At G-pa & G-ma Johnsons

Before leaving Dad & Vic's, we enjoyed a little time in their beautiful yard. We had a nice strong breeze, plenty of shade from the trees and cool, thick grass between our toes. I got a shot here of each of the kids.

CADEN ~ currently 6 and ready for school to start! 1st grade this year.

PAXTON~ 4 here, going to pre-K and thrilled about it.

DAISY~ 18 months and doing some heavy teething right now.

CALVIN~ 3 months now, full of smiles and cooing conversation

Just chillin

Daisy is often wanting to hold Calvin and Paxie is always willing to help

My Dad & Vic have had these dogs forever. Peanut in the back and Hobbs up front. They walked up into the shot just before we took the picture. So here is our first picture featuring Calvin and Hobbs.

This day we straightened Paxton's hair. It is so long once the curl is taken out.

Demonstrating some skills

Wiffle ball = good times

G-pa & G-ma Johnson w/the crew

Cousin fun

Where do I start? We've had a fun week. My sister's family has been out visiting from Missouri. Last Saturday we went to hang out with them in the valley and swimming was the highlight of the day. I forgot the camera, so no pictures. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins that they only get to see one, sometimes two times a year if they are lucky.

Wednesday we rose with the sun and headed up north to visit some more with them at my dad and Vicki's. The weather was so nice. We enjoyed the cooler temps and my dad smoked a couple of turkeys for dinner.
Zachary is a couple years older than Caden, but they enjoyed every bit of eachothers company.


Paxton and Gracie are just two days shy of being 1 year apart, with Gracie being older. They couldn't get enough of eachother. I just love this first picture.



Kara is about two years older than Daisy. ~~ Really the girls all had a great time with eachother. (Kara,Gracie,Daisy,Paxton)


Heather, Rusty, Me.


This pictures sums up Daisy's past few days. She getting a few new teeth and has been a little monster!


Zack and Paxton


Before they left we got a picture of them with G-pa. G-ma wasn't home when we took this.
Daisy, Caden, G-pa Steve, Zack, Kara, Gracie, Paxton, Derrick


Here they are again all together. Derrick is Heather's oldest son, I didn't get many pictures of him. He has is so grown up and is such a good kid.

butterfly

Shortly after my last post I was taking Caden to swim TEAM practice. His coach stopped me to ask if Caden would be participating in that weeks meet. "How is he doing? Is he swimming well enough to compete?" I ask.
She tells me how it all works.... For the 6 and under group, they can stop and hold the side or rope or touch bottom as long as they don't make forward movement while doing so.
"Oh, I didn't know this. In that case as long as he wants to, lets sign him up!" I then talked with him about it and he was so excited to give it a go. Bonus that it was also in Globe, so Grandma Hansen was able to come watch.
He did great and he chose to do the butterfly! Isn't that like the hardest stroke? His coach put him in the outside lane incase he needed the wall. He did stop twice, but did so well. It was fun to watch and he ended up with a 3rd place ribbon! He was pretty nervous. Globe's pool is about 10 meters longer than Kearny's and the young ones start in the deep end and swim to the shallow end, so if they need to touch bottom, they have a better chance of doing so.

About to start his race.