The last two months......

I have realized that I am the worst blogger ever... I don't know if it is because I don't know what to write, I realize I don't have a good camera, or if I am just not that interesting!! Who knows... but I have done a lot in the last two months and here is a run down!

We went to the lake for the 4th of July. This was mine and Matt's four year anniversary of being together. Almost half way to one year of marriage.


We went down to the lake again for Aquapalooza with the Kruger's, Grieder's, other Krugers (Chad and Keili), and Ricky and Jenni.

Then Matt had his 29th birthday!  At this point Matt was undefeated for truck pulls for the season!

The very next week he pulled at a big time pull in Indy and his streak ended.

The next day I had a long put off surgery done on my hand that ended up being two hours long and I got to watch the whole thing.......

I quit my job after 4 years at the Sports Enhancement Center to....

Start Student teaching at University High School and loving every minute to

Going back to my favorite part-time career of bartending at the Marriott in Uptown Normal.

Three cast later (hot pink, purple, and back to hot pink) I am living my goal of being a teacher and living off my husband! Here I am!!! Maybe I can find pictures to fill in all of these holes but I promise to anyone that even looks at my blog. I am going to try to be better!!!!

Also the reason I decided to write this post was to include I have a beautiful little niece named Charlotte Victoria!

Putting my garden to good use!

Me and Taylor decided to harvest some of the mint I have been growing to make into yummy drinks! We took Mojitos over to a friends house and here are all of the ingredients:
Mint
Club Soda
Sugar
Rum
lime juice
fresh limes

The Band Perry, Luke Bryan, and Tim McGraw

All of these pictures are out of order but The Band Perry opened, then Luke Bryan, and finally Tim McGraw! I was a great show. Everyone at the show was my Mom, Kathy, Matt, Taylor, Elise, Jason, and myself and all I can say is we had a great time! I hope these videos work!

The Band Perry!

 Luke Bryan!

 Luke Bryan was great! A little dorky but a lot of fun to see perform!!!

 Here is Tim! Notice the black shirt, hat, and black leather pants!! All I can say is you could see everything! He looked so sexy!

 My camera isn't the best but you can get the picture!

Taylor and Elise!!

 The three girlies!!!

The Brand ladies!!!

Tim McGraw singing with the Band Perry!

 We all had so much fun!

Here Come the Mummies!!

We were invited last October with my Dad and my brother to see Here Come the Mummies at the Castle Theater in Downtown Bloomington and they were so much fun to see live! They came back to town in May and we decided we had to go see them again. Our friends Billy and Brandi came into town so we went to dinner and then to the concert. They sing really funny inappropriate songs but they are really entertaining! Here are a few pictures from the night....

 Yep they are dressed like mummies!

 I don't know why this turned out blurry but it is a cute one!

 Matt thinks when he does this he is hilarious when we try to take a good picture!

Dierks Bentley

We went to the Dierks Bentley at the Colliseum on a Thursday night. It was a lot of fun! I had seen Dierks in the past when I was in college and I was glad that Matt got to see him live. It was a really small concert and a lot different than the other concerts we had been to in the last few months! We had a great night just the two of us!!

 He looked so much better when he lost the flannel and added the hat. He was kind of dorky dancing around but was great live!

 A few good pictures of Matt and I...

Sugarland!

 So sorry to everyone about being the worst blogger in the world but I am going to try to update you all on everything that had been going in with the Jones lately. This was the best concert I have ever gone to and we had the best time ever. It was a girls night with Brooke, Kaitlin, Tay, and myself. By the pictures it is clear that I had a good time but we had so much fun singing and dancing to Sugarland!!

 No beers for Brookie.... but I did buy her a few bottles of water!!

 Jennifer Nettles is amazing!

 Me and Tay... All of these pictures are out of order but I don't know how to move them around sorry!

 Just jamming out!

 Brooke, Taylor, and Kaitlin all decided I am going to be an embarrassing mom because I don't care who is watching I just love to dance.....Did I mention I am not good at all???

 I like this one!

 After the concert! We dropped Brooke off at her car and headed to Six Strings!

 We finally took a good picture!

4 Years ago Today!

Exactly four years ago today I graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and my little dog Willie was born! I can't believe it has been four years already. Here are a few pictures to commemorate this special day.... Well I am having technical difficulties so here is one picture but I am going to have to do the rest later!!! Look forward to baby pictures and graduation! Ha Ha!!

Wedding Pictures.. FINALLY!!

I just got all my wedding pictures that I ordered and I can't wait to hang them up. The pictures I got are to make into two different collages but I am probably going to wait until we move (whenever that will be) to hang them up so I wanted to share them with everyone. There are so many that I absolutely love and that I think everyone will enjoy. I also got them in all different sizes so the colored pictures will be in one while the black and whites will all be together. Here they are:

This is the back of my dress with one of my two sistas helping me out!

The cake. The knife and server are Brooke and Blake's from their wedding so we got the server engraved just like Brooke and Blake did to say thank you and to pass on to Sean and Taylor!

Too cute! Matt holding Clayton's "Matt Jone's Truck."

 A downtown kiss this is my second favorite picture from the day!

The family!

Our first dance. The song that we chose was Gary Allan's "The One." All time favorite!!

 You all knew Kansas would make an appearance somewhere in our wedding. Tay got these for me as a birthday present!

This is my favorite picture from the day of our wedding. This will be the picture that we will always have hanging up in our home!

 Totally us!

Smiles everywhere!!!!

 Me and my Grandma Loretta.. I can't wait to give this to her!!

 I love this picture with our rings and my flowers!

 Wedding kiss....

 The wedding party....it doesn't look that cold outside!! Sorry everyone..... love you guys!

  All of these pictures were taken by K Design Photography in Normal, IL. If anyone needs their contact information I would love to share it with you.

Champaign Half-Marathon

Last Saturday April 30, 2011 I completed my fourth half-marathon in the last two years. It was not my best half by far but I still had fun doing it. I finished a little over 2:30 but was happy with it because my training was anything but stellar! I would like to do another one soon and actually do a personal best for myself which is 2:22 minutes so anyone who would like to take this challenge just let me know?? Brooke you are doing it next year!!

I had all intentions of taking pictures after the race with the trusty Busch Light I brought for everyone but someone didn't feel good, someone wanted to go home, so it was just me and my pal Aaron who partook in drinking a celebretory beer before we took off for home!!It was a really windy day so I am sure the pictures wouldn't have been too good anyway.....

So I just found some pics on the website and a video of me finishing which is hilarious.....
http://www.illinoismarathon.com/photos.php

This is at the end.....look how serious I am....too funny!!

Me and Aaron at mile 7 I believe... not too bad at this point!

This last picture is from the beginning of the race.