Trevor has an announcement...

I will let the shirt do the talking...

Trevor will be a big brother around the end of January! Nick and I are very excited! (I am sure Trevor is as well!) I am 16 weeks, and so far my pregnancy has gone well. I have just been really tired and not very productive--because I take lots of naps and don't want to do much. It is getting better though! We will find out in a few weeks what the baby will be: boy or girl. (Last time with Trevor, we let it be a surprise, but this time we will find out.) I keep asking Trevor what it will be, a brother or sister and for the longest time he would say "brother" but now he says "sister" so we will have to wait and see. (and no there can't be one of each in there, I am just having one!)

Sidenote: Story behind the shirt. A friend, Tracy, a few months ago told he husband with a shirt like this when she found out she was pregnant with her second one as well. I thought it was the cutest idea. So when I found this shirt at Carter's I bought it so I could use that idea. I saved it for a few months with the purpose of using it. Well, the weekend I was going to tell Nick with the shirt my sister and I were having a conversation and she asked me if I was pregnant...well, Nick was sitting at the table and heard our whole conversation--so, I didn't get to use the shirt. And then I was going to use it a couple of more times, but it never worked out. So, I finally got to use it when I posted on the blog.

5 years...

The end of July, Nick and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary! In February we went to Disneyland to celebrate it (that is where the picture is from, I don't have any wedding pictures on my computer), so when it actually came around in July we went to dinner and a movie. It has been a wonderful 5 years. Nick is a great husband and father. Here are a few facts about us...
How we meet: a student ward at BYU
First date: We went to the Rocky Mountain Revue
How he asked me to marry him: We played a game of horse--I was in Idaho and he was suppose to be in Utah and we would play this game over the phone. Well, he surprised me and was in Idaho. It was so cute.
It has been a great 5 years and I can't wait to see what the next 70 years hold for us.

Trevor's Two Year Pictures

A while back, about the beginning of July. My sister Jeana did two year pictures of Trevor. They turned out so great. She does such a wonderful job. Here are just a couple, if you want to check out some more, go to her website: http://www.jeanabirdphotographyblog.com/ and scroll down. Thanks Jeana for doing them--I love them. If you notice Trevor has two different hairstyles, but the pictures were taken on the same day. We took some in the morning and the evening so in between I cut his hair. I can't decide which way I like better. He is growing up so fast.

Jones Family Reunion July 30 and 31

Every 2 years we have a Jones Family Reunion. My mom has 4 brothers plus herself (see picture below). My mom's closest brother is 13 years older then her. She kind of grew up as an only child. As a result of her being the youngest by so much I use to dread these reunions because most of my cousins on my mom's side were "old". Okay not that old, but their kids were our age. But as I have gotten older I really enjoy these reunions. This year was great. How they decide who is in charge of the reunion is they rotate every time and this year was my mom's turn. She did such an awesome job. It was pretty low key...we went to Lions park and hung out, played soccer, played on the playground, played basketball, played board games, played kickball, swam in the pool, ate good food and enjoyed each other company. On the last night we had a small program were everyone told how they were doing. It was great to have on update! Trevor and I playing with a basketball.

Jeff and Mallory playing catch.Jeana and Brooke hanging out watching the program.
The kids hanging out together.
People hanging out together...

...watching/listening to the program.

It was fun to be home and help my mom with all the preparation and to help carry out the reunion plans! Nick wasn't able to make it because he had to go to Flaming George. While I was at my parent's house I get this call from Nick telling me he is in the hospital in Rock Springs. Here is what happened... he was on the boat and he had this awful pain that wouldn't go away and it was getting worse. So they (he and his co workers) docked the boat and called the ambulance. The paramedics drugged him up and went to the hospital. Once at the hospital they figured out he had a kidney stone. So nick stayed in the hospital for a few hours and then went to a hotel. I wasn't able to go to Rock Springs to pick him up so his mom did. Thanks so much Cyndi for your help. The doctors said he would just have to watch to see if he could pass it by himself. So Nick is just waiting hoping it passes sooner then later.

