Hi FAMILY! We Love you ALL!!

Well hello!!
Yes it's be quite some time since we have updated (I** have updated) the blog!
We've been soooo busy with school especially as we head into the second half of the semester.
Our new house is absolutely wonderful.




I don't know if all of you know this, but Jordan's sister (Jessica) and her husband (Justin) and their toddler (Avery) and Jordan and I all moved into a new town home together! We all were a bit nervous about it at first, I think, but it has turned out to wonderful and it has been such a fun fun fun experience to be with them and especially to live in the same house as Avery.
She is sooo cute and we feel blessed to be related to her.
SO-We live in Bloomington, which is kind of a separate area south of St. George which is more family oriented.

Our scoot scoot is broke right now, which has actually turned out to be ok because my parents gifted us with mountain bikes! WE LOVE THEM!




We are sooo happy to ride them together, and also alone depending on the school day. Transportation is definitely a shuffle now that we live a bit farther away from the college.


Speaking of school....
ITS HARD! And SOoo much fun :)
BUt it will be soo worth it once we're done.
SO far, the plan is that I have 1 full year left of classes and then my senior piano recital the following summer.
I'm a year behind because I basically started college over when I changed majors and got into the music program and DIxie, and the program is vigorous and very demanding and takes almost a full 4 years to complete.

Jordan has about 2 full years of classes left, and he is doing so well. I have not updated our Scholastic Blog because we've been busy, but one of these days I'll upload his most recent projects.

Here is something that I had Jordan make for me so we will print it on sticky vinyl and put it on the car window :)













I think it's pretty accurate :)



Recently, our thoughts have been turned to searching for schools that have a graduate program in Graphic Design. They are few and far between but my hopes hopes HOPES are that we can go to one of the schools in Chicago or Minnesota (there are none in WIsconsin :*( Being closer to home will be WONDERFUL! ESPEcially because hopefully we'll be starting our little itty bitty Johnson Family by then!! :) :)


The leaves are still turning colors, some trees take longer than others to finally turn colors, so there's still plenty of green around here! THe sun is still hot in the afternoon, but the heat is in at night to keep us comfy.
Yes you should wish you lived here...( I'm talking to you dad :) haha
My dad has been SO into road biking (Lance Armstrong style) and he rides hundreds of miles a week on his bike (unless it's snowing).

SO: When my dad found out that ST. GEorge has 300 days of sunshine a year.... he perked up, because that pretty much means that he could ride his bike 364 days of the year (Give or take 1 days of sand storms hahahaha!!!)






Biking has become my family's new hobby together, from all across the nation where we live, we are united by this new family LOVE for biking!!! Every single one of us, from Portland,Oregon to Ogden, Utah to Provo, Utah, all the way over to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then all the way down St. George, Utah!
We love it so much, and I'm so happy and I love my family sooo much.
My little sisters are growing up, it's CRAZY! :)

We are very much looking forward to our next Gagnon-Palick/Bernaden family trip to San Diego/Newport Beach in Spring! My mom is the planner:

We are GIDDY about how fun it will be (we're going to the zoo there too!) Grandpa Bernaden is coming (hopefully he surfs with us in the ocean like he did in FLorida!! haha), Aunt Kathy and Aunt Debbie are coming too!!! We ARE SO EXCITED TO VACATION WITH THEM!













Alright, I've got to get back to life-but this has been a fun update.


We miss you all so much,
AND----
Just so you know, we plan on coming home to Wisconsin for Christmas!!! :) :) :) :)

YAYAYAYAYAYYY~!~~!

We are so blessed to have so many friends and family that love us, and we are so grateful for you.

Love,
Jordan and Melissa Johnson