

We visited Utah State were Tay will be attending college in a few weeks

While we were in Logan we also went to the temple

Two of my favorite people



And last but not least "My Babies", they are getting so big and I love that they are the best of friends.