It's been awhile

I haven't written much for quite awhile. I just thought I would say that we are still here. We have been busy with both families and it's been fun. Since I last wrote, I will just give a rundown as to what we have done.

Mike's family came in and we stayed up North for a few days to see then and do a little 4th of July celebrating. We got home and had a few days until we headed back up to go to Lagoon with his family and celebrate a brothers b-day.

After that we have actually just been home and enjoyed not having to do anything. There's pleanty we should be doing, but, oh well.

Also, our garden seems to be coming along nicely. We have a few peppers that look like they will need to be harvested soon. We have one stock of corn that an ear is coming on. We have a few baby tomatoes (they still have quite awhile to harvest :)) It's so fun to see it flourish and I'm excited to actually eat something from there soon. What a fun thing a garden is. I think I'm starting to understand maybe a little as to why my dad always seemed to like having one.

Let's see...what else....

We are getting ready to head to Montana in a few days to go to my brother's wedding. I'm way excited for him. We will be gone for almost a week and then we'll be back to get ready for a family reunion. We'll get back from there and then the years starts up again. What a busy summer it's turned out to be.

I'll post a few different pictures of our different activites that have passed.

Camping Trip

Ok, last post for today. The past few days we have been camping at Payson Lakes. It was a lovely drive through Payson Canyon. Not too far away, but far enough to get away. Mike had heard about it and wanted to try it out.

We ended up leaving Thursday afternoon and got bake this morning (Sat.). We were able to stimulate the economy enough to finish off getting some things to make our camping trips more confortable.

I think I will add some pictures too. I hope you don't get sick of them. :) Anyway, there was a lake that had a paved walking trail all the way around, so we went and Ben walked the entire way carrying his little pack and Charlie made it most of the way around by himself and we only, well I should say Mike only had to hold him for a little bit.

We were able to enjoy the outdoors and eachother. It was fun to be together and do that. The boys were playing in the dirt at one point and I told them to not play in it and Mike says to the boys to just tell me it's ok because we're camping. So, needless to say, we got plenty dirty. We did have a lot of fun and are starting to plan our next adventure. I'll let you know what we do.....

Johnson Family Gathering

I need to update things. A week ago we had Mike's family all down here (those that are around) for dinner. It was fun to have everyone together. It doesn't happen enough in my opinion. While they were here I took a few pictures that I wanted to put up. We tried to get a shot of all 5 grandkids, but Brigit was taking a nap when the picture occurred. It's close though. So, I hope someone can enjoy these.

Fun with the Camera

I just thought I would share some pictures I took of the kids. I'm getting so I want to know how to take a decent picture. Some of them could have been a ton better, but I think a couple of them turned out pretty good. Anyway, I'll let you be the judge and see my cute kids. :)

Since these pictures were taken, the boys have recieved hair cuts. I decided that I needed a picture of the medel that Brigit won, so this is a cute one that worked. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Also, here is a scanned in copy of the picture that the photographer took of Brigit at the contest.

My oldest!!

I thought it would be fun to share a little about my oldest. I asked him some questions and these are his answers.

Favorite Color: Blue, green and purple

Favorite Veg: green beans and broccoli

Favorite Dessert: Shakes

Favorite Movie: All

Favorite Game: Hungry, Hungry Hippos

Best Friend: Charlie, and Brigit

Favorite Breakfast/Food: Cereal

Favorite Book: Mr. Bump

Favorite Lunch: cheese sandwich

Favorite Restaurant: Pooh's restaurant (when I asked him what that was he said: "It's at Disneyland")

Favorite place to go: Zoo

Parade

Here are a couple of pictures from the parade that Brigit got to be in. Here's one of the boys as well.

Newspaper

I'm going to see if this will work. Brigit got to be in the paper for being in 2nd place at the baby contest. I scanned in the newspaper onto the computer, so we'll see if I can get it on here and have it look ok.

Just thought I would share.