The Bestest Brother

Brett Alan Johnson

aka. Bubby

Is by far the best brother.

He is always nice to everyone

Even when they are mean to him and don't deserve it.

He has the best giggle.

And the best wings.

I can count on him to make me smile.

Even though only 4 years ago I completely hated the kid,

2 years ago we became best friends.

I would never give him up for anything anymore.

He has definitely made up for the meany he used to be.

Even though we sometimes get in fights.

We can't stay mad for forever.

He is a great role model.

A great friend.

A great brother.

I love him, even though whenever I say that to him he says he hates me!

CHEEK TO CHEEK BUBBY!

Family Weekend

This weekend Chelsey & Timothy came down to play. For some reason whenever they come down our family turns into this outdoorsy adventuresome group. We always go on hikes, or 4 wheeler rides, or basically everything we have never normally done. This has been a recent change to the Johnson Family.

This weekend, on Friday we went FISHING? I haven't been fishing in probably 13 years. Now all the sudden we fish. I did catch one fish, and I took him on a walk. I didn't get to keep him though. (He was too small) Sadly. Then I caught another one, and right when I pulled him out he got off the line! Next, the pond monster ate my lure. So I failed.

On Saturday we took a "quick" argo/4 wheeler ride out near the tussle bridge to the waterfall. It took longer than we expected, but we all had a good time. When we got there, Austin decided we should take off our shoes and walk through the water. There were icicles in the waterfall. We couldn't feel our feet by the time we got out.

That night Austin and I DJ'ed the 14-18 year old church dance! We always have tons of fun DJ'ing together. This time my whole family decided they would come and watch us. Mom, dad, Jena, Kim, Chelsey, and Brett were all there. We definitely had a good time. Even mom was shaking it like a country girl for Luke Bryon. Hopefully all the children enjoyed themselves.

Catch Up

I am playing catch up. This weekend was full of blog worthy stories. So here it is, day by day.

Friday:
This weekend my family went up north on Friday evening to go with Austin to the temple.
The car ride up was quite amusing.
Growing up, anytime I rode in the car with my Grandma Johnson we would sing the whole way up.

Songs like:
All of the Military songs; Navy, Marines, Etc.
Bow wow wow
The Doctor Song
Sippin Cider
The Classics!
To cheer her up we started singing these songs again. It was a great time.

Saturday: while everyone was at the temple. I whipped out my iPhone's Map Quest and drove through Draper area like I was a local. Kimmie, Jena and I went to Target to find some icing for her cake.

While we were in Target we found the most amazing device that we MUST have
IT MAKES HOMEMADE SODA!

After Target we took a trip to the delicious and satisfying: RED MANGO

We hurried back to the temple to be there in time for when they came out. Little did we know they'd be another hour. So we saw three beautiful brides come out and everyone cheer. We got in their little huddles and tried to get caught in pictures. You could say we were the mormon wedding crashers.

Later everyone headed to Tucano's for lunch. It was my first time and I can't believe most everyone ate a chicken heart. We all got Brazilian Lemonades. (BEST DRINK EVER)

Sunday: was Austin's farewell. He did an amazing job. We had a lunch at his house after. When everyone had left, their family went on their traditional family walk and I was invited! Although the only thing I had was what I wore to church. We walked around the block and in the hills, in my heels! We tossed around a football while we were walking. It was way fun.

Monday: it is Red Ribbon Week at Kim's school and Tuesday is Rockstar Day. I headed over to the parents house to do her hair and this was what we got.

Everyone said that it would last through the night... But here is how it turned out!

Tuesday: FAMILY VOLLEYBALL

I had to play this week, and I didn't completely fail. Our team won ONE game. Lost both matches, but one game is a step up to last week! I mostly tried to stay away from the ball. Although I hit the ball a couple of times over the net, I also hit a couple duds. At one point I did a 360 and then hit the ball and it went clear to the other side of the court. In my defense it was because Brett yelled "Kimmie! Morgan! Kimmie!" So I was unsure of who was supposed to get the ball!

This video is us winning the game.

Jazmin was my sub. We played hard. Jaz even got a bruise! 

This is our team picture. 

Mentoring

On Tuesday I was asked to train a new hire for work. I was asked if I wanted either and "awkward kid" or my cousin Seth. That answer was obvious since Sethy Poo and I just the closest cousins ever.

Today was my second day training him. We had tons of fun learning/teaching all day at work. He took calls all my himself and although he is getting better; he still makes some mistakes.

