Flash Back!

So I want to get in on the High School flash back post and I have nothing else to do, so here goes!

'K I'm not sure what look I was going for, but I know everyone else looked just as ridiculous

Spirit days anyone???

1. Did you date anyone from your school? Yes, my sophomore year, well I don't know if we really dated but we liked eachother?? And my junior year.

2. What kind of car did you drive? Oh boy, the colorful suburban. The spedometor didn't work and it was hideous. And than I drove the 1980 Nova hatch back. Yikes. Oh and don't forget the buick (thanks grandma for letting me borrow) Double yikes.

3. Did you pass your drivers license the 1st try? Yeah, and I accidentally put a railroad crossing sign as a stop sign. I was just so nervous!

4. Were you a part animal? Umm I like to have fun but I wouldn't say party animal.

5. Were you a flirt? Eh, if I felt like it. But I wasn't too flirtrageous.

6. Were you in bad, orchestra or choir? Oh Choir how I miss you.

Yay for regionals!
7. Were you a nerd? No. Okay maybe during the whole Harry Potter craze, but I straitned out.

8. Were you on any varsity team? Psh yeah I wish. Does All State Choir count?

9. Did you get expelled or suspeded? No. I got saturday school once, but I won't go there.

10. Who were your favorite teachers? Deffinatly Mr. Cramer. Mr. Mullenaux, Ms. Christensen. Oh and Mr. Morales was pretty cool.

11. Where did you sit during lunch? Well just a quick recap my sophomore year I didn't have anywhere to sit cause I was new. But thanks to Mrs. Katy Murdock she helped me find a very fun table. By the time I was a senior I was going home to get away from that place. Even for 45 minutes.

12. What's your school's full name? Thatcher High School.

13. What's you school's mascot and colors? t-h-a-t-c-h-e-r, thatcher EAGLES! green and white

If you can't tell that is Mr. Ren Thatcher and Mr. Chandler John

14. Did you go to Homecoming and with who? Well my sophomore year I was too young. My junior year I went with Koby Wadell and My senior year I went with Mckay Kempton.

15. Did you go to Prom and with who? Once again I was too young sophomore year. Junior year I went with David Claridge and my senior year I went with Chris Udall.

16. If you could go back and do it again would you? Um, you know honeslty It was some of the funnest most memorable times but I love Kameron and our future and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

17. What do you remember most about graduation? Feeling on top of the world! I remember the after party and playing HORSE with Ryan Nelson and beating him. So we played again and he kicked my butt. I remember taking lots of pictures and playing the piano thing. I remember not being as sad as I thought I would be.

18. Where did you go on senior skip day? Sun Splash!

19. Have you gained some weight since then? Um my junior year I wore a size four to prom. I would have to say yes the weight has gained since then.

20. Are you planning on going to your ten year reunion. Yes! I'm justs glad I don't have to plan it. Good luck Lyndee!

21. Did you have a job during high school. Here and there, but I just like to have free time and have fun!

The last picture I promise! My Girls!

Happy Holidays!

So we spent Thanksgiving in Thatcher. Well we had Thanksgiving dinner in Mesa at Janel's new awesome house and than went to Thatcher for the weekend. Had a great time! I love Thatcher and especially spending time witht the family. Kameron had to find ways to entertain himself while I helped decorate and went and saw twlight. But he did get to go shooting so it was a good trip for the both of us.

This is our Second Christmas already! Seriously time is flying by so fast!

This is the fireplace decorations that my Mom so generously provided for me last year that I couldn't look at until This year. It was a great idea cause I felt like I was opening up early christmas presents!

Kameron likes to get a real christmas tree and I have to say the tradition is growing on me. I love the decorations. It's simple but it brings the feeling of christmas to our little home. But life is going good. School is wrapping up for Kameron which he is so happy about. We are going to Cottonwood for christmas and than we'll go down to Mesa after Kameron works for a little while on Friday. And Brianna is coming for Christmas!! Whooo!!! It feels like our family lives across the world from eachother, oh wait we do! Haha. Someday hopefully everyone can live on the main land so we can be ALL together more than once every couple years. Merry Christmas to Everyone and have a Happy New Year!

So much to tell

I feel like blogging is a journal. I procrastinate and than forget the details and too much goes by it's hard too tell it all. So I'll do my best. My job is going good. I'm the front desk at a chiropractic office. Yeah sounds easy...it's Not!! omy there is so much to learn and I serioulsy have not had a moment of down time this whole week. busy busy busy. It's going to take time for me to catch on so I'm not there an hour after I'm suppossed to leave. Don't you hate that! Kameron is doing good in school and is really looking forward to christmas break. Work is going good. And oh man is getting cold!! He learned how to use chains and winter saftey driving. Scary! Driving in the snow is bad enough but in a giant semi!

