Berklie isn't the only one not taking the loss well

This is why I have kids.... more candy.

Here are my cute super heros on the treat swelling holiday...(which happens to be my favorite)

Marvel comics...

She Has a Name

Going Home From the Hospital

She's even better than chocolates! If only they really came with facts.She is already a ham in front of the camera!
The boys still outnumber the girls (but they still seem to be in charge)
Simply precious

She is here!

Baby girl Jones (name still to be determined of course) was born at 12:39 pm Nov. 10, 2009. And as poppy would say she's "Perfect" actually that's what the nurse said too. She was 7 lbs 8.9 ozs 19 inches long. Has good color, eating and enjoying being cuddled. We at this point don't think she looks too much like any of the other kids, but beautiful in her own way. After her first bath we will post some pictures.

Stay tuned - Pictures of our new baby girl to come soon

Fall

Everytime I try to get caught up...

I just have to play Catch Up again!

and yes, this is every game in our game closet... you know, this isn't the first time this has happened, if fact, I have pictures of this same situation when Keedon was almost 3 on this blog... except, he's such an organized boy that at least all the game pieces were by the games... Cambel and Quint however... not so much.. Quint is trouble and Cambel is roudy, so every piece was strewn between 5, yes 5 rooms, and with no order at all! where was I you may ask... I was in the office, and I thought, hmmm, they are playing so good together, cuz they were, so I spent ten minutes to make my shopping list, cuz I hate missing something and having to go back to the store... I think I'd rather just have to go back next time...

We're trying to raise a civilization here...

Whoever guess' how many pullups he has on will win a prize!

A little help PLEASE, boys....

I buckled...

I always said I wasn't going to do it, but, this deal was one of my best...

I had to post the picture!

It was my best deal until last week anyway, (at Albertsons)

but all that stuff wouldn't fit on my counter!

(where I spent 21 dollars out of pocket and my total was initially 218!)

So, this photo is from 4 weeks ago...

My total was 129.18 and I spent 9.00! (at Safeway) Seriously look at the pic,

you can't even get 5 capri suns at Sams for 9 bucks!

As I was walking out, 7 people wanted to see my receipt and I wrote down my favorite couponing resource (kaceyscouponcorner.blogspot.com) on the back of their receipts, and 3 followed me to my car just to hear the whole story of how I did it, and one of them was the older lady who was stammering the whole time cuz she got stuck behind me. sorry old lady, but I don't get your senior discount, so I have to cut coupons!~

Hansen Family Reunion

Coming soon!

The Hansens are Coby's mom's side of the family.

This year the reunion was in Utah, and it was full of fun activities... ones that dated back to when Coby was a boy... like searching through hay (or fluff) for toys and MONEY!

and then the next day Coby's Aunt Joy and Uncle Jerry arranged for us all to do indoor skydiving, which even the boys did!

I was so proud of Quint, he was the first LITTLE kid to say he wanted to do it!

Jones Family Reunion

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This photo of Amberlyn and Keedon is still not finished, I have one of them at Keed's 1st Family reunion that I am tracking down... Hiking buddies.

Our Jones Family reunion was at Grandpa Jones' Blackhawk Cabin in Colorado...

It, of course was a blast and well organized... there were so many fun activities and lots of spiritual moments... we especially loved two things: the zipline (thanks Uncle Brandt and Uncle Ryan) and the activities based around Grandmas 90th birthday...

M & M aka: Quinton

Isn't he so sweet?

Everyone thinks so, even us... He is REALLY good at smoothin us over when he gets in trouble.

We should call him M&M, cuz he's the Mastermind of Mischief in our house!

Tin Can Fort:

Now this was done after a long hard day of canning my last 3 month supply of food storage for this year (which makes us almost caught up! yeah...) Coby and I stacked all the cans in seperate categories and labeled and inventoried all of the cans, but, it'd gotten late and Quint had to go to bed, and through his room is our storage room, we thought he wouldn't mind if our stacks of cans lined the wall in his room while he slept...  he didn't.  He just reorganized them all into this little fort and took off over half the labels, in this photo you can only see the top layer of the 8 layers of his "stickers" on his legs... we found all of this in the morn, when he came up to use the bathroom...

The Bathroom:

These pics speak for themselves... but, just to clarify why you shouldn't ask, "where's the supervision in this house?"  Quint was suppose to be in bed.  He has to go past our bedroom and bathroom in order for us to know that he's even awake.  (we now lock the door, but it took a few incidents like this one to remind us to lock it)

Like: when we went in to go to bed and he had already retired after painting our counters and mirror with my makeup... I found him sleeping with blackness smeared all over his face and arms.

or when we have found all of our clothes (we have a shelfed closet system) piled in the middle of the closet on top of the huge pile of shoes...

or when we found that he had painted the bathtub with fingernail polish.

and PS: there is a door to our patio from our bathroom (that's when and where he got to our plants... keep reading.... when he's suppose to be sleeping)

Plants:

Now, these pics were after I started cleaning up the mess, there were probably 60 little plants and all their finely nurtured soil laying around him before I decided I should go get the camera...

I seeded all the plants to our garden this year.... 7 weeks of taking them in at night and then out to get the morning sun in the morning... 7 weeks of watering, and babying and teaching these little boys to not touch them...(not to mention, I saved the stupid little baby food cups for the whole winter before that!)   7 weeks, all over my patio.  

Couponing?

Here's my Meager attempt at June an July updates... what month is it now, again? The end of August...?! What the.... where did it come from?  So, this pregnancy feels like my longest, but this has definitely been my shortest summer!

But, here is what my newest hobby has been, since it seems I develop a new one every summer that I've been married... big ones.

So, I know I sound nerdy, not nerdier than 2 summers ago when I grew to like canning!... but, my friend Kacey has helped me profoundly to coupon shop, which actually isn't nerdy, it's ridiculously smart.

Now, I can not do as much as her, she is determined, and I thought I was, so we get along awesome!  But, I can follow a little of what she has done, and now I have a routine of my own...

and we are saving 150-200 dollars a month! and on top of keeping our fridge and pantry full of things we would've never afforded before, we have 3 huge storage shelves of everyday food storage and two shelves of toiletry and cleaning supplies.... and that's on top of the savings, not additional spending!

Last night, we went to the store together cuz we had to be out of our house, and between Coby and I we filled my cart and half of his with groceries, and our total bill came to 151.27 and we paid 35.00 bucks out of pocket!  That is actually not even my great savings trip!

Last week:

I filled my cart, my total was 179.00 and after coupons I spent 36 bucks! 

and the week before: 

my total was 135.00 and I spent 17.00 and walked away with 14 (yes, 14) gallons of milk future coupons (called Catalina's), so 14 free milks, to buy when I needed!

and in between my grocery shopping, I hit up the stores that I am near when I am out, (of course after researching Kaceys site and printing coupons) and 4 weeks ago, my total came to 109.00 and I spent .04 cents and got a 25.00 dollar rebate to use next time... so major overage, and I filled our toiletry supplies for the next two years!

So, anyway, it took me a long time to do it, but, now that I am, I spend an hour a week on coupon cutting and planning and an hour shopping at one store, that's the routine that works for me.... and I was the one that would say, "oh that's great, but I am not taking 3 kids coupon shopping, and I just can't dedicate that time..." so seriously, she spent 3 months convincing me...and now if I had more time (and sometimes I find it, I will hit up the other stores for free stuff!)  It's such a fun challenge, and what I love about it most is it feeds my frugal mania appetite!  

Thank you to Kacey... she is the hard worker and brains and extremist behind it all and she has a website, check out her news spot on it, it's awesome!

kaceyscouponcorner.blogspot.com 

I'm always tempted to take a picture of what I got that day for so little money and put it on here... it's so fun!  But, our camera is out of commission and now I'm searching for the big deal on our next one!

Lake Powell

Beginning of July

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Coby's Dirty Thirty Luau

Beginning of June

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Here's our M&M Story

Every time we found out what we were having in the baby department: We bought peanut M&Ms to give to our friends and coworkers to announce that we were having a boy...(you know, Peanut M&M's have nuts...)

So, you see, we bought Plain M&M's this year! (no more nuts!)

(Now I have to change the name of our blog)...

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Summer

What?! My last post was May?

Today, just a second ago I turned over the calendar from June!

Granted, I use my blackberry for all of my scheduling, however, my calendar was neglected due to the fact that I just realized it's the middle of July already!  

I can't believe how fast time flies when we are so busy!  Sometimes when I watch my kids play imaginary games or swim in the little play pool out back, it seems that they think time is all they have.  Wow, even I remember that.  Now, it seems that for me, time is my most precious and expensive commodity.  

My dad always says: "time is money"... it's true, but, I think now, every second, that it's even more valuable than that!  Especially when I watch my kids grow so fast... the only way I can freeze frame them and keep them little is take pictures.

This has been such a fun summer, and I can't wait to upload pics of it... 

Someday, when we aren't having so many adventures.  Or maybe just when I am not too tired to stay up all night to update our blog! 

Cheerios in the toilet

So, our friend Robbie Fewkes gave us the great idea to put cheerios in the toilet for our boys to aim at when we potty trained them... Darcy (his wife) just reminded me of that trick, in our comments of the toilet post and it also reminded me of what happened when we tried it...
Keedon tried to aim, it was cute. The bowl of cheerios just got eaten by Quinton, and the ones that survived were dropped in the toilet by our observant Cambel, then fished out by his hands and eaten.
Not to mention, Keedon still couldn't get that first shot in the toilet to get the dumb cheerio!

Say Cheese!

Chuck E Cheese

QuintonKeedonCambel

Kacey and Trent had Tanners 2nd bday at Chuck E Cheeses and we were able to bribe the boys with the idea of going for 3 days, (it was awesome! they were so obedient), Thanks Tanner for having such a fun Birthday! (and thanks to Leslie and James and Ben's bday for letting us play a little longer at theirs!) Tanner's cake was a Key (that kid is all about keys... don't worry Tanner, someday you'll hold the perfect keys.)

Cambel, loving his cupcake!

Tag, You're it!

That was the case this evening for Quinton. We were outside playing while Coby was trimming the bushes in the back... it was such nice weather, and all of a sudden Quint got tagged in the head with something, and Coby thought it was a stick from the bush... but then, within a second the sky started nailing us with huge hail! Check this out!

Did you know these come open?

and if you did... why didn't you tell me!

Um. Yeah. This isn't a pic I'm so proud of, in fact, I don't want anyone to see grime in my house, let alone me! However, as shocked and relieved as I am, I had to share.

This bathroom is shared by my two little peeing toddlers, and it is the cleanest bathroom in Grand Junction, because it gets cleaned EVERY day, and the toilet sometimes multiple times a day. You would do the same if you had two little wienies pointed not so sharply at the pot... speaking of that, Keedon, no matter how hard he points his down, the first shot always hits the back of the toilet... so, I am cleaning the bathroom way more than I ever thought I would, in one day.

However, I've had this super sensitive nose and tummy lately, and I can't stand that I can still sometimes get a whiff of urine from that particular room.

So, today as I wickedly cleaned the toilet, I pulled up on the cloth that got stuck to this feature on the toilet and it popped open... and lo and behold, I found the source of the smell.

So, just so you know, this part on the toilet comes open... I don't recommend opening it, unless you smell something and have about 10 Qtips to spare, it's gross.

Bye Bye urine smell.

The Last Jones Wedding

At Least for another 20 years!

Congrats Chase and Valerie! This is Cobys Youngest Brother and his awesome wife Valerie.

Us Girls with the new Bride

The wedding was in the Rexburg Temple (they met and BYUI)

and the Reception was in Blackfoot, ID, and it was Beautiful, Val did an awesome job, she's so creative!

and the luncheon, which was delicious and had cool decorations, thanks to Lynette (Coby's mom) (that's their pic on the bottle)was at a steak place somewhere in the middle...

and meanwhile....

