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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Jones Family 2012 Best and Worst

Top Row: Oak (11), Holly (40), Mike (40), Noah (15), Danny (13)
Bottom Row: Mercy (7), Joycie (20m), Sage (4)


Joyce (20 months)
Best- Even without joining us for our two months of INSANITY workouts, Joycie can still hold a squat longer than any other Jones.
Worst-We haven't discovered any yet.
Quote- "She looks like the guy on top of the temple." Mercy discribes Joycie throwing her head back to gulp down her bottle.




Sage (4 years)
Best- Tidiness. She wants a clean rag set next to her plate while eating to maintain perfect cleanliness of hands, face, and table.
Worst- She is SLOWLY (too slowly) learning that a pleasant tone and the magic word PLEASE usually works best to get what she wants.
Quotes: "Aren't "puff-ups" BOOOOOTIFUL" lovingly sighs as she admires the BRAS in the lingerie aisle at Target. (Puff Ups?!!)
"Mommy, when I die, is I going to be a bone?" asked with sincerity while cuddled with Holly watching Disney's Snow white.




Mercy (7 years)
Best- Winning a young artist concerto competition and playing a Haydn Piano Concerto with the Utah Valley Symphony in October.
Worst- Taking almost three times as long as anyone else in the family to eat - a clever ploy to avoid doing dishes or is she simply TALKING?
Quote: After characteristic no-stop chatter from Mercy, she pauses long enough to say, "Will you please give me some silence? I need to think about something."





                                   
Oak (11 years)

Best- Laughing fits interrupted with screeches of pain while Danny and Noah tickle and wrestle their younger Bro.
Worst- Almost hourly updates for the whole family on the local weather and snow pack @ ALTA.
Quote: What bother you in social situations? "When no one is paying attention to me, or... when everyone is paying attention to me."





























Danny (13 years)

Best – As a student of Irene Peery-Fox, Danny has found new love for the piano. His entrepreneurial spirit has turned this new love into a business venture as he opens his own studio and accepts his first students.
Worst – Not excited about being assigned to the ALTO section of his afters-school youth chorus, He considers himself the manliest ALTO ever.

Quote – “I totally know my part already!” Danny’s confident but delusional exclamation after just 5 rehearsals for a community production of Handel’s Messiah in which he, Holly, Noah and Oak participated this month.








Noah (15 years)

Best – Currently leads his dad 6-2 in their on-going basketball competition playing the game “21”.
Worst – Proud of every inch of black dust and grime covering his ENTIRE body each day after 10 hrs of cleaning the back rooms @ Biomerics plastic factory – his first summer job.
Quote – “Oh no, now I have to go FAST.” Noah laments that he must speed up to 25mph after turning out of a parking lot on his first drive with his learner’s permit.







Holly (40 years)

Best – The lucky lottery lady!  Holly wins THREE successful bids in last-minute lottery for permits to hike Zion’s SUBWAY.  , after going once with friends, we got rained out on our second attempt, but finally succeeded in taking our kids on the last trip.
Worst – Her German grammar, as she switched back and forth from English to German while entertaining several German friends this year.
Quote:  When asked, what one word best describes your life, Mercy replies:   “I can’t decide between two words, ADVENTURE and MOM.”




 Mike (40 years)

Best – Leading a Boy Scout 50-mile backpack in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming. . . great fishing, no injuries and grand mountain vistas.
Worst - Tearing his left medial collateral ligament on the best POWDER day of the year while skiing with Oak @ ALTA.
Quote  “Just one more picture, so we can prove we were here” a phrase dreaded by the family as Mike shoots hundreds of photos on trips to Zion, Yosemite, Bryce, and Arches, etc.







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