Oh how the years go by...

Our Baby Girl!

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Announcing Natalee Christine Jones! Born on her due date Oct 13, 2011 12:50 am. 7lbs 12 oz 20 in.

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The joy of looking forward to a baby girl!

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Bry Bry

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Matthew

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Markus Jelly Belly

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Daddy and Chase brave the rain

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I read Jill Heaps blog tonight and it inspired me to blog... she is an amazing journal keeper! This is my annual posting...

What should I say? we had a great Halloween! Saturday was busy! I ran the Halloween 1/2 marathon, Nate took Matthew and scouts to the BYU pow wow, Benjamin had dress rehearsal for Dear Edwina JR., Grandpapa and Grandma Jones brought treats, we trick or treated in the rain, and ended the evening at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's amazing Halloween party.

Chase loved the Main Street parade!

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Bry Bry at Disney

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Hiking in zions canyon

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Markus is a teenager!

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Benjamins baptism day

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The boys had a blast aat the new park in Highland

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Benjamin's cool car

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Matthew at the pine wood derby

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Hershel the almost 11 year old wonder!

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Because we love Hershel and all our California cousins so much we are updating the blog! Hershel faithfully checks our blog and this week I not letting you down Hershel!!

Hershel is an amazing swimmer! He likes playing with his new cat, wii,tennis, running, and completed an overnight back packing trip this summer. We love you!

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Matthew's 10th Birthday

Bryant in St George

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Bryant

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Bryant learned to ride a bike last Sunday after church. He is still a bit wobbly but He'll be riding to church in no time. It was freezing cold (40 degrees) but Bryant refused to give in. Maybe the summer clothes will herald in warm weather.

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Chase is walking!

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Chase turns 15 months on March 14th.

Benjamin the golfer

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Benjamin is looking forward to going to the driving range this summer. He also likes having dad pitch the baseball to him.

|Markus scored 5 Goals at his footsall game

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Matthew the Archer

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Matthew got a new bow and arrow set from BIG 5. He loves practicing in the back yard and the sand pits behind our house.

The New Van

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We are so excited to have a sliding door handle that works, seating for eight, a trunk big enough to hold most of the groceries, rear air conditioning for the hot months ahead, and tinted windows so fellow travelers don't have to watch the family fights.

Happy First POOP DAY!

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Chase turned 1 on Sunday and celebrated by eating POOP!
He has an obsession with the toilet. We try to be vigilant, but We had a disaster. I was making his birthday dinner and Nate and his dad were resting in the living room where Chase was playing with his new soft Tonka truck. A few minutes later Chase crawled into the kitchen where I was making bread sticks. He smelled terrible! I thought I would set him on Nate so he would sniff the messy diaper and change him. Nate took Chase up to his bedroom for a change and came down with a horribly disgusted look on his face. How I didn't notice the poop around the baby's mouth I don't know, but Chase did not have a messy diaper just stinky hands and mouth. When we went into the bathroom to investigate their was poo smeared every where! Bry Bry went potty and apparently didn't flush or close the seat. I spent dinner bathing Chase and bleaching down the bathroom while Nate entertained his parents. Nobody had a hearty appetite. Chase did make it out of the tub in time to eat his cup cake which I hope tasted better. My dad claims were are starving the poor kid. On Monday I told the pediatrician at his 1 year check up. Chase should survive the incident.

Benjamin's gingerbread house

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Making Christmas trees with our cousins

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Home Work

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Benjamin faithfully does his home work so he can play with Ryan or Caleb. Benajmin,unlike his mother, is an excellent speller and always seems to get 100% on his test. Benjamin likes to draw and play the piano. He is excited to take piano when he turns 8. He is sitting next to me and wants me to write that he likes to play in the snow. (It snowed last night) He says he wants to be an dentist, an artist, or a piano player. (I'm hoping for all three.)