Dancing with the Star

For those that don't know, Coby's sister Amberlyn is on the BYU Ballroom Dance team (and just found out she just made the more advanced team, congrats Amber!) Anyway, back in March I was able to take a girls weekend with her and Coby's mom and Valerie, and well both Chase's too, and go watch her compete in DanceSport 2009... It was soooo fun! She did so well, and really stood out among her competitors! We are so proud of her! and she does her own hair... beautiful.
Check out the video of her dancing, she's in the white (isn't she a Hottie!)

Happy 3rd Birthday Quinton!

This little Guy is already 3!? You would never know by looking at his little frame, but, as soon as he starts talking, you hear the maturity in his knowledge packed, full on sentences... Quint has always had a big vocabulary, he may be a little quiet, but, he's got it in him!

3 things we Love about Quinton:

1) He is always trying to make us laugh....and if we don't he points out that it's a joke!

2) He is always moving, he CANNOT sit still, he can't even walk in a straight line!

3) He is our extreme sports guy, he will try everything, and he'll do it until he's good at it!

We love you Quinton!

Here he is opening the huge package from Grandpa George and Grammy, he was so excited!

Thank you to my mom, Coby's parents and Kacey for all sending the boys gifts, they were so happy!

For his birthday dinner he chose Macaroni and cheese and French Fries.

and since Coby just had surgery (on his birthday) and I had a serious case of morning sickness, he got to go to Bananas (a fun park) with some of our friends (for their daughters bday, but, he thinks it was for him!)

Our Big Birthday tradition that the boys absolutely love is going with Dad early in the morning and choosing donuts for everyone! Quinton loved it this year.... he took forever to decide! (does that sound like a Jones boy or what!?)

and this was the present that rocked them all!

the end is the best part!

Happy 4th Birthday Keedon!

I just can not believe he is four... I still see that little monkey face that I held in my arms when he was an infant and I have to do a double take everytime he talks to me like a cute little man!

For their birthdays we always have a family day, and this year Keedon chose to go to a big playgym called Kidzplex, and for his birthday dinner he chose Pizza from Ceasers and Fruit Salad (it's a recipe I make with oreos, that he loves!)

He was so excited to open his presents! It's funny, he gets some cute wrapped gifts and usually the only one he is SOOOOO excited to open is the box package from his Grandpa George and Grammy, who are in Montana, These packages are always so fun and thrilling to open, that when they come in the mail the boyz just hover around it, until it's time to open it!

Happy Birthday Boyz!

So, for the boyz' birthdays this year we combined their partys with Aunt Cristys birthday and Cassy's birthday... since they are all within 1 month of each other...

They had a blast! My sister Cristy and Cassy and my mom came out from Salt Lake to celebrate!

They had balloon cakes this year, and they both chose their own color!

Their birthdays are actually in Feb and Mar so this post is a little late

Jokes on who?...

April Fools! "What?! I'm so confused!" That's what Amberlyn (Coby's sister) said cuz she totally bought it! Then she called like 5 times last night (both of our phones seperately)... trying to figure out the truth, that we were in fact telling her~! Love ya Amber!

So, we are not really due in a few months....

we are due in 8.5 months!

How the boys reacted to the news...

Keedon: but, we have a baby... Cambel (pointing at Cambel)
Quinton: in yo belwy? Is it baby Cambel? (in his cute inquisitive voice)

Do you guys think we are gonna have a new baby boy or girl?

Keedon: No, I want a grill!
Quinton: No, a boouy!

April 1st

If the 3rd is a charm...

What's the 4th?

I guess we'll find out when the new bundle arrives to our

little family in a few months!

Can never resist a bargain!

Our "Beautiful" Grand Jct Desert Hike

Kacey took us on a hike here in Grand Junction, which was awesome cuz it was close to my house and overlooked the city of GJ, and despite the vast desertness about it, it was awesome for the kids to hike on their own...They loved it! and we had awesome views of the Colorado National Monument!

Keedon, Their buddy Tanner, and Quinton

Kacey and Me with the babes

Keedon

Quinton

and a little R&R after the hike...

Our Family Mountain Lion Hike

Our friends Spencer and Laurey told us about a hike by our house where we may run into mountain lions... we were really excited...

But, then when we were hiking with our 3 boys we thought,

"what?! are we crazy! what if we do see one!?"

Visiting Teaching

( Thank you Jill for enlightening our blog with the truth of our spirituality!)

Miso Soup

Miso was the size of an oreo cookie when I adopted him off the streets of NYC in August 1998.

We've been through a lot together, I mean 12 Years! He watched me grow a lot, he didn't grow so much cuz I only fed him when I remembered to!

The kids have a blast with him, actually, we LOVE him.

(I love him because of how low maintenance he is!)
Keedon was his guardian...and loves him!

Cambel loves holding him, and you can't get the smile off his face when Miso is out and about...But, Quinton, he won't touch him and it took a lot of coaxing to get him this close! But, Quint's job was feeding Miso, he loves feeding him!

But, now, after all these years and memories, we have to say goodbye.

Not that I want to get sappy over a turtle, (on a blog, nonetheless), but, I am really sad, dang it! I miss him already, and I feel like a part of me is gone, or buried, I guess... What?! It's a turtle!

Actually, it was Miso.

Ok, so knowing how I felt when we did our little "Office" rendition of a funeral for him, (Keedon even sang him a song: Twinkle Twinkle little Star, it was sweetly funny)

I've decided, no more pets... too heart wrenching to lose them.

Aren't they the perfect size though?

So, we got Quinton a little, kidsoft (for when they try to hook their brothers) hockey stick and puck.

So, now the boys don't have to

play hockey in the kitchen with Tuna Fish cans anymore!

First Hike of 2009

What they think they are saying.

It's so funny to hear what my boys say, vs. what they think they are saying...

While talking to their friend Macey, who just told them she went to the doctor..
Quinton Said: "Yeah, well, I got shot... at McDonalds." (no, Quint, we don't live 'innercity' anymore)
While playing a game with the boys... Keedon said:
"Dad, did you heared that toot from Quinton's mouth?"

Eerie, or cool

Keedon (3 yrs old & just walking in from Preschool) said to me today:
"mom, you know dat if you take off yor whole face, you just gonna be a skeleton!"
Thanks for the image Miss Angie!

It was a Merry Christmas!

Here's our card for 2008:

(This is mostly to have it in our blog for when I have it printed... )( and um yeah, I have a lot of catching up to do to get me to the end of last year!)

My Stinky Day

Ok, so I started this post, and only got the title done... that's how busy my days have been lately, I have so many things to update... but, here's a run down of my stinky day:
Part 1
Ok, so in the morning I was out cleaning some stuff up in the yard because it was soooooo windy, and I am seriously talking, I was out there for 5 minutes when I came inside to this....
Keedon and Quinton were in my bedroom, naked (Quint wears diapers) and Cambel was in the kitchen sucking on a huge piece of Chocolate. Chocolate? Where'd he get that chocolate? It wasn't chocolate... Apparently, Quint took his stinky diaper off and thinking he was helping, put it on the kitchen counter and in doing so dumped out (no pun intended) some big chunkys. Needless to say, I scooped up all the boys, put them in the bath, threw the clothes in the washer and cleaned the floor.
Part 2
"Bathtimes are a waste of time"
So, I get my cute Cambel out of the bathtub and lotion him down and put clean cute clothes on him, (Tanners old sweatshirt), and before I could stand up to distract him with toys he pukes all over himself! and it was the color brown... sick!... hmmm, what was that from? New bath, new clothes and a nap later, he was eating a banana, and let me preface with: Cambel is the cleanest eater I've had so far, he usually just gets it in his belly. Not today, he smeared banana all through his hair and on the back of his neck. Why did I give him a bath?
and Why'd I give Keedon one?
Part 3
So, I can tell Keedon is so tired, but the boys won't nap together they just play, and after an hour of this I seperated them, and a little while later Keedon comes out of the office saying he needs to go stinky but doesn't want me to see it... (so I know something's goin' down, don't think I don't Keedon) So, after he'd been in the bathroom for a few, I go in to find this; stinky on the floor, the stool the toilet, and all up and down his legs.... and the toilet was full of a rolls worth of toilet paper! Apparently he hadn't made it to the bathroom in time and that sucker roared it's ugly head beforehand... and he was so responsible to want to clean it up for me. Thanks.
That was my stinky day. It didn't stink, this stuff is just a variation of the norm, it just was stinky stuff.
So, amidst all of this, I have like, 80 projects goin right now, and do you think I touched any of them today, no. Ok, well, one, I reconfigured all the outside Christmas lights to one outlet, cuz we have a timer on it, and I guess I burned out the lights. So, all those hours of untangling lights from around the boys who wrapped themselves up in them, while we were hanging them all over the yard the other day, is chalked up as just a fun day.
I do think all of this in funny, but it did warrant a pizza night.
Let me see if I can end with some kind of a cute, witty quote, .... nope.
I am just glad I can go to bed now... at midnight, again.

Vote 2008

I'm Keedon Jones.... I'm Quinton Jones.. and I'm Cambel Jones,
and WE APPROVE THIS MESSAGE

We are just hoping that our next President and V.P. love our country as much as

we love our country.

Halloween Favorites

The Incredibles

These are some of our favorite things about Halloween:

Popcorn balls

3 Musketeers

Suckers

Chocolate

Kit Kat

Reese's

and any other variety of candy.

We have other favorite things too, but, those are the important ones.

So, we went Trick or Treating to our neighbors, who took our pics and loaded the boys up with Candy...then we took the boys to a neighborhood where a couple houses were decked out with Halloween Garb, and they were so nervous to walk up the pathway surrounded by all the spooky things that we forced them up to get their treats... and Keedon made the guy come down to his level to tell him that his house was too scary.

Quinton walked around for a week and all night on Halloween saying "Trick or Treat, gimme yo candy, .....Thank you for gibben me candy"*(~ he said it into thin air...) it was so cute, he is our treat tyrant so, I know it was inbred in him to practice for this 'night of all treat nights'!

They were seriously so cute walking around with their huge muscles and dragging their little Halloween treats cuz they were too heavy!

We had so much fun that night...

The week of Halloween was also a blast, the boys had some kind of party everyday that they had to wear their costume to...

Music Makers:This is Abbey and Cambel, they were hugging and tearing at each others costumes the whole time, (hope that's not indicative of his future, I mean, I know she's cute an' all).

Preschool:
Trunk or Treat:

and Halloween: Mr. Incredible

AKA: Keedon~ 3 years old Incredible Dash

AKA: Quinton ~2 years old Incredible Jack Jack

AKA: Cambel ~1 year old

(and they tried to get me to let them wear them for Cambels birthday...

But, for those of you that don't know...Cambel had a Football party because his first sign or communication was "Touchdown!" so, it was all about footballs and goal posts!)

Happy Birthday Cambel

Oh, we had so much fun for this little boys birthday, mostly cuz, it's always a party at our house anyway, so we just threw some balloons in and some treats and sang a song and it was a riot!

Cambel knew it was his birthday all day. He thought everything should be in his hands and didn't want to take a nap and ate cupcakes like he couldn't get them in his tummy fast enough!

Keedon just kept hugging him and saying 'Happy Birthday Cambel" and Quinton just wanted the cake all day.

It was such a fun day and Daddy even got off of work early and surprised us all and that made it so much more fun!

We love this little guy and we are so thrilled he muscled his way through to be with us at this time in our lives... he is such a blessing, and we can definately tell he is strong willed, he came with that.

We are also so blessed to family and friends that sent/brought presents for him!

Keedon and Quinton especially loved teaching him how to unwrap everything!

We love Fall!

I have always loved fall. It's when all the goodies come out, and all the colors change and my life seems to brighten up... Love it. We can't stop playing in the leaves, it's so fun, and their laughter is so cute, it's theraputic!
(and the boys love it cuz of their new 4-wheeler they inherited from their uncle Jake! and their airplane that Gramps and Grammy inherited from a careless company!)

