Wow!!!!! I Forgot I had a blog!

I know it is hard to believe. But I even forgot that I had a blog! Wow, not sure if it is good to be back. So much is going through my mind since it has been almost a year!

Yikes!

Really a year! That is alot of pictures and stuff going on. Not sure if I can actually catch up! Maybe I will try and just blog a little and post a past picture here or there!!! Dang, this is as bad as when you say you are going to write in journal everyday and don't. Then your next entry is entirely catch up. Pages of it, then it sits until you decided to set the goal again of wiritng everyday and the circle continues!

I guess we will see!!!!!!

Maybe I will just post a few of my favorite pictures. Well maybe I want to eat first!!! Hmmmm, choices, choices!!!!! Stay tuned!

Prayer is in our Hearts

So sometimes in life things happen and there is no way that a parent has any control of what your child will see. We try so hard to protect our kids from harm, mean people or horrible sights. Unfortunately this was not possible this week. On Tuesday Austin witnessed a horrible accident that occurred at our high school parking lot. I had never seen him in such distress before. At the time I didn't realize how bad it really was. 4 boys were doing doughnuts in the parking lot after football practice and they rolled the jeep that they were in. Austin and Dallin ( Dani's friend) were a few of the first ones on the scene. Since the accident Austin has been waking up in cold sweats and panting. When he does sleep it is restless. Really no 14 year old boy should have to see what he saw. The outcome was not good. 2 boys were released from the hospital that night, one stayed in the hospital for a few day with a punctured lung and a few broken ribs. Brandon Curtis passed away on Wednesday. It has been really hard for Dani and Austin. Austin did not know Brandon well. He was just getting to know him through football and football camp.( They also play the same position) Austin is very close with Brandon's little brother Marshall. Dani has been having a hard time as well. She dated Brandon last year and went to Preference with him. It so hard to have a friend pass away. It is amazing how something so tragic can bring together a community. Brandon was a wonderful gentleman. He was always respectful and kind when he was at our house. He will be missed.

He was a great kid. The city has been so supportive and helpful to his family. There are so many fundraisers planned. I can't wait for the first football game. Brandon was named an honorary team captain. It will be a very senitimental and memorable night.
Please keep the Curtis family in your thoughts and prayers. This has been an eye opening experience for us. For me it has reminded me to never let my kids leave without them knowing I love them. The plan of Salvation has once again been a big topic of discussion at our house. But it has been so helpful in letting us know that we can live with our Father in Heaven again. And that everything happens for a purpose. Please keep Austin and Dani and your prayers. Austin has a long recovery process. But with prayers and blessings I know we can get through this.

Okay so drill is over for the year. Here she is after districts. Dani had so much and had great experiences. She made great friends. Our high school football team made to the state championship game. Our girls basketball won the state title. So the girls got to perform at Rice Eccles Stadium. Here is Dani with her new favorite friend Dallin.

Nat came to visit for Thanksgiving so we took some pictures. Lots of cute ones if I do say so myself!!!!!:)
Dani turned 17. Wow!!!! It is hard to believe. I am so grateful that she is here and lives with us. She made the drill team for next year and was also voted as President for the team. She will be very busy next year.
Austin turned 14. Wow he is taller than me (that's not saying a whole lot). He loves football and track. He just won the 200, 4x100, 4x400 at the district meet. He is the district champ. We have quite a few more meets this summer before football starts.
Here he is with his friend Jessi. Nice that it isn't a close shot, because they thought they were being cool and went with all spandex at a track meet and nothing else. (Not a pretty sight for the moms) but they thought they were cool.

Baylie did Jr. Dvelles. That is where the drill team teaches little girls dances. They both had a blast.









Dani went to Preference (girls choice). I am going to go to a different computer later and try to scan in her dance pictures. There are some really cute ones. And then she went to Prom
Very busy, Coop did wrestling and now he is doing track as well. Baylie is going to be in dance and is very excited. We all support each other and attend everything. We are grateful for everything we have been blessed with and looking forward to a very busy and wonderful summer.) Hopefully more pictures to come!!!!!

Somehow this one got lost in the blogging process. This is sweethearts. Great matching on the tie,dress and a cast that he was wearing!

Okay so no one needs to faint.

But yes,

I am going to blog today!

It will take a couple hours because I have so many pictures and updates, but here I go...

