tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67316336377355228892024-09-01T23:19:09.441-05:00Everybody's got a family, but not everybody's got a family as cool as mine!<br> <b><a href="http://tulsamjfamily.blogspot.com/">http://tulsamjfamily.blogspot.com/</a></b>TulsaMJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15945834114006833482noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731633637735522889.post-37513629356178324672011-07-16T09:00:00.000-05:002016-03-12T20:32:07.984-06:00

Today's an emotional day for us. We're moving out of the house we've lived in for ten years, four and a half months. It's the longest period of time in my life that I've ever lived in one place. Mikey was only ten months old when we moved into this house in East Tulsa in February of 2001. Cathy had wanted to live in this area since she was a little girl and much of it was brand new; 30 years

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Boy, has it been a long time since the last post! Lots has happened since then... birthdays, Christmas and Christmas Train, Mother's Day, museum visits, trumpet playing, Vacation Bible School. And now it's Mikey's last week of 5th grade! But I really wanted to mention the great time we had this weekend down in Texas with my brother's family. I took Friday off from work so we could go down a

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Last week Mikey started the 5th Grade. This year he's going to the school in our neighborhood, Walt Disney Elementary. (I've never been in a school before where black & white pictures of Disneyland from to 50s were a key part of the décor!) Cathy has been really anxious about his first time in public school (Mikey's been in Christian school and home school up until now), but Mikey said his first

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"I forgot the camera." Those are the words I said to Cathy yesterday as we left the city limits of Tulsa, and that's why you won't see pictures of us with John & Sheri at Jellystone Park Camp in Eufaula, Oklahoma. But I'm not sure we would have gotten that many pictures anyway... we spent most of the day in the water, and our little snapshot camera is most definitely not waterproof! We didn't

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Last Saturday we took a day trip to Seminole, Oklahoma to visit the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum. We had a great time, as you can see from these pictures: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Usually I try to give a synopsis of what all went on in these blog posts, but in this case, the pictures are so central to the story that I sort

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Today Kevin turns 37! In honor of this momentous occasion, here are a couple of shots of him from our fishing trip with a couple of the kids a few months ago. You can check out all of the pictures of that event, as always, on Flickr, at this link. Here's the MONSTER fish that our birthday boy pulled in that day! Think of the fish he can catch now that he's a BIG boy!!! (p.s. Sorry, kevin...

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This week was Vacation Bible School at The Bridge Church! In past years I haven't been able to volunteer at VBSses because they were in the daytime, but we did an evening program this year (Tuesday/Thursday/Friday), so Cathy and I both signed on to help. And, of course, Mikey signed up to participate. (Hannah is still a couple years too young, sadly.) Boy, did we have a great time! Initially,

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Wow! I took a look at the contents of our camera today, and was amazed at all the pictures I needed to upload! If you like looking at my family pictures, set aside some time to check them out! If you've been reading this blog, you already know we've lost a lot of loved ones recently. We lost two grandpas and one aunt/sis-in-law. In the middle of all of that, we managed to have a nice Mother's

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I started writing this post in May, but didn't quite finish, then I started again, adding the second part, but then was interrupted again by the events of this week. This has been an excruciating couple of months for my family. Read on and you will find out why. I have something in common with my children now that we didn't have in common two months ago. I wish it were something that could have

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Yesterday morning, Cathy called me at work. "We need to get up to the hospital to see Theresa," she said. Theresa Angel is Cathy's brother's wife; Cathy and she actually knew each other at church a few years before she met his brother, and we didn't even all make the connection until later. In recent months Cathy and Theresa had started to become even closer friends than they had been before, and

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7am on Mother's Day I saw Mikey. This was significant, because I never see Mikey at 7am on a Sunday. On Sundays, I get up at 7 and grab my shower first thing because our water heater needs a running head start to heat water back up for the other family members. I usually wake Mikey up closer to 7:45 or so. But this was Mother's Day! Mikey was so excited... he wanted to make breakfast for Mama! I

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I promised pictures, and I uploaded them to Flickr, but I forgot to post the story here! We started off last Saturday at our church, The Bridge, working on some Easter baskets for children in needy Bixby families: We had like 35 volunteers working... we made pretty quick work of it! 35 volunteers out of a congregation of about 150: I'm proud of my church family! After that, Mikey had a soccer

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Somebody turned ten years old today! Pictures and stuff from his birthday celebration coming up shortly!