This is my life

The other day I was running around everywhere, and thinking I can't believe how many commitments and responsiblilies I have lately on top of these three great things that have all these little hands, and needs and wants and demands.
So, this is my life, I am trying to carry an armful of those packing peanuts (each one representing an aspect of my life) and I just can't seem to keep them from falling out of my arms, as I am trying so hard to hang on to all of them and I'm constantly saying, as they are constantly falling out of my arms, "Ok, I can let that one go, or that one, and ok, maybe I'll pick those ones up later."
Well, who knows what will become of my life,
But, right now all I care about is what will become of theirs.
(in case you're wondering whose, um, my boys, including Coby.)

PS, so if I haven't called you back, call me back, and maybe you'll have to a couple times, and if I haven't called you at all, it doesn't mean I don't care about you, it means someone has my phone in their mouth or their pocket.

Tanner Cornum

So we love having Tanner come over to our house, and we love hangin' out with his parents almost as much as he loves tackling Keedon! What a cute kid, he just has so much Love. (Cuz, he comes from a great family).

October Updates

So this month the highlight is definately Cambel's independence... oh man that kid gets around and is also very vocal if he wants something...
Here's what he's been up to...

Still eatin' rocks...

and always the ladies man... every week in Young Womens, the girls start arguing over who's gonna hold him... but, Mindy or Julie (our leaders) always get him... and they have the touch, he loves them!
Here's the boys with their Halloween garb on from Grams and Poppy, they sent such a fun package to them, we miss having them here this year for Halloween!

Coby had a ton of Scouting events this month... including Lain's Eagle Court of Honor

and Kacey took us to a farm by her house to gather eggs and see the turkeys... (right after she had a baby... she's a mover and a shaker) the boys loved it!

Kacey and Tannerand the boys still can't wait for dinner to be done!How do I get them from hovering in the kitchen!?
My name is Cambel Jones and I approve this message

Fall in Ouray

We got to go to Ouray to watch Sunday conference and it was so beautiful up there! But, of course the Broncos game was on after Conference, so you know what these boys were doing! Quinton caught his FIRST FISH!

Keedon also caught his FIRST FISH!

Cambel just wanted to touch the fish, so I held him the whole time!

Oh, my gosh, they are so cute! I just love 'em!

September's updates

Since I can't manage to update this thing anymore... you know, I used to have sit down time with Cambel... but, not anymore... now I have to set aside time for this... huh...like that's gonna happen very much more... I just keep telling myself... posterity, it's for posterity...

So anyway, here goes...

I realized the boys needed a haircut when Quinton woke up super happy like this...

So we opened a Haircut StudioOne weekend we played Volleyball with some friends and the kiddos at the park...

Keedon started Preschool.. He loved it! Somehow I lost his poser pic (dang it) but here are the

bros saying goodbye!

Cambel turned 10 months old and his bros think they can tackle him now, well, not that they didn't try before, he's not sure about it.

The boys taught their youngest brother the ropes when they were suppose to be getting dressed.

Keedon put together his first puzzle all by himself

My boys made me breakfast for my birthday

and then they attacked the package my dad and Amy sent me, I kept telling them it was mine, but, they didn't listen. It was such a fun package! She always makes it fun for them too!
and I seriously had the best birthday cuz it was a Cheesecake birthday, thanks to my Dad and Amy, who surprised me with a huge delicious chocolate raspberry cheesecake from where else? the Cheesecake Factory, my favorite... and thanks to my mom and sister Cristy, Coby's mom and dad and my sweet friend Kacey (who surprised me with a homemade delicious chocolate cheesecake!)... I was spoiled with Cheesecake and I loved it, not to mention, I deserved it dang it! (inside story) and of course Coby spoiled me too with a pirate/princess bday party!

Isn't he so cute!?

Ok, so he's getting so big, and I'm starting to realize it more this last week (10-25-08). He's the oldest nursing baby we've had and it's been so good for me, cuz it's the only time during the day that I get to sit down... well, with periodic chases after two other boys while feeding him. But, let me tell you, this last week he has only been nursing in the morning and night... cool. But, I realized I am so tired at the end of the day now... it's cuz I'm not stopping and sitting at all anymore! So, now my breaks only come when we are wrestling on the floor, or when I am being tackled to the floor. Crazy. It's so fun, though, and we'll all get used to it someday, right? lol.

and the boys have been busy decorating his cupcakes for Cambel's birthday,

more of that coming soon!

Grand Junction Air Show

This is how it started. and this is the exact word for word story that the boys tell everyone, and us all the time at dinner.
"I was sittin on my chair en eatin' my potsicle, when I heared the aiwpwane en it hurt my ears en I get scared!"
and this is what happened, they were both eating their popsicles outside when the blue angels flew overhead and they are super loud and house rattling... and Keedon and Quinton started screaming and dropped their popsicles and in their panic they forgot how to open the sliding screen door and were trying to tear through it, when I came running from the kitchen... they were pastey white with red swollen eyes and screaming that the dinosaurs were going to get us!
It was hilarious, I was laughing so hard and they thought I was just crazy. So, we went out to watch the airplanes practice for the airshow, and the Mayor (who lives accross the street) brought us tickets to take the boys! It was a sure blast!
Keedon watched the airplanes with binoculars (even though they were literally 20 people away)

Quinton had his hands over his ears THE WHOLE TIME.

and Cambel was just content to be eating something, but, loved the planes and would say:

"woooow!"

We went with our friends Kirsten and Tyson and Abbey and new little Jaden

and Spencer and Laurey and Ethan

and this picture is my favorite, but it didn't turn out, they were in a huge jet fighter and our camera went on the brink... the rest of our pics were just streaks after that!

Fruita Fall Festival

So, we all know, Coby doesn't get many Saturdays off, where we are not out of town. But, this one he had off, and we made the most out of it! The morning we spent at the Fruita Fall Festival, and it was fun, but this is the part the boys thought was a blast!

Lake Powell

Cambel's 1st time Standing

So, the weekend after we got back from Utah, California and Las Vegas we went to Lake Powell.

Our friends Laurey and Spencer have a boat down there and they took us and some other friends Jared and Lynnsey down for Labor Day weekend, and it was a total blast! It was also a vacay from our vacay. My mom and my niece Cassy came into town and stayed with Keedon and Quinton for the weekend which the boys LOVED, and we got to hang with Cambel, which he LOVED!

Cambel and Daddy

The Girls (Lynnsey, Laurey, and Me)
The Guys (Coby, Spencer, Jared, and Ethan)

The Kids (Austin, Tyler, Kayla, Cambel and Ethan)

Oh, man, we LOVE Powell.

10 months ALREADY!

Lake Mead

We went to Lake Mead with CJay and Tiffany and Kody and Becca, they are Cobys college buddies... and it was so fun! We all have kids now, and in fact we all have boys that are the same age! (maybe I could talk Becca into sendin' me a pic of them, she got some good ones!)

The boys all got along great and share their love for sports... and Adi, well, she was definately in charge! We stayed with CJay and Tiff in their beautiful home and stayed up way too late playing games and laughing about the ol' college days and pranks!

Laguna Beach

Our sweet friends gave us the privelage of staying in their awesome beach home. It was so charming and welcoming (& ornately decorated & beautiful)... and at the end of our fun trip we made yummy lemonade and lemon cheesecake tarts from the lemon tree that grew in the front courtyard! It was the time of our lives...! (that's because the boys loved it too!)

We got to share the house with our friends the Hillans, which was good, we thought, cuz we are always looking for time to get together, but, then as you would have it... all our family outings were seperate! There was just soo sooo soo much to do!

California Cousins

In California we got to visit my youngest sister Kory. We had a ton of fun seeing them...Bryson and Cambel are about 3 months apart and were wrestling all over with each other, it was so cute! Lacee was so proud to show off all of her toys and Chandee was so helpful and cute and gave us the run down of life in Cali... we were sad she couldn't go to Seaworld with us cuz she had to visit her new school, but we were so happy to see them! Kory had this amazing breakfast ready for us when we arrived, it was anything you could want all layed out...

We had a blast...

On another night Coby's cousins Breanne and Casey and Justin and Lauren came to visit (they live 20 mins up the coast from Laguna) and they brought the best pizza, wish I could remember from where... it was so fun to see little Benjamin (Breanne and Casey's cute new baby boy) and catch up with everyone, they are so fun and funny!

(Justin is also a Marine and commutes to Camp Pendelton every day)

Sea World

What a fun trip... Coby and I came here once, we'd been married a year, and we never would've thought we'd be bringing 3 kids back here 4 years later!

When we came as a couple it was fun, but, coming to Seaworld with kids, was magical. Their eyes were full of light and excitement all day! It was amazing.

Utah Vacation

These are some fun pictures from Stephanie Sonntags wedding reception, I wish I would've gotten some with the Bride and Groom, but they were a little busy CELEBRATING! It was so fun to see all the Jones family again, we sure do miss them! and some of our kids are around the same age, but we all live in different states! It makes for some fun visiting times!

Great Friends

It has been pretty much every year since we got married that we have gotten together with Coby's College Peeps. This year, we couldn't all get together, but, we did see everyone, even though we all live in different states... (CO, UT, CA, AZ, and Vegas, NV)

We had so much fun seeing our good friends again!

John and Suzy took great care of us and watched our kids while we went to a Jones Family wedding reception. They are awesome!

Robbie and Lindsay met up with all of us too to reminisce about college and laugh our guts out!

Coby went to Ricks with these guys, and actually out of all the peeps, including the girls...Suzy and I are the only ones outside of the Ricks circle... It makes for great story telling of all their crazy college times.

In Vegas, the Milnes took us out to Lake Mead on their boat and we just had so much fun!

Yup, that's Pee

Among all the yummy foods in the fridge lies this cute little jar of Quinton's pee.

All of his body functions are being tested again.... including blood.... and can we just say how proud we are of him...

He didn't even cry at all when they shoved that needle in his little arm to draw blood!

We'll keep ya posted as to the outcome of this testing when we know what's up....

We're not worried though, just curious.

Quinton and Cambel: they've got a system

Just like my older brother... Quinton... I have always been happy eating. By the time I could grab the little baby puff cereal, I was grabbing handfuls and shoving them (literally, with my whole hand) into my mouth! Now, that I can crawl, I can eat anything... and some of my faves are Quinton's scraps...

Quint always peels the crust off of his bread and then when I crawl over, he throws them down to me from his chair!

Look who's on the MOVE!

He is so funny! It's been a long time comin'...(for him, not us, we were fine with one stationary Jones Boy)... He was beginning to get frustrated everytime he was set down, cuz he couldn't go anywhere... but, today, I caught him making his way into the kitchen... and he made me laugh so hard because he was soooo excited that he could barely breath through his 10 foot grin and giggles, between each movement!

Nothing to Trifle over

Ok, so I finally got a trifle bowl...

Here's the story behind "the trifle bowl"

It was always the gimme gift... if Coby didn't know what he could get me for whatever... he could always get me a trifle bowl... and I didn't ever buy one, so that he'd have that for a back up.

Well.... last night I just came home and said.... "oh, and don't buy me a trifle..." and

he was like "what?! you bought one! no way!"

Ummm... he had that back up for 2 years now... I couldn't wait any longer, I really wanted to make this for a BBQ, and we've been to many BBQ's this summer, so too many opps passed by.

The funny thing about this story.... Coby would've never bought it. I gotta give him props, that gift would've been too easy for him... he's actually really thoughtful and witty with his gifts.

All he saw was the cake!

Coby's only sister, Amberlyn was married and sealed to Chase Weed last weekend~
We had so much fun spending this time with them~ We are so thrilled for them.

