Beckett Timothy Johnson

Tim and Ashli had their cute baby boy on September 23, 09. He was 7 lbs 2 0z. and 19 1/2 inches long. They went in at seven in the morning and they were going to most likely send them back home, but Ashli was determined not to. So she roamed the halls of the hospital for at least an hour to help start the process. It worked because she had him at 1:30 pm. When we saw them at the hospital yesterday they had not decided on a name yet. They had been debating between two names and just couldn't pick. I went and saw them today after work and they were still debating. They had their bags in the car, everyone was ready to go, they just needed a name first. A week later, they finally picked Beckett Timothy Johnson. Which happened to be neither of the names they were debating on. Congratulations to Timmy for finally making a decision!

Timmy and Beckett's favorite Auntie

Proud Grandpa Terry holding his 23 grandchild

Utah-Oregon

Friday night Jackie dropped me off at the airport and I headed to Portland to go to the game and see Brian and Abby. After they picked me up we headed to Burgerville and had a good hamburger. Saturday morning we got up and started the preparations for the game. We went and picked up some of Brian and Abby's friends to tailgate with us.
Angela made us tacos with Carne Asada. Her salsa's were amazing and Abby's brownie bites were yummy. We had a good time tailgating in the rain and then headed to the game.I always enjoy seeing a new stadium and this is what we saw as we walked in. We sat on the front row in one of the end zones. Most of the touchdowns happened right in front of us. This picture below of Brian and Abby kind of show how close we were. After the game we re watched a little of it and you could see us or at least our red in any camera shot of the end zone. We weren't sitting in the Utah section so there was 3 Utes surrounded by a sea of yellow so we were easy to pick out.

Everyone around us was pretty nice. We did get a dumb comment here and there, but that was to be expected. It rained for probably 3/4 of the game, but I guess in Oregon can you expect anything different. It actually wasn't that bad.

The game of course didn't turn out how we wanted it to, but the Utes battled back and made a game of it. The stadium was so loud and it had to be tough to call plays on the field. The Utes had their chances to win but didn't make the plays and that is one reason it stinks they didn't win. They had plenty of chances to take the lead.

It was a great experience to visit that stadium and hang out with Brian and Abby. We spent Sunday just hanging out at their house and talking. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them.

Here is a view of the Ute section. I think we represented really well.

Once again our seats were amazing and it was fun being that close to the action.

Another view of the stadium.

If you are all wondering where Jackie was, well she went down to St George with Sara, Sarah, and Natalie on Saturday morning. They spent Saturday shopping and then went to Tuachan and saw Aida. I guess the rain stopped by them as well and they had to stop the play twice because of the rain. They got soaked, but they were able to see the whole play. I had the camera so no pictures of their trip. She had a really good time and enjoyed their girls weekend without football.

Wow it's been a month

It's been a long time since I posted. Tough to post without the internet. Here are a few pictures from the last month.

Today Cory and I ran/walked in the Trudi Thomas 5 K Memorial http://www.westbountifulartscouncil.org/trudi
The 5 K is in memory of my really good friend Scott's sister. She had her life cut short and it is awesome that they do this to remember her and to raise money for a college scholarship in her name.

We made it the first mile just fine. Walked and jogged the next mile and the last mile walked and jogged the last little bit. It was a beautiful day and great to get out and jog.

Here is us after the race: Cory, Me, Jackie and Scott.

Cory and I got season tickets to the Utes. We took Cayman to the first game. She did really well for the first 3 quarters and then was done. We did make it to the end and the Utes won their 15th game in a row. The picture below is what it looks like from our seats. I am really happy with our seats and luckily Ryan was able to come with us to the first game and there was room for him to sit with us. Can't wait to go to more games.

We have spent time with Cayman hanging out this month as she adjusts to being a sister. She had so much fun jumping on the love sac. It was pretty funny.

I wish the picture showed better how much static was in her hair. It was really funny.

