Wednesday, April 27, 2011

5 years ago....

5 years ago I took a fabulous trip to Germany with my husband. It was amazingly beautiful and truly fascinating.

5 years ago we were putting in our back yard with the help of a few overworked underpaid friends and family.

5 years ago life was simple with my two kids that I could throw in a car and head to California for a few days on a whim.

5 years ago I went from an even playing field of parenthood to an outnumbered defense.

5 years ago my life changed forever when the Jones' mold was broken and my cute little Cole Jones was born on April 19th. The only baby that actually looks like he could be MY baby!

A lot has happened in 5 years, but mostly just a lot of time has flown by way too fast.  Cole continues to change our life with his persistent, over active, widely imaginative, seemingly harmless personality.  He is a 3rd child to the " T" and marches to his own beat.  Usually a beat I would rather change.  But Cole brings a lot of laughter, happiness, excitement, and love to our family.  I say I would like to change his beat, but that's just because its not my beat. Cole is brave, fearless, daring and so many things I am not.  He is a huge bundle of hope in a little body.  There is a light in his eyes, a wild one be it, but a light that I hope will never go out and that will help him continue on his path in life.   I have to admit the boy drives me crazy seven ways to Sunday, but I do love the munchkin.  Happy Birthday, Coley Boley Guacamoley.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

"Spring Break" (no spring, just a break!)

Seems like eons ago that Spring Break was upon us. Oh wait, maybe because SPRING ISN'T HERE! 
It was definitely nice to have a week off school and we definitely took advantage of every day of it!
We ventured up to McCall for 5, fun, snow filled days and felt like we were transformed back into winter. The transformation wasn't all that hard being that SPRING ISN'T HERE!
 (Little tired of the weather in case you haven't noticed.)

We sledded, sat in the hot tub, sledded some more, sat in the hot tub again, went ice skating, watched movies and sat in the hot tub again! It was heaven!
From Collages
From Collages