Trimming The Tree

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Markus and Matthew really got in to the spirit of things while decorating. They are very excited for Christmas. They are especially excited to have our cousins from California come to Utah for Christmas. They both have soccer and basketball mania. When they find out that the the Ipod touch was not an option they decided to ask for soccer cleats instead. They enjoy getting friends together and playing basketball or footsall at the Legacy Center.
Markus has his first basketball game Saturday. Matthew is awaiting his coaches phone call.

Christmas Fun!

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Bryant and Benjamin baked sugar cookies with me. I was trying to teach them how to efficiently cut out the dough. It was cute to see their attempts to cut the shapes close together. The recipe came from Land O' Lakes Butter and boy were those cookies BUTTERY!

Chase Got All He Wanted For Christmas!

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Chase got his two front (bottom) teeth just in time for Christmas! He already has great dental hygiene and we hope his big brothers follow his example. In this picture Chase was getting the royal daddy treatment. After a bath the little ones love daddy's occasional spa treatment. The treatment includes a warming blow dry, hair comb, teeth brushing/flossing and a nail trim.

Chase Got all he wants for Christmas!

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Chase got his two front teeth in time for Christmas! He is already brushing those tiny things just poking out of his bottom gum. We hope his big brothers copy his good hygiene. When Nate bathes the boys he gives them the royal treatment. In this picture Nate had just taken Chase out of the tub for a spa treatment. A spa treatment includes daddy's famous warm you up blow dry, teeth brush and floss, and a nail trim.

Chase Got all he wants for Christmas!

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Thomas, Matthew's friend, got a spray tan for his Jamacian get up

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Eating school lunch on Halloween

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Eating school lunch on Halloween

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Eating school lunch on Halloween

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Food Storage!

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I dry packed about 600 pounds worth of food storage this week! This is one commandment that I can do perfectly...unlike the other ones where I keep messing up! (Not that I have done it perfectly yet) I feel so happy and at peace because it gives me security when I put forth effort in following counsel from living prophets. As you can tell, I am excited about food storage. If anyone out their needs help I would LOVE to help you rent the dry pack from the stake or get one from your stake. It is as easy as using an electric can opener. The Lindon cannery has all the supplies. Thanks to Diana Ware and my sister in law, Leesa R. Jones for getting me going on food storage.

Matthew ready for the Halloween Parade at school

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Captain Underpants

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Benjamin and Bryant

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We were all waiting for Markus so that we could go up to Uncle Dan and Aunt Leesa's Halloween party.. Markus was perfecting his Captain Underpants Costume. We love to go to Dan and Leesa's they throw a great party and are so hospitable. The kids especially love the pinata.

Precious Chase

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Chase was such a good sport this Halloween. He didn't even resist his costume..compliments of Claire, the princess of our neighborhood. It was fun to have a little girl for the evening. We went trick or treating and then to a party at grandma and grandpa smiths house. We ate pizza, had our fortunes told, ate doughnuts on a string blindfolded as couples, and won cool prizes. We left with movie tickets, Chili's gift certificate, and more. Grandpa and Grandma really spoiled us! The kids made witch hat cookies, played games, and even found a cackling witch at the end of the treasure hunt. Amy, my sister was thrilled when the guy she like called her last minute to go to a corn maze. We all ate too much junk food and had a great time laughing at our crazy costumes.

Benjamin in Little Cotton Wood Canyon

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Benjamin loved our family hike! Grandma Jones showed us an amazing trail the goes around a beautiful pond. It was great because the boys could run off the trail and goof around by climbing rocks and crossing stumps, but the actual trail was paved so we could push Chase in the stroller. There were placards with interesting information about wild life and nature along the trail. As you can see from the picture, they captured BT's attention..

Bryant at itty bitty football

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Bryant loves football! Even more fun was going to itty bitty football with Markus, Matthew, and Benjamin over UEA break. They cheered for him like he was in the NFL and Bryant LOVED it!
Bryant is funny to watch because he takes his practice very seriously. When he misses or can't catch someone to pull their flag he slams his fist and stomps his foot-not because he is frustrated, but because he is copying the drama of how he thinks a foot ball player should act. He has so much energy and excitement. He gives everything he does 110%.

