Friday, May 7, 2010

random phone pictures...

i finally got the pictures off my phone and this is what i had...
first... i got this picture of our chef at benihana...
he made this heart shaped pile of fried rice... then actually gave it a heart beat...
4/10/2010
horses with gwen and max... he is so excited...
4/19/2010
cousins... he loved having his cousins to hang out with for a few days at disneyland and around our house...
4/19/2010
i love that jared took all the kids on its a small world all by himself so that karen and i could go on space mountain... crazy!!! but thank you!!!
and i love that jones is in the process of throwing that map in the water... "remain seated please"...
4/19/2010
jones attacking the candy necklaces at play group...
5/4/2010
so random... but i was at this stop light and looked up and the clouds with the perfectly blue background said, "simpsons"... i know you can all hear the theme song now...
funny thing is i dont even know the last time i have seen that show... so it was so random that i thought that of all things...
5/5/2010...

Thursday, May 6, 2010

just for you mom...

i made indian fry bread... it was so good! dont laugh... i know it is super easy... but i had never made it until tonight...

perfect amount for two and perfectly easy to make


1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk

mix and then fry

(recipe said to use water... i wanted to use milk... i loved how they turned out)

these were so yummy with pinto beans and peach mango salsa...
then for dessert... drizzles of agave nectar all over the fry bread...
we might have these again tomorrow they were so good!

love thursday... jones love

loves cupcakes
especially when they are mexican flag colored because cinco de mayo was coming up!
5/2/2010
loved his first time on matterhorn...
he is finally tall enough and although i love the thought that i caught him screaming with excitement... it is only that he was chewing his delicious jelly beans!
also a new favorite love of his...
i know... i will teach him to chew with his mouth closed someday...
and old love... the teacups...
loved that the conductor let him help her conduct the horse and trolley...
5/3/2010
skittles... need i say more???
when i am printing pictures... he is sitting still... because his hands are filled with rainbow candies
love the dollar store and the amazing finds! ok... so that is actually one of my loves... but i had to add it in... all this for $1.98...
9 seed packets and 24 peat pots...
back to jones... but also a dollar store find... 59 cent jones soda... whats not to love about jones soda!
loves that i let him chew gum at play group this week... he was so excited that yes, he was drooling... this is not him spitting... he is actually drooling and didnt know what to do... i luckily had my camera out... and lucky for me, and his stomach, he didnt swallow one piece....
5/4/2010
love of his birth country... he doesnt understand that yet... but i hope to create a love for his birth country... for cinco de mayo we got out our mexican flag and bought some mexican candy!
5/5/2010
happy late cinco de mayo!!!

Monday, May 3, 2010

bribe alert...

while getting all caught up on blogging about our trip to az and our fun with visitors life kept going and so now i am still catching up...
here is our week in review...
4/26/2010
monday... for family home evening we went to target to get daddy a surprise... cant tell you what it is or else it wont be a surprise for brent... but i can tell you that jones found this sword at the dollar spot and was so very happy... in fact we had to take it with us to the grocery store the following day...
and lucky for me... the dollar spot has so many gardening things right now... it is hard to pass them all up... especially when they are only a dollar... i am now the proud owner of my first garden gnome... i am hoping that it will ward off any more pesky bugs that ate all my basil...
(i know that wont get rid of the bugs, but i like to think my cute little gnome is more than just a sweet little man standing there holding a mushroom)
4/27/2010
tuesday... jones isnt the best at talking on the phone... but he is the best at pretending to talk on the phone to imaginary people... wish i could pretend brent is an imaginary person and then maybe he would say more than "nnnoooooo" when i ask him if he wants to say hello to daddy...
4/28/2010
wednesday... i thought it was funny when i pulled these things out of the carseat... you never know what you are going to find... these are just a few of the regular items...
money, flowers, cars
others not seen here...
balls, candy, crackers, toy bugs... those gave me a scare a few times...
jones loves to stick things on either side of his legs when he gets in the car... then we both forget about them later...
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4/29/2010
thursday... the sealife aquarium... it is a part of legoland... we talked about how much fun it would be the night before and he was so very excited to see sharks, puffer fish and nemo... good thing we saw all three!
then... who needs legos when you can just go to legoland!
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4/30/2010
friday... we had our date night again... this time we went to barnes and noble to find a new book... just so happens that jones remembered the place and was super excited... he ran straight to the kids section and immediately got a book off the shelf and then started reading it to some people that we have never met...
we read a lot of books and the were lucky enough to be there for "pajamarama" a childrens story time... jones lasted only a few minutes when he was all of a sudden done with the store and we couldnt get out quick enough... but we did leave with the beautiful book above... "fairy tales and fables" a mother goose book that jones loves!
then back to our house for dinner... and what did he request... waffles! i talked him into having eggs for breakfast instead of his usual waffles... so for dinner i guess he remembered that he didnt have his daily quota of waffles...
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(brent made jones a "goodmorning" video that he can watch everyday when he wakes up... in this video he asks jones what he is going to eat for breakfast and mentions waffles... so jones asks for waffles almost everyday!... we make many different kinds of waffles... and he gets his daily wheat, oat bran and many other kinds of grains)
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5/1/2010
saturday... we went for a run to carlsbad for some jamba juice and a stroll around downtown... we played by the water fountain in the beautiful weather... jones got many compliments and comments about his choice of footwear... there wasnt a cloud in the sky but he had to wear his rain boots...
i loved that although the sidewalk was right there... he had to walk in the grass, rocks and dirt... he is a boy with his own agenda...
and then to add to it... we went home and worked in the garden... and at one point jones looked at me and said something like, mom you need to get dressed/ready so we can go to disneyland... he said it in less words than that... but you get the point... poor kid misses disneyland because he hasnt been in about two weeks... ahah!
5/2/2010
sunday... the bribe... jones earned himself a thomas the train set for going to nursery without me... we have been working on it... and little by little... he went today without crying for even one second... yaaay!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

happy surprise anniversary...

my aunt, uncle and cousins were in town to visit my cousin that lives in san clemente...
we had dinner together, then celebrated my aunt and uncles anniversary...
29 years!
congrats!!!
it was so fun to see them...
jones especially loved all the attention!
he played on the boogie boards...
ate all the gummy bears...
and made them help him spell all night long...
s-t-o-p
4/24/2010

bubbles...

we had to say goodbyes to the burrs... but before we did we got to go to the beach again...
4/20/2010

the highlights of disneyland with the burrs...

goofy...
mcqueen and mater...
chillin on the bench in bugs world...
playing swords with jared...
who can stop laughing when jared is around... i cant stop...
this picture sums it up... too bad it isnt a video...
funnel cake...
"castle"
jones loves castles... and shouts it out every time he sees one...
at disneyland... (there is more than one)
anytime we are watching a disney movie... the castle always shows up...
4/19/2010

cuzies

i liked that shauna called this "cuzies" when she sent it to me...
we luckily got all the kids together after church for a good picture...
we were so happy that shauna, her kids and grandma m could come to stay for a day while they were driving/moving from monterey ca to san angelo tx...
then later, when they unfortunately had to leave, we made cupcakes...
so cute! taking turns stirring the batter...
so intense... they are all so busy frosting the cupcakes...
finger lickin good...
max loved the sprinkles...
jones loves frosting... not frosting the cupcakes but just eating it straight off the knife... he never eats the cake... just frosting... and sprinkles of course!
4/18/2010