the wide world of DANCING!

For those that don't know, I, Rachel Kay Andrew Jones, most uncoordinated dancing person of all time, took dancing for 7, that's right SEVEN years as a youngster. I took from Minnie Hall in Lewiston for a couple of years (please notice the wrinkles in our tights, we love them) and then went to Tueller's School of Dance in Logan for the remainder of the time.

Karen Cottle was my blessed friend to accompany me to dance for all those years. Now, I did like it for the first 3-4 years, but after that I really only took it so I could get the treat (I think I have mentioned this before) that we ALWAYS got afterwards (thanks Janet and mom :) ) There was the one time though that I got a butterfinger and it kind of crunched all over Janet's car and I (and Karen, I think she had to clean it up) got in trouble. But other than that my treat experiences were very positive.
Back to the dancing and uncoordinated part. I was never a good dancer. I am okay with that. I was always on the back row. Oh, well. At least I was good looking :)

I know that most of you are wondering who in the world did my hair (hopefully most of you are wondering who that is). But the truth is, my mom and I had a compromise. I did the back and she gets to take credit for the uni-bang! The next picture, I designed the hairdo all myself.......maybe I shouldn't admit that. At least I have nice legs :)

Now the whole purpose of this post is to show that my dancing skills have NOT been passed on to my kids (actually I think Kace may have my skills a little bit). But Ty, W-O-W. That is all I can say. He LOVES to dance and changes into these blue silky shorts every (and I mean EVERY) time he dances. He also wears these shorts to play basketball or run, but changes his shirt to one that has a number on it for those activities. This is an average dance for Tydon, sometimes he is crazier and sometimes he is more mellow. Anyway, watch and enjoy. You will probably have to turn the sound up. Hope you are entertained!

Craftiness

For those that don't know, I married into an extremely talented crafty family. It is nice for me because they have really great ideas and I get to benefit :). Nate's mom, Donene, is AMAZING! She is seriously the most talented woman I know. She can see something in her head and then create it (this is where I have the problem-seeing things in my head). I have to have her come over and look at paint, carpet, drapes, etc etc because I have such a hard time visualizing something.

Anyway, her latest adventure is making adorable hats, scarfs, flower, booties, you name it she can make it. She has decided to start a blog to sell some of her inventions. You can find it here.

Check it out, you won't be disappointed :) I stole some of these pictures from her personal blog, so you can see some of the other things she has done.

Life

Well, after two weeks of the computer being in the "shop" the pictures are no where to be found. They said that I could take it to another place but it could cost me up to $3000 and there was no guarantee. So if you have pictures of our family from the year 2009 beware because I will probably come find you so I can have some pictures from that year :) It could be worse.....

Lately we have just been waiting for the snow to melt and have really enjoyed (understatement) watching it melt a little bit each day. We made a new snowman with the wet snow that fell the other day. Tydon loved making it with just me and him. Kace added his touch when he got home with the broom and hat.

For Valentine's Day this year I decided not to get the boys a gift, because they get so many other things from their grandparents and great-grandparents that I decided to just do things that would create memories and traditions for them. So we made cookies, Valentine's Rice Krispie bears and Kace informed me that he had never had breakfast in bed, so I decided that should be our new tradition (although when you have breakfast in bed you are only allowed to have water to drink :) ). He was so excited!

Last month Kace invited a friend over and we went sledding. It was a pretty steep hill and there was a jump at the end. So Kace, having no fear, decided that he would try it from the top and had a really bad spill. It knocked the wind out of him and he was crying. But later I read in his journal that the things he was most proud of was "surviving" getting the wind knocked out of him. Other then that we had a great time together!

Sure do love this kid!