October Fun

A re-post of our October 2008 photos from Malia's temple sealing, our trip to Sundance, Halloween, and some fun at the pumpkin patch. Enjoy! !



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Secret Notes day

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I got this idea from another blog and thought it would be so fun to do in our little town. My friend Wendy came over with her kids and we made "secret notes" to hide around Del Mar. We called ourselves the secret note fairies, and the boys, although only 2.5 years of age, noticed right away that they did not want to call themselves fairies and decided to be mailmen.
We let the kids use their creativity to find secret places to hide the notes so someone would find them and get a surprise pick me up from a stranger. It was a fun and beautiful day. 85 degrees in mid-October!

SAVE SAVE SAVE!!

1. Ask someone to do a babysitting night exchange once a month. Rules: Kids have to be in bed, Mom goes over and watches kids until up to midnight, Dad stays home and watches her kids. Then switch it up another weekend night that month. Easy and free!!
2. Check out gaspricewatch.com to find the cheapest gas around you.
3. Get a change jar and start saving those coins!!
4. Get your fruit and veggies at the farmer's market. Cheaper and better and fresher.
5. Check out www.collegesavings.org if you have kiddies.

Keep it clean

Today I thought I would share a new type of cleaning product that I was introduced to that I absolutely LOVE. I know we are all being pressed to start “going green” in our daily living, and one of my little attempts to do so involved using all “green” products to clean my house.
The products I am using are called Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day. The best place to get them (and sometimes they have great sales!) is online at : www.drugstore.com under the green and natural button.
My favorite product they have is the lemon verbena or lavender, surface scrub. You will get out all that dirt and grime that you thought was going to be there for life. It is amazing! Just be sure to rinse it off well. It takes work, but so worth the sparkling clean sink or tub.

Love your hair...

I have found a new found love for my hair again. I am using new shampoo/hair products that are SO amazing. They are called Davines, made in Italy I think. Anyway, they are worth trying. You can get them here:
http://www.drugstore.com/search/search_results.asp?Ntk=All&srchtree=5&Ntt=davines&aid=336064&aparam=davines&scinit1=davines

I am so confused!

PEOPLE!! I am even more confused than before. I, unfortunatley, have gotten a good number of people that like the blog better, and about the SAME amount of people who like my website better! Ok, for now I will stick to this blog because it is new and if you know me I LOVE constant change! Just to make myself feel better, I am going to re-post some old blogs from my website that some of you may not have seen. Just stuff that I wanted to share, nothing deep, but possibly useful to some of you.

Randomness

Get used to this, you are going to see a lot of it! Randomness that is.

I may not be familiar with your language... but I sure would like to cross over your bridge. - Gregory Isaacs

D-land, Take 1

Ok, I know, this was NOT our first time at Disneyland, but this is my first BLOG about Disneyland. We have been blessed to have passes this year, along with some other girly friends of mine, so I often find myself cruising the street of Main.
This particular time entailed some special guests. Our newest pass holders, Hannah and Allie, got to attend and "ditch" school for the day. NO FAIR! But wait, I was there too so it's all good. Melissa with her son Jackson, Wendy with her two, Kaden and Taylor, all joined us.
It was really a good visit to the happiest place on earth, even more happy than normal, because we really did not have to wait in ANY long lines.
Disneyland Diary of the day: My official favorite ride as of this moment is toy story, taking the lead by such a small percentage over the nightmare before Christmas at the haunted mansion (which Gabe would go on over and over again by the way). Don't hate me, that ride has a special place in my heart, but toy story ROCKS!!!
Fun Christmas decor + lots of good company + no lines + summer weather + D-land= One spoiled and fun life!!

Bouncing beauties

Allie had a super fun bounce house birthday party. Gabe and Malia and I got some special VIP passes to attend the "pre-party" earlier in the day. Oh yes, this was no ordinary bounce house, Auntie Meesh does things right! What's that you say? Heck yes I was having more fun than the kids, and getting a good workout in the process

Imagine, my fam, Grammy, and Papa- ROCKIN OUT. That's right, a little music jam session if you will. Gabe was into it, Maila got distracted with the urge to insert everything into her mouth, Papa was getting a little annoyed, I think, and Grammy.... let's just say she was in rare form and Gabe was diggin' it.
What is it with us Roberts women getting all CRAZY sometimes and running around all pumped up, bouncing off the walls, and the men in our lives get SO annoyed by it?! Let me tell you, this Mrs. Jones enjoys it, thanks Grammy for the musical evening.

Couch Surfin

My Gabers has already begun. I can see him now, somewhere in the teen years, lounging on the couch for hours, under a blanket (or in true form, he would be in a sleeping bag on the couch), watching surf videos. In pure Joe Acey, pre-marraige, style. (that is for you Brittany ;) )
This is what I came home to the other day after taking photos. He had made himself into a little burrito, barley noticed he was in there. Oh well, this is better than the visions I have already had of Maila in her tween years!

How do I love thee....

TTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS MMMMMUUUUCCCCCCHHHHHHH!!!
Man is this baby stealing my heart away. Is it not so amazing how your love can grow so deeply for so many different people in your life, and in some way, not only does it not diminish the love you have for others, but some how makes it seem that you are then able to love everyone even more deeply. It is never ending and the more I fall in love with the baby girl, the more I love my Husband, my Son, my life. I think she makes my heart grow.
I love watching her personality slowly revealing itself. I love putting pig tails in her hair and how she gives me the high five wave (no movement to her hand whatsoever, just a little arm and hand with fingers spread out) like all of her communication has to come through that one gesture and you can feel her ora or vibe or whatever you want to call it, hit you like a ton of bricks. It is just itchin' to get out. I can tell she wants to tell me so badly what is going on in that little brain of hers.
I love how she makes silly faces to make us smile and laugh and how that just seems to make her day when we do. I love how she likes to be facing toward me rather than away from me and cocoons into me in pure baby love. Yes, I am in love with this girl and feel like life would be perfect if I could somehow have her permanently attached to my body.

Experiment #1

I, Mrs. Jones, have given in to the peer pressure and abandoned my mac website for this blogger thang (insert "under pressure" pure 80's song here).
I am the mother of 2 sweet sweet babies that I can't get enough of, and don't ever seem to have as much time as I want to smoosh, chew and cuddle on them. My husband, Mr. Mike Jones, is as banker as they come,and I love it! I love the random funny joke that seems so out of character. It makes it that much better because it is always unexpected. He is the left side of the brain and I am the right. Together we make a whole and with Gabers and Malia, we make a family.
My hope is that my dear friends and family will be able to browse through this site with ease and that I in turn will be able to focus more on telling our story, not only through our photos, but even more so through my writing. In essence.... a way for me to keep a running log, a day in the life of Mrs. Jones. Something to look back on from time to time to be reminded of all my sweet blessings.