We had a nice Thanksgiving over in Birmingham. It was a little quiet without all the family there, though. Missed the Jones clan!

I wanted to get this down for me to remember. On Friday my dad took several of us out driving around B'ham. We were over near some of the old mills. One we passed had smoke coming out of it's smokestack. Cody to Jason, "Daddy, is that where they make the clouds?" Love that little guy!

Just for Laughs

So, this afternoon I am checking Facebook and find some totally awesome (could also be read as scary!) pictures my sister had posted. Some are funny, some are sweet, but they all bring back great memories! I thought I would put them here so Mary could get a chuckle!!



Me, my dad, and sister Sara with our dog Gretel. This is while we were living in Germany.
Dad, me, Mom, and Sara in front of some sort of military vehicle.

My Aunt Malinda, my Dad, and Uncle Dakin.


Sara and me in our red robes on our groovy vinyl sofa!



Me, my Great Pa and Sara



My mom is the third one from the left. This is a shot of her with her 4 sisters. Mary this makes me think of your girls!



My Ma Jewel and my Mom.



Carli, me, Sara and Katie Christmas 1989.



Me, my cousin Julie, my cousin Jeff, Sara, and my cousin Whit all sporting our Under Roos Christmas 1979.

Well Hello

Long time, no blog! We have been busy over here and blogging just hasn't been something I felt like doing for a while. I have the kids home with me today (thanks to election day) and thought I would "escape" into the blogging world for a few minutes.

There have been lots of fun happenings here this month. We are enjoying the fall weather and all the activities that go with it! A couple of weeks ago was the Fall Festival at our school. It is an all day event for our family with Jason acting as DJ and me doing all the things I am responsible for throughout the day. The kids love it and have a great time each year. My mom and dad were here to go with us this year. I think they enjoyed the craziness of elementary school for a day!














We also made a little trip to the pumpkin patch! I love taking the kids to see all the pumpkins and taking a zillion pictures! When I look through old photo albums it is always the pumpkin patch pictures that are my favorite. I love the colors and the feel of the photos.















Halloween was fun this year, as usual! Jason loves Halloween so he likes to really do it up over here. This year was very tame for him because of the rain. Not a whole lot you can do without soaking everything. Oh well, the kids still got a ton of candy. Let me clarify that - Claire got a TON of candy while the boys were only so-so. They wimped out pretty early but Claire went trick or treating for a couple of hours! Her loot is quite amazing!

Today we will be working on Chase's book report that we have managed to put off until the day before it's due! Oh well, what fun would it be to get it done early?? Better run get started...