Winter never ends

We had our 4th storm day of the school year. We actually went to school, and then were all sent home at 11am. Minot got another 8" of snow. It took me almost an hour to run the snowblower in our driveway - the drifts covered half of it and were as high as the snowblower.

Dillon and Cole had fun in the snow and with the snowmobile until Dillon decided it would be fun to drive through water. He got the back end stuck in almost 2 feet of water! It took 3 grown men to wade in the water and pull it out!

Mr. Basketball!

Cameron was chosen as North Dakota's 2009 Mr. Basketball!

I couldn't me more proud if I was his mom! We had a great week/weekend. His team place 3rd, I spent time with my family - even went out with my niece and nephew for a celebration!

Cole also won his basketball tournament in Jamestown. Dillon had fun with the air horn at the basketball game, and Brock stayed home and played with Trevor and Katie (with his 1st babysitter other than his brothers!)

Now, it's back to school, work, and reality of daily life. I just hope we don't get the blizzard and 12" of snow that's predicted!

Busy Week (But what's new?!)

It's going to be a busy week. Turtle Lake is going to the State BB Tournament in Minot! Tournament is Thursday-Saturday. That means I have 3 days to clean house, bake some goodies, and make some posters before the family comes! Good thing Donnie took a week of vacation - I've got a "honey do" list for him to help me out!

We're all excited to go watch Cam play! He's got 47 or 48 points to go before he hits his 2000 career point!

This is Cam after winning the Region 5 Tournament.

Lots of snow to melt

(Our Region says: "Unhabitable"!)

Check out this snowman! 3 guys spent about 5 hours to complete a 12-14" tall! The buttons, eyes, and mouth are beer bottles! It'll be awhile before he melts!

It's sooo cold!

I don't like -31* windchill - especially in March! But it doesn't stop the boys. They went to kinetics and are now off to the YMCA. I would prefer to stay indoors, but have to venture out tonight for a middle school meeting. At least we didn't get the blizzard the eastern part of the state got!

BJ and I are going to have indoor s'mores! It'll be awhile before we can enjoy the outdoor kind!

Speaking of keeping up...

Do you know what can't keep up with the Joneses? Our clothes dryer! It surely can't keep up with the washer. The poor thing runs daily - often times several times a day. I think it ran all day yesterday...

If anyone has any comments or recommendations for a good clothes dryer, I would welcome them.

Time Change

The time change caught up with some of us today.

BJ, who never sleeps in, almost had to be awakened today! He didn't get out of bed until 7:30am, (which isn't sleeping in if you remember that just the other day that was 6:30am). I wonder if he'll still be sleeping in when the weekend comes - I venture to guess "no".

I woke up early, but as the day went on, I just wanted a nap! No time, though. CJ had Basketball practice, DJ and I had a Baseball meeting, and then there's always homework.

It's only Monday, but the week is looking busy...I needed to gain an hour, not lose it!

I love Saturdays!

This is my first attempt at a blog. I am not sure what I will use it for. I've titled it "Keeping Up with Jones Boys". I am so busy trying to keep up with them, that I don't know if I'll have time to keep anyone else up-to-date on them. But it's worth a try...

DJ had a big English project. He and his partner created news segments on Romeo and Juliet. Now I am going to try to help put the segments together and create a DVD for their class.

CJ has a Book Review due on a book he read, so he needs some help fine tuning it.

BJ sees everyone else doing homework, so he's been doing his own homework.

Saturday is "catch up day". I better get busy.