I know that it has been awhile.......

Okay, I just realized that I am on my new computer and I don't have an pictures on her so I need to switch to another on. So pictures will follow in just a little bit. I should get my kids out the door first!!!(to school...) But please stay tuned!:)

I know the suspense is killing ya!!!!!

So hopefully in the next day or two I will update my blog. But for the time being this will have to do. I am tired of looking at the same pictures. Hope everyone is having a great day!

So much has been going on. It is so hard to keep up. We lost another neighbor two weeks ago. The two little ones were close with Monte. He was a very nice and polite man. He was so generous and loved to help every one. He will be greatly missed. So now that my family has had two deaths very close to us in a matter of a two week period this has been the perfect time to talk and reflect on the love of family and the after life and how important it is to live everyday to the fullest and never have regrets. My family seems to have grown closer in the last few weeks. I love my family could not have asked for a more amazing kids and husbands. We love that we have been able to talk more about the plan of Salvation and how our life here on this earth is for such a short time. As the holidays soon approach us let us not ever forget the love of family.
Okay onto updates. I started sub teaching and love it. Okay I have only done it once so far. But that one time was great. Dani is little Miss popular. She got asked to both Maple Mountain (that is the new high school that just opened ) and Springville's homecoming. She was so excited and loved both nights. Here she is Ethan Wolz. Her Springville date. And here is her date for the Maple Mountain Homecoming Matt Comer.
Austin was very sick for week. Missed school and football. But he is back and at his first game back he scored a touchdown. Only a few more games. I am going to miss those games. But just a few months and track starts.
Baylie got the same sickness. So she missed some school too. She is busy babysitting and being a great cheerleader. She wants to be at every game and every performance of Dani's. She loves to be involved in everything.
Coop just finished the soccer season and is not so patiently waiting for wrestling to start.
Bryan is getting slower in the work area. So if any one knows of any jobs. Just holler:)
Just a few notes about our everyday activities. Check out the new pictures on the side as well. They are smaller but still cute. Since they are my kids. haha!

She will be missed dearly.

This past week we lost a dear friend. Tauna Blackburn died of complications due to diabetes. She was such an amazing friend. We first started hanging out after we moved into the ward. We also had so much fun at the cabin and going out to dinner. Anytime there was trip planned either she or Chad called to invite us. We were privileged enough to be one of the first ones to know that two amazing spirits were about to enter into her and Chad's life. Her parents are wonderful an treated my kids like grandchildren until the year that their family was blessed with a bunch of grandchildren of their own. Tauna and I got to serve in many callings together. We were team teachers in Sunbeams and then again we were teaming together in Activity days. I will miss her so much. She was so talented and every time we talked there seemed to be a new talent that I found out she had. She leave behind the most adorable little boy and girl and a wonderful husband. All of this has been hard on my kids and it has been a real teaching tool on the plan of salvation and on eternal life. Time is to precious and short. Live life everyday and to the fullest.

So for my last few weeks I have a few pictures. We hosted for the folkfest and had 3 great girls stay with us from Hungry. They were so much fun. We had a very busy week. They had never seen a real "American" baseball game. So the first night we went to an OWLZ game. They had a lot of fun.Next we started school. Along with that I went to Education Week at BYU. It always so fun. I went with my mom and we had a good time visiting and listening to amazing people. It was nice to be busy that first week. I haven't had time to myself since before Austin was born. The kids were so excited for school. Okay the two younger ones were, to two older ones, not so much.So Dani is in 11th grade, Austin is in 8th grade, Baylie is in 5th and Cooper is in 1st. All Dani told me was the different cute boys in each of her class. Sad to say Austin told me he hated having second lunch because he is soo hungry and what cute girls were in his class. Baylie talked about working lunch and that she gets a planner to use and Coop said they did alot of walking. So cute. Dani had her first drill performance at the first home football game. She did great. I was working in the scone booth. She also performed at the Utah County State fair. And they looked great. My parents came to both performances and are so supportive. I love them. Austin is playing football but he is on crutches right now. A major groin pull. Hopefully it will heal before his first game on Saturday. Coop started soccer and we are just simply very busy once again. But I wouldn't change it for anything. More pictures to come soon. Phew....

Happy 10th birthday Baylie Kay!