My favorite mistake of the day:
Seth is talking on the phone and the person on the phone asked the deaf person what their birthday was. They say, "1/1/91" (different birthday is used) So Seth goes to relay and says, "One slash, one slash, ninety one." The first time this happened I just giggled to myself thinking that he was just really into the call and didn't notice it was a birthday. Until the second time when it happened again! I laughed again and told him he doesn't have to say "slash."

After I tell him that little tip he says "Oh but Morg, I don't the months very well! In kindergarten I missed the day they went over months!" 

At this point I am in shock. He doesn't know his months. Then he makes it worse. He says, "Well I know that December is 11." 

Now I have to take it upon myself to help this boy. We had been doing all sorts of quizzes throughout the day for work questions, and now I have to teach him the months of the year.

Hopefully after this review of the days of the month he'll be able to be smarter than a kindergartner. Also, hopefully I trained him well enough that he'll get a 100% on his work test tomorrow!

Family Sports

When our family plays sports together it is usually a little different than planned.

For example: Family Golf.

We tried family golf one time in my lifetime. That was because the first and only time was a complete disaster. It happened many years ago when I was around the age of 8. It all started out great, it was a sunny happy day. I was excited because I was taking golf lessons and felt like a pro already. Until one hole when Chelsey tee's up. I really wanted to watch her hit the ball, so I moved behind her in order to see and WHAM! She hits me square in the face with the club.

About a month ago my dad broke the news to me that we were going to sign up for the Carbon County Rec team as a family for VOLLEYBALL! The last time I hit a volleyball was in 9th grade for P.E. I tried and tried to talk him out of it, but there was no stopping this man.

Last night was the first night of this ridiculous idea. I got all decked out in my volleyball attire. Our team was made up of My mom and dad, Brett, Steve Hilliam, Kimmie and her two Pirate teammates, and myself. Obviously too many players for volleyball so I got to sit on the sidelines! My job, to distract the other team with my (sexiness) charm! 

Just my G rated pose.

Needless to say, I think we were worse than my father expected. We lost to the worst team, making us THE BEST TEAM obviously!

"At least you accomplished something" -Austin D. Davis

Look at us go!

The team that beat us!

 Maybe we'll get better as the season goes along!

Righty loosey, Lefty tighty?

The Scientific Method:

1. Observation/Research
Problem: The concept of righty tighty, left loosey is unable to be learned by boys.
Past experiences: Austin Davis trying to unscrew not one but two different bolts by using this method and thinking turning it to the right means he is turning it to the left. 

Aust trying to figure out how to get the bolt off. 

2. Hypothesis
Possible solution to teach this method "McCormick's Garlic Salt"

3. Experiment
Sitting at the dinner table at the cabin and explaining the past experiences with Austin starts the experiment. 
Jeff: Pulls out the garlic salt to explain the concept to Austin. In doing this confuses himself and understands everything Austin has been saying.
Morgan & Lylis: Still understand that turning the lid to the right tightens, and turning it to the left loosens it. Wondering the entire time why the boys don't seem to understand.
Austin: Continues to argue his case by trying to confuse Morgan and make her forget all knowledge. (His technique to winning all arguments.)
*experiment continues for about 25 minutes.


4. Conclusion:
That no matter how much it makes sense, boys over analyse in which direction something is turning. They don't grasp the concept that it is a circle and think that, oh goodness I don't even understand their thoughts still! The conclusion is that boys and girls minds are completely different! 
Boys understand: Clockwise and Counter clockwise
Girls understand: Everything 


Science Experiment Complete

Under the Sea

On Sunday October 2, 2011 the half of the Johnson Clan took a trip down to St. George to go see the Disney play, The Little Mermaid.

Kim and I had the back of the suburban "Arnold" as we call him, to ourselves. We had the best seats in the car

 On Monday we went shopping all morning

We played tennis in the rain

Kim ran head first into a mirror thinking she could run through it.

We ran red lights and missed exits

About the play.

It was visually amazing. They put on a spectacular show! Even if we did have to stop the show due to rain! We had a great time!

They did an amazing job with all of the costumes and all of the actors/actresses fit their parts very well. Jena sat in the audience and booed every time Ursula and her electric eels came out.

All of the actors/actresses were so genuine and nice. They were so grateful and humble. 

 It was a great mini family vaca. Thanks Mom and Dad!