My Bronson is 6!!!!

On July 21st, our little boy turned 6 years old! He had quite the extended celebration too! We were up at Bear Lake on his real birthday, with just my family, so we decided to have a little party for him. We spent the whole morning and afternoon down at the beach, played in the water, boated, and just had a good old time.

Bronson the b-day boy lounging in the water.

Grandpa Thayne and Grandma Shell brought him up a cake and we brought the ice cream! (I forgot the candles:(

Here he is opening presents. Big sister Mazzy seems REALLY excited!

Mom, Dad and Maz got this cool bike for one COOL dude!

Here is Bronson shaving like Grandpa Thayne with his new shaving kit from Grandpa and Grandma.

When we got home the fun and presents did not end. We finally ordered his Transformer wall clings to finish up his room. They didn't show up in time to bring them to Bear Lake, but they arrived while we were up there. So we hurried and decorated his room. He also got Transformer curtains that my mom made for him, but I didn't have them hung yet. But his room looks SO complete with them now!

Bronson declared this "Autobot corner"

This corner is declared "Decepticon corner".

And of course the door had to be decorated as well. And if you couldn't tell Bronson learned the "Rock On" sign with his hands from his dad.

And now here we are at the main family and friends birthday party. Yes I made his cake (it didn't turn out too shabby, right?), he picked it out and I delivered. And yes it was oh so yummy if I do say so myself! We also ALWAYS make homeade raspberry and apricot (seperate of course) ice cream for his birthday party, which usually hits the spot, cause it's so hot out!

Our blow up water slide has had some issues and we didn't think it could hold a ton of kids, so we opted for a good old fashioned water fight....buckets full of water and cups.....oh yeah, and thanks to the Hammerstroms for water balloons.

Refilling the buckets.

Present time. THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who came to celebrate this FUN day with Bronson! We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends who care so much about us!!! We LOVE you all!!!!!
P.S. If anyone listens to the birthday song on the video at the bottom of this blog, it might cause your ears to bleed.....please don't say I didn't warn you....the Jones' really know how to take a simple song and do it OH SO WRONG!!!

Crystal Lake

(Above) Ryan was goofing off with the camera.
(Below) Mazzy just waiting for that fish to take a bite.

(Above and Below) Bronson and me, patiently waiting for a fish to bite our line.

(Below) Bronson and Mazzy at Crystal Lake

(Below) The next few pictures are of the Provo Falls. (We hiked all the way up to the top of them, I didn't realize there was like 5 different levels to these falls, it was gorgeous!

(Above) Is the trail to the top of the cliffs, by Cliff Lake. We all started up it, but Bronson got scared 1/2 way up, so I took him back down while Mazzy and Ry continued to the top.

(Below) Ry and Maz at the top.

(Below) One of the views from the top. That is Washington Lake that you can see.

(Below) Crystal Lake

(Below) Bronson's fish he caught all by himself, casted and reeled it in!

We packed up and headed to the Uintah Mountains the first part of this week, just us and the kids. We backpacked in to Crystal Lake and spent the night. We fished and hiked all that we could until it was time to go home. It was absolutely beautiful and relaxing!

So far this summer....

(Above) Celebrating the 4th of July with Awesome family and Great friends up at Eaglewood Golf Course.

(No picture for this one) I helped plan and ran my first 5k with the Young Women in my ward for their camp fundraiser. It was a HUGE success. I have no pictures because my kids were sick that morning, so Ry stayed home with them, and I was so tired that I forgot my camera. But I did it and ran the entire thing. (not a big deal to some, but it felt good to pull it off.)

(Above) Boating at East Canyon

(Above) Boating at East Canyon

(Above) Goofing off with friends.

Boating at East Canyon

Eating ice cream with good neighbors.

Playing in the fountain at the Gateway.

Swimming Lessons and just plain swimming. (I took pictures of my kids at swimming lessons, but didn't save them right on my phone, so this video is it.)

And the next video is from one of Bronson's last baseball games. I didn't get his coach in the video, but Brons slugged the ball right into the pit of his coach's stomache...it was awesome!

Only in Evanston, Wyoming......

The title is just for the picture above. Sorry, I didn't have time to zoom in, so just click on the picture and it will come up bigger so you can fully appreciate this picture. Because, as we all know, Liquor and Fireworks do go hand in hand!!!

