JON & JENNY

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

And it snowed . . . and snowed . . . and snowed.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw grass in my front yard, and I thought, Yay, winter is almost over. Oh was I ever so wrong. We had a storm about a week ago. I was at work during the storm, and I thought, "oh good, it was just a small storm (because all of the snow down at my work had melted away by the time I went home.) I don't think I will even have to shovel when I get home." WRONG AGAIN. We had over a foot of snow at our house. Fourteen inches to be exact. Luckily I have the best wife in the entire world and she had already shoveled once, or twice, and all that I had to shovel was the huge Ice ball at the end of our driveway that would keep any normal sized two-wheel drive car from entering the driveway. Well that was the last storm of the season. WRONG, we have had two since. The last one was a small one, but today, we had another one like the first one. On my way to work, a truck turned over and dumped hamburger all over the freeway, MacDonalds will be short on a few hundred pounds of hamburger this week.
Once again, when I left work . . . no snow. But when I got home, over a foot. I love living in Layton.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Highlights of December

This is at our house sometime in early December. Jaxson loves to be outside, even if it's cold.

We couldn't find Jaxson's gloves, so he got to wear Jon's.

This is at my family Christmas party. My mom gave all the kids p.j.'s.

We went to Jon's parent's on December 18th for Christmas.

Jaxson had a blast with all of his cousins.

This is at Kid's Club

Jaxson loved all of his cousin's toys.

We went sledding over at the Church.
I'm not sure but I think that is Ian. Bethanie didn't really like the snow that much, but Grandma made it better.

Jaxson went down with Andy and it scared him. But he did like watching the other kids do it and hearing them laugh.

This is us trying to do the nativity. Mary didn't like everyone coming to see her (She has learned to tell people to leave, so when her brother came to see the baby, she pushed him away and said, "leave.") One of the wisemen (Jaxson) didn't want anything to do with it.

Up above is the family singing Christmas songs with candles. I really liked this.

This is Christmas day. Jaxson liked Bethanie stroller the best.

We came back from Washington on the 29th and then on the 30th we went to Temple Square with some of my family. The kids did pretty good considering how cold it was.

Look at my mom, she is so cold and she can't hide it. It's so funny.

Friday, January 2, 2009

The latest

Well for those of you who are wondering, Jenny did survive. We had a pretty good time up in Washington, we did get snowed in, which did put a damper on things, but we made the most of it. Most nights, we played cards with everyone and had a great time. Even with the one or two spats over the rules.
Our flight home was quite entertaining. On our way to Washington, we were in a pretty full plane. We ended up on a row of three. Two rows ahead of us there was a guy sitting by himself. So while we were taxing, I asked the guy if he wouldn't mind trading us when we got up in the air. He begrudgingly said yes. After a minute I thought, "wait a second why doesn't that guy move?" So I asked Jenny to ask the guy sitting by the window if he wouldn't mind moving up. She said, "well you said it loud enough that if he wanted to move up he would have said yes already." I said, "Just ask him, it is going to be easier for him to move than for us to switch," or something along those lines. So Jenny asked and the guy, all put out, moved. After he moved, Jenny said, "I can't believe you made me do that." I said, "I don't care I won't ever see that guy again in my entire life." Well I ate those words. He was on the flight home with us. We were sitting in the terminal, waiting for our plane to get there and up walks the same guy. Jenny and I just laughed hysterically.
Then right before we were supposed to board, I got Jaxson to fall asleep. I thought, "Oh good, He is asleep and hopefully he'll stay that way so the flight home will be a peaceful one." Well in an attempt to keep him asleep, Jenny carried all of our carry-on baggage onto the plane. Now, there was a lot of baggage because we didn't plan to well with the suitcases that we took up to Washington, because we weren't planning on getting a lot for Christmas. My mom and I had a discussion before we went up there and we deicded that it would be best if we didn't get a lot, so that we wouldn't have to pack it all home. Well I should know my mom better. We had to borrow luggage from my parents to get everything home, and everything just barely fit. (our bags were 49 and 50 lbs. each. By the way we loved everything we got.) Anyway, to get to the point, we had a lot of carry-on baggage as well. We had my computer bag, a duffle bag, Jenny's purse a video camera, Jaxson's stroller, Jaxson's diaper bag, and all of our coats. So with Jaxson in my arms and a couple of the coats, Jenny loaded up all of our carry-on baggage to get on the plane. As we go to board the plane, the lady at the desk picks up the microphone and says, staring down Jenny, "I would like to remind all of our passengers that they are allowed only one piece of carry-on baggage and a personal item per passenger." Nice . . .
Jenny and I have had a good laugh about that one.
Well our trip to Washington was great. It was good to see my family and to spend some time with them. We hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Cabin Fever

I'm going to go nuts! I'm pretty pathetic. We are snowed in here in Vancouver Washington. We flew here on Thursday the 18th and went shopping on Friday and then Saturday it started to snow more. I was able to go to Fred Meyers and get a fountain drink and some gossip magazines. That was my last venture. We were suppose to go to a ward christmas party Saturday night- cancelled. And also Church was cancelled.

It's funny. It's been two weeks in a row that church has been cancelled for jon and me. Last week a pipe busted in our church in Utah. It's so different here when it comes to snow, because they don't have plows, they don't use salt on the roads, they use lava rock and according to my father-in-law it just makes cracks in your windshield. Then on top of that, there is tons of ice. So everyone please pray that I can get out of this house. I want to go to a cheap mexican restaurant called Muchas Gracias. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Little Rockers

Look at these cool rockers! This was a couple of weeks ago. Jaxson is playing the drums (which he is pretty good from watching daddy). My niece, Abby is the beautiful singer- Sweet Home Alabama is her best song. My nephew, Ben is our awesome lead guitarist.

Jaxson has been doing some new things lately. Like he says "HI" and Da Da" and "whats that?" and "Cookie." Also he loves throwing anything and if he is anywhere by a stairway, stuff gets thrown down them. He loves to Jibber-Jabber. Especially while sitting on the stairs. Today he took my mom's phone and was walking around the house jabbering on it. I just wish I knew what he was wanting to say. The best is when he says something quietly and then laughs..... like he telling a joke. Kids are just too smart!! They grow up way too fast. Last year at this time I was barely getting him to smile and also to stop crying non stop.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tis the Season

I can't believe it's already Christmas! In less than 3 weeks we are going up to Washington for 2 weeks to spend time with Jon's family. I have a lot to do in that time! I love all the Christmas lights I see. I can't wait to get ours up. If anyone has any good tips about putting up Christmas lights on the outside of the house- let me know.

I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. Please enjoy it, because it comes and goes too fast and then it's the long months of January and February. See ya later!