The Johnson Clan

Time feels like it speeds up when the weather warms up. This week has been busy busy, but not as busy as the next few will be. We spent time with our cutie cousins.  We babysat our neighbor friend Cooper. Also a cutie. Every day we found time to go to a park, usually with friends.  The girls did their second to last ballet class of the year. They’re excited for the recital in May.  Clayton and I ran the Tulip festival 5k. I got 13th place in my division (not too shabby for me), and he placed 5th in his. It was a beautiful morning running by the waterfalls and flowers.  We also had preschool, a field trip, family dinner at Val’s, housework, yard work, a hiking date with Sierra,  deacons, doctors appointments, and prepping for the next couple of weeks that will be full of travel. Not to mention trying to get all the girls to bed in time, which has been a real struggle lately 🙃.

Our friends Kennedy, Wyatt, and their two kiddos came to visit. They might be moving here next year, and I really hope that they do. We met in Ohio when they were there for the summer for an internship, and we’ve been close friends ever since.  We also met their friends Lindsay and Alex. Lindsay and I found out that we lived in the same dorm building in summer semester 2011 at BYU. Funny.  Now years later we have 5 kids between us. Crazy. We spent the weekend skiing, swimming, going to the aquarium, and catching up. Hopefully they pick Spanish Fork when moving to Utah! 

Just a cute picture from our park play date this morning with our twin friends.  Cora, Ruby, Lydia, and Marlow. Also, at that park play date Darcy was dropped by one of her sisters face first onto a slide and chipped her front tooth. 

We took Ruby and Cora to a BYU volleyball game. It went great at first. The girls were excited, we bought treats, it was packed… and then we sat through two hours of loud volleyball. Ruby looks happy in this picture, but both Coco and Ruby were very unhappy after about 20 minutes. BYU won, and the girls were totally exhausted by the time we left.  Clayton is still hoping that he can mold them to be an Olympic volleyball doubles team with a twin telepathy advantage. 

We have a tradition that we hide the Easter baskets around the house so that when Ruby and Cora wake up they have to find their basket. They love it almost as much as finding hidden Easter eggs in the yard.  Little girls are so easy to please. A couple of candies, sunglasses, and a new fuzzy purse made them go wild.  For dinner we went to Grandma and Papa’s house. Dani and fam, Sierra and Chris, Kenze and Brandon, Ethan, and Spencer were also there. We played games and listened to the Resurrection story with the 12 filled eggs.  We had a second week of spring break because the girls preschool teacher went on a trip. We went to the aquarium again, those passes already paid for themselves.  While Ruby was looking over the edge of one of the fish tanks her sunglasses fell off her head and right into the tank. She was devastated. Luckily we just had to track down an employee and they were able to fish out the glasses. We had a great time. Surprisingly, we’re liking having less scheduled we

This week has been an eventful one. Cora and Ruby love not going to school, and we’ve been able to fit in a lot of fun activities each day. We’ve had play dates with friends, a sledding day, swimming at the Springville Rec Center, hikes/bike rides, and many house projects.  When asked what her favorite part of the week was, Ruby said that one morning we went out and bought donuts. She’s easy to please.  Darcy has been practicing walking, and is getting really good at it. It’s slowly becoming her main mode of transportation. 

We play a game with Ruby and Cora during conference weekend. We tell them a list of key words (testimony, faith, repent, or whatever words we choose) and every time they hear one they get to pick a piece of candy. It’s been very effective at helping them to listen to a lot of conference.  It’s been a good weekend. We got a lot of house projects done while listening, we spent a lot of time outside in the nice 50 degree weather, and we’ve spent plenty of time together. I don’t have a traditional conference snack or meal that I make every time, mostly because I get tired of the things that I make over and over.  This next two weeks are spring break, which I actually don’t love. For one thing, Clayton doesn’t gets long breaks from work so it doesn’t feel like a vacation. School is out which means I don’t get to hand my kids off regularly for a couple hours (which I love doing). The parks and museum that we usually visit are packed with other kids that are also out for break, and it’s just