A trip down memory lane

I have been using my scanner to the best of its abilites this last week so I have been having lots of memories about all of my little kids who now have little kids of their own. This first picture is of Nate holding Mel in our house in Provo. This is Rainee watching over her baby sister Mel.

This is a little later sorry these pictures are not in order but this is Isaac and Mac when we went on our trip to Washington.
This is in the living room at our house in Taylor. Jamie, Rainee and Mel are on the back row and Shaylee, Nate and Kerry are on the front row.
This is Mel in the snow and I can't remember ever seeing this picture.

Remember "Wally" this is a picture of Mac and Caitlin just "chillin" with the dog.
Mac showing his tonsils and Caitlin and Isaac hiding in the background.
Here is Dad with hair!
Mac and Isaac on one of their many hunting trips.
Mac, Mel, and Isaac showing off the fish we caught on one of our camping trips.

This is Grandpa Shaw with Tydon, no it really is Nate but it sure looks a lot like Tydon.
Mac showing his jumping abilities.
Nate with a fish.
Here is a little more normal picture but they are still making strange faces.

Rainee on her first day of school, I think Grandma Shaw has a picture like this when she was going to school too.
Rainee with puppies in the back of our station wagon.
This is Rainee, Mel, Emilee and Nate in front of Grandma Shaw's which is now Carolyn and Kevin's house.
Rainee and Nate dressing up as their favorite characters. I think I have seen some spider man costumes on some of the little boys. This was one that I made for halloween one year.
Mac with the big white tent on one of our camping trips.

Nate giving Mel a kiss.
This last week Mac was cleaning out the shed and their was the old filing cabinet that had been in their since we moved, you can tell how often I have needed it. He was going to throw out all the stuff that was in it but I told him to let me go through it first. Well their were some real treasures in there and some of them were old pictures and old negatives that I thought I should scan so they would be on my computer. Many of the pictures I have copies of or my children have copies of but some of them I could not remember or I may have lost the picture. These are some family pictures that we had taken minus Dad because he didn't get back from a hunting trip. I decided if I had all of the kids ready to go that I would just go anyway. Mel is just 10 days old in this picture and after waiting around for Dad we all got in the car and had our picture taken. These are some of the proofs that I saved because if I remember right we only purchased one 5x7 and I am not sure where that went. They scanned pretty well even though they were only about 2x2 in size.

This picture was after church in Provo. Mel is the baby and Rainee doesn't want to look at the camera.
This is a picture of Rainee that I can't remember ever seeing but I must have because it was in the file.


This one is of Dad with a little puppy that they had, Dad is 3 years old.

I sure am glad that I went through the file, I love looking at old pictures the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is more than true because you now have a real visual image in your head and you can see the family resemblances in all of them.

Happy Birthday "Igick"!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! We love you and hope you are having a very fun and special day! ;)How can you not love this crazy, silly kid!!?

24th Of July

I know that it has been a couple of weeks since the 24th but I am just getting around to getting these pictures posted so sorry about that. It was a busy few weeks and we sure had a bunch of fun with everyone here. Every year they have a 24th of July celebration at the Mapleton ward and they invited the Cubriver ward since we used to be part of them. It is just an old fashioned celebration and we did not invite PETA to this year's celebration so yes they still chase all of the animals and the kids who catch them, take them home with them. Layne was sad that he didn't catch any thing but Rainee and Doug were glad or I should say Grandma was glad because it probably would have ended up at our house. In the egg toss Doug and Layne went forever and I think the egg bounced about 10 times on the ground and it still didn't break, it eventually broke when Layne was trying to catch it, we should have called it super egg! We had a firework show on Saturday night and Nate was the fireworks expert and showed all of the boys how fireworks should not be handled. We all enjoyed it though, I think Nate enjoyed it the most, he was able to do what his Mom and Dad told him not to do when he was younger. We had a great time and thanks to all for being here!!

July 24th Celebration

Happy Birthday Layne!

Well we celebrated Layne's birthday finally. He had an army birthday party. I filled up 250 water balloons and they set up their 2 slip n slides. They also had snowcones, pizza, cake, and ice cream. They had lots of fun. But knowing me I only remembered to take a few pictures.

Mac and Jessica and the marathon

Here is Ma Jones with some of the girls in our family on the trek.

Here is "Pa Jones" and our family trekking across Rocky Ridge. This was the beginning of the marathon.

Mac and Jessica were married on July 22, 2008. It was a beautiful day and I have been busy ever since, sorry that I have not posted sooner but it has been a marathon and I think I am getting to the end. It started the week of the trek, Ryan and I were Ma and Pa on the trek to Martin's cove and Rocky Ridge which was July 14th through the 17th.

