Jonas' life in pictures

Jonas had an assignment where he made a timeline of his life.  I scanned and printed pictures for it and it was fun to see him grow up.  He had to have an event from each year to write about.

About 1 week old

3 weeks old

1 year old

18 months old

Playing in the hospital ~2 years old

2 years old

Miriam is born

Panning for gold in Alaska

3 years old

4 years old

Talita

5 years old

Another hospital trip (as an example of the many times he's been there)

Reunion/Trip to Yellowstone

6 years old

Gideon is born

7 years old

Elijah is born

8 years old

 

 

Building the house

10 years old (didn't have time to dig out his "pro" pictures)

Adopting sisters

 

Trip to Australia

12 years old

 (He had a Cousin Camp/ Trip to Manti picture here but I can't seem to find it)

Nearly 13 years old

So grown up... my little Jonas.

Fall Misc Picture

Elijah found the cutest place to put his babies while he was waiting for me at the county office.

I vant to suck your blood!!

from Keith's phone.  I've never really seen one alive before.

The stake had an 11 year old activity.  They were able to act out a story.

Miriam and Kristina's group did the saving of the Doctrine and Covenants papers.

Happy Fall, Y'all!

 For some reason all the time that I thought I would have to do fun things with Elijah, seems to be non-existant.  But we did manage to go to the pumpkin patch.

 Luvin' the kittens... again and again.  They were pretty tolerant of him.

 Netina, the girl we went with.

 Hay maze was a big hit.  Funny how I always take longer to get out than the kids do.... and I can see over the hay.

 Driving the tractor was the BEST!!

 But rubber duckie racing was fun too.

 As was bowling with the pumpkin.

And we didn't even get rained on.  A very fun day!!!

Early Fall Concerts

Oh sure.  Out of all the days in October (there's 31.  Really!  I counted) the boys had to both have  their concert on the same day.  So we had to divide and conquer.  I took half the girls and went to Caleb's concert.  And all those years of beginner orchestra concerts and practicing have really paid off. 

Pictures taken by Elijah (in an attempt to while away the time during tuning)

 I love going to hear my children play their instruments any time.  But I thoroughly enjoyed this concert.  For the music as well as the little heart pitter pattering seeing my children perform. 

Wish I could have seen Jonas play, but Keith said that he sounded wonderful!

Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere....

Apparently, I'm still trying to play catch up.

The boys spent the summer hiking, working on the hiking merit badge.  They went on quite a few nice sized hikes.  Obviously, since I wasn't invited, these pictures were from Brother Tolman.  You are hired, Brother Tolman!

 I always worry about how Jonas will do with breathing.  But my fears were foundless.  While he did seem to tire easily (we're no stranger to that) we had NO wheezy problems all summer.  (But the second it starts to get cold and school starts, bring on the meds) 

 They loved going hiking and this particular hike, to Shriner's Peak, got them saying that they would like to go back in the winter and go tubing there.
How could you not fall in love with these views???

 Brother Johnson, Jonas' leader,  the spearhead for the hikes and the go-to-man for all things hiking.  Thanks for all your hard work, Brother Johnson!!

In case you can't read that it says "US Geological Survey Benchmark, Shriner Peak, Elevation above sea 1961 feet"