tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:03:25 +0000Nicole is homehttp://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-6691902744109024816Mon, 10 May 2010 19:21:00 +00002010-05-10T19:20:53.611-04:00We went to Minnesota to see Oliver. Oh yeah, Sara and Ian were there too.  And here we are with Oliver at the Minneapolis farmer's market. By the way, the rest of the McCloone family was there too. This picture does not do justice to how cold it was while we were at the market. It was very nice, large and quite impressive, but cold. _uacct = "UA-4314841-1";urchinTracker(); We had a http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2010/05/minnesota-to-see-oliver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-4396916397630753099Thu, 06 May 2010 15:20:00 +00002010-05-06T11:20:44.806-04:00Wendy at her favorite Restaurant The Marriott Center Ryan with his tie from thetiebar.com - the best place in the world to buy ties. Mother and daughter (Ashley is the third person in the family to wear this graduation cap and gown.  It was first worn by Mom (2008), then Nicole (2009), and now Ashley.  Wendy is next.) Graduate and graduate Ashley and Nicole Steve, Wendy, http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2010/05/graduation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-5742905522461726022Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:56:00 +00002010-05-10T14:32:55.823-04:00Strasburg Here We Come During the spring break, we rode the rails with Michael, Reed, and Sadie on the Strasburg Railroad, located near Lancaster, PA.  The old steam locomotives and rail cars are authentic from a century ago and travel a route through the Amish farmlands.  As we passed farmers tilling their fields with horse-drawn plows, it was easy to imagine we were stepping back http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2010/04/strasburg-here-we-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-6389542896670314346Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:53:00 +00002010-02-08T20:53:23.551-05:00A Lalapoloozer of a Storm d We live in an area where in most years we get little if any snow. However, there have been a few memorable snow storms and we got one over the weekend.  It snowed continuously from Friday morning to late Saturday afternoon leaving us with a total of 28 inches.  Bless our good neighbor across the street who plowed out our driveway and all our adjoining http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2010/02/it-snowed-and-snowed-and-snowed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-6870708309303990055Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:45:00 +00002009-12-06T15:54:39.367-05:00 Waning Days of Fall and the First Taste of Winter The last of our trees have shed their leaves and our neighbors are again visible through the bare branches. We have entered late fall and Thanksgiving has come and gone. Yesterday we cut and hauled home our Christmas tree from the tree farm and today winter is announcing its arrival with the first snowfall of the season. Here are some http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/12/waning-days-of-fall-and-first-taste-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-7829416232553090913Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:16:00 +00002009-09-26T09:33:12.968-04:00Here we are againAfter an extended absence, we return to update our family doings from the last several months.Nicole's SummerWedding preparations for Nicole and Jeff were our primary occupation during the spring months. In addition, Mom was also able to see Nicole graduate from BYU twelve days before the big wedding day -- wearing the cap and gown Mom had worn the year before. Besides being http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-we-are-again-after-extended.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-6729844941871918875Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:32:00 +00002009-03-21T19:50:09.950-04:00Congratualtions to Sara and Ian! Sara and Ian are married! We are so happy to welcome Ian to our family. We had a wonderful time in Fajardo, Puerto Rico meeting Ian's family and celebrating the wedding. Sara did a fantastic job in finding a beautiful site, arranging a great reception, coordinating countless details to make such a memorable occasion.We loved being together as a family to be http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/03/saras-wedding-nicoles-recital-shower.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-2454352187551576744Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:20:00 +00002009-02-21T16:38:32.661-05:00Stake ConferenceFor us, stake conference always falls the second Sunday after the New Year. Dad always has his own preparations, but for Mom, this means a serious house cleaning in preparation for a general authority house guest. Mom washes windows, scrubs floors and woodwork, cleans light fixtures, rubs polish on the furniture, and vacuums places that have not experienced a suction hose http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/02/stake-conference-for-us-stake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-5682206939316040353Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:07:00 +00002009-01-04T20:20:40.614-05:00Since it's been a while since we've updated our posts, this post doubles as as family history as well as family news.A Visit to Grandma MorrisAfter trick or treating on Halloween night, we brought Michael home with us to spend the night in order to facilitate an early morning get-away to visit Grandma Morris in New York. Although we have been on other trips with Michael, this was the first time http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/01/since-its-been-while-since-weve-updated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-1555567405201307087Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:39:00 +00002008-10-09T15:58:45.198-04:00It's Official -- Nicole is engaged.   