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!