The joys of school

This is what happens when you live at school

One day when I was making dinner and needed some sour cream. When I opened the fridge I was excited to see that we had some. To my surprise when I opened it up, it was no longer sour cream. I wish I could put the smell on here so you could really get the whole experience. I put the lid back on and when McKay got home I asked him to smell the sour cream to make sure it still ok to use. HA I wish I got a picture of his face when he opened it. Priceless

Happy Birthday Mckay

Happy Birthday To My Hubby!

McKay's Birthday was on sunday, so this is a little late.

McKay turned 24! Man he is getting up there. : ) Just a few things about McKay that some people might not know...

Favorite color: Blue or red

Favorite class hes ever taken in school: Advanced 1st aid

Favorite sport: hmmm. I bet you will all be surprised that it's basketball

Favorite sport to watch on T.V.: College football

Favorite football team: Dallas Cowboys and Michigan

Favorite NBA team: Bulls

If he could be anything he wanted he would be a: NBA player!

Where did he go on a mission: Philippines

Langauges he is fluent in: English (sometimes) and Tagalog

Where he wants to settle down: In Montana out in the country (where we will have horses- my add in)

What is he majoring in: Health Science with an emphasis in public health and a minor in chemistry (That minor sounds like fun huh!)

If he could live anywhere in the U.S. for one year it would be: He doesn't know

If he could visit one place it would be: Cagayan, Philippines and Italy! (I was very happy with this answer, because Italy is one of my favorite places I've been)

I love you babe! Hope you had a great Birthday!

Crystal ball anyone?

Does anyone happen to have a crystal ball, that I could borrow?



Well McKay and I are in the point in our life where there are lots of decisions to be made. And they are the choices between good and good, which is hard. Man throw me a bunch of bad vs. good decisions my way and I bet I can get a 100% on that. But they're not. The good thing about this situation is that it means we still have our whole life still in front of us. Really the only huge decisions McKay and I have made in life so how, is where to go to school and to marry each other. I wish these choices were as easy as those ones. I wish I could have a crystal ball and see where we are going to be just for the next oh 20 years; then I think I could relax more and take the right paths. I'm sure McKay thinks I'm just a worry wart. I'm always asking him to map out our life for the next 50 years (with every detail) and surprisingly he doesn't know either. go figure. Something I have learned from McKay and my parents is that that unknowing is what life's all about (and that's what is fun about life too). The whole point in life is to not know what tomorrow's going to bring but that whatever the Lord gives us, we will not only make it through it but that we can go through it with flying colors! By becoming better and stronger people and maybe helping a few others along the way would be good too. And with faith in Christ we can know every things going to be ok and whatever happens the Lord is on our side cheering for us. It's times like these where I really get to see how much faith I really do have. McKay and I have been so so lucky in our marriage. We have amazing family who love us and support us and awesome friends we have met on our journey who are just like us, and are going through the same thing. I know life is wonderful. But can't I just have a peek?!

And after

Here's McKay pretending like hes actually doing homework! ha! We get home pretty late from school everyday, I usually leave school around 5:30 if I'm Lucky. Sometimes McKay doesn't get home til after 7. He says he is working on physics and Organic Chemistry, but don't let him fool you, I think he really goes to Micky D's every night and plays on the kid's play-place. : ) He got a haircut too! a whole half inch, doesn't he look dashing?



And finally here is my after to my hair cut! I got 7 inches cut off! Which was really difficult for me, because my hair was my little safety blanket. I feel like I have lost 5 pounds and now I have to actually do my hair everyday, which some days turn out better then others.

So what do you think? Hopefully I don't look like I'm 16 anymore. : ) I was going for a sophisticated look. Did it work? I think I look like I could totally have a PhD or something ; )

blessed

Sometimes I get so caught up in my daily routine that I don't take the time to look around at all the blessing I receive each day. McKay is taking a test right now,which gives me time to be alone and to think. When I start to think of all the blessing just in my day such as having the opportunity to go to school at BYU-I and to have awesome teachers and meeting amazing other students, I can't help but think of the gospel. Without the gospel I wouldn't be married to my best friend for time but for all eternity, I would be lost in life trying to figure out what it's all about. But instead I am able to pray everyday to a Father in Heaven who I know loves me, and I get to read scriptures that people sacrificed everything they had including there lives to bring it forth so we could to read it everyday freely.
Do you ever wonder why you get to have the gospel in your life and to have a lovely family, who supports and cares for you. I know the Lord has a plan for each one of us. Now if I could just figure out what that plan for me is, I would be set. But I know one of the purposes of life is just that; to find out what our role in this life is.
I also wanted to share this story; I watch it about 6 months ago and it has been on my mind a lot lately. It is a story about a wife and her husband that were in a plane crush and were severly burned. It's about how they have gotten through it. I am sure most of you have seen it, but just incase you haven't. Click here

new and improved

Remember that old frumpy me with my long lifeless hair. well I decided to make a change! with the help of a friend I made a few minor adjustments.