After Conference sessi ons on Sunday, Jeff and Nicole made it official. They are looking to a wedding date in May.We think Jeff and Nicole are ideally matched and we thank Brother and Sister Bullock for raising such a fine young man for Nicole.More Wedding BellsAshley now has her engagement ring on her finger, her wedding dress (chosen in August) hangs readyhttp://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/10/weddings-birthdays-baptisms-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-5622644192358978746Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-08-31T08:26:27.494-04:00Visiting Grandma Johnson in St. GeorgeFollowing graduation, on Saturday morning, after assuring Nicole that we would not take the Cove Fort tour again (she asserts she has memorized the script), we headed south on I-15 toward St. George. We were pleased to see Grandma feeling perky and in good spirits. On Sunday we attended the branch sacrament meeting at her residence facility (an easy commute -http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/08/in-utah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-8495723571122800212Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:26:00 +00002008-08-29T19:37:18.146-04:00Nana is now a BYU graduate. She was interviewed as a part of the graduation and then we participated in a luncheon. Nana had several still pictures taken and then was interviewed for about 15 minutes in a video shoot. The results will be used for spotlights to advertise the BGS program on BYU-TV and for BYU magazine. The Bachelor of General Studies program is still young and has a small http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/08/graduate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-5812067210552790931Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:03:00 +00002008-08-29T18:34:08.533-04:00A New Visitor at the PondThere is a park with pond across the street. We go there often to exercise in the mornings. We often see a few kinds of wild life there such as deer, this week we saw two fawns just lying down in the area. There are numerous turtles some of which are enormous, probably measuring 18 or 20 inches across. There are lots of birds, mostly doves, red wing black birds, Canadian http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/08/off-to-utah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-8433271864206199421Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:10:00 +00002008-08-09T17:33:48.333-04:00Finally the birds have come to to bird feeder.I was nearly convinced that my bird feeder effort was futile. Finally, after 17 days of nothing, birds began to come and feed and they have been coming in bunches. It is nice to watch them.One of the other things I did was to change the bird food. I started out with a mixture of wild bird food consisting of various seeds. Then, I put sunflower pieces http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/08/success-at-last.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-4808231107117393901Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:27:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:32.262-05:00Happy birthday Grandma Johnson. Today my mother is 92 years old. She has spent many years here in mortality doing much good in that time. It is an honor to have such a fine lady as my mother and I am grateful to her for all she has done to bless my life and the bless the lives of those I love. (Mom is also grateful to be blessed with Grandma Johnson as a mother-in-law who has always treated her http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-milestone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-1334341907499031243Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:31:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:32.402-05:00A VisitorWe had a visitor for a few days this week. Jeff Bullock, a young man from Colorado came to see Nicole and spent the holiday weekend in our home. Jeff is very, very nice and we like him a lot. Even Dad who is not easily impressed was won over by him and came away very favorably struck by what he observed and heard.Independence DayDespite the rain and humidity so thick you could bottle http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/07/visitor-independence-day-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-7504110836261474880Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:31:00 +00002008-06-30T21:13:15.086-04:00Nicole reminded us that her summer vacation passes the halfway point this week and we note that 2008 is at the midpoint as well. One of Mom's favorite writers, C. S. Lewis, has a thoughtful perspective on the wonder we feel at the swift passage of time: