Jones Family Reunion

We went to the Jones Family reunion This past weekend.  The past few years it has been at Aunt Andreas in South Jordan, UT.  She has a big enough house and yard to accommodate all the travelers.  It is so nice of her to open her home up to us all.  

We had a great time!  The kids swam  non stop with exception to food and potty brakes.  Addison surprised us all and jumped off the diving board.  She even jumped off backwards!  She has come leaps and bounds from last summer.  

After Addison showed us how brave she was, of course Eden had to too!  She also jumped off the diving board (I didn't have my camera).  But she couldn't let her sister show her up :). We were so impressed and surprised by both of them.  

Of course Ty man enjoyed the water too.  

Friday night we watched a movie outside with a projector.   Most of the kids fell asleep during the movie. . . Not my kids!  They were up until 11pm.  

Luckily we slept in Andreas dark theater room, so the kids slept in the next morning. 

Saturday The kids played on this thing most of the day

Marshall and I couldn't resist trying it out too 

There was another bouncy house.  Eden spent a lot of time in this one.

Eden and Grandma

Grandmother Jones with a few of her great grand kids.  She is 85 years old.  The reunion is planned for the first week of June every year because Granddad Jones birthday is June 9th.  He would have been 89 years old this year.  His children spent some time talking about him as they were the only ones to remember him where he died at such a young age.  My dad was only in his twenties when his dad died.  It was good to hear stories of him.  I look forward to meeting him someday.  He has left a great posterity. 

 

Field Trip

Addison's class went to the Pocatello zoo for a field trip.  I went to "help" but I took Eden and Ty in the double stroller too so I wasn't much help really.  Besides the fact that it was pouring rain, we had a great time.  Poor Addy slipped and got muddy a couple times.  We were all soaked.  Ty and Eden stayed pretty dry under the stroller. 

Addison, Ella, Anika, and Eden

I think Addison had a lot of fun, minus the slipping :)

Addison's dance recital

This year was Addison's first year in dance class.  She took from Copes studio here in American Falls.  Her class was ballet/tap.  She really liked it.  She had her year end recital. Her ballet dance was called little red wagon and her tap dance was called the barnyard boogie.  

She really practiced hard and did so well!  She practiced at home and by the year end recital Eden knew both routines too. She loved having both her Grandmas at her recital to watch her.  She was beaming with excitement!

 She loved having Isabella, one of her friends from preschool last year, in her class.  

We have a Crawler

Ty started army crawling at about 7 months.  He would drag his body around by pulling his body weight with his arms. 

He was getting really good at getting where he wanted to be by army crawling.  The last few weeks he did this little move a lot

And then today he crawled for real. A normal hand and knee crawl.  He is 8 months old.  we were at Marshall's uncle's Ranch in Swan Valley.  Abby was taunting Ty to crawl by waving a wooden spoon in front of him and he just crawled like he had been doing it all along.  It was very random!  It's funny how all of a sudden babies just learn how to do things out of the blue.  I'm scarred of him being really mobile now. . . 

Ag Day

I helped with the MAC (moving agriculture into classrooms) presentation today.  It is for the third graders at the elementary schools. There was a short presentation about dairies and cows.  Then, the students got to milk a fake cow.  Then they got to shake cream into butter and eat it on saltine crackers.  My kids came with me for the last hour. 

Addy milking the cow.  It is actually water that comes out of the utters not milk.  

Eden milking the cow.  Both my girls asked if they could go home and milk our cows.  I told them our cows probably wouldn't cooperate like this cow. 

Eden with her butter she shook from cream.  Addy liked the butter a lot.  She shook 2 and ate them both.  

Eden's preschool program

Eden's last day of preschool was Thursday. That evening was her program.  Several times after school she told me how excited she was for her program.

At the beginning of the program, the kids introduced themselves in a microphone. They each said their name, their parents names, and their favorite thing about preschool.  Eden said her favorite thing about preschool was the snack. :) Then the kids sang about 10 songs that they had learned throughout the year.  Eden sang so loud. You could hear her above all the other kids.  It made me laugh and also surprised me because she is usually quite timid in front of large groups.  

Lastly, the teachers presented each child with a certificate for finishing their first year of preschool.  

The class "posing" for a big group picture.  The teacher gave them all a stuffed animal with their certificate.  Eden got a cow.  

       Eden and her teacher Miss Toni.  

          Eden with her friend, Ali. 

Church Ball

I just finished another season of church volleyball. Our stake includes 4 American Falls wards, Rockland, Lakeview, and 2 Aberdeen wards. Our team took third. We lost our semi finals game in the third match 14 to 15 (the first team to 15 wins if there is a third match) It was so close. We have such a fun team. We were always laughing about something. I'm already looking forward to next year.