I am not to good at updating this blog. I can't believe it's been two months. The kids are all back in school, I had a great birthday, Bentley has had a Birthday, Caleb turned 16 a couple weeks ago and is finishing up his eagle project so he should be driving soon. Oh what a scary thought. We are all very busy in daily living. We finally finished the waterfall in the backyard project. Now on to other things.

I just bought this horse today and Bentley is loving it.

All three grandkids together. What a blessing they are in my life.

playing with Kierra in the irrigation

Playing in the sprinklers with Bentley. Chasing Shandraya around saying "get you, get you" and "peek a boo" with the sprinkler head.

I went to Texas this past weekend to visit Trevor, Brandi and Bentley. Drew and Tiffany went flew out with me and we picked up Colten who has spent a month out there with them. It was so nice seeing them all. One of the best parts of going out there though is I got to bring Bentley back with us. He is such a great little kid. We have been having so much fun with him.

Below are a few of our pictures of the fun we had in Cabo. While we were their we visited two other resorts for fun, the boys all went deep sea fishing while Shandraya and I slept in, then walked to town and shopped, and just relaxed. We all took a glass bottom boat to see a lot of fish.We saw many beautiful sites. The ocean waves breaking on the beach were awesome. We were so close we could here the big ones crashing all during the night. Many new resorts are being built in Cabo, and San Lucus it is going to be a huge resort place in a few short years.

Doug took advantage of some sleepy time while we were waiting 3 hours in an airport. The kids listening to music on the flight home. Beautiful clouds out of the plane and last but not least home sweet home. We had a wonderful time but it is always so good to be back home.

Coming out of a different resort in Cabo this guy walks up to Colten and shoves this iguana at him and says to me "take a picture" so I do then he pushes Caleb and Shandraya next to him and says again "take a picture" so I do. I start walking away and he says " pay me" so I hand him $1.00 and he says two. They will do anything to make a buck down there.

Our adventure of going on a glass bottom boat so we could see lots of fish, and the famous natural rock arch in Cabo. We did see a lot of fish and sea lions, and the arch, but my picture of the arch didn't turn out. I don't know what I did wrong, I think I had my camera zoomed in too close and I didn't check it until too late. The boat was kind of rocky. I don't usually feel queezy but turning every which way to take a lot of pictures with the boat rocking and up and down I started to feel it.

looking out from the balcony.

This is our balcony

Taking strolls along the beach, playing in the water, burying Colten in the sand, finding sand crabs. etc. fun, fun, fun, no worries, no phones, no crying babies, no diapers, no whinning. I loved it!!!

The resort pools covered about 4 acres.

We are in front of the beautiful resort in Cabo, Mexico. We flew down there on Saturday the 21st of June and had a wonderful relaxing time. The resorts pools were spectacular. I really enjoyed myself doing almost nothing. Believe it or not Doug even did all of the dish washing while we were there. Let's see I didn't have to make a bed, meals were a group effort. I just sat back and read three books. What a life!

We got the sod all layed this morning. It looks so nice. We only have three more areas to finish. The pavers next to the patio and the platform area and the waterfall. Yee-pee we are almost done.

At the family reunion last weekend (6-6-08 to 6-8-08) in Virden, New Mexico. We enjoyed a hay ride around the town while Uncle LeRoss (grandpas older brother) told us about many old sites that Grandma and Grandpa Jones lived at and did various activities at. We saw their school, and different homes they lived in, and the farm. It was really hot, but informative. I think around 65 of us showed up for the weekend.

Our first plantings in the basin area

We got started with the plantings and the platform area. When we got irrigation the other day we reliazed that the platform isn't high enough to stop the water from coming down so we are going to have to redo it and make it higher. Back to the drawing board. We will be laying the sod next week. That should be a lot of fun. But all in all it seems to be coming along good.

Memorial day was a great day to get a lot accomplished on our backyard project. It's coming along very nice.

Tiffany came over the other day and gave Kierra her first hair cut. She didn't like it at all. The only way we kept her sitting still at all was for Shandraya to keep feeding her ice cream.

Colten just got done digging a huge hole to plant one of three trees that we are putting in the new area

The beginning of the steps outside of the back door. They still have to be leveled, but you can get the main idea.

This is the beginning of our huge backyard project. We finally came up with the plan so that when the summer thunder storms come on top of irrigation we don't flood out our garage and basement. We hired a man to remove 16 dump trucks full of dirt. We are customizing our own retention basin. This will be the first of many pictures to come I hope. We have made a lot of progress but still have a ways to go. It is getting hot so it's harder to go outside and work

Doug and I did a quick weekend get away to Sodona, AZ a few weeks ago. It was an enjoyable trip but we sure enjoyed getting back to our own comfy bed.

Danielle with the Suns Gorilla

Danielle got a big hug from the Phoenix Suns gorilla. We were at a walk-a-thon for the Muscular Dystrophy association. She watches every game of their's. She is a big fan of the Suns

Doug & Shandraya

Our Snowman

Grand Canyon

Surprise visit

Shandraya tubing

Jones update

It seems that I play catch up all the time. One day maybe I will get organized enough that I will have time to do everything that I need to do, but in the mean time patience will have to do. We have done a lot of fun stuff since the last time I did anything on this blog. Hopefully I will be able to show a few pictures now that I have my computer up and running again.

Christmas

I'm finally getting around to posting some Christmas fun, only a month late! It was nice to have everyone get togeher and we had a lot of fun.

Bentley sure had fun playing with the shredded packing paper

The aftermath

Caleb the cowboy

Shandraya holding Bentley

The cute grandkids

Shandraya, Keegan & Kierra all dressed and ready to go trick-or-treating

Halloween Fun

We had so much fun carving pumpkins with the grandkids. Kierra enjoyed eating the seeds more than anything else.