Christmas in June! A House!!!

Today we signed a contract on our soon to be new home! We are very excited and hope it will be a great safehaven for our family in the years to come.

It is an almost brand new townhome. Which should be just fine for resale since we live in a college town. It has only been live in a couple of months by the builders friend in transition. We will probably be living here about five more years so we thought we would kick the renting boat and find a Home.

It has 4 Bedrooms, 2 1/2 Baths, living and Family room.

Well . . . here are a few . . .well, a lot of pics. I may have gotten carried away!

AND P.S. I am not a pro-reality photographer or anything close . . .

Kitchen with Granite counters

Island drawers

Two Halves of pantry

Dining Area

Hall with 1/2 bath between Kitchen and Front Room

1/2 Bath

Front Room

Entry/Stairs in front room

Stair case to upstairs

Master Bedroom

Walk-in closet

Hall in upstairs

Hall closet

Bathroom Upstairs

(far door connects to Master other to the hall)

Door closes to separate toilet/bath

Laundry Room

Baby Room

Kids Room

View from upstairs

Now Down to the Basement with the Not handsome or cute carpet

(according to Geoffrey - I love it)

Family Room

(Note Nathan's fav. part above the big TV)

Hall in Basement

Accidently deleted the Understair storage room which is a good amount of storage space AND happens to be the kids fav place to play! We'll see who wins that battle in the end.
B. Bath Has full walkin shower too

Furnace room

4th Bedroom in Basement - It is larger like the master.

Walk in Closet

Out our Back door

Keeping up with the Jones'

I wrote a note, but it is at the bottom of the page after all the pictures. Sorry I couldn't get it to come back up here! So . . .

Talk about fly aways!

So I came in the room one day and Gwen had all of the toy cars in her shirt!? Good place to store them I guess.

I have been horrible about blogging lately, but hopefully this will satisfy Grandma and Grandpa Jones' need for some pics of their grand kiddos! ;).

We haven't been up to much. Just trying to keep going with school, work, and family. Which does get daunting at times!

We have been enjoying the warmer weather and have tried to go outside more. Today it snowed! You have got to love eastern idaho and the spiratic spring snow.

We will be having another baby girl at the end of August and are trying to get things in order for her to come into our family. I am a little nervous about having three kiddos to care for, but hopefully I can rise to the occassion with out too much havoc in our home . . . we'll see ;).

Hope you are enjoying your spring!

Easter Bunny and Pals!

Easter weekend was great this year. We were able to have a ham dinner with the Asbells on Saturday evening and enjoy great conference talks from the Lord's prophets, apostles, other general authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all weekend long. Their profound counsel and testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ really uplifted and strenthened my testimony and gratitude in my Savior.

On Sunday morning the Easter Bunny came! The kids had so much fun! Geoffrey tip-toed from his bedroom to the front room as to not scare the Easter Bunny away, but alas he was already gone! They recieved goodies in their basket and went on a search for eggs with even more goodies inside. It was very fun.

Geoffrey insisted that there had to be two bunnies that came, or an easter bunny and his helper, Super-duper Bunny! Somebody had to bring Gwen her basket too! I guess one bunny couldn't handle both. I love it.

Gwen's hair is getting so long! When it is wet it is halfway down her back.

WE hope you all had a great Easter! We love our Savior Jesus Christ and know that He is the true source of happiness in this life. May He bless your life always!

Catching up with the SnowFlakes of Life

We haven't posted in forever, but there have been many unique and beautiful moments in our lives that have added up to make our winter beautiful so far.



To start our Holiday Season off right my brother Nicholas came home from his mission about 10 days before Christmas. We were able to go home to Missouri early to meet him at the airport. I loved the Springfield Airport for having this play structure the kids could play on while we waited since Nick's flight was a bit behind. The kids had a blast.

Welcome Home Elder Jones!!!!

We were also able to make some delicious and beautiful cookies while at Grandma's house with the kids, Aunt Debbie, Beth, Grandma and I. Thanks to Aunt Debbie and Grandma for the fun time and delicious cookie doughs. We must have had at least five different sugar cookie doughs to try! It was a lot of fun.

Who says kids need toys for Christmas!? This girl was tickled pink with a pair of shoes! She had to wear them around even though they are at least a size too big. I can't wait until Spring when she can wear these everywhere.

Thanks Beth for the thoughtful gifts on Cookie Day!

Here are Geoffrey and Gwen sharing the love of the season! How cute :).

The kids were able to spend lots of time with their fun Aunt Cheyanne too!

Gwen loves mooing like a cow!

The children were so great running errands and doing things we wanted to do that we decided to dedicate a fun night just for them. So we went to Miner Mikes! They loved it.

And we might have had a little fun too ;).

Hmm . . . I guess you can totally tell that I had the camera and was in charge of Gwen because I only had ONE clear picture of Geoffrey from Miner Mikes! Poor Guy.

And last, but not least we have had a fun time in our backyard this winter. We have two little hills in our yard that are perfect for young children to sled on! I feel really blessed to have this because you don't find such great hills in most people's backyards around here!

My snowbunny and snow angel!