It is always amazing to me to experience a little of what the pioneers went through. We traveled 18 miles in one day and I had developed blisters the 2nd day so it was a bit of a challenge to walk 18 miles with blisters on my feet. But I have so much admiration for the amazing people that our ancestors are and the great sacrifices that they made so we could live in Zion. When we arrived home we were then on to the wedding plans. We had the quilt shower for Jessica and Chelsea on the 19th which was Saturday and we also had a baby shower for Kristi on that day so it was the day of the showers. Rainee drove from Reno on Friday and Melanie flew in on Saturday night. I went to the airport to get her and then drove back to Grandma and Grandpa Shaw's to stay overnight because Mark came home from his mission and his homecoming was on Sunday which by the way was a great day to hear the growth and testimony that he gained while on his mission to Mexico.

Aren't these pictures great! They are so photogenic and such a beautiful couple.

Well after the missionary homecoming we drove to Nate and Rachel's house to celebrate the July birthdays, Happy Birthday Bryce, Jaedon, Layne and Nate!!

We then went home and we all had fun with all of the little boys and of course Olivia, she is a little outnumbered. On Monday we had the wedding social at Jessica's home and it was so nice to see so many people and I really liked being able to visit with everyone. It was very casual and we just had a celebration of their lives. On Tuesday we drove to Salt Lake to the temple and were able to enjoy their beautiful sealing. It was so nice and their were many loved ones their to share it with, I felt a special spirit their and learned some things that I had not known before. After we took pictures, it had been raining but stopped for the pictures, by now the little ones were getting pretty restless and we had Shawnee and Cierra take them to the hotel while we enjoyed the nice dinner at PF Chang's. The food was delicious and it was a beautiful relaxed day. We stayed in Salt Lake that night and then went to ParkCity the next day. We had fun with all of the little boys and they all survived our shopping at the outlets. We drove home on the 24th and enjoyed having Doug come. Oh, I forgot, the Sunday before we left on the Trek Ryan was called to be Bishop so he was a little preoccupied for the last 2 weeks. On Sunday he was sustained and it was great that our family was still able to be here for the condolences. So it has been a marathon and I am glad to kind of be back to normal, I enjoyed the last 2 weeks and loved being with my beautiful family!!

Our Trip to Park City

Jessica and Mac's wedding

The ring

Well it is official the ring is on her finger so she is engaged, even though all of the invitations are out and the wedding is pretty much planned. It took a while for her to get her ring because it was especially made for Jessica. I think the wait was worth it though because it is a very beautiful ring.

The three stones across the middle are set in a rose gold so it makes the diamond look pink. It is really a beautiful ring!

Mac and Jessica are official

Belize

Well if anyone knows how to make the slide show smaller please let me know. I can never seem to get it right. Any how Belize was fantastic. It is a beautiful country. The first pictures are of Ambergris Caye. The beaches are brilliant white and the water is so turquoise. Our accommodations were amazing. There even was a hammock on our front porch of our cabana. Doug went salt water fly fishing in the flats. We were unable to catch some permit but he caught 5 bone fish. I didn't think he did to bad since it really was his first time fly fishing. I just loved sitting around. We also had amazing food wherever we went I really pigged out and when I came home I had gained 7 pounds. It is coming off fast though. The next pictures are of some of the waterfalls we went and saw. The resort we stayed at in Mountain Pine Ridge was 7200 acres with only accommodations for 24 people. So the resort was small but amazing the staff was so amazing down to every last detail. Since they have so much land they have these hikes into the jungle and you can go to these waterfalls and swim at the crystal clear bottom. It was like out of a movie. We also went into Rio Frio Cave which has a river running through this amazing cave. There is another spot where it is called Rio On Pools. There are these natural pools in the river where you can swim. We went to Caracol, the mayan ruins, they were amazing. It was mind blowing to see the ruins and read about the history that they have uncovered especially with our knowledge of the Book of Mormon made it ever more the interesting. It was hard to come home. There are also some of the bugs we saw. There is a picture of a Portuguese Man of War jellyfish it is the bright purple animal. These were in the ocean at the time so they advised to be careful when swimming. I also took pictures of the flowers they were gorgeous to me.

Belize

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Happy 4th of July

I was on call on the 4th of July so my day started out at the hospital. I decided to document my 4th with some pictures , I had my camera in my bag because I had been to Kace's t-ball game and I forgot to take it out so I actually had my camera with me. We didn't have to work very long in the morning so I was able to spend the afternoon and part of the evening with Caitlin, Isaac and Mary.
These pictures are actually backwards from my day so the first ones you are seeing are of actually July 5th because after we had a barbeque at Mary and Isaac's and after their great firework show I was called in again. This case started at about 10:30 pm and I was actually kind of upset to be called in to do a hernia repair (on call cases are supposed to be emergencies.) Well when we got into the OR and after the patient was asleep I was able to see why we were doing an emergency inguinal hernia repair. I guess he had this hernia for awhile and it had incarcerated. We found out after the incision that it had not only incarcerated the bowel but also part of the bladder so I called a urologist in and he did the bladder repair and the general surgeon did the bowel repair. Needless to say I spent most of my time in the OR the night of the 4th and most of the morning of the 5th.