So they are renovating our apartment complex. I should have taken some pictures but I'm lazy. But they just put in all new windows So that means there was dust everywhere!! All over my Piano! talk about an unhappy katie when she got home from a long hard day at work!!! so we are going to deep clean this weekend. But seriousy the managment have been sending out letters of when certain things will be happening but I must have missed the part where they said you house will be covered in dust! sheesh! "I'm sure it will look so good" is what everyone says. I guess so. Oh and not to mention the paint that got on our cars. Yeah..not happy.

I was a little crafty last weekend. (Kameron seriously watched football alllll weekend. didn't even eat!) which is good because I was gone the whole time looking for supplies. I made a little plaque thing that says Happy Harvest with gold sparkly letters. I really should just take a picture. And I also painted some wooden letters that spelt out KITCHEN. Navy blue and I destressed them. It was fun, but seriously I really need a girl friend to do all that stuff with cause it gets a little lonely. But it was fun!!

Kameron's birthday is this coming wednesday!! Whoohoo! We are going to Cottonwood this weekend. I am going to a women's conference on saturday and than we'll head out. So that should be fun! Have a little party for Kameron and get out of the freezing weather!
But that is pretty much it! Just looking forward to Thanksgiving and getting excited to decorate for Christmas!

I Love Thatcher

So we went to Thatcher this past weekend! We went to Molli's reception which was decorated so beautifully and Molli was breath taking! We drove out to Klondike to find some wood cause my dad built a sauna (which was awesome, took me back to Canada) and we found this little place that was so pretty. Still waiting on some pictures my mom took. And Hannah did my hair which turned out great. And we went out to Gabby's cafe to hear Nick play in band. So here are some pictures!...
Me out at Klondike
The little stream we found out at Klondike. Didn't even know this was out there till last Saturday!

This is my newest neice! Paige. What a doll! I'm not just saying that. She is like a cuddly like buddle of happiness. Love her!!!!!

Me and Julie at Gabby's cafe. Hannah (my sister in law) was having her 10 year High School reunion and Nick (my brother) played in a band for the party so we went to hear them and Julie came with her boyfriend and later Allison (Hannah's sister) and her husband Brian came. It was sooo much fun! And Nick was AWESOME!
Me Julie Alisson
Me and Kameron (Oh and Hannah did my hair that day which turned out soo Cute! Hannah is Amazing!

Metor Crater

The Crater

Us. Oh and it was soo windy!!! and I look shorter cause I'm stading on the down slope.

Walking on the moon

My cute Husband!

Me. (This is just a picture of the crater so you can take cool pictures.)

The Crater is like 10 minutes outside Winslow,AZ

My white pumpkin

Our new Futon!

The new family room

The Piano--that will be teaching THREE piano students!!

The fireplace all fallishly decked out

Above the couch. I just like this for some reason.

We had a great confrence weekend. And as you can see I've been remodleing for fall! So much fun! Still a few things that I need to do. Like make polka-dots for my pumpkin. But that will have to wait until Halloween gets a little closer. Kameron's family came down for confrence and we got to go to Metor Crater. If you want more detail go to my family's blog "Forced Family Fun" I'm too lazy to type everything again. :) But life has been good. Still looking forward to the trip to Thatcher!! And I got another piano student. So now I'm up to Three. That's good news since I'm thinking I might want to go to massage therapy school. I still have some research to do so we'll see what happens...Kam is still plugging away at school and work. Oh and it's so cold here. I had a thick layer of Ice on the truck this morning. I'm suprised I made it to work alive. But it's windy and just coold! and it's only October! uh oh. Hope everyone is doing well!!

Getting ready for fall!

