Rodeo and Field Day

It was a pretty busy week for the young Jedi's.  Jonli, Jonev, and I took advantage of the rodeo being in town and took a couple of friends downtown to go and see the agriculture stuff.

Jonev in the corn box (you know, instead of sand) and on the tractor.  He was so excited about both of them. 

 Jonli waiting for the pig races to start, the kids absolutely loved watching the pigs race around the track.  They race so that the first one can eat the oreo cookie on the platter at the end.  There is also a little pig who jumps into a tank and swims across to the other side, also for an oreo cookie.  It is one of the highlights of the day for us. The kids always love it. 

We also bought some bacon flavored cotton candy to bring home and share with those who didn't come to the Rodeo with us.  (next time we agreed to stick with regular flavors)

Jongr and Jontu had field day this week too, it was lots of fun and a little cool, which was nice.  Here is Jongr with some of his classmates and his teacher at the end of the day.  

 This was one of my favorite events of the day, the kids had lots of fun, I caught Jongr here as they were coming back up the hill and he is being a little silly.  

If you look really closely here you will see Jontu on the right side of the screen pushing the ball that is closest.  Th little kids were even more fun to watch chase the ball around as it was pretty windy.  This was a fun way to start SPRING BREAK.  We are planning on going camping and finding some geocaches in a new area for us.  

Back up and running???

I have written off the blog for a while because every time I would try to write a post it seemed like something would happen and it wouldn't save it, or the pictures wouldn't upload, or I had password issues.  It was insane, so I took a breather and then kept putting it off.  Now its been much LONGER than I had planned and here it is finally.

So here are a few pictures that we took this week.  We have been up to lots of stuff since my last post: Grandma Jones and Aunt Laura came to visit, Jontu had a birthday, my friend Stacia visited, Thanksgiving with my cousins here, Jongr had a birthday, my parents came, Jonpa went to DC for training, I went to Idaho for Daniel and Becca's wedding, Christmas, New Years, Jonpa went on an overnight backpacking trip with the scouts, I had a birthday, the boys had a Hoedown at school on Go Texan Day, Jongr had his last Pinewood derby, and now we are getting our yard and garden ready for the spring garden.  These are the highlights of the last 5 months of our lives.

This past week we have been working hard at getting some new planters made for our garden in our backyard.  A couple of the boys friends were even over and they all helped carry buckets of dirt from the front flower garden to the back.  They worked hard, they really got into it and enjoyed using the shovels to scoop the dirt and had fun playing in the backyard before and after too.

 
Apparently Jonpa also really liked dinner last night because he said I just took a picture for you to post on the blog so you will have one.  I love him!  :)

I also find all kinds of random photos on my phone from the kids.  Here is a fun one that Jongr and Jonli took of themselves. 

Usually they look more like this. 

Fun huh?  Silly kids, they make me happy, but its annoying to have so many blurry and out of focus pictures to have to delete because they are usually of the walls, doors, floors, fingers, etc.