saying good-bye

Today Misty moved home. My dad, mom, and David cam down and loaded all of her stuff in their truck. For those of you who don't know, my sister moved in with Carl and I at the end of July. She went to SUU this last semester. After a lot of thought and prayer she decided to move back home and work until the fall semester.

I really enjoyed having Misty live with us. It was so nice to have her so close, and to have a shopping buddy. We got to hang out and just spend time together.

I will really miss you being just a room away Mist, but I am proud of you for doing what you felt is right. I love you tonz! Thanks for being my sister and my roommate again for awhile. You are the best and you are welcome anytime!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

I can not believe that we are down to eight days until Christmas. Where has this month gone?

Christmas time is my most favorite time of the year!
There are so many things that make this the best time of the year, but here are just a few of my favorite things:

• The snow (it doesn't feel like Christmas with out it.)
• shopping for presents
• Christmas parties,
• wrapping presents
• decorating for Christmas
• sitting by my Christmas tree
• watching all of the corny Christmas movies
• listening to Christmas music
• singing Christmas songs
• receiving Christmas cards
• eating the delicious holiday goodies
• giving presents
• getting presents :)
• spending time with family
• looking at all of the Christmas lights
• reading Christmas stories
• The feeling of Christmas, people try harder to be kind and caring.

I am still not quit ready for Christmas, I have a little more shopping to do, a lot of wrapping to finish, and a lot of baking to do. Every year I say that I am going to have everything ready before December, but I never do. Maybe next year :O) Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope that this Holiday season is Merry and Bright!

I am an idiot!!!

I had pictures posted of us waiting to see Twilight, but I somehow deleted it. Sorry that you missed these, but thanks for the comments Cindy and Kristin :-)

The question we have all been asking...the book or the movie?

Don't worry, no spoilers in my ramblings.

Well, after all of the long months of waiting, the Twilight movie is finally here!!!!! I went and saw it with Misty, Kim, and a bunch of girls from work. Did I like the movie? What a good question. Let's see if I can make my answer short and simple (probably not.) :O) The short answer is, yes, I think I did like it.

The longer answer is, it was interesting. Let me first start off by saying I have never been one of those "the book is so much better than the movie" types of people. I always thought it was so funny that people couldn't just separate the book from the movie. I mean really people can't you just enjoy the book for the book, and enjoy the movie for the movie? Well this was the attitude I wanted to have when I first found out that they were going to make the movie. But the more I watched the previews and read the little tidbits on Stephenie Meyer's website, the more worried I got about being able to separate the book and the movie. I mean this book is near and dear to my heart, lol! But seriously, it is. :O) I kept telling Kim that we would go to the movie and just think "hey this movie reminds me of my favorite book, Twilight" (Yeah, I couldn't do it this time, not with this movie)

Ok, so now that I rambled, let me try to explain the long answer. Yes I did like the movie... I think. They did a good job staying to the storyline. They never really strayed from it. Yeah!!! But how do you fit a 500 page story into two hours? You don't, at least not like the story deserves. That is all I am going to say on the matter because I don't want to spoil it for those of you who weren't crazy enough to see it at midnight. All I can say is this time, I was one of those cliche people saying "it is not as good as the book".

I would say, go in with low expectations and you might be pleasantly surprised.

The Las Vegas Air Show

Misty, Carl, and I went to Vegas yesterday to see the Air show at the Air Force base in Vegas. It was really fun! Carl has always loved planes and wanted to be in the Air Force after his mission. None of us had ever been to an air show, and we really enjoyed it. Thanks Kamie for telling me about it!
Probably the cutest couple ever!!!

Carl's dream

Best Friends

They had a ton of different plans flying all day. I think that this was the F-15. It was so awesome to see it fly. It can do some pretty cool things!

This was the main event. The "Thunderbirds". They did some really awesome tricks. They were definitely worth the wait.

what's up with the Johnsons?

Well, it has been awhile since I posted anything about what we have been up to. If you noticed one of my first posts was titled "Summer part 1". I meant to post "Summer part 2", but I haven't gotten around to it and now it is almost Thanksgiving. (Yup I am not very good at this blog thing) :0)

Just to update all of you on where we are, we got a a hound puppy, "Sammie", at the end of August. (For those of you who don't know, my sister, Misty, moved in with us while she is going to school) Carl and Misty gained up on me and I caved and said "yes" to the dog. She is so fun and now she is pretty big. She isn't supposed to be an "in-house" dog, but now that the nights are getting so cold we let her sleep in our laundry room. She is only allowed in our house if she is in the laundry room, and only at night.

