Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad Bills! 42 years ago today, two high school sweethearts tied the knot, at the very young ages of 18 and 17. Congratulations! Thanks for being such a good example to the two of us. And for showing us that although marriage isn't always easy it is always worth it. We hope to follow in your footsteps and some day be celebrating just as many years together. We love you both very much. Happy Anniversary!

Unfortunately, I couldn't get my hands on a wedding picture, although I tried, hmmm.... maybe next year!

Dinner for the family... & Popsicles

So the other day, Jo found some popsicle molds for the kids to make their own popsicles! We have been making our own ice cubes from juice but popsicles, way fun! Anyway, we had this juice (thanks to Mom Noe) that the kids just LOVE, it's Great Value brand and called Orange Early Rise. The kids say it tastes like Sunny D. Go figure! Anyway they loved it so much that we made it into Popsicles for the next day, well I had to post a few pics from the popsicles. Also Kellee made dinner for the entire family yesterday and yes I, Jo helped her. Here are a few pics of her preparing the meal and the meal. I hear it was pretty good eatin! Good job Kellee! Kellee mixin it up and cookin some grub.

Kellee picked out the dessert for the meal she made for the family. Emilio picked out the juice and made that portion. Here is the proud cook with her creations!

Korbin enjoying a lil of the self-made Orange Early Rise popsicles. The kids downed them quicker than the juice, so it must have been good! Good choice Mom Noe on what juice to send in your package.

The popsicle/juice was a lil sour for Korbin but that didn't stop him from enjoying it with the other kids!

Popsicles for snack time! Everyone was enjoying their popsicles. Can't wait to do it again, what juice shall we use next time???

Craft time, Sprinkler time, lunch time, OH MY!!!

It's hard to know what the kids enjoy the most during the day. They seem to have fun doing everything! Every morning one of the first questions asked is, What are we doing today? When I tell them, I hear giggles and delightful lil squeels. They love going to Story time at the library on Tues & Wed. And other than that we play it by ear. But I do try to do one bigger activity each day, even if it's playing in the sprinkler outside! Here are few pics of how we spend our days, and the mounds of fun we have doing it.

Korbin loves the water, although I couldn't capture the cutest smile I was getting, I thought this was a cute pic. (You try getting an 10 month old to keep looking at your for cute smiley pictures when he's got a water puddle to splash in and not get in trouble!)

Water time fun!

Runnin around in the yard, gettin wet, those were the days!

We had spaghetti for lunch, so Jo's creative ingenious side kicked in and put dishtowel bibs on each of the kids to protect their clothes. In case your wondering, the dishtowels were covered in red spots.

Again, Spaghetti for lunch, enough said!

Craft time! We made Create your own mugs for Laura and Emily! They love making things for other people! PS As I'm sure most of you can guess, we do craft time on the days when Korbin has skipped a morning nap, that gives these two a lil longer to play before he takes over the table, since he thinks he's big like them and should get to do a craft to!

It's a Wonderful life... for the dogs!

It's no secret that Scotty & Karlee are spoiled. And since taking on 3 kids during the day, we have been asked a few times how the dogs are coping with things. Well, pretty well! They LOVE all the attention they are getting. Jo has to keep a pretty close eye on Korbin and Emilio with the dogs as they tend to get a lil too rough for them. Kellee on the other hand loves animals, in fact she wants to become a vet one day. Here are a few pics to show you just how well they are coping!
Scotty & Karlee right after a haircut. This is also after the kids had gone home for the day. They sleep REALLY well at nights.

Korbin loves to give Karlee loves! He also loves to give them to Scotty. However Jo is so busy making sure he doesn't squeeze to hard for Scotty that there is no time for pictures. He can be a little rougher with Karlee, she loves it! Scotty is still keeping a good safe distance, but he is getting closer to the kids during quiet times.

Scotty & Karlee with Kellee & Korbin

Kellee relaxin with both Scotty and Karlee. They were all watching a movie.

Our Scentsy Journey

So since starting the blog it has been noted that we haven't ever mentioned Scentsy in here. The friend that mentioned it said she thought it strange since we love it so much! Since then I have been meaning to blog about Scentsy, just haven't taken the time. I finally decided it was time! So here is our Scentsy Journey.

Jo first heard about Scentsy in Dec of 2007. We got one for her and her mom for Christmas. In March her mom called and asked how to get one for her Aunt Bonnie for her Birthday. That got us to thinking, we liked the product and what a great gift it could be. We got her mom the product and started talking about signing up. Because Darin is so wonderful and supportive he was all go! We signed up right away on March 19, 2008. What fun we have had. We have amazing family and friends who have supported us along the way. It didn't take us long to build a full inventory in our home and really enjoy selling. We offer our wonderful customers Monthly specials. We have 4 people selling underneath us, 2 in Iowa and 2 here in Utah. And for our consultants that depend on us for support we are beginning to offer them challenges to help them build their business to where they would like it. It's so fun being a Sponsor, and it's just another way to make friends! In February we were able to go to Vegas to the Scentsy World Tour. We learned a lot and got to meet personally with Heidi and Orville Thompson, the President and owners of Scentsy. We also had the opportunity to meet Kara Egan, one of the founders of Scentsy. What a neat experience! We are currently looking forward to building our business further since Jo has more time now to spend on Scentsy, we hope to continue on our Scentsy journey by selling and recruiting more. Also in a couple of weeks we will be traveling to Salt Lake City to attend the Scentsy Convention to learn more wonderful things about this business that we love. So in a nutshell, we not only sell Scentsy but we love it as well. If you haven't been to our website or are unsure what scentsy is please visit www.scentsy.com/bettyjonoe Call or stop by, we love what we do and no matter what we have something for you! As always, have a SCENTsational day!