So we went to Mesa this past weekend. Went to the temple and I was able to go to Molli's bridal shower!! It was soo much fun seeing my friends! I hadn't seen them since May. It's like I saw them every day for 3 years and than all the sudden I never see them. So sad. But they all were doing really good and I'm so excited for Molli! She is getting married October 17th. So we'll be heading up to Thatcher so I can go to the reception. And we had a fun time at Janel's. We had tacos and I got to experience dinner at Janel's house. Way more eventful than mine that's for sure!! But we stayed up and played Guitar Hero and her singing game, Karaoke and Rock Band. Even Kameron joined it!! I had so much fun I am thinking I need to get some of those games! And Janel's house is so cute it inspired me to start decorating for fall. So I scrounged up some money and hit up the dollar store and walmart (it's amazing what good stuff you can find!) It's kind of a work in progress so I will try to get some pictures up soon. But it's been really fun decorating for it that I got excited for Christmas decorating!! I find myself singing christmas songs every once in a while...haha. Kameron is working hard and going to school. There really isn't any breaks until Thanksgiving so we are in for the long haul! So I am thinking I just need to get a better attitude about my job cause I really do have a good situation I just need to deal with the job in general and stick it out I think. Cause people just arn't hiring so I need to make do with what I have. If anyone has ideas let me know! What I really need is more piano students! Man it's like people just can't afford that stuff right now or something. Makes me sad. But that's about as exciting as it gets around here. Happy Fall!

The Lake

So we went to Lake Powell this past weekend. We left friday afternoon and Kameron's cousin met us there, poor guy was there an hour before us, so by then we are way pumped to get the boat loaded and head out to find a good camping spot and maybe get some night fishing in. So we have the boat in ready to launch off an it won't start. So the guys try to fix it for a while and think it just needs to be jumped, that doesn't work. So long story short it gets too dark to go anywhere and the boat still isn't working so we just make camp where we are. And we all decided camping is a thing that takes time to conquer. Because we left the lighter in the trunk of our car, didn't bring a can opened...ect.ect. But we had a fun just sitting by the fire talking and the stars were beautiful! The hard sand didn't make for a good nights sleep, but Randy said his felt like Memory Foam....I think not. haha. So in the morning we try to get the boat started...we do get it running! But once we tried to switch gears or something it kept dying. Bummer! Oh and a bunch of stripers start jumping right where we are so it just made the guys go crazy! They gave up on the boat and just fished along the shore for the afternoon. Didn't catch anything though. I just chilled at camp reading and eating candy. haha. It sure was relaxing though. So overall the trip was unsuccessful. But it was fun besides the whole boat not working thing.

Halfway through September!

So I had a great weekend with my Mom and Dad!! They sure were good parents if I can cry everytime they leave me! is that a good thing? Dad just went and played music at a festival that actually sounded pretty fun! Im glad he had fun! Mom and I talked..and talked and talked! it was sooo nice! I love moms. Especially mine! I can't wait to see them again hopefully soon!
Work is still work. I'm trying to find something else, but that always seems to take a while. We are headed to Lake Powell this weekend! hopefully I get some good pictures to post. And the next weekend we are headed to Mesa so I can to Molli's Bridal shower and see my long lost friends! So that our update!

Annual Russel Johnson Reunion

Kameron, Tanner and Sam and Bell! at the lake

Kameron at the Lake. We didn't catch anything...except I got a sunburn!

That's Me! And Natalie smiling beautifully in the background!

Wham! I totally nailed that one!

Ka-Pow! Kam puts us in the lead!

The perfect serve.

SO we went to a cabin this past weekend for Labor Day! We had a lot of F-U-N! Badminton, fishing, card games, sleep and good company. We were about 10-15 minutes outside of Heber. So of course I had to drive by the old cabin, Yup still there! And June's Cafe was closed wah no yummy ice cream for me. But that's okay. We played pit and you have to trade cards with people but you have to yell how many you want to trade and Kameron started to make fun of me cause my arms were short and it was soooo funny! you know when you laugh and you can't breathe and it kind of scares you?? well it happened to me. And we made home made pizza, didn't know you should bake the crust first and Then put the sauce and cheese on. I guess it was sill good. Oh and another funny, there is only one bathroom...and we had steak for sunday dinner and all the sudden almost every boy was needing the potty! Oh it was so funny. and Than we realized we were running out of toilet paper...dun dun dun! haha but we found more thankgoodness cause that plumbing system got a work out. It was hard coming back home and going back to work and school...yuck. Oh well, somehow we get through it.

The next big event...! Mom and Dad are coming to Flagstaff next weekend!! I've just been praying for some DeRusha interaction. It's been way toooo long. I don't like it. So I'm already looking forward to that!

Kameron's smashed finger is getting better. He did have to pop it with a hot needle and pull his entire finger nail off..uh yeah disgusting, So hopefull it heals right and all that good stuff.

So yeah! September is here and the snowy season will be here before we know it!

