Our Crazy World!

Okay, I just had to take a minute and just get a few things out there that have been bugging me, or I guess on my mind a lot. First of all I realize that I along with my family we are very, very blessed and in turn very,very grateful for all the blessings we have. I have had a great life and have great friends and family.

So while I have been living my great life I guess I have formed some kind of a bubble around me and just recently realized how very naive I am. So on with what has been bugging me, let me begin with saying I am not really one that watches talk shows on TV. I for one don't really care what the famous are doing in their spare time but will watch on occasion when they actually have topic that they are discussing. Anyway it happened to be one of those days that Oprah was have show about something instead of about someone so since I was feeding the baby and was basically stuck for 1/2 hour decided to watch. The topic of the show was about Internet predators and sex abuse of a child. I am not going to go into any kind of detail as to what the show discussed I am sure you could hop onto Oprah.com and pod cast it if you are dying to watch it but let me just say I didn't even make it 1/4 the way through the show and I was so sick to my stomach I was sure I was going to vomit. I had to turn it off I decided I wanted to be educated about this I am after all a mother with small children and maybe watching I will do better at protect my children from this kind of evil. All I can say is thank goodness for DVR because I hit the record button and got back to it later and it was educational but it kept on bringing me to think. Why? Why do innocent precious children have to endure the evils of this world in such a way? And most of all what can we do about it? Well after finally finishing watching the show later that week Oprah did throw out there that there is a bill going before congress called the "Protect our Children Act Bill 1738" and to write to your congressmen and urge them to pass it so that the government agencies that are working on tracking these awful people will have the resources to do it. So I guess I was feeling a bit froggy that day and good old Orin Hatch received an email from little old me. Anyway it has just been bugging me ever since I just want to save each of these children which I know is impossible but hopefully by me giving my two cents will make the difference. I don't know it shows me that Satan is so strong and getting stronger all the time.

The other thing that has been on my mind lately is that a good friend of ours was killed in a freak car accident on Friday leaving his wife and eight children. It of course as death always does brought me back to the realization that we are going to live together and how grateful I am for this as I am sure is our dear friends wife to have the surety of the gospel in our lives. And even though the sting of death is strong now and will be for a long time to come what peace and comfort that must bring to her and so many others at this time.

That is all for now I just had to ramble for a bit. I am stepping off my soap box.

Time to download!

I haven't had time recently to download my camera! So I finally got some time today and thought I would throw on some cute pics of things we have been up to the last little while. First of all for those of you that have ever had the opportunity to feed a baby his first baby food you will probably all agree that it is hilarious. We had given Aidan applesauce to start with the week before and thought that we would go to something a little more yummy? so we decided to give him greenbeans. Well as you can see by the pictures below he didn't exactly love them. I have seriously never seen a baby dry heave until now. We were all laughing so hard. What can I say we are easly entertained.




The one on the dolphine thing obviously has nothing to do with food, but Avery promised him he could ride it so I couldn't help but toss it in.



So school is back in session at the Jones household. Alyssa started 3rd grade this year and is loving it. Avery is in kindergarten and to my suprise actually likes it. Notice I didn't say loves it but she likes it I think her favorite time of the day is the bus ride home. I am enjoying having an afternoon with just me and the baby and sometimes even to myself if he chooses to nap.



During the first week in August we headed out for another camping trip this time with the Jones/Knutson clan up in the Uintas. It was so beautiful there and we had a great time. You can tell by the outfit it was a little chilly but it was sooo fun and the kids had a great time.



For those of you who read my blog remember me complaining that I couldn't ever get a picture of all my kids looking at me. Well TA-DA!!!



Avery and Alyssa at the Provo River falls

Me being a complainer!

Okay, I have a good life I do and I know I really shouldn't complain but.........
Last night I was doing somestuff for primary and had to hop online and thought while I am on here I would check out a couple of things. Well I am sure many of you have had the times where you inteand to get on for just a minute and then end up site hoping for what becomes a huge amount of time. Anyway long story short I was web hoping and kept getting onto these blogs and websites of women who are so talented. People who have complete websites dedicated to scrapbooking or jewelery making or cute crafts or all other kinds of fantastic ideas. So I am thinking to myself who seriously has the time to make these websites?? I barely have time to blog. And was thinking why can't I be one of those women who is good at everything. I am not even good at one of these things. I know, I know having us all be different is what make the world go round but seriously there are more gals out there with talent in their little fingers than I have in my whole body. So what is my calling ? I am not a scrapbooker that is for sure I have friends that can verify that. I don't make any crafty things or have any great ideas or run a buisness out of my home while, cooking dinner feeding the baby and keeping a clean house and at the same time look cool as a cucumber. Are these women all just faking it? Are their put together happy faces fake? Well wether they are or not, in my heart I have decieded that the are and must be. I know that there is no way anyone could pull all that off. Anyway I am still jealous of the extreme talents of the masses and hope one day to find mine.....Okay I am done whinninig.

