When Manina planned a weekend getaway with her usual group of friends in Scofield, there may have been some grumbling. “Scofield? In some dumb cabin with no WiFi? Lame.” “I’m not going. Just leave me here.” “It’s going to be so boring. There isn’t going to be anything fun to do.” “All Mom is going …
Category Archives: Travel
San Diego Birthday Trip
For my birthday, my sweet husband bought me a ticket to go visit one of my besties, Kristy, in San Diego. When they moved from Utah a while back we promised to visit each other often, but that proves to be difficult at times with the craziness of both of our lives. Thankfully Seth bought …
Anniversary Vegas Trip
Because of its proximity to Christmas and Manina’s birthday, our anniversary usually either: gets rescheduled (we choose to celebrate it on a different date) OR gets minimized (we go out to dinner at a nice restaurant and call it good) This year a few things happened to help make our anniversary plans be a lot …
Mom is Gone Survival Guide
Manina and Ellie are out being world travelers. Again. Last year in September they went to San Diego and then Alaska. This time they went to Disneyland and had a fun trip. But while Mom and Ellie are out having a great time together, the rest of us in the family don’t exactly wallow in …
Disneyland Adventure
My good friend Emily and I have been talking about taking our two youngest daughters to Disneyland for quite sometime. Ellie and Gwen are great little friends and both were thrilled at the idea of going on a trip to Disneyland together. Before you jump to conclusions, Ellie has never been to Disneyland. The rest …
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 …
Annual Johnson Family Camp Out 2015
I am not sure how many years we have been doing our annual Johnson family camp out now, but it has been a very long time…I think my first one was when Drew was a baby so at least 8 years now. My kids look forward to it like Christmas. Under no circumstance can we …
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