Jo in Vegas with Heidi & Orville Thompson ( SO KEWL) Feb 2008

Scentsy room, this is Jo's lil Scentsy desk. The majority of what Jo needs for Scentsy is in here!The bars, bricks, RoomSprays and Car Candle section of our inventory

The warmers and plug in's. Yes, to answer your question those shelves were specially made for Scentsy!

Pioneer day fun!

So in Utah July 24th is a Holiday. We call it Pioneer day, it's great! There is a Boy Scout Pancake breakfast, a parade and usually a few activities at the park. Not to mention it's usually a good ol time with the fam! Here is a recap of our Holiday this year. We were up at 5:30 got the kids and started rushing around to get ready to meet Papa Bills (Jo's dad) at the Boy Scout Breakfast at 7:00 am. After that we delivered some Scentsy and went home to get ready to walk the 4 1/2 blocks to the parade. With 3 kids and 2 dogs this was an undertaking, but fun nevertheless. We waited for the parade to come and enjoyed it once it did. Afterwards we went to the Memorial wall that was in town. After that we did lunch with Darin before he left for work, then the kids invited a couple of friends over and they played until it was time to go home. All in all it was a pretty fun day! Here a few pics from our adventures.

Jo waiting on the parade. Kellee decided that since Jo is always taking the pictures and is never in any, she would snap one of her!

This was Papa Bills and Korbin's favorite part of the parade! Where else would you see John Deere Tractors as a float?

Grandma, Korbin, Darin and Karlee with Scotty just waiting patiently for the parade to begin.

Kellee, Grandma & Papa Bills, Emilio and Karlee gettin set up for the parade to begin.

The 9/11 Memorial set up in the Memorial. This had all the names of those that lost their lives that tragic day.

This was Jo's favorite display at the Memorial. Boots, hat, gun and the soldiers dog tag. How thankful we are for the freedom we have because brave men and women chose to go fight for all of us.

Emilio and Kellee standing in front of the memorial wall with all the names. It was such a neat experience to see this!

1+2=3

Guess it's time for another update, really it hasn't been that long since the last update however a lot has changed! Seems like it's the season for changes lately. Well right after Jo left Dalbo she was watching her nephew, then she tried working at Smith's but due to her very sensitive cranky skin that couldn't last long. Then it was just watching Korbin again. Then 2 more lil kiddo's joined their Happy Days group! That's right, instead of just watching Korbin 3 days a week, Jo is now keeping herself busy by watching Korbin (18 mths), Emilio (6 yrs old), and Kellee (10 yrs old). Which basically means her days are filled! It begins about 5:30 am when the kiddo's are dropped off and ends depending on the day and week about 3:30-5:00 M-F. The first and third Friday of the month she will have off! So far it's been a lot of fun. Our days have been filled with Rest time, Lunch at the Park, Parades, Playing in the house and in the yard (including running through the sprinklers), Story time at the library 2 days a week, Craft time, Reading time and so on. Jo has been making breakfast and lunch for the kids daily (and for those of you who don't believe it just ask the kids, it is also EDIBLE for those of you wondering, I know who you are!!!) We aren't quite sure what the plan is once school starts at the end of the August, we are just taking it a day at a time. Here are a few pics of my precious lil tendies! PS Jo has decided that she prefers the term Nanny over Babysitter!


Kellee (10), Emilio (6), & Korbin (18mths) WHAT A TRIO!!!This is Korbin wearing his hat that he made at Toddler Story time! What a creative idea!

Kellee & Emilio posin before goin out to run in the Sprinklers!

Emilio chillaxin in the morning during movie time while Korbin was asleep.

Kellee chillaxin during movie time while Korbin was asleep.

A day away part 4 (Believe it)

On Tuesday morning we went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. There are some very crazy things displayed here. And it's fun to walk around and read about everything. The displays all have a sign telling you who had it or found it and where they are from and so on. Pretty unbelievable! Here are a few pics from the museum.

The Ripley's sign from the street.

As you are walking in here is another Ripley's sign.

So this is seriously a like a buffalo slip cover! It's on a couch. I thought Korbin would be a little nervous sitting up to take a picture but he just loved it. He also loved sitting on the actual couch part, he just kicked back and relaxed. Silly kid!

Darin wanted to get a close up of this sign. Obviously there really wasn't anything to display, but since it does mention Iowa I had to add the pic on here for all our family back in Iowa!

