MJ & Family

Soccer Double-Header

2009-11-14T13:15:00.000-06:00

This morning Mikey's soccer team had a double-header... they played the one team in their league that beat them the first time around about a month ago. The first time Mikey's team went down I think 4-0... this time it was tied at the end of the game, and we barely lost in the shootout (what is a shootout, you ask?) final score 3-2. Mikeys team played MUCH better this time... the other team was

Football

2009-11-10T08:47:00.000-06:00

Sunday a week ago I was home with just Hannah watching the Dallas Cowboys game. She watched a good bit of the first quarter with me, and now every time she sees football on TV, she says, "Dallas Cowboys?" She said it last night at Applebee's when the Monday Night Football came on. How do you say, no sweetie, that's the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos. :-) I think I'll just let her

Major Cutie Here!

2009-11-02T16:00:00.000-06:00

Hangin' out, enjoying her chocolate milk!

Baby Latin

2009-10-29T12:34:00.003-05:00

A few days ago Cathy and Hannah were coloring. Cathy was making a Jack-o'-lantern, and told Hannah it was a "pumpkin" (actually, at the time Cathy hadn't added the face yet, so what she said was true). Hannah turned to me and said, "Mama is cah-yay a punkin." It was a good example of how she's starting to make fairly long sentences now at 22 months! (Plus, it was TOTALLY CUTE!!)If you didn't

Happy Used-To-Be-Fall-Back-Day Day

2009-10-25T14:39:00.000-05:00

If this year was 2006, today would have been the day of the time change. Since it is not 2006, however, today was not time change day, and the people of this great nation got up and got out to church at the right time. Except for the people at the Jones residence. You see, in the year 2005 or so, I had the brilliant idea of purchasing an alarm clock that sets itself automatically based on radio

Melinda's Wedding: Photo Booth Pictures

2009-10-15T12:30:00.000-05:00

At the wedding we attended and sang at a couple of weeks ago, there was a photo booth where you could take instant pictures of yourself for free. The pictures are FINALLY available to look at on the Web, and here are the ones starring us:Mikey & Michael - this strip is fun to look at because Mikey was in there by himself at first, but he was a little bit short for the camera. I had to pick him up

Lava Rock Jr.

2009-10-12T06:00:00.002-05:00

Mikey's new pet toad, Lava Rock Junior! (For anyone who doesn't know what's going on, we lost Lava Rock Esq. several weeks ago...)

Progress

2009-10-11T08:38:00.000-05:00

Making some progress on the oral sleep appliance. The first night I was only able to keep it in for one hour... the second night I managed to keep it in for two hours... the third night (last night) I kept it in for three hours before I woke up uncomfortable. Later that night I was able to put it back in and sleep some more... then I had a dream. In my dream we were late for church and I had run

Snore, Take 2

2009-10-09T08:00:00.001-05:00

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. That was what I found to be the case with my CPAP machine... I finally got used to it after a whole month, but then a month or so after that I realized that not only was the CPAP machine not helping me to sleep better... on a good night it was not making a difference, and on a bad night it was waking me up in the middle. Eventually I realized that

"Bless The Broken Road"

2009-10-05T13:40:00.003-05:00

Here's the full-length video of us singing at Justin & Melinda's wedding:There is another partial video of it (with less-shaky camera work) here. If you enjoy our work and you're on Facebook, please join our fan page!

Having a family

2009-10-05T09:13:00.000-05:00

Can I just say something? Having a family is the hardest and best thing I've ever done.

A Wedding, A Firehouse, A Victory, and A Crown

2009-10-03T18:43:00.001-05:00

Ever have a weekend where you don't realize how much has happened until you sit down and think about it? MAN, was this one of those weekends... and it's not even dinnertime on Saturday yet! Last night, October 2nd, was the Dave Matthews Band concert. We were thrilled to NOT be there. Instead, we were at the wedding Cathy's second cousin Melinda to a great guy named Justin! When Cathy and Melinda

Rest In Peace, Lava Rock

2009-09-30T12:30:00.003-05:00

Mikey's pet toad Lava Rock has passed away. This was his first pet that he took care of all by himself; Fire-Bellied Toads aren't known for having incredibly long lifespans, so we think Lava Rock probably died of natural causes rather than foul play or neglect. Mikey got Lava Rock for Mikey's birthday last April, and he's done a good job of taking care of him, reading up on toads and learning

Rock 'N' Ribfest

2009-09-25T08:00:00.002-05:00

Last Saturday we all went out to Rock 'N' Ribfest downtown by the BOK Center. It was also the 1-year anniversary of the BOK Center opening, so they were having a little open house where you could go in for free and see the arena. Here's a pic of Mikey eating some nachos... you can see some more pictures right here!

