Gratitude: Day 13

Day 13

I am grateful for impromptu family dance parties. I live in a house full of dancing girls so dance parties aren't all that uncommon. But what I REALLY love is when a dance party breaks out with the whole family. Take last night for instance, we had just finished dinner and were just sitting around talking, and clearing the dishes. Reilly was waiting to be picked up to go to a pizza party. People were talking, then music was playing, and then the whole family was up and dancing...including Tyler and Kameron. For the next 20-30 minutes some serious moves were busted in our kitchen. I love that my family does this on occasion. We were all up and laughing and having a great time together before everyone went off in six different directions. And...Kameron got some valuable advice as he will be attending his first Stake Dance THIS Saturday Night!! Woohoo!! Oh yes, I am grateful for impromptu family dance parties!!

Spring Break 2014

Spring Break

Spring Break this year was wonderful. We actually had spring-like weather. I know. It's a fluke but it was a fantastic fluke. Lucky for us we were here to enjoy it. We took our quasi-spring break early in March when the whole family went to Utah. I think I might do that every year. We were actually able to relax and had a nice "break".

I am baffled by the amount of people I talked to and read about on Facebook who were madly trying to pack as many activities into their spring break as possible...especially if they were staying in town. Why people? Why? Aren't your lives busy enough as it is when you aren't on spring break? Mine is. It's crazy busy. Every single week night we have at least one person, if not two people, gone participating in something. Even Saturday usually has three people who have activities that are regularly scheduled and that's not counting non-regular fun activities. Sunday is our calmest day and that is after three hours of church and occasional meetings. I guess we were in the minority but we, Johnsons, just wanted A BREAK. No classes, sports, lessons. It was delightful. We still did a few fun things here and there, hung out with friends, but it was all spontaneous and it was wonderful. We slept in, worked out, played outside, organized, read books, watched movies, and did nothing. Perfect.

One of the fun things that we did was go on our first hike of the year. Bryn has always been a good hiker but this year she can really hike for a long time and did not need a piggy back. Hooray. In fact, she ran...yes ran...up most of the trail. We hiked up to the Rocks of Sharon which is a great family friendly hike and we had a fantastic time.

The video to prove it.

Spring break gave us a nice taste of summer to come and we can't wait.