Great Start ......

This week I started off feeling very accomplished. I decided Monday morning after I emailed Elder Gonzalez and blogged I was going to sew Ally's Costume, and I did POCAHONTAS . It turned out cute , mostly because she looks so cute in it , I have a few final touches but never the less it is done one item on my list crossed off. - Because I was feeling so accomplished and in the CRAFT ZONE I totally forgot to take Jordan to Piano , yes mom of the year reward :( I felt so bad Jordan being the good kid he is said " Mom it's ok I get an extra day to practice no big deal." I still felt bad. Well here is the costume..

She is pretending to dive like Pocahontas off the Mountain. 

and ya pretty much kenpo, piano makeup , counseling , more kenpo , gymnastics is what our week consists of. It is fun and keeps us busy 

Friday we did go to the smith's and have S'mores and sit around their fire pit :) !! That was so fun !! 

For the record Ally hates smoke in her eyes and like to sleep indoors :) !! 

She can keep up with the boys during the day but by night she is 100% all girl plush blanket air conditioning kinda lady and I love it !! 

Joey is working on a furniture project , I have photos to come. I found a ETHAN ALLEN buffet/dresser for $8 that he is refinishing for me and it is looking so good.

TO BE CONTINUED ....... I am off to watch Chicago Fire

Elder " LALO" Gonzalez

He is doing well , he was sick for a minute there but he is doing way better, he lives in a SUPER nice apartment granite counter tops , leather/suede couches etc :) oh and a Bidet , the one thing he was scared of for his mission and now he LOVES it.

LONG BUS 

His view :) ... way different then Bishop Texas

This my Favorite , He titled it My Nigerian Friends, He is such a big Teddy Bear

Ok so I am so happy he has a nice place to live and it even has way nice furniture etc. BUT FACT LALO you know how to keep your area clean , now I am going to seriously think about your messy apt until you send me clean photos of it.

his bed gotta love the pink headboard wall :) !!! totally goes with his fire fighter blanket

Love his little kitchen , they use it alot!! I can't believe he has to actually cook for himself 

This is the mess I was talking about ......... I bet it's not clean because you are studying and serving so much ;) !!!! 

SO he has 3 dates set to get baptized he is learning lots of languages Portuguese, Pigeon English,  Russian, and Spanish 

Who would of thought. He loves everyone , and if you know Lalo you know that is true he LOVES everyone and hopes everyone is doing well. 

Here is his address if you would like to write him , he loves to get mail and he will keep it forever

Gerardo Gonzalez

Antigua Carretera de Malaga

No 99 Bajo E 

Granada, 18015

Espana 

Let's See----

This week we have tackled lots of fun things that have kept us busy throughout the day. Me and Allly love it when friends come over and play and when we are needed to babysit we were so excited to get to watch 2 babies this week and go play with another as well.

Monday -We started our week off with Bennett baby Kenzie :) she is so " SQUISHY " Ally for some reason has this idea that when we baby sit little babies they need to come with lots of outfits so we can change them the whole time lol... ya little does she know babies don't LOVE to be changed 10 times in 20 min span. - Jordan Piano

Tuesday - First we went to the Peiper's new home to help decorate and Sale Scentsy :) and to play with Jillian and baby Daniel. Then we went to Taylors to Sale Scentsy. Next we got to babysit Smith baby Sadie Jane, Ally begged Mary Jane and we thankfully got to borrow her and she had outfits , yes we accomplished nail painting , pictures and 3 outfit changes.  Jordan- Kenpo

Wed- Me and Ally decided to go have our own " Play date" at the MALL we got all dolled up and went shopping we found the cutest P.J.'s for Halloween at Gymboree. They were all out of girl pink skelton ones so I just bought her the boy ones that are black and glow in the dark , yes I had to buy some for Jordan they are so CUTE in them and she does not want me to add a skirt or glitter to hers she said she looks like a super cool skeleton. FREE AFTERNOON DAY

Thurs- Our gymnastic daddy date day , We love meeting Joey and going to lunch with him. We went to the Bennett's to help them Decorate their home :) !! Then we had a parent teacher conference to discuss Jordan's folder and test scores .. He is doing so good , I am so grateful that school comes so easy for him, we feel so much better about his teacher now :) !!

Fri- We are hopefully going to get up and go eat lunch with our Jordie-BUG !!!

It's amazing to me how the weeks fly by when you are grown up , but when you are young they TAKE so long to end. I feel like my kids are just growing up so FAST and sometimes I just want to isolate myself and enjoy every minute of them without sharing.

FRIDAY FAMILY DATE at Wunsche Bros by train tracks missing LALO 

Date night with Kershners celebrating Mike's big 50 :)

funny story: I was in line buying some gag gifts for Mike and Jordan asked me who was turning 50 I told him Mike was, then he said I am so glad that my parents are still in their 20's yes and we were around alot of people. I said Jordan that's life we get older , when I turn 50 I hope you send me to a SPA.