BEFORE PICTURES
This is last week holding new baby charlotte
(chad and misti's adorable new babe)


(please forgive the roots! yikes!)

AND AFTER..................TO BE CONTINUED!

4th of July Jones style!

It was so nice to leave school in the dust and go home! I was really excited because my whole family was able to make it up! McKay and I were also interested to see the damages of the tornado, which was surprisingly not much. Here is a picture of the Metra which was about the only evidence of the tornado. It was weird to see it that way.

On Saturday morning my sister Megan ran a 5k with a couple of her friends. Jessica her husband Jorden and their son Krew and I went and cheered her on. I wish I got a pic of us cheering, it was pretty fun. She did awesome! RUN MEGAN RUN! : )

My family except for Megan (who was preparing for her run) and my brother Scott who was on his way

The white MJ! aka Chase

The Bassetts being goofy. The kids were playing in it then Shelly and Ken decided to join in.

That night we played a really fun game. We were all laughing the whole time. The pictures may seem weird. But I guess you have to know the game

Mckay and me during the game (McKay's face looks like he's wondering what family he married into) : ) Don't worry I saw him laughing pretty hard too!

McKayla on the way up to Red Lodge was keeping us pretty entertained.

Me with McKayla on my shoulders during the best parade in the world. : ) Well I love it! It's the Red Lodge parade that my family always go to every 4th of July

All the kiddos ready to get some candy! I remember getting tons of candy each year from this parade, but they seem to do less now. I don't know if that's because I was young or that they are getting skimpier

McKay eating a s'more while making a s'more. I don't think life can get better than that!

Megan using me as a seat as I roast a marshmellow

My sister-in-law Kelsey and my brother Scott

McKayla with a Reece's mustache

Jordan with a sparkler. I loved those growing up!

Kailyn being silly! I have about a dozen pictures of her posing

Caden being entranced with his sparkler

McKay playing catch

We use this to haul everything to the fire pit. My uncle Cliff hauling all the kids around

Me, Jordan, and McKay enjoying the fireworks. Which was the best show I had ever seen!

McKay and I ready to get some sleep. We stayed up soo late every night. It was totally worth it though! When we're home our bedtime is around 9:30 and we love it. It took us a while to catch up on our sleep. Especially cause My sis Megan came home to Rexburg with us to see how cool and luxurious the college life is!

Golf and visit to the Nugents

Ashley and I are taking golf together! It has been pretty fun!

On our way up to Billings for the 4th we went to go visit the Nugents! We met our new niece, Alyza!

Kolby eating a fudge sickle!

Kaden eating a fudge sickle!

They are way too cute!!!!

School's out and memorial Day

So I think everyone's excited that schools out for the summer! sadly this does not include McKay and me. But this does mean that McKay is done busing til the fall. darn it, now he is going to have to spend more time with me! : ) The kids McKay picked up LOVED him! They thought he was the coolest bus driver ever!

McKay and his bus

Here is the lovely McKay modeling our new couches we got on Memorial Day. We love them! I'm having a hard time letting anyone sit on them. I hurried and snapped this picture then made McKay get off it. especially his feet!

Doesn't he look so happy on our new love seat! We have been looking for couches for a few months now and I was having a hard time making such a "big" choice. After our 5 furniture store (well McKay's 5 furnture store, my 10 and that's not including the internet) McKay said ok I am done, I never want to go to another furniture store again! I think this was the 4th picture cause I was having a hard time getting McKay to smile. silly boy!

I love this pic of McKay because this is such a typical McKay smile. Man do I love him! and He's pretty handsome too! : )

Each year good ol' Rexburg has a farmer's market on friday night starting in May going through july. It's fun to see all the cool things people can make. Here's me sporting food storage vanilla milk. when I first heard it I thought it didn't sound very good. Hmm room temp milk, no thanks! But it was actually pretty good!

McKay with his Root beer milk! crazy! He really liked it though. I thought it was pretty good too. I think it brought him back to his childhood. Doesn't he look like a kid in a candy shop with his little milk carton.

Hiking & Biking too....

Over our week break we went for a drive southeast of Rexburg and we ran into a trail that looked fun so we took it and later on that evening we had a fire, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows!

Things we like to do....

Ashley's delicous homemade bread! YUM!

I had to put this picture on cause these boys are so stinkin' cute!

I got talked into a David Archaletta concert (i don't know if that is how he spells his name)

This was pretty easy to be talked into! It was an awesome b-day present, Jazz won in overtime.

Before the NBA game we strolled around temple square.....(I guess you'll just have to tip your computer screen to look at this picture)

And we did the Shelly Spud run! These are a few things we have done inbetween school!