Build-A-Bear

For Memorial Day Eric and I had the pleasure of accompanying my two nieces and nephew to Build-a-Bear. Another place in Utah county where all your wildest dreams of stuffed animals come true! They had each received a gift certificate for their birthdays. When we walked in Dani, the 3 year old, picked up an un-stuffed bear and says "Oh, I LOVE this one!" (She didn't end up with that one though.) She was so excited. They each picked out a stuffed animal.
Jacee, age 9, picked out a baby cheetah.

Colton, age 5, picked out a turtle. The shell has a zipper so its a backpack and the shell comes off too.

Dani, age 3, picked out a black puppy. In this picture the dog just got stuffed and she has his heart in her hand. She is rubbing it to warm it up so he'll never be cold, rubbed it on her tummy so he'd never go hungry, kissed it so he'd always be loved, and then she put it inside him. How exciting huh?

The next step was to bathe the animals...

It was finally time to pick an outfit and accessories for each animal. Unfortunately I was so intent on helping them dress the animals I forgot to take pictures. But I did get one of Colton with his finished product. Bat Turtle! was his name.

Jacee's cheetah had a pink dress with pink flip flop shoes. Dani had a fairy costume with pink sketcher shoes and a leash. They had a lot of fun and got the animal registerd so if it ever gets lost hopefully someone will turn it in. Thanks for letting Eric and I come to share in the funness at Build-A-Bear!

For the Family

For all of the family who reads this blog here is an update on Ben. I'm sure you've all heard he has received his mission call to the California Long Beach mission. Spanish Speaking. His farewell speech will be held in Delta on June 8, 2008 at 12:30. There will be a luncheon following the meeting at the Delta Recreation office. (Where Eric had his Homecoming luncheon.) You are all invited to come! Good luck Ben! We are happy for the good choices you are making and your good example to all of us.

Updates

Well it has been a while since we've posted and that means it is time to update. My Jeep got fixed and has a brand new back door. It looks as good as new. We are glad we didn't have to pay for it because it cost $2400.oo to fix! Thank goodness the guy who hit me is insured.

As far as my Administrative Professional's Day present goes I still haven't received anything. However, I did get a coupon to go to my bosses office to claim my $10.00 Costco card. I've just been busy and a little nervous to go claim it because I know he'll ask me about it and I'm a chicken. I'm better at telling people how I feel through e-mail rather than face to face.

Among other news I cut and highlighted my hair for the summer. I finally cut some bangs so I can be cool like all the other girls I know. It has actually been a good change for me so that is good. I decided to go with blond highlights which is something I've never done. It has only been about two weeks and it is starting to grow out already! Guess that's why I never did it in the first place. So if you see me walking around with my highlights grown out don't worry, I'm fully aware but too cheap to go fix it. Here are some pics of the new do.

Ok so you can't tell that I have highlights in this picture but hopefully you can tell in some of the other pics that are posted.

For the past couple of weeks we've been able to spend the weekends with family. Eric and I have a goal to be the favorite Uncle and Aunt to my sister's kids. We had a sleepover with Carter and Dallin and we did the funnest thing for a kid in Utah County! We took them to Chuck-E-Cheese! We had some tokens left over from last time and some new coupons so we hopped in the Jeep and went. Carter was awesome at Ski Ball!

Dallin found a Simpsons coin game where he put in a coin and tickets would come out! He thought it was the coolest thing. He couldn't even see the top of the game but he was really good at it anyways. Dallin was also a fan of the Olives on the pizza. He kept picking them off and eating them. It was so cute.

By the time we had used all of our tokens we had a ton of tickets. We even had enough to buy a huge bouncy ball. We had our picture taken with it. It is sideways because I'm too lazy to try to rotate it. Sorry.
Last weekend I went down to Delta for a girls weekend. My sister Kelly had her fourth kid on May 2, 2008. His name is Jaxton and I finally got to hold him. He was so little and cute. He sticks his tongue out just like his mom used to.

Well I guess that is all for now. I'll try to be better about updating this more regularly.

Dress the Part/Cosmetic Damage

I decided that everyone that's trying to rip you off should dress like a scumball. Thursday at work an older guy came in and ripped us off, and I should have caught on to what he was doing soon enough to stop him but I didn't because he was a nice looking older guy. It made me lose more faith in people, and decide that if people are willing to rip off a church-owned bookstore they must be pretty big creeps. Friday was a day of definite highs and lows for the Johnsons. Kassi had a long day at work while I had a short day at work followed by incredible tennis fun (even though I lost because I have retained no skill over the 7 years since I began playing). When Kassi got home we went to Wendy's for a light meal because we were planning on having friends over later for games, chatter, and other various merriment. We saw a 14ish looking kid at Wendy's order a large frosty, and they gave him a small so he went back and complained. Once the employees figured out what he wanted (he kept asking for a 20 oz. and they kept asking if that was small medium or large but he couldn't understand what they were asking) they gave him a medium and told him that a medium and the small he got originally added up to more than a large. I thought this was a great solution but he apparently was still confused because he went back and complained again, even though his friends tried to help him understand that he was better off. It was pretty dang funny to watch the wheels grind to a halt in his head while he tried to comprehend that 12oz+14oz is better than 20oz. After that we went home and started cleaning for company. Then the fateful phone call came. Kassi's sister called to enlist help watching her two boys because she's feeling pretty sick. Kassi was sad to cancel on our friends but wanted to help so she went up to help, and got rear-ended in her pretty little Jeep. Tears flowed but everyone is ok, and our car only got a dent that should be pretty easily remedied. The other driver is insured so hopefully (everyone cross your fingers for us) we will only be inconvenienced to get it fixed and not take a financial hit.