When we were in the Temple for their sealing, it just brought back so many feelings from my wedding day, and I just can't believe it's been over 5 years, it feels like yesterday... although Coby will tell you that it feels like longer!
anyway...every moment was spent having fun, and we did it in style,
thanks to Lynette and all of those that helped out with the amazing wedding weekend!
Keedon said Amber looked like a Princess, and we were quick to tell him that she is one~

Amber with her Brothers: Chase, Brandt, Coby and RyanHere's Amberlyn with her brothers' wives: Emily, Me, and Jessica... We have even better pictures, but, I forgot my camera battery, among everything else...refer to the "Farkle" entry... so Jess and Emily got all the good ones with their cameras, I'm sure~! But, I do love this one, we all have such fun together! I couldn't have asked for a better family...

And by the end of this huge weekend, Cambel was venturing out with crawling, he's doing awesome... he can make it a couple inches now~!

Anyone for Farkle?

So, you know when you set out to play Farkle, which is a fun dice game, you want to roll 1's and 5's, and when you toss those dice and produce anything else besides 1's or 5's, you farkle, meaning you are awarded no points and in fact the points you did get that round are forfeited, you lose them.

It seems this weekend all I could roll were 2's and 3's. That was only of course in the game of life. I just farkled.

Chase Weed told me that his sister or sister in law (I can't remember), says that these days she doesn't see things as trials anymore, she sees them as opportunities to blog.

So, here's my opp to blog:

It all began one sunny morning in July.... just kidding... and it wasn't sunny anyway, it was dark.

(Ok, if you know the story, skip to the bottom...to spare yourself some boring reading...)

It was 5:30am, and me and the two youngest Quinton and Cambel took off for Denver to join Amberlyn (Coby's sister) in the temple for her first time. Coby was to come later that night with Keedon and our friend Gaither.

Well, those great plans changed, when our trusty little mini-van (yes, I said mini-van, for those who may not know, we buckled under the smart and sound and economical and convenient pressure of owning a mini, and it's been nothing but awesome for us and 3 little boys), until Thursday. It broke down.

I'll spare the details....

Side of the highway in the mountains, brokendown van, hot weather, animal cookies, dry water bottles, two babies, and oh, yeah, I got hosed with Coolant when I opened the hood, so now we smell like an auto shop while we are waiting...7 hours.

Now, I'll share the detailed workings of our blessings.

When the car died, I was able to coast into a soft shoulder... when there was not one present, miles before or after our hallowed spot.

When we ran out of drinking water, a nice family stopped and refilled our water bottles and our engine with water...

It really didn't get as hot as it could've until late afternoon...

The boys were awesome! We played and (actually) laughed a lot, and I just didn't know I'd remember so many songs with hand gestures!

and to sum it all up, we made it to Coby's parents in time for one of Lynette's yummy meals, and Lee had the perfect place to tow our car to in order to be repaired... we are so blessed to have hookups like these!

And, try to say this wasn't fun when you have these two to keep you company!

Our Heroes

Guitar Heroes... that is!

We got to visit Brandt (Coby's Bro) and Emily in Castle Rock at their new house this past weekend also, it was so fun, but, the funnest part was watching Tanner (our nephew) play the Guitar, he's awesome!

This is their view, Amazing! (and the background is cool too!)

This is how we ended the weekend... hangin' at Grams and Poppy's house in Denver...

Little Brave Men

I swim all-myself!

Thank you so much to the Kellys for such a fun swim

day! The pool was so inviting that even our land shark~

Quinton went for a swim!

And Cambel is definately our water baby... check him OUT!

Our Family Fourth

Our Freedom holiday started Monday with our Family Home Evening focused on teaching the boys about the finer things of the Fourth of July such as: a weinie roast, smores over a fire and what else, a BBQ.

We also touched on the rich blessings we enjoy in this country, and when we were done, the boys were so cute holding their hands on their hearts for the flag... (except Keedon kept saying... I hold my hand on my tummy)...

The rest of the week panned out with us enjoying the freedoms to work in our yard (a ton), planting shrubs, building landscape walls, washing the patio down and running through the sprinklers, and swimming in the pool!

We are so thankful for this country and the men and women who have fought and still pour their guts out fighting for it today.

PS: The big monster truck is a cool jumpy thing that our friends have... Keedon is getting in it in this pic, right after Quinton did, even though he was tiny for it! a monster truck one of course, it was the life of the kid party!

July 4th

To some people, this does not look like a fun Fourth of July Photo... until you see the video of what it provided! (if you look close you'll see at the top a carefully choreographed platform of, what else... fireworks.)

This fireworks show has been in the works for a few years now (so we hear), in fact when the Fireworks catalogue came out in January our friends Spencer and Jared started Drooling. (source: Lindsay) and they even ordered a DVD and spent a couple hours watching fireworks just to decide which ones to buy and how to light them off... (source: Laurey)... and for this fun night they rented a construction lift to raise them 3-4 stories high to create a light show that puts all other light shows to shame. I was proud to be an American last night (more so, cuz we were far enough out of the way so the cops didn't pounce on us!)...

and PS: located within the construction lift were 4 tiny baby birds that had gotten separated from their mommy, and so a neighboring guest made them a nest and all the kids kept them company!

We love Summer!

Weekend at Grampa and Grammys

Happy Fathers Day

Not only is he the man who fit everything on my list of "hopefully's" as far as the man of my dreams... He is also the best dad. (besides George and Lee)...Coby is so funny and witty and clever... we have so much fun with him... ! This is something that makes him the best Father.
Another thing that makes him the best Father is the way he honors the priesthood that he holds and the way he presides over our family and makes each one of us feel loved and confident and important.
Not only is he the best Dad... he is also the best fort builder, the best bug catcher, the best at funny faces, the best at reading storys, the best at sick day cuddles, and the best cookie maker (yes, I said cookie maker, he is an awesome cook!)
Coby has so many things that put him in the best dad Category, but, this year as we celebrate Fathers Day, one of the ones that sticks out to us is that he always puts us first. No matter how clammered his day was, or how frustrating, we would never know it. When he gets home from work or wherever he was, and no matter how busy he is with his job, side business, or church calling... he always gives the best of himself, he always has a smile and a possitive attitude, and always seems refreshed to see the boys.... it's as if, he's just been waitin' around to see us!
Another one... is his unselfish service.. He is always serving others, or looking for ways to do so... and as Jess puts it "his heart is bigger than his brain..." he has a huge heart, and usually acts from it. I love that about him.
You know... Coby makes raising boys simple. I always prayed to know how to raise my children, and my prayers are answered everyday... because Coby, by the way he lives, makes my job easy... all I have to say is... "Just be like your Father."

A Well Balanced Fathers Day Breakfast

Keedon wanted to make Dad ~ EGGS, AND CHIPS
Quinton wanted to make Daddy ~ TOAST, POPCORN AND COOKIES.
This pretty much sums up their dream diet, and what love... to share it with Daddy on His day!

PS. Coby ate all of it except half the popcorn....

Ouray 2008

And for the record:
Guys won Battle of the Sexes. (Coby wanted that documented)
But, that was only a game.
We ladies, we win it for life. (!)

Who needs lots of money

So, one minute I'm thinking... 'it would be so fun to get the boys a little car or a little four wheeler they can drive around....'

The next, I realize 'cool... I don't have too!'

Keedon figured it out all on his own (For Free!)

Go Utes

Our Cute Boys

So, we finally had family pictures done... it's been a while... like 2 kids ago!

Our little friend Mckenna went with us to help make the boys smile, (they love her!) and she took this picture from her phone...

PS: if anyone needs pictures done, we know a great photographer... Darcy Case (970-314-1174)

We were very impressed with how she made us feel comfortable and with her technique behind the lens... and if you know me, I'm a hard critic cuz I like to take the pics, but I love her talent!

Cambel is 6 months old!

Cambels 5 month shot

That's what MOM is for

Ok, so Coby asked Keedon to pick up the food he had dropped on the floor and Keedon said this:

"mom, you pick it up, dad, mom'll pick it up" and Quinton said: "it's yours mom?"

and here's what I have to say: "no boys, it's not mine, it's yours, please stop throwing everything on the floor, I am getting bored of stepping on toys, (little ones of course that hurt my toes) and of having crumbs stick to the bottom of my feet.... I will not pick it up, so don't even ask. and by the way, little guys... if you don't drop it in the first place, you wouldn't have to deal with it. (and neither would I!). Happy Mothers Day to me."

Actually, Mothers Day was awesome... every year before this year I was like, cool, I don't have to make dinner... but, I would help and be involved and didn't want anyone doing things for me... this year however, I looked forward to Mothers Day all year.... I couldn't wait to sleep in until 8:30... (Cuz since January, it's been 5:30am, which, if you don't know... I'm not much of a morning person...) and I couldn't wait to sit on the floor and just play with the boys and not even think about dinner....

It was awesome...

Coby was awesome...

and they all even brought me breakfast in bed, (even though I was already up feeding the baby) and Keedon and Quinton were so excited... Keedon pointed to everything on the serving tray saying, "n dis toast is french fo you, n dees treats fo you...." and so on... it was sooooo cute!

and the boys husked all the corn... Now that's what kids are for! (I can't believe how grown up they are!)

May Flowers aren't as funny as toddler sprouts!

May 6th
"Do you want to go see Daddy?"
Keedon: "yeah..."
Mom: "Me too."
Keedon: "Me- too... too!... and three!"


May 8th
Ok, so here's what Keedon said today...:
"Mom, I hurt my bum..." (cuz he fell on it) I said "oh, you ok?" ....
Keedon: "nooooo" (while whining)
I then said "shake it off buddy"
He said "it doesn't come off... see?"
then he started shaking his butt as hard as he could..! I was laughing so hard! and he couldn't figure out why I didn't understand why his butt didn't come off... he just looked at me and said, "see it doesn't come off!"

April Showers of funny phrases

Keedon: "Mom, help this goes on der."

Keedon: "old mcdonald had a farm, oyie, oyie, oyie oyie... 'n a pig says oink here 'n an oink here 'n an oink here 'n an oink here, oyie oyie oyie!"

Keedon: "here ya go mama, I'n sharing with you"
he said this as he handed me a chicken in a biscuit cracker, and I put it in my mouth and realized he had sucked off all the good stuff.... Come ON! ~ did he think I'd not know!

Coby said: "Keed, here's your juice".
Keedon: "bring it in here peese to the couch, I'n sitting for being tired, I'n so tired."

Keedon: "just one hodog (or apple): which means he doesn't want us to cut it up into pieces,
or he says: "I want a BIG sanwich..." meaning a whole one.

Quinton: "I tuff." when he fell down and skinned his knee, he didn't know we saw or heard him.

Quinton: "Got it?.... ~ oh, I get it!"

Quinton: "Where Daddy?" Me: "At work"

Quinton: "oh, a fichsin peoples?" which is: he's fixin' people? which is what Keedon taught him...

Quinton: at dinner.... "is no funny, TINEOTE!" which is, ("timeout") to Keedon when he spit his milk! although, Quint taught that to Keedon...

Laundry Day

(I know, I know) after all the time it took me to finally get to updating this thing... all I have is Laundry Day?.... )
So, Laundry day around here is the day I find all of the things I've been looking for all week...(it's usually in the clothes hampers)
It's also the day that the boys get to stay in their jammies or without clothes all together, which is what they usually opt for.
and It's the day that I get to slow down... crazy. I thought doing laundry was such a chore, but now, I find it relaxing, unwinding and it makes me feel organized... even if the piles of clothes sit around all week, or if they are just shuffled from one place to another...

Ok, so while I was folding these 'three little boy' piles of clothes... (which were only one out of the 4-5 loads I do every week... on one day... which doesn't include the emergency loads that take place on the other days... ) The boys were doing this....:

Here's a shout out...

To Keedon:

For finally giving in to the afternoon nap (even if it only happened once)

and for planting the garden... He was so proud of it! (and we are proud of our little man!)

To Quinton:

For conquering Keedon (who, if you look close is trapped in the basket!)

To Cambel:

For sitting up on his own!

To My Sister:




I am so proud of her! She worked so hard, and mostly in a full time job at the same time as raising a beautiful little girl...and going to school to recieve her Bachelors Degree (from the best University)...she also made time for family and friends... I don't know how she did it... She is a good example of dedication and strife. And to Ana for getting into Law School in Michigan and for graduating with every honor possible.