Ally's new BIKE thank you to the Harte twins for donating their cute princess PINK bike she loves it!!

THE NEW PJ's yes they are boy ones she didn't care she wanted them so bad :) !!

Her shopping outfit 

Babysitting Sadie Smith 

babysitting some of the Bennett's Ally posing in her new pink chair with bow and arrow and her cell phone :) so typical of her.

OK I know LALO FACT !!!!!!! I am not doing as good as I wanted to at blogging, but FACT I am trying and getting better :) !!!! I hope you are keeping a Journal while you are out serving.

FACT we love you !!!

Our Week , Yes so much for keeping up I am down to weekly now

Crazy week for us at the Stone residence, Started out with Happy Mondays , Yes we like Monday's because it's our hear from Lalo day , and Jordan's go to piano day.

So got to email Lalo , sent letters off , printed off more pics. Jordan got to go back to piano and he was so excited to find out that he was going to be learning " I am a child of God " He loves music and piano -- Thank you Melissa Jones you are so patient. Jordan's been taking piano now for about maybe 4 months I think... less then one week later here is not looking down reading the music playing we are so proud of him -- Jordan's video to Lalo playing piano - some of it anyway it got cut short -----

Kenpo day comes next :) Jordan loves his Kenpo , and Thurday is Ally J gymnastic day too 

but we had a little twist Joey was invited to go on the news on Wednesday 9/11 

It was so fun to see him on the news , We are so proud of all he has accomplished and were he is at in his life today.Here is his news clip LOVE HIM - not going to lie we were both so nervous, he did a good job :) !!

http://www.khou.com/great-day/videos/gdh_9-11--13_seg6-223315141.html

I have lots of take back pics to post --- we went to Utah this summer for my sis wedding and yes I will get pics posted soon , just catching up. 

More to come later but for now this is what we have enjoy !!! 

Here is to the start of a new week :)

Thank goodness we have a new week , new goals, new tasks, and new trials. Gotta love it. One thing is consistent being able to sit down on Sunday an write to Lalo. We are so proud of him I am sure you get sick of hearing it but we are, and he already had his first baptism. We can't believe he is so FAR away so this blog is helping our family journal or lives, because I am horrible at keeping track of everything and it keeps Elder LALO in the loop. So I went back to find some photos for him and these are what I found.

Jordan eating the sandwich dad made him

When Mom's at Choir this is how they play , ya I am pretty sure Dad had a hand in this

Minnie Mouse and " Fire Ball" MARIO 

Driving LALO's truck !!! 

 These are fun and get me all excited for HALLOWEEN and FALL. I have a confession to make due to the lack of leaf color change in TEXAS I decorate for Halloween first week in September my house is all Fall'd out YES I am SERIOUS.

Elder Wilstead and Elder Matu with our family last year

Weekend here we come...

"Our Week"

We had a pretty good week filled with Kenpo, gymnastics , and some mommy daughter / daddy son quality time :) !!! I know Jordan and Joey read a book " Rangers Apprentice" together and me and Ally ... well we went shopping to Target , and what did this child want well a green face mask so we could do facials and an eye mask of course .... WHAT no I don't do any of those things I have no clue where she comes from she is just so FUN !!! Yes you guessed she found an eye mask and slept with it ALL NIGHT lol ..

Our little princess and her sleeping mask :) !!

Jordie-bug all ready for Karate .. we just love our Rock-o 

I just love them to pieces xoxo -- we had a little family outing to go eat mexican food and came home and watched Tarzan and Jane. 

Tomorrow is our clean our  house day, write Lalo so we can put letters in the mail.

Tuesday , ( day after Holiday DRAGGING ) - Today was a long day little to no energy trying to recover from being sick :/ I am determined to have more energy tomorrow. Jordan had his Kenpo and our good friend Mary Jane took kids for an hour so I could cook dinner , it makes a huge difference when you are forced to get out of your house :) I went to get my kids we had dinner and bedtime routine Scrip/Prayer/Teeth/Bed. Dad didn't come home till late because he volunteered to clean the temple , he was so grateful he got to do that. Well that's about all for our day , we are grateful for good friends who help lift us up wen we are just dragging ... Thx Mary Jane Smith I love you , oh I almost forgot Luke Smith one of the stinkin cutest funniest kids I know just melted my heart, Ally was feelin a little down today to and just not her perky self this afternoon she was invited to go play and I asked her if her and Luke would play nice, from the back seat of the van he yell " YA YA WE WILL " when I went to get pick them up she was all smiles with Luke ( now that's two new 4 year olds we are talking about) I said Luke did you play nice together he said YA  (trust me he would tell me if Ally was annoying lol haha ) When we were leaving he said wait Ally don't forget your hug and hugged her huge :) Now that is what friends are for , they may fight because they are 4 but when it comes down to it they just have huge hearts :) Thank you Smith's we really needed that little BOOST this evening you made us smile the rest of the night. I reminded Luke in primary we were asked to do service and the kids get to put a warm fuzzy in the jar I told Luke what he did for Ally today is service :) Being so nice and kind to a friend when they are having a down day and making them smile :) !!!!! I love kids

