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Giryan Dancing to Mr. Jones

2009-01-03T15:45:00.000-08:00

There are two things that make me really happy about this video. 1) Giryan loves to dance. 2) He also likes Counting Crows... He definitely takes after his mother. :)

hypnotist

2009-01-02T22:33:00.000-08:00

Who needs a sled?

2008-12-30T12:54:00.000-08:00

This weekend my whole family came up to Idaho to visit. We were so glad that they could come, we had so much fun, and we miss them again already. On Saturday we took all the kids sledding. It was a great time! Here is a video of my two crazy brothers. they invented a new way to go down the hill. Bytheway, just turn the volume off unless you want to hear me count to three a lot. :)

Let it SNOW!!!

2008-12-22T14:20:00.000-08:00

Okay, so Tyelr doesn't know that Giryan always dances with us when he's at the studio.... This kid needs a stage! It has been snowing pretty consistently for a couple of weeks now, and I've been promising the boys that we would go out an play in the snow. so now that I'm done teaching until January I finally kept my word...

Ellie loves to play fetch with snowballs, it's hilarious.

We played outside till our hands were freezing, and then we played more. The snow in our front yard is easily up to my knees. It was a blast!

Finally we came in for some hot cocoa and got warmed up, I'm so glad to have a break from teaching so I can hang out and play with my kids. They are awesome!

Tyler taking up carving

2008-11-06T13:27:00.001-08:00

Tyler has recently taken up wood carving as a relesae from life... and to sustain a legacy of the past. Here is a picture of his first two carvings.

a few more halloween pics cuz they are awesome

2008-11-06T13:18:00.000-08:00

Halloween

2008-11-01T17:33:00.001-07:00

Here's a picture of our cute little goblins all ready for trick or treating. (Spiderman, Tigger and Transformer/bumblebee) We had a great time! We visited Grandma and Grandpa Jones, then we went trick-or-treating at the mall (all the stores give out treats) and finished up with a visit to Grandma Great. And we still managed to get them in bed by 8:30.... GO US!!! Of course they didn't actually go to sleep until much later thanks to the incredible sugar high. I was actually relieved that some of the places we went gave out pretzels, play doh, stickers and tattoos. I think that's a great idea.... and plan to do something similar next year.

Giryan the Daredevil!

2008-10-30T12:14:00.000-07:00

Giryan was having a little daredevil moment today.. I thought it was too cute not to post.

Brecken and the infectious Smile

2008-10-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

In our family, Tayson has the tender heart, Giryan is the lion (his name in Hebrew means young lion) and Brecken always makes you laugh and smile. He will tell you about everything and be so creative in his stories you would think he is a professional. On anyone's bad day he will always be there with a smile. So if you are having a bad day, here is a picture for you

Giryan's earaches

2008-10-18T22:04:00.000-07:00

For the past month, Giryan has had extremely bad ear aches. We have gone through antibiotics and soon will have one named after us, because each of our children seem to not respond to them the first time. Finally, Giryan took it into his own hands to get feeling well. hahaha not really, the bottle was empty :)lol

Tayson's Big Day

2008-10-18T21:54:00.000-07:00

Tayson has loved school. On his ICI's he scores as high as possible. his teacher loves him and says he knows every answer and is eager to raise his hand. His favorite thing about school is the excercise (PE) and the computer pod. Each week they rotate stations(pods and learn new things. He has loved making new friends. We were a bit worried about how his tender heart would hold up in school, as he is so loving and believes we should be conscience about everyone's feelings. But what we found, is his once suttle competitive spirit has risen to the forefront and he seeks to dominate and succeed at school. He has a great love of learning and loves to share with everyone that love, especially Brecken.

The catch up.. to all of our faithful readers ;)

2008-10-18T21:34:00.000-07:00

Sorry it has been awhile since we have updated this. We have had many great and exciting events since our last post.

Tayson has started kindergarten; Brecken is in Joy School (Pre-preschool). Both are loving it.