Da Ma Pa Buh Ye...

2009-09-24T09:59:00.001-05:00

Hannah has been getting better and better at talking in recent weeks. She's 21 months old now, but maybe a month or two ago she really started naming people. Don't get me wrong... before that she had been saying some words... "Ap-pool" is her favorite fruit, for example, and has been for some time. She knows the names of a lot of animals and what "sounds" they make (a favorite: any ferocious cat,

Labor Day at Meme's

2009-09-11T12:30:00.000-05:00

This past Monday was Labor Day... we went over to my mom & dad's house to hang out. Here's Mikey & Hannah having fun in the wading pool!

Visit to Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum

2009-09-06T12:41:00.000-05:00

Saturday we took Mikey to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum for the first time. Actually, we've been to the memorial once before; several years ago we were in OKC for something else and we stopped and saw the memorial. At the time, Mikey was old enough to understand what had happened but we weren't sure he was old enough to not get scared (and he was almost certainly not old enough to

Safari's Sanctuary

2009-08-29T17:09:00.003-05:00

This month the Joneses have discovered Safari's Wildlife Sanctuary. On the first, Mikey and Michael went with Pack 137 for a service project, cleaning out an old wolf habitat to get it ready for new animals:(more pictures right here)Today Mikey is out of town visiting his cousins, but Cathy and I took Hannah out there to see the animals:(more pictures right here)Both times we had a blast!

Big change for the Jones family

2009-08-29T09:25:00.000-05:00

Some of our friends know this already and some don't, but I want to make sure everyone gets word so people don't find out secondhand and wonder what's going on. This week Cathy and I decided to say goodbye to Grace Church as "home" and shop around for a new church. A few more details are in this post on my other blog, and if you're interested please look over there, but I do want to make it clear

Michael's song at the ice cream social

2009-08-16T21:38:00.003-05:00

Tonight I sang an original song about Hannah at the Grace Church Ice Cream Social. The performance of the song was... problematic. There was a technical difficulty with the guitar (we still don't actually know what the problem was) that had Jimmy distracted at the beginning, so the first verse and chorus were weird. And I was enough distracted by that, that I flubbed the words on the chorus once.

The Window Ninja Saga

2009-08-13T12:52:00.003-05:00

In downtown Tulsa, sometimes strange things happen. Even in perfectly normal, peaceful office environments. A few days ago, the peace was shattered by a sudden, unprovoked attack by Window Ninjas! Read on for the play-by-play (which occurred, 2009-style, on Twitter).The first sign of danger: Aug 10, 8:41am. Protective cover over sidewalk next to BOk building. I expect window ninjas later

Riverwalk with the Cousins

2009-08-11T23:38:00.001-05:00

This afternoon we packed up Mikey and three of his cousins and went down to the Jenks Riverwalk for some fun!First stop:Gina & Guiseppe's for some of the yummiest pizza in town. All of the usual suspects were there:It took a while for the pizza to come, but BOY was it worth it! Before:After (oh, the humanity!):Then we walked down to the "splash pad" which is a fountain that kids are welcome to

Happy Birthday Kevin!

2009-08-06T23:42:00.000-05:00

Kevin and Candi and Mikey's cousins came to town... Kevin on the way to a worksite and the girls to stay for a few weeks. The first day they were here was Kevin's birthday! Here are some pictures... There are more pictures from the day right here!

Around and around

2009-08-05T12:39:00.000-05:00

A few days I uploaded a couple hundred pictures from our camera to Flickr; I haven't had time to caption them properly yet, but in the meantime, here are a few pictures of Mikey and Hannah on the carousel at Grace Church this past May! All of the carousel pictures Bonus picture: Hannah on the carousel a year earlier (July 2008):

Service for Wayne

2009-08-04T17:20:00.000-05:00

The service for Wayne this morning was wonderful... everyone was very sad to lose him but the music and the message were very joyful. Wayne was a joyful person; a joyful service was the only option! He was an amazing guy. He came from a difficult childhood but became a terrific father and grandfather, and one of the most generous people you'll ever meet. Pastor told a story of a time when the