Mr & Mrs. Johnson...

It was so weird going to Mesa Arizona and not spend time or stay with our Arizona Taylor

cousins.  They moved to china just a few weeks before the wedding.  We missed them 

while eating at our coveted "Tia Rosa" restauraunt.  

My nephew Garrett got married in the Mesa Arizona temple in August. Hottest 

day and weekend ever! ha!  We all had a fabulous time celebrating their wedding.  Cory and 

Boston couldn't come due to football starting. boo!

The reception was Ah-mazing!  The Venue was beautiful and the food and open bar was To. Die. For! 

she even had a churro bar! Victoria planned the wedding of the year... 

dancing was a hit with my kids, especially with Hayes and Brody. They were so 

hilarious.  The johnson cousins tore it up again on the dance floor.  It's 

my favorite thing to watch!  

my beautiful sistas!!  

  

Blake is serving a mission but we got a picture with him regardless! ha!

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson 

the dinner was delicious!  

  Mother/son dance...love my bugsy!

my momma with my oldest brother derek... how precious is this?!  love!

Mr & Mrs Taylor Johnson...

it was an absolutely gorgeous day at the Newport Beach temple. The grounds were 

gorgeous and it was such a beautiful temple.  

After the wedding, we took pictures and then off to the wedding luncheon 

at a delicious mexican restaurant in Irvine.  The cousins were hanging out all 

day, and we are quite the bunch!  I love how close these kids are to each other. The older

cousins are such FABULOUS examples.  These kids all worship their older cousins.

 It was so fun to visit with Ben and Jacquie

and their cute little baby bennett who now live there,  My kids are now 

obsessed with Google! ha! {ben's new job}

The Beautiful couple.  

Mckenna and Taylor Johnson...

my cute little family! 

 Grandma and Grandpa Johnson

Ivy with Grandma marlene.  So sweet!!

these kids are such a blast! Just a few of the cousin pics with Taylor.

and some with Ben! haha!

 The Reception was later that evening in LA and it was a beautiful backyard, yummy food and 

again the Johnson cousins took over the dance floor.  Hey we are a fun group of kids! ha!  

everyone one would do the Chant and then that person would tear it up on 

the dance floor. It was hilarious.  Especially the littles! 

 Love these cute crazy spazzy cousins!

 My handsome Hayes with my handsome daddy, his namesake! 

Hayes Terrance Taylor

my hayesie bugs dancing the night away! 

my cute siblings, trying out a new pose! haha!!

trevor + mindy

my sister mindy was a beautiful bride on saturday.  the day was perfect, except she

 forgot her ring and we had to run to her house about 10 minutes before the 

ceremony + her son brody was sick the whole night. 

haha... the perfect start to their special day. 

it didn't seem to bother her at all, while she was calm and stress free, i was stressed!

they had their ceremony at Noah's and it was beautiful. lots of family flew in to share 

their special day with them and they had a great turn out! 

 lots of friends love these guys!

ivy was her flower girl with olivia and camry walking in front of her.   ivy had the basket 

of rose petals and was in charge of dropping them.  she was so shy that she dropped one or two

 behind her as she was walking, i was dying laughing! {i'm laughing while typing this} 

it was so precious. she did a good job!

obviously i didn't get great pictures because i had to help her get going.  

but the photographer will have some.

congratulations trevor & mindy. 

xo

charlee and brody walked her down the isle...

some pictures were taken from my iphone, i loved how they turned out with instagram!

after the ceremony...

trevor + his beautiful bride + new family! 

my mom and some siblings...

re-enacting being the flower girl.  LOVE HER!!

we're getting all set up for the open house.

these girls loved carrying the back of the dress everywhere she went. haha

 gorgeous cousins!

  daddy & hayes..  hayes ate like 5 plates of cake! seriously!

boston is not in any of these pictures because he was a stinker and hated getting his picture taken, i'm hoping the amazing photographer {treasurelayne photography} has some good ones. haha

california vacation...

we just got home from our last summer vacation!  this vacation was spent with all

 of my siblings and all of the cousins except 3 {tj, taylor {mission}, nick {mission}.  Everyone together

 to celebrate my niece lauren's wedding in San Diego.  we decided to make it 

a Johnson family reunion to top off the wedding week! haha

we had so much fun!!

  we started off in Huntington beach on tuesday playing at the beach and then the pool

 waterslides. the kids loved swimming and playing in the ocean.  

the waves were huge and we just missed the "US OPEN" surfing competition. 

 i also made my family take some family pictures that night on the beach.

 they love it when i do this to them! ~wink wink

 this is now my new favorite so cal hot spot! 

 it's clean and actually the cutest little surf town. 

 i love huntington beach!

the kids love digging for sand crabs... even little miss ivy!

charlee & ivy

boston and hayes had a blast chasing after eachother on the slide. 

 i'm surprised the lifeguard didn't kick them out! 

  a little photo shoot...

cutest little girlies!!

my handsome boys!

then off to our favorite pizza of all time, Roundtable pizza!!  cory teases me because

 my family worships this pizza place so him and boston and all the nieces and 

nephew always tell us it's not even good! haha   it's actually fabulous, or maybe

 it's just when i was little we ate it all the time! 

*****

wednesday we met more of the family and were off to 

DISNEYLAND!   

bright & early!!

aunt rachel was the favorite, feeding all the kids cotton candy while in line! 

gross!

the new ariel ride is darling!! we were so excited to see this new ride and 

the new star tours ride! {which is very awesome} 

we rode the carousel a lot while everyone went on 'screamin'.  

  look!! it's our dad! haha    

cory is not a huge fan of disneyland but i was so proud of him that day! 

he was such a trooper and pulled over a 12 hr day! booyah!   

 i sent him off with the boys to ESPN zone for dinner and games.  he was loving that!

****

thursday we slept in and then headed to San Diego. When we checked into our hotel in la jolla we saw that the Seattle Seahawks were there for the chargers/seahawks game.
Boston thought that was pretty awesome.  the kids went swimming
while Grandpa Johnson, Darren and I took all the the teenage/ adult cousins {boston included}
 to do baptisms at the San Diego temple.

   

This was such an awesome experience for the kids to have their own session in the baptistry

 {which was so beautiful} and to have Grandpa there to baptize all of us.  

my dad said to us, this is one of the greatest experiences of his life! :) he is so cute!

grandpa with his grand daughters.  gorgeous girls!!

 me with my dad and brother darren

 boston/me/dad

*****

PB 

friday we played at Pacific Beach so the kids could walk on the pier and shop.
 it wasn't our favorite beach, but the kids still had fun!  we stayed here once with all
my sisters on our very first sisters trip and it is definitely sweet spot to be
sleeping over the ocean!

 

later that night my sisters and i {aka "the aunts"} threw lauren a bridal shower by the poolside. 

 it turned out so nice and she had a gazillion guest show up to support her!  

and then preparing for the big day on saturday... "the wedding"

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