The Lake House

The Johnsons had another fun trip to the lake house. Although there was no lake this year. Pineview was being drained. But everyone still managed to have fun.

Sam and Jacob won the pickleball tournament

The Fab 5 lip sync

Bish & Leila

Line dancing

Our Mulan lip sync

The Marshalls

My favorite part - playing with Miles

Toby & Sam went on a bike ride

 

I Hate HCM

Ugh, just writing about this makes me have all the feels. We took Sam in for his annual heart check up. He has been checked on yearly for most of his life because he's a carrier of the HCM gene. The heart condition me and a few of my siblings have. Sam has never shown that he actually has HCM...until this year. His echo showed his heart had thickened and we were told life would now be different. We were totally shocked to hear this new and it was not fun. The Dr. that gave us the news was not super helpful either and told Sam he probably would never play lacrosse, run or do anything active again. Lots of tests were ordered to see how his heart was actually functioning. Another echo, MRI, and an exercise stress test. The good news is that all of these tests show that Sam's heart is working just fine. And the Dr (we got a new one) cleared him to do anything he wants. Obviously we don't know how long that will last, but we'll take whatever time he has to lead a normal life. 

Ready for an MRI

A crown burger after made everything better

Getting ready for his exercise test

 

Doing the exercise test. He stayed on longer than anyone has and has the VO2 of a college athlete. He was so proud

This & That

Some friends thought it would be fun to have tea at the Grand America. Good conversation but tea is NOT my thing.

Their famous dandelion tea

Finding old Halloween costumes

Max played the organ again for stake conference. And the last person to play it before it's torn down.

Lots of coloring during conference

Toby finally got to ski on our neighbors private ski lake

Sam in his happy place. Yes, he's doing what you think he is.

Seeing Cars in the theaters. It was awesome

Getting nostalgic and finding all of our Cars cars

 

Max & Ryland rode the tandem to a nearby choir performance

School

 Another school year has started. I'm not even sure if we had summer? Time is flying  by. Max is excited to be a senior and Sam is even more excited to be in high school. Watching them get ready and run out the door every morning is always funny, but somehow they always make it.

I made Megan send me a first day of school pic too

Sam's head at a permanent tilt

This first day of school will always be a good one. The day before, Sam went with the YM to do baptisms. He had his best friend Miles baptize him. It was Mile's first time. Miles wasn't doing great at helping Sam out of the water, so Sam had to lift himself out. I guess Miles decided to lift Sam out on the last one and Sam was already prepared to do it himself and so it was very forceful and Sam basically got whiplash. Yeah, we can't stop laughing about it. So Toby brought him to my work where the Dr's laughed really hard that they would have to put "aggressive baptizing" as mechanism of injury and then they helped him out so he would at least be able to make it to school the next day.

Toby had to feed him dinner cuz he couldn't move his neck. I just watched and laughed

Then we had to go get passport pics and Sam looked like he was posing for his prison mugshot

The Fab 5 are all in high school!

With the start of school comes homecoming. I had lots of boys at my house getting their posters ready. So different from girls. It was hilarious.

How Max asked Raegan

How Sam got answered

Megan Came to Visit

We got to have Megan around for a couple of weeks as she was in between apartments. We loved having her here, her - not so much. But that's ok we'll take what we can get! She also celebrated a birthday while she was here and I'm always grateful for her choice of cake - fruite pizza. Yum!

Our last pic and stake conference at the regional center before they tear it down

Bucket golf is our new family favorite