It's Christmas Time Again!

I can't believe it is Christmas time again! It was just one year ago we had our 2nd son Jaiden and he has been the best Christmas gift we could have ever received. Since we live so far away from family we try to send out a yearly Christmas letter or card to keep friends and family in the loop of our lives. We have found it incredibly simple and elegant to upload a photo to Shutterfly, customize a Christmas Card and have it shipped to us so we can send it out asap. We have never had any issues with how the cards have turned out and people always tell us how much they enjoy our cards. We have been extremely satisfied using Shutterfly to create memorable gifts for those we love such as: A Photo Calendar we gave to both sets of our parents filled with pictures from our wedding in 2007; An unforgettable Gift Idea my wife bought me for Father's Day was a photo mug with a picture of our 1st son Josiah. These types of gifts help keep these memories fresh when time seems to pass so quickly. We hope your Christmas season is as memorable as ours has been. Merry Christmas!

WOW it's almost been at year since I have made a post

Well I'm sad to say this it has almost been a year and we haven't written one post. We last wrote about Jaiden's birth and now he's going to be 1. This year has been another year of changes for the Joneses. I think we started out the year saying this will be a "normal" year and it ended up being life changing.

This picture is Tim and I at Sara's wedding

First we have the "meeting" the day Tim and I met (April 28, 2006). Then within a year we started dating, got engaged and married on the same day we met (April 28, 2007). Now I look back at this year and think what were we thinking but know at that time in our lives it felt like forever. 6 1/2 months later we found out we were going to have our first child. (November 2007)

This was on our wedding day


Josiah was born on August 8, 2008 and has been such a joy in our life for the past two years. It is really crazy to


A week before I was due with Josiah

Jaiden Charles Jones

Well, I know that it has been 2 weeks since we had Jaiden but it's been a little crazy around here now that we have two babies and trying to recover from a c-section. For all who didn't know Jaiden was born on 12/08/2009 (exactly 16 months from when Josiah was born) at 4:41 p.m. He was 7lb-9oz and 20 3/4 inches. That morning I started having contractions and we went to the hospital. After 1-1/2 hours of being on a monitor the nurse came in and told us that my contractions were not strong enough to stay in the hospital but they didn't like Jaiden's heart rate. (it was dipping low every so often) The nurse said that they were going to induce me. While in the hospital I started getting really cold and my body was aching. They moved us to a birthing room and on the way I started having the shakes. They got me hooked up to everything and then took my temperature found I had a feaver of 102.4. They called the doctor and put me on IV's to get fluid into my body. They also gave me Tylenol to help get the fever down. While this was all going on Jaiden's heart rate was over 200 beats a minute (this is extremaly high for babies) and my white blood cell count was also too high. Within thirty minutes the doctor decided we needed to do a c-section before the infection got into Jaiden's body. We didn't want this to happen but also knew that God was taking care of us and was guiding the decisions of the doctors and nurses. The c-section went great and Jaiden came out crying and healthy. My recovery has been going good. I'm able to walk around and am okay taking Motrin IB. Jaiden is growing and gaining weight. He does have stomach issues and we are praying that they will settle down quickly. It's been hard for me to not be able to hold Josiah but I'm very happy to know that we have family close who are giving him the love that I can't. Josiah love's his baby brother and gives him kisses all the time. God is truly watching out for our family and has shown us so much this past year. Thank you all for you prayers and support that you show our family. Merry Christmas!

Well, we celebrated Josiah's 1st birthday yesterday. We shared the day with a few close friends and family which we could have invited may more. It was truly a fun day to watch Josiah interact with all his friends since he is a social butterfly. Dani's parents were gracious enough to host our party since we could not fit everyone in our 2 bedroom apartment. My parents sent several gifts as well since they couldn't be here for the special day. We are very thankful and appreciative to all who gave gifts to our son and participated is his birthday. We hope you enjoy the photos.

11 Months

His new hair style

Very tired at the Astros game

Josiah and Daddy playing in the water

Family Picture

Josiah happy that the Marry Go Round started

Mommy and Josiah

Waiting for it to start
I love this Face

On the Marry Go Round in Kemah
Josiah wanting to walk

My Boys are good looking

Daddy and Josiah

On the Train in Nasa

Josiah playing in the pool

Josiah and Allen (our new french friend)

I guess its the red handles that he likes. He will hold on to them and rock back and forth

He thinks it's a toy

Josiah showing us how big he is

Josiah Feeding himself

Josiah was feeding himself. He's getting so... big!

At The Zoo

And he's out after a long day

Josiah looking at the fish

Having fun with Mommy

Having fun with Daddy

Josiah loved the Monkeys

Monkeys

I know that you can't tell but he was happy in this picture

Josiah was taking in everything at the zoo

Josiah and Mommy

Didn't know what to think about he sharks

Tim got to pet the sharks

Joshia was so excited about going to the Zoo