Spudman Triathlon

Nick's Mom has done the Burley Triathlon for a couple of years now. This year we went and watched her compete, it was on July 26. She did a great job. Watching her made me want to try it next year. We will have to see if I do or not. Here is everyone right after Cyndi got done!

Cyndi took Trevor through the water to cool off.

Here is a picture of everyone as we are about to leave. I am the one taking the picture. Cyndi did so well and she didn't even have time to train for it this year. Way to go Cyndi.

This weekend we stayed with Nick's Dad in Burley. We not only had the spudman to watch but Nick's aunt was receiving her endowments at the Twin Falls Temple so we were able to go to that as well. While we went to Twin, Kim watched Trevor and Trevor got to go on Kim's 4 wheeler. Trevor loved it. Kim thanks for watching him! On Sunday we went to church with Cyndi and Brad in Twin Falls and we meet Brad's mom and dad. Then Nick took Trevor and I to Jerome where my dad came and picked up Trevor and I to go on to Nampa and Nick head back to West Jordan. Trevor and I went to Nampa because we had the Jones Family Reunion the next weekend. Read the next post.

24th of July Parade Floats

Nick and I didn't go to the 24th of July Parade this year, but Jeana and I did the next best thing... (it might even be better then the parade) we went to the South Towne Expo Center and saw all the floats in one place. It was a lot of fun. Brooke and Trevor had a great time. Parking was a little crazy because they decided to redo half the parking lot that day.

This year my stake, Mountain Shadows Stake, was asked to do a float. Brooke and Trevor are standing in front of my stake's float. I really wanted to help build it, work on it, but I only made it to one night and they worked on this float for months and months. It turned out amazing. The night I did go to help I put contact paper on the letter blocks. The picture below is the float that I voted for. It was so impressive. All the floats were great.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

Jeana and I decided to take Brooke and Trevor to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House the end of July. We took these two to the Draper Temple Open House in January and we were there for 2+ hours and the kids were tired and the wait was long. So we decided to do this one during the day and hopefully it would go quicker...and it did. The kids were great and it was a neat experience to take them though the temple.

Here are Trevor and I outside the temple.

Whose kids are those? Didn't anyone teach them not to stand on the furniture?

Here are Trevor and Brooke enjoy the refreshments. They loved the cookies. By the time we got here (even though they were good walking through the temple), it was time to get going...it was nap time.

I think the best part for Trevor and Brooke was in the tent where the refreshments were being served they had huge fans blowing in cold air and Trevor and Brooke just loved standing there letting it blow on them. It was funny to watch them.

Here are Trevor and I as we are about to leave. Once we left we had to walk to the farthest parking lot and a nice man with a golf cart saw us walking and asked if we needed a ride. It was so sweet of him to ask and of course we said yes.

I am so grateful for temples and what they mean to me in my life. I am so glad families can be together forever!

Zoo with Trevor

In the beginning of July, Trevor and I needed to get out of the house. So, I decided he and I would go to the zoo. We had a great time just the two of us walking around and looking at the animals.

Here's Trevor playing at the park at the zoo. This was his favorite part.

My favorite part was the bird show. I had heard it was great, so I made sure Trevor and I went. I didn't know how Trevor would do so I bought him an icee to drink at the show. I didn't time it very well because he drank most of it before the show even started. He got a little restless, but did pretty good. And the show was amazing.

Yard Sale

Jeana and I participated in our first yard sale. Macey's was having a community yard sale in July so Jeana and I thought it would be fun to sign up for a booth. We had never had a yard sale and always talked about it, so we did it. It was a good experience and now I can say I have done a yard sale, but I don't know if I would do it again.

