Savannah

Savannah at 3 weeks









Savannah at about 5 months


Savannah was born on March 20 in American Fork, Utah.
She was the first child for me and the second for Travis.

Savannah was scheduled to come on March 21, but as we soon learned she would decide! She came the day before on the first day of spring. And only in Utah in the middle of a snow storm!! My envision of Savannah was that she would have blond hair and brown eyes like Travis and I both did as children. But no she couldn't be like that or it wouldn't have been HER way! She was born with jet black hair, lots of it and every where I remember crying to Travis "she looks like a monkey'. Then to top it of she has these amazing blue eyes! She was absolutely beautiful. And still is!!


Our little family bonded quickly and it didn't take her long to become daddy's girl, and to learn to tease me. General our golden retriever would sleep under her bassinet and the minute she would make a noise he would nudge us with his nose. As she got bigger she would share everything with General, take naps on him ( and he wouldn't move a muscle till she woke) and then she learned to ride him!! Her name for him was "puppy" even though he is over 100 lbs. Later she learned to call him "nenral".


As she learned to talk she started to call Travis "mpapa" and I would ask her to say mama and she would just giggle and say "mpapa". She made us laugh all the time. Another stage she went through was calling us by our first names Travis' was "tavis" and lucky me mine was "joey". As I am typing this I realize I should break her stories into age groups. So I will end this as her beginning !!

Travis and Joy

This is a wonderful part in my life!! Meeting my husband and my best friend. I mentioned this a little bit in another entry.
We meet on memorial day weekend in 1996 in Lake Powell, Arizona. We hit it off right from the start you know the old saying "it felt like we had known each forever"! The only problem that I saw was that he was living in Arizona and I was in Utah. The week after we meet he flew in and took me on our first official date. This was during the summer and I hated to wear shoes. So I would always just throw them in my car. Before our date Travis called and said to wear nice clothes. Okay no problem until I got there and went to put on my shoes and they were two different colors!! So on our first date he had to buy me shoes just so we could go to dinner. He still doesn't let me forget that. We spent most of the weekend together and then he had to fly back for work. The next week we spent hours on the phone. He then invited me out to Arizona the next weekend and much to every ones disapproval I drove out to see him. Once I got there I fell in love with the area and with Travis I ended up staying there and did not go back home. Another time in life were I am sure I put quite a few gray hairs on my parents!!
We were married two years later almost to the date. For the first few years we lived all over Utah and Arizona. We then settled and bought our first home together in American Fork, we had many memories in that home. That would also be the first home of our daughter Savannah Lynn born on March 20, 2000. What a great blessing she has been. She is a perfect mix of Travis and I. You know how parents always say I hope you have a child just like you. My mother tells me all the time I never wished that on you, you were such a hand full! Well guess what we got it!
She is our little go getter. The other day I told her "Savannah you need to act like a little girl" She said " but mom I am a tom boy." Travis spit his drink all over and couldn't quit laughing.
Travis and I have had some pretty hard times together, the hardest his when he broke his shoulder and couldn't work for two years. All though this was one of harder times in life it helped us as a couple and as friends to pull together and get closer than we had ever been.
We have also had very great times together as well. We have had many fun vacations together. As a single couple and as a family.
As a family we enjoy a lot of different activities. We enjoy everything the outdoors have to offer. We usually spend a lot of time out on the lake but on our last trip to Lake Powell in October of '07 we hit a spike rock in the middle of the channel. Which is very odd because the water in the channel is very deep at some points 500 feet plus. We then immediately starting taking on water. So we had to call search and rescue over the radio. They told us they didn't know if they could get to us before dark and said we would have to try to get to shore and stay the night. Well the only problem is we had 6 other people with us and a 18 month old baby. Long story short they ended up coming to get us and taking us back to the house boat. By the time they got to us it was pitch black out with no moon. They loaded us in there speed boat and we all had to sit up front because the engines were so loud they would cause hearing damage. We all huddled together and headed out. This experience was a rush going on a speed boat at 60 mph in pitch black with the captain just going of his GPS no lights. Wow is all I can say. We were able to save our boat from sinking but have not fixed it yet. So this summer I am going through boating withdrawals.
The other main activity in our lives is four wheeling we started out just riding in the mountains. But then we went to the sand dunes and haven't been back to mountains since. Travis spent many days as a teenager at the "dunes" and is loving be able to do it again! We all have our own bikes even Savannah who got her first one right after her 4th birthday. This child gives me panic attacks when I watch her she has no fear. And will follow her dad anywhere. I have to yell at Travis don't go up that when she is watching or she will follow you. Travis rebuilt one of his banshees into a drag bike and wow is it fast and pretty.
There are many other things we do as a family and know that I have started this I hope to keep up with our events!!
I love writing about the things we do as a family it makes me remember how grateful I am for them. It also reminds me how great life is!!