Easter Bunny Guess's

Ok, so I had to wait a while for everyone to guess, but, now here's the answers, you all did pretty well. These boys are so cute and although I look at them and think, man, you guys don't look alike at all, I can tell they are all brothers! and weird: the baby pics do look alike... I thought Cambel being the biggest on Easter because of his Halloween birthday would give it away, so I had to take off his birthmark... or as I like to call it, his chocolate kiss....

Top Left: Quinton (2 weeks old on Easter)

Bottom Left: Cambel (4.5 months old on Easter)

Bottom Right: Keedon (4 weeks old on Easter)

Belated Easter Fun!

seriously I want to hear your guess's

Cambel is 4 months old!

Yeah, so this was a month ago. Anyday now I will upload a picture depicting him at 5 months old (which he is now)!

At 4 months he was hitting all the milestones, he rolled over and started babbling like a maniac, it is so cute! The only stage we weren't ready for yet is the one where he is trying to eat our food at dinner! We gave him some rice cereal and he didn't let a DROP fall from his lips! He's ready to eat!

Can I DVR my life?

My friend Jayla wrote a cute story on her blog about how DVR has really changed how our kids watch TV... Yeah, things are different now... it even effects me... I always want to DVR my surroundings, (pause them or rewind them) like sometimes when I'm driving I always push the mute button on the radio thinking I am pausing it cuz my kids are singing too loud, or try to rewind it if I missed something, but the worst is that sometimes in the car, if I'm not driving or something and I start to read a billboard (for example) well, if I don't read it before we pass it, I'm always like "wait, go back" and I even REACH for the remote to rewind MY LIFE! wish I could, sometimes the kids say the funniest things and I'd be rewinding all the time just to giggle some more!

The things they said in March

Keedon: " I want Quint to don't touch it..."

Quinton: "car comin!"

Keedon: "It's too fit" which means it's too small.

Keedon: "the sun is awake now." meaning, I don't want to take a nap, it's light outside.

Keedon: "you want to no stop mom?" catching me in the act at a stop sign.

Quinton: This little guy actually says everything! I'm amazed everyday at our conversations!

Quinton: "No! too big, it's Keenons!" referring to anything he doesn't want to wear, even if it's his!

Quinton: "Jerge!" when I ask what he wants to watch during snack time and sometimes "diego!"

Keedon: "I want a BIG samwich!" meaning he doesn't want it cut in half.

Quinton: "treat" when we ask what he wants to eat. He always says a treat. (or juice)

Keedon: "come not far away mama, Camel come no far" meaning he wants me to bring Cambel closer to him!

Keedon: when he wants to emphasize anything like "I'm a big boy" he says 'big' like 80 times and we're always wondering, 'ok, how far can we raise our eyebrows in anticipation for the next word?!'

Quinton Turns Two!

And his answer to everything is "the blue one!" so now we know his favorite color too!

Bring on the Mountain Country!

Last weekend we had so much fun visiting Grandpa and Grammy! We got to see their cool new house and lots of land and it's all nestled in the mountains!
It wasn't too long of a drive, especially when the boys had holding hand wrestles!
and we played with the chickens and roosters and PEACOCKS!

and oh, how fun, we got to go four wheeling straight off their property into the mountains!
and Keedon and his little buddy Jake wore their wheeling helmuts the whole time! Guess they hoped to go for a ride! (even though Keed said the four wheelers were "too loud!")

Boys will be... BOYS

So Keedon's friend came over, his name is Killian. They were playing downstairs, when Lo and Behold we realized they had stripped their clothes off and discovered Quintons mattress that hasn't been put together yet for his bed, and it was a great trampoline of course.

Why they decided they needed to be declothed for this activity..... we have no idea.

Daddy built us a Sandbox!

Coby had so much fun with his project!

Now I am having SO MUCH fun with my project! (cleaning up sand)

but, I LOVE that Keedon and Quinton are having so much fun playing in the sand!

Keedon's Birthday

Keedon loved all of his presents! Thank you all for sending him such wonderful presents and making his Birthday so fun to unwrap and play!

Among his favorite toys were definately the Thomas the train tracks and the cars phone and spiderman memory game and his new bike and he can't wait for his wagon!

He is such a lucky little dude!

and he looks so sharp in his new clothes!

V Day... now I'm playing catch up

He can get dressed himself!

This was from a few weeks ago... but, he came out all dressed! He doesn't care if his clothes are backwards as long as he can go outside and help daddy!

February Vocab

Quinton: "Ope!" (whenever he drops something or gets bonked, and he usually ends it with a
giggle)
Keedon: "Gib me a high Five!, to the side, duwn low... then jerking back his hand... to sflow!" he
learned that from one of the young men in our ward...
Quinton: "was meeeee!" whenever someone toots....
Keedon: "pull my finger, Quint!" you get the idea...
Keedon: "My Birvdays en 2 weeks!" then on March 1st he asked: "where's my birvday?" with his brow creased and a sad drawl in his voice... when I told him it was over, he said "I wanna hold me..." and started crying when I picked him up...
Quinton: "Happy berday Keendon!"

Keedon: did you push him? "ya, but it was slippwary, so he fall down"

Keedon and Quinton "Cambel! Camel! Cambel! Camel!" Whenever they see him!

Keedon and Quinton "he sfit up! mom, huwry!" about Cambel when he spits up...

Keedon: "you talkin mom? what you talking?...."
or the big one this month: "huh, mom?" after EVERYTHING I say... he wants me to repeat everything...! once, we were walking outside and I turned and said, don't walk right here, it's ice, and you will fall.... "huh, mom" and smack! down he went as he was walking and saying "Huh, mom?"
Keedon: "Now" after everything he said, he noticed I said it quite a lot.. so he started saying stuff like: "I'n awake, NOW!" and "I eat don't chicken, NOW!"
Quinton: he puts his cute face in mine and says "huh, mama" when I ask him a question...
and "hep me, hep me!" When he wants anything!

and here's the kicker:
Keedon: whenever I asked him to do something he'd say loudly "Kaaay!" and groan afterwards.
Quinton: then Quint started saying it after everything! (the funny thing, is I never say that... that one was conjured up on their own.) I guess I nag a lot...

I use to hate the game Tag, I guess the anticipation kills me...

So, that's right, I've been tagged, thanks to our cousin Jill...

Two Names I've Gone By: B and Chun (that's only for Christa) and the B only stands for Brandy (don't get any ideas)

Two Things I'm Wearing Right Now: Wouldn't you like to know!

Two Things I Want (or Have) in A Relationship: Well, I want someone to bring me chocolate every day when he comes home from work... but then I'd be made of chocolate if you add that to what I already eat (and I'm suppose to be limited with a new baby and all)
But, I get someone who comes home instead; empty handed so he can sweep up the boys and make them giggle and relieve a little of the parenting pressure (you know.... "it's my chair!"
-"'no, ts eye chaywe!" can get a little old after a while)... and he even acts as if he hadn't been at work for 10.5 hours dealing with difficult patients and even more difficult hospital politics... ! So, I have exactly what I would want in a relationship... hard work, equality, compassion and understanding. Oh, and love.

Two of My Favorite Things to Do: Laugh and Hike (with the boys of course)

Two People I Last Talked To: Coby - he said (like he always does) "need anything when I leave work"
and I said "oh Yeah...I need a lot, but I'm good" (like I always do)
and Keedon- He said "Mom, I'n not a monkey, an' I'n not a firetruck.. I'n Keedon" to that I responded, something in 3 year old Jargon, glad he knows who he is :)
and Quinton- I said "how's my Quinton?" and he said "I'ng stank-ey mama." I said, you have a stinky diaper, and he said, as he was proceeding to climb in the dryer where I was folding clothes... "Yeah, I'ng get ener, k mom?"... (he's our little talker!)

Two Things I Did Last Night: Oh, it was so fun, I went to Betsy's baby shower, where I got to eat tons of gormet cake (it really was) laugh with pretty much all of my friends here and see all the cute baby girl stuff that I just like to see and have no interest in using, no offense to baby girls, (they are so cute)
I've just had my fill (I grew up with all girls and nieces until just 3 years ago!), and then following the party I went to the store and did my monthly shopping... wow, so nice on my own!

Two Favorite Holidays: Halloween (gotta love that people are GIVIN' out candy!)
and 4th of July (who doesn't love to eat a steak, hamburger, and a hot dog washed down with a ton of other junk food, what the hey, it's the 4th of July!) -Jim Gaffigan.

Two Favorite Drinks: Rootbeer (that is hard to find except at the store in GJ) and Coke, the hard stuff, no caffeine free crap or diet... give me the stuff that rots my guts out!

Four Jobs I Have had in My Life: I killed a few turkeys... it paid well, and I learned the farmers blow... so couldn't go wrong.
and Service Rep trainer for AFCU.
I worked at UPS as a loader, oh and a tanning salon as a tanner, just kidding, just the front desk.

Two Things You May Not Know About Me: hmmm, what would you not know, that you may be interested in? Ok, who cares if you're interested...
I pick my nose, like everyone else does...
ok, for reals: I love the smell of an opened book. (but, that's as far as it goes, reading is on my list of goals...)
and I love makin' out, oh, wait TMI... um, I don't really like shopping, I'm an in and out shopper.

Two Movies I could Watch Over and Over: 50 First Dates and Incredibles, (oh, wait I already do)
um, another one would be anything funny... older Adam Sandler flicks get me rollin'.

Two Favorite Foods: Just this once I won't classify chocolate or ice cream as a food...
I LOVE Steak fondue. and I also love mashed potatoes.

Two Places I’d Rather be Right Now: Cuddling with Coby or Hiking the Grand Mesa.

The vocabs around here!

I just realized I never published this one! from November

11/8/07: Today Keedon said " I droppin me! I droppin me!" I looked up to see what he was talking about and what I found he meant was " I'm falling! I'm Falling!"
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11/9/07: Quinton started this cute thing with Grams (Coby's mom), he says "hewoe! hewoe!" and pushes his chin up while he says it, like he's calling out for her!

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11/11/07: Both boys (mostly Keedon) sang Happy Birday to Grams at the top of their lungs (even though they didn't know all the words).... they were so excited! Their favorite part was getting a turn to blow out the candles!

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11/18/07: Keedon likes to let us know what is going on; when the baby cries - "mom, baby. get da baby" as he looks down at his book, like he can't do it, duh. or if Quinton is up to no good "mom, Quint. Look at Quint."

'Oh, thanks Keedon, I wouldn't have had any idea if you didn't say something!'

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11/26/07: Poppy (Coby's dad) was trying to do something for Keedon, and it must not've been working out, cuz we heard "It's too hard, Daddy fix it!"

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11/24/07: Quinton said his first sentence "maw- awm, where are yoooou?!"

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11/30/07: Keedon said this after he broke 3 eggs on the carpet - "I popped it mom... where's da bird?"

Go Giants

They give us hope for the under-dog... that's me. 4-1 isn't great odds... but I love playin this game of life!Grams and Poppy gave Cambel his special blessing outfit and blanket, he was a cute little stud!

Yummy Package!

Gramps (my dad) and Grammy sent us this fun package and a sweet gift for Cambel for his blessing...

They were even thinking about us when they were in the middle of packing and moving to another state!

We are so lucky!

3 MONTHS OLD!

I am 3 months old and I love to smile!

I also love my oldest Bro Keedon, he holds me all the time and when I cry he says, "whats the matter camel?"
and "it's ok lil buddy"... Sometimes I am crying really hard cuz, my tummy hurts or I am hungry (and mom says some other babies sometimes don't calm down until they eat) but, when Keedon talks to me, even though sometimes it's really loud in my little ear... I instantly stop crying and start smiling at him...!

and Oh man, I also love my older Bro Quinton... he is so much fun... he always wants to play with me and hold me, and he always kisses me goodnight... sometimes he likes to give me his toys and he always loves to give me my pacee and swing me in my swing.... really hard... mom always finds him under my swing too, playing with my seat, and swinging me with his feet! He makes me smile all the time, even when I am crying!

