Keeping Up With the Jones'

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Chalk Art Festival in Salt Lake City

Ryan and I also went on a double date with Shadd and Jessica to the Chalk Art Festival in Salt Lake at the Gateway. I LOVE it! There are some seriously talented people out there! I'm excited that Shadd (my Uncle) is going to be doing the Chalk Art Festival in Bountiful next year. He is among those seriously talented artists out there! There were lots of other funs things that we did during the month of June, but I can't remember them all! We are still living it up, so more posts to come.....maybe today.

This one below was done by a youth....I wish that they would give the ages on the youth ones. I was really impressed!

This one below, the guy wasn't finished yet, but I thought it was spectacular!

Fun Times in June

The beginning of June came with some exciting and not so exciting things! Bronson graduated from Kindergarten. I was so lucky (that is sarcasm in my voice) to be asked to play the piano for his class' program, but don't worry I made it through. Bronson had a couple of speaking parts and did a GREAT job! Then Mazzy had her piano recital. (I would LOVE to post the video of her songs, but blogspot doesn't seem to cooperate anymore to post videos, VERY ANNOYING!) She also did an amazing job! She picked very hard and technical pieces for her level, and she played them beautifully! So proud of them both!

With June came a lot of rainy, cold weather, with lots of flooding! Morgan, my hometown and where all my family lives, was one of those places. Ryan, my dad, my nephew Kaden, and myself took a drive around the valley and ended up driving through Croyden, because we had heard that the bridge and road was under water. The pictures below speak for themselves! Pretty narley stuff!

Don't worry, this is not a main track used for trains. It's just one that the Cement Plant uses.

Then our family went to the annual Car Parade Show here in Bountiful. We ate lots of cotton candy and watched the cool old cars drive by us, and then watched and listened the burnouts! It's always a good time!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Bountiful Chalk Art Festival

We went to the Bountiful Chalk Art Festival with THE Hammerstrom's. It was loads of fun for us and the kids. Here are some the kid's favorite drawings.

All the kiddos with Captain Jack!

Ryan looking creepy, with 2 hot chicks!

Jaycee and I enjoying the evening together....

Soccer and Baseball

Soccer season has came and went for Mazzy. She did GREAT! Her team only got 1 win out of the entire season, but they never complained! They were just excited if they made 1 goal during a game, it was worth celebrating. Her and her team played a lot better during the spring than in the fall. It was most all of the girls 1st year playing with the exception of 2 of them. So I think they did well considering. I saw big improvements in Mazzy toward the end of the season. GO GREEN TIGERS!!!! I wish I knew how to scan pictures into my computer so that I could put her team pictures on here....some day!

Bronson also just finished up his baseball season. We bumped him up to machine pitch, even though he should have been on a coach pitch/t-ball team this year. He's just too good of a slugger! So he was the only Kindergartner on a team full two 1st graders and the rest 2nd and 3rd graders. He held his own and very rarely missed when he was up to bat. They had their playoffs. His team, the Volcanoes, won the first game and the 2nd playoff game they were up against the undefeated MudCats. Well Volcanoes were ahead the entire game 8-4 until the last inning when it got tied. So they had to play another inning until someone scored.....Needless to say the MudCats won the Volcanoes by 1 lousy point! It was almost the upset of the whole season! It was a GREAT game!!! Bronson is becoming quite the little baseball player! I have some videos of some of his hits that I'll post later when I get them off my phone.

School Field Trips.

The end of school brought fun field trips for the kids. I got to go with Bronson and his class to the zoo. We had a great time and my group of kids were so good! They LOVED the bus ride as much or more than anything else. Funny kids! Mazzy's class normally would've went to Kennicott Copper Mines...but someone messed that up and didn't order a bus in time, so they took a field trip up to the Firehouse and got to tour the entire place, and because of the VERY rainy weather they got to have their picnic inside the school. I think they still had fun considering everything.

Andi's Ironman!

So these photos did not load in the order I wanted them to, but I'm too lazy to switch them. The first of May we got to make our way down to St. George to support Ryan's sister Andi in her 3rd Ironman! It was an amazing experience as always. They start bright and early to do the 2.4 mile swim. Then it's off to bike 112 miles. Then the 26.2 mile run. These people are amazing athletes! There was fun times, with lots and lots of waiting in between events. We got to see here at each event and give her some encouragement along the way! She finished in 12 hours, 49 minutes and 39 seconds. Andi=THE MACHINE!

Brenda, Curtis, Natalie and Dustin waiting for her on her bike.

This is the beginning of the swim....I would have drowned just treading water waiting to start swimming. This is quite the sight to see!

Running her heart out....GO ANDI!!!

Ry and I waiting at the finish line!

Here she is on her bike!

Happy Easter...Yes, behind again!

Easter has come and gone in a blurr. I have really slacked off on my blog again, so therefore, there's a million posts coming in the next week. We had so much fun preparing for Easter. My sister and her 2 boys and my mom came down to dye easter eggs. The kids were so excited to do that together. Then when Easter morning came, the kids got up bright and early to hunt for the Easter eggs that the Easter Bunny came and hid throughout the house. They got a basket full of treats and some spring clothes. We went to church and then headed up to Morgan for a wonderful dinner. While we were up there the kids brought their silly string and got Grandma Shell pretty good. It's always great to spend time with my family....I love them so much!