So Thankful

This amazing sister came and spoke to our Relief Society and I have been thinking about her non stop since. It amazes me what some people go through and the faith they have. She has inspired me to be better, more optimistic, grateful, humble, charitable....etc etc. I feel sorry for my self sometimes but after hearing her story I have nothing to complain about ever. Take a minute and read her story. (click here) Sheri Dew has invited her to be apart of Time Out for Women so if you get the chance to attend I suggest you do. We take so much for granted.

Thanksgiving Fun

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We were so lucky to be able to go to Washington state to visit Jeff's sister, bro in law and sweet new niece! It was so fun to get away and spend a wonderful weekend with family!

Janiel made these cute Turkey cupcakes...she's always so cute and festive! I didn't get any pictures of our thanksgiving feast...but thanks to Klaas' mom we had a wonderful dinner! (Jeff was so excited to eat some of Jeanette's cooking...she's amazing!)

This was my first trip to Washington and I've heard how green and beautiful it is there but not even the pictures do it justice! I think all of this Nevada desert has gotten to me! This picture is a little lane you drive up to get to J and K's house. I loved it!

This is their backyard...

Jeffy and I down at the pier :o)


Jeff, Jake and I took a Ferry over to Seattle for a day and went on this way cool Underground Tour. I had no idea that this had even happened but I guess back in 1889 there was a big fire and a lot of Seattle was burned to the ground. The city wanted to raise the land because of the way the tide came in and sewage was a big problem but many business owners didn't want to wait so they immediately started re-building and the city raised the land and built around these businesses. So you could walk out of the bank and have to climb up a 8ft ladder to get to the side walk...I don't know if any of this makes sense so Google it if you want to know more, but it was way cool!

They had these little glass pieces put into the sidewalks to bring in some light for the underground businesses...

...this is what it looked like under the street!


We made a visit to a cool place called Pike Place Market and I found...

BEECHER'S CHEESE!

I thought it was pretty cool!
(for those of you who don't know my maiden name is Beecher (o: )

Jakey on the ferry ride back

Jeffy on the ferry ride back

Silly Johnson boys rocking out!

They are so fun :o)

Sweet baby Brightyn, auntie Erin and uncle Jeffy

Thank you Janiel and Klaas for letting us come up and visit. We are so grateful that baby B is here safe and sound and love you all to pieces!

Can't wait for our next visit!

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for such great friends and to be blessed with awesome families. We have so much to thankful for!

I know I know...I stink at this blogging stuff. I've missed two thankful Thurs in a row. I'm going to try and make it up. This one is for the 19th.
I am so thankful for airplanes! They totally beat driving and got us to Washington in a snap! I had never ridden on an airplane until I was 18 yrs old...so sad I know. My senior year my family took trip to Disney Land and that was my first time on a plane! I've been quite a few times since then and love every bit of it :o) So thank you so much Wright Brothers for this wonderful invention!

Love ya Gracie Lou!

This week I am going to brag about my adorable niece and how thankful I am for her!

She is thought about often but these last couple of weeks especially because she just turned one! I can't even believe how fast time flies and much she has grown up. It's hard not being closer to family but I think it makes it so much harder when there are little one involved. Ya know what I mean?

These are just a few of my favorite pics of the little princess...

How can you not love that face? And can you believe those beautiful blue eyes?

We love you so much Grace and we are so grateful that you are apart of our family. It's hard to imagine what our family was like without you!

Happy Birthday baby girl!

I am thankful for...

FALL!

I love having 4 seasons and living in Utah for most of my life I have had the opportunity to enjoy all four seasons...but Las Vegas is a bit different.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the weather (I think the high today was 83 degrees...perfect) but I miss a good ole Utah fall.

This picture is one from last year that my family sent to me and I love it! I miss the leaves changing color, cool crisp mornings, being able to have a garden and the fresh veggies that come with it, the noise of the Pumkinaze across the street...I could go on and on!

I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder!

Thankful Thursday

So I've seen this done on other blogs and I'm stealing the idea...
Once a week (hopefully) I'm going to post about something that I am thankful for.

For my first week of Thankful Thursday I am going to post about how thankful I am for visiting teaching. When we were first married my visiting teaching partner was a sweet older lady in our ward and I learned so much from her and got to be good friends with her. I enjoyed going to visit the sisters we were assigned to. She really taught me the importance of VT and I found a lot of joy in it. I am also grateful for the sisters that come to visit me (thanks Ciara (o: ) and the friendships that I have made with them. I know that visiting teaching is an inspired program and blesses our lives. Thanks for all of you wonderful visiting teachers out there!

He's home

I know I know...it's been a while. But we are still alive and well and we got Andrew home safe and sound! It was so fun to spend some time with the family and to see my sweet brother again.

So Andrew came home on October 3rd which was Gen Conference weekend, so he spoke the following weekend and I was able to be apart of both weekends! I flew home on the 3rd and set it up so that my flight came in around the same time as Andrews...our gates were right next to each other so I hung around and waited for his flight to come in. I got to see him right off the plane!

There he is! I know it's blurry but that's him!

The family all together (minus dad...he still had the video camera & Jeffy...he couldn't miss school) :o(

Church in our Jammies! We watched Conference together and Andrew told us Russia stories all day! It was wonderful!

My sweet nesting doll from Natasha, a member in Russia. Thanks to Facebook I've gotten to know a lot of members in Russia.

Last picture of Elder Andrew Beecher...

The next weekend Jeff and I were able to drive to Utah and listen to Andrew speak. It was fun to see family and friends and listen to Andrew's awesome talk...he did so good and has grown up so much!