Fair-tastic!

So our dad was out of town last weekend. And we decided to go to the fair without him and eat the world/have a marvelous time.

Of course this sign was right outside the fair. We're in classy land, people.

Julia and the Fletchers begging to ride the elephant. What, like I'm/Reid is made of money? For the love!
Jesus's cow.

Julia and Annie acting like rabbits while we were looking at them. NO we didn't buy one, but we did think about a goat..

The Jones family eating their weight in grease. Food consumed: corn dogs, funnel cake, curly fries, onion rings, ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn, snowies, caramel apples. We might have hit McDonalds on the way home. I know, we're amazing.

The beginning: Corn dogs, french fries, onion rings.
Fletchers + funnel cake=true love/sugar all over their clothes.

Julia being a creep hand model with our half demolished funnel cake.

The empty knock-off dippin' dots. Real dippin' dots are way better fyi.
Delia with straight hair. I know, weird! She may be feeling self conscious about all we ate, she wouldn't even look at the camera...

Loving cotton candy! Eden may have eaten the whole bag. Melissa, we may need to come and see you..

Loving the figure 8 racing. Actually, hardly anyone crashed, so the food was the highlight..

We need a new camera.

Fair love.

Piecey/greasy bangs + snowie love
The best picture of all: Julia being terrified of the giant snakes we paid $1 to see. She should be in their commercial for the booth. Seriously. We may have to put this in her wedding video..

Working It

So Laura and I signed up to work the polls on Super Tuesday. And we will make it rigged so we can work at the same place. We must. I hope they were talking about working this..

Or this. I've always wanted to cut hair.

Depressed.

So, every morning when I take Julia to A-hour, we have bonding sister time. And how do we bond? By listening to our morning news. The Good, the Bad, and the Gossip on 104.7 or "the news you really care about." This morning when I was listening to it alone, Carrie, the discusser of GBG may be moving to a different radio station! NO!!! YOU CAN'T LEAVE US! WHAT EVER SHALL WE DO??!? (yes, this is how obsessed we are with pop culture. I know, awesome.)

I know, I know. The moment you've all been waiting for. The unveiling of the Jones Halloween decorations for the year. As anticipated as Martha's October magazine.. However, I feel that Martha should have an AZ style magazine. Let's be real, this could never happen here.

The pumpkins would burn up in like .2 seconds because those rocks would be on fire. And who has leaves like that? Martha, please have some photos with creepy cactus or spooky bouganvilla or something. It's killing us here.

Here's what we've done so far this year. Some of it is under construction/I need to wait for my paycheck..

The family room. Yes we repainted, thanks for asking. And no the color is not AZ adobe.


I know. I'm very spooky.

The new and improved "handy" wreath.

And the best item..my advent Halloween calendar, made by my friend Tammy. To quote Annie, "She is the bomb." I know, it's amazing.

More pop culture postings.

So Laura and I ditched the world to go see Eagle Eye tonight. Conversation in the car on the way home:
E: Seriously, Oscar the freaking Grouch could wear one of those wool winter coats and I would think he was hot. I love them.
L: Whatever. The plotline for that movie was SO DUMB. The fact that ********* was the *** *** was so, so stupid. I can think of a million other movies where that is the plotline.
E: Like what other movies?
L: Remember when Tartraz (yes that is what we refer to her as) did this post on Shia and I wanted to lick the screen? That was amazing. I need to go look at that post again when I get home.
E: Ooooh, me too. How did the girl in that movie always have really red lips?
And it goes on...


Yeah, we get distracted kind of easily.

Confession time..

So for those of you who know me well, you know that I am very critical of all things movies/tv/books. Most of the movies I see in the theater I think are stupid, yet I continue to go and see them. 8/10 times I hate the movie. But I am a sucker for punishment..

I finally decided to watch the Grey's new episode while cleaning my room/hanging up clothes/doing a million things because it had been determined that it was a crappy episode. Some people I talked to even wrote off Grey's and said they would not watch it anymore because that episode was so stupid...Cristina getting impaled by an icicle.....snowing in Seattle.....it goes on. And I am ashamed to say that... I thought the episode was pretty good. It made me excited for the rest of the season. I know, I'm disappointed in myself for thinking this way as well. Who am I???

Emilyology 101

Emilyology 101

* * FOODOLOGY * *

1. What is your salad dressing of choice? Creamy Tomatillo House Dressing from Cafe Rio
2. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Macaroni Grill
   
3. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Probably mexican just because I live in little Mexico.
4. What are your pizza toppings of choice? Sausage and mushroom
   
5. What do you like to put on your toast ? peanut butter and strawberry jam
   

* * TECHNOLOGY * *

1. What is your wallpaper on your computer? Our halloween "cereal" bowl
   
2. How many televisions are in your house ? 4
3. What color cell phone do you have? Red
   

* * BIOLOGY * *

1. Are you right - handed or left- handed? Right
2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Bone marrow
   
3. What is the last heavy item you lifted? Picky
4. Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No
   

* * BULLCRAPOLOGY * *

1. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Probably so I could have as much fun as possible before then
2. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $ 1000? I don't think so. Sometimes really hot thinks i.e. hot wings make me want to barf.
   

