Hello from West Jordan. We have had a pretty busy summer so far. The cap to June was Robbie receiving his Bobcat award in Cub Scouts. He was so excited to receive his award he could not wait. Robbie is loving scouts and the activities that he gets to do with the other boys.

 

 

   For one our Family Home Evening in June we hiked up to Mary lake just north of Brighton Ski Resort. We had a great time on the mile hike with a little dinner at the lake. The kids had a great time running up and down the trail with only a few minor injuries. We hope all are having a great and save summer and look forward to seeing you in July.

Johnson Family

Here are pictures of the month of June.  Sorry this is what you get this month...but, pictures are awesome and can tell the story too...Right?!

Nicole's Baptism - It was a great day.  Full of the unexpected. Nicole was a little nervous...okay, a lot nervous, but it still managed to be a special day for our family.

Jenny and her 3 kids came from Utah, Pat came, and Mollie and Paul came from Denver.  The house was packed and lots of fun.  Each baby was at a different phase...Lilah on the floor under the toys, Blake bouncing in his exercisor, and Liam in the swing.  Robbie is not really a baby, but he had fun watching all of the babies.

Father's Day...The girls decorated BIG CEREAL bowls for Warren.  He is always wanting 2 bowls of cereal and now he can eat it all in one BIG bowl.

Kaylee performed her original composition that won state at the Winner's Recital.  She loved this Grand Piano!

Taylor went with Warren to the Annual Fathers and Sons campout for our ward.  Nicole and Kaylee are getting too old, but Taylor is at the perfect age.  They slept in the back of the car and had a great time.  Taylor saw a rattlesnake and talked about it for days.

Mollie and Lilah came down to Colorado Springs while Paul was out of town.  We went to the pool, hung out, and went on the lake.  It was a fun time.  

Kaylee got her ears pierced.  Here is the Johnson Family rule, you can get your ears pierced when you learn to slalom ski or you turn 12.  Well, she is not 12 so....she got up on one ski.  She got up 4 times in a row and went all around the lake.  She was so excited and scared.  I will have to get the pictures off of our video camera, but it sure is fun to watch how excited she got.

 She was very determined and made sure the lady knew what she was doing.  She did not want the earrings to be to low.  She wanted them right in the middle of her ear...so she had to check and check again before they got the gun out.

 June also brought the Waldo Canyon fire.  This is the fire from our house on the first day.  I was running and saw this during my run.  It looked like this for a few days and than a storm came and it quickly became awful. Ashes fell from the sky, the sky turned orange, and a sense of fear was in the air.  Taylor kept drawing pictures of the fire.  We know a few families that lost their homes or have serious smoke damage.  It was a frightening few days for our loved city.

Blake turned 8 months old in the month of June.  He is now rolling over in both directions...but isn't too motivated because his loving sisters get him everything he could ever want, which is something Mom is trying to stop.

He loves the color orange and anything he can put in his mouth.  He grunts all the time and loves to say, "EWWWW."  He is not quite sure about food unless he can feed it to himself.  We sure do love our Blakesters.

Love ya-
The Johnson  Family

Happy June!

June was a great month. It was lonely at times because Paul was out of town for two weeks but it was fun too. Paul was in Fresno for the first week in June and I stayed home and played with Lilah. Nothing really happened the second week. Then Paul went out of town again to South Dakota. I went to Kim's and the girls had a blast playing with their little cousin. Taylor and Lilah will especially be good friends. Taylor would always watch her and sit with her and pick out Lilah's outfits for the day. We all went swimming and Lilah and Blake loved the water. I went boating with Kim's family and they are all great skiers. I just sat on the boat with Lilah and she hummed and sat peacefully. I think she loved the wind in her face.

The last week of June was fun. Lilah started rolling over and eating real food besides rice cereal. We gave her apple at first and she loved it. She is getting so big. It is crazy how fast she is growing up. It was also my birthday. Paul and I went to see Brave. It was cute and Lilah came with us and slept through the whole movie. She is such a good girl.

The exciting news is that we bought our tickets to New Zealand and can't wait to see Mom and Dad :) It will be a fun trip.

Love Mollie and Paul

Lilah loved playing with Blake's toys at Kim's

Blake and Lilah together

A few months ago when we would take pictures of these two, they would lie still but now there is no hope :)

Paul getting Lilah to calm down

Lilah at 5 months. She is so happy.

Winter in Wellington

We have had a cold and rainy month of June.  July is not much better, but that will be for next month.  The picture on the left is of a house that is being moved. Our church bought the property so the parking lot could be enlarged. I thought they would just tear down the house, but no, they cut it in fourths and moved it somewhere. I have been told that they don't tear down perfectly good homes, they moved them somewhere, then people can come buy the house and then move it where they want too. On the right is New Zealand themed fabric that I bought so I can make a quilt when we get home.  When it is all done, it will be a good reminder of the time spent here in New Zealand.

 Dad celebrating Father's Day. It is celebrated here on the first Sunday of September, so he will have two father's day this year.  The big treat were the 2 cans of Root Beer, at $2 a piece, there could only be 2 cans.

We went to an art show for Alison Anker, one of the girls from church.  We had no idea she was an artist until one Monday night we were talking about talents and she said she could paint, and asked what she would do with that talent, she said earn money to live. We all kinda laughed, thinking who really does that, and then she showed us some of her work. She studied botany and zoology at university so she could understand how everything works together.  You can see some of here work on her web site, www.alisonanker.com.

These are some more of the Young Single Adults from our ward, Kree, Jasmine, Krystal and Ephriam.

 On June 8, we hit the 300,000 image filmed.  Big day, we stop, take a picture, then back to work

 Thanks to the McVey kids and their wonderful gift. I will now have beautiful flowers to look at in the kitchen for the rest of our mission.

At the end of the month, we went to the Westside Studios.  It is only open a couple of times a year, so we thought how wonderful that we can go.  We thought it was an actual "studio" where they film, but no, I think it is a place where you can rent items for parties and events.  If you want a "Star Wars" party, you are in luck because everything is there.  Pirates, you in luck.  But I think they do rent for movies. They had the piano that was used in a movies, red carpets for movies opening and Santa's sleigh.

Alot of the normal stuff went on during the month like going to the Archives everyday, feeding the missionaries, teaching Sunday School, helping some of the kids with their Family History, Family Home Evenings and movies nights. So we stay pretty busy. Love to you all.