Baylie is 10 today. The time has gone by so fast. She is such a good girl. She loves to be with her friends and she loves playing mommy. If there is a baby around, you will find Baylie Boo there. Happy Birthday girlie. We love you!!!!! Here are a few of my favorite baby pictures of her.

Here she is at six days old.

And at 2 weeks
And then again at 3 months.

It is amazing how big she has gotten. I can't imagine my life without her. All day today on the news they have been talking about the tornado that hit in Salt Lake and for me it was a the day that this cute girl with HUGE dimples came into our lives. Happy Birthday!!!!

Summer Time

For the fourth of July we went to the Stadium of Fire. We got to have a meet and greet with SheDaisy. The guy in the blue is my cousin Derrik who just recently married Kassidy. (The one in the black and white.) We had so much fun meeting them. They are so sweet and she is going to fit right into the family.

The girls got to see the Jo Bros. And up close. We saw them getting into their cars.The first is of Joe and Kevin and Nick. The second is of Nick waving. Dani swears he is waving at her.:)Austin recently went to a football camp put on by some old BYU football players. Okay and there are a few recent ones too. Here he is with Max Hall. This camp really focused on positions so he worked with the running backs, Curtis Brown (again) and then someone else that I can't remember.

Here he is running drills.
And more drills. And here he poses with John Beck.
Still a very busy summer. For Austin football season will be starting soon. Dani is in driver's Ed and then drill will start up again. Busy, Busy. It never ends around here.

Triple Gold!!!!!

Well Austin is a triple Gold medal winner at the Utah Summer Games. About a month ago my dad suggested that I look into taking Austin to compete. So after a week or two of contemplating I signed him up. It wasn't until after the payment was made that I realized that it was going to be a tough week for him. First he was at BYU Football camp from Monday until Thursday afternoon. What a great experience. He loved IT!!!!

Austin got great one on one coaching from his coach this week. Great pep talks from Bronco. He had a great time. His coach this week was Curtis Brown. And Austin loved every minute of it. There was a ton of past players that helped coach. It was a great week.

Here Austin is with Curtis Brown. Curtis told us he is a great player and looks forward to Austin coming in a few years and breaking all of his records. OH YEAH!!! Future Cougar here!!

Next on the list was on the last afternoon of the football camp after he checked out- we came home, did laundry and packed up the car. First we headed to Provo High school where he competed in the District Hershey track meet. He placed first in the 100 and 200 meter and second in the long jump (not his favorite event). So he has now qualified for the state meet which is on Saturday. We left that meet and headed to Cedar City. He ran first on Friday in the prelims and qualified for the finals on Saturday. On Saturday he ran first in the 100 meter and won his first gold medal.

While we were waiting for the 200 meter, a mother of an older runner found us in the stands and asked if Austin wanted to run on a relay team. 4 boys and one race later and he had his second gold medal. I call them the "stranger team". They had to come up with a name ten minutes before that race- they saw a Dasini water bottle and hence the name "Team Dasini". Whatever- boys.

All of the boys are older than Austin. After this race he only had time to get his number and wait for the 200. He won the 200 hundred, but you could tell he had just ran a race. His time was 25.33 and second place 25.44. PHEW!!!! That was a close one.

But it was a great week and we look forward to seeing Austin this week at the State meet. Wish him luck!!!!!

Lazy Day's of Summer-NOT

Wow Let's a summer review. Dani is in drill and loving it. She gets up at 5:45 every morning and has drill from 6-9. Then 3 days a week she a nanny for a family in the ward. It is the perfect schedule. She was in the Art City Days parade. The drill team looked great. She was also busy this last week with city youth council. She volunteered at the children's art festival and worked in the scone booth. Next week she will be off to girls camp of a day and then drill camp the rest of the week.Austin has started working for Bryan here and there. He is also running in Hershey track. The district meet is this Thursday. After that meet we will head down to Cedar City where he will run in the summer games on Friday and Saturday. Right know he is away at BYU football camp. It seems weird not having him here. I know he is only like 7-8 miles away. But it feels weird. His coaches include present and past coaches and players including Curtis Brown. He said yesterday that about 3 coaches asked him what his name was. He said not every one got asked their names. Coach Mendenhall came to orientation and gave the boys a really good pep talk. I only recorded a little bit and I will see if I can post it.

