January 22, 2011

Sweetheart

When Daddy came home and said he didn't feel good, our SWEETHEART, Jonas 
asked if he could read him a story.  Jonas sat and "read" at least 5 books to his Daddy.  
He also went and got his thermometer from his toy doctor set 
to make sure his Daddy didn't have a fever.  

Thankfully it had a smiley face on it so we knew there was no fever!


Mark is better and Jonas is progressing at reading stories.  
I had to sneak up and take a picture.  :)

  

January 10, 2011

Our First Snow of the New Year

This is what our front yard looked like last night around 11:30 or so.  
The snow had just started to fall.


This is what our back yard looked like this morning.
We're heading over to the neighbor's house.  We got more snow 
last night than we did the day after Christmas.  Lots of fun!! 




Erin and Jonas

They're not on a sled - it's a skim board for the ocean... 
Southern Sledding!

Daddy and Jonas

Daddy, Jonas and Erin

Our icy neighborhood road!  The had fun on it.





We played outside until it started raining and we
all got cold.  Now it's probably going to freeze.

Time for some hot chocolate... 

  




Bedtime

We thought that Jonas had fallen asleep.  It was past 9:00 and he was silent.
We noticed that his light was on so we went in to check it out.  
This is how we found him... reading books to his puppy.

He loves reading books - especially at bedtime!

January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!!

This year we decided to let Jonas stay up until the New Year... ok, not really.  We changed the clock.  He stayed up until 10:00.  :)  It sure was worth it!  He had a blast celebrating ringing in the New Year!






Jonas loved the bubbly grape juice!


New Year Kisses!!

Happy New Year!!!



Aiken's 2nd Snow Day of 2010!

It was the night of Christmas and we had heard the weather reports for a chance of snow... but didn't believe it until we saw it with our own eyes!  It happened the very next morning... that beautiful white stuff was falling from the sky!  Fluffy, white flakes of SNOW!!!  Yay!!  Time to play in the snow!!

Jonas was SO EXCITED!  He even wanted to take his new camera 
out with him to take some pictures.


And the snowball fight BEGINS!

Snowman Construction Worker




Jonas was ready to fight back with one snowball in each hand!
(and he had his tongue out to catch snowflakes!)

Got-cha!




   




It was a beautiful snow day!!

One Beautiful Christmas

This was the night we decorated our Christmas tree.
Every year we just love to put all of the decorations on.
Jonas has enjoyed putting the candy canes down low
right where he can reach them!  : )


O Christmas Tree!

We baked and decorated a wonderful variety of Christmas cookies
for Mark's co workers as well as to share with Jonas' class and some
friends in the Mom's club.

They were very yummy!


The Mexican Wedding Cakes are my favorite!!

The Wednesday before Christmas vacation was Jonas' first school
Christmas program.  He is pretty shy around all the strangers in the audience!
He sat on his teacher's lap and wouldn't smile.  Poor little man.
He didn't sing for the program but 
filled our house with the songs he learned all week!  

That Friday was his class Christmas Party!!


I was one of the hosting moms for the party.  The kids played with balloons,
enjoyed a great snack of cookies and had a lot of fun together!

Jonas says good-bye to his teacher, Mrs. Farr.  Mrs. Farr
gave all of the kids a gift bag full of fun things!


This was one of his favorites!!  ha ha!

Happy Christmas Vacation!!



Decorating ginger bread houses at Eli's house.


Jonas and the kids from church put on a Christmas program.
They sang Silent Night and several other songs.  It was very cute!

Jonas was pretty shy the whole time.  

The kids did a great job!

After the program we put up some more Christmas decorations.



On Christmas Eve, Mark started a campfire outside.  

Jonas and the neighbor 
Erin played outside.  They had a great time!


We stayed out until after dark and then came in and 
had some yummy Christmas treats!  

We put some delicious Christmas cookies and milk out for Santa as well.
Jonas was very excited for Christmas morning to come!
He wanted to know when Santa would arrive.

Christmas morning came and Jonas was thrilled to see all the gifts under the tree!

He spotted a Hula Hoop first!  He had fun unwrapping it....


with a bit of Daddy's help



Then he opened the Toy Story scooter!  It was a big hit!!



He loves his Leapster Explorer too.  He has caught on so quickly!



He had even more fun with it after he opened the 
Toy Story 3 game!










 It was a fun Christmas for our little boy.  
This Christmas was filled with joy and love and a whole
lot of fun!