The house we found to rent was great. We had a big group so we had to rent a second house that was right on the same property and that also worked out well. We all had a bed and somewhere to put our things. The cousins had big sleepovers. The kitchen was big. Three dining tables! And the outside pool and deck and playground and sand box were perfect. We spent most of our time in our swim suits by the pool!

 

 

 

My Grandpa Arden Johnson turned 90 in June. To celebrate him and his birthday our family decided that we should all go to his Johnson Family Reunion over the 4th of July. They have the reunion every 2 years and it is my Grandpa and all of his siblings and any of their posterity that can make it. Arden is the oldest of the siblings. We made up about 1/3 of the reunion goers. My mom, dad and 42 of us kids/grandkids (we were only missing Josh). My moms sister Diane with her husband and 11 (missing 1). And Aunt Carol, Larry, and their 6 that could make it. I think that makes 67 of us counting Grandma and Grandpa!

 

 

We rented the Goodfellow house just outside of Kanab and it was the perfect place for all of us to eat, sleep, SWIM, and play. We got their on Wednesday, celebrated the 4th on Thursday, had reunion activities on Friday and Saturday and came home Sunday.

The next several posts will detail our trip! – – read on…

Joel is married. She is wonderful. He is happy.

The wedding was Saturday the 30th! The Sealing was at 3pm and dinner at 7pm. We spent the morning eating breakfast and getting beautiful. After the ceremony we did pictures and ice cream. The dinner was in Cedar Hills with about 250 family and friends. Lots of our extended family and cousins were there and all of the Robertson crew. It was lots of fun to see everyone and celebrate Joel getting married. We are so happy for him and excited to have Megan in our family. It was so fun to be together with the whole family and to have everyone come stay with us here in Utah County.

I have a 31 year old brother that is obsessed with GI Joe. Josh has become an avid Joe colector he has almost EVERY figure! He has MOST vehicles. He has an entire room dedicated to his collection. Anyway. When HE realized that we would all be together when the new GI Joe movie was coming out he declared dress up and movie just like we did back in 2009: http://bnetty.com/Jana/?p=1632. For some reason we all agreed to play halloween in March!

 

Hopefully Josh will make a nice poster for us like last time but this will have to do for now. Everyone went to the movie on Friday night after dinner with Joel and Megan and her family. Joel was sick. I stayed home to help babysit and beat my parents in Nertz.

The last week of March was non stop. Tracie and Cedar came down from Alaska. They stayed at our house part of the time! Tracie helped me clean and make treats,  in preparation for the rest of the Robertson family coming to see Joel get married! I started packing a few closets for the big move. Cedar tried to teach Ray to walk and talk. We had a little bit of nice weather to ride bikes and play. The local siblings made a Park City trip with us and we got in some games. My parents came on Thursday and then the rest of the family on Friday!  My parents and all 12 of their kids were here in Pleasant Grove! and all of the spouses and kids were also able to make it! I loved it.

 

Tracie and Cedar spent the night so Brady, Sean and Kelsey did too. We had a pretty lazy morning hanging out and then we all went down to the Golden Coral at 1:00. We planned a little luncheon for Grandma Johnson’s Birthday. Diane, Sasha, and Jer all met us there. We had fun eating and chatting.

After lunch I had to get home to get the kids from school and Tracie had to grab her things and head over to the in-laws to play with them. The college kids needed to resume their usual schedule as well. It was super fun playing with family on a monday and tuesday. We are happy that Tracie got to come visit. The kids and I had a simple dinner and a lazy evening and were excited when Ben got home that night.