We have become vehicular friends with murphy and have had to replace or fix 1 transmission, 1 transfercase, 7 flat tires, one axle, and an incident with a basketball pole ;o.

Tyler, his dad and brothers have had some fun hunting trips... here is a great picture from the antelope bowhunt.

I promised...

2008-08-29T21:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of my very first Tutu! Hooray!!! I am very proud of this accomplishment. this was for the Bluebird Variation in Sleeping Beauty. It took a good chunk of time but I was surprised to find that I enjoyed every minute of it. I was hoping to make my dearest Grandma proud and I think I did. when I took it to Utah to show it to her she said "It looks just like I made it myself." I couldn't have asked for a better compliment. I love you Grandma Mia, this one's for you.

Tayson is 5!!!

2008-08-16T17:33:00.001-07:00

This week Tayson turned 5 years old! I can't believe that he is so old!!! Here are a few pictures of his parties, one at Twin Bridges with tylers family and one at the Riot Zone with his friends. I know my posts are so short lately. Life has been crazy, what can I say. Grandma Jones made the batman costumes.

Happy Birthday Giryan!

2008-08-09T08:12:00.001-07:00

Hooray! Giryan is one year old. He's such an awesome kid. All smiles and fun. We had some family over for cake and ice cream last night, it was good times. Giryan kept going over to his presents and saying WOW!!!! over and over... it was so cute. Giryan we love you!

Whats new

2008-06-29T15:33:00.000-07:00

Summer is finally here!!!! I'm sure you wont be surprised if I say that we are incredibly busy. We moved!!! again. :) We've been building this house and we found somebody who wanted to be into our old house by June 1st so we got out of there and in to here.... This time we are staying for a while... I told Tyler 5 years min. He agrees, so we are happy to be making this house home and for the first time since we've been married not being in an "investment" property. We Love it... and this time I actually chose all the colors and fixtures, carpet, etc, etc, etc,... Instead of letting somebody else do it, And I think I did a pretty darn good job.... The first week of June was also our Spring ballet performance and I made a tutu...(pictures coming soon, I promise) We sure do know how to time all of these events so we are not overwhelmed huh... (wink, wink.) The middle two weeks of June (yes a week after we moved and 1 day after the performance) I went to Utah to take some of my students to Utah Regional Ballet's summer intensive workshop. I was really proud of them. When I got home Tyler had filled our Living room and Bedroom with new furniture, yes I have the greatest husband in the world! I couldn't have picked better furniture myself. So I might be crazy and undecisive 99% of the time but my decision to marry Tyler, well I did good. I'm so happy to be home and just enjoying life. Here are some pictures of my awesome children. Tayson and Brecken are showing off their muscles.

Zion National Park

2008-05-05T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hooray!!! We finally made it to Zion! It was warm and beautiful, red rocks and blue skies, and I was in heaven. Our boys were staying with my parents so we got to just hang out and act like kids again. We slept in if we felt like it, listened to whatever we wanted to in the car (and I didn't have to spend most of the driving time climbing between the front and back seats getting snacks and toys and books), and we sat by the campfire and just enjoyed the peace and quiet, (we even had a whittling contest one night). The first day we hiked up to the top of this waterfall and found this really pretty place where the water was seeping through the rocks. For dinner that night we went into town and had a traveling dinner. We had appetizers at one restaraunt, a main course at the second and desert at another restaraunt. Just for fun. This was the yummiest dessert I have ever had (and the prettiest) so I had to take a picture.
The second day we went around to the Kolob entrance and hiked 13 miles round trip to Kolob arch. This is our WE MADE IT! picture. I carried the camera all the way in and when I pulled it out to take a picture of the arch the batteries were dead! I did get a pretty good picture on my cell phone.
Day 3 we just slept in, packed up camp, took the little 1 mile riverwalk to the bottom of the narrows, and headed home feeling refreshed and happy and sooo blessed. Life is good!

