Mother's Day 2016

I had an awesome Mother's Day this year!  

Before church, I took pictures with each of my children individually. The first picture we took (of each child) was serious and then we each did a silly one too.  They made my day!

Here's me and Eric

(in matching clothes, I might add....not purposely though.) :)  And do you notice that smile?  Way to go Eric!

Clearly I didn't know what to do with my face in this picture...HA!

Me and Kyle (and once again, let me point out that Kyle is smiling also!)  It's a "Mother's Day" miracle!  HA!

Me and Dallin (smiling!)  Yeah!

We are supposed to be rolling our eyes in this picture, but I think I turned out a little "evil" looking and Dallin had already completed the eye roll before the picture was taken.  Funny!

Me and Jacob (Nope, you need to smile big!)

This one is much better!

This is called "Dabbing."  I have no idea who came up with it, but apparently all the kids know what it is.  I had never heard of it before. (But if you do it, you are considered to be pretty cool!) I'll take that! :)

And, last but not least, we got to talk to Brandon on Mother's Day!  That was the best present ever!  Oh man, look at those dimples!  I wish I could just give him a big squeeze!  (And by the way, that white thing in the right corner is not a roll of toilet paper....it's a lamp.)  We all thought that's what it was too.  So funny!

Oh, how I miss that face! :)  We had such a great visit with Brandon!

And then we had Grandma and Grandpa Johnson over for dinner and that was great also!  Here are a few pictures of me and my Mom.

It was a great Mother's Day!  I love you Mom!

(And I love and miss you too, Ann) :(

A Jones Family Get-together

We got together with the Jones family at the very end of April.  We haven't seen everyone since Christmas.  It was awesome to spend time with the amazing Joneses!  We all met at Aaron's and Kristin's place.)

(left to right)  Sierra, Sophie, and Emma.  

Jacob is in the middle (not smiling!) :)

We had an early dinner together.  Yummy food and great conversation!

Annie, Rob, and Zach

I don't know why I can't get my kids to smile...even at a family party!  Sheesh! :)

Dallin

(clockwise) MaKenna, Malissa, Alice, Judy (Grandpa's fiance), Grandpa, Owen (At least I think that is Owen), and Parker

And here's Spencer, Kyle, and Jacob

  At least Spencer is smiling a little bit. :)

And here's another picture of Sophie

Zach and Annie (and a bunch of people in the background) :)

This is kind of the same picture as above.  Behind Annie is Todd, and then Shauna, and on the side is Rob and Mike.

Here's Ryan (holding Henry) and Kristin

And there's Aaron on the far left, with Zach and Annie in the front, and Ryan and Kristin in the back

We all had a great time!  And it was awesome to see everyone, even if it was just for an afternoon. We love the Jones family! (And we miss Grandma terribly!)

Dallin goes to Prom 2016

Dallin decided to ask someone to Prom!  Originally he wasn't going to go, but then a few weeks before, he decided he wanted to.  This is how he asked the girl! 

"Have you heard the news?  You're being asked to prom!"
(Get it?  Newspaper?  News?) :)

And this is how she answered him...(the rubiks cube was all messed up and he had to solve it to read her response.)  Cute idea!

Ready for the big night!

I love this picture of Dallin...it cracks me up. :)

Hunter and Dallin

Hunter, Jason, and Dallin

Is everyone ready?  It's time to pick up our dates!

Dallin asked this girl.  Her name is Sadie Durham.  I can't remember how they know each other for sure, but I'm assuming they have a class together at school or something like that. :)

Since none of the boys could drive with other teens yet, Todd drove the boys in our van and picked up each date for Dallin, Jason, and Hunter.  (The last kid in the picture met them all at the final house...don't know his name...or his date's name.) 

Then they all stayed at the last girl's house and took some pictures.  

Todd then drove them all to dinner at Spaghetti Factory.  I think it was fun for both "parties."  The kids enjoyed  themselves, and Todd had a great time also.

After dinner, Todd drove them all to the dance, which was up at the U of U.  They all had a good time and I'm glad Dallin decided to go.  Todd was a good sport to drive them everywhere too.  (You're a good Dad, honey!) :)

After the dance, Keira (Hunter's mom) picked the kids up and took them to get ice cream just before dropping everyone off at their own homes.

I would say the night was a success!  

Hopefully next year the boys can plan to have one of them drive, so a parent (Todd) doesn't have to do it again.  HA!  :)