Jonev

Just a fun picture of Jonev taken Sunday morning after his bath.  His hair is getting really long, and it is so fun and curly right after his bath.  

Repurposing

I have been on a repurposing kick again and this time it doesn't have anything to do with Girl's Camp, the young women of the Mesa 5th Ward would ask me why we always had to make something with the garbage (I don't think that was the exact word, but the meaning).  LOL!  I love to make stuff out of old stuff and am inspired by all of the fun projects that I have found online and in magazines, I am amazed at how talented others are. Thanks for all of the inspiration. 

This time it started when I cut up one of Jonpa's old jean shirts and started making some fun bags with it at christmas time, I made Jontu a little bag for his small Book of Mormon. Then the idea's started flowing.  Jonpa had quite a few shirts that had gotten ruined in the dryer or were worn so much that he couldn't wear them to the office anymore, but most of the fabric was still in good shape.  Jongr kept asking for a bible and so we bought him one for Easter, but his scripture bag was too small, so then I made him a new one using some of the old clothes too.  I still had a lot of fabric left and wanted to make an apron out of it.  I had recently been searching around on the web for some apron idea's and came across this awesome blog with lots of fun aprons, there is a link for it later on. After taking some of these ideas in, I made an apron for myself (it's reversible), then one for Jongr and Jontu (I got the idea for the aprons from this creative blog).  I have some ideas for bibs for Jonev too, but I am still working on perfecting them. The first one didn't turn out like I wanted it.  Today I finally took pictures of it all.  Thanks so much to Jen for encouraging me and continuing to help me find ways to repurpose the stuff that we have instead of buying new things.  Thanks for Lisha and Misha for inspiring me to be more GREEN.  I am also thankful for the creative ideas that have flowed so freely for me this past month especially.  I know that my Heavenly Father loves me very much.  

I love creating things, it makes me so happy! 

What Fun!

Jonev has been walking along the walls, furniture and anything else that he can grab onto. He has even been walking between things that are a few steps apart, well on Monday afternoon when he woke up from his nap, he decided that he was ready to leave the furniture and walls alone and walk on his own! No looking back now. He is so happy to be walking like everyone else in the family and wants us to take notice of him. He starts walking and then looks at us to make sure that we are watching him. He is so cute so of course we are watching. Silly boy! Here is a picture of him with a little love from AZ on (sorry it is a little blurry). His cute Alligator(because there are alligators in TX) robeez from Grandma Judy and Shauna and a cute outfit from Misha, THANK YOU! If you want to know about his hair, we don't cut it until they are one year old, it is getting really long on the sides though. Alas his 1st birthday is coming in just a few short weeks and so he will be looking like a little boy soon.

This week the boys and Paul decided to build some scripture stories out of lego's, here is one of the results. This was the first one that they did on Sunday night and there have been others this week, they have had so much fun. They also discovered that there are lots of other people on the internet that have also done the same as them. You should google it to see some of the pictures and videos (stop motion) that have been done. Keep on with the Lego building everyone. Jontu and I also built a giraffe and gorilla's and sheep and made a zoo on the kitchen floor out of Lego's is was so much fun. His lego building skills are really amazing for his age. He has started to ask how things are made, everything from dirt and grass, to houses, roads,and bridges, Grandpa would be proud. He is growing into such a sweet little boy!

It was transfer week here in our mission and we had to say goodbye to 3 of the Elders in our ward, they are moving onto other areas where they will no doubt do much good. They worked so hard in our ward and Elder Johnson has been here for 8 months and has seen a lot of good. There have been many baptisms in our ward this past 8 months, some good strong families. Thank you Elders it has been fun to work with you. Here is a picture after we all enjoyed dinner together the last night here in our ward, I really should have made Jonpa be in the picture too so it would have been all of the boys! It was a fun night, we ate brinner (breakfast for dinner) as Jongr likes to say.

Family Picture

We had out friend take this snapshot of us on Easter Sunday after church. We have very few pictures of all of us together since Jonev was born 11 months ago. You can see that Jonev has a little bit more hair than Jongr and Jontu, but we are still waiting until after the first birthday to cut it off, here it is in all of it's sticking out after a nap glory. LOL! I am going to miss it when it is gone.

A great Easter message

Annual Easter Celebration

This year our Easter festivities started out with a surprise package from Grandma Jones on Friday.  It was full of Easter goodness, thank you so much Grandma.  We love you! 
Then of course fun Easter basket stuff on Saturday morning, this frees up our baskets for the egg hunt.  
Right before lunch we got another surprise package in the mail from Aunt Jennifer.  Thank you!  We loved the spud guy too! The boys had so much fun pulling out everything inside and Jongr claimed some of the pictures of Jesus as his own right away.  