Swimming at Bear Lake (indoors of course)

2008-05-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Last Monday we headed down to Logan to visit some of our good friends. Tyler spent the days helping work on their house and the boys and I stayed in Bear Lake and went swimming with friends. Here's Tayson and his friend Logan. They had so much fun. and Here's Brecken showing us how he can swim "all by himself" Our friends have a boy Breckens age too, but he didn't get to go swimming because he was sick. :(

update

2008-04-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

March 18th was Brecken's 3rd birthday! He had a few friends over for a party. He's such a big kid! He got a new Big Kid Bike from Ty and I. He was so excited. I haven't got a good picture of it yet, but I'm sure it will be featured in many pictures this summer. Giryan Loves the Water! Look at those blue eyes!!!
This is the boys checking out dad's new fishing boat. It was Ty's Christmas present to himself. I like to give him a hard time about it, but it is pretty cool, I guess. Ty took it out on the river for the first time last weekend. He loved it.
just thought I would throw a few new pictures up so everybody could see what were up to, not much really. but it is getting warmer in Idaho. Today it was 45. aarrrgh. :) in May Ty and I are going to go to Zion National Park Camping and hiking for a few days, I can't wait to get headed south!

Hiking

2008-03-07T10:21:00.000-08:00

I think I'm speaking for my whole family when I say we are all going a little stir crazy, being shut up in the house all winter. So,.. sunday we decided to take a Hike in the 30 degree weather. It was freezing but the sun was out and well,.. you just have to take what you can get sometimes. We quickly learned that the snow was not really as melted as it looked (we learned this as we were sinking to out knees in it) but it felt nice to be out in the fresh air. I think we only made it half a mile maybe, then we decided that if we wanted to go much farther we would have to invest in some snow shoes. But we did get to see some deer and some wild turkeys and accomplished our mission to get out of the house even if we were really cold.
I can't wait for spring! so all of you out there pray for Idaho to get warmer for us. not too fast though, for the floods sake.

Tayson, Sweet Tayson!

2008-02-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

Tayson is our compassionate thoughtful kid, here's a recent example.
Tayson and Brecken both take gymnastics, If they do good in their class sometimes I give them each a quarter for the candy machine. this is our conversation later that night.

Me: What kind of candy did you get with your quarter today?
Tayson: Hard candy (this means Runts)
(Pause)
Tayson: I only just took a couple, though
Me: Why did you only just take a couple?
Tayson: Cause I had to leave some for all the other kids that were there.

We love you Tayson!

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

2008-02-14T09:58:00.000-08:00

Okay, so we didnt drop off the face of the planet, but it felt like it for a while. the last couple of months have been so crazy. SO I'll just write quickly what we have been up to. Of course December was crazy for the same reason it has been every year since I was 8 years old. Nutcracker!!!! For those of you that were dancers with me, this needs no explanation. Those who were not, think 1 month old baby with colic. it's that stressfull. After our performance here in Idaho falls I made all new snow headpieces for Utah Regional Ballet in 3 days. Then we had Christmas!!! we had so much fun, it was an awesome year. This is the first christmas in a long time that I have been able to decorate the house and just enjoy because we were not in the middle of moving!

January hit us like a freight train, Brecken fell off our barstool (The second barstool catastrophe in 3 months, as I'm sure you will remember) and bit all 4 top teeth all the way through his tounge. The tounge was hanging on by two thin pieces on each side. what followed was a very long trip to the emergency room, where we found that he doesn't react to anisthetics the way most people do, and after 7 hours we finally had to have a plastic surgeon come in and sew his tounge back together, it was a scary day. Since we spent so much time in the hospital that day, we came home with all sorts of fun illnesses. Tyler got really sick, all the kids got pinkeye, Tayson got an ear infection, I got the flu and Giryan got RSV. Luckily G- didn't have to go to the hospital but we've been doing nebulizer treatments 4 times a day to help his lungs be able to breathe. Everybody is finally all better for the first time in a long time. (Knock on wood) So that is my very good excuse for not writing in our blog for over 2 months. We did manage to have some fun in January, Tyler and I left the kids with the parents and went snowmobiling in Yellowstone for 3 days, It was so much fun and as soon as we are rich and famous we are buying us some snowmobiles.

