Me and my kids!

Aunt Lori came for a visit and took a couple shots of us.....it wasn't planned, so we don't match.
How cute are these kids!!

These are the faces of a 3 year old princess....happy one minute, sassy the next! Now it is well documented!

Easter Time!

Some of the Jones cousins after the annual easter egg hunt at Grams and Poppy's home. It looks like Ava was sad and didn't find one single egg but that is just her silly faces she makes for pictures sometimes!!

Can you tell that they just woke up??? They were pumped that the Easter Bunny came, but Tanner kept asking where "the rest" of the presents were! ha.....he must have been spoiled by his experience with Santa.

LOVE these little kids!! They are so sweet and smart and bring so much joy to our lives!!!! Happy Easter.

Tanner turns 5!!

I just can't believe how big and smart this kid is now! I am so proud of him and just adore him. I have learned a lot by being his mom and enjoyed (almost) every minute of it!!

A birthday dinner at RedRobin with grandma teresa and grandpa dan and family! It doesn't get much better than that.....at least in our family! Love ya Tanner Boy!!! Love, Mommy

Grandparent time!

My mom came for a week! She came because Brandt was leaving to go to Whissler in Canada for a guys snowboarding trip and my dad came for 2 days to help celebrate Tanner's birthday. I just love my parents....and so do my kids! Above, is my mom with the kids at the zoo, on a sunny day!!

Im pretty sure that Ava would sit on my mom's lap for 3 days straight.

My kids spend a ridiculously wonderful amount of time coloring!

ANd yes, Ava really does wear that dress almost everyday! She only wears dresses.........anyone want a closet full of cute shirts and pants and skirts in exchange for "poofy" dresses! Ha

Potty Training Nightmare

After having such a tough time getting Tanner to use the potty when he was 31/2 I waited until Ava was 3 to really start trying.......she is totally ready and can hold "it" and will go hours dry and then pee her pants when we get home on the carpet instead of just telling me she has to go. You get the idea! Just a nightmare. After weeks of on and off the potty and bribing her with dresses, dolls, candy, a trip to disneyland, etc, /................even letting her watch movies while she "tries"..............she is back in diapers (her choice). Ugh. I am just going to wait until she isn't stubborn about it and wants to be big. I look at other kids that are potty trained and are like 2 and just don't get it. Oh well. Atleast I don't have to "hold"her like the picture below everytime.....and she would always say that she DIDN"T need PRIVACY, how funny. GIrls are just made to be social peepee..ers!

St. Pat's Day morning I think Im a cool mom and make them green pancakes with a shamrock in the middle..................do you think they ate them? Of course not, they are green mom! SOOOO they had cereal.

Never say never

Who would have guessed we would be MONSTER TRUCK fans!??

Okay well I guess if you really know me you know I am ghetto and a little W.T. The truth is that when you get FREE tickets.....you go(especially when you get to sit in a sweet private box with a bathroom and drinks....need I say more!?)

Thanks to an endodonist that Brandt refers to we get to go to Av's games and my favorite..... Nuggets games.

The kids had a good time once they got some earplugs. Those trucks are ridiculously loud! How cute is Ava? All GIRLIE at a Monster Truck Rally.................not sure who she gets that from.

Torro Loco was the best that night. Of course we all enhoyed seeing Grave Digger......I remember having my little 3 year old telling people that Grave Digger was his favorite m.t. years ago and being embarrased that he even knew those words....but maybe he didn't know the meaning or that's what I would tell myself!

As you can see............................. we all got into in and had fun. And no he had not been drinking.!!

The Princess is 3

That 's right...as much as I think of her as my baby...."she is a big girl(who refuses to sit on the potty!!) Hilarious....I must have been the most hard headed and stubborn little child because BOTH of my children have this wonderful quality. Payback is a B!! Just kidding

Heres she is with her favorite Prince......her Daddy. Hopefully it will be years before that changes!

Ava and Grandma worked on her cake together! So darling.....everything is more fun when sugar is involved too!

Ava got a lot of cute things for her birthday...lots of princess dress ups and a sweet slide type castle thing from grandma teresa and grandpa dan. Thanks for coming to visit us for her birthday.

Just love love this little lady. Happy Birthday Princess.