Update

So I had my first piano teaching experience today! The student didn't bring his books so Thank Goodness I had gone through a bunch of old books mom lent me (thanks mom!) So we just played those and did some scale work. He wants to learn Jazz...yeah we'll see how that goes! I'll probably have to learn along with him.
So Kameron totally busted his finger the other day at work. The nail is all black and the blackness look like its leaking onto his skin. It isn't broken but I feel bad for him! It can't feel good. And Kam got his new phone! A palm centro from verizon. It's really a cool phone! of course now I feel that I need a new phone! Eventually. Right now money is being a pain in the you know what. Our car totally died. It's going to be expensive to fix it. It really sucks. But I remember Nate saying one time "Life sucks. Get a helmet" haha. So we are just going to push through all this and start saving up again.
We have a lot of driving ahead of us. We are going to Utah for Mandy on Wednesday. So we'll be missing work Thursday. Drive back to Flagstaff Thursday night and than we'll go to work Friday and than head out to Heber that evening for our cabin trip with Kameron's family. The drive to Utah won't be very uplifting because the whole thing is so sad. So sad.
Hopefully we have a good Labor Day weekend and can start feeling better after the trip to Utah. But work is going good for us both. And Kameron has liked all his classes so far this semester. So let's hope it motivates him to do Homework! Yay!

Sad news

Life is such a fragil thing. On my Johnson side my father in laws brother Bevin has a daughter named Mandy. About my age. She went to the Ukraine to teach english just a little bit ago and just got engaged. But sadly we got the news this morning she was in a fatal plan crash that killed all 10 people on board. I was just starting to get to know Mandy since we lived apart we only got to know eachother during family get togethers. But this still hurts. I am grateful for the gospel that lets us know she is now okay, but what a beautiful face we will miss. What a wonderful giving personality that has left us. Life is fragil. Live the gospel. Don't take it for granted. Tell your loved ones you love them and don't waste what time we have here together. I wish this horrible event didn't have to happen to make me remember that. But I love my family. Every memory we have together and all the times we've had to be a family and the times to come.

And now my Feet hurt

So I started my new job. Well I've been in training, but today was the first day of real hard-core in your face you-don't-know-what-you-are-doing. Serving the kids wasn't bad..but everyone knows the frist day of a job. Yuck. And get this, I'm surrounded my food and I can have one free meal. We made cheesebrugers today and turkey and cheese sandwiches. But anyways I was around so much of it I couldn't eat it! I didn't really feel hungry all day cause I was busy pretty much every second, but how is that I can work around the food all day and go home without eating that morning at 6:00AM? And it's now after 2:00PM? So I've started reading "Breaking Dawn" and why why why did I start reading it once I had a job?? I spent about TWO months with nothing to do and now I have a job and I just decide to read this most incredibly addicting book? Hm, something seems wrong with that. AND So now I've started working until 2 in the afternoon and usually Kameron gets off around then BUT this week he's been getting off 10:30-11:30...All those weeks I would have nothing to do but wait for him to get home, which happened around 2 or even later! and now! Life just loves to throw those curve balls atchya. But it's all good. Once school starts We'll be lucky if we get to see eachother every once in a while. So these days I'm reading "Breaking Dawn" and Kameron plays his new Football game. Fun fun fun!!

Trip to Utah

Kam at the Cottonwood Reception


The Car


The Long line of cars as we left Flag


The Happy Couple!


Kameron and his cousin Randy


Us in front of the St. George Temple


The brownie and ice cream I got to serve all night


So this past weekend we went to Utah for Natalie's Wedding in the St. George Temple. It was a lot of fun being with the family we don't really get to see a whole lot! We did get stuck in traffic because of an accident..but who doesn't like really long, long, long car rides? But the wedding went great and the Cottonwood reception turned out really nice! Just all that driving. It takes about an hour from Flagstaff to Cottonwood but of course we had get stuck in traffic coming into sedona for about 45 minutes. Going to the St. George temple was a neat experience my first time in any other temple but the Mesa and my first marriage sealing besides me own. We had a really fun time.

Our New Casa!!

The family room


My New Piano!! Love it!


view from the doorway


The fire Place


Our too big washer and dryer. But they work good.


Just outside our little home on a sunday afternoon



We moved to Flagstaff, AZ at the end of May. We had to wait two weeks to get into our place and luckily there was a super nice couple that let us stay at their place while they were away. But we got settled into our place at the beginnig of June and love it!! We deffinatly upgraded from little Palm Cottage in Thatcher. We live in the Aspen Shadows town home complex off of Lake Mary Road. It's a two bedroom so we are loving the extra storage space. Suprising how you can fill every little shelf when you thought you really didn't have that much stuff!