This is the first display you see when you walk in. A horse made of well gems and a bunch of stuff. Towards the bottom of it's legs are writing pens. It's pretty kewl. Korbin loved it because he loves animals. It also spins around.

This pic is showing the Straw Simba, the two headed calf and the rare White Buffalo.

Trip home from the day away!

So Tueday afternoon it was time to head home. We drove home through Star Valley. The views were still very beautiful, however we decided that the best part of the drive was from Pinedale to Jackson Hole. Aside from the wonderful scenery there is a TON of wildlife to see, we were hoping to see a bear but that didn't happen this trip, maybe next time. Just outside of Jackson there was a bunch of cars parked and people walking around taking pictures, Darin caught a glimpse of a Moose so we stopped and got a few pictures as well. We got stopped by Road Construction, although not for long! Darin drove most of the way, however he got tired on the way home and asked Jo to take over. Shortly after the switch just long enough for him to get to sleep, there was this crazy stuff on the side of the road. Of course Jo hit the brakes, screamed and turned around to get a picture. It was like welded, painted animals. Crazy stuff! All in all the trip was great, way too short but great. Thanks Mom and Dad Bills for planning it and including it as Jo's birthday present. Also thanks to Darin for asking for a couple of days off work and allowing us to take the trip!


A shot from the car window of the pretty scenery on our drive!

The crazy welded wildlife Jo seen, and of course woke Darin up to see.

Another one of Jo's self portraits while stopped for the Road Construction. It was shortly after this stop that Jo took over for the very tired looking Darin.

The moose we say just off the road. There was a baby back in the bushes but you can't see it very well in any of the pictures.

Another shot of the moose. They must be used to all the people because it wasn't jumpy or anything. We were stopped for about 10 minutes taking pictures and it just went about it's day the entire time.

Just to show you how close the moose was on the side of the road. This was after most of the cars had left.

A day away part 3

So for Jo's actual Birthday present from her parents we had the tickets to see the Bar J Wranglers. Wish that we could tell you exactly what kind of a show this is but even after we are going we can't describe it. For sure if you EVER have the chance to see this group, DO IT! They sing old western songs and during the show it's like comic relief. From May to Sept they do the show at the Bar J Ranch in Jackson the rest of the year they are traveling around the world performing. When you visit the ranch you have the Chuckwagon dinner as well. What's neat about this is that the guys that are performing for you were serving you dinner about 30 minutes before that. It's a very entertaining night for the young and old! This is not a birthday present soon to be forgotten that is for sure. It was a great gift, Thanks Mom & Dad!
I couldn't get a picture with all 5 of the group in so here is 4 of them. Tim on the fiddle, Scott & Danny on the guitar and Brian. Donnie was on the bango and some other instruments in the corner as well.

Some of the scenery as you are walking into the Bar J Ranch

The room where you eat and they perform. Those are Cowboy Boots and hats hanging from the rafters!

One of the Bar J signs!

A day away part 2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JO!!!! So Monday morning we left Pinedale and drove the beautiful drive to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We met Jo's parents just outside of Jackson Hole and after getting everything organized we drove into Jackson to spend the day and enjoy. We went to lunch where everyone tried to humiliate Jo by having the waitress sing. Luckily for her they don't do that there, they bring you a FREE piece of pie and say Happy Birthday! So their plan backfired! HAHAHAHA! Next we drove around a bit and then we took Mom & Dad Bills to the Bar J Chuckwagon to wait in line. They had made reservations but to pick your seat you have to get in line. Mom Bills wanted to be very upfront so they waited in line for the spot. While they waited Jo and Darin went over to Teton Village to see some of Jackson Hole on their short trip. While there Jo noticed the Tram and since it was her Birthday and her dear husband couldn't possibly say no to his wife on her birthday he agreed to go. It was soooo AWESOME!!!!! When the tram docks after the 11 minute journey, at the top you are at an elevation of 10,450 They have a small gift shop with souveniers and coffee and such. The views are simply amazing and although we took a million pictures you simply cannot fully capture the beauty of this place. There are walkways to walk around. But even though we left Jackson and it's about 90 degree beautiful day we were now at a much higher elevation so it was much much cooler. The wind was unbelievable! Darin being so nervous about Heights was such a good sport. He just wouldn't come to close to the edges. Jo made him a weebit nervous practically hanging over the railings to take some of these shots. For those of you not familiar with this area at all. Looking out over the gorgeous view of Jackson Hole you can turn and view the Grand Tetons! If that gives you any clue as to where we were. We have so many more pics so if you would like to see more of the views just ask!


Another one of Jo's self portraits. No view here just the Happy couple!

Darin zoomed in as close as he could for this pic, but he is quite far away.

In the winter this is a popular Ski slope. And in mid July well it's still got snow!

One of beautiful views from the top. It's called Rendevous Point. To hike up is a 7.2 miles. If you hike up you can ride the tram down for free!

Darin as close as he would get to the edge.

Another breathtaking sight from Rendevous Point!