Trips

I bought these today for our plane ride tomorrow, but accidentally just ate 1/3 of them.

Deeeelicious.

And yes, you read correctly, plane ride. We are heading to the East Coast tomorrow for a reunion and vacation. I've been looking forward to this for seriously years. So I figured that since I'm about to take a new batch of bajillions of pictures, I'll share the last several hundred I took, that being the weekend trip to Carlsbad, CA with Sara's family.

Um, remember how I take "California or Bust!" pictures whenever I drive there? Not as fun when driving by yourself. :(

And basically the rest of the pictures are of Sara's boys, which is most likely only entertaining if you're related to us.

Reesey winking at me right after he woke up one morning...

Seriously, he did not inherit the Jones wake up face, or cranky wake up attitude.

Nate, on the other hand, is a Jones.

Watching small children eat small doughnuts is a new favorite hobby of mine.

And after much prodding, I got a smirk out of him.

At the beach, I could not believe how much sand these kids could get to stick to their heads and faces.

And perhaps I bought Oakley a 5 pack of wifebeaters, because they are kind of adorable on 3 year olds. And he was the cutest thing ever at the beach, it made me want to birth a 3 year old of my own to take on vacation with me.

Picture courtesy of Oakley:

Also Oakley's work...

Not included are the 17 he took that are of the ground, his shirt, his teeth, etc.

And have I mentioned I love Nater Tater?

Because I do. A lot. In fact, I love all of those kids a lot.

Being an aunt is my favorite.

See you in a week or more.

Finally and Forever!

Let me take you on a little trip down Memory Lane (that would be a cute street name). In 2004 when I met Philip, he told me he was going to be a pharmacist. Fast forward three years. In 2007, Philip started pharmacy school! We were so thrilled to have a light at the end of the tunnel, and couldn't believe that he would indeed be the graduating class of 2010! Him on the first day of school:

Fast forward three more years. June 18, 2010. We thought it would never come. And Philip was thrilled to have his picture taken as he left for the school bright and early one last time. All five of Philip's sisters that live in town came to his graduation, which meant so much to us, and since I was slightly an emotional wreck that day, I started crying when I saw them walk into the auditorium, thinking about how blessed we are to have such great family.

And of course my parents attended, and we know that Philip's parents, Phil and Janet wanted to be there like crazy, but they're being all righteous and serving a mission.

Um, remember that graduations are boring?...this was no exception. Professor McGonagall droned on for ages and I wanted to take 5 points from Gryffindor because she was boring.

But then they finally started calling the graduates, and it was super neat to see Philip get hooded,

and be announced as "Doctor Philip Lindblom".

I was seriously so excited to see him afterwards, and I think JoDee described it best when she said I was beaming all day long.

Perhaps my favorite picture of the day...

Lindbloms! Thanks again sisters for supporting and feeding us for the past three years!

My handsome pharmacist!

Philip and his good friend Joe

Me and Joe's wife, Karen. Perhaps we are both a little bit ecstatic that we are no longer student wives!

This next picture made me laugh, because somehow I got like 12 of these, and every single one has my perma-smile in it. Seriously, words cannot describe how proud I am.

Philip and Seth

Philip and Ali, with Lee and I thinking we are very funny with him in the background.

Chris and Philip

Jesse and Philip

Seth, Lee, Philip, and Jill

I swear Jill is a saint, because she was the only girl in their group of friends and therefore had to put up with the stinky boys and had to endure endless harassing and teasing. She is way too nice to those guys.

Congrats to Philip and all of his friends that have become our school family over the past three years! I am so proud of all of them and am so

happy that they are all

FINALLY AND FOREVER DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!

Oh happy day.

More pictures and words to come. :)

Reenactment

I'm going to California for a couple of days with these kids. But instead of Philip, we're taking Reese and Nate.

While I'm SUPER excited to spend time with the Palmers and time at the beach, this will be the first time I've spent an entire day away from Philip in 5 1/2 years. Maybe I kinda cried when he left for church without me this morning. He, on the other hand, is busy and stressed with school things, so he said, "Wait, when are you coming home? Okay, see ya Tuesday." Gotta love him.

Speaking of school things, this is Philip's last week of his rotation, and graduation is NEXT WEEK! What the what?! His graduation announcements went in the mail this weekend! I seriously can't believe this is happening, and am ridiculously thrilled.

Alright, I'm out. Have a fun week, but mine might be funner. :)

Anniversary Festivities

If you would have asked me before our anniversary how we would be celebrating, I would have responded, "Working." Little did I know that this would definitely be the greatest one yet! I only worked until 1, and didn't anticipate Philip getting home until around 6, but he pulled the "It's my anniversary" card at his rotation and they let him go early! Huzzah!

So we gave each other our presents...

Me thinking, "Is this for real?" Me thinking, "Okay, make the most unattractive face possible to catch on camera, oh, and shed some tears as well to add to the attractiveness... and OH MY GOSH."

Philip surprised me with diamond earrings, something I've wanted since birth but didn't think I was getting until menopause. I was floored. And I'm in love. With the earrings. And Philip for knowing just how to surprise me.

Then I surprised him with....drumroll...new slippers! (Enter depressing woh-woh horn sound.) Yes yes, I felt like an idiot, but Philip kept telling me not to. And truth be told, he was in desperate need of new ones, his old ones are trashed, and I got him a brown pair too so that he can wear his slippers stylishly.

He then proceeded to take off his dress shoes and try on the slippers while whistling "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" from Mr. Rogers, and I proceeded to laugh for like 12 minutes.

At that point, it was mid afternoon and we had no plans, so we decided to see a movie at 3:20, on a Thursday, with like 7 other senior citizens in a giant theatre. Pretty much the best way to see movies.

We then went to dinner at Grimaldi's, and Philip was so sad that I forgot to ask the waitress to take a picture (lie).

And lastly we came home and watched Thursday night television, our favorite, and went and got Blizzards.

It was such a perfect day! It was so nice to not have big plans or expectations and then have it just turn into a fun-filled afternoon and evening doing and eating things we love. Such a happy day. Such a great five years. Such a perfect life. Sighhhh.

Pictures from FIVE years ago.

Five years ago, I married a five year old looking boy. The day was great, and then we went to Florida on our honeymoon. Funny thing happened when I went to take the first picture of our trip...my camera died. Apparently you're supposed to charge them every once in a while, especially if you've been using them for like the previous 4 weeks straight. Not to be deterred, I bought a super sweet disposable one, and I kid you not, we took six pictures the entire time. And then it took me like a year to get that camera developed.

Needless to say, these pictures are SUPER high quality, and some of my favorites ever. In random order:

Florida is humid, according to my hair.

Yes I'm glad this classy picture is one of the few.

Same goes for this one. I think our schedule that day was: wake up, beach, this picture.

Us with flamingos, a perfect photo spot according to FujiFilm.

And lastly, us when we first got to Busch Gardens, before the humidity got to us.

Happy anniversary to my love, he's pretty much the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and every day I'm thankful he's mine forever.

Seis de Mayo.

We had a Jones Cousin Cinco/Seis de Mayo party. Needless to say, it was delightful, and some dressing up took place. There were a lot of mustaches, a Seniorita, Dickies coveralls, day laborers, a Mexican cowboy, Jan Brewer, and Dizzy (to celebrate Mesa).

Sara and I took our inspiration from our days at Mesa Junior High.

Isn't it amazing what a little (a LOT) of eye/lip liner can do?

Yes kind of offensive, but also very fun.

And in honor of Mother's day, I think that these are some faces that only our mother could love. :) I love you mom!