Jones Family: February 2012

Eric, Remi, Broden and Parker in front of the Tower of London

This week was filled with lots of fun events. Lots of tag, hide and go seek and wrestling at night when Blake and Eric are done working. Also, Blake and Eric are playing on the Med Group basketball team, so we watched them play on Thursday. Friday we played Wallyball with some friends and Saturday headed to London for the day!

When we were in London we first went to see The Tower of London, followed by walking across Tower Bridge. Then we jumped on the Underground and headed to Picadilly Circus for lunch. We walked through China town and chased pigeons, then jumped on the Tube again and went to Westminster. Remi's reaction when we walked out of the Underground station was priceless. Right in front of us was "The Eye of London"(like a huge ferriswheel). She shouted, "The Eye of London," then turned around and saw St. James' tower and yelled,"And Big Ben, AWESOME!"

They studied London at school for like 2 or 3 weeks. She knows most of the important sights and some facts about each one. So she loved seeing Westminster Abbey, The Rives Thames, The Eye of London, Trafalgar Square and The Houses of Parliament. We even paid to go in the Houses of Parliament for a tour. It was more for us to get the little ones out of the freezing cold. It was well worth it though and the kids were awesome! Blake, Eric and I were all kind of in shock at how well behaved the kids were for the whole 70 minute tour.

Alissa was cute during the tour. She was amazed by all the paintings on the walls and that some of them were princesses and Queens. In one room she was looking at the pictures and said,"Uh, oh." I asked here what was wrong and she proceeded to tell me that one of the princesses shoulders were showing. I told her that she was right, the princess should cover her shoulders. She said the princess is too high I can't reach to fix it:)

We have been strict with our girls from day one about modesty. We don't put them in sleeveless shirts or dresses because I don't want to have that argument when they get older. They will just know it has never been allowed. I haven't really said much to Alissa, but she is watching everything I tell Remi and listening.

After Trafalgar square we headed to Hamley's Toy Shop and we all got overwhelmed by toys and the lists of "I wants". Then we ate at Subway and watched the snow start to fall. It was beautiful to be in London at night when the snow was falling. But we were exhausted and decided to head home instead of staying. It was already 6:30. So we jumped on the Tube and rode back to our car. There was snow on the ground when we arrived and we let the kids, including Blake and Eric play before we drove home.

Sunday morning we woke up to snow covering everything! The first snow on the ground since we have been here. It was so peaceful. Church was cancelled, so we enjoyed a morning of french toast and omelets followed by snowball fights, "Testimony" meeting, reading scriptures and a yummy dinner with our next door neighbors. I missed church, but it was a great, relaxing Sunday!