Below are the pictures of the cabin at Bear Lake. This is the deck that Ryan has been working so hard on!! It is not completely finished in these pictures, but he did put all the finishing touches on it this last week and it is now all the way done. Can't wait for it to be warm enough to go up and play in the water!!

Mazzy's Spring Recital

Mazzy had her piano recital a couple of weeks ago and she did a great job!!! She is moving right along, hopefully she will take after her Aunt Misty (who is her piano teacher) because she is an amazing pianist! Her songs she played were a nursery rhyme medley which was Hickory Dickory Dock and Pop! Goes the Weasel. Misty combined the two for her to play, because she was originally going to play just Hickory Dickory Dock, but she had it memorized in a week of getting it, so Mist had to make it a little more challenging for her. And her other song was Sleeping Beauty Waltz. We were so proud at how well she did, it is always so nerve racking to do any sort of recital, I think anyways.

Preschool Graduation and Fine Arts Night

Wow, I am so behind on posts. There will be quite a few coming your way. Bronson graduated preschool and speech!!! YAY!!! We are so glad that we made the decision to wait and start him in Kindergarten. He needed this extra year to just slowly ease into things. We are so proud of how far he's come in just a short year. He's ready to kill it in Kindergarten!!! For his last day of preschool, instead of a graduation Mrs. Fisher took them all to the Fire Station and to the park afterwards. His best buddy Ty is standing on the other side of the fire truck in the red shirt. They have been like 2 peas in a pod together.

Mazzy had her fine arts night the end of May and her cute little 1st/2nd split class got their own slot to preform some songs that they had learned throughout the year. It was fun to watch. After, we got to go in the school and see some of her art work and get a snow cone woohoo!! I had to add the video of her class singing "Tom Turkey" the teacher Mrs. Butler didn't want to do it, because it is a Thanksgiving song, but that's the #1 song the class wanted to sing, so she gave in and I'm glad she did, because I thought it was the cutest, funniest song ever!!!

My Baseball Player and Other Stuff

In April Ryan's sister, Andi, and his brother Curtis ran and finished the Salt Lake City Marathon. Yes, the full 26.2 miles! I think this was Andi's 3rd time doing it and Curtis' 1st. Curtis is now following in the footsteps of Andi and Greg (Ryan's brother) and is going to do an Ironman in Tempe, Arizona, so we wish him luck as he continues to train! Anyways, they had a little get together afterwards at Curtis and Laura's to celebrate their victory and Renee's (Ryan's mom's) birthday. We didn't make it to the marathon sadly, but we got to congratulate them afterwards....so way to go guys!

Bronson above giving me the thumbs up while on first base.

Bronson has recently started baseball. He has been a great little slugger since he was about 3, so this year he was finally old enough to start playing. Last year no one was taking 4 year olds (which of course this year they are.) Anyhoo, it has been very, very entertaining. If anyone could use lots of laughs and smiles, just come to one of his games and it is guaranteed that you will have a feel good laugh!!! I wasn't quite sure if he would end up being to shy to participate in the games, but he has LOVED it and played very well in all his games so far. Last week he hit the ball out into the outfield twice......of course I forgot my camera, but I was amazed (even as his mother) at how hard he hit the ball. It was AWESOME!!! At his 2nd game Bronson's team was in the outfield and this kid on the other team hit the ball really hard and it flew past all of Bronson's team, well every kid (except Bronson, because Ryan had went to help him and told him not to move from his position) in the outfield followed the ball, they all left their posts, bases, everything and all piled on top of each other to get the ball....it was hilarious!!!

Bronson bringing it home!!!

Swinging hard!

The video isn't very good, I should have walked a little closer, but it is Bronson up to bat, hitting the ball and running to 1st base. Sorry you'll have to look really close.

The other video I had to put on here and share the UNDESCRIBABLE Happy Birthday song that the Jones family does! There are no words.....when you listen you will understand, (you will also understand why Bronson would almost cry every year at his birthday parties when we would sing Happy Birthday to him) please don't hate me afterwards!;) Also I have to dedicate this video to Miss Brenda Hansen who has a very special appearance at the end!!!!