The Johnson Family Journal: June 2010

VBS

OK...this is my last post for the night, but I wanted to give you all a peek at what I have been doing for the last two months that has prevented me from posting at all! :) For the past two months I have been spending every waking moment (outside of time with my family) preparing for Vacation Bible School at St. Andrew's. Last week we had 350 kids and 130 volunteers participate in Egypt...Joseph's Journey from Prison to Palace. It has been absolutely crazy pulling all of this together in only two months, but everything turned out amazing and I loved doing it. I am extremely grateful that the next time around I will have more than two months to do it all! :) Below are just a couple of the 400 pictures I took throughout the week. If you want to see the video that Preston and I put together that includes highlights of the entire week you can go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpkIuH7Vndo

Trips up North

We have made a couple of trips up north over the course of the last couple of months for some special occassions. One was for our nephew Ethan's baptism. We had a great weekend with family and friends. He is such a cute little peanut.

Jacie loves her cousin!

Kids on the move!

Can you tell that these two are going to be TROUBLE...wait, they already are! :)

The next trip was a surprise retirement party for Katie. We drove up to the farm on a Thursday afternoon and surprised her with a little gathering at the church. It was a very special weekend.

Getting photos of a 2 year old, one year old and 2 month old all together is virtually impossible...but I think we did pretty darn well.

After the party we headed to Buffalo City where Auntie Rosie rented this awesome cabin. We got to relax and hang out with family for about a day and a half before we had to head home. The kids had fun swimming in Rosie's bargain pool! :)

Grandma Katie and Ethan

Jacie kissing Tiger...with way too much tongue! :)

She loves the water.

What a cute little man!

Summer Fun!

I am all out of order now...but at least I am getting them posted. This is daddy and Jacie on Father's Day. I love this picture!

Mark, Kari and Allie came to Omaha for a visit. We had such an awesome time and I LOVE these pictures of the girls.

These two will be trouble together...I can pretty much guarantee that!

Lounging in the the kiddie pool!

Uncle T giving Jacie some mowing advice.

And Jacie helping Grandpa open his Birthday gifts!

Grandpa and Jacie on Papa's Birthday.

Jacie's Birthday

Of course we had to have a big bash for Jacie's first birthday. It was an awesome weekend...all of Preston's family came from out of town and my grandma came from KC. We had a huge crew of about 45 people at our house. Of course Jacie was totally spoiled. This was one of her favorite gifts...a lawn mower from Uncle T and Auntie Katie.