We have also had friends over this month. It has been fun having people over. We didn't take a whole lot of pictures though. We had all of Jackie's friends over one night and played a little Guitar Hero. The next weekend we had Abby, Ryan, Amber, and the twins over and just hung out.

We went exploring one Sunday after church and went to this place in downtown Salt Lake by Trolley Square. It is called Gilgal and and has some interesting sculptures. I remember going for a church activity once. It is now a really nice park.

Last of all, I finally had to get rid of my California license plates. It was a sad day. It was our last link to Cali. I did however get me some sweet U of U plates :)

New Baby Nephew

Cory and July had baby Cooper on Saturday morning. He was 8 pounds 3 ounces. Both July and Cooper are doing well. It was a fun experience for me since we were in California for all the other nieces and nephews births.
Here is their first family picture. We were able to take Cayman to the hospital and she sang a song the whole way about Mommy having a baby, and baby coming out of tummy. It was really funny.
Later that afternoon we had a work bbq at Liberty Park. We had relay races, tug of war, water balloon toss, bumble gum blowing contest and pie eating contest. Neither of our facilities took the trophy home though. Here is a picture of us losing the tug of war contest. My team did win the water balloon contest though.

After the bbq we went up to Amber's parents house and went swimming. Here is on of their twins. They are really big for being 5 months. We had a nice evening and we even able to see Brian and Abby for a little bit since they were in town for the weekend.

Quick Trip to California

We went to California last week for just a quick trip. Jackie had a work training meeting in Orange County on Friday and I decided to go with her and make a weekend trip out of it. We flew in Thursday night and met Bretton and Natalie at Downtown Disney. We went to ESPN Zone and sat in the room with the big movie theater screen that had the Angels game on. It was a lot of fun. We were even able to watch the firework show that happens at Disneyland. They were pretty cool.
We walked around Downtown Disney and went into the different shops. The Lego shop is cool to see all the different things they make out of Legos.

Jackie and Natalie had a little sword fight, not sure who won though.

We had to take a picture to send to Jackie's brother Tim to make him jealous that we were that close to Disneyland.

Friday, Jackie went to her work thing, Tyler had picked me up Thursday night and brought me back up to Ventura where we used to live. I went and stopped by my old work and said hi to everyone. It was really nice to see everyone. I miss them lots.

Friday night a big group of us went to the Dodger game. Above is Natalie and Bretton. We sat out in Right Field and they had all you can eat food with our tickets. We ate a lot of hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, and peanuts. It actually was a really good deal. We ate enough food to get our money's worth.

Above is Tyler and Jen. We are excited to be going to the Dominican Republic with them in the fall. It will be a great trip.Here is the view from our seats. The game was pretty exciting, but the Dodgers lost 6 to 3. I'm an A's fan, so it didn't really matter to me who won, but it was a lot of fun being at the game with everyone.

Here is the rest of the group, Sherry, Andy, Nellie, Logan, Spenny, and on the row behind is Rob and Ashley.

If you can make out what the sign says above, it is "MannyWood". They sure do love Manny Ramirez. Whenever he came to bat the crowd was the loudest. He is the one that just got back from his 50 game suspension.

After the game we were able to go down on the field for fireworks. If anyone knows how much I love baseball, you would know how cool this was for me. Everyone making faces behind my back while I was having Jackie take a serious pose picture of me on the field. Needless to say I laid down on the grass and have never walked on nicer grass than there. It was pretty cool.

The firework show was great and they did a Elvis tribute that night.

Here is me standing by the warning track, I wanted to make a run at the wall and jump like I was catching a ball, but there was a security guard as you can see. It was a really fun experience to be down on the field.

Saturday we went to the beach and played some volleyball and then swam in the ocean. Next we made a trip to In N Out and then just hung out the rest of the day. Sunday we went to church and were able to see some people from our old ward. We were excited to see Stacie and her two boys since we would always sit with them during sacrament. I was also able to see some of the young men that I used to work with down there. The trip was a lot of fun and it sure reminded us how much we loved living in California and how much we miss our great friends we made while we were out there.

