Primary - Scouting - Its in my blood!

Guess who is the primary counselor over the handsome little cub scouts in the ward, me! I admire the scouting program and have nothing but marvelous things to say about it. I'm excited to work hand in hand with the den leaders in making it a very successful program. They have a dutch oven cook off camp out that the Primary presidency will be attending (we will just be there for the dinner & dessert, not the camping) and then Blue & Gold is Februray 5th! Can't wait!

-Meagan

Soccer 2012-13

 Colton started up soccer this year. He is playing on a 5-6 year old team (as a 3 year old). He is definitely learning, its been a good season so far! 

Go Earthquakes! 

Pre-game warm up

Faithful fans! Go Colton!

Pre-game

Pre-game

Pre-game

GO!

Go Colton Go!!! (he is the little one with the red ball)

Aggressive!

Conner has the ball, Colton and Conner go to church and pre-school together.

Alex is a cute girl on the team, she reminds me of a older version of my niece Emma.

Colton kicking it from the sideline.

Art - Bill Johnson

My father in-law had an art exhibit recently and luckily we had no other pending plans and were able to attend short notice. We are so glad we were able to go and see all of his many art pieces and photographs. He is an extremely talented man. I hope we are lucky enough to enjoy one of his pieces in our home some day. If you see the pictures of the orange fall trees near my elbow.... that is the very coveted piece I hope to own some day. I told him we had to show up to make sure he didn't sell it! ;) It reminds me of the Foley's trees that would turn bright yellow and orange in the fall.

Baby #3!

Iv decided posting a title with the name of the month is probably a bad idea if you can't get back to blogging for a couple of months. OOPs!

I thought I would write on here really quick for those of you who may have not heard yet....

We are expecting Johnson baby # 3 in July!

I have to go pick up Colton from preschool now, but needed to get that on our blog before I forgot again.

Hope everyone had a blessed holiday season.

Love,
The Johnson's

Pictures - Hello November!

Anna @ the park by our house.

GQ @home eating lunch

1st fire of the season!

Went off roading with Uncle Karl and cousin Emmin. It was so fun. (Thats Reid in our 4Runner)

Uncle Karl found a narrow tunnel under a railroad that we went through in order to do some off roading.

The holidays are approaching us quickly. Every other year we trade off for Christmas and Thanksgiving. This year we will be in Kansas for Thanksgiving which we call Thanksmas because that's when we do Christmas with my family on the off year. We will be in Arizona for Christmas this year and vise versa next year. ;)

Sickness has been going around the family. First, the little girl that I nanny kept coming over with a fever and I kept sending her home... finnally her family took her to the doctor and she ended up having STREP. So I ended up with strep and a heavy dose of meds. Luckly Colton and Anna didn't catch it. I was so upset as I was excited to go help my cute sister in law Edith with her new baby girl that arrived a day early to be born on election day this year. Edith- once our coughs and runny noses go away I'm determined to come hug that cute new niece! 

I'm busy busy busy with my church calling as counselor in the Primary Presidency. We have a up coming service project that we will be doing with the kids on Friday. We are having the kids each put together gift baskets for parents in need that show up to one of the local hospitals last minute with nothing but a shirt on their backs while there kids are in the hospital for a illness or trauma. One of the other counselors works in the ICU and helped us with this service project as she see's a lot of parents that have to go and find a convenience store just to grab a tooth brush because the child was rushed in without much warning. We are also having other neat little stations, I'm in charge of the sugar cookie decorating station for their treat to have while they are there and we will be making "Thankful Tree's" as a neat way to get ready for Thanksgiving.

Reid went and saw a specialist for his ears that actually knows about Meniers desease. There are not many ENT's that know about this disease so when he was able to get an appointment to see one he jumped at the opportunity. The one meniers ENT doctor in Phoenix has a waiting list till April of next year. The doctor told him he will need to make some major life style changes, go to bed at a good time at the same time every night, exercise, and eat this fancy diet.

Colton has not wet the bed in 3 weeks, that's including naps and all night long!!! He has been doing really well with the potty training. This boy is growing like a weed! He is LOVING preschool and has been learning so much. 

Anna is so much like Reid. She is so serious all the time and looks for Reid all day when he is at work. Then when Reid is home she loves to cuddle with him. She is a daddies girl for sure.

Family Update

Amber came to visit me! I really enjoyed her company and help with the crazy kids!

Amber and I braved Toys R Us with a shopping cart full of kids in order to get this new sandbox. Reid wanted to make one and it has been months of rain and so the sand that we purchased started going everywhere as the bags were callapsing. So we went out and purchase this one. So much better looking than those ugly turtles.

This is Colton and his friend Cara right before swim lessons on their 1st day!

This is a photo of Colton and Anna after a warm day of soccer.

Daddy playing with his kids in Coltons room.

My desert candy corn bush (thats what I call it) and my cute little scarecrow.

Colton at soccer practice. (Yellow Shirt!)

Colton at soccer practice. (Yellow Shirt!)

Colton and Mommie enjoying some Mizzou football while daddy was at a all day saturday meeting for work and Anna was napping.

Colton - I took this picture because his outfit reminded me of my Dad.

Anna enjoying a chocolate doughnut with orange and black sprinkles!

Colton enjoying his fall/ halloween doughnut.

A few of us went to Dairy Queen after the primary saturday practice and ward fiesta. (Colton is the blurry boy on the left)

Anna and Mommie watching Colton play soccer.

At church with tired kids. 1pm church is tough with nap times.

Colton and Anna at Lowes (last night). Getting ready for Christmas before halloween is even here. Haha.

HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!

Thought I would just do a quick update! HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY! Hope all is doing well. We are busy over here with work, preschool, refinishing furniture, and trying to keep Reid from falling or tripping as he had another Meneires attack over Labor day. Each day has been a little better. ;)

August

WOW, WHAT A CRAZY MONTH!!!

My "baby" sister Brooklyn came to town so that she could have a summer job with all the traveling and sports camps she has attended. I had her watch my kids and the kids I usually nanny during the day. On week 3 of 4 we drove to Grand Junction, CO to meet up with our sister Nicole and her cute kids and piled into my mini van and drove to my parents house in Shawnee, Kansas. 26ish hours later (from Phoenix) we finally arrived! We had a wonderful trip in Kansas and enjoyed the family time we got to spend together. We celebrated Colton & Emma's 3rd birthdays a few weeks early and are so grateful for the gifts from extended family. We drove back to Phoenix and Brooklyn put in another hard week of watching kids. We did take her to the water park which was open late at night and left the kids with a babysitter. All in all I would say it was a very eventful job/vacation for her and I. While Brooklyn was watching my kids I was at our ASU rental home repainting walls, ceilings, baseboards, putting on new door hardware, and new kitchen appliance and updated kitchen pulls. It was SOOOO much work but looks really great now.

We have started a little tradition of taking Brooklyn to Olive Garden as her "going away" dinner or lunch. Below is a picture of me and her at Olive Garden the night before she left. The picture below that are picture Brooklyn took with our crappy digital cameras.... even though one of them is brand new and not cheap, we still have yet to find a point and shoot camera that does decent photos with low light indoors. I'm starting to think they don't make such a thing. ;)

Brooklyn & Meagan at Olive Garden

Family Picture

Family Picture

Johnson's

Anna's Baby Curls

Colton - I can't believe how grown up he looks here!

Love Birds...  ;)

Momma & Wild Child