Johnson Family Dish

Bishop Daddy

On Father’s Day this year Randon recieved a gift that will keep on giving for some time, he was sustained and ordained to be the bishop of our Ocotillo ward. I know most of our readers already know this however, there are a few who may not know, hence the post (and an appology for not telling you personally). We were joined by most of our family and many of our close friends for this Sunday. I so appriciate all of the support and we had a lot of fun together.

He is an amazing man, the finest man I have ever known, and he will do a good job. The kids are very happy to see their daddy as their bishop. Kelcie is concerned that no young men will want to date her (when the time comes) now that her dad is the bishop. Charis is proud as a peacock and announced to the primary (very loudly) “my dad is bishop!” Morgan, Scott and Addi have varried responses of their own. And little Rosie Gray, in her closing prayer for primary, prayed “that the new bishop would have fun with them next Sunday.”

As for me, I am proud of him, I love him and I know he will be wonderful as bishop.

Family Pictures

This is a photo shoot we did May 16th with Sara Anglin, our long time friend. These are only a few of the beautiful pictures she shot. I will let the pictures speak for themselves; however, I love how Sara captured our family so accurately, tears and smiles. Her web site is listed in my blog roll, you can see more of her work there and contact her.

Incredi-Girls Camp

Was so much fun! I was so happy to be there with my daughters, it was nice to be away from the pressures of everyday life and just hang out and be friends having fun together. I enjoyed being with all of the 200+ girls, it was fun to interact with them, teach them, joke with them, hug them and love them.

My top 10 highlights from camp this year:

1. After skit night I was walking up to Kelcie and Morgan who were chatting with their friend who didn’t see me behind her and said; Girl:”do you guys have a face book?” K: “yeah” Girl: “does your mom? I really want to be her friend too!”

2. Laughing so hard at a game we were playing (somewhere around midnight, after having been silly and stupidly intoxicated with no sleep for several nights) with the girls from our ward, which included Randi and her daughters as well as mine.

3. Doing the 80’s skit with 30 of my friends (most of whom were girls in the 80’s, like me) and hearing the girls laugh and my own daughters front and center say out loud, as I was moon walking backwards on stage with my Johnny Depp shirt that said “Kecie and Morgan’s Mom” on the back, “MOM!!!!!”

4. Teaching the 16-18 year old girls about virtue and getting a hug from each of them after the lesson, and hearing from a couple of them that they really liked my lesson. I worked really hard to design a lesson they would really participate in, more like a discussion than a lesson, and they liked it! That really meant a lot to me.

5. Watching my daughters perform their skit on the stage, and Kelcie laughing but trying to keep a straight face for her lines.

6. The “How to Eat Chocolate” class. An instructor showed the girls how to suck and savor all of the chocolate off of some Hershey’s Treasures with almonds without crushing them. I can’t really say why this class was so funny to me except for the fact that they used the words “nuts” and “balls” a lot (rather than alomonds or cookies)…..and my naughty mind went there, I almost had to leave it so as not to corrupt the girls’ innocence.

7. Being in the beautiful Ponderossa Pines of Camp LoMia and hearing the wind in the trees.

8. Hearing Morgan respond, when asked if she was home sick, that “No, my mom is right here.” Knowing that I am her home made me so incredibly happy, I almost cried.

9. Hugging my close friend Randi and sharing a very tender moment together.

10. Hearing my girls’ testimony of Jesus Christ.

Arrow of Light

Scott earned his arrow of light a couple of months ago and we had the ceremony for him and his buddy Braden, who also earned his arrow of light, tonight. The ceremony was really cool. Four older boys, who had earned their arrow of light, came dressed up in native american costume and presented the awards to the boys. It was the coolest arrow of light ceremony I have ever seen, see for yourself:

Opening flag ceremony.

The Natives.

The ceremony.

Crossing the Bridge; symbolic of leaving cub scouts to entering boy scouts.

These boys did such a good job with this ceremony, they really made it memorable for Scott and Braden.

Scott and Daddy.

Scott and his fellow Scouts (and best buddies).

I am so proud of Scott, he worked really hard to earn this award. Boy Scouting promises to be just as fun, their first campout is next month.

Law of Simularities?

I can’t tell you all the times people tell me how all of our children look the same. Sometimes people say except Addi, or Scott, you all look the same. So I thought it would be fun to look at all of us at age 5ish (the pict. of Randon is the only one I have, I think he must be 7 in the photo(?), otherwise we are all around the age of 5 in these photos.

Randon

Michelle

Kelcie

Morgan

Scott

Addison

Charis

So, I think that we all look differently with subtle family type simularities (but, I always have). Can’t wait to post pict.s of everyone at 20 and 30!