people have been asking...

i am pretty sure we have a name... jones.... brent came up with this name for our baby and i love it... it has a few meanings for us...

1- it is a family name from his moms side of the family

this picture is of brents moms great great grandparents on her moms side: alfred thomas jones is the man with the stunning stash

... then brents moms dads mothers father is timothy jones... brents great great grandfather... also sporting a stylish stash...

2-maurice jones-drew... nfl... he has an awesome victory dance... brent and i both can do a pretty good mock of it... to see this dance: click play and you will see "wild card playoffs:maurice jones-drew highlights"... at about 1:13 he does the dance!

3- jones soda... why not.. it is good stuff... have you tried the hot cocoa flavor?

... and this has nothing to do with the name... but enough said... haha...

happy new year!

new years... soda bong... fireworks... friends... what more do you need???

what a way to start off a new year... right?!

brent came up with the crazy idea to make a soda bong for new years and of course most of the guys tried it out.. all of us girls could not stop laughing!!!! some of them opted to wear a poncho after chance got soda all over his head and clothes...

thanks for the awesome party bryant and chelsea!!!

i will always remember her...

today, just a few short hours ago... one of our dear friends passed away... hermana camacho... i am not exactly sure how old she was, but both brent and i know that she is so happy to be with her husband again...

(sister camacho is the adorable senora in the green sweater... she is with a few of the jovenes from our ward ... last year we went to her house to put up this christmas tree...

funny thing about this picture... i had taken another one just before ... but she told me immediately after that i had to wait a moment and take another... because i had not given her the chance to comb her hair yet... this is the second and more beautiful picture...)

... one big thing that i keep thinking is that we should never leave anything for tomorrow...because you never know what will have happened by then... i am going visiting teaching on thursday... and it makes me a little sad to say that i no longer get to visit her... but i am so happy that i was able to visit her those other times... and that i can have so many fond memories of this dear woman...

... just a few things i want to remember about her...

she was amazing!!!!

she had the best memory ever!!! she knew everyone in our ward from grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles... you name them and she knew who everyone was... by name and face... i was the gringita...

she has not been able to go out much at all lately so our ward was taking turns to go visit her and bring her food... what a blessing it was in our lives to be able to serve her!!!

she was so loving and would get so very excited just to see a smiling and/or familiar face stop by...

she did not have much, but you always knew what was most important to her...

she was a fighter... and a lover...

she would always tell us how she thanks her Father in Heaven for what she has and was a very faithful member of the church...

i love in the picture above you can see the picture of Christ... she would always point to it and say she knew that he was with her...

she had one of the best personalities and was so funny... i would laugh every time i went to visit her...

one time... i was visiting her with another sisiter in our ward and as soon as we got there she quickly told us that she was not doing well... but that she would love some churros... she was like a little kid... of course who could say no... we went all the way downtown to get a little bag of churros so that she would "feel better"... what a sweet tooth she had... she made me proud...

... what a sad time it must have been for her when her doctor told her that she was not able to eat anything but fruits, vegetables and some grains... no more churros, cakes, brownies... tamales.. oh how excited she got when i brought her tamales from ley...

i will be forever grateful for her example to me, i will always remember her huge testimony of the gospel and what it had changed in her life.... her loving kindness and simplicity of just loving life and being happy for the small things... i love her!!! ... and we will miss her!!!

great christmas gift ideas....

what great gifts... i found this on the United States Fund (unicef) website... they have some different gift ideas.... and this is one that i loved!!! a memory game of childrens faces from around the world... what a great thing for children...

... they also have some really fun stationary... i love cards, i always love to have fun and different cards around for when i need them... look at these ones... they are called "mexican doors"...

check it out, they have a bunch of different stuff that is so cute... you can buy from the website or go to the stores that offer unicef stuff... ikea, pier one... ect...

unicef...

... what?

... who?

english hothouse cucumber...

"Your baby now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber), from head to heel." babycenter.com

i had no idea what the difference was from a ordinary regular cucumber to an english hothouse cucumber... so here they are...

...96 days left... crazy how time flys huh...

some people said...

two new places i want to try...

first... TICOZ.... has anybody eaten there? ...a review i read used the words "latin fusion" to describe the food... the people that were telling me about it said that they have awesome "guacammus"... hummus and guacamole mixed... does that not sound amazing! next time we are in phx i want to check it out!!! it is on camelback and 13th... anybody up for it?

watch this clip and then you will definitly want to go there... or am i just really hungry right now... what is ticoz...

and then there is FEZ ... a middle eastern food restuarant that is owned by the same people... i found FEZ while looking up TICOZ... but i now i want to go to both places... brent and i love middle eastern food... yum!!!

baby stuff...

brent and i finally found a stroller after many hours of searching! we just ordered the maclaren techno xrl 2007 in tan and crimson and i cant wait to get it... for anyone else looking for baby stuff i would check albeebaby.com , babycenter.com and csnbaby.com... they have the best deals i have found so far! plus there is free shipping at all three of these, but be careful on babycenter... sometimes they have a fee that is added last minute for oversized shipping... oh, and we found our crib (without this bedding) on csnbaby too...

i guess i am picky when it comes to baby/crib bedding... this is the only set that i have found that i like... target.com

that is my most favorite... and this is one that i dont mind... same thing but different color... but i love the black and white so much more!!!

i also love looking at all the fun stuff they have posted on tangled and true... here are a few fun things...

crib bedding by Supernatural Baby

this is their urban collection bedding... and here is their diaper clutch to match...

and i just love these...

Chittypulga knit donuts... so cute...

and here is a puj sling...

simmer sauce...

i tried a new "simmer sauce" today and both of us loved it! i miss not having trader joes, sprouts, whole foods... ect... here, but this is one item that i bought while in the states not too long ago... so good! i just put chicken breasts in the crock pot then poured this sauce over top and went to work... we came home to some great chicken... all i had to do was shred the chicken and buy the tortillas and avacados... maybe tomorrow we will have some for lunch with black beans and rice!

oh.... and.... she is finally gone!!!! brents favorite billboard picture! the old lady that is coming out of the chilis ... so... now if you want to remember her, it will only be on our blog, i think it was the very first post i ever did.... haha...