I put in some pictures of my happy, not sick, kids. (and since Mandy asked the reason I never appear in our blog is because I am always the one taking the pictures and never in the pictures, but I'll try to do better :) )

Wrestling!

2007-11-09T21:29:00.001-08:00

This is Ty and Tayson and Brecken's favorite past time... WRESTLING!!! As soon as Tyler walks in the door after work the boys want to wrestle. Kind of Ironic that Tayson almost loses a tooth getting down from our barstool but so far no serious injuries from wrestling. Bytheway his tooth is holding strong for those of you who asked, that was a close one. I think "Tackle" was one of their first words. They will just come up and tackle the other one and I'm always like "Hey be nice, you're gonna get hurt" and they're just laughing their heads off. Tyler's like "Jenn they're BOYS" I guess it's a good thing boys have dad's or mom's like me would just try to shelter them too much.
I had to get Giryan in a picture with them too.... WOW! look at all my cute boys, I'm so lucky. Good thing they don't look like their dad at all, right? hahaha...

Look Uncle Blake!

2007-11-07T20:35:00.001-08:00

Okay, so heres our special post for uncle Blake, (for those of you who don't know, he's a dental student at Case Western in Ohio) So Tayson had a really bad day today, first he woke up at 4:00 this morning because his tummy hurt. Ty made a little bed for him on the couch and stayed up to watch the cars movie for a while. He stayed home from Preschool, he was really sad about that because it was supposed to be face painting day. (Luckily they changed it to Friday) then later that morning he was climbing down from our barstools and his feet slipped off the little bar into the middle of the stool, so as he was falling backwards he tried to hold on to the stool. It didn't work so well, because it came crashing down on top of him and whopped him right in the mouth. His tooth was sticking out way too far and way crooked, not to mention all the blood. Poor kid! He was terrified. Anyways so we ran to the dentist. He said it was displaced and he pushed it back into it's place and put a little bridge on it to hold it there while it got better. He was a super tough kid. I'm so proud of him. Lucky it was a baby tooth, but that one's still gotta last him a few more years. We were supposed to get the bridge thing taken off in two weeks, but tonight he knocked it out!!!! DRAMA! we may have to go through the whole process again tomorrow. I'm going to call the dentist in the morning..... what a FUN day!! Anyhow, uncle Blake, enjoy the pic.

Halloween!!!

2007-11-04T12:38:00.000-08:00

Halloween!!! We had so much fun this halloween. Giryan was Eyeore and he definitely fits the part in this picture. he was very grumpy. he just didn't want me to put him down... he's in the HOLD ME phase... He is growing sooooo fast I can't even believe it. Brecken wanted to be a kitten and Tayson wanted to be a tiger. I made their costumes this year but I don't think I will do it again. it was fun but the fabric was just about as expensive as just buying a costume anyways, and all that EXTRA work! but It made the boys happy so it was worth it.
We Went trick or treating in Tyler's parents neighborhood because they give out the GOOD stuff!!! Tons of full sized candy bars, it was Crazy... Tayson is our little smarty pants though. When they told him he could take more than one he would say "No, I think I have just about as much as I can handle right now" Seriously, I've never met a kid that would turn down Candy until this one.
I had to throw this picture in too... The boys loved helping dad move dirt around our yard in the Skidster yesterday. Oh, how they love the dirt!!!

Ballet

2007-11-03T22:54:00.000-07:00

Okay, so since I am addicted to ballet I decided I would do a post about it. (halloween post coming soon, I just haven't put the pictures on the computer yet cause I'm a slacker.) So I've started teaching again, just two days a week for 3 hrs each, just enought to get my ballet fix. I have been loving it. I'd like to take this time to thank Tyler for being my Hero and taking the kids so I can teach. Man, I love that guy!!! These are pictures of our Clara for this years nutcracker. I made this dress for the performance last year. I got to go direct the photo shoot for the publicity photos. I had a great time. I didn't make this tutu. I just put all the embellishments on it. but it was fun. I'm amazed at how much fun I can have making these frilly dresses and stuff. this is my way of getting all the girly girl out of me because It's looking like the Jones family is going to be all boys.

