March at a Glance

• Had friends over for taco soup and visiting.
• Made lots of cookies with Katie.
• Cleaned the house for multiple agents and ‘not so prospective’ buyers.
• Lunch with Chris at Charleys… our favorite place to eat lunch together when I go down on base.
• Weekly American Idol nights with Ryan and Katie.
• Found ‘bag of hair’ in Megan’s preschool backpack.  Can you believe she snipped her hair three times in one year!  Oh, that girl!
• Watched BYU basketball games.
• Enjoyed the last of Megan, Emily and Katie’s gymnastics classes.
• Ryan’s basketball ended and soccer began.
• Spoke in church… about personal spiritual communication.  Chris spoke about the Book of Mormon.
• Had FHE about the disaster in Haiti… showed the kids pictures of the saints in Haiti.
• Went to Houlihans for lunch with Chris.  (Had our favorite: pot roast) Brought our binder of Germany stuff to talk about.  Getting so excited.
• Bought too much Easter candy.
• Realtor surprised me by coming in while I was just getting out of the shower!  Luckily they saw Luke and called out ‘Mrs. Johnson?’  And luckily the house was pretty clean.  I just got dressed and took the boys to the car so they could walk through.
• Bought a new van.
• Piano festival for Ryan and Katie.  Piano lessons over for the year.
• Golf trip to Phoenix, Arizona for Chris.
• Played Funglish as a family.
• Made peanut butter balls.  Kids loved them.
• Went to Monae’s RS meeting on ‘Building a Sacred Home’.  So good.
• Got army passports done and flights booked for Germany… June 16th!
• Played Ticket to Ride with Ryan and Katie.
• Emily, Ryan, Luke, Matthew, Chris and I got the 2 day stomach flu.  (Katie and Megan never got it.)
• Ordered cute skirts and dresses for the girls from mini Boden.
• Avoided deployment… Radiologist is being deployed from here in June.  If we weren’t moving to Germany… it likely would have been Chris.
• Sent off new white shirts for my Dad’s 61st birthday.
• Finished up Ryan’s FAITH IN GOD.
• Did SO much laundry… like always.
• Sent Ryan on 11 year old scout camping trip.
• Took the girls to a great Primary Easter activity.
• Went to the YW general broadcast.  So good.  Can’t wait to go with my girls.
• Welcomed a new nephew to the family… James Daniel Walton –March 30, 2010.
• Lowered the price on our home.
• Playdate with Deirdre to Barnes and Noble to let the kids play at the train and then Atlanta Bread to eat.
• Completed Katie’s Earth & Venus project for school.
• Took the kids to ‘How to Train a Dragon’ movie.  Cute.