The Adventures of the Johnson Clan: Love These Summer Weeks!!

~WhAt A GoOd WeEk~

It went fast. It was fun. And we played with SO many different people!

This weeks just seemed to zip by thanks to having lots of activities scheduled,

and somehow Travis was able to be home most days around 5:00pm!

We tried arresting Nala while riding scooters in the back alley...

...unfortunately this didn't end well for Aaron when he tripped on some very

jagged blacktop and scraped his face up good.

The next morning didn't start out much better for him when Maddix let the dog out to the bathroom and accidentally knocked him down our back patio stair; my poor little baby.

He was actually calm at this point, but when I asked if we should
send a picture to Travis he gave a pathetic, "yeah" and then started up the waterworks.
As soon as the pictures was done, he stopped.

The week got better for him though. We enjoyed snacks out in the back since the weather was perfect this week.

We had a playdate at the park with several mom's from the ward, and although none of the kids are our ages, we still had fun having others to be with; plus the boys make friends wherever they go.

I'll tell you though, the kids here are thugs. Don't love them.

The boys accompanied me to our weekly Costco run.

Made cookies in honor of Gma Donna's Birthday... and then ate them:)

~Happy Bday Gma Donna~

Wished my Dad Happy Birthday as well

We enjoyed the delicious summer fresh veggies and fruit and opportunities to grill.

We had an amazingly fun day with Whitney and Camden walking over to the fire station, playing in forts, coloring with chalk, and playing in the pool out back. Then they left just as Travis showed up early!

The long weekend (including today)was AWESOME!

We have been trying hard to make some large decisions regarding school and we've felt pressed to make it to the temple; however it's been closed and it's difficult finagling a sitter. LUCKILY we have our adopted Grandparents, the Castles here and Carol watched the boys for us, allowing us some needed temple time!

The trip to the temple was.... challenging. So many things with the subway system just seemed to go wrong. For once we gave ourselves some extra time to get there, but even with that we ended up stranded in a part of town that wouldn't connect us to the temple... so I hailed my first cab!

We BARELY made it in time, only to find out the session was full.

Then they offered us a sealing session, so we ran to the elevator! And there guess who we ran into??

Sis. Neilson, wife of the mission President while we were in Poland :D

We knew she and her husband were there serving a mission, but we'd yet to run into them. We chatted at the elevator and she told us Pres. Neilson was actually the one conducting the sealing session;

without going into detail I'll just say that was one of the most amazing and spiritual sealing sessions I've ever been apart of.

And we were meant to miss the endowment session.

The Church is True.

Period.

Pizza is supposedly the best in Manhattan; rated
by the celebrity wall

While Carol had the boys she spoiled them with baking cookies, their favorite movies, a trip to the park, etc. They were worn out! That's the best kind of sitter right there.

Sunday was actually a pretty good day.

Usually they're rough what with Aaron not napping because of church.

But after a major Sabbath day fail last Sunday, coupled with multiple lessons on keeping the Sabbath Day Holy we were determined to make this Sunday a "sign to God" as our lesson called it.

We worked on puzzles together,

dreamed about the future,

Polished our shoes :)

The boys were behaved at church

Then had the sisters over for dinner. Good Day.

Happy Bday Gpa!

Happy Bday Gap!

They held their annual Picket against my choice of dinner...
this is their third annual sit-in. Sigh.
Love those boys.

And today was a fantastic Monday of having Travis home! First of all I got to go running! It felt so so so so so so so so awesome! And here were the views from my run: