Nate and Mel

2008-10-16T14:12:00.000-07:00

This is Melanie's class room. She teaches seventh and ninth grade English class.

Pictures of Parker

2008-10-14T12:26:00.000-07:00

Octorber 2008

2008-10-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

Parker is Six Months Old in these pictures

He is in size 9 to 12 months old.

He got his first tooth on Sunday October 12th 2008

He is rolling over and sitting up on his own.

He loves to laugh at his dog Minnie!

HE IS HERE!!!!

2008-04-11T22:43:00.000-07:00

Baby Boy Jones, 9.2 lb, 21 in, born April 11th 2008 at 11:15 PM!
Dad
Look at our little family!
His first diaper.
He loves to look around!

With the epidural in.

2008-04-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

The Lonely Men's Club.
Old Men doing old men stuff.
"Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness..."

8:50 PM, The night is getting longer...
BUT... There is GOOD news!
Mels reached a 9!

-This is nurse Trina... She is GREAT! We have had really good nurses and doctors!

---- 8:43 PM, We're getting closer! Mel just hit a 9 and is completely effaced! Our little boy should be coming soon.

---- 7:45 PM, I want to thank everyone for leaving comments! They are really fun for Mel to hear, they help keep her motivated so Please keep them coming! Thank you again.

---- 7:35 PM, No new pictures but we have some good news. Mel was just checked and she is at a 5+ and is 90 to 95% effaced! We found out that her contractions weren't strong enough to do anything so they upped her pitocin which is helping to move things along a little.

---- 6:38 PM, Mel isn't progressing very well so they have hooked Mel up to more machines to help watch after her and the baby. In twenty or so minutes we will know more about what is going on. She is staying in good spirits and trucking on! Keep her and the baby in your prayers.

These Grandpas look like they are having too much fun!
Mel and her sister Stephanie
Stephanie and Grandma.
Derek and Travis

We have been watching the helicopter come and go.

We have a great view of the helipad!

The Red, (top) line is the babies heart beat and the blue (bottom) line is Mel's contractions.
Time for another nap.
I figured out the bed.

More visitors.
Mom and Mom.

2:09, Mel was given her epidural.

Life is good again!

Birthday

2008-04-11T09:40:00.001-07:00

I felt jealous that mel was getting the oxygen so i used it while she was in the bathroom.

1:30 PM, The baby started to move around so mel is now off the oxygen. She is at a four and the baby has moved down a little.

I wanted to show mel how thing were going to work.
Look at this great handle... you can pull really hard, I tried.

12:38, The baby wasn't moving so they put Mel on Oxygen.
Mom helping the baby move.

Mom sure loves us!

Mel's point of view
Hi mom!
The Great View from our room.

Taken a nap.
Waiting...Waiting...Waiting...
What would we do without YouTube?

11,40 I was exploring the roomI found water pedales 11:25, I tried to take the bed apart.

It was getting too hard so I stopped.

11:03 More IVs, Nurse Janene

Moms making the baby a blanket.

Look at his breakfast! Parents to be....

10:35 AM

10:30 AM

Mrs. Jones' class room

2008-04-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

This goes into Mel's 9th grade class room.

They were studying Shakespeare at the time.

Her Classroom was set up for a parent's night type thing.

Snow

2008-04-02T11:44:00.000-07:00

This Car Belongs to the people that live above me and Mel. As you can see they don't drive it.

I had to keep our mailbox shoveled out so the mail could get delivered. At one point I had to move the snow down the street becouse I was about to cover the mailbox

This is the frontview of our mailbox

This is mom and dad's mailbox.... the mailman kept giving them crap so the ended up putting a temp mailbox up so that it could be moved around.

Work In Progress

2008-04-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

David and Megan's new siding

Dad, Hard at work in David's soon to be new basement.

David turned his old storage area into a kids play place.

This is a view of under the stairs. David is going to build a toy box under here. Mason helped Dad (Grandpa to him) with the mudding. He did good for his first time.

Big Belly Big Belly

2008-02-03T16:56:00.000-08:00

Trouble.

2008-01-08T13:10:00.001-08:00

Minnie isn't the best with her toys, this one lasted almost a year.

This is one of her favorite past times. The only problem is that we don't like fixing her all the time.

As you can see here she has somehow gotten her collar attached to her food dish and is spreading her food all over the place.

The shirt she has on is medical. At this time we didn't know she couldn't eat certain things and she was scratching herself so much she was bleeding.

Christmas Tree

2007-12-01T13:28:00.000-08:00

Nate and Mel's Tree

Nate cutting down the tree.

Mel's Dad cutting down his tree.

Mel's Dad, Mom, Sister, and Nephew.

Dad, Nate, Mel, Mom, Steph, and Ike.

Mason Found a tree that fit him just right.

Nich cutting down one of the three trees he took home.

Mel's mom and nephew.

Mom, Porter, Dad, Megan, and Mel

On our way home.

Soccer

2007-11-01T13:42:00.000-07:00

This was Nate's first soccer game after a short 12 year break.

Wow doesn't he look tired!

Fall time at Layton park.

2007-10-07T12:45:00.000-07:00

I wanted to try a fast shot feature on the camera so I got Mel to jump for me.

This guy was mad... He kept trying to bite things.

Nate was trying to do a cart wheel.

How pretty.

Mel didn't know I took this picture.

Tony Grove

2007-09-02T16:53:00.000-07:00

Nate just after coming home from california

Camp Cherry Valley

2007-09-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

This is the "Hobbie Cat" that Nate would take the high adventure group out on.

Aerial view of Camp Cherry Valley

Nate and Melanie on "the" Ben Weston Beach

Only need enough for three hundred PB&Js
Three gallons of jelly and three gallons of PB!!!

Nate's little friend

Hiking down to Ben Weston Beach

Graduation

2006-12-20T09:30:00.000-08:00

Grandpa S., Grandma S., Mel, Mom

Dad, Mom, Kayden, Travis, Stephanie, Mel, Nate, Grandma L., Grandpa L.