Summer Fun

I know, it's been forever since I've updated!! Here is a little picture recap of our summer. Summer is never complete without cotton candy at the Rodeo!!
My little cowboy and cowgirls!! They love getting all dressed up for the fair and rodeo!!
I must say. I just can't get over what a cute little cowboy he is!! He's growing up too fast and is way too cute!
Jones Family Outing!! The kids rode this bad boy and ended up soaked. They fell off and were screaming. Latter I found out it wasn't because they were scared or cold, but because one of the kids felt a stick under water and told the others that there was an alligator in the river--to funny!
Cute little cousins!!
Swimming lessons. The kids took swimming lessons and did really well. They were so proud of themselves.

One Sunday afternoon we drove up in the mountains and walked around. It's so nice to have such beautiful places so close by.

Fourth of July!! We had a blast watching fireworks at Jason's parent's house. They put on an amazing show!
Karson played T-ball this summer and had so much fun. His favorie part was the trophy he earned at the end!

Family Pictures

We had family pictures taken about a month ago by my friend Marissa. I think she did such a great job. If you want to see more of her work check out her web site photographybymarissa.com. I must say I do think I have the cutest kids in the whole world.
Our family--I love the vintage look of this photo. We bought this couch at DI and are getting it recovered for our new home. I love it so much!!
Kate-- look at those beautiful blue eyes!!
Karson-- such a cute boy!!
Claire-- she is sooo yummy!!
Just a little update-- our house is coming. We have a couple of painters helping us out right now. We had a little setback at the begining of the week, so our cabinets will be postponed a day or two, but overall it is going well. We still aren't sure when we're closing on our home we live in.

CRAZY!!

For those of you who haven't heard yet, we have an offer on our house and should close the end of the month. We only had a sign out for 9 days!! Jason is working half-time at his job (from 6:00 to 10:00 am) and then heads out to the new house to try and frantically get it livable until about 11:00 pm. It's crazy. I try to be helpful, but have decided that it's not so easy to do with three children especially when your baby is a total mama's girl. She wants to be held constantly. I run around picking out all the last minute things, appliances, carpet, counter-tops, etc. I also am in charge of caulking and filling holes in all the beautiful trim and molding Jason builds at the new house. I've decided that there really is nothing worse than caulk!! I can't wait to paint-- I actually really enjoy it. So, wish us luck on this crazy adventure. There's still packing and cleaning and...... I can't even think straight.... Yesterday I used the word "weller" I really think I'm losing it :0)!

I did it!!!

I graduated on Saturday! It was so much fun and feels so good to be done. My parents were here and my brother, Brian, came from AZ and my sister from Boise. Jason's family were there as well. It was so much fun to be with most of my family.
My little family!! I was so happy to have my kiddos and honey with me. I hope they know how much I appreciate them and all their love and support for me.


We had a little party on Friday night. This is a picture of all the little Jones cousins. They are sooo cute!! It's especially fun to watch the three baby girls grow up they were all born within four months.

San Francisco Treat

We took a little family vacation this past weekend to the bay area of California to pick up these bad boys. Yes, there is a car in the back of Jason's truck!! Jason has an obsession with these funny little Trabi's. They are East German Communist cars. We got the best looks on the freeway--I'm surprised we didn't cause a wreck. While in California we went down to Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco. I had never been to Northern California, so it was so fun to see all the historical landmarks-- like the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Ghridelli square. I loved the city-- so old and beautiful. Jason and I decided we need to go back when we are not pulling a trailer-- it cost us $9 to drive across the bay bridge-- gotta love toll roads/bridges. The kids were so good-- they had fun watching people fish for crabs and looking at all the big boats.

Easter and Six Months

My sweet little baby is 6 months old today!!! She went to the Dr. for shots and her well baby check this morning. She is tiny--height: 26 inches, Weight: 14 pounds 3 oz. She is almost exactly the same size Kate was at 4 months!! She is sitting all by herself. She loves to "talk" to us and "sing". She is such a good baby!! I can't believe how fast she is growing up-- time flies way to quickly!!
Easter-- I had fun dressing the girls up in matching dresses, shoes and hair bows-- they looked so cute!!
We had a fun Easter. We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Jones's for an amazing Easter dinner, games, and an Easter egg hunt. They always plan such fun Holidays!! This is my attempt at getting a cute picture of all three kids. It was pretty much impossible to get them to all look at the camera at once, even so, I think they are so precious!!

House. Hair. Happy Endings

Our house is really starting to come along. We have Sheetrock and are working on trim and other finishes. This is a picture of one of the fireplaces-- yes, we are going to paint the walls a different color besides white
The tin ceiling. A local entrepreneur was remodeling a building downtown-- it had these beautiful ceiling tiles in it from the early 1900's . They were unable to use them because many were badly damaged, so Jason got permission and went and tore them down-- it took him forever--like 18 hours or something. He worked all afternoon and util 3:00 in the morning. That was a couple months ago. Recently Jason rehung them in our new house, in the kitchen-- this took even longer--like every night for an entire week and all day Saturday, but they are beautiful. I think we are going to spray them with a heavy primer and then paint them their original bronze color. I think they are so neat and will give the house so much character-- yes, I am married to an amazing man who likes to make beautiful things!!
Garage doors-- this picture is for my sister who really wanted to see our new garage doors. They are kind of like the carriage style, but more simple and much cheaper!! I think they turned out cute-oh, and no our house is not going to be beige and gray-- that's primer :0)!!
Karson got a haircut the other day and they put yellow gel in it and spiked it into a fohawk. He looked so cute!!

Happy Endings--- and for the happy endings!! I finished my masters defense last Tuesday and it went really well-- it's was a huge emotional rollercoaster that I am so glad is over and to make it even better it ended well. My entire committe wants me to pursue publication and my study was just presented at the AAPPHERD conference (it's a big thing for health professionals) in Tampa, FL and was really well received-- yeah!! The other happy thing is I only have 4 more weeks of my online class and then I'm totally done with my masters!! Yeah again!!