the Johnson clan: July 2011

So it's been awhile since I last posted an update with pictures. I took a break and went on an internal debate of to blog or not to blog. But Kirk had a good point. Where else am I documenting our lives. A good mother would have a nice journal filled with important dates, stories, etc. along with a beautiful scrapbook full of pictures. And then there is me. Not so much. I have made a couple of attempts to scrapbook. Ha, who am I fooling? The crafty gene passed me by at birth. So I will continue to blog and then have the blog information transferred via blog2print into a nice journal type book.

This summer has been a busy one and I can't believe August is lurking around the corner. We will have a couple of weeks of the same old and then things will change a bit around here. Sarah will be starting pre-K. She will also start back up with her ballet/tap lessons along with her first season of soccer. I'm hoping it will be her first of many and not her first and last. She loves to run, loves to kick the soccer ball and is excited to wear pink (yes, pink) soccer shoes. Fingers are crossed. She's had a good summer so far with taking swim lessons for the first time, playing with friends and enjoying library trips.

Emma is doing great...changing by the minute. I'm completely amazed that she is my baby no more but now an emerging toddler full of piss and vinegar. She is walking/running now which is great. Her words are few (like two) but we understand what the various grunts mean. She has no fear which can be good and bad. Her number one buddy is Sarah who she wants to emulate at all times. Baby toys are a thing of the past. She would much rather play with Barbies and her Fisher Price tool set.

Kirk is doing well with work. He still gets out on the stream as time allows or up in the air when the Cessna isn't requiring some new widget or gadget. He is slated for an all guys trip on the Snake River in two weeks which he has been very busy preparing for by tying flies.

I'm hanging in there as project manager of casa de Johnson though at times feeling a need for a change. I've been running a bunch and managed to do the BolderBoulder 10K in May and the Durango Steamworks Half Marathon in June. The Steamworks Half was my first ever half marathon and it was fun. Kirk and I are both signed up to run a 10K race in Boulder over Labor Day weekend and I'm rapidly warming up to the idea of another half marathon in Denver in October.

Here is a collection of pictures from the past couple of months. Enjoy!

Ms. Emma, our walker. Put a sheet over her and she could pass for ET. Too cute!