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This morning Mikey got up bright and early with me, and about 7:30 we hit the road. Was I taking him to school? No, of course not... he home-schools! I was taking him someplace he was scared to go: to the oral surgeon's office. He had an extra tooth that needed to go, still inside his gum front and center over his two front teeth, shaped like a bent boat paddle. Mikey's dentist had also

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A lot of fun stuff has been going on, but I just hate to blog about it until I've had time to upload the pictures! Here's the rundown on the Jones family since Valentine's Day... Valentine's Day fell on a Sunday this year, but Cathy and I went out on Saturday. We went to see a movie called Valentine's Day and then we went to Macaroni Grill and had some dinner. We really enjoyed each other's

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A couple of important things have happened recently, and they've made it to our Flickr account but haven't made it to this blog yet. So here goes! Last Saturday was Pinewood Derby for Mikey's Cub Scout pack, Pack 137. Saturday morning Papaw Jones and I took Mikey to Home Depot to the Kids Workshop to build a car display stand... it's maddeningly close to being just the right size to display a

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Last Friday we closed the office in anticipation of the huge snow and ice storm that was being forecast. It was supposed to start snowing Thursday morning and not stop until late Friday, or maybe even Saturday. Well, it finally started snowing midday Friday, after a lot of rain and some ice. Here's the view I saw from my front porch Friday evening... isn't it pretty? Saturday I took a walk to

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Monday morning I stayed home from work to take Hannah to the doctor... she had been congested and coughing since the Wednesday or Thursday before, and because she would cough and cry during the night, nobody in the house was getting very much sleep. Turns out she just had some congestion, and swollen tonsils probably irritated by the coughing and making it worse. We've known for a long time that

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Last night we were headed into church. I had taken Hannah out of her car seat and was carrying her in my right arm. She was asking me where her binky was, and I was telling her I didn't have it. "I checked all my pockets twice, and I don't have it!" I said. (Turns out I was wrong... I found it this morning in a pocket I had forgotten to check!) So I was walking across the parking lot with her,

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I was at my Mom and Dad's house last Sunday, installing a printer driver on her computer, when the call came. Cathy had gone to the store, leaving me and Mikey and Hannah over at Mom & Dad's so I could fix up her computer, and she had just gotten home. "Come home!" she said, and I could hear the stress in her voice. "There's a flood in the garage, and water is spraying everywhere!" Cathy has

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Wow... I feel pretty rested today. It's Friday, and I've just recovered from our trip to Shreveport last weekend! Too much fun all at once, I guess! New Year's Day the office where I work is always closed, so since it was Friday we decided to take a day of vacation and make a 4-day weekend out of it. So we loaded up in the car and headed down to Shreveport! My Grandpa, Uncle and Aunt live there,

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Every morning when I get up for work, I take a look at the morning weather forecast. I ride the bus, and the walk to the bus stop is about a half-mile or so, so obviously the weather is going to make a big impact on me. Generally when they show the long-term forecast I don't bother to look too closely; in Tulsa the weather is pretty unpredictable, and those forecasts are going to change

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Merry Christmas from the Jones family!

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Today was the last Sunday before Christmas. Cathy dressed Hannah up real cute in a new Christmas dress (at right), and Mikey got all dressed up in a new red sweater. In the picture, Hannah is standing next to a little ceramic nativity set; Hannah really likes to hold the Baby Jesus. On the table you can also see the picture of Hannah and Mikey that we took at The Christmas Train a few weeks ago.

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Last Wednesday, Hannah turned 2 years old! We met up with a few friends at Incredible Pizza for a birthday party the Saturday before, and everyone of course had a blast. If you have a little one and you haven't been in since they revamped the play area in the back corner, you need to go. There's a whole bouncy inflatable area for them to play in, plus a bunch of rides and stuff for them to enjoy

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