Johnson Family Fun

So I still haven't emailed friends or family about our blog yet. I kept trying to find a cool background for it instead of the standard block and colors. This is the one I liked best out of the basic templates. Of course there had to be a bit of red in it (GO UTES!!!) But I may as well go ahead and send the link so that I can get suggestions from you "professional" blogger family and friends that can give me suggestions on where to find a cute background for this webpage.

I'll share an interesting experience from today before ending this post. So we go to church today, and Jaimen was just ridiculously onery. He was upset and whispering quite loudly while talking to me, and then would cry and throw himself on the floor. And yes, he's 8 acting like a 3 or 4 year old. Of course, it is just me since Matt is on the stand, and I can't very well pick him up and take him out, and even telling him he needs to come outside with me doesn't work. He refuses and won't move. It is so frustrating. This went on almost the entire hour. So I tell him he gets consequences for those choices. But I also felt like we should have a FHE on how to behave in Sacrament Meeting, so I remembered that there was a talk in Gen. Conf. last month on that, and we happened to still have the recorded sessions, so I looked it up and we sat down this evening to watch this talk by Elder Dallin H. Oaks. The kids listened to the whole thing, and proceeded to discuss for 1/2 an hour (I kid you not) the things that impressed them about this talk. Here I was thinking I'd only ask a few questions and we'd be done. They wanted to rewind to certain quotes, and discuss particular things he said and give examples of what we should and shouldn't do. I was really impressed by them tonight. And then Jaimen says this, which just blew me away: "Mom, next Sunday when we get home from church, can you and I watch a whole thing of General Conference, like 2 hours, and also Music and the Spoken Word cause I like to play 'Spot Grandpa'"? (his Grandpa White sings in the Tab. Choir). I was a little bit dumbfounded by this! I thought, Wow, I really have amazing kids. Despite my weaknesses and mistakes as a mother, they are turning out to be pretty great individuals. I won't hold my breath about watching an entire 2 hours of conference with Jaimen (oh and he did say he was concerned that I would fall asleep during it, since I like to nap after church services. I promised him I'd do my best to stay awake). I'll have to post an update next week as to what happens.