" Labor Day 2013 " - well lets see I finally went to sleep at about 6:30am basically because I have insomnia , anxiety etc and I am sick with sinus crap so ya it was bad but I did get to catch LALO ONLINE we chatted back and forth for an hour :) After he had to go I was so excited from talking to him I woke Joey up at 5:30 to tell him all about it and how he was doing. LOL so much for LABOR DAY and sleeping in ... Oh Well. So I woke up at about 10:30am to my cute husband and kids cleaning the whole house , now I mean CLEANING , the kitchen was immaculate , floors mopped , I am one lucky mama huh ;) after their cleaning surprise and lunch we decided to attempt splash town for an hour or two , IT WAS CROWDED and VERY HOT !! We went in the Lazy River as a family then I found a spot with a chair to try to fall asleep on and tan. We didn't last very long , but the kids had fun going one last time and playing with their Dad.
This week makes Week # 2 of back to school, Me and Ally are getting into our own little routine I just love having a shadow ( most of the time) I love her so much we start out our day with PINK method ( work out video) yes she does it and it is usually her that reminds me. Then we shower , do our hair , she begs me to do my make up and nails everyday :) Then we clean - sometimes we go shopping ( if Ally had it her way we would go everyday to the mall ) Sometimes we just go walk around the"Pink Barn"store aka Pottery Barn Kids - one of our favorite places to window shop.
We make lunch together , do crafts together, and watch the clock for our Jordie-bug because we just love and miss him so much , that's  really my life in nutshell on any give weekday , am I complaining NO I use to be a working mom, Do I love staying home with my kids YES I miss them so much even when I go on dates with Joey , I just love my little Family..once Jordan comes home it's either Karate, Piano , or wait for Dad. We seriously keep checking the time because We love it when Daddy comes home :) !!!! I feel so blessed and lucky I have ALWAYS wanted to be a MOM I named my baby dolls Allyson when I was little and now I have a real Ally J. and she is more girly and more fun then I ever could have dreamed. Having a boy I never really imagined I figured I would have all boys because I was so girly , and I would figure it out but sons have a special place in a mommy's heart I love him so much he takes good care of his mommy.
I totally went off on a tangent .... Oh well today was great my family brought me home, I went to bed and my hubby made dinner and went grocery shopping. We had a quick short FHE lesson sang some of our favorite songs " I love to see the temple" and " Book of Mormon Stories" Life is good and we are lovin it. One thing missing we are missing Lalo but we know where he is and that's exactly where he is supposed to be. :) !!!

The catching up continues.. I sure love my little family, I truly feel so blessed

O.K. so for awhile I am going to be updating with pictures since I am so far behind and you know this is like my journal.... Since we have been in Spring, Texas Lalo decided to move over here with us exactly one year ago and prepare for a mission ... and yes you guessed it he is on a mission to MALAGA , SPAIN he got his call in Jan 2013 and left JULY 10. Yes , it was hard for us and his family and especially his sweet mom but he is happy , and he made the choice to serve and we support "OUR MISSIONARY" 100% .. Here is a little shout out to him your Stone family loves and missses you keep up the good work ... CTR and keep on reading the Book of  Mormon. Time is flying by and we are going to update our blog so you don't feel like you missed out on any of it :). We love you Elder Gonzalez, oh and try to be more reverent in church even if you are killing a cockroach :/.

I am going to post just some oldies (pics) I am not sure of the date but they still have the people I love cute faces in them so who cares....

                                      On our way to Disney Land ... out of TEXAS

                                          She has her own style at work with Dad

                             My first baking for Jordans school (p.s. I don't bake often)

                                                   Don't EAT dandelions

                                                               YUCK

                                                                EWW

                                                    1st TOOTH OUT in Kinder

                                                     In the mountain in Utah

                                                           2nd tooth OUT

Family Pic 2010 

                                                            Beach FUN

                                                this kid she just tasted SAND

                                                            Home in BISHOP

                                       She loves her BIGGEST BROTHER LALO

                               at disneyland she was so cold , and she only wanted Lalo

                               climbing at ONE and she still does to this day our monkey

                     More Ally and Lalo ... looks like he got her up from napping bc he was home

                                                          OUR  Jordie-Bug

TO BE CONTINUED ...