Minnetonka Cave

Yesterday Me, Mom, Skyler and Brooke went up to Bear Lake and went and Hike the Minnetonka Cave. It was so much fun! I have not been there since I was little. We learned a lot and got our exercise in. :) I think I heard out guide say it was like 850 stirs round trip. lol

This is one of the Chipmunks that were out in the parking area. this one was the fattest of the all. you could tell that people fed him a lot but he was so so cute how could you not. :)

Brooke, Sky and Me at the entrance

Pictures inside the cave. We learned a lot of interesting facts and had a few laughs.

After the cave we stopped at La Beaus and had hamburgers fries and Raspberry shakes! Yummy! What a wonderful day! Thanks Mom!

Harry Potter 7.2

We saw the movie in 3D and our glasses looked like Harry's :)

So on Friday July 15th Skyler Mom and I went to go and see Harry Potter. Oh Man I love that movie! It is so so so good! I am kind of sad to see it go. It has been so fun to see the movies and to watch the actors go up. I am happy with how it ended. :) I love Harry Potter!

Hawley

This is my cousin Hawley! She passed away last night. I am going to miss her very much! She has been sick but I was not expecting this. I am glad that I know that she is happy and not sick anymore and that she is surrounded by love.

I love hawley so so much! I remember that she taught me to do a "Magic Twist" ponytail. I loved doing that hair do because she taught me. I remember her and my mom went to a concert and came back with no voices because the cheered so loud. She was always sweet and loving and kind. She is just so amazing!

I LOVE YOU AND WILL MISS YOU DEEPLY!

Indianna Jones

We have had our dog Indy for a very long time (14-15 yrs) we got here as a puppy from the pound and have love her so much! She was such a great dog! She was so cute and playful, good with kids and love to eat : waffles with syrup, BBQ potato chips, dads corn and tomatoes in the garden and the apricots that fell off the tree. she love to chase cats and catch birds and run from one side of the house to the other. we have a permeate Indy trail in our back yard.

the past few weeks she has been sluggish and not eating very well and sleeping all the time. we hoped and thought that it would just go away and she would get back to normal. the past few nights she would come and greet us as we came home from fireworks. well on Tuesday she had a really bad day and i guess she was pretty sick and so she was put to sleep. :(

we have all really had a hard time with this. there has been lots of tears. she was part of our family. we are all going to miss her and it is going to be hard to not have her around.

Jones Family Party!

On Saturday July 2nd we had a Jones Family Party! It was super fun. Most of the boys went Golfing in the afternoon. The dinner started at 5 and then we played games and watched some old home movies and then we had a firework show. It was so much fun. The food was yummy! and we got to mingle and catch up on every ones life and get to know some cousins better. then We played a bunch of minuet to win it games. there were some for kids and some for adults. I have pictures but for some reason my camera was being silly and mixed them all up. I love my family and am truly grateful for them!

Olivia Bean getting ready for Barrel Racing... SO SO CUTE!

Dad playing a game. He as nylons around his head with a ball in it and he had to try and knock over some bottles. we made all the siblings do this one :) it was funny! dad won!

Sarah, Kent, Brooke, Chelsey
They had to shake the ping pong balls out of the tissue box

Brooke and Chelsey

Issac ready to eat Aloha Cake

The yummy Cake

Skyler and Wyatt after finishing the sack race

Me playing the nut stacker game

Brad Pulling Abby in the barrel Racing event

So Cute

the little kids receiving metals

Leah, Gina Ben and Kris stacking something on a Popsicle stick

Will, Dad Brad and Raquel fishing for pretzels

Annette, Chelsey, Brooke Ken

listing to instructions for the game

Brooke look es confused

Playing the game Ken won

Aaron, Clif, Jody, and Kent playing TP toss

Logan Ben Aaron and Sierra

they had to wear a pedometer on their head and shake it to see who could get the highest amount. it was funny to watch . it looked like they were having a seizure

Uncle Allen Playing the game that dad played

Wyatt and Skyler playing the Oreo game

Lexie and Zach playing the oreo game

We played a huge game of twister.

Me Leah Chelsey Allyssa Raquelle Sara becca brooke and paula all played and april spun the thing since she is pregnant. :)

Chelsey and Allyssa were Very good at the game

Uncle Allen bought some fireworks and we lit them off. it was so much fun. we had some fountains and some of the aerials it was so cool. I think our favorite was Whoa Daddy! it was awesome! (pictures below) We were the hit of the neighbor hood..