Photos property of Idaho Ballet Theatre.

1st snowfall October 6th

2007-10-14T20:22:00.000-07:00

So, it's only the beginning of October and Last Saturday we got about 5 inches of SNOW! so we made a snowman of course! the boys loved it. Notice my summer decoration on the porch. hahaha! Yeah I finally changed that to fall now. :) Tyler went hunting that morning and shot 6 ducks, then he came home and helped the boys with their snowman. Giryan doesn't like the snow much. but I should have taken a picture of him all bundled up. sooo cute! The snowmans hat is the dogs food dish... inventive huh? I showed Tayson how to make a snow angel.... the dogs wanted to help. (The little black and white pup belongs to the neighbors) They played in the snow for almost two hours until we finally made them come in so they could get dry.

Brecken: "what is this stuff? Hmmm, I wonder how it tastes...." It didn't take long for him to test it out. Tyler told him just not to eat any yellow snow.... gross." Ellie bellie" loves the snow too.... my house will never stay clean now... OH well all in all it was a wonderful snowy day in Idaho. Bytheway it's all melted again now... when Brecken was saying his prayers yesterday night he said "thanks for the snow that's all turned to mud now" haha what a cutie.

2007-09-28T22:09:00.000-07:00

ABC's
The ABC's of ME!

I guess it's my turn now 'cause Heather Tagged me.... Fun!
A- Attached or single: attached
B- Best Friend: Tyler, He's always there for me, my boys... Heather and Brandy
C-Cake or Pie: Neither,... I'd rather have Ice Cream.. Unless it's my grandmas homemade peach pie.... so good!
D- Day of choice: Every day is just what you make out of it... none is better than another.
F- Favorite Color: Yellow, my grandma told me Yellow shows up best on stage when I was 9 and it stuck. I also love blue.
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Worms, cause my boys love them... especially when you put them in dirt (chocolate pudding with crushed oreos on top)
H- Hometown: Lehi
I- Indulgence(s): I love hot baths and lot's of sleep.... not getting much of that lately.
J- January or July: July for sure. SUMMER!
K- Kids: Three awesome boys.... Tayson, Brecken and Giryan
L-Life is Incomplete Without: my wonderful family, friends and Ballet of course!
M- Marriage Date: July 12th
N- Number of Siblings: 2 Brothers
O- Oranges or Apples: I love them both.
P- Phobias or Fears: I try not to let my head run away with me or I will go crazy.
Q- Quote(s): "c'est la vie"
R- Reason To Smile: I have hundreds of reasons to smile every day... funny things my kids say and do... and Giryan's smiles
S- Season: Fall, and summer
T- Tag Three +: The only friend I have who blogs is Heather and she tagged me... but I think Mindy should start a blog so I'll tag her.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I don't know, If anybody wants to know something just ask me...
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I like to eat animals, yes!
W- Worst Habit: eating too much ice cream... I've had a bowl almost every night since Giryan ws born.... is there such thing as post-pregnancy cravings?
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: ultrasounds, cause usually it's because you are having a baby... x-rays mean you're in pain.. usually.
Y- Your Favorite Food: Ice cream of course... I could live on that stuff. I really like Pita's from Pita pit lately. I love fruits and vegetables too. but strawberries, apples, and tomatoes sound really good right now.
Z- Zodiac: Leo - but I have no idea what that means.

