Jonas' Ninth Month

Jonas is absolutely addicted to the swings. His brothers push him with gusto and he takes a deep breath and laughs every time they push him a little harder.

Jonas love to go grocery shopping because one, he has a lot of things to look at, but two, he has the biggest fan club of women who work at the store and look forward all week to seeing him. 

We visit the magical bridge playground regularly. The boys love it there.

We took grandma and grandpa to a San Jose Giants game and Jonas dressed up to look the part. 

Disneyland 2015 day 1

We got ready for the day by taking a picture with our warm fuzzy jar that we had worked on filling for months in preparation to go to Disneyland.  Each time the boys did something that gave their brothers a warm fuzzy feeling inside that brother could give the other person a warm fuzzy to put in the jar. 

Then we got on the road and spent five or six hours in the car. Jonas was not a fan and we ended up stopping every two hours. 

Just when everybody was about ready to lose it and die of hunger we got to meet up with Tyler Lake in his home city and enjoy a yummy dinner together.

While waiting for us all to get packed up in the morning before her first day at Disneyland Aaron and Jacob were taking pictures of each other and this is a good one we got Jacob and his matching Minecraft hat.

Here are the boys waiting in line for the park to open.

I'm walking right down the middle of Main Street USA

The boys all really wanted to be part of the Jedi training Academy but they were not chosen and so they just got to watch the show which featured storm troopers, Darth Vader, Darth Maul and other Jedi trainers. It was really fun to watch.

This is Jonas and me waiting for the boys to get off of the star tours ride.

We did it! We waited in line for odd hope you and finally at a ride those awesome cars. They even had one with a hand control adaption that allowed me to drive, and Jacob was my copilot.

What did the boys want to do at 7 o'clock at night when they were all Disneylanded out? they wanted to go swimming in the pool at the hotel. Hey we will be here for three days, go for it.

Jonas is Born!

 We arrived at Good Samaritan Hospital early in the morning on Monday, December 22. Everything about the delivery went as planned. Doctor Rosenberg was cool and calm in the delivery room. Jonas came into the world alert and adorable.

Jonas screamed after his check up, but Chris and I just thought it was so cute he turned into a little cherry tomato

The boys came to the room and were instantly smitten by Jonas. he was awake and alert and soaking in his new brothers.

I love each of these pictures of the boys holding Jonas because they can't help but smile at him

Jacob's Big Personality

Every day we are in awe of Jacob and the stuff he seems to memorize.  So on the way to the gym I started singing the theme song to the show Phineas and Ferb. And out of no where Jacob started backing me up. He had never sung the song before but he seems to know it. So we had to get a video of it.



If you aren't familiar witht he show Phineas and Ferb, this will catch you up.

Utah Day 5 & 6

New Years Eve and New Years day were for Skiing! The boys had so much fun up at Sundance with Scott and Alisabeth. Jacob spent the morning with Grandma while I met up with my friend Carolynn. After I picked up Jacob we went back to the condo, had lunch and took a nap together. This may have my favorite moment of the trip. When I tucked Jacob into bed that night he asked "mom can i sleep in the big bed?" I said no but that we could take another nap tomorrow. He said "YES! goodnight mom!"

 How many layers can we get on a kid? Lots. 

 New years eve was spent at the condo having dinner together, then popcorn and sangria as we counted down for the new year at 9:24 pm. We knew with a long ski day and another the next day, staying up late was not the best idea. Keith set off a big firework that was super cool until it fell over and sent the last one down the street. And then we all went inside.

Utah Day 4

Monday we played around the house and went ice skating during the day. 

 At night we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with the whole group and then got on the train to Salt Lake and checked out the lights on temple square. Jacob fell asleep on the way there.

 After walking through temple square we stopped in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for some hot chocolate. But seeing that the line for the hot chocolate was a mile long, we went through the food line to get soup, pie, cookies, ice cream and oh yeah... hot chocolate. Much better plan.

 I ran into a couple distant family members on the train home from SLC. Janelle, Debra and Marie Depew were up there checking out the lights as well. It was a wonderful coincidence.

Utah Day 2 & 3

We went to Evanston for a family photo shoot on Saturday and attend Halon's blessing on Sunday. 

The photo shoot was done at a Renovated Mechanics Shop where they used to fix trains. It was a beautiful room and the boys kept themselves occupied for hours while we took pictures. Lots of pictures. 

 They got creative with their activities because we had all the time in the world and a completely empty room. Lots of room to run, though it was prohibited to avoid facial wounds. So they made a game out of climbing the garbage cans instead. Jacob is Superman here.

 Alex really enjoyed holding baby Halon. He was a great helper while the adults got their pictures taken without kids.

 Alisabeth was a natural at holding little Halon. He just stared at her.