DREW-Soccer, Basketball, Kindergarten Graduate and MUCH MORE....

Drew played Basketball again this year. His team was The Shooting Stars which was mostly made up of friends and neighbors, which was super fun.

Lo coached Drew's soccer team again and they had a great year. The Rockets ended up winning 16 out of 20 games.

While playing soccer and basketball, he also managed to become a Kindergarten Graduate.


Miss Elder giving him his graduation certificate.

and now for the much more......Drew's first BIG story of the summer is the Golf Cart incident. While golfing with his Dad and Uncles, he attempted to jump a canal at the Teton Lakes golf course in Rexburg. Drew is now famous at the course and already has a "greatest golf story" of his short 6 year career. I was glad he was okay and still wonder(Lo?) why he was driving the golf cart all by himself in the first place. He somehow escaped this mishaps with only a few bruises and Lo and I escaped a bill for a golf cart because the cart was miraculously undamaged.

Grandma J

It has been too long since I have updated my blog and the thoughts of updating it have overwhelmed me because of all that has gone on during my hiatus. This has been a summer to remember and I have learned and grown a lot through all of the changes.

I don't really know where to begin. One of the first major events was the passing of my Grandma Johnson on May 14, 2010. She was almost 91 years old when she passed away and lived every second of her life to the very fullest up to the very last moment. She was still weeding her flower beds, planting her plastic flowers, attending the temple, drinking Pepsi, and making plans for more parties right up until her last day here.

Here is her famous bathtub full of her flowers that never die.

The flower bed in front of her house that she had just put the finishing touches on.

Grandma J posing with her 90 pepsi cans at her 90th birthday celebration last year.

She was an energetic, fun and most importantly, a faithful lady that made a lasting impression on her entire family. I called her a few weeks before she died to see if she could help with my Relief Society lesson about strengthening the family. She sent me a letter that included her thoughts on this topic. In the final part of her letter she said

"I'm 90 and as I look back on the product of my Dad and mother I'm grateful to them for the teachings they taught us as a family and I see these things carrying on throughout the 51 now that are my family. I pray that everyone will realize that through the gospel and its teachings we have a plan to a happy life. I'm the last of my family and the last of my husband's, but look back with great satisfaction. We did o.k."

SPRING for SOMMER

Sommey's celebrating began with family on her Birthday. We invited Mimi, Mardi and her kids over for dinner, presents and cake.

Opening gifts:

Opening the Princess and the Frog: A present from Droozer

Blowing out the candles

Butterfly Birthday Cake We decided to throw a Spring themed Party for Sommey

Spring for Sommer

The Friday Friend PartyDuck, Duck, GooseTaking a swing at the flower Pinata

We love you Sommey!

favorites at 4 and what you are up to:

• dress up
• treats-wakes up and goes to bed asking for treats
• makeup
• riding her bike
• playing with friends
• super vocabulary
• changing her clothes many times a day
• miss sassy pants
• pink and purple
• let's you know if she does or doesn't like your style choices
• singing and singing and singing
• dancing
• loves shoes

LATEST PROJECT

I decided to paint a little something for Aubrey's room and this is what I came up with. I have seen so many cute bird prints on baby girl bedding, and clothing lately, so I decided to paint a few birds in a tree for Aubrey. I apologize for the pics. I need a new camera and better camera skills.

First Ski Trip------Sleeping UNDER the BED-----AUBREYis 6 mos.----CRAZY HAIR DAY

RANDOM MEDLEY OF HAPPENINGS

Lo and his Dad took Drew up to Brighton for his first Ski trip. Lo put him in ski school for the first part of the day. The instructor said he did a great job and was willing to try anything she asked. Drew loved the entire day until it was time to take his skis back to the rental center. He thought it was super dumb to take his skis back after we had paid money for them.

Lo and Drew just before they took off for their ski day.

SLEEPING UNDER THE BED

Sommey was playing upstairs when it was suddenly much too quiet, which usually means trouble and messes of some sort. Lo took this picture of Sommey after he found her safe and soundly sleeping under Drew's bed.

AUBREY IS 6 MONTHS OLD

I need to take more pictures of Aubrey. We have 350 million baby pictures of Drew(firstborn) and 100 pics of Sommey(secondborn) and 7 of Aubrey (latest arrival) Here is a recent shot of the cutest little lady growing up too quickly with her stylin' old man hair. She has been such a fun little girl!!

CRAZY HAIR DAY

Drew's school is having White Ribbon Week at school. They kicked things off with CrAzy hAir day yesterday. We decided to go for a little Blue, Green and Red combo and, against my better judgment, I used food coloring mixed into hair gel. I recall my sister coloring her hair with green food coloring for Halloween and to her great surprise and sadness the green didn't come out completely. She had streaks of green hair for at least a month. Regardless of this memory, I colored Drew's hair and luckily the color came out completely. He is running around again blonde as ever.

CHRISTMAS REPORT IN FEBRUARY

Time to finally catch up and report on what has been going since Christmas time. We managed to visit Temple square a few days before Christmas. It was so cold that night that we quickly made our way around most of the square in 10 minutes or less.
We had a very Merry Christmas. Grandpa, Mimi and Mardi and her family spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with us. Some of the major winners from Santa Clause were make-up and more tutus and wings for Sommer and Legos and a train set for Drew. Aubrey seemed very content with her travel backpack and diapers.
We had a very Merry Christmas; It just came and went too quickly.

PINK BLANKET, THANKSGIVING and SANTA CLAUS

A report on what has been going on with us lately:

PINK BLANKET-

A couple months ago, we finally convinced Sommer to throw away her beloved pink blanket due to its serious shabbiness. I wanted to make sure we had pictures of how loved this lucky blanket actually was.

THANKSGIVING-

Drew was a "Native American" in his kindergarten feast that celebrated the first Thanksgiving. I told him he was lucky he got to be an Indian and he quickly corrected me and said he was not an Indian, but a Native American.....wow to political correctness beginning in Kindergarten. We were in Idaho this year for Thanksgiving. We had our yummy feast over at the church so that we could have more room to eat and for the kids to play and run around. We definitely had lots of yummy food to eat.

we took a lot of pictures of the kids eating and hanging out together:Sommey started out with few carrots and dip:Drew and Josh getting after the turkey legs:We chatted, played basketball, ate yummy food and exchanged ornaments:The kids even made the apple, gumdrop turkeys: Perhaps a few more gumdrops than apple:Lining up with the coolest turkeys ever made:

SANTA CLAUS-

Zion's Bank takes us out to the movie every December and we get treats, toys and a visit from Santa Claus. Drew,Sommey and Aubrey got to sit on his lap and talk to him about what they wanted for Christmas this year. I think this may be my first picture of Kris Kringle throwing out the peace sign or is he giving Sommer bunny ears???

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!