he says,"If you are really a product of a material universe, how it is you don't feel at home there? Do fish complain of the sea for being wethttp://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-4679520098899737263Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:12:00 +00002008-06-13T19:30:14.186-04:00We have been having some discussion around the dinner table about having a Johnson family vacation with Mom and Dad, children and spouses, and those very special people we never see enough of -- grandchildren. We would like your input of what would be fun and doable for you and yours. If Mom is counting correctly, there are 24 of us now whose needs and preferences should be considered.Among the http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/interested-in-family-vacation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-5479228755992669312Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:43:00 +00002008-06-08T22:21:48.168-04:00Nicole spent Memorial Day weekend (and her birthday) in Colorado visiting with her friend Jeff Bullock and his family. We appreciate the kindness of the Bullock family in providing the birthday cake and celebration for her. A weekend of water skiing and boating at the family cabin was anticipated but since snowflakes were in the air, these activities were somewhat curtailed.While Nicole was http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/nicole-spent-memorial-day-weekend-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-7862036908268530056Mon, 26 May 2008 02:23:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:33.543-05:00Nicole's BirthdayTwenty one years ago today, Nicole was born. Oh, how our lives have changed as a result. Oh, what joy came into your lives. These twenty one years have flown by.Wendy's BirthdayIt is birthday season. Not only our youngest celebrates her birthday, in two more days Wendy will celebrate her 44th birthday. What a great daughter. We have truly been blessed.Sadie the DancerSadie has http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/21-years-ago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-8810818195213586110Mon, 19 May 2008 00:55:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:33.644-05:00Last Sunday Mom had her day with cards, presents, and pampering on Mother's Day. We loved having Wendy and Steve and Amie, Holly and Dave, Ryan, Molly, Michael, Reed, and Sadie come join us for dinner. Dad made pork tenderloin and roasted potatoes and Nicole helped make crepes for dessert. We wished Brett, Lisa, and Sara could have been here, too but they each called and we were happy to hearhttp://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/last-sunday-mom-had-her-day-with-cards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-266434142001459431Sun, 18 May 2008 10:47:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:33.794-05:00Another birthday. If the truth be known, I am only 44 years old, I will admit that I look slightly older than that.I have been kept young by you children as I have tried to keep up with you. Playing with you is like drinking from the fountain of youth. Now I have grandchildren to keep my young and they are doing their job.Actually, birthdays are not that big of a deal to me, after all, I've had http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/69-years-old-and-still-just-kid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-4909225331377451184Sun, 11 May 2008 00:04:00 +00002008-05-11T17:30:02.349-04:00These are the headlines from this past week in Johnsonville: Nicole and Mom got new phones. Believe it or not, dad is cleaning the garage. We got our Education Week tickets.Yes, Dad is cleaning the garage. He asked Mom what she wanted for Mother's Day and Mom said, "A clean garage." It's an idea whose time has come, don't you think?This week Mom has been fighting writer's block as she drafts http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-news-from-old-homestead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nana)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-6311906833661342013Sat, 10 May 2008 14:13:00 +00002008-05-10T10:13:00.906-04:00As I was thinking about Mother’s Day, and how grateful I am to my mother and to Nana, my thoughts turned and I began to think about what began as Nana and I were married and about what a wonderful privilege it is to be a husband, father and grandfather. I expect that no one enjoys his or her family more than I do mine. I expect that no one loves his or her family more than I do mine. I http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-my-children-and-grandchildren.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147591901334733590.post-7941097085622467439Sat, 03 May 2008 14:11:00 +00002008-12-11T23:49:34.038-05:00We had Holly's three youngest children overnight. They are Michael age 10, Reed age 7 and Sadie age 3.We did our best to spoil them by getting them whatever they wanted. They wanted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, crunchy Cheetos (not baked), raspberry sherbet, Tootsie Rolls, Peanut Butter Cups, and 3 Musketeers. Sounds nutritious and yummy doesn't it?We watched "The Little Mermaid" and http://cejohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2008/05/grandchildren-overnight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1