Joining us for our Saturday Easter Celebration were our Stucki and Cowley cousins and the Dattilo family(who are really like Jones cousins) We had lunch and an egg hunt of course!  The boys had so much fun and everyone got SO many eggs.  We put out the empty lawnmower box in the backyard and the kids all had so much fun playing in it. At the end they wanted to decorate it too, so we got out the crayons and markers and let them have fun.  I think that almost all of them made some kind of artwork on it.  They started to get a little creative with it and opened up the other end then propped the box up with a chair on either side so that they could color every inch of it.  Amber and Matt provided some delicious strawberries and "prize" eggs for the kids.  Tucker was sad because he didn't get a prize egg and so Amber couldn't take it anymore and gave him a "secret" prize that made his day!  Thanks so much!  

Melinda made some yummy rolls and Brandon took some cool pictures, I can't wait to see all of them.  Amberly and Wilbur made some yummy spinach salad and brought the confetti eggs that are so much fun.  I think that everyone had confetti in their hair when they left.  The kids had lots of fun smashing the eggs on everyone. It was so nice to be able to visit with some of our family and to enjoy the fun together. 

Have a HAPPY EASTER Everyone!

The Emptier learns how to clean up

Jonev has always loved taking things out of baskets, bins, chairs, the bookcase, today he was playing outside with Jontu and found one of my pots that is half full of dirt and started emptying it also. That night he was having fun emptying the laundry basket of the folded socks, but after the basket was empty, he started putting them back in.  Then he did it again.  Later that night when we were cleaning up the lego's in the boys room, he started helping too.  The other skill that he is working on right now is walking.  He takes a few steps and walks between things or people, but doesn't go very far without having something to reach for or hold onto.  Before we know it he is going to be toddling everywhere instead of walking. It is amazing to watch him learn!  What fun! 
Jongr fell asleep on the floor after school, he laid down there and said his head hurt and then the next thing that I know he was sound asleep.  He ended up sleeping there for almost and hour while Jonev and Jontu played outside.  I just had to take a picture.  

Picture update

Here is the close up of Jongr's cute toothless mouth. (ignore the toothpaste and eye boogers, he hadn't washed his face yet)

Here he is again, look at the blue eyes. He was so happy and excited about his teeth. What a fun week last week was. Here are some more pictures of some things that we have been doing, just a little catch up from Spring Break. March 9-13 for Grant.
Flat Grace and Flat Anne helped us build a birdhouse, the boys had so much fun building this and the kit was really nice, I want to buy another one and build something else with them.
Because I have problems remembering how the pictures upload from here, Here is the birdhouse in the beginning stages, so just pretend that this was before the picture above. I don't have time to change it at least not right now, I need to go and get everyone ready for school/work.

Here is the group of boys that we took to the rodeo. We had lots of fun seeing he pig races, enjoying the farm to market experience, seeing the cows and sheep born, watching the baby chicks hatch too. Jongr didn't want to leave he wanted to see more, but the little boys were so tired.

Saturday Night Random thoughts

I have been wanting to post some new pictures, however, Jonpa finally got his new computer and things are not all up and running quite yet. I was waiting, but decided that I would just write and post photos later. I am thankful for the new computer, but it has been 5 years since we got our first MAC and the new one is really much faster, but we are just slowly making the transition an so the old beloved MAC is in Jonev's bedroom now and the best time to work on the computer is when the baby is sleeping, so no pics for now.
Jongr has lost 2 more of his front teeth, one week ago on Sunday he woke up and came and told that his tooth was really loose, it was hanging to one side, but that last root was still pretty strong. I told him that if he wiggled it all day that it might fall out in the next couple of days. Well about 45 minutes after he was supposed to be asleep he came out and he had finally got that pesky loose tooth out. LOL! He was so proud of himself for pulling it out himself. It was so cute! Of course the tooth fairy left a little extra for him for being so brave. So by Sunday night he was officially without both of his front teeth. Roll, Monday during school lunch, he is eating his hard breadstick and another bottom tooth is almost out too. He wound up pulling it out right before it was time to come home for the day and so he got one of those really cute little tooth saver chests from the school nurse. He was so happy to have another tooth for the tooth fairy. Let's just say he has been asking me if things are soft before eating them. I did take a picture on Tuesday morning before school, so I will post that soon for you all. He looks pretty toothless, thankfully the first teeth that came out on the bottom are coming in now so he does have a little something there.