HOLY MOLY!

Okay so today is our anniversary and we have been married 11 years. All I really have to say is HOLY MOLY! When we were first married I knew we would be together forever but didn't really put much thought into the years that were going to take us there. I am so grateful for Ron and all he does for me and our family. He is such a great husband and father and I am lucky that I have been blessed to have him in my life for 11 wonderful years. Hopefully he can put up with me for many, many more. Happy Anniversary Ron!

Say Cheez

Okay, so like any parent I had this great idea that I wanted to take my kids to go and do pictures. You know capture the moment so that we can look back fondly and remember these precious times. I had it all planned out in my head that how the day was going to play out. I had scheduled our appointment for 10:00 plenty of time before lunch so no one should be hungry the baby usually takes a nap at 9:00 so I was going to feed him at 8:45 and put him in his car seat at our scheduled leaving departare of 9:15 and he would sleep the whole way there and be every so happy and we would capture that beautiful baby smile in no time. Well this is how it went down. The baby slept in of all days, he never sleeps in I think he secretly new that I had to get up to get everyone ready and choose to tourture me with thoughts of being in bed on a saturday morning when I new I couldn't if this grand idea of mine was going to get off the ground. So the nap time was now going to be pushed back around an hour to 10:00 (yes that was our appointment time). I am thinking that is okay maybe he will still sleep in the car? Yeah not. Anyway we get to the studio and miraculosly everyone is still clean no one is crying (yet) and we are on time. This is going to be great. Even Avery my non picture taking child seems up for the challenge. Well as you all well know like a ball of string quickly starting to unravel this went downhill at a rapid pace. Soon people were crying or there were boogers, drool, spit up, tears or who knows what else gumming up the pictures. By the end of it Avery was crying the baby was passing out from exhaustion and my nerves were frazzled. Poor Alyssa she is just all so patient with it all, sometimes if it wasn't for her sweet little spirit I don't know where I would be. Anyway this is how they get you see they wait until you can't take it any more and then they sit you down to decide what pictures you are going to buy. So you are either so overcome with emotion because they actually turned out you over buy or your kids are still freaking out (usually the later) so you over buy. These are smart people these photographers, you can tell they have thought this out. Bless the girls heart that took them today I warned her at the beginning it was going to be a challenge and I am sure she was quite happy to see us leave. That being said these are the pictures we had taken today. I think they turned out well for what we had to go through to get them. Enjoy!!!!

Ahh the dog days of summer!

Okay...our summer has been super busy.
Sometimes I feel bad for my kids because
usually I get the question of where are we
going today and what are we doing followed by
a groan. A lot of it has been way fun but I
feel like I have dragged them all over the state.
Here are just a few things we have been up
to. Enjoy and strap in this is a long one.



Just after the 4th we had Grandma Waymans
Birthday. Avery and Grandma have the same
birthday just 80 years apart. Avery just turned
5 so you do the math. Here is Grandma with some
of the Great-Grandkids dishing up cake. YUM!
P.S. I think my mom (Libby) was more excited
then the kids check out the clapping action.



Camping with the Wayman Brood! Oh what
fun. It was great to have everyone get together
with good food and just overall good family times.
I must complain a little it was WAY HOT! But still
WAY FUN!



Day 2 of camping we couldn't take much more
of the heat. The babies were fussy and we were
roasting so we headed down to the river for some
fun. Here is Sydnee and Aaron hanging out in the
river.



Ron was taking the kids out and letting them surf
the current. The would hang on tight to Ron and we would
let the water drag them down the current. They loved IT!
Here is Alyssa having a blast!



Kami snapped this pic for me of Aidan he was
trying to take a nap but was so hot he couldn't
sleep. Lucky for me the sound of the water sent
him off to dream land soon after this darling picture
was taken. Good job Kami!



