Happy Thanksgiving 2010!!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Our friends, the Chappell's, Bartholick's, and the Miller's came over. I guess I took more video than pictures, so I only have a couple! The Saturday after Thanksgiving, all of us went to the Christmas night parade which was really fun!

Happy Halloween 2010

We had a great Halloween! Notice how cute Stephen's hair is in the pumpkin carving picture! It was part of his old man costume!!! I promise! By the time the actual day of Halloween came around, I was so sick of costumes that I didn't even do Jillian's hair or any makeup on any kids. This is crazy! We had a law school party, ward party, and school parties! The kids had a great time! On Halloween, we had some friends over for food and fun, but I didn't get any pictures of that (bummer!)

Charlotte is growing!

I do not want my baby to grow. I want her to stay a baby forever because she is so dang cute and fun. Here are some great pictures!

My Dad's visit! October 2010

My Dad had business in Kansas City, but came early to stay with us for a couple of nights. We had a great time! We missed you, Mom!

New Post

I think it is time to waste more time and finally post something on the blog. I have an adoption final that I should be working on, but instead I will tell you of a horrible experience that happened a few days ago. My wonderful wife was part of the planning committee for the Ward Christmas party. It was all going very well until she asked me if I would sing. I hear you sing every Sunday and you sound good she said. Well I was never a good singer, in fact I was the only Jones Boy not to be in Teen Tones(Taylor) or Acapella(Mesa High.) It had also been 17 years since I had sung in front of anyone. Royal Caribbean Karaoke nights excluded, cept that will factor into this story I am sure. I was to sing with three other guys who could carry a tune and would be able to sing. They were in the Ward Choir, I would be fine. Well we practiced one time and it did not sound too bad, then they decided to start singing parts and doing weird things to the song. Well long story short we pretty much got booed off the stage. It was bad. Real bad, worse than Ashley Simpson at any live venue. It was very similar to the time I got booed off the stage on a Royal Caribbean Karaoke night. "He ain't heavy he's my brother" is not the right song to sing in front of drunk people. Anyways, other than that the Ward party was great. Lindsay got to sing in front of the same people and she did great, but then again she was in Teen Tones.
Okay now to the adoption Final. Wish me luck.

HOW CUTE!!!!!!!

Our daughter is sooooooo cute. So cute in fact that even Smeagol, or Gollum for the unwashed masses, think that she is precious.

Who gets to be the bad guy??????

So every six months or so, my dear wife, whom I love more than life it self, decides she wants to take the kids to PetSmart and show off the pets. This latest bout of pet envy was brought on by Austin finding a turtle in the middle of the road and showing it off to all the other kids who live in my house. I heard about how cute this reptile was and how much fun it would be to own a pet. Lindsay looked up on the internet how much trouble a turtle would be and she decided to make stew. Just kidding, we don't live in New Orleans any more. The today all I heard about was going to PetSmart to look at pets. Just look right? Right!!!!!!
I try to deflect the invitation. I bring up how heavy it is raining and there is a flash flood warning outside. A warning is worse than a watch you know. Well nothing worked. I also knew that I would have to be the voice of reason in this debate. So I went, and I did in fact have to be the voice of reason, much to my chagrin. All my kids think I hate animals. I don't really hate them, it's just that I don't want one living in my house and peeing everywhere. They are dirty, stinky, and their hair gets everywhere. So I had to tell all four of my talking children and my wife, who were standing in cat vomit on the floor of the cat cage, that we were not getting a cat or a dog or a lizard or a chilupa or any other animal. We were just there to look. Much like a zoo. So how did I get the kids to love me again. I took them to a frozen custard place and bought them whatever they wanted of course. AHHH the life of a father.

Summer Activities 2010

Austin played baseball this summer. He liked it and learned a lot. He played shortstop and pitched! He was great! We also have had fun swimming and going bowling!