Johnson Family 2013 ~ Year in Review Part 2

Jaxons shirt for the 4th of July celebrations. We try every year to go and 2013 we did. We beat the heat. Sat thru a parade, ate a hot dog in the grass and celebrated our freedom!

Jills shirt. I hope they still fir this year! And a huge thanks to Pintrest! They wouldn't have this little memento hanging in their closet if I didn't browse that site for countless hours!

July 2013. The month we also celebrate Dads Birthday. He was away at work for his day, but I took the kids out for a photo opp and this is ONE of my favorites. We have 3 hanging on the living room wall that we framed and gave him for his *gasp* 35th birthday!

We now live in a desert. We haven't seen a wet spring or summer since 2009. So when we do get our short spurts of 30 minute pour-downs, the kids dance and get wet and muddy and i snap photos from the front door.

We also spent hot humid days indoors. Crafting it up. Catching up on scrap-booking and yes....drinking Kool-Aid out of wine glasses.

These 2 characters are forever best friends. They have loved loved loved each other since the day we brought this blue eyed blue haired beauty home. I am close with my sister and I hope they never think they are too cool to stay best friends. To know that they will always have each other to count on.

We took a much needed family vacation the end of July. No Wi-Fi. No Facebook. A lake. A cabin. My canon. And thousands of memories!

Well. It came. He started the BIG school. Pre-K! New shoes, new clothes and a new back-pack. New friends and a new teacher. Whom we have grown to love as the year has come along.

The big 3rd grader. New haircut. New back-pack and the smell of crayons. I loved the 3rd grade! She hesitated after the first week knowing that further into the school year she would learn multiplication and division. Shes an A/B Honor Roll student. She is in a Music Memory class one day a week and that has opened her world to classical music and how to read music. Shes growing and (semi) maturing!

The middle year of middle school. EEKK! Style all her own. New and old friends awaited her this year. She is also an A/B Honor Roll student. On the Deans list. Shes writing her own violin music. She made the volleyball team in the Fall. She has kicked booty at Pole Vault this spring. 4 first place ribbons and a few more inches away on her jump and she will have a city wide record. Ups and downs for me and this, now a teenager, but I have enjoyed watching her grow and mature. She is a huge help to me and someone that I know I can count on.

Java had her 2nd litter of pups in August! 9 total!

We took another trip to the lake for my *gasp* 35th birthday! Made some new wonderful friends and it turned out that I cannot do the robot OR drink more than the guys! But they made my day and weekend!