Keepin' Up With The Jones': May 2009

The Boys and a Friend!

I took this picture this morning of my 2 and a friends little boy named, William. His parents went to the Temple so I watched him for them. My 2 were entranced with the TV and William was watching me mess with my camera. Too cute!!!!

The Messiest Art Student Ever!!!!!!!

The boys take an art class on Tuesday mornings at a local Community Center and here is the results of the class they attended last week. He had paint everywhere, infact there was paint where paint should not be!!!!!!! But he had a great time and that is all that matters.

I guess he was trying to get it off his hands, I am not sure, but if you notice his shirt down at the bottom on the side, yeah, by the way, that did not come off , darn paint!!!!!

Mother's Day with Uncle Malcolm!!!!!!

Randy's Uncle is getting ready to go to Iraq and we will miss him dearly so we had the opportunity to spend the day with him on Mother's Day. We hope for his save return in 6 months. Uncle Malcolm we love you very much and will remember you in our thoughts and prayers always!!!!!

Jamestown at last!!!!!!

After the awesome ferry ride, we arrived in Jamestown. Because of the 400 year celebration last year of Jamestown, they have really changed things quite a bit. There was a brand-new building and a HUGE museum that would take hours to go through. We went through a small part of it and saw an exihibit about Pocahontas. The neat thing about this is that Randy is related to her 16 generations back, she is his 16th great-grandma. Isn't family history neat???

There was a flag for each state represented in the parking lot, which I thought was really neat.

At the start of the flags was this wonderful waterfall, but of course I had some very tired and uncooperative boys on my hands.

For those of you who have never been to Jamestown, they have an English village, and Indian village and the 3 ships that successfully made it to Jamestown. This is part of the English village, I think this was the Governor's home.

This was a church but being there that day we found out that they did not come here for religious freedom, their voyage was taken merely for trying to find goods and services in which they could take back and make money with.

The guys at the puplit giving the best surmon of their life's.

Bryson is trying to figure out what in the heck is on his head!!!

Oh, isn't that the cutiest little Englishman you have ever seen????

Why that is the 2 cutiest Englishmen I have ever seen!!!!!!!

I cannot remember to save my life the names of these ships but we got to go on all three and they were all really neat.

This is the same one from up above but the pic is a little dark so I put this one on here too.

There is Randy and the boys getting on the ship!

This was the last ship!

This was their voyage from England to America, these 3 ships were the first vessels that successfully made it to the new land.

The James River Ferry!!!!

Because of Randy's work situation being so crazy, we decided to get the heck out of dodge one day he didn't work and go down to Jamestown. We road the ferry over to Jamestown, which is always neat. I can't tell you how times in my life I have been on the Jamestown Ferry, I am sure a ton, but everytime it is still fun and exciting. For my boys, Christopher LOVED it and Bryson thought it was okay at first but started hating it at the end, he wanted to go get back in the car. Giselle, do you remember when you were back here, I took you and Alex on it, and we drove the car right on it and it takes you on a 30 minute ride across the river. I also remember we went on it 2x because we went the wrong way down to the ferry.

Daddy with his boys!!!!

Mommy and Christopher, Bryson was to worried about watching the seagull in the pic below to take a pic with us!!!

Crazy seagull, Bryson was entranced with him!

Here was the other ferry going back the way we came, if you look closely you can see vehicles on it.

Easter Sunday Afternoon @ Grandma's & Grandpa's!!!!!!

Christopher & Bryson with their cousin Mollie and Issac (My sister-in-law's grandson)

The boys just goofing off, being themselves!!!! Why Bryson has a stick in his mouth and a frisbee on his head, I do not know!!!!!

Easter Bunny Cake!!!!!

Pretty much every year when I was growing up for easter we would make an easter bunny cake just like this. So of course, I want to pass that tradition down to my own children that was started so long ago with me. We took the cake down to Randy's parents house for a cook-out on Easter Sunday. Everyone loved it!!!!

Not only did it looked great but it tasted good too!!!!

The Easter Bunny came to our house!!!!!!!

We did something new this year that I think we will keep doing every year because I thought it worked out really good. The Easter Bunny came to our house on Saturday morning instead of the normal Sunday morning. My reasoning behind this idea was that I knew the rest of Saturday we were going to be super busy with a baby shower and a wedding reception and on Sunday mornings Randy had to be church at 6:30 AM so we that wasn't an option either.

The boys waiting patiently to find their easter baskets and the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid. They were both super excited!!!!!

Bryson cheesing for the camera after he found all the loot the Easter Bunny left him!!!!!

Christopher doing the same!!!!

Man, the boys must of been really good to get all that stuff!!!!!

I told Randy to get behind them so I could take a pic of the 3 of them and this is all he gives me-- an extremely serious face!!!!

So after I fussed at him, he decided to smile and hug his boys!!!!!

Christopher got this really cool book that opens up to make a garage. It also comes with paper people and vehicles, plus some stickers. I love Ollie's, I found this there for $3.99. I will pay that any day for my little boys happiness. I LOVE Ollie's book section, you could literally get lost in it.

Still playing with it, Bryson got the truck at the top of the pic, that was only $4.99, and was regularly priced @ $25. What a deal!!!!! Plus, the Incredible Hulk t-shirts they got, I got on
clearance at Wal-mart for $3 a piece. Sweet!!!! I love good deals!

Dying Easter Eggs!!!!!

I took a ton of pics of them dying easter eggs but I decided not to bore everyone so I picked the best three.

Christopher is an old pro at dying easter eggs now, he loves it!!!!

This was Bryson's first year really knowing what he was doing, he a great time and had fun too!!!!

The finished product almost, we did put stickers on them, but I must not of gotten a pic of that!!!!

Playgroup Easter Egg Hunt!!!!

The moms wanted to get a group pic of the kids waiting to start the hunt and my 2 and and Christopher's best buddy decided they were going to put their buckets on their heads while they were waiting, what silly boys!!!!!!

Oh, there they are coming out of hiding!!!!!

Still waiting with the buckets over their heads!!!!!

More waiting while they are given directions!

I love their happy faces after they found the eggs, what great smiles!!!!!

Mommy & her boys checking out all their loot from the easter egg hunt!!!!!

Easter Egg Hunt at the Bensley Community Center

Bryson loving on the Easter Bunny, Christopher wouldn't go anywhere near him. He has always been afraid of fuzzy characters.

Bryson eagerly awaiting for the easter egg hunt to start!!!!!

Bryson and Mommy trying to find easter eggs!!!!!

After a very uneventful hunt, the boys were able to go on the tractor barrel ride, they loved it!!!!!

This is a good friend of ours, Miguel, his Mom and him met us there, he had fun too!!!!

Youth Baptism Trip to the Temple!!!!!

Randy wanted to go help with the youth baptism trip and I said I wanted to go along, so since I had the kids plus one extra child (I watched the Young Womens Pres. little boy too so she could go in), I wasn't able to go inside to help with the youth but my boys really enjoyed hanging out in the vistors center, it is such an awesome place!!!! Just being able to take my boys to the temple is a wonderful blessing. Christopher is just in awe everytime we go, he loves it!!!!!!