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Of course not everyone has been thrilled with all of the activity. When Speedy gets irritated his "beard" can get a little darker. I don't think I have EVER seen it this dark(no this is not photoshopped). Oh well, he'll get over it.

Crazy week... good times

Well it has been an absolutely crazy week. Seth and Kylee got here Tuesday. Fortunately, I stayed home from work that day. Unfortunately, I stayed home because I was sick.

Wednesday was bring your kid to work day, so I took some Advil Cold and Sinus and packed up Hunter, Jacob and Seth and we went to On. The kids got all kinds of neat little toys and got to see more of 'the plant' than most employees. They saw a brief tour of the zener/rectifier wafer fab. A hands on walk through of the packaging lab, where they got to hit the buttons to run the di bonder and the wire bonder, even getting to take home their own silver plated copper lead frame with 15 mil aluminum bond wire (I know, control your excitement!) As boring as that all sounds, the machines themselves are pretty fun to watch and the kids had a ball. By lunch time they were saying that they were the On employees and that it was bring your dad to work day.

Thursday was a real work day for me and rather tedious at that considering I was still feeling very much under the weather. During the day the kids have been visiting a variety of public pools, the library, and just generally hanging out with B.

We let the kids pick one BIG thing to do. So last night we all went to Amazing Jakes for dinner and fun. It was a ball! We played and played and ate :).

We got home and went to bed about 10. Three of the kids were up at 6:30 this morning. I guess it wasn't as exhausting for them as it was for us.

Here are some pictures.

Our budding artist

Some times when your kids bring stuff home you go, "hey that's pretty cool" and you don't really think about it again.

Well, Brandi and I were both REALLY impressed with this one from Hunter. Obviously it is the Statue of Liberty and one side is supposed to represent what it looks like when the sun goes down and the other side when the sun comes up. Nice.

The last days of school

The boys have ONE more day of school tomorrow. So we had Hunter's last cottage fair on birds, which was VERY cool and we personally learned a ton of information, even though I have to admit, having grown up in a house full of parrots, birds are not my favorite topic. Hunter did a science/research project on eagles, condors and hawks. Awesome stuff.

Jacob had his kindergarten graduation, which was very cute. They sang several of the songs that they had learned this year, including the song about "My Dog!" A little out of focus, but very cute.

We just got the boys some nice short summer hair cuts, so they were all looking good! I tell you what, I may be a little biased but these are some good looking kids! A little goofy, but then again, I am there dad, so they come by that honestly. :)

Jacob also had some pictures taken with some of his peeps... and his teacher.

The last little girl actually flagged us down in the parking lot as we were trying to get into the car. What can I say? He's a Jones!

G.B. can stand for lots of things :)

Usually G.B. stands for Good Baby or Good Boy, but the last few days it has stood for Grumpy Baby! Poor GB got sick and then on top of that started cutting teeth. Ouch! Poor little man. Unfortunately this is an accurate representation of our little man the last few days.

The Last Hurrah!

Well, we finished off our visit with Charlie and Stacey with some good food and good times! Aunt Stacey had the great idea to get out of the house after the weekend of rain, so we packed up the kids and took them down to the pool for a couple of hours.

Then last night, it was fondu! Our first attempt into this arena and it was a raging success. Cheese with apples, bread, and cauliflower. Then some tasty steaming broth for the mushrooms, shrimp, steak, and chicken. Throw in a few dipping sauces and a couple varieties of wine and OH YEAH!

After dinner we put the kids to bed, broke out the cards and played a hand before we broke out the chocolate fondu, strawberries, bananas, pound cake, and marshmallows. Oh my. And let me just say that my wife came up with the best chocolate fondu I have EVER tasted. So good.

Oh, of course there was also the game... but I think you can probably figure out who won that. :)

Final for the weekend:

Guys (aka the WINNERS) : 4
Ladies : 1

Ouch.

Last night

Well, it was decided that we would continue the game from the night before and after a game filled with suspicion of cheating by the ladies. They were able to squeak by with a razor thin victory.

So, then we started fresh and the tables quickly turned. There were some brilliant and memorable maneuvers by the guys (otherwise known as the Winners). Which leaves the score so far at:

Winners (gentlemen) : 3 (after generously removing the .5 victory from the night before)
Whiners (the lovely by whiny ladies) : 1 (which is really being quite generous considering the game was broken up over more than one day)