TMI

So we were moving a couch upstairs, and when tipping it on it's side, we discovered that our couch is an abominable pit. What we found:

Yes, those are the 2 library books I just paid $25 for. And Laura's keys that have been missing since JANUARY! Sick. And a computer cord? What the.

We also have become very sedentary since the bowels of hell have opened and barfed hot weather upon AZ. The term we call ourselves is "squashy." This may be due to the following activities:
Breakfast.
Eleven-sies.

Loving Friday morning $5 movies. Not loving Year One. Kill me.

"Exercise" aka

And other curricular activities include watching A LOT of this:
And eating bagels, referring to o.d.ing in Tijuana, loving Chrismukkah, listening to awesome music and saying the word "minty" a lot. Our summer rocks.

Update

So I think we, the Jones girls, have become the library's VIP customers. We go like every week and then lose books/have library fines...a lot. The homeless people there are our best friends. In conclusion we=book worms. Some of what we have been reading in the last week.

Amanda, Julia, and I read this one in like 2 days flat. It makes you realize your parents aren't crappy, the author's are.

I shared the Bridget Jones love with Julia. Now our conversations are peppered with words like "huzzah" and "v.g." and "squashy (more to come on squashy later)". She loved this book. Of course. It's in my top 10 of best books ever.

So sometime I try to be educational in my reading. Maybe my mind has been destroyed by the likes of Janet Evanovich and James Patterson, but... I didn't get it. I'm sure it was chock full of similes and metaphors, so whatev. But I'll give Steinbeck another shot.

I'm kind of on a frontier/ranch kick right now. This book rocked and wasn't very long. I recommend it.

People, people. If you love the show, please read the books. They are amazing. I love them. It helps tide you over until the fall when it comes back.
And finally, RIP to this show. The ending was kind of lame and thrown together but we'll forgive you because you had some awesome moments. I really wish you would have figured out the whole Ned/Chuck not being able to touch each other part. Rude.

My Vacation

So, I went up to the SLC to see these suckers:

Yeah, basically my trip consisted of eating. And eating some more. And buying cheap swim suits out of the Down East creep basement bins. Yeah, the swimsuits were 2 for $5. Needless to say, I bought 4.

The trip began by seeing my high school orchestra bff Kim. And we ate here and it was freaking scrumptious. Then we went to Costco and got ice cream. All the while having severe reminisce about high school moments. Yes, you were all talked about.
Yeah, I didn't remember Utah being this pretty either..

Then I hung out with these peeps for like 2 days. I met these boys my first day at BYU as a freshman. Tender I know. ]They are supposed to be showing their excitement for the movie in this picture. Whatev. We all have like violent varying opinions about movies, so it is our tradition to see the worst movie in the theater. Because it is the only one none of us have seen. Last time we hung out, we saw Bee Movie. This time we saw this..

Oh yes we did. Justin Long, please go back to the Mac commercials. You're too good for this.

Us before we had our brains destroyed from this movie craptacularness. Amanda, her husband Curtis, me, Justin.

Then I went bowling with my other peeps. Something you would never seen in Mesa: being alone at a bowling alley at night. It was creepy.
Sarah being the bomb. I know, what's with all my friends in Utah deciding to be all healthy and skinny and running marathons? Dumb. Yes, alone time at the creepy bowling alley on State.

Me, rockin' it.
Sarah's man, Pete, having to put up with both of us. And doing an excellent action shot.
The next morning, we went to this place. Aka carb heaven. Sarah, loving her dutch baby.

I know, a few short hours we were able to eat another full meal. Rebecca (Sarah's mom) and I loving Kneaders.
My flipflops with my flipflop cookie. Amazing.



Then we went shopping our life where we truly found thongs/g-strings for our feet.


We finished off my visit by going here to get spiritually fed, then going here to get saturated fat and white processed flour fed.

Minis cupcakes. We should all cry because there is not one in AZ.

Thanks to the Sykes for letting me stay at their house/eat their food/drive their cars/not have to get licked by their dogs. You're the best!

The end.

Laura's graduation aka sweatiness central

So we went to Laura's graduation. And it was really sweaty. I may have forced Julia to tell me the most sweaty part of her body. Our supplies for going to it:
Kendall, Laura, and Devin riding the light rail and loving life.
Walking miles and miles and miles and miles and miles to Sun Devil stadium.