Joy

This post will be a little harder than Travis'. His post was fun to write and was very easy to brag about him! So mine will probably be a little shorter! I was born in Boise, Idaho on February 19 to Ray & LuWana. I was the fourth and final daughter. My three older sisters are Marci who is married and living with her family in American Fork, Utah, Cyndee who is living with her son in Lehi, Utah, and LuRae who is married and living with her family in American Fork, Utah.
My family and I lived in Boise until I was 7. In the middle of 2nd grade we moved to Lehi, Utah that was a challenging year for our family, but like with all challenges we made it through and gave us some good stories to tell!
As a child I was quite adventurous! LuRae and I did almost everything together. LuRae was the quiet shy type and I was the exact opposite. I remember sitting on the fire escape stairs and getting as close to the edge as I could just to scare LuRae. There would be times that I would tell her it was okay just try it, it is not that scary!
I have a lot of found memories of going to visit my grandma and grandpa in Egin, Idaho. During the summer I would be able to go and spend a week with them. My cousin Kadie was around the same age and lived not far from my grandparents. We were not always good but we had a lot of fun! I remember getting yelled at by grandma and grandpa for silly little things like playing in the irrigation ditch and then running through the garden with the end result of us covered in mud! Or another time we got yelled at for shooting my bb gun (at some boys in a canoe). They are really great memories for me. My grandparents mean a lot to me and I am thankful that they let me stay with them even though I was probably not very easy to deal with. Why else do you think my parents sent me away!!
The one thing I loved to do growing up was playing soccer I started when I was 10 and played till I was 16, and then with Savannah I was able to coach her team. Which was awesome, one of the teams we would play against was coached by one of my coaches in high school that was fun especially when we won!!
I meet my best friend when I was 15, Kathy. We also had some fun experiences growing up. We made our parents worry! I don't know if I like writing this on myself, thinking of all the things I did growing up, I can't beleive my parents survived!! Kathy lives with her family in Provo they have lived there now for a couple of years and before that they lived in Minnesota. I am glad to have her back!
As of now I will finish my story maybe as time goes by I will add more!