Baby Cambel's cute smiles

Freezing weather in Grand Junction

Winter is so fun!

Especially when you can take a warm dip after making snow angels!

Potty Break!

He is so proud that all he wants to wear is what you see here!

So our life has taken a big turn for the better, I guess, if you like taking potty breaks every 30 minutes and sometimes more than that... and not even for yourself! Yup, Keedon decided the other day that he wanted to go potty. This he has wanted in the past and it lasted maybe a day... a day of stress and 3 accidents I had to clean up and 2 happened while I was nursing the baby! Well, this time I told him if he went potty he is going to wear his spiderman pants (that's what he calls his spiderman undies)... so he put them on and 3 days later he is still wearing them! (well, not the same ones...) He has done so awesome! Except, explain this to me... the only accident he has had was a stinky one... sick... I would think kids wouldn' t want that in their pants... hmmmm, well, it only happened once. He is definately still in pull ups at night, but they are not called pullups or diapers, cuz he sometimes just wants a diaper... so life can be easy again... so we call them "nite-nite pants", this being the case, when he wants to wear them, we just tell him he has to go nite nite if he wears them, cuz thats what they're for... so he sticks to his 'spideypants' and follows through with his new routine...this has actually worked... his success was truly measured today at Church... He wore his 'spideypants' and even though I was nervous, I knew he needed a confidence builder like this... and I was praying it was going to be a confidence builder! and he actually told us he needed to go, and he went in the boys bathroom and went! Since then he has even gone in and gone potty by himself, (even when Funniest Videos was on, and that's his favorite show! Good Job Keedon!

The New Year

This probably isn't that interesting for many... but, I wanted to get down how we spent the new year...

New Years Eve we found ourselves all sick, except for Cambel.

We went to bed early after watching a new movie...

We had everything it seemed like... Keedon had his first Ear infection... Eye infection and threw up for his first time. He had the flu.

Quinton got off lucky with just a cold.

I got everything Keedon had, and a sinus infection, but, never went to the doctor until it had been a week and I was feeling worse... so I got antibiotics and 7 days later I feel better...

Coby also had it all, he missed a week of work and we just took turns taking short naps and feeding and entertaining our sickos. He was so awesome... I knew he had to feel awful, cuz I did, but, he would take his turn while I rested and he even helped the boys have fun... and actually one night, I was feeding Cambel and Coby rocked Keedon back to sleep and a half hour later he rocked Quinton back to sleep, and then when he finished and Cambel woke up cuz of gas, he rocked him back to sleep so he wouldn't wake me... I found out that he went to bed at about 2 in the morning... how selfless.

It is now the 11th of January and we saw daylight for the first time this year... it actually feels like the 1st day of the year to me... but, I have to keep reminding myself that the world kept turning even though ours stood still.

I often wondered what was happening to us and Coby voiced his hope that this wasn't a manifestation of how the rest of the year was going to be...

But, now I really have a huge appreciation for our lives, our family and our health.

I also have felt the spirit really strong in our home the last few days and I wonder if we just needed to slow down and be together... I also know that it stems from our family's prayers and support and love.

(and the cute get well cards from Macey and Connor, thanks Jess n Ryan!)

PS... Cambel did end up getting sick, but thankfully after I was feeling better, so now we can really care for him... and even though his little baby eyes are swollen and goopy and his nose is runny and his head is hot and he is only comfortable in one position... nursing... he will give us a big smile when we talk to him, what a great spirit he has.

When it rains it pours

So, life around here is always hoppin, and we really do love it. But, sometimes when things happen, as they do when you have 6 little hands that need and want and play and make messes and never stop, it all seems to happen at the same time.
Today, we got home from Church, we as in me and Keedon and Quinton and Cambel. Coby stayed at church for scout stuff... Cambel was crying cuz he was hungry and the boys were nagging cuz they wanted Cheetos, which I didn't really want to give them because I wouldn't be able to wash their orange hands afterwards...
Ok, so Cambel's eating and the boys finished their Cheetos... (yup, I gave in)... and before I could get a wipe to them with my one mobile hand, they were off and running and I have since found orange fingerprints everywhere... but, that's not even the kicker... this is:
They went downstairs to play... then I heard Quinton crying, and while feeding Cambel I went to check on them, and found Keedon slamming Quinton in the little dark storage closet, and when I got Quint out he was crying so hard that his nose was running down his chin, and before I could worry about wiping it, Keedon's stinky bum caught my attention... one accident is all he's had so far, and it happens to be right now...
So, I am feeding Cambel, cleaning a dirty bum, and trying not to get the junk everywhere, Quinton is crying and then he slammed his fingers in the door while he was following me in and out of the bathroom...
Oh, man... when they were finally in their chairs and eating and Cambel was in the swing, I could breath. Then Coby got home and was totally oblivious to how we just spent the last hour. I just have to keep hearing Coby's mom's voice in my head "no white flag".... "no white flag"...

A Christmas we'll never forget

Two Christmas' ago we lived in a townhouse in Salt Lake and on Christmas morning we woke up early with excitement. Keedon was 10 mos old and we were expecting Quinton in March.

We thought we heard something outside but, maybe we didn't, all we know is that when we opened the door we found this beautiful box glowing all by itself on our porch.

This wonderful box was full of little gifts for baby and a couple fun things for Keedon, like a ball he takes everywhere. Among all of the gifts were little stockings and other creative Christmas items full of money, (that we were really in need of).

We were so thankful for this magical Christmas box and also so grateful for whoever was thinking about us, and was so generous with us.

Inside all the tissue paper were two pieces of paper. They said:

A gift for Baby

In honor of Baby Jesus.

We will never forget that Christmas nor that wonderful gift.

To remember; we keep the same tissue paper and the notes inside the box and pull it out at Christmas time.

This Christmas was so fun because we were able to put our best Gift from this year in it.

Cambel. We are so grateful he has come into our lives and what a fun season to celebrate that with him. We are so grateful for the other baby that was born long ago as well. Our Savior Jesus Christ. We know he lives and he loves us and this Christmas was so special because we got to feel really close to the story of his birth given the young age that our new infant is.

All tuckered out

We had so much fun this Christmas! Before the boys came out of their room they were literally jumping up and down and so excited, but when they saw the gifts Santa left, their jaws dropped... they couldn't believe it was real!
They tore into the presents, Keedon would open one and stick to playing with it for while and Quinton just would open one, toss it aside and open another one... I think he even opened some of Keedons!
Coby and I were spoiled between all the gifts from our wonderful families and the small gifts from each other... Santa brought me pens, cuz my husband likes to take ours from our house and leave them places.. and he subconciously replaces them with ones he has the habit of taking from work...
and Santa brought Coby an athletic cup... my mom asked what sport he's getting into, and I said... raising 3 boys.... it already comes in handy on a daily basis!

Some of Keedons favorite Christmas Presents...

Some of Quintons favorite presents...

and they finally settled down for a long winters nap...

Getting ready for Santa

One day we asked Keedon what he wants for Christmas and he thought for a minute and shouted:

"Peasants!"

and on another day when I tried to get Keed to go to bed, I told him that Santa brings presents to good boys and girls and he started crying and said:

"no! der my peasants!"

Ute Fan

Thanks to Marianne Sonntag our 3rd little baby gets to show his Ute Pride!

She made the little Ute band he has on his arm that says

Utah Utes when Keedon was born

If I were a mouse

If I were a mouse in the Jones house I would have lots of little socks to play in;

lots of little shoes everywhere to sleep in;

I'd have lots of little cars to drive around;

lots of bath toys to splash in;

and lots of crumbs to eat up... and I would NEVER go hungry.

Oh and lots of piles of laundry to climb through to get anywhere... us mice, we love mazes!

More coming soon...

I just have to get a grip on these monkey acts first!

and PS... they are starting to dress themselves... so what they have on is their own concoction... (Quint especially!)

Here's what November looked like around here...

Tag Teamin...

Lots of driftin' off...

Tons of kisses...

Lots of baby cuddles...

and Lots and Lots of smothering by the boys...

If he only knew

Keedon has no clue that:

when he closes the door so he can be alone... that's when I know he's up to something. Like when he closed the bathroom door behind him, so I wouldn't know he was going to unroll the toilet paper so he could have "a big one" referring to a super long trail behind him when he came out running through the house!

or

when he lays on top of Quints face to keep him quiet... I can still hear the muffled cry and I am going to come running....

or

when he comes and closes my door in the morning when he wakes up, hoping I won't... that's exactly when I do, cuz I know he has a plan of his own... like the other day when he closed my door and then snuck the fridge open and emptied out the door to make a train of jarred goods across the kitchen floor (he was so proud of himself)

or

when he says "I not stinky mom." that's exactly when I know he is, not to mention the smell giving him away.

or

how about when he pulled the Ottoman over to the fridge and tells me "i'n just gettin milk" "go, mom, in der"

that's when I keep my post watching, cuz I know what he's done in the past...

like when he climbed up and got the eggs out before I woke up, and broke them in the living room while he was watching tv... when I saw them, he said while holding one "I popped it mom... where's da bird" meanwhile he's looking at the yoke in wonder... and I am staring at the carpet in wonder... but, if you look close at the pic, after he broke the eggs, he put the shells back in the carton... that's the organizer in him.

So, after carefully contemplating family names to give Cambel for a middle name, and after hearing wonderful stories about their great grandparents and such... we weren't able to decide... so we pinned him with the name that has been dragged along from each one of our children... we wanted to name them this name, but it never worked... but, it works for Cambel, so we finally get to hang it up, and neither one of us is stepping on the others toes with the family name idea.

So, we created a new family name to be taken into history for the future!

Cambel Tate Jones

Our Favorite Time of Year!

These Monkeys loved their people costumes!

And we were zoo keepers, but we didn't have to dress up much for that real life role! We had so much fun for Halloween... we went to a 'trunk or treat' and they just couldn't believe people were putting candy in their little baskets... Quinton especially was excited (he's our sweets freak, anytime he hears any kind of wrapper sound, even if it's a plastic bag, he comes running with his hand out saying... 'tweet tweet!') anyway, when he saw candy in his basket he kept holding it with both hands almost up to his face looking in it with the biggest wide open eyes ever, going "ooooh! ooooh!" and when Coby FINALLY opened a sucker for him, he didn't stop grunting in excitement and came running across the gym floor to show me!

Quinton is 1 1/2 now!

Keedon is 2 1/2 now!

And they are so excited to gut these things!

mmm... mmm... Good.

Keedon and Quinton love their new little bro... in fact, Keedon gets so adamant about saying that Cambel is HIS baby! And Quinton can't stop cuddling and smothering him!

These little boys are keeping us running and we are definitely sleeping good at night from all the excitement everyday wearing us out! (Well, when I am sleeping, I am sleeping good!)

Keedon always wants to hold Cambel and is so cute at taking care of him... he always jumps on the couch and when Cambel cries he says , "wanna hold hem... i wanna pet him, mom, I wanna pet him.." which translates into "I want to pat his back so he doesn't cry, mom... "

Quinton also wants in on the action... and sometimes he'll climb up on the couch next to me and Cam and put a pillow on his lap, cuz he knows he can hold the baby that way... and then reaches for him.... he is pretty good at giving him his pacee and giggling while he pets his head... but, last night, (and just to preface the story... Quinton doesn't use a pacee during the day, but has one in his crib, and I can see it in his eyes that he is so tempted to pop that little baby one in his mouth, which he has done before after carefully looking it over... ) so last night, he climbed up on the couch, asked in his own way to hold the baby, and as I was helping him hold him, he grabbed the pacee out of Cams mouth and pushed the pillow off, and I caught the baby as Quint jumped off popping the pacee in his mouth while giggling and running as fast as he could toward the other side of the house! I was laughing so hard at his little plotted out plan!

