April Showers Bring May Flowers

It is rather difficult to get this sweet girl to smile, especially for the camera, but when she does, it's quite possibly one of the best things in the world. She doesn't always feel uber girly, but this day, she wanted to wear all the bracelets she owned and wanted to put on the wings and tutu Mima gave her. So, she pranced around the apartment for a bit in these and was so adorable! If you have to live in the "projects", at least said projects put forth quite a bit of effort to get bring the village together and do fun things. The picture below was the Easter Egg hunt that our apartment court put on one weeknight. It was just our court, so it was a good turnout, but not too big. They divided up all the eggs by the amount of kids, so each kid got 8. It's rather difficult to make a bunch of kids stand around staring at eggs for too long before they get a little stir crazy. Good thing Kaylen had her good pal Tanner to distract her before the hunting began!

She caught on really fast and it was SO cute!!!

Our sweet princess

Then, the following Saturday was the whole Village's Easter Egg Festival! There were lots of eggs, face painting, pictures with the Easter Bunny himself, popcorn, cotton candy and other projects to do! It was a free-for-all on the eggs, but our sweet little girl was totally okay stopping when Mommy and Daddy thought she had enough... which she did.

She sat so well to get her butterfly painted on her face. She was so cute and loved to look at it in the mirror when we got home.

On our way back to the apartment, we stopped at the little school's playground because it's different from the one we have in the Court. She played on that for quite a bit and had a ball. She particularly liked asking us to open her taped plastic eggs so she could have more chocolate.

Sitting just like Daddy

The weather was beautiful, so later that day we headed up to North Salt Lake to visit our very good friends, Jason, Ali and DANE! We love Dane and now that Kaylen isn't such a boss, they do a bit better. But Kaylen still knows how to rule the joint. Good thing Dane is happy to play anyway! They're super adorable.

April and May are big months for us! This weekend, even though we've done our share of egg hunting, it is actually Easter. Next week, on the 28th, we have my big 3-0 Birthday!!! My parents are flying in to spend a bit of with us and also to watch Kaylen so Gregg and a good friend of ours can throw me a birthday bash! Not yet sure how I feel about 30, but I do know that life has been good to be so far, so hopefully, it only gets better from here! I'm very blessed to have all the family and love in my life.... so 30 should be painless.... right!?

Then on May 5th, Gregg is graduating!!! We are super proud of him! We're going to celebrate that again with family and friends.... more reasons to celebrate! It's a little bittersweet as Gregg doesn't get to feel as most graduates do... the feeling of being done, but it is an incredible accomplishment and he has worked SO hard, we couldn't gush more about our guy. Yes, he has a wee bit more education ahead of him.... ha ha.... BUT, we are so excited to see him graduate! Time is flying but, with all the great weekends ahead, we have much to look forward to. Only afraid time will pass too quickly! HAPPY EASTER!!

Fun Times in Logan

Warren had the GREAT idea of us all meeting up in Logan, where Leslie lives, to have a fun weekend of hanging and skiing. And a GREAT weekend we had! We arrived Saturday afternoon and although Leslie's place is awesome, it didn't really have enough room for our little family and all of the greater Jones household. So, we got to go swimming in the hotel pool where they were staying!! Kaylen had a total ball!! Because of her tubes, we are super nervous to get her ears submerged, so she spent most of her time in this little inflatable tube with ALL of us gushing on her and playing with her. She such fun!

That night... we got to meet Jay's new boyfriend, Rick! He is such a great guy and more importantly, such a great guy for her! We all had dinner at the Beehive Grill in Logan.
And even spent a little time hanging out afterward

The Wyoming Jones Fam stayed for the entire weekend so that we could get some good family time in and that we did! Us skiers and snowboarders headed to Beaver Mountain outside Logan to spend Sunday skiing! Ian has become such a good little skier and we have a great time together!

Here's the crew! We appreciate SO much that we got to spend a great Sunday with the family and Warren when his typical Sunday responsibility is with the church. We had a wonderful time!

After skiing, we stayed to have a delicious meal with the family before heading back to Salt Lake. It was definitely one of those opportunities that makes me truly realize just how hard it will be to leave Utah. Although Leslie and Grandma, Grandpa, Katie and Ian aren't super close, they're all close enough to have taken advantage of such a great opportunity and made some wonderful memories. Kaylen has truly grown to know and love all of her family. She knows them well enough now that she is always sad to have to leave them. She's growing up and it makes us appreciate each and every moment we have with all of our family. Thanks Joneses

for all your generosity and giving us such a great weekend and creating some more wonderful memories!

Picture Catch-Up

SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY. This rump. Is it not THE CUTEST rump in the ENTIRE world??? Yes, we completely agree. This is usually how we can find her if she is completely asleep. One morning, we took advantage and snapped a couple pictures. Ugh... this girl melts my heart.

Our perfect, sweet angel girl

We got the privilege to meet Baby Ruby!! No... not Mima Ruby.... BABY Ruby!! Yes, our very good friends, Tyler and Reina, named their sweet, beautiful, daughter, Ruby. She is beautiful and wonderful and we are so excited for them!!! It was great to finally meet Ruby. Tyler and Reina are also headed out of Utah soon as Tyler will be going to school in....... Minnesota! for 1 year while he finishes up a degree in air traffic control! We're hoping to be able to see them whenever we might be home even if they won't be there all that long!

I'm not exactly adventurous when it comes to doing Kaylen's hair. 1. She isn't always an agreeable participant and 2. I'm not all that creative. But we were noticing that most of her hair seemed long enough to try the good ol' fashioned pony tail! So, one Saturday afternoon, we gave it a whirl! And look how FLIPPIN ADORABLE! She looked like SUCH a BIG girl! The only real issue I saw was for nap time and diaper changing time... when lying on one's back, the pony tail doesn't work out so well, but she did enjoy it. She really does love being called a 'big girl'!

We were feeling rather poor and decided it would be TONS of fun to make our weekly pizza from SCRATCH! Well... making it this way is NOT cheap and after a big of a fight with the thin crust pizza dough and Gregg having to run out to buy more... we will wait again for this "fun" event sometime in the far future! It actually was fun because Kaylen got to help and they did turn out rather yummy. We just realized that ordering pizza, especially if you pick it up and find a deal is not a bad way to go. But it was lots of fun to have Kaylen participate in the making of dinner!

Pictures have been rather hit or miss lately! Seems like we have lots of fun moments, but either don't grab the camera or haven't done enough fun things. Utah's weather is feeling rather bi-polar and continues to go from wanting to be winter to wanting to be summer. SO, we are COMPLETELY ready for summer! Hopefully, there will be LOTS and LOTS more pictures to come in the upcoming months!