This picture was actually the appendectomy that we did in the morning.
Mary and Kelsey were dancing to the strobing fireworks. It looked pretty cool with firework lights.
Here is all of us watching the show, Isaac was the firework master.

Happy 4th of July! I am grateful I have my freedom and I am actually glad that I was on call because if I had an emergency on a holiday I would be grateful that there would be someone there to take care of me.

More of the Jones Reunion

Hike to Rosy's mine

Jones Reunion

Another week another reunion!
This weekend we had the Jones reunion up at Cinnamon Creek and we had a lot of fun reuniting with all of our relatives. This is Corey giving the cousins a ride in the handcart.

This is our breakfast and it was cooked in dutch ovens and it was delicious, I think it was called mountain man quiche. It took us a while to get it finished but it was worth the wait.

Kace had so much fun playing with all of the cousins he didn't even know he had and I don't think he was dry the whole reunion.
Tydon loved the water too and he was quite funny trying to squirt everyone with the hose.
We had trivia games and just visited alot and on Saturday morning we went on a hike to rosy's mine. I will make a slideshow of the hike it was great and we had a lot of fun!!

The Marriott Reunion

We went to the Marriott reunion this weekend up on Monte Cristo. We spent most of our time exploring the property and seeing the improvements that have been made. Into Grandma and Grandpa Shaw's property they have made a new road access and they have it paved to the top of the hill. It looks pretty good! We are now able to get into the property easier.
This is on the property where there is a flat place to camp.
Grandpa taking a rest before he gets back to the mule.

Jessica worried about Mac's driving.

I think that Monte Cristo is one of the prettiest places on earth (especially in the spring.)
Lily had her puppies and had to bring her with us to make sure they would all be okay. Lily did great and enjoyed hanging out in the trailer. Sammy fell in love with the little runt.

Mac started the pyramid and Isaac thought the he could finish it. This is about as far as they got.

Four wheeling and going on the mule was really fun. Mac was a little crazy with his driving.

It has been a cold Spring

This last Saturday Alex was married to Sterling and these are some pictures at the temple. You can't tell how cold it really was but if you look close you can see goosebumps and purple skin. The wind was blowing and it became even colder. By the afternoon it was a little warmer and I was just fine with a coat on. It was a great day though and we wish Alex and Sterling the best! I don't think they are cold now (they are in Hawaii on their honeymoon) Wish I was some place warm.

We are happy they found each other!!

Carolyn did a great job with the reception.

What is this!

So now he has taken a nap and when he woke up, THIS, is what his eye looked like. This has all been very weird.

What HAPPENED?!

When Ty woke up this morning this is what his eye looked like? We can't figure out what happened. He didn't cry in the night......he didn't fall (that we know of :) ) there wasn't a bee or wasp that I could find in his room......it was all very weird. It is looking a little bit better now, but is still quite swollen.

Monterey Trip

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Monterey Trip

I realized on this trip that when you turn 30 it is all downhill from there. My age really showed on this trip. I thought I was doing so good when I packed everything. We got over to Jack London Square which is some shops and restaurants along the coast. We got in the parking lot and I went to the back of the car and realized I did not pack the double stroller. I couldn't believe it. Why would I do that to myself? Needless to say I got the privilege of carrying Bryce everywhere. We then went to the A's vs. Red Sox game. The boys favorite part was the cotton candy. We only lasted through the 6th inning. The next day we went to the Monterey Aquarium. That was fun. But they don't rent strollers so I got to carry Bryce everywhere. Bryce loved looking at the fish. The boys loved that they had so many hands on displays. I am amazed to see how many different kinds of life God created which I know each has a specific purpose.
On our way home we stopped at the Santa Cruz boardwalk which is a good old-fashioned amusement park on the beach with all the carnival games, rides, and food. We rode some rides and ate some junk food the boys loved it. Layne states that this was his favorite part.
On Sunday we were going to church when my age got in the way again. I had forgotten to pack Doug's Sunday clothes. I had packed everyone else's but his. So we had a short lesson that Carson gave us and then we went to the beach and played in the sand. There are some pictures of that. Layne and Carson got some kelp and they turned them into Indiana Jones' whip. I would show you how this worked but my age got in the way again. I forgot to recharge my battery on my camera so it died shortly before this happened.
On Monday we went to the San Francisco Zoo. They did have wagon rentals which we did. I love the Zoo and it was great to do on my birthday.