Coleman Turns 12!

We had fun celebrating Coleman's 12th birthday!

He always wants us to make the decorations crazy and to use lots of streamers.

First he opened presents.

Thank you hug

More birthday hugs

Kenzie hid the squishmallow she got him and pulled it out when he was done and looking at his other presents.

Next, Coleman had his last baseball game of the season. We thought it would be cancelled because of the rain, but they still had it. The rain stopped pretty quickly so once they spread the water and dirt around and moved home plate and the pitcher's mound back out of the puddles, it wasn't too bad.

Coleman batting

His fans!

Batting again

Then we went to Chuck E. Cheese.

Coleman got the bonus on this game and got lots of tickets!

Next we went home and played games and video games.

The Kenyons got him a new mouse that he loves!

Birthday donuts!

About Coleman:

Loves Minecraft

Loves yogurt, pasta, pizza, PB sandwiches, donuts, and milkshakes

Loves playing sports for fun, not competitively

A great friend

Happy

Loves me

Always wants to sit by me and walk by me

Loves watching Minecraft youtubers

Doesn't like outdoorsy things

Like solving Rubik's Cubes

Fun

Loves having fun, doesn't love work

Loves listening to the Everything, Everywhere, Daily podcast

Loves reading

Loves watching Brain Games

Loves playing with friends

Loves playing games

A great kid!

Loved by us!

We're so glad he's in our family!

Wild Waves!

Wild Waves opened on weekdays finally so we went! I was when school was still in so it was so empty there! We loved it!

Jordan, Ben, and Coleman. We had the younger three Johnson kids with us.

Coleman and Ben

Kenzie, Jordan, and Jackson

Point Defiance Zoo

Point Defiance Zoo got 2 new polar bears so we decided to get a pass and go see them. It was a great day!

Jordan, Kenzie, and Coleman came with me. Jackson had to take a math test. And Doug had to work.

We watched the show during lunch. Professor Dumbledog rode a dragon in it.

We watched the elephant keeper talk. It was really interesting. The elephant, Suki, kept raising up her foot when the keeper was taking too long between giving her treats. She was trying to do tricks in order to get more treats:) She's almost 59 years old. She shares a birthday with Kenzie!

She also kept lifting her trunk to get more treats.

We found that they have budgies to feed! They used to have them at Woodland Park Zoo, but don't anymore. So we were excited to see they have them at Point Defiance now!

It's Kenzie's favorite part of the zoo.

It took 3 tries, but we finally saw a polar bear! She was bigger than I expected. Her sister, who's smaller didn't make an appearance, but maybe she would have been the size I expected. She was so fun to watch! She was swimming most of the time.

The kids with the one and only Ivan statue.

Swimming

My parents heated up the pool so we went swimming! It's been so nice and warm and this spring so we were anxiously waiting for them to do it!

Doug swam between meetings :)

We tried out the new pool golf set. My dad was gone so he didn't get to try it out then.

Dance Recital

Kenzie had her dance recital at the beginning of June. The theme this year was The Little Mermaid. They had three performances. One on Friday night and two on Saturday. All of them were great! I love watching her dance!

Kenzie is in the middle of the picture in the back. Two girls in our ward, Paisley and Grace, were Ariel and Prince Eric. 

Kenzie's kind of behind the curtain in this picture.

All dressed up in her merchant costume. She was just in one dance this year since she was in soccer all year long.

She helped the younger girls come out and bow.

Kenzie is in the back on the left next to her friends Lorelei and Delaynie.

School Soccer

Jordan's team soccer picture!

Kenzie made the school soccer team! They didn't have any cuts and barely had enough girls to make two teams. She's on the JV team, but has played with varsity a couple times when the school they played didn't have a JV team.

Jenna's team beat Kenzie the first time they played.

Playing varsity!

In a surprising turn of events, Kenzie's team beat Mattson! They won 5-2! Her team was so excited after! They played so well and had a goalie who had never played goalie before, but she was a natural! It was so fun to watch them!

On the right is Kenzie's friend, Allie, from when she played on Coach Eric's team in Covington. It had been awhile since we'd seen her. It was fun to have them play against each other!

Kenzie's last two games were against Cedar Heights. I think they tied one game and won the final game. After losing by so much in the first several games, it was extra exciting for them to play so well in the last few games. It also makes us excited for next year!