I am just wondering if I am the only one that
cannot get a family picture with everyone looking
at the camera? Seriously I would love to have just
one once in a while. Anyway here is our attempt
at showing our family togetherness!



Drew and Ron heading out to hit the river. I have
to admit I was a little jealous. For those of you
who know me well you know I love to fish and
since I had the baby the fishing has gone down
the tube. Luckily Lynne and I snuck down that
night and caught a few. WE ROCK!



Sydnee, Aidan and Garrett. Kami had them
cracking up I wish there was sound with this photo
because it was so cute. Just to give you and age
breakdown Garett is 7 months and Sydnee and Aidan
are 4 1/2 months. SUPER CUTE!



Here is Ron and Aidan chillin at camp.
I threw this one in for our friends Mike
and Kacee long story not going into it but
I hope you enjoy.



I know I am the mom of this little guy but
seriously he is the cutest baby ever!



We had a little Birthday Celebration for Avery
while we were camping since it was so close to her
Birthday. She has been asking me for months
for pink cowboy boots. G-ma Libby picked her
up a pair and they are so cute. Avery LOVES,
LOVES, LOVES them. Thanks mom!



Okay I think I have decided that I think I am
super mom even though I am not even kindof
close. This is a pic I snapped of the Birthday girl
at her friend party. She wanted a water party
and lucky for me my friend let me borrow this
huge blowup water slide it was a hit but I don't
recommend doing a party for 12 kids by your
self. You think I would have learned by now!



Alyssa getting ready to head down the slide.



This looked like so much fun! I wish I would have
gave it a spin.



Avery also requested a bike for her Birthday
but not just any bike it had to be Bratz. She
loved it.



Avery taking a spin on the new bike. Please note
the pink cowgirl boots!



I hope she made a wish!



Avery doesn't like cake so I made her a ice cream
only cake in the mold of a sand castle bucket it
turned out all right and she thought it was awsome
so there you have it. Just a side note Avery stole
this candle off of G-ma Waymans birthday cake at
her party and made me swear I would use it for her
birthday. We are such good recyclers!



This is kind of a random pic but I love it. I asked
Ron to watch the baby for me the other day so
I could get somethings done around the house.
Well Aidan didn't think that was such a wonderful
idea and was giving Ron a run for his money. Well
next thing I know it is quite and I can hear Ron playing the
guitar. I figured that the baby just went to sleep and came down
to see this. It was so adorable and made my little heart melt so I
thought I would throw it on. SO CUTE!

4th of July and a little more!

Ahhh, the 4th of July! This is truly one of my
favorite holidays. BBQ, fireworks,and parades
all in 100 degree temps. Who could ask for any
more fun?



So I have tried over the years to be one of those
fun mom's that do fun things on holidays. Well
this is my 4th of July attmept at Red and Blue
pancakes to start the day our right...Mmmmmm
So Yummy!




Here is a shot of each of our little ones at the
parade. It was so HOT but we all survived and
came home with a grunt load of treats and candy
that was thrown from the floats. Salt Water Taffy
anyone?



Here are the girls petting a horse that happened
to be passing by on the parade route. Such a
cute little horse!




So in Grantsville after the parade they have a Carnival of sorts at the park! They have tons of fun rides, games,and food along with live bands. This was a family favorite. Check out Alyssa she made it all the way to the top. Not pictured but we came home with 3 new pets gold fish!




So that night after parades, park and BBQ's we
finally made it back to the park for fireworks. Aidan
slept through the entire show. He must have been
dang tired because it was sooo loud. Poor Baby!



This is Holly and Avery back at our house that
night for...Yep you guessed it more fireworks.
Seriously how much more can we pack in to one
day?



Aidan finally woke up for the killer driveway
fireworks show put on by Ron and my bother
in law Matt! They are such Pyro's!



Avery and G-ma K at the fireworks at our house.



Alyssa was baptized on Saturday
morning! I was sure we would never
be up and ready in time after our
crazy day before but here she is looking
as beautiful as ever!



Ron and Alyssa at the baptism. Such
a special day.



Grandpa's and Alyssa at the baptism.



Alyssa and Grandma-K at the luncheon after
the baptism.....Just for a side note my mother
in law was giving me a hard time the other day
because she says there are no pictures of her on
my blog. So here you go! Love ya Barb!!!!