It's a Boy!

Cambel Jones

We spent this last weekend in the hospital, but for me, lately, it was the best place to be! Mom and Dad Jones came out on Friday from Denver to stay with us, and Keedon and Quinton couldn't have been more thrilled!

After a couple weeks of random labor and about 8 hours of progressive hard labor our little baby boy was born! It was awesome because it was the first time for me that they were able to set him directly on my tummy after he was born... with Keedon and Quinton, they rushed them out of the room to the NICU because their heart rates were dropping, so I saw them after they were all clean and bundled up... But, this little guy was still all waxy and goopy, and he just looked like a dream! I have to admit, seeing him right after, not only brought a flood of happy tears and gasps, but I was like "holy cow, he's huge! that was inside my belly!" All the emotions

of the moment were so intense!

Grams and Poppy Jones came to visit us in the hospital with Keedon and Quinton the next morning... and as soon as they walked in the door, I was overwelmed (not only by Jones boys) but by how big they were all of a sudden! They sang and talked and laughed and were just so grown up to me!

They were both so excited to see their new little bro and he was such a trooper letting them poke at him and kiss him and even hold him!

After spending the afternoon doting over our new precious boy we decided to give him the name

Cambel Jones, just in time too, cuz they wouldn't let us leave the hospital without the name... guess they don't like nameless baby's wandering around Grand Junction! One of the cutest things about our little tough guy is his little birth mark on his right cheek... Keedon calls it his "tough mark"...

We are so thankful that this little guy is so healthy and has such a great spirit! Because he already needs to keep up with his brothers who are loving holding him and bundling him up and giving him his pacee, without the thought of softness running through their minds!

And we are so blessed to have Mom and Dad Jones here to help us take care of these boys and ourselves... Lee already found an outdoor project and also loves to hold little Cambel and Mom is keeping everything together and feeding us like royalty! I can't believe how much energy they have! Keed and Quint have had so much fun with them!

Baby Shower!

We got such a fun surprise in the mail from my Dad and AmyMom in AZ... they sent us a baby shower in a box! I think that's what will really put me into labor, opening all the fun baby gifts and decorating with all the fun banners and such and eating the yummy baby treats!

It was loaded with diapers, onsies, lotions and all kinds of baby care things... but the funnest part was the umbrella with little baby's hanging all over it... to symbolize 'raining babies'!

They were so sweet to send us such a fun and thoughtful and creative package and we can't wait to put all this stuff to good use! We even had fun playing the shower games! Keedon thinks he won, as you can tell!

FYI's

Did you know....
~ That you can be in writhing pain from a kidney stone weeks before it even drops down to pass?
~ That after you pass 1 tiny one you may have a Lemon Head size one lurking behind ready to at any moment - even in a small mountain town w/ friends and no meds, leaving it's exit burning like crazy?
~That you can be dilated (at 37 weeks of pregnancy) to a 4 and 70% effaced w/ strong contractions every 10 minutes for 2 hours- then dormant for a few more... For weeks?
~ That since you could have a baby any day - not only do you need a bag packed and ready for yourself, but also for your 2 toddlers, including: sippy cups, snacks, diapers, extra clothes, PJ's and meds, (cuz, now's a great time for them both to get sick!)
~That if you are about to change your sleeping schedule to non-existent because a new baby will arrive, it happens that right before the event, your two other kids are up 2-3 times each at different times of the night because they are sick or you end up having contractions during the times they are actually sleeping?
But, Did you know...
~These are the greatest and most exciting days... because these children are so sweet and fun and come straight from Heaven, (although, they don't proclaim that very often), and because you have a husband who is totally and unconditionally selfless and supportive.
~and That without these little bits of info, you would never know that.

Jones Cousins...

We had so much fun this last week when Coby's Oldest Brother Ryan and Jessica and their cute kiddlings Macey (whose 3, and let us know pretty often...) and Connor (whose 2, and was so cute and cuddly the whole time...) came to visit... We played games, went on a walk, and just played with the kids... Oh, and Jess took over my home a few times cuz I was zonked on pain meds for kidney stones... I was so lucky to have her here!

The boys, Coby and Ryan had a few adventures of their own... They journeyed off on Thurs morn (pretty early, considering we were up until about 1 am) to mountain bike a trail called Mary's loop... now I hope I don't get this story wrong... but they ended up on a different trail, finished it, and started another one, which turned out to be pretty technical so they had to finish it in order to not return through the hard part, it turned out, they did do Mary's Loop, but ended up back home 5.5 hours later! They were beat! and the funny part (well not so funny, until after) was that they ran into someone on the trail and talked about how technical it was and the guy said "yeah, especially when you don't have a helmet on" that's when Coby realized he had forgot to put his helmet on! uuuuhhhhh!

As for the kids... one time at dinner, Keedon said the prayer and Macey wanted to say it after him, so during her prayer, he looked up and said "I want to eat, what Macey doonin?" It was so funny. Connor and Quinton decided they wanted to mom swap a couple of times, Quinton wanted aunt Jessica and I was lucky enough to have Connor want to be with me, he's so cute! Then one night, they all took their clothes off and paraded around showing us their moves! Those kids are so smart and good, we just had so much fun, I can't believe how well they played together! Oh, and we borrowed the jumping gym again, so of course they had entertainment...! On Sunday we went to Paul and Holly's house in Montrose (they are Jess's parents) we took the kids to see llamas and donkeys and Connor was all about feeding them apples! Keedon just immitated theirs sounds perfectly and Quinton just clutched onto uncle Ryan while Macey snapped pics of everything!

Backdated Entries...

Some of my friends ask how I have time to do these blogs... well, I don't, but I am not sleeping as much as a normal person, given, I'm at 37 weeks of pregnancy! So, at night (mostly) and sometimes during naps, when I don't want to sleep and I don't feel up to working... I save drafts of what is going on... (and this is important to me cuz I then print off the current blogs each month and put them in our family journal, so it is beneficial to us as well) then I take time each week and publish them on the blog... well, duh, if I didn't have pregnant brain, this would be a good idea... but, some of my drafts never got published, it must be an internet problem... just kidding... it's my absent mindedness... I can't wait to not be prego and feel like I have my mind back... (I said feel, cuz who knows if I'll really get it back, or if I ever had it 'whole' to begin with!) anyway... there's my disclamer (as Coby would put it) to the back dated (but very meaningful) entries!

How fun to have family far away!

Even though I so wish they were closer! So wish! It is so fun to have them far away too, only cuz they go to so much effort to make life enjoyable between us! Ok, so my Dad and AmyMom in Az just can't stop themselves from being so thoughtful! They are such good examples of unconditional love and thought!


For my birthday every year and any gift giving holiday (which for Amy is every one, cuz she is such a partier!) they always get me and us the perfect gifts! My dad is famous for this... ever since I was little I never had to mention what I wanted or needed, and he never asked, but come Christmas or my birthday he would hand me a very thoughtful and meaningful gift... I always knew it came straight from his heart... and now I am so blessed that his little wife has such a great heart and thoughtful touch as well!


I can't believe it! This year, they sent the biggest box I've ever seen arrive in the mail (and just in time for my birthday, which is also something they are soooooo good at, being on time... (teach me your tricks, sheesh)...) and it was so full of goodies... I thought my eyes were gonna pop out! It was so cute, it had a garden theme and was full of stuff to make gardening fun and tolerable! I especially love the nice pad and awesome shovel, it has a ruler and weeder on it! And I can't wait to plant my three big blue flower bulbs in honor of my 3 little boys... man, they thought of everything! (Especially the chocolate for me and candies for the boys!) Oh, man, the boys had so much fun opening everything, it was all individually wrapped in garden themed paper and ribbons and bags and I had to fight my way through to open any of it myself! What a fun surprise and such a generous thoughtful gesture! and then, not to mention, the cute cards I got from Jake and Jenny, they are getting so big! The drawings actually make sense now and Jenny even wrote all of it by herself!

Oh, and the party supplies were so fun!

There was a musical candle, and I have to tell ya, tears came to my eyes when my boys sang happy birthday to me, I know that candle was their inspiration!


I am so lucky to have them in my life and they make me feel so loved even though they are so far away!

Aren't they so cute!

These guys are the reasons life is so fun!

We finally got the dinner hour routine down...

a little Diego and some snacks!

And these are suppose to be toy bins...

Of course they have other plans for them!

And this... hmmmm, he just gets more and more creative everyday! This is his 'robot' look... I can just imagine him in his room, where he closes the door, looking around for just the right things to complete his idea of the robot he wants to be! Then he came out and said 'I robot', Coby and I looked at each other and said 'we didn't even know he knew that word!'

Poppy in Church

We went to Denver for Labor day, and it was so fun, we did so many fun things, but the funniest thing was the realization that the kids are always watching!

Keedon was eating lunch after church and everyone was just hanging out, when I looked up at Keedon and all on his own he said... "Poppy at Church" then started swaying his head and rolling his eyes and made snoring sounds.... it was hilarious! Then when Grams asked him about Poppy at Church, he repeated it! Better watch out!

Wow! One year in our house already!

So, we made it! Our first year anniversary in our cute house! Our friends Jimmy and Leia who moved here from Denver (from Coby's family ward, in fact) the same time we moved from salt lake, also moved into their new house the same weekend we did 1 year ago, so we celebrated by having a dinner and fun activity with the kids! Leia made a yummy dessert and we made fruit loop necklaces with the kiddos... It was funny cuz, Jimmy got his almost all the way done, then he picked it up by the wrong end and they all fell off onto the floor... I was laughing so hard, cuz, what were we doing making them too anyway! Quinton just ate his as soon as we put them on, then while I'd hold him he scarfed mine down too! What a fun thing!

Gotta love the kids

Ok, so Keedon and I had a little one on one time the other day, and it was at the hands of Quinton... here's how the story goes... Keedon 'wanted' to go potty (I say wanted, cuz he just sits on the pot and then says "all done!" and leaves nothing behind...) anyway, so we trot into the main bathroom and close the door behind us so Quinton doesn't distract him (I'm always hoping Keed makes something of these trips) and he's doin' his thing when Quint starts playing with the bi fold door in the hallway just outside the bathroom door, and then I hear him open the bifold door and he cheers... cute... but wait. So, Keedon finishes up and we try to open the bathroom door and much to our surprise, it won't open (it opens out) cuz it got jammed on the bifold door that won't close either cuz it's open all the way! I tried everything to pry the doors apart from the inside, which was of no luck. I opened the window and thought of jumping out, yeah right, it's small, my belly is big and it's a 10 foot drop, upside down! So, to sum up: I heard the question "what's that?" about 850 times while we read the ensigns together, stuck in the bathroom waiting for Coby to come home. He did come home 45 minutes later! He couldn't figure out why we were in the bathroom letting Quinton literally cover the floors in toys, and stuff from the cupboards!

PS: this isn't even the first locked out/in experience I've had with them! The first in this house was when I didn't even know Keedon could reach the lock and I went out to check the mail in the late afternoon... Keedon turned the lock above the door knob and I could not convince him to turn it back, he just didn't get it... so I waited outside for Coby to come home while the "todds" fended for themselves!

(We have a hide a key now..)

What a fun Bday Surprise!

My mom and sister Cristy and niece Cassy made a trip out here to spend the weekend with us to celebrate! It was so fun! They got here on Friday and we stayed up until the wee hours of the morn just chattin it up and catching up! Even Cassy almost made it the whole time awake!

It's so funny cuz my mom just bubbles over... she got me a gift and Cristy asked her to wait until another day to give it, and she said she would, but as soon as they walked through the door, she handed it over and said "Happy Birthday!" she's so funny! Cristy just rolled her eyes... my mom gets a little excited...