Next is Baylie, she also got to be in the parade. A perk of having a drill sister. She carried a banner and looked so cute. I switched dance studio's this summer and glad I did. She is in a summer dance class that works on turns and techniques. She loves it. She decided that she wanted to ride on a ride at the Carnival this year for Art City days. I got "classic" pictures that she does not do well with motion rides. It was so funny but her poor face.

Cooper is doing t-ball and loves it. He has a really good friend on the team and is having a blast. He loved the parade this year. We sat curb side so I could run and get pictures of the girls and man did he bank in the treat department. He got to play with my cousins twins named Coulter and Kaysen. They call him "Scooper". He had a blast with them. Yes, banana's and apples were handed out at the parade. Coop also wanted to ride the same motion ride as Baylie. And yes he was sick. Dani was a trooper to go on it with them, but everytime that ride came down Coop asked the worker to stop the ride. HAHA. So fun.

It has not been lazy day's of summer here at the Johnson household. Busy summer and we are only three weeks in!!!!!!!!

Yeah Finally a post!!!

Okay So Finally a New Post!!!!!!!!!

So much has been going on that it has been a little overwhelming. So I will try to put a few pictures on here. I wish that I could get the slide show to work but never could. Let's see.... let's start with Cooper. He usually gets put last so let's do him first.

Cooper just graduated from kindergarten. I can't believe it- kindergarten. He has loved it and loved his teacher. He also loved his high school helper Chelsea.

Next he graduated from music class. He has loved learning music and is excited that next year he will start learning to play the piano. I had so much fun going with him and his class to the zoo. We had a blast. It was a perfect day.

Here is our group at the zoo. What a group of boys.

Next is Baylie. Fourth grade is ending and fifth is just around the corner. Wow. I also got to go with her class to the "This is the Place" state park. I had never been there before and I suggest anyone who has not been there. Go! It was so fun. The kids loved it. Baylie wants to go back so bad. Pulling handcarts!

Sitting in the school house.

A last few side notes. Austin's track team took first at the district meet. He broke the district record in the 100 and 200 meter for the seventh grade. And his relay team took 2nd. Overall it was a great track meet. He also qualified for the district meet in Hershey track which will be held later in June.

Austin's medley relay team. 2nd place at district.

And last, this past week Dani and Austin went with my cousin Lori and her son Evan (who were visiting from Ohio) to hike the "Y". They had a blast and I was so glad that they could go with her. I just wish I could have gone. :(

Dani was very sore the next day.

I can't believe the BYU football team runs that hike. Wow!!!

And today Cooper and I went to the Bean Museum on BYU campus with Carrie, Tristan and Charlotte. It was a lot of fun. Need to find a few cheap and easy things to do this week with Cooper being done with school. Phew!!!! That was a lot!!!

So much has been going on. So this is another UPDATE post. That seems to be the only thing that I am good at lately. And this will not be so much of an update to most of you because I talk to most of you on a regular basis. Oh well.

Danielle made drill team. Yeah. We are so excited for her. Our pocketbooks aren't thrilled, but that is what fundraisers are for right? Try-outs were a couple of weeks ago. What a busy day that was. Try-outs ended at 6:30. They posted the list. Had a party that night from 7:00-9:30. She came home did homework, went to bed around 10:30. And at 11:30 the older girls on the drill team kidnapped her for a sleepover. She stayed up till 4:30ish and had early morning seminary at 6:20. She was one tired girl. She had to go to school in her p.j.'s with no make-up, no hair done, and wearing a fun sign. But I think she still looked great.

Let's see. Austin is doing amazing in track. He holds the school 7th grade record in the 1oo meter, 200 meter, and his teams 4x100 meter, and 4x400 meter races. He broke his own record yesterday in the 200 meter and placed 3rd overall. Right behind two 9th graders. He was really pumped about that. He is usually placed with the older boys when running because his times are with them.

The sea of yellow his his track team. There are close to 100 kids on his team. It is amazing.

Baylie had a dance recital and did really good. She loves to dance and has a blast having her best friends on her dance team with her. She also did Hershey track this week. She seems to have a good time.

Baylie with her best buddies, Savannah and Maddi. What cute girls.

And then Cooper, he is just hanging around. Literally. Just going every where and cheering everyone on. His season of t-ball is coming soon.

So there it is another run down of the last few weeks. Wow.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!