We Love America!

Since Independence day is coming up soon, I thought I would post this cute picture of the girls wearing their matching heart flag shirts that we bought for them. Happy early 4th of July everyone! (This was taken on Kaylee's 2nd to last day of school for her "America" performance.)

Our (Justin's) New (old) Truck

So Justin decided to buy this truck and sell his old one. It is a 1978 Chevy Silverado. Part of the reason he wanted it was so he could fit the whole family in it! It is rather pretty long because it has a long bed AND a crew cab! It has newly upholstered seats and a new paint job too- so that part is nice. So anyway we are hoping to sell his other Chevy truck quickly, so that it will help pay for this one! But I am NOT selling my suburban! Anyone wanna buy a 1983 Chevy Silverado 4X4 pickup? Look at the picture below! It runs great!

One year down, 12 more years left....and then there's college!

Kaylee has graduated from Kindergarten! Here is her teacher, Mrs. Raebel with Kaylee. She was a wonderful Kindergarten teacher and Kaylee will miss her! (Sometimes Kaylee calls me Mrs. Raebel without knowing it! Then I have to ask her if I look like Mrs. Raebel!)

All the Kindergartners were given these silly glasses to wear. They had a lot of fun laughing at each others silly faces!

Below is a video of her class singing "Days of the Week" for us parents. Kaylee was chosen to help lead the class! They also sang a cute song to help them remember the months of the year, but the batteries died in my camera, so I couldn't record that one!

Our old house in Yuba City, CA is for sale again!

Click on the title above and you will see how much our old house is for sale! Keep in mind that when we sold it, we got $227,000 for it (that was in the spring of 2007!). We are so glad that we got out when we did and that we were able to sell it before we had to leave and move to Yuma, Arizona! There are some things that I do miss about this old house. One of them is the nice big backyard we had with the nice garden soil and cherry and apple tree. I will also miss my kitchen that Justin remodeled to my liking. He did such a nice job on the kitchen cabinets. They turned out beautiful! I will also miss the nice new carpet we had put in before we sold it. But don't get me wrong, I AM glad we got out of there and I DO like my house I live in now! Since the link doesn't show any pictures of the kitchen that I miss for some reason, I will post some pictures that I took of our old kitchen to let you see what a beautiful job Justin did on the cabinets.

Kaylee lost her first tooth!!

Here is Justin tying a piece of dental floss on Kaylee's loose tooth. After a few attempts of pulling and having the dental floss slipping off the tooth, Kaylee finally pulled it out with the floss all by herself! What a brave girl she is! I never was that brave! Look how tiny her tooth is- especially when it is all by itself and not in her mouth!

I guess that bigger adult tooth behind it talked the baby one into coming out finally! (See the post from May 12th titled: "Aaah!! Time for Kaylee to see the dentist again!")

The tooth fairy gave her $1.50! Wow! I don't think I got that much when I was little!

What's in YOUR carpet???

Look at what we got out of the carpets in our house! Gross huh? Well, our office room carpet had a lot of stains in it and so we decided to rent a carpet cleaner (Rug Doctor) at our nearest grocery store to get our stains out. Since we had the machine, we (Justin) went ahead and cleaned the other rooms that had carpet. Our floors look a lot better now but the dirt and stuff from the carpets temporarily clogged up our bathtub (as you can see from the picture)! It feels good to know I have nice clean carpets now! I just had to take a picture of it to show you how productive us Jones' can be (when we feel like it)!

Kaylee's cute note

Here is a note I found that Kaylee wrote to her Kindergarten teacher. She drew a picture of her cleaning up the classroom to go with it. I thought it was so cute. If you can't read the note, this is what it says:

"Dear Mrs. Raeble, I want to give this to you 'cause I think you are the best and you rock of course. I wish I can go to your house. I really do thank you for letting me help you. After you see this, I will give you a hug. I will turn into a helper bug and make the room spotless. I love going to school 'cause of lots of stuff. Have fun teaching next year's class. I will have fun cleaning and I can not wait. I'm so excited. I will be quiet and try to tell everyone to be quiet."

Sponge curlers are fun!

Last week Kaylee wanted to wear curlers to bed so she would have curly hair for church. Of course Alison had to do it too. I always forget to take a picture of the finished product in the morning but Kaylee's hair turned out so pretty!

Only 3 curlers were needed to gather up all of Alison's hair!

The Quiet Book is finished!

A little after Christmas time (after I got my awesome sewing machine), I decided to make a quiet book for my girls because I thought it would be fun and a little challenging. I had been given lots of patterns and instructions for making one from a nice lady from church in California. I thought that I would be done in a couple of months or so but I got pregnant and had morning sickness and did not feel like working on it for a while. But I am better and was finally able to finish the book! Yea! So here are all of the pages that I had made.

Aaah! Time for Kaylee to see the dentist again!!!

We just discovered that one of Kaylee's adult teeth has been trying to grow in right behind her baby teeth!!! I guess her baby teeth love her so much that they don't want to leave! I hope this does not mean braces in the future, but it just might!!

It's May and it is time to swim in Yuma, Arizona again!

We bought a little kiddie pool for the girls because we are nice parents (he he) and it will keep them happy and not hot and bored in the summer. The giraffe head squirts water, but Alison didn't like that part so we had to turn it off so she could have fun too.

Here is Alison avoiding the Giraffe's spray!

They came out of the pool several times because they said they were cold...but they couldn't resist going back in again and again!
The video below will show you how much fun they had!

Pet Sitting

Last week we got to pet sit for our neighbors who were in the process of moving to their new house for about 4 days. We got to see what it was like to have a dog and 2 parakeets for a while. It was pretty fun and the animals were very well behaved, but for now I think having 2 girls and one little baby boy on the way is good enough for us right now! The picture above is Gunny, who is begging for food!

The girls had so much fun playing with Gunny!

Is Alison walking the dog, or is the dog walking her???

I don't remember the parakeets names, but the green one is a boy and the yellow one is a girl. They seemed like pretty happy birds.

Alison is trying to play with Gunny, but he seems uninterested at the moment!