Cassy was so cute, she has grown up so much! She's so tall and cute with beautiful long hair.....but the kid in her will never change, she was chasing the boys around and jumping from couch to couch with them all the same... they loved it! I was so excited to show my boys off, they are so fun, after all, and they did not disappoint! Keedon yelled "Nanna" when he saw her at the door and was chasing Cassy around the whole weekend playing hide and seek, and Quinton was on their heels the whole time... Keedon even said his first prayer while they were here... It was so cute! He said thanks for pizza a few times! He even made breakfast for everyone, well, the egg part... then he had to tell everyone... "I make de eggs"....
It was such a fun weekend! We played games, (cities and knights) which I won the first and Coby won the second... I know we shouldn't be so harsh and win all the time when they come... but, really Coby should've let me win, it was my bday! It was so nice to have them here to help out with everything and spend such a fun weekend together... Thanks guys!

Our "end of the summer" Party Weekend

Our Friends Travis and Stephanie and Fletcher Hubbel came out to visit. Fletcher is Quints age so he finally had a pal all weekend! We had so much fun... catching up, comparing pregnancy's (we are only 10 days apart in our due date) and hiking, and eating and playing games...

Here's a pic of us up at the National Monument on the Window Rock trail... what a blast!

So, also this last weekend Coby took work off in order to spend time with us, that was my bday present from him, and let me tell you, that was the best gift I could've gotten! He bathed, changed, fed and ran after the boys for 4 days! And worked in the yard, helped in the house, cleaned up after meals.. and on my actual bday, I didn't have to do any of the daily work, wow, motherhood is so fun when that happens! He is so awesome! He also planned a bbq and invited a bunch of friends, I told him to call it the "end of the summer bbq", but, of course he didn't! It was so fun! We have some great friends that came to eat and play... Travis and Stephanie Hubbel, Melanie and her kids, Shannon and Adam and their girls, Jimmy, & Leia and their girls, Steve and Connie Kelly, and our friends Tyson and Kirsten wanted to come, but they were in Denver, so they brought us dinner instead... how nice! It was so fun to eat and hang out with everyone... I am lucky to have such great friends!

Our friends Laurey and Spencer were in Powell, (how sad for them!) but, they let us borrow this cool Jumping Gym for the kids at the bbq, and they had such a blast, I thought "hey who's bday party is it anyway!" but, we even had fun in it! Keedon and Quinton loved it and we had to inflate it a couple times just for them this weekend cuz they were so cute in it! They would put goggles on and jump around like they were super heroes!
Speaking of Superhero, that's our Keedon...

He puts red (they have to be red or he gets upset, as the Hubbels witnessed) pajama pants over his head (and face), socks on his hands, swim goggles on around his neck and a camelback on for
back pack, and he thinks he's spiderman!


When I go with him in public I can talk him down to the socks on his hands, but then I even talk him into taking them off, but before we leave the store or wherever, he has the socks back on his hands... sometimes I think I should just buy the spidey costume so other people know what he is dressing up as!
Yesterday was Coby's last day off for the week... he helped me with Quinton while I taught 'joyschool', we walked to a park and had a picnic and counted lizards with the boys and ate BLT's and played in the jumping gym and just had our first play day with just us. I have such a great husband... but actually, more than that, I have the best friend anyone could have. And he's so good looking, so, man I lucked out.

Uncle Chase

So, this last weekend, before this last weekend, I guess... uncle Chase came to visit on his way to school at Ricks (BYU ID - Rexburg)... When he got here the boys were asleep, but as soon as Keedon woke up he saw Chase and got so hyper! He yelled his name and started running all over the place and jumping on Chase! The boys loved wrestling with him, and he was a good sport to let them! (Keed usually takes a while to wake up and is pretty mellow after nap, but not when Chase was here!) So for our eventful weekend, we watched the Office (of course), ate a lot, played outside, got caught up on all Chase's adventures, (as much as he'll catch us up, anyway), got in the hot tub and played Cities and Knights (a settlers game) it was his first time AND HE WON! I'd like to say 'beginners luck', but, he was far behind the whole game, then he took us over, that's skill! We had so much fun! Good luck at School Chase!

Oh, man, we had fun this summer!

Yesterday, I thought, man, summer is almost here. And today, I'm thinking, wait, what? it's September? But, isn't that getting to be fall? So, here's what we did this summer...

We went to Ouray, CO..

I am so grateful for such a great place to live, but you'd think that we don't like it since we were off doing other things all summer! We traveled so much, but, that's what we like to do, see our fam and friends! We did discover a lot about Grand Junction and we worked a ton in our yard... We have fallin in love with it here... there is so much to do, we go hiking, fishing, mountain biking (well, Coby does, I don't dare after a couple wrecks I've had in the past, I'll just play the pregnancy card for now...) It's never crowded anywhere here, and the town always has some event going on!

Coby taught Keedon how to fish in Ouray, at Black Lake...

Keed could actually cast out 3-6 feet and reel it in, and he always had something on the end of the line (cuz we kept a plastic fish tied to the end!)

We went to Denver a lot of a few times...

(This pic is of the Jones Cousins...

Quinton, Keedon, Connor, Macey, Tanner and Ava)

We spent a lot of time with the Jones Family:

we went to a fam reunion in Black Hawk, CO, we had a welcome home party for Chase in Ouray, CO, where we fished and hiked and played in Telluride, CO... We partied at Coby's parents house in Morrison, CO a few times...we even had a Wicked Weedend together and saw the Broadway hit "Wicked" and Coby's mom made an awesome dinner and desert with that theme... let me tell you that desert was so wicked I couldn't stay away from it! She is so talented... and we realized that it's getting more and more fun to get together and let the cousins run free... They have so much fun together! Keedon and Tanner LOVE their cars, sometimes we've had to hide them so they don't get upset with each other... Quinton just follows Connor around trying to be just like him... Macey is still the leader of the boys, she even tries to make them watch Barbie movies! I wonder how long that will last! Connor is the example of the bunch, he is so polite... and it totally wore off on Keedon (thanks Connor!) Keed said polite stuff before pretty good, but now, he says sorry and thank you ALL THE TIME!

I hope these guys continue growing up to be best friends!

We did a bunch of fun things;

like play at Herritage Square, Den, CO...

Keedon doesn't look like it, but he had so much fun on these bumper boats, he was giggling everytime we crashed into someone! This place was so fun! It had a train roller coaster that the boys liked and a swing ride that kept Keedon laughing the whole time! Later that day we took the kids to the park where we played with a big parachute Grams had gotten for them, how fun!

It's amazing how much these boys are growing... Keedon doesn't stop talking now, and I just love his little voice... He has also become quite the dare devil, he jumps off of everything, and tries to do flips at the same time!

Quinton is saying so many things, today he looked at me and said "I sucku" which isn't that he is a sucker, but that he wants one! It knocks me over sometimes when he talks so good!

Both of them can sense that another little bro is coming, they always pat my belly or kiss it...

They are going to be great big bros!

and We went to the Fruita, CO Swim Shore all summer...

Notice that Keedon is in the water and Quinton is far away from it! Last year Keedon was the same way, but this year, he loves the water! and Quinton loves playing in the sand!

And what would summer be without awesome friends!

We are so lucky to have such fun friends, it seems like we are never apart, but always wish we could see each other more!

Jayla and Cody Campbell became our friends through Mike Kessler... These boys are bday buds, they were born the same year within 4 days of each other, well, Coby & Mike have the same bday... in fact one of the 1st times I hung out with Jayla was to plan a 'surprise' party for them (that they requested... SURPRISE!) Ever since, we've been tight friends... they have 2 little kiddlings. The oldest is Cole and he was the reason we started having kids, talk about a cute kid... The youngest is Rylee, her and Keedon are a few months apart and she could teach him a thing or two! Mike then married a cool girl that we set him up with and we love Brittany! Whenever we get together with these guys we have such a riot, I wish it was everyday! PS, Jayla, I had to steal your pics, cuz you are the true photographer!

Darcy and Robbie Fewkes lived across the way from us when we lived in Utah, they have been out to visit us 3 times, and 4 really if you count that we just saw each other in Denver this last weekend! They are so fun and what we love too, is they love being with our kids too! We have so much fun with them, even when we play games, even though Coby ALWAYS wins, and Darcy says that she doesn't like Settlers, but it's because she gets tired of beating us, I think! Also, we owe all the good hair cuts to Darcy, my boys look like studs!

Travis and Stephanie Hubbel also lived across the way, and I know they spied in our windows with their telescopes, because they do on the new people living there in order to update us! We don't care, we liked it!

Travis served with Coby on a mission in the Philippines, he then bought the place by us and got married, we've been friends ever since... they have a little boy named Fletcher who was born the same week Quinton was. They are such good friends too, we've seen them a few times since we moved, they came to visit and we've visited them, but, it's never often enough... and Surprise, Steph and I are pregnant and due about the same time again! How fun!

Missing my Fam

I just got some cute pics of my family who lives in AZ right now, and it made me miss them, and I just have to say that I love and appreciate them so much and all they do for us!
They have two cute kids, Jenny who just started Kindergarten and her best friend is Coby, and Jake who is about Keedon's age, so they are good buds!

Amy is such a wonderful, nice person who is always so thoughtful and creative, and it's amazing how good of friends we have become! I admire her because she is willing to sacrifice herself so much, even down to her own comforts for her kids and family. My dad is very lucky, as are we.


My dad. Well, what can I say about him? He is such a hard worker and has always put his family first. He's one of the greatest examples of having your priorities in line, being noble and having a strong character.

He is my hero.

















But, not only that he sure knows how to have fun!

I don't want to rush, But I love FALL!

This is seriously my favorite time of year, it gets cooler and we go outside a lot more, and all the options are open! Here we are picking grapes in our backyard, how fun is that, we have a huge grape vine! and they are delicious! The leaves really only have one color that they change to here, yellow, but I love yellow so it's ok... In Utah, the leaves have all these red colors that I miss though... along with missing all our great friends there!

All Grown up

So, I woke up to this, Keedon pulled out every game from the closet and opened each one and tried to play it...it was quite impressive since he kept all the pieces with the games they go with! The only game not opened was the kid memory game... go figure.

THE DOC

So we took Quinton to the doc for his 18 mos checkup, and he did awesome, the doctor was going on and on about how small he is, but also about how social... when the doctor came in, Quinton pulled the step stool up to his lap and crawled up on him! Keedon was also very funny... when the doctor left Keed pulled up his stool to me and crawled on and said "I doctor, mommy" "eaws, yes! good!" as he looked in each one of my ears and then my mouth...
WHEN DID THEY GROW UP!? and then we went to the hospital to have lunch with Coby and someone asked him if I had a baby in my belly and he said "yeah, a baby buuuoy"
SO CUTE!

The crazy Hour: Dinner Time

This doesn't happen often, but since Keedon discovered TV about a week ago, "Go, Diego Go" seems to keep him distracted while I am cooking... Quinton, he's usually in the kitchen "helping me" by pulling things out of drawers and climbing in the fridge... he's a hands on kind of guy.

I Can't believe it's August Already!

Wow! what a fun summer! It felt like I was just so excited for the 4th to come and now I can't remember when it was! Everyday goes by faster and faster! Coby and I agree that this has been the fastest year of our lives together! Kids'll do that I guess, they keep us running!

Our Very First Entry... We're on the Map!

We finally did it! We are in with the "In"ternet crowd! Here's a quick update on our little fam that just is getting bigger!

Keedon loves to talk, play ball, wrestle and swim...

Quinton loves to pull faces, make us laugh, EAT (whatever, even rolly bugs) and play ball and hike, well they both love hiking, just being outside is their wonderland!

Coby loves to create new tasks for himself, like starting his own business helping homes become more wheelchair accessible.. which is what he loves Helping Others... He also loves playing with the kids, playing basketball, racquetball, yard work and making me laugh!

and I, Brandy, well I love life. I love the ups and downs, the hikes and parks and tickling my boys, and I also love the chocolate I get to eat ALL ALONG the way!

I can't wait to get this thing going! It will be so fun to keep everyone, including myself up to date!