* * DUMBOLOGY * *

1. How many pairs of flip flops do you own? 4
2. Last time you had a run- in with the cops? When I got busted for having 6 month expired car registration. Oopsies.
   
3. What did you want to be when you grew up? Teacher
4. Last person you hugged? Julia

* * FAVORITOLOGY * *

1. Season? Fall
2. Holiday? Halloween
3. Day of the week? Tuesday. It's my day off.
   

* * CURRENTOLOGY * *

1. Missing someone? Yes
2. Mood? Hungry
3. Listening to? Nothing
4. Watching? Nothing
5. Worrying about? Many things.
   

SF!!

A trip to San Francisco in mostly pictures and some words. The players:

Emily, Stacy, Avery and

Sarah with her amazing soup bowl. Sorry, Disneyland. SF rocked your soup bowls bigtime. But, we didn't get to go on a ride after eating it so maybe it was a tie.

The trip began with pictures like this: (Us eating our Ghiradelli ice cream sundaes. Amazing). But I as artistic director of the pictures made them have more feeling and emotion. Maybe it's too much ANTM watching, but I wanted our pictures to look FIERCE!!
My subjects being fascinated by the aquarium that was on our City Pass aka the greatest invention ever!!



All of us being fascinated by the school of fish swimming above us. Weird that all the fish got red/green eye.
Me touching the ray. I included this picture because I thought my hair looked particularly attractive. Yeah, I'm vain.

Sarah and Stacy being really excited about our kind-of-scary but didn't-look-that-scary-on-the-internet hotel.


Excited because this was our room's decor: Hot, hot and more hot. I die.
Then we were excited to see some art. Note: this piece of art is really, really famous. Seriously.

Then we went to Alcatraz aka amazing. Sarah using her sexy bod to get her out of jail.

Me pretending to pee. Apparently I didn't even want to look at myself peeing because my eyes are closed. Fletchers, this picture is for you. Pssssssssssssssssss.


We also hiked it to Lombard street. And I almost died from hiking the incline. So which picture is better, this one with all of us being smiley...

Or these ones where I made us be zig zags like the road?!?!?

p.s. Yes I did go to San Francisco with super models. Or as I also like to say we all drank our breakfast out of diet coke cans.



We also ate at Mama's or the most amazing breakfast place ever. I then made my subjects show their true hunger while waiting in line.

Just call me Tyra Banks.

Later we went to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Seriously, I am a photog genius!! Look at this next picture. Us being the bridge. Pure genius!

You can FEEL Stacy being the boat beneath our outstretched arms. She was the boat.
So our guidebook, San Francisco for Dummies, said that we should tour this fortune cookie factory. Or in other words, slave labor in an alley. Not classy. Stacy and Sarah being glad they escaped the clutches of the underworld.
I put this picture on because I thought it was funny. Yeah I'm a 12 year old boy.

So as I was walking out into the San Francisco air for the first time, what was there to greet me?? Just a three story Forever 21. Hello lover!
Oh yes we did do the Full House opening credits pose. And the song was in our heads the WHOLE TIME.

The end.

Scrubs - Kittens

So sometimes when Julia has been at a swim meet ALL DAY and I have been working all day on a super busy Saturday, we do this. And it works. And yes, we have three right now if anyone is interested.

House Frau

Guess who's back??? Us!! So our sister Laura may have had our card reader for months. And you should have seen Reidster's face when he would remember that and get ticked. So let's discuss the exciting parts. This semester I am being the stay-at-home mom aka house frau. And I love every minute of it. I get to take Julia to school every day at 7, seduce Annie with leftovers for breakfast to get her out of bed, doing chores... it's the best!!!!

The best part about being a house frau...going to the lake in the middle of the week with the Porters. When we showed up, it looked like this..

It was awesome. But of course we couldn't go to the lake without TONS of food. Like homemade ice cream. Oh yes we did.
And various treats and attractive children.

Precious moments.
Amanda getting ready to be awesome.
And being awesome.

Me getting psyched up.
Lee and Eden being awesome.

Seriously, please note the lack of boats in these pictures. The only thing there is to do in AZ when it is hot is visit various water holes to try and cool off but we were practically alone. It was amazing!!

We go almost every Tuesday if anyone wants to go with us. But the Porters are hardcore. Every time they go they think that this is the last time going and we stay ALL day. Which rocks.