Utah trip post2

So because I now post off my iPad I can't explain every picture so this post is all about Johansen cabin trip to Yellowstone!! Our cabin was actually in island park but it was all beautiful either way! We visited old faithful and the hot pots we went to a theater and saw a show called home school musical 2 it was hilarious and we were grateful to have nieces and nephews all old enough to be able to leave all the little ones home it was nice!! One of our favorites was the upper and lower falls we even hiked down in to be right on top of the fall which about killed me carring Avy! Another favorite we went to a natural spring and i think it was honestly the most beautiful place i have ever seen!! So here are the pictures of a wonderful week!! Thanks mom and dad for making it possible and my whole family for making it fun!! We love u all!! Sorry if I didn't explain a picture!

Church ready!!

I attempt to take a picture of my girls every Sunday but doesn't always happen!! But here r a few! I'm trying to import from my card to my iPad so the pictures might not look too clear but I have to try it out! The other picture is us out by the fire and for some reason it was huge we think the valve was broken but it was fun for us!!

Fishing

For family nights out we have started fishing! We r surrounded by beautiful lakes and need to take more advantage of them! Avy was hilarious I would cast her pole then hand it to her and she would real it in then hand it back!! We did this for a solid hour and she just sat there it was really nice. So just keep that in mind if anyone ever comes to visit we will take u fishing!!

A day in our life!

We r going a little crazy around our house!! Avy has decided she deserves more attention and is in battle destructive mode!! The one picture is of what she did while I was doing some banking!! Serves me right not checking on her every 2 minutes! The best part is the laundry detergent was at the top of the closet so she scaled 5 shelves then muscled it down then proceeded to dump the entire thing on the floor!! . So as I sat and thought of the first step in cleaning this up... Moping,scraping back into container, rags?? I had no idea, but apparently kensi could read the look on my face and said its ok mon I'll get some rags and help u!! What a sweet heart!! So while we cleaned avy got into everything else like empting my pill cubord dumping olive oil and vinegar on a batch of cookies soaking each individually!! Next I ban her to the couch to not move and she obeyed completely even when she needed to pee!! Just decided to soak my couch!! Ahhh all in a day!! Got to love being a mom! Finally I knew we had to get out of house!! So we pumped up the little pool and we swam!! In cold water and I would let them get out ha ha! But of course they loved it!! So that's a day of my life and I hope it makes everyone smile and remember their bad days as fun !!

utah trip part 1.

Our trip to Utah Was wonderful!! And thanks to mark we have now figured out how to blog from our phones much easier on me!! So unfortunately I took most of my Utah pictures on my camera but here are a few of us off my phone... The flowers are from mark!! He had them sent to me while he was home! Soo sweet!! There is a couple pictures of us at the zoo with our London cousins that was a blast!! And the picture of avy holding dresdyns hand was soo special she just decided to hold it and held it for a while!! And last but not least is a picture on the way home with our very tired girls!!


And just so you know I will put pictures on because I accidentally put them on my other blog of london family flavors so you can just look there if you wish!!

love it!!

Since I'm pretty much terrible at updating!! I'm at work and it is a really slow night so I think that I'll just type you all a note since no one actually reads this but I should have it for yours truly anyhow!! life is crazy now but wonderful I'm trying to figure out how things can get more crazy then they already are but I'm sure they can so I'm not complaining!! the london life's largest changes are: Mark getting put in as first counselor in the bishopbric so now I'm what we call a bench widow!!! I'm thinking I'm going to wait to have any more kids until he is released!! Soo I guess I'm done having kids ha ha!! I'm way proud of him for being worthy to hold such a calling and this calling even makes him in even more of a hurry to move back to utah so that he doesnt get put in as bishop. And for the bench widow my toy bag is just about to burst at the seams with my childrens attention span getting through sacrement without loosing it is .... difficult! oh well live and learn.

But because I'm such a wonderful sain person Mark and I our treating ourselves to a mexican cruise and we leave in 3 weeks for 7 nights!!!! ahh I cant hardly wait. Thanks to my mom for watching kids and our friends that are coming with us it sould be a good time.

Kensi was getting easier as a child for a while then lately has started getting worse going back to 2 year old age where she throws these fits. So we are trying to deal with that with a smile and trying to walk away from her at the grocery store wondering who does that kid belong to!! Ha ha she isnt bad all the time she is quite the little artist and I'll have to put pictures on later but the other day she drew 2 people holding hands( and these arent just stick figures) full fingers and everything. and even pictures on their shirts. I loved it. she is my little distressed artist. but still very caring and sweet.

As for avy for some reason I have a hard time getting mad at her maybe her chubby face or something. she is a very stubborn child and doesnt speak hardly at all(completely opposite from kensi) she is best at having selective hearing it works beautiful!! it all depends completely on what mom is saying to determine if she is going to listen or not!! she is my logic child. the girl can find movies or her favorite games on my phone or ipad no matter how I arrange them. and she can figure things out quickly like putting the soap in the dishwasher and starting it. (now if I could just teach her to load we would be golden) we do rescan her this week to see if her reflux is gone so hopefully it is cleared up!! and hopefully we wont have to have any more surgery!!

