Our week in California...

Well, we had a fun and productive week in California. It started out in Palm Springs having early Thanksgiving dinner with my Grandma and family (I surprisingly don't have any pictures from that though). Then we drove to El Centro to drop off Kylee with David's Mom and we were off to L.A. the next day for another one of my surgeries. And for all of those who don't know yet....it was another successful surgery! My doctor is very optimistic that I won't need another surgery and that we are on the road to getting pregnant again!!! Woo hoo!! Anyway, we then drove back to El Centro where we spent the rest of our week. David's brother and sister came up and we all celebrated Thanksgiving with most of his family. Here are some pictures from all that....

David's Dad owns a feedlot and they have huge piles of corn. The kids love to play in it and try to climb all the way to the top. It's very exhausting but I got up there eventually!! Kylee had a blast!


There is also an area where all the bird in El Centro love to hang out. David's Mom drove her car through the middle of them all and this is the picture we got of it. Kylee thought it was the coolest thing ever!

David has been growing his hair out and one night while we were all hanging out talking, I started playing with his hair and this is the finished product. Cute huh!!!!

Introducing the FIRST ANNUAL JOHNSON'S THANKSGIVING TURKEY TROT!!! Becky (David's sister) put this together. It was a 2.2 mile run and everyone had fun doing it. I couldn't run because I had just come off surgery two days prior so I drove up around in David's truck and took some pictures. Sydney was the over-all winner!

Another family tradition of ours is that we go to the Salten Sea in El Centro the day after Thanksgiving and hike the trail up to the little mountain. We have a picnic at the end of the hike too. It's fun and the kids enjoy it!

Kylee was pooped from walking and sat on Daddy's shoulders most of the way.

These are all the grandkids that went. We are missing Paige, Abby, Navy and Andie.

Here they are from youngest to oldest. It's starts with Kylee at age 2 and ends with Meg at age 16. Grandma has her hands full!!!

The end of an incredible journey!!!

Well, our season is over............but it ended with a bang! This is my 4th year coaching at Higley and this year was definetly the most memorable. Mainly because the Seniors on my team this year were Freshman when I started coaching 4 years ago and they have been going through this 4 year journey with me from the start. They mean the most to me! We made it to the quarter finals of the state tournament and ended up one of the top 8 teams in the state. They are an amazing group of girls and I'm so sad to see our season end. I will remember this team always and the impact they have had on my life! You're awesome Knights!! And beautiful too as you can see in these pictures! (taken by Natalie Montez of course..........check out her blog under my friend contacts)

Ward Trunk or Treat

Saturday night was our ward trunk or treat and Kylee went as a pretty lady bug! Her costume was too small and she ended up with a permanent "weggie" all night. I actually took some nice booty shots but they are a little unappropriate for the public!!! She got some good laughs all night! Here she is all ready for the big night!

She found her buddy Caden right away. He makes a cute little lion!

Here she is hugging her friend from nursery, Elli. She was a pretty princess!

David didn't come dressed as anything so my awesome young women got on his face right away and made him look "scary"!!

Here Kylee is eating all the candy she is supposed to be handing out to the trunk or treaters. She finally got the hang of it and started handing out candy to the kids, only she would give them a handful of like 5 peices each and we ran out of candy fast!!! We had to close up shop real quick!

Here Kylee is with one of her many boyfriends Mason. He was spiderman!

They couldn't leave without a kiss. How cute!

Senior Night......GO KNIGHTS!!!

Last night was Senior night and it was so sad, yet so awesome!! Sad because I'm graduating 6 seniors!!!!!! But awesome because we beat our region rival, Queen Creek Bulldogs! It was a sweet victory for everyone but especially for my 6 amazing Seniors. They made these shirts specially for last night. Aren't they cute!!!

These are the Sophmores and Juniors on my team getting ready to give the Seniors flowers. They're great!

The back of their shirts said "Beat the Dawgs" and "Pound the Dawgs". Very creative!!!

I had this cake made at Walmart. The lettering is kind of messed up but the idea was great! I think they have 3rd graders working in the lettering department! Ha ha!

Fun Times

We spent the weekend at Grandma and Papa's house for General Conference and my parents have a fun park close by that we take Kylee to. She loves it! She was brave enough to go down the big slide all by herself but after she did it once, she chickened out and wouldn't go without David or I with her. These are just some of the pictures.

The future big sister in her!!!

I heard Kylee talking away in my room while I was getting ready for the day and this is what I saw. I was able to snap this shot above before she saw me. This picture below is when she caught me spying on her.

And this is her hiding from me because she usually hates to take pictures.

And here she is playing with me and the camera now.

Still playing and being silly!

And yes....I realize she is wearing the same outfit as the previous post. Ha ha!! She just keeps doing cute things in this dress!

How lucky am I!

While I'm at volleyball practices and games, Jamie Williams in my ward watches Kylee for me. She is a photographer and shot this picture of Kylee. It's so dang cute that I couldn't help but post it for everyone to see! You can see why she is my world and runs it! I'm a sucker for this cute face!

Kylee and Daddy - Best Friends!

Kylee loves to play with her Daddy. He's best at building her things out of blocks. This is a rocket ship in the making! The finished product wasn't so amazing. Not one of his best creations I must say. Ha ha!

Kylee's Friends and Mommy's Friends

Kylee's friend Elle came to play with her. They are in the same nursery class at church so they are buds! They loved playing "princess" together. It was fun for Kylee to have a GIRL friend come and play with her. She's so used to playing with boys. It was nice to have a girl to play princess with. She loved it!

Here they are dressing up in the princess cluck-cluck shoes together! You can only see Kylee's purple ones but Elle has on the pink ones too.

Now on to Mommy's friends! All of us girls got together again and this time Kimberly was there and she brough Andon! We all ate at Cheesecake Factory. Yummy! Heidi, Tausha, Christina and Jodi were there too but I didn't get a group picture this time.

Heidi's home!!!

One of my best friends Heidi has been on a cruise ship for the past 6 months and then she went back-packing all across the world. This girl has been EVERYWHERE! It was good to have her home and for us to all be together again. I love my friends! We are missing Heather this time and Kimberly again but it's hard for ALL of us to be together at one time when we live all over the place. Friends are the best! (In the picture below, we are putting on our best impression of the pioneer women back in the day. ha ha!)

Auntie Heidi and Kylee!

The crazy two out of the group - Heidi and Jodi!

The "married's" out of the group - Me and Tausha!

More volleyball updates...

We have been playing in a lot of tournaments lately but this one was our most successful one so far. We took first in the silver division. This placed us 7th overall out of 18 teams. We are improving with each game. They are a great group of athletes! It's been a fun year so far but we still have a long way to go! GO KNIGHTS!!!!