Carl and I started going to a family ward after going to the college married ward for 5 yrs. The second week we were in the ward they called us to be primary teachers for the Valiant 9 kids. We have 4 kids and they are so fun. They are so strong in the gospel, and they probably teach us more than we ever teach them. Carl was called into the bishops office last week and was asked to be the 2nd counselor in the Young Men's Presidency. He is over the Deacons. So now he teaches primary 2nd hour with me and priesthood 3rd hour. We really like our ward. Everybody is really friendly, and kind.

Carl is teaching welding and automotive to high school kids and he really loves it. This is his third year teaching and he enjoys it so much. He is also working on peoples' cars on the side. He still loves to work on cars, but he enjoys teaching it a little bit more.

As for me I am still working at Storytellers Club. I love the people that I work with and it keeps me busy. I also go once a week and volunteer in in a kindergarten classroom of the mentor teacher that I had at the elementary school that I student taught at last spring. I really enjoy being in the classroom again, even if it is only once a week.

Well that's what we are up to. I will try to come up with something more exciting to write about the next time. Hopefully it wont take me 2 months to write again!!

Tag Your It!

8 TV Shows that I love to watch

1. Samantha Who
2. The Office
3. Friends
4. Alias
5. Moonlight (it only lasted one season)
6. Heroes (if I ever actually start watching it)
7. Biggest Loser
8. Gilmore Girls (up to Season 5, the last two were horrible)

8 favorite Restaurants
1. Texas Road House
2. T.G.I Fridays
3. Wingers
4. California Pizza Kitchen
5. Cheese Cake Factory
6. The Garden House (their soups are out of this world!)
7. The Roof
8. The Ninja


8 Things that happened yesterday
1. I woke up late
2. Got to work on time
3. Went and helped out at a kindergarten classroom
4. Went back to work
5. Went home
6. Talked to Carl while I made dinner
7. Carl and I walked our dog Sammie
8. Watched the Office season 4 until 12am

8 Things I am looking forward t0
1. Going home and being with Carl
2. Going to Les Mis with Carl tomorrow
3. Twilight the movie to come out
4. Getting over a particularly hard trial
5. Having a baby (not an announcement)
6. Seeing Eagle Eye again
7. Going to Wicked in February
8. My brother to get his mission call

8 things on my wish list
1. happiness
2. a bigger house
3. to be all caught up on scrap booking
4. my house to always be clean
5. to own all of the good children's books in the world
6. To tour Europe
7. To go to Disney World
8. To have more time to myself

Eight people I tagged
1. Misty
2. Meagan
3. Jamie
4. Laura
5. Kristie
6. Katie
7. Britney
8. Sarah
8.anyone else who would like to do this

Summer part 1

Ok, I promised I would post our happenings of this summer. Here is part 1, we hope you enjoy!

David Graduates

Dave's favorite sisters

The girls

The Whole Family

David with Grandma and Gramps

Us with the graduate

David, my youngest brother, and I were lucky. We got to graduate about a month apart. He graduated high school with honors in Auto Technology. Congratulations Bud! We are so proud of you!

We met our niece

Carl's sister Renee and her husband Gary had their second child Tarika, in March. They came up here to bless her instead of doing it in California. We got to meet her over Mother's day. She is beautiful and a wonderful addition to our family!

I graduated from SUU! In Elementary Education

Carl, our families, and friends are the reason that I finally graduated. I could not have done this by myself. Every time I wanted to give up Carl was right there telling me I could do it. He is my hero and I owe him all that I am! Thanks honey for being my champion.

Finally

That's right I have finally entered the blog world!!! I have several people to thank for this. First, all of my friends who had blogs long before I even knew what a blog was, who kept telling me I should start a blog, Second, my favorite and only sister, Misty, who actually got my blog started, and who will have to teach me how to add pictures to it : ). And last but definately not least Kim, who kept teasing me until I actually added more than just my name to my blog. Kim will probably be the one to keep me posting too : )

Ok so stay tuned because I am going to be posting all of my wonderful summer activities. Hopefully it wont take me another month to do that. lol