Here is the experience. We got up really early so we could get our stuff set up in the parking lot. We started setting up in the wrong spot so we had to move everything to the right spot. We were a little frazzled at the beginning. Nick was on a camping trip and I had to find a babysitter in a hurry because Nick hadn't made it back yet, but he did right as soon as I had one coming over. He thought he had lost his phone in the mountains, that is why I couldn't get a hold of him to see what time he would be home, but his phone was actually in his backpack. It was so hot outside and we were sitting in a asphalt parking lot and we didn't bring a canopy for shade, but the lady in the booth next to ours shared hers otherwise we would have fried! But we made a little money and had a great time.

The only pictures we took of this experience... here I am

here is Jeana!

First family camping trip

New tent means one things...

...first family camping trip. Our ward had a camp out and we thought it would be fun to take Trevor. It was at the Willows in Lehi. I loved that we didn't have to go to far so if it didn't work out we could just come home. Also, no ticks was a huge plus. We had a great time and look forward to next year!
Trevor's favorite thing to do while we were there...throwing grass on Dad and

playing with the rocks! What a little boy!
Mom and Trevor inside the tent Saturday morning. We took Trevor's pack and play and he slept great in it.

Funny side story...during the night, I woke up to some funny noises outside, I was so scared. I thought what could be lurking outside the tent (remember we were in Lehi so not too many wild animals, but my mind was going crazy with what I thought it could be...maybe a bear, a crazy person, a snake, the possibilities were endless!) I woke Nick up and said did you hear that he said yes and tried to reassure me it was nothing. Well, I kept hearing it and I told Nick get your flashlight and find out what it is so he opened the window and shined his flashlight out and guess what it was...a cow. There was a field right by our tent and he was eating a midnight snack. It was so funny! I still chuckle about it.

4th of July

For the 4th of July this year we had some friends over for dinner, fireworks, and candy poker. It was a great night. I love to play candy poker but I have such a bad poker face. If I have a good hand everyone knows it because I can't stop smiling. I would never do well in Vegas.

I am so grateful for this country we live in and for the men and women who serve/served to allow us to have the freedoms we enjoy each and everyday.

Here is Trevor sweeping our driveway as we prepare for the fireworks.

Here is Trevor putting our flag up.

Here we are waiting/watching the fireworks. Mike thanks for lighting them. Trevor loved the fireworks, he got the biggest smile on his face each time a firework was lit, and after each firework was over he would clap. It was so cute.

Trevor and Mom watching the fireworks!

Trevor and Dad watching the fireworks.

Girls Camp

I had the chance to go to Girls Camp this year with my ward. I was able to go the whole week! Thanks Nick and Jeana for your help watching Trevor! It was so much fun. There is nothing like girls camp to fill the spirit. The food was amazing, the weather was pretty good (it only rained a couple times) and the company was great. I even did the zip line they have. (side note: last year I did the zip line and screamed my head off and couldn't get down off the ladder, I was so scared I think I was in shock. It was pretty funny to watch me if you were there.) This year the zip line didn't scare me at all. Also, I did my fashion statement for the year by wearing my socks over my pants and my shirt tucked in to help avoid getting a tick and once again this system didn't fail me...no ticks!

Some highlights of camp...ninja destruction, team competitions: cup game (holding a cup between your head and your partners), don't drop the bucket (people filled your bucket up with water and if it got to heavy and you popped the balloon you were out), tug of war: the rope broke the first try, Frisbee golf, shooting a bow and arrow, singing camp songs, filling the spirit, and Bishop's night aka testimony night. Camp was wonderful

Father's Day

Father's Day weekend Nick had a camp out with the scouts. So on Friday morning Trevor and I went with him to reserve a spot. It was fun to walk around, Trevor loved the water. We also stopped at the Quarry to walk around. Nick is an amazing Dad! Nick loves spending time with Trevor! Trevor loves him so much. Right now, if Trevor gets hurt we have to call Nick to tell him what happened--it is the only thing that can calm Trevor down. It is so cute!

We had a nice Father's Day. We went down to Cyndi's house and got to spend time with Nick's family and had dinner with them.