We have a little garden in our backyard. It’s just big enough for some tomatoes, Anaheim peppers, jalapenos, and zucchini. Remove the zucchini from this list and you have a pretty good start on the ingredients for our favorite salsa canning recipe. It’s the end of August, so we are enjoying the annual harvest from …
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Montana Wilderness Adventure
Yes, we just went on a great vacation to Bear Lake, but when we got invited to join the Bergeron family at their cabin in Cooke City, Montana we could not pass up on the opportunity. Mike and Penny were great hosts and tour guides. I can see why they love going up there so …
How to vacation at Bear Lake
For our 2015 summer family vacation we went to Bear Lake. We are already talking about when we can repeat our great Bear Lake vacation, so I wrote a guide we can refer to when we do it again. #1: Bring good friends Three families (the Francis’, Forstners, and we Johnsons) stayed all week long. …
Hidden Peak from the Snowbird Tram
My new job allows me to reserve ski passes which are good at most of the local resorts. We had them today and decided to head up to Snowbird resort and explore the lovely Wasatch mountains. We took a ride on the Aerial Tram up to Hidden Peak. Hidden Peak sits at about 11,000 ft …
Katelyn’s Week at Clear Creek
Our school district runs a summer camp for to-be sixth-graders. None of our older kids have ever been involved, but Katelyn had some friends going so we thought we’d check it out this year. When investigating whether Katelyn should join her friends we found out several key points about Clear Creek. Several parents we talked …
Girls can backpack too
Megan turns 13 here in a couple weeks. Katelyn is 11. The weather forecast was perfect, and there weren’t any other conflicts, so we decided to head out on their first overnight backpacking trip. The girls seemed pretty excited to go. I gave them general directions of what to bring and what not to bring, …
The Forgotten Baseball Season
Drew was excited to start baseball season this year. He’s played teeball before, but this was going to be his first year of little league (it’s machine pitch at his age). He plays for the Cubs. Thankfully (for reasons which will soon become clear), Drew’s friend Micah is also on the team. Unfortunately due to …
Jesse and Mikaela’s Wedding
My brother Jesse is a great guy, and always has been. Yesterday, he was married to his sweetheart Mikaela in the Draper Utah LDS Temple. It was a wonderful celebration. The Johnson and Milne families all gathered on Thursday, May 14th at Brick Oven in South Jordan to have a pre-wedding dinner. Gatherings with all …
Our Two Soccer Referees
Both Jacob and Megan have spent a lot of time this spring calling soccer games. Jacob did it last year and found out that it was a pretty sweet job. Megan joined him this year and together they make a pretty good team. It began back in February with training. Both Jacob and Megan had …
First week at Ancestry
This was my first week as an employee of Ancestry.com and it has been a week of adjustments. Everything is new to me at Ancestry. Here is a quick list of some of the things I had to adapt to during my first week: Being totally clueless After almost ten years at Morinda, I had …
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