The Johnson Family: Fall Break

We had a very eventful fall break! Ricks parents were with us until they left on Wednesday. On Tuesday we went to the Childrens museum in Phoenix which was a lot of fun. Abby is so extremely shy though that she didn't have too much fun. If she feels like people are watching her, she crawls into her shell and won't come out. I used my mother skills and sent her up into the big tree house with Haley, so she could be herself for a little bit and have fun. It's heartbreaking having a child that's extremely shy, I know that she wants to play with these amazing exhibits because as soon as she thinks no one is watching she starts to play and has such a fun imagination. I just worry about her, Jacob was the same way and eventually around kindergarten started to feel more comfortable with attention. I'm starting to think it might be an even longer process with Abby. So anyway, we are working on it. We started watching Zoey the dog on Monday night while her family went to San Diego, so the kids were really excited about that. I also bought some skates for Abby at Savers and she loved trying them, she's really young for them but she loved trying it.

This is Ricks partner in crime at work, he's the community outreach guy and they work together a lot. Here he is posing for a pic for an Alzheimers event they're hosting, trying to educate people that exercise helps.

On Saturday night the City of Mesa hosted a Celebrate Mesa event, where they bring in all of these booths and rides, etc. Haley and her friend Alyssa took Ashlyn, Jacob and Emilie from down the street, they had fun. Since it's right across the street from our neighborhood we took Abby over for a little bit.

When we were walking home the moon was amazingly huge and brilliantly yellow. I tried to get a pic but my dang phone is a lousy camera. It was spectacular though!

On Friday I took the kids and Alyssa to IKEA, they love that store and I needed a few things...it was a fun trip.

On Saturday morning the baby that I watch Griffin had his 1st birthday party. It was very cute!

If you can see that little light speck in the picture that is Ricks drone. It was $25 at Costco and he loves it. It's very tricky to fly, but it keeps him happy.

Here are the kids at the Childrens museum...

She was also very tired and didn't want to leave the museum...

On Wednesday I took Ashlyn and Jacob over to the rec center so they could rock climb...they loved it!

Abby and I tried to entertain ourselves...

Ashlyn likes to try the hardest routes...

Last weekend the older youth in our ward had a youth conference. On Friday night they went to the Gilbert temple to perform baptisms for the dead, Haley took 45 family names. She is amazing! She loves doing family history work. Now we need to complete the work for those 45 names!

Ashlyn also had a soccer game on Saturday morning and she did a great job! They didn't have enough players to do subs, so they all had to play the whole time. They were pretty exhausted when it was over.

Jacob took Abby over to the park while Ashlyn played soccer...

We are also taking care of our neighbors Tortoise while they're away for the week. Man oh man would i never get a tortoise! They're constantly trying to get climb up the walls, so they flip over and they die if they're on their back for too long. Creeps me out!!