Life at the Johnstons

We have been enjoying the granddaughters.  They are a special blessing in our lives!  I try and play once a week with them.  They all have great imaginations.  We play Elza and Anna from Frozen, mermaids, kitties, doctor, babies, enjoy swinging, and much more. 

Princess Olivia.

Grammy pushing Kinley.

Ava enjoying playing mermaids.  Adelynn is the captured mermaid.

Adelynn stopping for a picture.

Randy and Charles enjoyed a train trip together,  September 3-12, 2014.  Here are a couple of pictures. 

Charles in the Muir Woods.  Notice how small he is compared to the trees.

Part of Colorado as seen when riding the Amtrak California Zephyr.  Both really wanted to ride this train!

Randy had to speak in Hawaii but did enjoy a bit of vacation time at Molokai.  Only 5000 people on the whole island so he was often on the beach alone.  He said it was wonderful!

Rivers Daily Pics

A few daily pics from the past few weeks...our day includes lots of playing, straightening, baking, cooking, reading, and we repeat it all over again the next day!


Kinley often fights going to sleep.  But, this night she needed her hat on too.

We spend a lot of time here--meals, crafts, etc!



This day Great-Grandma and Uncle Charles came to play.

We bake a lot.  This is fall snack mix.



Olivia and Sarah do learning activities after rest time.  Picking letter apples.



This is a birthday party for baby.  Complete with wrapped presents, pretend cupcakes, and singing.



Kinley and her baby.

Bonus:  Today we went to the Pumpkin Patch.

We build with Legos a lot.

Andrew and Katie's Photo Update

We wanted to share a few pictures from our daily lives as well.  Here is the mundane in our lives!

Here is Katie's building.  She's in the shorter, white one in the foreground.  (This day was less mundane.  We had a nice storm rolling through!)

Inside her building, her offices are off of this atrium.

The front doors to her company.  This is a 90 degree turn to the left from the last photo.

And finally, her desk!  Clearly she needs more stuff!

Here is Andrew's drive to work.  Usually occurring between 1:30 and 3:30 pm.

And here is his office/desk.  All members of the smart mile team sit together in this room because the HVAC in the rest of the building will shut off at night!