Our Froggy Friend

While Ella was sleeping peacefully (like and old man) on the couch...
We happened to find the cutest little frog on our porch.
Notice Sydney is clutching her throat. She was acting
like the frog at any moment would suddenly attack leaving her
bloody and wounded for life! I guess we'll never see her in any
nature shows... she'll have to take her "drama" elsewhere.


Mackenzie and Tyler on the other hand held the frog, giggled at the frog,
asked questions, took several turns holding it and then sat down for
a deep discussion about it.



Ethan LOVED the frog! But I think the frog had a feeling that Ethan
would love him a little too much, so he jumped for safety to a place
where he wouldn't been noticed.
The kids were sad to have to let him go,
but we have seen many little frogs on our back porch and love the feel of being
in the middle of the wildlife!

Making Dirt Look Good

So here are the kids (Ethan didn't want to pose) after we had gone to a softball game to watch Tim play. The kids did really well until the end of the second game, when they got restless I let them go over the the other field that was open to run the bases. Needless to say that running the bases turned into fake sliding and that turned into drawing in the dirt and that turned into making sand castles with the dirt and then it progressed into a couple attempts to throw the dirt into the air and dance under it. By the time the guys were done playing the kids looked like they had been eating the dirt... they were covered literally from head to toe. Our bathtub had never seen that much action before!

Fun with the Cousins!

Before Seth, Lacey and Weston left us this summer we decided to get all the Jones cousins in the area together. The kids only sat still for the picture because Lacey was off to the side throwing marshmallows. On the top row we have Sydney, Michaela and Mackenzie, the next row is Addison, Tyler and Aidan, and on the bottom we have Weston and Ethan. Ethan and Weston tried their hands at a little drag putting on the girls dress-up shoes, and Tyler managed to get halfway naked by the end of the night. Aidan and Ethan cheesed it up, and here's our new favorite trick... when you ask Ethan where his eye is he'll wink at you! All in all it was a great night, the kids had fun although we grown-ups didn't get to socialize as much as we wanted to. We love our Jones Cousins!!

This is Ella Meredith Jones, she was born on May 18th and was very healthy, and we are happy to have her in our home. She loves the bath, or shower which is nice. Mackenzie loves to hold her, rock her to sleep, pop her nuk back in her mouth, and loves to help me hold her bottle. I think Ella and Mackenzie have had a bond since the beginning of time. Just after we had Ethan I had all the kids ready to go out the door and for my own sanity I always look around to make sure I have everything... and everyone. I asked them if we had everything and Mackenzie looked up at me and said "We need a baby girl in our family". I think she's been waiting for the day her baby sister would be here in our home, although she didn't have to wait very long. We are blessed every day by our children.

Our little superhero!

A little over a year ago we tried (unsuccessfully) to introduce Tyler to the "superhero" thing. He liked running around, cape flapping, with his sisters... but really didn't get what the big deal was.
UNTIL HE MET SPIDERMAN!

Now he's a (pretend) mask wearing, web slinging fool!

His favorite thing now is to "fly" from his bed to the matress below saving damsels in distress.

And every once in awhile when Tyler gets in trouble he pulls down his (pretend) mask and tries to shoot Tim and I with webs. He has since figured out that there are just some things that Spidey can't get out of... like time-outs.

Mark and Melissa's Wedding

This is one good picture of the kids (minus Ella who wasn't born yet) at Mark and Melissa's wedding at the Portland temple. We all had a great time, the kids especially liked staying at the hotel and playing in the pool.

Our Family Pic!

I realized only after Ella's blessing day that we hadn't gotten a picture of just us... so here's the one that they sent out to the members of our ward to let them know who we are.