Seth’s brother, Jesse, sculpted us a family of seven penguins, each representing our roles, interests, etc. He did such a great job that we wanted to share them on our blog. He made them out of clay, cooked them, and then painted them. He just recently started doing this and we were so pleased. They …
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Best of 2008
MightyJohnsons.com is now a year old, and in the honor of the god Janus (for whom January is named) we’ll take a look back at 2008 before looking ahead to the new year. So, here are some of our favorite posts from 2008. What a year! January: Drew’s arrival trumps everything else. Five kids. Wow. …
A New Year, a few new goals
Some years I make resolutions, some years I don’t. This year however we had a great talk at church about setting goals, whether it be the New Year or not, and accomplishing them. He mentioned expecting some disappointment and being prepared for things to not go as expected. So this year I have set some …
Best Christmas Ever
We had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was filled with lots of snow, family time, and great traditions. We tried to be a little more conservative this year and it seemed to work out better than ever. The kids still got plenty of fun presents but weren’t so overwhelmed with gifts that they weren’t …
A new tradition
I think we have found a new holiday tradition. We always try to make our way up to Salt Lake to visit Temple Square and see the beautiful lights, but this year we went up early enough to go to the Church History Museum. Seth’s Mom is serving a mini-mission as a docent at the …
Sledding fun
It’s been a while since our last sledding excursion, so to celebrate the first day of Christmas vacation Jacob, Megan, Katelyn and I all went out to enjoy the snowy hills. Today was a perfect day for sledding, not too cold, no wind, recent snow. Katelyn got a bloody nose, but no other injuries were …
Drive-thru Santa
I don’t want to sound like Ebenezer Scrooge, but sometimes all the Christmas hustling and bustling and shopping ’til dropping has me saying, “Bah, humbug!” However, one of the traditional activities is now much easier — the children’s visit to go see Santa at the mall has been replaced by our city-sponsored drive-thru Santa. It’s …
Thanksgiving in St. George
This year we spent Thanksgiving at my dad’s place in St. George. We rarely get to spend the holidays with my family because they are generally in Alaska, but with my dad having a place closer we get quite a few opportunities to visit him. We had a great time! The kids got to test …
Soon it will be Christmas day…
We set our tree up early this year, last Sunday to be exact. We knew we would be out of town after Thanksgiving so we got a head start. There is something super exciting about pulling out the Christmas decorations and setting everything up. The kids went crazy. The did almost all the decorating, all …
Hair, beautiful hair!
I just love my little Claire. She keeps me on my toes every day. Right now it is either swimsuits or princess dresses all day. I can change her a million times and it only takes a few minutes to have her back in her preferred attire. I even hid all her swimsuits (it is …
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