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Keep Up with the Jones Family

MEET THE FAMILY

That’s me.  I write the blog, take the photographs, write the theme tune…. You get the idea.  I’m a daughter, sister, wife and mom of boys.

Gavin and I were married at a crazily beautiful and fun-filled celebration in Walt Disney World, Florida, in 2008, and ten years later, we have three beautiful boys aged 7, 5 and 3.  Our two Siberian Huskies, Casanova and Excalibur have sadly left us and crossed the rainbow bridge and we miss them terribly.

I was born in Worcestershire, England, and lived in the Midlands until I read law in Wales. Following graduation, I post-graduated from the Legal Practice Course with commendation and worked as an Insolvency Practitioner with KPMG.

In 2006 I retrained as a teacher at Southampton University and became a local junior school teacher, which I loved.  I then gave up teaching in 2014 shortly before our third baby was born, to dedicate my time to parenting – and learned photography to capture our family growing up together.

Now the boys are growing up, I manage to get a little “me” time – and my passions are first and foremost my photography, birthday parties, anything related to Disney, eating Chocolate Orange, decorating cupcakes and making pretty crafts.  I’m a girl’s girl until it comes to sport – I was a tighthead prop for the university rugby team throughout law school and for some time afterwards – I’m hoping at least one of our boys develops a love for the sport too because I miss it so much.

If I had to choose three words to describe myself, they would be impulsive, creative and daydreamer.   My husband would probably say I’m a spontaneous, messy perfectionist.

 

Gav is the brains/chef/chief dish washer of the family.  He was born and raised in Hampshire and has been working at IBM since graduation.  Due to this, he suffers from being faced with endless questions concerning anything remotely technical or computer-based in my life (and often my parents’ too).

His main hobbies are traditional and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, following the UFC and playing computer games (which rarely happens).  His evening activities mainly comprise of wrestling with the boys and doing the dishes, which keeps him very occupied especially when the two activities combine.  Gavin’s appearance varies drastically throughout the year depending on length of beard and hair, which annoys his parents greatly.  Gav thinks we don’t know that he likes to eat the boys’ Maoam sweeties after we all go to bed whilst he watches Game of Thrones….but we do.

 

Jensen Indiana Jones is the first born baby of the Jones family.  Arriving in 2010 weighing in at 9lbs 8ozs, at 60cm in length he was the tallest baby his midwife had ever delivered to date.

Jens loves nature and the great outdoors and is keen to protect any creature he comes across in his garden, particularly the toads and sloworms.  He loves Star Wars, Super Mario Brothers, FNAF, and anything related to Disney and especially Maui, Peter Pan and Pinocchio. You can find him trying to sneakily watch YouTube, hanging off the bannister and trying to create his own stunt videos.

His favourite food is anything that swims in the sea, and he has a great dislike of potatoes.

 

Lyoto Elvis Romeo Jones is the middle child of the family.  Born on St. Valentine’s Day in 2012, he has a heart of gold and a very cheeky smile.  Whereas Jens is all about protecting the environment, Lyoto wants to see how it’s put together and will happily dismantle anything – so much so that he earned the nickname “The Destroyer” in his first year of life.

Yotie’s loves are me and Dan TDM.  His favourite toys are the cuddly toys from FNAF, and Ninjago Lego.

Our little cannonball has a speech difficulty yet excels in his conversation skills with a whoppingly huge vocabulary.  He’s also reigning maths champion of his class and has a favourite friend whom the world revolves around which is just lovely to see.

Hero Hefin Casey Jones is our Summer baby born in 2014. Having the same birthday as Tom Cruise,  he’s our first baby to be born with hair, and our first baby to sleep soundly from the get-go.  If all babies were as easy as Hero we’d have had five more by now – or I’d just have far fewer wrinkles and grey hairs.

Now he’s three!  He’s still my baby but clearly thinks of himself as the boss amongst his brothers.  His most favourite thing in the whole world is to play Play-Doh, which we do every.single.day., and to entertain me with his singing before bedtime, which is just gorgeous.

Comments

  1. It's always exciting to celebrate wonderful occasions with the family. I think Gavin and I are similar in most ways than the other family members here. We're both the dish washers, both from IBM, and receive many questions about technical stuff or anything related to computer as people assume we're tech geeks. Haha. While he practices Jiu jitsu, I'm into wushu, the Chinese martial arts.

  2. It's always so great to meet the people behind the blog and I love this 'meet the family' idea – so clever. I'm also a pisces who loves photography. Amazing that your boys share a birthday just one day apart, my boy was born on February 16th and was also a 9lb 8oz baby. Your boys names are so gorgeous, love the uniqueness of them all. I'm loving your blog Sara-Jayne, so glad I found it 🙂

  3. Oh fun and welcome to the world littlest Jones! I love reading about your family. It makes me feel like I know who is running this blog on a day to day basis. My son and I have a birthday coming up next week his on the 11 and mine on the 13th. 🙂 It's fun to share birthdays.

  4. Thank you so much for sharing your family. I love to read about the bloggers such as yourself that I follow. Making this personalized makes you seem real, if that makes any sense, lol. You have a beautiful family and are so blessed.

  5. This is one of the best about pages that I have ever read! So creative and with so much thoughtful detail. Astrological sign information is always a bonus, I find it an interesting study. I'm an Aries, but I cusp with Pisces, so don't exhibit a true Aries nature. I would love to hear more about the Walt Disney World wedding, sounds fun! 🙂

  6. You have such a beautiful family! Thank you for sharing. I'm sure your sons keep you busy! They have such cute names too, I love the name Jensen!

  7. What a fun way to introduce everyone. I also love garlic and bell peppers. I would love to play rugby! Although I'm sure I would cry once I got smacked hard. And I love Jensen's middle name. We'd be great friends watching SpongeBob together.

  9. Great introductions! I love all of your boys' names–what was the inspiration behind them? (I'm totally a name nerd, so you'll have to forgive the nosiness!) I, too, went to law school only to go back and get a degree in something different: I started at law school, lasted a year, and then switched over to the British Literature grad school (which I LOVED). Your awesome About Me page reminds me that I need to get to work redoing my own!

  10. What a fun family!!! I love getting to read about families of blogs. I bet all the technology questions drives your husband crazy! All of your boys sound lovely and like they keep you on your toys.

  11. What a great idea, I often blog about my family but have never thought to include them on an 'about' page. I have to say I love your children's names, they are so original and string sounding! I also have three little boys close in age – the youngest who was also a quite lovely and docile baby… he's two now and clearly the biggest trouble maker of the lot though!

  12. It is so nice to get to know your family like this. I love to meet new families and learn what makes each of them uniquely beautiful and wonderful. Your header images are adorable! I imagine you're going to have to figure a way of making the other baby image fit into the images too soon.

  13. What a great way to meet everyone! I have read your blog a few times and I didn't quite know as much as I do now. What a lovely family you have, I love how unique you all are and your boys has such beautiful names. I love how much thought and effort you put into introducing us all to your family. Many people are wary of this but I think its awesome, I love learning new things about families!