As for me well I really think some days I sit down at the end of the day and wonder why I just feel so tired!! I have the proplem lackofsayingnoitis. that is the disease that I have to please everyone and never turn people down if they need help cleaning or painting or need a ride a long or picking up kids or picking up food. and the list continues!! on a little more serious note there are days that I think mann I give my whole self to my kids, and I give my whole self to my friends when they need me and I give my whole self to my husband when he needs me and I give my whole self to my YW when they need me and I give my Whole self to my Patients when I'm at work and I start to wonder how many selves to I have and when will I be whole again!! then I quickly realize that by doing just what I'm doing I'm giving my whole self to him who gave his whole self to us!! and how selfish am I for feeling like i give and do so much and I want more to be done for me when I have a savior who gives all and expects very little in return!! I'm truly grateful for this time of year for the resurrection of our savior!! and I like to look at it as new beginnings!! a better outlook and a hope that I can start being a better me!! one much more like him!!

wow I think we have been forgotten!

Well it has been quite some while since we have posted so sorry for that our card reader is not the best and I'm not a very good story teller to just write hence the delay!! Things in our home are good but we did have a couple stressful weeks starting off this this little stinker.


We had surgey scheduled for the 22nd of december and because there was a large change we would still be in Mesa on christmas I asked if we could be on call if any other kiddos called in sick for surgery! and so of corse the week I called them I shortly got a call back on a wednesday afternoon that they had an opening the next day! so because we had a heathly child we decided to go for it! Surgery went well and shorter than they thought good thing!!! I can only imagine it taking longer then they thought and waiting for word. Because Cardon's hospital was short on patients they put us on the oncology floor and I tried my best to ignore the sick kids!! There was lots of worn out mothers and crying kiddos. I was truly grateful that we was only in the hospital for a little surgery!





By that night she was running and squeeling expicially when she saw kensi! she got so excited. We were able to leave the next day but the doctors wanted us to stay in Mesa if possible incase anything happened. and because of the snow in flag and a wonderful hospitible Aunt Joy we stayed until sunday. we shopped and played almost just like we were there for a visit. so I'm very grateful for an incredible hospital and really left the experience without any bad feelings!!

This picture is out of place so come back to it in a minute!!

Posing for christmas card pictures if you didnt get one and want one leave me your address and I will get you one because I have plenty so you dont have to feel left out!!

Of course Avy does everything that kensi does so they were both practicing a little ballet.

Right before Avy joined in

love this picture too bad there is the haze over it!!

Such hopeful eyes!

K so now you can refer back to the other picture. This was my summer project well like a year project it is my first quilt and it took a lot more time and money than I ever thought it would. but thanks to my mother helping me quilt it and taking it home to bind I was able to finish to give to my grandma for christmas!! Adn thanks bec for the idea and the many many phone calls to figure out what in the heck I was doing. My grandma has always made all the grandkids a quilt for their wedding and each greatgrand child a afagan and I though I dont know if anyone has ever made her a quilt so I did just that and I will let you know what she thinks after I give it to her for christmas.

Next we had Kensi's birthday and this is pretty much how she spent most of it. we had friends over and one friend gave her a huge pile of hand me down books and of corse instead of paying attention to anything else she just wanted to read that is what whe loves to do. we finally had to take them away so that she would blow out her candles.

Sorry random picture thrown in the middle this is after we were discharged from the hospital and the kids were playing on everything even though avy doesnt look happy she was very excited to leave that place!

Kensi's cake it doesnt look all that fancy but it was sooo good mark made rasberry cream cheese frosting and a twinky cake(well that is what it tasted like anyway) and it was soo good!!

As for everything else Mark is doing good and starting a bigest looser contest with friends in january and I think I'm going to join him We both need to be more disipled on being healthy! but his work is going well and he seems to be busier with his church job then his real job but I guess that is how it goes. AS for me really nothing just doing projects to keep me busy and I'll update pcitures of my lattest!! Kensi is keeping busy and still nice and winey! ha ha her lattest is she brought me a letter A that she had written on a piece of paper and cut out she gave it to me then said here is my letter to santa!! after that we talked about how there are different kinds of letters so now she calls it her note to santa. And Avy finally started nursery and is not sure about it nor is the leader but oh well she has to learn sometime to hangout with someone else for a while. and this sunday mark and I both got to enjoy lessons for once in a while!! well I hope that is an ok update and I'll try to do better next time.

4th of July in Utah

We were able to spend a day on the lake.

Everything was so green it was amazing.

The girls in there skirts from grandma.

Mommy and Avy after the fire truck soak.

The girls at the parade in Morgan

The whole Family.

Our little family.

The little babe.

New Haircut

Jessica decided to cut her hair and donate to Locks of Love

The after loaded first.

Flagstaff Stake Trek

Jessica and I were lucky to go on Trek this year as adult children. This is part of the group that went from our Williams Ward