Family Home Evening at the pumpkin patch

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There is a fun patch in Lehi next to Fox Hollow Elementary and we picked them for family night. Too bad they were stolen off our steps one week later! Oh well.... :)

Chase at 5am

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Chase is a nut! He always manages to get his legs stuck in the crib slats. Recently he got his head stuck under the couch. Poor little guy.

Bryant is Rich!

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As you can see by the joy on his face, Bryant is thrilled with the money grandmama and garndpapa gave him for his birthday!

Bryant turned 4

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On September 27th Bryant turned 4! He celebrated on $5. I took him and his buddy Gobby (Kaden) to get a happy meal at Mc Donald's and then swimming at the Legacy Center. Shelly, my friend, tended Chase so we had a great time playing at the pool. Gobby gave Bry a cow boy hat and bow and arrow set. Bryant was thrilled. It was a great addition to their make believe collection. He and Gobby plan to be cowboys when they grow up- so much for the song. On Saturday we had cup cakes and presents- war was the theme. We gave him a cap gun and army guys and the peaceful game of Candy Land.

Jones Family

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Chase

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CHASE

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Two Cute Guys

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Lean on me

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Nate and I are chugging along in our separate ruts happy to be surrounded by the protection of dirt on either side. Actually, life is so good! Nate is working hard to be the worlds best product developer and is studying for May Actuarial exams. He is also teaching math 1010 at salt Lake Community College on Tues and Thurs mornings. He is an amazing teacher. His students call and e-mail him for math tutoring. He e-mails them notes of encouragement if they are struggling. It is his labor of love. Nate also serves on the community council for Sego Lily elementary. He helps decide where trust fund money goes and he and his committee work to improve the school in all areas. He teaches the rambunctious eight year old class in church. The kids love him. He is always devising new games and he brings a prize basket for the kids to pick from when they memorize an Article of Faith. Kids not even in his class come over after church to pass off Articles of Faith and to pick a prize. His favorite thing is to play with kids! Benjamin loves him to jump on the trampoline with him. All the neighbor kids LOVE him too. He will pitch the ball to them for hours. He also loves a good game of soccer. Recently he bought at least 100 tennis balls and added some rackets to the family collection. He takes us to the Tennis courts and pitches to me and the boys. He says it's what his dad did too. Did I mention that he plays the harmonica to Chase at night? It puts chase happily and peacefully to sleep. Aren't I lucky!

For Mel

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Benjamin on the first day of school- My dear friend Melanie pointed out the poor BT has been neglected on the blog. This ones for you Mel. Benjamin is an amazing kid. He loves music, is an amazing speller, and is extremely persistant. He hates going to bed alone or upstairs for that matter. He and Bry Bry share the bottom bunk bed. He loves to be tucked in and to have me say, "I'll love you for ever I'll love you for always as long as I'm living my baby you will be" while I'm hugging him good night. I don't win the mother of the year award when it comes to sweet bed time rituals. (He also loves a story and a song). I get up at 4:46am to run or go to the gym so it's night night for mommy around 9pm. I get pretty grumpy when it's almost 10 pm and he and Bry keep running into our room or fighting because Bryant wont be quiet or he is kicking Benjamin. The big threat is that one of them will be all alone in the top bunk if they don't quit fighting and go to sleep.

Bryant makes Saturday breakfast

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Bryant made pancakes for us on Saturday. Bryant will be four on Sept 27th. He spends most of his day playing with Gobby (Kaden is his real name). I think those two are connected at the hip.

Chase Samuel!

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Chase is so adored by everyone in our family. Matthew commented, "when I see other babies I think that kid is pretty cute, but when I see Chase I think he is the cutest baby in the whole world!"Funny how that is. Chase loves eating cheerios, rolling around on the floor, playing in his activity chair, tearing up paper, putting his fingers in the outlet-we just got plug covers-, taking baths, and playing pat a cake. He will be 9 months old on September 14th. People say he has reddish hair. It does have some red in it but it's brown compared to the other red heads in my family. Chase was born with a plugged tear duct that causes his eye to look infected all the time. It always looked goopy and irritated until 2 weeks ago. It just cleared up! I am so grateful we did not have to do surgery like we did for Bryant. It's so fun to see a picture of Chase with healthy eyes!

