UVU Graduation

After two years at Snow College and three more at Utah Valley University, Mark finally finished phase one of his educational journey. Most of his family was able to attend, as well as Mary's grandpa. Mark graduated with honors and looked sharp in his Hufflepuff house robes. Chad sat out the morning commencement which was headlined by President Thomas S. Monson. Convocation in the afternoon wasn't too exciting, but sure revved up our appetites for Macarroni Grill. Mark says he's proud to be a Wolverine.

Chad Gets Ear Tubes

After months and months of ear infections, Chad finally got tubes put in today. Here's a few pics while we waited for him to go in.

Here we are right after the surgery. Chad was not a happy camper. The anesthesia made him a little irritable. But we're home now and he's back doing the Mickey Mouse hot dog dance.

Happy Easter

The Easter festivities began last Tuesday when Chad had his first easter egg hunt with all his buddies in our Mother's Group. We also colored eggs at home and let Chad hunt around the apartment for them. He gets so excited yelling, "Eeegh!" (not really sounding out the 'g' in egg.) We also went to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house in Manti where we colored more eggs, Chad got to see and touch some goats, he played baseball and looked for more eggs on easter morning. He became quite the pro egg hunter. On Sunday after church we took a picture of Chad with Anika and Avery Mortensen because they all looked so cute in their easter orange church clothes.

Ouch!

Chad was playing at the park two days ago, tripped off a little step and landed face first on a concrete border under a chain link fence. Poor little guy. He's a trooper though. He cried for a minute or two and that was that.

Trip to AZ

Mark had a few days off for Spring Break so we decided to head on down to sunny Arizona. Of course we can't go to Arizona in the Spring without going to a baseball game. We took a break in Tucson to watch a spring training game of the Diamondbacks vs Brewers. Mark and Mary didn't see much of each other during the game because one of us was always with Chad, trying to keep him entertained.

Mary's cousin Dan and his wife Kendra came to visit while we were in Willcox. Here are the kids - Bryce, Chad, Jackson, and Kyla.

Mary's parents have missionaries living with them and Elder Richards had some fun bonding time with Chad. Chad wanted to be pushed around in a shopping cart, and not too much later he fell asleep.

The next day, the same elder was taking Chad for a ride on the lawn mower and yep, the little guy fell asleep once again.

The Johnsons in Omaha

Lately, I've been wondering what it will be like when me move to Nebraska. I can only assume this montage is a pretty accurate portrayal.

Gettin' Down on the Turkey Farm

Chad recently had his first encounter with the Cook family turkeys. We were down for the weekend so we zipped out to the farm with Thomas, Holly, and those cute Cook kids. Chad seemed to be in awe at the overwhelming number of furry little creatures. He wasn't too excited to follow Kady's lead and hold them, but he did take some satisfaction in shuffling his feet as if trying to startle them (at least that's what it looked like he was doing.) Good times at the turkey farm.

Little Mylee already feels right at home amongst the turkeys.

Chad did hold a turkey, but not for long enough to snap a photo.

Interesting? Not to Chandler; turkeys are old news to him.