Harry Potter Party!

My dear brother Timothy had this idea that we needed to go to the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie at 12:20 in the morning. At first, C.J. and I of course said no! We would much rather sleep and go see it at a normal time. Tim was quick to reject that idea. So he bought us tickets to go. Now, if you know C.J. you know he wouldn't be to excited about that. Well, he wasn't but he said he would still go. What a good Hubby! It was Tim, Ashli, Kelly, CJ and I and a bunch of Ashli's family. C.J. came home from work and played golf with his brother and thought it best if he went to sleep so that he could stay awake during the movie. He always falls asleep during movies and since this one was starting at midnight, he definitely needed to take a nap!
So while he was napping, I had my cute cousins Lizzy, Tricia, Becky and my two sisters Holly and Kelly over for dinner and we played fudge. It was so much fun. We need to get together more often and play! After my party, Kelly and I went to Mom and Dad's house around 10:30 and hung out for a little bit before we headed down to Jordan Commons to watch our show. C.J. needed a little more sleep so he met us at the theatre.
It was very busy and lots of people were dressed up. Some of the people were a little creepy and some of them looked really cool. There was witches selling candies, buttons, wands, and other stuff. It made me laugh. People really got into it. When it was time to start the show, we got into our seats, and C.J. was so excited for the previews. After the previews, C.J. was very disappointed, we had already seen all of them. There was nothing new at all, very disappointing.
After we watched the movie C.J. and I both agreed that it was a great movie and we both enjoyed it and then we hurried home so that we could catch some sleep before we had to get up and go to work. We got home at 3:30 and C.J. never once fell asleep. He did however spill Dr. Pepper all over his lap, so he sat in wet pants for the last half of the movie. Maybe that is why he did not sleep!

Johnson Reunion

We had Jackie's family Reunion last week. We first started out with Jackie's immediate family at her parents house. The first day was spent going on a hike to the Timpanogos Caves. Jackie and I had to be at work to get some Month End stuff done and I guess we were lucky we missed the hike because everyone was exhausted and sore when they got back. Jackie, Kelly, and I had baked cookies for the kids to decorate for activity and here are some pictures below.
The cookies were really yummy and the kids looked like they had fun decorating them. Some of the kids put so much frosting on their cookies and I have no idea how they ate them.

After decorating cookies, we ate dinner and just visited. The next day they hiked up to Ensign Peak and then we headed to Memory Grove Park and had a picnic. That park is beautiful and made for a relaxing afternoon.

Jackie's Dad was quite worn out from all the hiking and took a nice nap. While he was napping the grand kids decided to play in the little river.

What was supposed to be just get your feet wet and walk around ended up like this.... Some of the kids actually swam in the pond section.

On Friday we headed up to the Big Johnson Reunion in Star Valley with all of the extended family. On the way up is this Lonely Tree. When Jackie was in Elementary school she wrote a whole novel (that's what she calls it) about the adventures of this tree. She said her teacher loved the novel and was always anxious to read the next chapter. So Jackie has many fond memories of this tree.

It ended up raining a ton both nights. This is what happened to one of the tents after the first storm. It ended up ripping this tent and leaving a big puddle in multiple tents. We ended up sleeping at a cousin's house to avoid the wet rain.

Here are some of huddled under the pavilion during the first storm. There was hail, lots of wind, and lots of rain.

Terry took us on a little tour of where he grew up. Here is the actual house he was born in and then raised in. He took us in the barns and showed us different family houses etc.....

Here is an old school stove and oven that Terry's brother that lives in the house still uses. It was pretty cool looking.

Here is Tim in the milking barn showing his son what the cows do in there. It was pretty funny.

Here is a picture of the kids watching the adults and older kids get the cows into the corral so that they could brand them and then take away their male parts. Which they later tried to get everyone to eat at the reunion. I had none of that. No way was I eating that stuff.

After a quite a bit of work here are the cows going into the corral. They must have known what was going to happen.

So that was basically our busy week. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July.