We had a great Father's Day. We had BBQ ribs (mom's specialty) and funeral potatos and watermelon and salad.... we were stuffed needless to say! We were lucky to have Tommy's Dad with us today to celebrate with my Dad. It was such a pleasant day and the weather cooperated.
We're all waiting for him to blow out all of his candles on the awesome Chocolate on Chocolate birthday cake that Tommy made him.
He blew them all out! It's those new 10 year old lungs I think.
The boys have been in high pitch baseball fever since April. We have had a game twice a week at least and practice about the same. Their last games are on July 4th weekend and I think we're all ready for a nice break from all things sports.
Ok, so in my last entry I said I was going to be better. Obviously not real great since it was in MARCH that I entered it. Life kind of caught up with our family about that time so it's been complete chaos in our hourse for a month. So here's a quick update.
Shay: I was promoted and transferred to the Sandy office. It's a great opportunity and right now I'm spending a lot of time at the office trying to get things off the ground and working but the nice thing is that I'm 10 minutes from home so even though I'm working more, I'm home quicker, so it balances out.
Tommy: Right now is being a stay at home Dad and playing as much golf as possible. He'll be playing this weekend in the Fox Hollow Tournament. Hooray! And it looks like he'll plan on going back to school in the Fall. I think he's leaning toward Sports Psychology but I think before he decides he'll be meeting with an advisor at the U and looking at things a bit more. Whatever he decides to do I'm excited for him.
Braxton: Doing really well. He's working on his movies with his cousins and posting them on youtube and he just loves it. He was just assigned the student Director position for the play at school and he's really excited to be doing it.
Kaden: He just finished up wrestling and I think he was glad to be done because now he can focus more on baseball, which I think he seems to love a bit more. He's playing outfield and I'll tell ya, he's the best outfielder on their team. They had a game last night and Kaden caught a great ball in center field that got them an out. And he's been getting one or two of them each game. He's quite the power hitter as well.
Cole: Like Kaden, he's just finished up wrestling and I think he's glad to be done although he told his Dad and I that he really wanted to got to state wrestling but I think we may forgo it this year. The boys competed at a tournament in Reno a few weeks ago that was a regional competition. Cole took 4th in his bracket which had 36 kids in it. Cole is playing 1st base and short stop in baseball. And he's made some great plays as well. he did a great stop last night as short and threw it to 2nd for an out. He really wants to pitch but he needs to get some seniority until that happens.
Emma: Emma is doing super great. She seems to have grown up a lot since her birthday when she turned the Big 6. She always is drawing everyone nice pictures and cards to make us feel better or just to say I love you.
Bella: What can I say? She's definately a handful. She makes a laugh and her brothers and sister just adore her. She misses them a lot when they're not around and it's just Dad and Mom. We're apparently not quite as fun. But she's starting to say more and more and she's developing quite a personality. She's very independant and she expects things right now, and since her brothers and sister all cater to her she pretty much gets everything now.
That's about it. I've posted some easter pictures as well. The kids had waaaay too much fun dying easter eggs. Even my Tommy got into it. Bella ended up a green Shrek baby but she thought the whole thing was pretty cool.
I have been the worst blogger ever lately. It's been a super busy month and a half since I've blogged last so I'll update everyone on what's going on with the Johnson Bunch.
Wrestling: The boys are still in full swing of wrestling right now. They are now into the portion of the season that they switch to Freestyle and Roman Greco. Both are doing super good and keeping their reputations. We moved Cole up in weight class so that he could get more of challenge for himself so he's wrestling kids between 1 to 5 pounds heavier than himself and so he's mostly taking 2nd places but I'm super proud of him because it's made him want to work harder and win. Kaden I think is ready for wrestling to be over but he's still competing hard and taking a lot of 3rd places. They'll be wrestling in Pleasant Grove on Friday and Saturday so I'll let everyone know how they do.
Emma: Had her 6th birthday on Valentines Day last month. We were lucky enough to have all the kids on the morning of her birthday. She got lots of presents and she seemed to enjoy her birthday a lot. 
Arizona: Bella and I were able to go to Arizona for a very short trip to see Ty, Holly and the kids and Kenzie. Mom was down there at the same time so we had so much fun though. Natalia is growing so big it's kind of sad not to be able to be there to see her more. She was my little sidekick all weekend and it was hard to leave her behind, especially when she says that she's going home with me. Gavin was sick when we were down there with a double ear infection but he still put on this cute little smile that reminded me so much of his Dad. Bella had so much fun playing with Natalia and had her first experience with a dog (Champ) and she didn't know quite what to think of him at first but thought it was pretty cool after awhile. Below is a picture of her after her and Natalia had some chocolate popsicles outside. I laughed so hard. 
More to come later.....
The boys competed in the Beehive Brawl this last weekend in Richfield. There were over 700 wrestlers there from all over the West. Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, California and even as far as Florida! Kaden wrestled in the 10 and under age at the 64 pound group and took 3rd place! His most exciting match was his last one that would have placed him at third. He was down 9-0 going into the 3rd period and his coaches told him he'd have to pin to win. He totally took it to heart and came out mad and determined to win and pinned his guy in about 45 seconds! We were all screaming so loud. I was so proud of him.
Cole took first. He pinned all of his matches but for once it did take him a little longer than normal. His first pin took him until the 3rd round! Very unusual for Cole to take so long. But he worked his magic and took first again. I had several people come up and tell me how great he is.
Very proud of my guys. They work so hard every week to compete and give up so much to go to practices and tournaments.
Kaden showing off his 3rd Place medal. He looks so dang cute!
Cole with his First place medal and Plaque. 
Bella got this little pink horsey bike for Christmas and she hasn't quite got it figured out. So Emma put her on the bike and pushed her all over the house. They were just giggling and giggling and having a great time. I grabbed my camera and snatched this photo of them. 