What a great day and lots of memories made. Love You Jones Family

Fireworks/4th of July

So begining June 27 DJ and the whole family started working at a fireworks stand. We had 2 stands in Clinton. One at the walmart and one at the Macey's. DJ ran the Walmart one with Spencer and a few neighbors and Mom rand the Macey's one with Skyler, Me, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa and a few other people.

Lets just say the whole thing was crazy and none of us want to ever do it again.

So on Monday we were suppose to get the fireworks at like 8:00 am and then spend the whole day setting up and getting it ready and maybe get some sells in. Well we showed up at 9:00 and no fire works. so we just chilled and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited until 7:00pm when our fireworks finally showed up. we did inventory and moved stuff into each tent and begun set up. well we did not even get done until 1-2 am at the Macey's tent. DJ's did not have some of the stuff he needed and so it made it even harder and they did not get finished until 4am.

Tuesday we started selling and finishing getting everything ready. it was a pretty good day. My mom left to teach a scout Merritt badge class with Skyler and left me and Kaylinn to run the stand. Dj needed some help and so I went over and he sent a kid over to Maceys to help kaylinn. the whole day there had been a breeze which felt nice to help cool things down. Until about 6 and the wind got really powerful and started blowing everything over. DJ was selling some aerials to someone and this stand fell over on him and the fireworks went EVERYWHERE! they were rolling down the street and there was nothing that we could really do. I quickly ran back over to my stand to help and it was not as bad as DJ but it was still a mess. Our Aeriel's fell on kaylinn. I felt so bad. we got to work picking them up and had them mostly done when another huge gust came thought and the stand and fireworks almost fell directly on my head. luckily there was a nice man and lady there to help up hold the tent up so it would not blow away. The wind felt like a hurricane!( not that i have been in one but i have seen movies with it.:) ). we did find out that there was a micro burst of 60-80 mph winds. As this was going on and we were all holding on for dear life i texted my parents HELP! the could not do much but it was all that i could thing of doing. I called Grandma and Grandpa and they came and helped right away. When my mom and dad got the message they were a little confused because in kaysville the wind was not even blowing. they believed us but just did not understand all the trama.
I felt really bad, DJ's tent the metal poles started to bend a little so he had to call the people and have them come and fix it. We also found out that it was super windy in Layton and the tent there had problems and that part of the roof of KFC blew off and fell and smashed some cars and some trees were broken in half like toothpicks. It was really crazy.

Wednesday Thursday and Friday I had to work at my real job in Logan. But I did get a phone call from my mom on Wednesday saying Help! They had another windstorm that blew like the day before. My mom was like "I believed you but now I understand" Her stand was not that bad but DJ's completely blew over. ( so these stands are pretty sturdy and are held up with 10-20 20gallon filled water barrels. it has to be Strong wind to move them) So DJ had to wait a day til he could get a new tent and get some new fireworks that were not damaged from the water and the wind.

They stayed pretty busy. On Saturday we had a family reunion and We were all grateful for Adam and Sammy and Kaylinn for helping mom out that day. they were pretty busy.

Sunday we did pretty good. mom's stand closed early. it was just so so hot. and i don't think that any of us have seen so many tattoos in one day. lol it was kind of funny.

Monday sky, Spencer and I slept in and I made french toast and we slowly made our way out there. It was OK it was steady. we closed by 6 and then had to take everything down and put it away and clean up and so we did not get done til after 9.

Dad, Skyler Mom and I claimed up on the roof to watch the Kaysville City fireworks and then DJ had a few that we lit off. As we were on the roof we could see so many people lighting off fireworks. it was kind of cool. the hard part was that we were trying to figure out what type they were.

It really was not the best 4th of July and it was a crazy week that none of us want to relive.

Cars 2

Oh man I loved the movie Cars and was super excited to see Cars 2. It came out on June 24 and my friend Kristen and I went and saw it on the 25th. It was so much fun. we went to Cafe Rio and had dinner and then went and saw the movie. Oh man It is so so cute! I loved that it developed some of the othere caracters in the movie. I love that it is great for kids but just as great for adults. I also just love Mater! I highly reccomed it!

Kristen & Me

Zumba

In may I got a new calling. I am not the 2nd Counselor in our RS presidency. With this calling I get to plan fun activities! Yeah!! So we did a Zumba night. OH my goodness it was so so much fun! Our instructor was amazing and fun and full of life and boy can she move! I have never had so much fun exercising. :) I also don't think that I have sweated that much at one time in my whole entire life. She teaches for free and so i am going to go to her class. Yeah! If you have not tried it I HIGHLY recommend it!