this kid can sing! (almost as good as his mom)

Sammy loves his guitar. Saturday night we caught a little entertainment along with some thank you thank yous. It was hilarious. This video was after us laughing our guts out for about 15 minutes, so it's not his best performance...but we'll take it. thank you thank you

Yellowstone and Rocket Derby

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson took Kelton and the cousins to Yellowstone last weekend. They spent time skiing and swimming at the hotel. Kelton looks forward to this trip every year. He has gone skiing a few times with grandpa this year and is really enjoying it. Hopefully next year Sam and I can tag along too!




The pinewood derby has now become the rocket derby. I don't know if this is happening everywhere, or just around here. It was a good change. Last year, Kelton took 6th out of 6 in every race. This year it was his year. He worked on it all by himself, including the sanding and painting. Shad helped with the gluing, and Grandpa Johnson helped get the rubber bands (with a little oil or something) and other parts assembled. He took 3rd overall (but I think his was way faster than the 1st and 2nd...) Thanks to Grandparents, Gavin, and Addie who came to watch (race 3 times in 2 hours)event.


an orange drink for "bronze" totally good idea in my opinion

What's your name?

Kelton

this is one of his 16 points on the 20th. woohoooo

Basketball season has been fun. Thanks to all of you who came to watch him play. This was the first year in organized bball and he improved leaps and bounds from beginning to end. I can't wait for baseball in a month!

the bed part 2

Yes, we are selling our home, we have had it listed now for a couple months. We are hoping to get into a little bigger place on a road not quite as busy. We aren't in a hurry to sell it which is good since right now isn't a great time to be selling.

Our bed is (was) built up about 5 feet. The stairwell ceiling is underneath of it. A bed at one time I could imagine being a princess in..after about 2 weeks, I have tried to convince Shad to tear it down. We are now 8 years into being in this house, and I have asked Shad at least 100 times (probably a lot more), to tear it down. I have had "visions" of what I could do with the space. I would tease and threaten to do it while he was on one of his trips, but never had the guts to do it. His reasoning would always be "it's good oak", "it would be a pain in the a- to do anything with it", "it's fine".
So-last Friday, I tore it down. I started with just wanting to see exactly how far the stairwell really goes. After about 2 hours of carefully dismantling the princess bed I decided-what the heck. He is already going to be mad, might as well finish.... Bad idea Amy, bad idea.
I won't go inot details about when Shad got home from work that night. (the people who wanted to co me see the house didn't show-but we had a family come on Saturday to look). I just want to say, my vision of what could have been, can not be. I thought I knew Shad mad, but I underestimated that man. He is ok with me now and after much sitting and staring at our torn up room- it will work out. We will have a closet and shelves in place of the princess bed. I am not allowed to touch anything with it, I just sit and watch him and run and get whatever he needs at the store. Doesn't that just sound fun. In a couple weeks I will have a normal person bed on the floor. (right now it's a mattress on the floor)
BONUS
We did find hardwood floors under our bedroom carpet.
photo courtesy of shad Saturday night

Sam

I don't think he could look anymore like Shad.