Gavin 1st Track Meet

This weekend was a first for Gavin...his first ever track meet at BYU!

Gavin has been known for his hops, and the track coaches wanted to recruit him to use those hops in the high jump and the long jump. So, after only one week of conditioning, and NEVER actually getting to jump over the bar, Gavin attended his very first track meet where he got some "on the job training!"

Gavin, along with around 40 other jumpers started jumping with the bar height at 5'4".

With each jump attempt Gavin took, he learned about how to jump! Each time he got a little higher, and a little more arch to his back, and then they moved the bar up in 2 inch intervals...

5'6"

5'8"

5'10"

6'!!!

Gavin ended up clearing the 5'10" bar and jumped the 6' bar, but his bum kept hitting the bar. Once he learns how to arch a bit more, I know that he will be able to go even higher!

Gavin YOU are so amazing and I am so proud of you for not bring afraid to try something new, and to push yourself to new heights! Literally!!! ;)

To top off Gavin's great first experience at his track meet, he also ran into our favorite player on the reality TV show Survivor - SAMMY!!!

Gavin thought it was so cool to see him and talk to him. 

What an awesome experience, for many reasons, there at BYU!

 

10/29 & 9/22

Any time I see the numbers 10 & 29 I think of Clint.

He was born on 10/29.

At 10:29 am and pm I text him if I'm not with him, or kiss him if I am with him...;)

And just the other day I looked at the time on my watch and saw the numbers 10 and 29 in the amount of steps I had so far in the day...

I love how all of the little reminders are fun and they help my heart to increase in love when I think of him. :)

What's even better, is that Clint was the one that started this whole number thing, and he does the same thing with my birthday numbers 9 & 22...even down to sending me texts of the key tag that reminds him of me while he is at work...;)

I love that sweet boy!!!

 

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to my handsome Daddy who would have been 81 today. (Actually yesterday January 18th since I am a day late in posting this.)

This photo of him was taken with my siblings at the placing of my brother Kelly's headstone in the North Ogden cemetery, and was also about a month and a half before he passed away.

Today, I am wearing my Daddy's hat to celebrate and remember him. :)

This was the last Christmas we had with my dad. I was so happy that I got to take him and my mom to the Piano Guys concert! I remember that he LOVED it. :)

And although these pictures are a little blurry, I love them.

This one was taken at my sister Andrea's wedding.

They look so young. :)

I love that my mom and dad loved going to the temple together too.

This was my dad at Tiffany's house the day that her son Maicen received his patriarchal blessing. My dad was so emotional and sensitive to the spirit. He is so sweet.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all. My parents went with me to Scheels and rode on the Ferris Wheel with me and my kids. I remember looking down at them and imagining them as teenagers doing something like this. It was a short but tender moment for me that I will always remember.

Little did we know that just 2 short months later he would be an angel to us...

This picture of Kambriella is special to me because it was taken just a couple of days before my dad passed away. We had all gathered together at my sister Meloney's house in Idaho and had been camping there for a small family reunion. I took Kambriella inside my mom and dad's camper trailer to comb her hair for the day. I took her picture because I thought she looked so cute. That was the last time we spent with my dad at that family reunion.

I like to imagine that he probably looks something like this now as an angel in heaven...young and handsome and healthy. :)

I am grateful for my knowledge and testimony of eternal families, and that one day we will be reunited with all of our loved ones that have passed on to the other side of the veil. We will probably even have birthday parties together again... Happy Birthday Daddy!

I can't wait to see you again!

 

Weekend With Cousins!

On January 14th, 2023 Colten Charley Blackett was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! This sweet little boy was SO happy and full of smiles, especially with his cousins there. :)

After spending some time at Colten's house after the baptism, we bought our little cousin Eila home to spend a few days with Kesslyn. These two girls love each other SO much, and when they are together, Kesslyn is her happiest little self. 

Gavin, Kambriella, and Xaxton also went skiing together too!

They played dolls and stuffies, and made a unicorn slushy stand, and even got to be mermaids in my sister Tiffany's hot tub for a while too.

It doesn't really matter what they are doing though, as long as they are together, they are happy. :)

Talking to Elder Trickett in Brazil on his p-day is always so good too. :) The technology that we have at our fingertips is such a blessing in our lives. I am grateful for how it keeps us connected, even when we are spread out all across the world.

 

Impressions

When you sincerely pray and ask Heavenly Father what He needs of you each day, I know that He sends the Spirit to guide us, and most of the time for me, it is through the consistent thoughts that come to my mind. On Thursday, it was of my sister in law Laura. I knew I needed to minister to her in love that day.

We laughed and cried together as we talked of life, loved ones, trials, and challenges, and how we can get through some of those challenges by going to Heavenly Father, kneeling at His feet, and resting our weary heads on "His Pillow." I took her some flowers and a candle and some homemade cookies to remind her of those good things that she already knows. I am so grateful for  eternal families and the relationships that we grow here in mortality that can and will be perpetuated beyond the grave because of our Savior Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for these things that I know.

 

Ice-Cream!

Kesslyn, I love you even more than you love ice-cream!

 

A Beach Wagon

Yesterday I was on a video call with Kierra, Easton, and Raya as they opened up their Christmas present that finally came in the mail! We sent them a beach wagon (with extra wide tires) for them to load up all of their beach equipment AND their little ones so that they can have a little easier time getting all of the gear to the beach. The kids seemed excited to climb right in the wagon and have their mom pull them around the house. :) I love and miss these people so much and I am so grateful for the technology that unites us even though we are so far away from each other. Kierra is a good little mama and I love watching her in her element. The kids are so sweet, and I can't wait to have them come and stay with us pretty soon! We love you Johnsons!