In a Nutshell

Wow, it has been ages since I last put a post up on here. So I will have to do the quick and dirty version of the last nine months. So for starters, obviously, school ended and so did my middle school career, about time. In June we had Youth Conference, which was really fun, even though we didn't go to all of it. Because we had the same week a Forsyth Family Reunion here in Texas. Which was great because we only had to drive 15 minutes to get there! So we all went to a park, and then went to Schlitterbahn for a day. And then that night, Jasmin got engaged to, her now husband, Ryan Sloan. And while here, Maria announced to us that she and Steve are expecting their second child! That was a very exciting and busy week for all of us!

Nothing too much happened during the summer part of this year, besides what I just mentioned and me having Summer School. Then in August, Jazzy and Ryan got married in the San Antonio, Texas Temple on August 13, 2011. It was a beautiful day, and everything was great. Now the newlyweds live in Virginia so that Ryan can still go to school there at SVU. (Because Jazzy already beat him in graduating, so he's trying to catch up!) And when Nephi and Kirsten were here, they too announced that they were expecting their first child! So we have two new babies coming into our family, both in February 2012! We are all very excited.

Now, school has begun for all of us here at home. With Dad doing his Doctorate, Mom in her Nursing Program, Gideon in his Senior year, and me in my Freshman year. And every single one of us are going to different schools. Gid has already begun looking into colleges and plans to go into Engineering, since that is what he is doing at High School anyways. He's really quite good at it, and even got first in state for a thing (I don't know exactly what it is) that he designed and created. I believe that his top two schools that he is looking into are Texas A&M and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dad is doing his dissertation for his doctorate, and is working very hard in all that he does. Mom has continued on with her nursing program at SAC, and loves it. And I, go to NESA, (Northeast School of the Arts) for Musical Theater. I love it here, and this year, we're doing the musicals Les Miserables, Into the Woods, and The Tempest.

And that my friends, is our family in a nutshell.

An extremely, compact, nutshell.

Oh, the Holidays!

For the holidays this year, we decided to go out of town for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving we flew out to Virginia to see Jazzy and Aunt Tammy, Uncle Bill, and Reiden. For both Gideon and I it was our first time to ever fly. Personally, I thought it was pretty sweet, minus the fact that on our first flight out at 6:00 in the morning I was airsick and couldn't wait until we landed. Otherwise the trip was very fun and enjoyable. It was really fun being able to watch one of Jazzy's games in person. I had only seen one other one online, and might I say it is way better in person. Although at both games that we saw SVU lost, it was good to see Jazz play Basketball again. The last time I had seen her play was back when she was a senior in high school, four years back. and yes, she's still got it.:)

Seeing Aunt Tammy and Uncle Bill was really fun, because they are just the

coolest people around (and my favorite Aunt & Uncle, just throwing that out there).

Tammy is the best cook ever and on Thanksgiving I could hardly finish my first

helping, it was SO good. Reiden is just the biggest kid ever for his age. All that he

wanted to do the whole time was play ping-pong, which was fine, I needed to

brush up on my ping-pong skills anyway.

Christmas rolled around and we drove out to Arizona to visit Grandma and

Grandpa Johnsonwho live on a mountain in the middle of a desert. Now, to get to

this house of theirs, you must first prepare yourself for a bumpy ride, second

approach and cross cattle guards, thirdly travel on a perilous and never ending

journey of Cacti and dirt, and fourth arrive at the house unscathed but a little

shaken and dizzy. After arriving however you automatically feel happy and

ready for adventure, don't ask why you feel this way, because I don't know

either... I love going to their house, maybe it's just that I have so many good

memories there, maybe it's because I 'm always ready for the...not exactly

normal things. For example, I found a big black spider crawling out of Jazzy's

and mine's bed. I didn't tell Jazzy about it until we were safely out of Arizona

and in Texas.We went on a run one day and found just one random Christmas

ornament hanging on a nearby tree. That was probably the weirdest thing

that I had ever seen...ever.

It was a really big surprise to all of us when we pulled up and saw Elizabeth and

her kids waiting to greet us. Mom was so happy to see her since Elizabeth had

said that she wasn't going to come down but wonderful Maria kidnapped her

and the kids and left Eli for dead meat for the approaching wave of man eating

zombie werewolves hitting Salt Lake City! Just so you know, Eli did survive and

fought valiantly against the werewolves and was the one person who scared them

all off back into the deep & dark abyss from whence they came. We had a lot of

fun there with Maria, Steve, & Creedence, Elizabeth, Ariana, & Alex, and the

Seelos family. It was a fun break there and it was really cool to see everyone

again.

Happy New Year to all and Happy Birthday to Jasmin! We had our traditional

scone break-fast with all of our favorite families and friends. There wasn't any

record breaking this year, and so the record still stands at 23 scones, by Connor

Hunsaker. The Holidays have been fun this year and I have enjoyed them all

very much. Happy New Year!;)