AZ=classy. Alice Cooper opened up the graduation activities.


The suckers who had to sit in the sun.


Yeah, AZ is a little on the dusty side...


Yes, we got a little bored during it. Julia reading People. Way more interesting to hear about Kirstie Ally's weight gain.

We're famous. We saw the president on a jumbo tron.



I now give you the death looks of Julia and Annie:

Julia. Ticked.
Annie. Ticked.

Annie. Ticked.

The end.

Happy Birthday Bubs!

So our little Julia Gulia is turning 17 today. 17? Where did the time go?? In honor of her, we will post the 17 things we love about Julia. And try not to copy last year's.

1. I know she is my sister for sure, but there are many "Jones" things that she hates. And she has to remind me all the time that she hates these things. Things Julia h8s that we LOVE: ketchup, cheetos, macaroni soup, the list goes on. Sometimes it hurts me that she hates the red beverage ketchup. Hurts.

2. Julia has way more friends than any of us did in high school. She is always texting boys (which we would NEVER talk to), going on dates, getting asked to dances. It's the high school experience we wish we had.

3. She kind of has it rough because she has 2834747 moms. But she is good about dealing with it.

4. She is really good with kids and rarely gets annoyed with her nieces. Even when she has to sit at the "fun" table.

5. She has WAY more style than any of us. She will totally wear things that I still can't do because I am afraid I would look stupid. But she does it and looks bomb.

6. She is always a good sport about everything and is getting quite professional about taking awesome pictures.
7. She loves awesome youtube videos:



and some more:



8. She loves to dress up for things. Like spirit days at school. Or hanging out with her friends on the weekends. Her favorite genre: 80's work-out.

9. Clearly she is way more spiritual than we are because she has 2 callings. Whoa.

10. She loves going to Girl's Camp/EFY. She would be an awesome EFY counselor.

11. She is really good at doing her hair/other people's and making it look awesome. I make her cut my bangs and love how she does it. And sometimes she has to use little kid giraffe scissors and it still works.

12. She has excellent customer service where she works. Even though people yell at her.

13. She has seen hardly any movies. Somehow whenever we watch them as a family/go to the movies, she is never around. She needs to sit down and watch like a million.

14. She is really hilarious. Maybe more hilarious than me. Example of her hilariousness via text:

Emily: So in church today, they encouraged us to hang out and visit our mom more. I guess I'm going to have to die so I can hang out with my mom.
Julia: Cool. Can we carpool?

Pure genius.

15. She's one of those people that super procrastinates things and then makes it amazing. That is a true talent that I don't have. Emily+pressure=not good times. Just ask anyone on the Break the Fast committee.

16. She loves cats but keeps it secret.

17. She loves reading books. And I love getting her the best ones ever and making her read them. ex. Sophie Kinsella books, The Devil Wears Prada, educational stuff like that.

17.a Next year, her 18th birthday and graduation are on the same day. We may already be planning the hugest party every!!

Happy Birthday Julia!!! We love you!!!!

President Obama-

Please understand when I go to ASU's graduation wearing this
Seeing as how you're making us wait in Sun Devil Stadium for several hours in the blistering hot AZ sun, you'll understand why I need to be scantily clad. And if there isn't one of these

somewhere in the stadium, I will be super ticked. No worries, we will give full documentation of our melting in the sun. Because we won't have anything else to do.

Dear MCC

Dear MCC-

Sorry if I don't get a good grade on my final about this:

But I will get an A++ on the storyline of this. Watch it. After watching it, you'll say "Mr. Darcy who?"
Watch it. I command you. It's even on youtube, how evil.

old, i apologize.

Two dances since and I'm just now posting this. wow I'm lame.

WINTER FORMAL!

Welp i asked Kolter Anderson.

For our day activity our group:


It was super fun, we rode rhinos, shot guns, ate tasty food, and watched Dark Knight, it may or may not have been pirated.


Then the dance was a week later. We took pictures at the dance, went to my friend Kenzie Hamberlin's to take pictures and eat catered olive garden, then we went back to the dance, and then watched nacho libre at mi casa.