Johnson Family Dish

Addi Student of the Month for April

Addi Student of the Month for April, originally uploaded by mjseptbebe.

Morgan Student of the Month for November

Morgan Student of the Month for November, originally uploaded by mjseptbebe.

Addi – Student of the Month

So proud of Addi. She has come a long, long way this school year. She is a hard little worker, but she always has been. When she was just barely walking she would follow her daddy around doing yard work with him, when he couldn’t pay the bigger kids to help out.

Anyway, our little lady bird is the student of the month in her class. Way to go Addi!

Babies

Some friends of ours had a baby and Charis and I were out shopping for a gift for the baby. As we were looking at clothes she says “babies aren’t cute, but baby kitty’s are”. I tried to tell her all about the lovely things about a new baby brother for her friend and she insisted they were not cute like baby kitty’s.

Three Things

I saw this on the sites of a few fellow bloggers. I was reluctant at first to follow along and actually write down all of my three things. But, upon further reflection on the subject I think it is somewhat inspiring……Yes, I said inspiring, stick with me here. Because when you read someone else’s well the first thing you do is think of what you would write about yourself. This causes one a bit of introspection. That is a positive thing in my book, to inspire someone else to reflect upon thier own potential. So, in that spirit, here are my ‘Three Things’.

Three Things That Scare Me:
1. Heights.
2. Being scared.
3. Large bodies of water.
Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. Randon
2. Emily
3. Jerry Sienfeld
Three Things I Love:
1. God.
2. My family.
3. My iPod.
Three Things I Hate:
1. Hate.
2. Narrow mindedness.
3. Deceit.
Three Things I Don’t Understand:
1. Advanced mathematical equations & formulas.
2. When love dies & how that happens?
3. How some people can be so witty at the drop of a hat, what a gift!
Three Things On My Desk:
1. Sidewalk chalk.
2. Pictures.
3. Sunflower seeds for planting.
Three Things I’m Doing Right Now:
1. Thinking of when to start dinner & get ready for ‘booty’ camp.
2. Listening to Scott calculate fluid ounces.
3. Watching Charis play on the couch.
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. Be a grandmother
2. Go on a mission
3. Get a bachelors degree
Three Things I Can Do:
1. Conquer fear.
2. Love unconditionally.
3. Whatever I find determination to accomplish, anything can happen here!
Three Things I Can’t Do:
1. Burp the ABC’s.
2. Touch my tongue to my nose without the aide of my finger.
3. Think of one more thing I can’t do.
Three Things I Think You Should Listen To:
1. The still small voice within.
2. Yourself.
3. Others.
Three Things You Should Never Listen To:
1. Negativity
2. Temptation
3. Political extremists
Three Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. Fluent french
2. Art history
3. World history (more in depth)
Three Favorite Foods:
1. Italian
2. Pastry (European)
3. Dark chocolate almonds
Three Shows I Watched As A Kid:
1. Gilligans Island
2. Tom & Jerry
3. Wallace & Ladmo
Three Things I Regret:
1. Leaving home the way I did
2. __________________(yeah, you don’t need to know that one.)
3. Losing touch with Jacy.

What are your Three Things?

Changes

I am generally not a person who has any aversion to change, infact I usually find change exciting and refreshing. But, right now I am really suffering for some changes that are/have happened. In our little congregation, we are losing so many of our dear friends to a move. Most of them are staying some what close (in the PHX metropolitain area) and some are moving farther, out of state. Our whole family is really so sad about all of this. My children are already missing a dear couple who loved us so well, but moved to Nevada, it has only been 1 week and it has been their topic of discussion and sadness many times already. Some of my dearest friends are moving also. We will still be the best of friends, but I will miss them being so close, and especially on Sundays.

I am so thankful that God puts such lovely people in our path, I just wish that they could just stay close to us forever. I know that is really selfish, but I can’t help it. You don’t find people like these every day. And right now it feels like our hearts will have a perminant hole that they left. I guess that this is the difficult part of sharing your heart and lives with others, sometimes they have to move and take a part of you with them when they go.