Yellowstone

2007-09-19T14:22:00.000-07:00

Here's some pictures from our trip to yellowstone last week. It was nice to get away for even just a day. I felt like I had been stuck in the house for a month, Oh wait... I was. Here's our coyote picture....
Buffalo (or Bison,.... I guess) Of all the cool things we have seen at Yellowstone these are the kids favorite for sure... I think because you get to see them so close up and they just hold still so you can look at them.... They especially like it if they walk in the road. Brecken says "Maybe the Buffalo just want to go where we are going"
Tyler and the boys at Tower Falls. Tyler and Tayson hiked all the way down to the river. Tayson ran the whole way there and back. He's a tough kid. did I mention that it was 44 degrees outside, yeah.... FREEZING!
IT'S A BEAR!!! that black thing that looks like a big rock is a mamma black bear. She had a cute little cub with her too.. it was so cute but it was hard to get a picture because the grass was taller than he was. We saw a Grizzly bear too in Lamar valley but it was about 3/4 of a mile away so you could only really see it through a spotting scope... but it was cool.
And a big Bull Elk.... there were tons of Elk but we only saw probably Three Big Bulls. We saw some deer too, kinda funny, but it was the first time I have seen a deer in yellowstone. I guess we are always just looking for other things. anyways, it was a good trip. Nice to just get out and breath some fresh mountain air.... and some sulphur too. :)

First day of Preschool

2007-08-31T12:24:00.000-07:00

Tayson's first day of Preschool was Monday. He was so excited. So far he has loved every minute of it... he always asks if it's a preschool day today. I can't believe how fast he is growing. I just keep trying to enjoy their youth but it's going by too fast. I didn't cry though, and that's pretty good for me lately. :)
He's trying to show off his cars backpack that he got from Grandma DeeDee for his birthday. He wanted to bring everything with him, notebooks and pencils and stickers and erasers and glue and markers and crayons.... we had to explain that his teacher would already have all that stuff there. He tells Brecken "When you get big enough like me, you can go to preschool too.... Maybe when you turn four"
Then i just threw in this picture 'cause It's cute.

Cars restaraunt

2007-08-25T17:59:00.000-07:00

This is the kids favorite place to eat. Its just a little 50's diner but they call it the cars restaraunt. they serve the kids meals in little vintage cars, plus they get to color their own hat. fun, fun, fun... While I was in the hospital with Giryan they went here and brought me back huge Brownie, fudge, sundae... it was yummy. Tayson is a huge fan of the cars movie, Brecken is into tractors. Anyways, I think these are cute pictures.

I made a BLOG

2007-08-24T14:50:00.001-07:00

I think this is SO funny because I am completely dumb and out of the loop when it comes to computers, but this seemed easy enough so i thought it might be a good way to keep in touch with all the people I don't see often enough... plus my Cute friend Heather has a Blog that is so much fun to read, I thought it might be fun to try... Of course I'll spend all my time talking about my kids cause that's my favorite subject. This is our newest addition... Giryan Quinn Jones! He was born on August 7th. 8lbs 5oz and 21 and a half inches... This picture looks funny because it was dark when I took it so no he doesn't have bruises in the side of his head.... but he's SUCH A SWEETHEART. He's been a really good baby. Our only struggle has been getting rid of his Jaundice... Tayson and Brecken had Jaundice too but Giryan's is just taking forever to go away... The latest thing that they asked me to try was to feed him Formula for 48 HOURS! Thats like an eternity... call me a crazy post-partum woman, but i cried everry single time i fed him a bottle and every single time I pumped and dumped it down the sink, and I only made it 12 hours before I gave in and just nursed him... then i called the doctors office in the morning and asked whether it really is worth turning me into a psychopath over this whole thing. They haven't called me back yet, but if they make me do it again I'm going to have to check myself into a mental institution or something. Plus the formula made him really gassy and fussy.... anyways. Up until then I was really enjoying my perfect little angel. And I thought I was starting to get everything all figured out. So much for that Idea, huh? Oh well... anyhow... I guess we'll test out my first BLOG.... Let me know what you think.

Craters of the Moon

2007-08-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

I thought I would throw in a picture of Tayson and Brecken too... this is from Craters of the moon last Sunday. We went there with my parents while they were visiting. I had never been there before. Its a pretty cool place. they boys loved it, but Brecken wouldn't go in any caves unless mom came with him. We always laugh that hes such a momma's boy but I think it's cute.