Please come celebrate with us!

I do not want a traditional baby shower so we are having a BBQ. We want to share this special time with all our friends and family. Come join the fun and excitement!

****** If you plan on coming, we moved the time back to 6. With as hot as it has been we don't want everyone to die of the heat!*********

Slacker!!!!

I've been a HUGE slacker!! This is like 5 months in one. And because I am tried of trying to rearrange the pictures its going to be out of order.

In August we had a birthday party for my littlest sister Mackenzie. We went to king putt and had a little party at my parents house with a few of her friends.

June, My little brother Zack graduated high school!!

May 7th My little sister Jordan married Rowdy! We are happy for them and excited to have Rowdy in the family.

We went with Brandon Lindsey Colton Zack and Kenzie on a trip to the shark reef!

In May, Zack had his Court of Honor and officially received his Eagle Scout. We are so proud of Zack and all the hard work he put in.

In June we took a trip down to San Diego for 2 Braves games. It was a fun weekend hanging out and exploring San Diego.

Ok I think Im caught up for now. Still have to blog about the awesome weekend we had with the high school football team this past weekend but that will be done by Friday. It need a post all of its own it was that awesome!

Just a few thoughts

Just a few things I'd like to jot down for myself.
Today would have been my Grandma Waters 75th birthday. It also marks 2 years since Heavenly Father called her home. While I miss her so much and it doesn't get easier with time I am reminded of her all the time. I am reminder of her a lot through her daughters, My mom and my aunts. To me, my Aunt Tami seems to have my Grandmas laugh. I love hearing Aunt Tami laugh. Grandma loved to sit back and laugh at all of the silly thing we would do.
My Mom has my Grandmas hands. I see my moms hands and its like I'm watching my Grandmas hands. I remember sitting in church in Alhambra when I was little, and tracing the veins in Grandmas hand and realizing I have the same hands as well. My mom has a picture that I will always cherish of her and my Grandmas hands.
Aunt Tedene's sense of humor. I don't ever remember a time where my mom, grandma and Aunt Tedene and I weren't laughing to the point of peeing our pants. From the time Grandma had knee replacement and we realized from her room windows we could go to the waiting room and make faces at each other. Or the "bright idea" light in the hospital rooms. We were always able to have a great time together and laugh.
I feel so blessed to have had her as a Grandma. I hope I make her proud with the things I do and cant wait until we all get to be together again. I know she is having a great party today and having fun with Zoey, Taytum, and Wyatt and all her other great grand kids that will come.
We Love you Grandma and promise to always take care of Grandpa.

Taytum Rae Jones

We had our 16 week a week and a half check up and Dr said everything was looking great. He said he was leaning towards a girl. We had an 3d ultrasound right after that appt and they confirmed 100% girl. It was crazy. The lady had the probe on my tummy for like 2 seconds and was like all baby girl here. I guess when that's what you do all day you can pick that up that fast. It lasted about 30 minutes and was so fun to sit there and watch Taytum play and move around. My Mom and Dad went with us to this one and we will have another one when I'm farther along that all family is invited to. The next day was Saturday and when I had just gotten in to bed and laid down I felt her kick for the first time! It was the coolest thing. Since then I have felt her kicking a lot. Last night I was able to feel her with my hand on my tummy. Such an amazing feeling. Im starting to get a bump and most of my clothes don't fit. One day I will post bump pictures. I have only taken 2. One the day the embryos were placed in and one at 14 week. I was asked at work the other day if I was pregnant. That was weird. It took me a minute to answer. I was like humm yes I am. When you try to get pregnant for years and it finally happens you don't know how to answer those questions. It's like wow yes I am. Something I thought I'd never get to experience. Truly a miracle.

Baby jones update

Baby Jones is doing great! Dr says I'm officially out of the first trimester!! I will be 13 weeks on Tuesday. We had our first OB appointment on Friday which was different because we've been seeing the specialist for so many years trying to have a baby and now some other Dr is going to get the credit for delivering the baby. Just seems weird. At our appointment the Dr did a quick ultrasound taking measurements and was done. It was fast and not what I was used to. They asked if we wanted the NT blood and ultrasound to check for downs. I looked at Brandon and said I don't care what the results would be I want another ultrasound, so yes! We got a 45 minute ultrasound and it was so fun to sit there and watch our baby. Baby just wanted to sleep though so they had me go to the bathroom, drink water and lay on my sides. At the end they told us it looks like we are having a little GIRL! They will confirm in 4 weeks but were pretty confident its a GIRL. Little Taytum Rae!. Brandon and I still don't agree on the spelling but that the name. What do you all think (the 3 of you who still read our blog) Brandon likes Taetum and I like Taytum. It finally hit me Friday afternoon as I was shopping for girl clothes ( yes I couldn't wait) that I am going to have a baby. That all of this isn't just a dream. I knew one day it would happen and now that it is happening it just seem so crazy. We truly feel so blessed for everything we have gone through to get to this point. Now if November will just hurry and get here!

April adventures

April was a WAY busy month for us. Seemed like everything was crammed into one month. We Started off with the good old Clark County Fair and Rodeo which Brandon and I help out at. I'm in charge of one of the stages. Very stressful but fun. This year Brandon helped out in the cash office. Mixed in that week Brandon had a home track meet. Then we went back to work for a week, had another track meet then we hopped on a plane with our very good friends the Lewis' and headed for Hawaii for a week. They invited us to stay in their timeshare with them. We had a very good time but decided we don't take vacations, we take adventures. We had a good time exploring the island, searching for waterfalls (some we found, one we didn't after hiking down hill and then back up about 4 miles) and hanging out. We sure do have awesome friends to have invited us along and had a good time with. May is looking to be a busy month too. My sister Jordan is getting married next weekend and my little brother if receiving his eagle scout after all his hard work. Im so proud of both of them and when I get a chance to breath I'll blog about it.

Baby Jones @ 8wks 4days

Here's a video of the heartbeat. You cant hear it but its the little flicker in the middle.