Exciting Times

Mike got home about 2 weeks ago and it has been crazy to say the least. Mike started school last Monday which thankfully it appears that he is enjoying. He is taking 6 classes, which is equaling out to be about 17 credits, and with us being a one care family right now Mike has been able to spend some extra time at school so staying on top of homework hasn't been to hard yet. But keep him in your prayers he would appreciate that! My new job is going really well, I enjoy everyone I work with and the work I do it very fulfilling. I was very over whelmed at first with everything I was going to have to learn but I have been here almost a month and now I think I finally am getting the hang of it!
In other news the labor day weekend was really fun. Mike and I celebrated our 2nd Anniversary on Sunday, it was a pretty laid back day, but that is okay because we went and saw Wicked, went to The Roof, and stayed at Anniversary Inn the weekend Mike got home. We got to stay in the Treasure Island Suite. It was very fun! Wicked was amazing, as I know that the whole Johnson Clan got to go also and they can agree with me!
Also Mike and I have been really excited to announce that we are going to be buying a house! The house is in Spanish Fork, UT and it is actually a condo. But it is very cute, it is 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, and has a very small but cute back yard. We hopefully will be moving in the first weekend in October, but for now we are staying in Mom & Dad Johnson's basement apartment. Mike's sister Catherine and her husband Adam have recently moved up to Salt Lake City into student housing, leaving the vacancy in the basement apartment. It has been such a blessing to be able to be there until we move into our house, and it has been really fun also to be able to hang out with the family when we are home.
Well that is about all that is new with us for now, but we will keep you updated on anything else that is new! Thank You all so much for your love and prayers hope all is well with you all also!


Love Mike & Lindy

Been A Long Time!!

Well it has been almost a year since I have updated our blog so I thought it was about time to do that...ha ha. Well a lot has happened in this past year and at the same time nothing at all. Mike went out another summer to do summer sales, we actually tried out security for a couple weeks and Mike decided it wasn't for him! So  we packed up all our stuff and headed to Michigan to rejoin the satellite business. Mike has had an AMAZING summer since we came back to satellite, he had a shortened bonus structure for rent and other things so now he is working on the Hawaii bonus!! So keep you fingers crossed. Mike comes home in 1 week! I can't wait to have him home! I have been back in Utah a little over 2 weeks now. I have been living in Orem with my Aunt Tami and Uncle Duane. They have been so kind to open their home to me and make me feel like part of the family these past few weeks! Had an interview with a company called Veracity Networks, they specialize Fiber Optic Internet as well as TV and VoIP phone. So I was lucky enough to start that job on Monday. The job pays really well and they offer full medical/ dental. As well as PTO(paid time off) and Paid holidays. To say there is a lot of information to learn would be a major under statement!! On my first day, my brain felt like it had been turned to scrambled eggs! I get to work with my Mom also so that has been fun!We don't work in the same department but I do get to see her quite a bit!But when Mike gets home, he will be starting school on the 27th, he is going to be taking 17 credits (keep him in your prayers!)!! He is excited believe it or not, he actually won't have to go to school on Friday or Saturday, and wont be at school any later than 5:30, he has about 2 years left and then he will have his BA in Technology Management with an emphasis in Drafting Technology. I will be working full time this school year to make sure Mike can go to school and not have to work!
We will be celebrating our 2nd anniversary this year! It is so hard to believe that it has been 2 years. It feels like not that long ago Mike and I were in the temple getting married for time and ALL eternity! We started dating almost 2 years before we got married so we have been apart of each others lives for almost 4 years. I am so happy to say I married my best friend and I couldn't be luckier or happier! Well we have a busy nest few weeks so I will try to keep everyone as updated as possible! Hope all is well with everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about what were up to or anything!

Love you ALL!!

Lindy & Mike Johnson

Pinterest

As some of you may know there is this amazing yet painfully addicting website called "Pinterest" I a couple weeks ago merited an invitation and have started pinning away. Since then I have done 3 craft projects one which is a homemade wreath I hung on our door :) and several recipies! i love this new site that has given me a new way to be creative and do projects I wouldn't normally get to do! If you haven't had the oppertunity to take a look at pinterest I highly suggest you do...it will be well worth the hours of time you will loose looking at it!

http://pinterest.com/

Here above is the link go ahead...I dare you!!!

Cruisin!

Hey everyone!

Well we got back last night super late from another fun weekend! Our company cruise to that fun little place of Ensanada, Mexico! We set off on Thursday morning about 10 o'clock, we car pooled down with our good friends James and Jerrica Cook. We did our drive down in a two part adventure, with part one ending in Las Vegas! We stayed at the Excalibur Hotel right on the Strip! We found this awesome little discount ticket place just a little ways down from the strip and got a really good deal on tickets to see the Jabbawockeez!! If you haven't heard of the Jabbawockeez they are a dance group the won America's Best Dance Crew (Like American Idol). It was a lot of fun! We also ate at at a very good all you can eat place in the Monte Carlo. The next morning we headed out of the final leg of the trip to Long Beach, California where the cruise departed later that day. Luckily the whole driving portion was only about 11 hours total, so the last part was only about 6 hours. When got on the Cruise it was so much fun, we were with our company Linx so we had alot of friends with us! We played games, went to shows, and ate A LOT! Ensanada was super fun we shopped around ate a little Mexican restaurant right off the shopping blvd. You gotta love real Mexican Food, Yummie! Our last day on the boat was a tad bit disappointing... The weather was not nice at all, which was pretty sad because we had a Linx sponsored Shuffle Board Tournament. Winning Team took $500 to split! Mike's team got out in the first round... :( but he almost won if that makes it anymore exciting!

