Buzzn’ Joneses

Dear Family,

I delegated the responsibility of writing the newsletter this month to Jim, but he decided to go to California. So, you get to hear the news from me again. We'll try delegating it again next month. If not, I'm sure that June is his turn because I plan on being a little preoccupied. We sure do love him!

The month of March was a great month for the Jones family in Nephi. We celebrated St. Patrick's Day and Mary's second birthday. Jim enjoyed Mary's birthday celebration a lot more than he did the St. Patrick's Day celebration. He thought that I was going to permanently turn his insides green with too much food dye. (Okay, I guess I did go a little overboard, but the green roast beef, au jus, and French fries seemed like fun.)

For Mary's second birthday, we bought her an aquarium and seven gold fish. We got home with five of them still alive. By the time her birthday came a week later, they were all dead. Apparently, gold fish aren't very good survivors. So her back-up present was a tricycle. We had a fun party including cousins Erin and Donovin who got to spend the day with us. Mary loves to have her cousins around. We have also discovered that we have a budding bowler in the family. She gets that from her father, not from me. We have been bowling twice in the last month. Mary has skunked me both times. I would like to blame it on being pregnant, but I am afraid she will still trounce me after the baby is born. We have gone bowling at the Wilkinson Center for both events. Now anytime we start going north on I-15, she starts saying, "Go bowling, Mommy and Daddy." She might start a new fashion trend in bowling apparel. It is fun to see this little two-year-old bowling in a dress and pants. Who knows, maybe bowlers will begin wearing tennis skirts. As you can tell, Mary is still in her dress faddish (fetish). She loves to wear dresses, but it is still too cold to wear them without pants underneath. We are anxiously awaiting warmer weather so she will no longer have to wear two outfits at once. Mary also likes to have her fingernails painted. She loves to dance and learned some new moves when her two cousins came to spend the day. She is also loving Nursery and can't wait to go play toys. We are sure thankful for her in our family.

Jim is busy trying to bring bees back to Utah. His first trip to California got delayed a week due to our truck breaking down. Fortunately he noticed it leaking oil before he pulled away from the house. The second trip was full of rain and delays. He got stuck twice in one night right in the almond groves. Then, when he got them back to Utah, it was so mucky here that the diesel got stuck and later that night Jim got stuck on his way into a different yard. It rained the next two days. He was going to go get the bees last week, but Bakersfield got walloped with rain. They had an inch of rain in just one night. So, here we are the ninth of April with half of the bees in Bakersfield and the other half in Utah. Jim says he has decided not to worry about it, he will just keep praying for the Lord to take care of the bees. With more rain predicted here in Utah this week, I think there will be plenty of prayers being offered. We really can't complain, the Lord has been looking out for us every step of the way. We really are blessed. We just think that we live fairly humorous lives. Beekeepers lead a charmed life--it must be that extra spoonful of sugar.

(Julie left out the excitement of what happened while Melanie was here. She and Dad got to go to Ephraim and rescue Jim in the middle of the night. He hit a deer and it damaged his radiator.)

We hope that all is going well with everyone else. 

We love you all!

The Nephi Joneses