Great to be 8

Anjuli went to "Great to be 8" in preparation for her baptism coming this year. I can't believe my little girl is growing up!

Hawaiian Rain

Everytime it pours Zui sends the kids outside in their swimsuits. The first time I said, Zui! What about jackets? He goes, Jenn, this is HAWAII!
It's true, even the rain in Hawaii is warm.

Home Depot Kids Workshop

Our monthly trip to Home depot for the Kids Workshop. We scored this month: Race Cars!! The kids were so excited.Everybody loved hammering the nails in and gluing pieces together.

Love the furrowed eyebrow ;)
Finished product!
The kids loved racing their cars down the track.


The races continued at home with our make shift track..
Gotta love free entertainment and free toys! Thanks Home Depot!

Preschool Pics

Christmas Eve

Christmas pics at our Ward Christmas party. Jazzy decided Santa's hat looked tasty!Jazzy girl posing for me Christmas Eve morning :)

Christmas Eve morning we headed out to go caroling at a nursing home that a lady in our ward attends. I looked over and saw Anjuli and Zion holding hands.
Zui and I played 2 duets.


Then we headed to the waterpark! The kids had soo much fun. I can't wait to go again.

Teri, our babysitter, came with us. It made all the difference having an extra set of hands to help out.

Anjuli and Zui battle it out.

We saw our good friends the Ohki's there. They invited us to join them for lunch! The kids of course loved the pizza, fries, and lemonade (thanks!)

Grandpa Ohki was kind enough to hold baby Jaz for a while. With Teri watching Anjuli and Zion, and Zeya asleep in the stroller, Zui and I took off on a mini-date! When we came back, Jasmine was sleeping soundly in Grandpa Ohki's arms :) Here, all the kids are trying to warm up--it was a pretty windy day.
After a good long nap, we had our family Christmas Eve program. Zui told the nativity story while the kids acted it out.

Zeya usually doesn't wear tiaras, but he was our wise man, and we didn't have a crown...Jazzy was our sheep (check out her pajamas :)
And that black panther, unfortunately, is our baby Jesus. We couldn't find any of Anjuli's baby dolls so we had to improvise.

The kids each got to open one present afterwards. Anjuli and Jazzy got matching new dresses.
Zeya and Zion got new pajamas. Zeya LOVES his new Cars pj's (he calls them "Tars").

Zion got Buzz Lightyear, which he loves second to his Spiderman pj's.
The kids had a busy, but fun, day! Now on to Christmas day :)

Cinnamon Rolls

Well I just finished the last of my cinnamon rolls for the year. I made 20 batches of dough, which made about 80 plates! Phew! It was really fun, but I have to admit I was glad to see the last plate go out the door and get delivered. Here are my kids enjoying their goodness.

So glad to have this Jones family tradition!

Preschool Christmas Program

The kids each sang a few songs for their Christmas program.
Anjuli's class sang "The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy." Guess who got to be Mary!
Her shawl kept falling off, which she kept trying to fix during the performance :)


The performance was more like the nativity play in song, complete with shepherds, angel, wise men, and plenty of sheep :) It was soo adorable!