Travis

Here is a little about Travis. He was born and raised in Provo, Utah on October 14 to Fern and Jay Johnson. He lived in Provo while growing up and had a lot of great friends there. They caused quite a bit of trouble!! He meet one of his best friends when he was 8. His name is Jason Hunt and those two together were not always good. The way they meet is always so funny to me. They got in a pretty big fight and as a punishment there moms figured they should spend a day together so they could learn to get a long!! Well they learned, and after that day there moms spent a lot of energy and time trying to keep them apart. Jason now lives in Tucson Arizona with his wife Shaylee and little boy Max.
Travis started playing the drums around the age of five and has been in several bands and is currently in a band now. Travis loves to fish and hunt and also started this at a very young age.
Travis started his work ethics young he and his dad would catch minnows and worms and sell them to local gas stations and markets. This also built a strong relationship between father and son. He also contributes a lot of his work ethics to his grandmother who past away two weeks before I meet him. But through all the stories I feel that I know her very well.
Travis is the oldest of three children he has two younger sisters Christy and Shauna who are both married and living with there families in Payson, Utah. This is also were his parents have lived for the past 13 or so years.
Travis has had a filled life and he is not even half way done. He has worked many different jobs in his life. Through his jobs he has seen most of the United States. The one he has gone back to time after time has been a mechanic I swear there is nothing this man doesn't know or hasn't tried!! He has owned a siding company and a concrete company both of these were very successful. Now in his life he has just retired as the Service Director for Brent Brown Toyota. This job he succeeded well in and he won many different awards for his achievements and many different trips. Brent let us take his house boat in Lake Powell several times. In October of '07 Brent took us to stay at one of his houses in Maui Hawaii. Which was absolutely beautiful ! He (we) have now started a ice cream business, a company which sells fuel cleaners for big fleet companies and etc. and a finance management company.
Travis bought his first home in Payson when he was 20 this also was the first home of his son Austin who was born on November 15. Travis sold this home a few years later to his sister Christy and her new husband Garret. His home after that changed around every three months as he worked for Staker paving out of town crew. This has only been a short part of the many things Travis has accomplished in his life. I am very proud of my husband and very proud to be his wife. I Love you Travis!!

Summer 2008

Savannah does several dance performances during the summer this year she did a mini High School Musical
This is Savannah singing her solo part in her dance there song was Hey Mickey

Savannah, Brittany,and Jennifer in Aspen, Colorado










This summer has been quite busy for our family. Travis has quit his job and has started three new businesses. For all of you who know Travis this is NOT a shocker! Travis loves a constant challenge and when he feels he has conquered the challenge he goes on to find a bigger and harder one!

Myself, I have been keeping up with all the day to day activities that come along with the new challenges ! Getting Savannah to all of her things. And enjoying all the things summer has to offer.

Austin is getting ready to go into high school this year and has enjoyed doing some football camps.

Savannah has done several summer dance performances. She was in a mini production of High School Musical 2. And has kept super busy with her competition cheer team. They were in 4 different parades this summer and she really enjoyed that, I got to drive the little girls in my truck and enjoy the air conditioning! She has done a cheer camp and a dance camp this summer. She is now getting ready to start 3rd grade on the 18th of August. She has also loved helping Travis Jr with the ice cream business.

Travis Jr. is helping Travis run our ice cream business and is working really hard. He has also signed up to start some classes in the next week or so. He has been also working hard at finding some friends. We all laughed at him the other morning while going on our walk he was complaining on how cold it was. Which was maybe 60 degrees. Just wait till winter and we will show him what cold is really about!!

This summer we have not traveled like we normally do. We went to Las Vegas for Travis Jr. graduation. We spent the Fourth of July in Aspen Colorado that was a blast. We went up with Ben and LuRae and there girls. The three girls lived in the pool the whole time we were there!!
We have also had some fun bbq's, playing in the water, and listening to Travis' band. We have a trip planned to Park City Aug 2nd and are really looking forward to doing the new Alpine coaster, and the good ole Alpine slide and the zip lines!!

Our Family

Jetta my puppy!

Our Family In Kaui Hawaii (just getting done with a helicopter tour)

Welcome To The Johnson Family Page!
A little about us Travis and Joy meet in the summer of 1996 in Lake Powell Arizona. It was as close to love at first sight comes (ohhh)!! We have lived in Black Canyon City and Solome Az. Las Vegas, Nevada American Fork (twice) Dell, Orem, Lindon and now our family has just moved to Herriman, Utah ! We have been here for about 4 months now. We have really enjoyed it, it is peacefull yet close enough to everything except Savannah's school.
Our Family includes of course Travis and I. Travis' son Austin who is 15 turning 16 in November. Our daughter Savannah who is 8. And Travis Jr. who is 18 and has just moved her from Henderson, Nevada. Travis Jr is our nephew and has been here since the middle of July. Two golden retreivers General who is 10 and Ruger who is 1 1/2. And then our newest addition is Jetta a long hair toy dachshund who is just over 4 months.
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