We are trying to focuss on all of the wonderful friends that will remain, geographically, close. We are so blessed to have so many good people with which to share our lives, there are still so many here.

Personally, I never used to let myself get this close to people so this is super hard for me. Not that I have not enjoyed close friendships in the past, I have and those still remain. But I generally keep a safe distance so that people could come and go as they pleased with little or no effect on the heart. Then there are those people who just come on in, make your heart a home and you love them there, you just can’t help yourself. That is when having a heart is so joyful and so painful.

Charis Won!

The girls and I attended the Apache Junction “April Pools” day last Saturday where Charis and the other girls entered a coloring contest. We just got the call that Charis WON, for her age group!! Way to color little lady! She has to go to an awards presentation and photo op. for the local paper on Tuesday.

She does love to color and spends some portion of time every day drawing or coloring something.

Holes

Addi and Scott love to dig holes in the backyard. Sometimes the holes are large and deep, sometimes they are shallow and oblong. They have even dug a mote and filled it with water. One particularly large holes has even served as a ‘monster trap’. Randon and I let the kids dig the holes as long as they fill them back in when they are done, and do not dig in the grass area of the yard.

Scott and Addi took to digging a hole right in front of the chicken coup last week. This hole was really a nuisance because of its position. The kids filled it with water too.

So, yesterday I went out in the chilly morning to let the chickens out of their coop and give them some food, in my jammas. I am delicately negotiating the hole and the large trough of chicken water, balancing my foot on the edge of the hole, that is filled with water. I get the coop opened and let our lovely hens out, piviot my foot to turn around and the bit of earth my foot was on gives way and I start to fall (in slow motion, of course) my feet both fall into the hole and my butt lands right in the 1/2 full chicken trough!

I went in to tell the kids what happened due to their hole (which we had asked them to bury the day before) cold, soaking wet and mad. Addi and Scott were right there and they were awe struck, they just gawked at me like “oh man, we’ve done it now”. I looked at them and told them what happened and started laughing as I was trying to explain what happened (and seeing the mental picture of what had just happened) and the kids were just looking at me with that same dumbfounded look, poor kids must have thought their mother was crackin’ up.

They got home from school and I did not even have to remind them, they went right out and burried that hole up.

12

I can’t believe it! I am a size 12. I have been working for a year now to get my body in shape and feel better in general, well, that has led to me wanting to eat better. I had to go and do the thing all women hate to do and shop for a bathing suit last week and discovered that I needed a smaller size than I thought. But, it was a bathing suit so I didn’t give it too much clout. A lot of my clothes, my new ones, were fitting very loosly lately, which I also paid little attention to.

Today my friend gave me some of her clothes which she has shrunk out of, again (she gives me her clothes when she shrinks out of them, and she has really good taste) and I tried them on, they were size 12, AND THEY FIT ME!!! I tried on 4 or 5 of the skirts and pants and then had to stop, for the irrational fear that one of them won’t fit and I’ll be depressed. Aren’t I silly, I know. Anyway, I haven’t been a size 12 since after I gave birth to Kelcie! I have been in a 14 and at my largest points a tight 16 (UGH!). So it has been long over due, Kelcie is 12, but I am only one dress size off of fitting into my wedding dress, I just can’t believe it!

I know that this is not really that small but, for me this is a reason to celebrate! Randon keeps telling me that I am going to blow away, yeah right. So, I guess I will be making those pioneer dresses in a 12!?

BTW, Addi had so much fun picking out her pattern and fabrics for her pioneer dress, appron, and bonnet today. She chose blues, very pretty ones too. I will post picts. as soon as I get them made for her.

Pioneer Clothes

That is my mission today. Randon’s are taken care of, men’s things are easy, just some old dockers and some collarless shirts and suspenders, easy.

Addi and I, on the other hand, require a bit more effort. I have to find paterns and buy material and actually sew dresses, 2 each, and pantalooms. Did I mention that sewing is NOT my favorite thing in the world to do? I will do it and have done it, with the right motivation, but it is a chore for me.

This is to be used on our Pioneer Trek in May. I am excited about that, I am fit as a fiddle for it, I just am really dragging my feet to get the dresses made.