The funniest kid in Utah

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Matthew tried out in the Funniest Kid in Utah contest at the state fair. His acting was impromptu. I was impressed by his courage to get up in front of an audience. He shared some funny lines he has memorized from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. The contest as you can see was sponsored by The Greatest Show on Earth. Matthew was the BEST- even though the judges didn't agree. We love Matthew!

Markus day dreaming

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Markus tried out an electric guitar after his piano recital at the music store. Markus is taking non-electric guitar lessons in junior high. He thought it would be fun and cool until he had to practice. His fingers hurt and he can't play like a rock star yet. Markus seems to like junior high!

Markus Turns 12

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NOW I KNOW WHY I NEVER BLOG! My kids are falling apart... the neighbor kids are tatteling, markus and matthew are fighting ove the pizza, Bryant and his friend supposedly colored on the club house table0-now they want to cross the street to Tylans house, Markus is angry because all I do is blog and nobody ever gets in trouble..... and I'm such a computer handicap !!!!!!!!!!!!! I have written this blog 3 times and it still hasn't posted. At first it was cute and sweet.. Now I'll get to the point Markus is going in to 7th grade. He had a birthday complete with a home made breakfast, no chores, lunch at JCW's, school clothes shopping, apple sauce cake, the video of the day he was born, and a family basketball game at the Legacy Center.

Bry Bry and Benjamin

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WE LOVE BENJAMIN AND BRYANT! Benjamin is turning 7 in July and has already planned his birthday party. He wants to have an ipod party. He plans to play freeze dance, have the kids write their own song and mom give them awards for their song writing talents, and other games with music as the theme. He also wants chocolate cake and of course- an ipod! Benjamin loves poke'mon, his running club at school, and his favorite animal is a penguin.

Bryant likes playing with Lincoln Logs he builds barns, fences, and bridges for hours. He spends most of his days running bank and forth between his two best friends homes Gobby (Kaden) and Tylan. Today he is looking forward to hosting play group at our house. Bryant goes to Kid Fit at the Legacy Center twice a week. He likes playing on the scooters there and he just learned to bump a volley ball. Bryant also loves to create art projects such as homemade kites, piggy banks, people, spider webs, etc. We go through lots of paper plates, dental floss and tape with his projects.

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Matthew turned 9 on the 26th. We gave him a Birthday party. He was easy to please. All he wanted was a Football party complete with chocolate cake, vanilla Ice Cream, a football game, and friends bearing gifts.

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Nate is once again taking Actuarial Exams. He hopes to become an associate in the next year by completing more studies and exams. He has accepted a new position in his company working in Product Development.

Nate loves teaching primary. His goal is to have all the children memorize The Articles of Faith. He teaches the 7 year olds whio are getting baptized this year.

The boys are excited about March Madness and have picked their favorite team brackets much to the pleasure of Grandpapa.

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March 27 2008
Matthew turned 9 yesterday! We gave him a football party. All he wanted was chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, Gatorade a house full of boys accompanied by gifts, and a good game of football. Pretty easy for mom. We gave him Dance, Dance, Revolution party mix for the wii for his birthday. Mom even had fun dancing.

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Leesa and I decided we needed to create a blog after being inspired by Margo Smith's blog (littleducksinarow.blogspot.com).

Also, we needed something to do other than play another video game or watch more TV.

Funnies about our boys...

Leesa asked Matthew to practice the piano song he was working on for his Christmas recital ten times to help him memorize it. He played each note 10imes in a row before going on to the next note in the song!

Benjamin is excited about making quilts. He checked out about 5 books on quilt making from the library today and is designing patterns at the kitchen table as I write.

Markus is trying to figure out what to do for his school science project. His favorite word is "apparently".

Bry-Bry is spending his time drawing by Benjamin inthe kitchen and acting like a cat tonight.