Well Halloween is on its way! Mike starts school today and I am still working, it is so good to be back here in Utah, but we are still so excited for next summer. We dont know where were going quite yet but we should know soon.

To see pictures from our trip check my Facebook page! Until next time everyone take care!

Love Mike and Lindy

Funny Story!

Hey everyone!

So Thursday Mike and I went to Best Buy after I got off work, we were just needing to return a few things. When we came back out to the car there was a guy standing out side our car and said to us "Don't leave I just hit your car"....AHHHH!! NOT our band new 2011 Kia Soul!!! Luckily or unluckily the man who hit us was a police officer, and the car he hit us with was an unmarked police car. We then had to wait almost 45 minutes for another police officer to show up to do a report, which normally you don't have to call the police but because he was the police in a police vehicle we had to call them. After the report was done and we could leave I call our insurance company (USAA!!!) and they wanted us to immediately go to a collision repair place and have it inspected to see if it was drivable and to estimate the damage. The policeman hit us on the driver side fender right by the wheel well so it damage the side panel and the fender. After waiting 20 minutes to finish with the estimate we had now be on this car journey/fiasco for 2 1/2 almost 3 hours. The damage.......drum roll.......$750!!! Ouch! So moral of the story don't park in parking lots, you are not safe from ANYONE, even police officers who are suppose to be good drivers....not!

But now for the funny part, while we were waiting for the officer to arrive to make the collision report there was a fairly large truck that attempted to park in a handicap space across from us, he failed miserably (see my Facebook or to the right). It was so funny, he didnt even attempt to fix it at all, he just stayed half in his handicap stall and half in the other. We laughed pretty hard about that one!

What a WEEK!!!

Hi Everybody!

Well we finally made it back to the home land... Good ol Utah. We have been back for a little over a week and what a crazy week it has been. We got moved into our apartment safe and sound :) We love it would be an understatement. We live in south Orem kinda by IN-N-Out and RC Wiley. Its a cute little four plex with 2 bedrooms and it is SO close to everything! It is close to Linx (our work) and everything else.

Since we have been back it has been SUPER busy! We had Conference which was such a spiritual power boost that I needed. We also had Alyse and John's Wedding, what a wonderful thing to be able to witness. It was also such a special reminder of the covenants and promises Mike and I made just over a year ago.

We also got to go fishing on dad's new boat, it was so much fun! We got 7 in the boat! I by some dumb luck caught 3 of those 7! Dad cooked em up and fried they were so good (see mikes Facebook for pics). Then that night we got to go to the BYU homecoming game! What a game, it was so much fun!

The next day was Caleb's Deacon Ordination, Andre preformed the Ordination. What a sweet thing to see Andre ordain his little brother. I am also so impressed with the manner in which Caleb treated this very important step. He is such a bright young man and I am so proud of him. :)

(These pictures are actually from the BYU v Utah game)

I also have an important announcement! I have decided I am going to cosmetology school! I am so excited to start school, I visited a few schools and got a lot of good information. I think I have settled on Taylor Andrews, I got a scholarship there that covers 40% of tuition! I will more than likely be starting in either January or March, after all the chaos of the holidays and our trip to Washington. We are still going on a cruise in February so that is why I may want to start in March. but I can also make up the week I will be gone easily at school. But we will see.

Mike starts school next week! he is super excited to get back to school and get it done! He is taking a pretty light course load so it will give him time to sell on weekends if he wants to and have fun and relax. He worked so hard this summer, and some how still so excited for next summer to!

Well It is so good to be back in Utah and to see most of you. Hopefully by Christmas we will have seen the rest of you! Love you all, keep us in your prayers!

Love,

Mike and Lindy

All Down Hill From Here!

Hey Everybody!

We got back from our anniversary trip to Branson on Saturday.

We had a blast, it was so relaxing to get away and get rested up to hit up our last month hard! We did a lot and had so much fun! I think our

favorite thing we did was zip lining!

We got to zip line for a couple hours and all the lines were varying lengths, heights, and speeds but the "cherry on top" as Mike would say, was the Fast Track! After a Pinzgauer ride to the top of Wolf Mountain, the Zip begins about 25 feet above the top of the mountain. As we soared towards the 100 ft high zip tower at the base of Wolfe Mountain we reached speeds of 30-50 MPH!

When we got to the tower there was no stairs, no zip, or even ladder to get off this 100 ft tall tower. The only way off way off was to jump! That is right, its called free fall. As Mike stood on the edge he jumped! He made it look effortless. Now it was my turn, I approached the edge with butterflies in my tummy, the guide said okay. I looked at him and asked I can just go? He said yup like it was no big deal. So with a little hesitation I jumped! It was exhilarating!

I have never before experienced a rush like that! You fall all on our own for about 30-40 feet then the rest of the way down a pully slows you down so your landing in smooth, but WHAT A RUSH!! I think someday Mike and I will try sky diving now! We also got to go to a few shows, put put golfing, Go Karting and a wax museum!! Another of Mike's favorite things we did was the all you can eat place we went to called Starvin Marvins. It was all you can eat Lobster, Crab and Shrimp oh my. The lobster actually was good..but..it was whole lobster so it had a face, and eyes!!! Yuckie!! But we had a total blast and are excited to finish up our last month strong! So far so good!

Miss you all can't wait to be back!