JONAH'S 1ST BIRTHDAY!!

Hehe Jonah was so cute. He wasn't sure what

to do with this giant cupcake. We tried to show

him but he was like uum I don't think so.. I think maybe

he just didn't like that everyone was staring at

him when he was trying to eat.

Papa showing him its okay to just dig in. hehe.

We cant believe Jonah is already One!! Time sure

has just flown by. Jonah has grown up so fast. He is so

freakin cute. He is jabbering so much these days. He already

says a ton, he can say Hello, Mama, banana- na balloon- ba

He doesn't really have those two words down yet but getting close.

He tries to say light. He can tell you where your nose is.

He purrs like a cat, he moos like a cow and he roars like a lion

He really is just loads of fun to be around. He does something

new everyday and it is so fun to watch what he is going to do next.

Finally I think he got the hang of it, but he still didn't

get to crazy about it.

Jonah thought the goats were pretty great until one

nibbled on his finger then he got pretty sad.

FAMILY PICTURES

Jonah thought the tractor was pretty

cool.

zheesh...(and some thoughts on one year)

I've decided that the "cutsie-scrapbook" look of our blog is a deterrent for me in actually updating or posting anything to it...

I really wouldn't mind as much I think if my wifie would post stuff here once in a while...but she does not, so every time I look it's just posts by me...on this buttons-and-string blog page.

It's probably doing permanent damage to my self-image...


anyway


Jonah is going to be 1 this Saturday, already a whole year since that little monkey showed up and eradicated any chance of me retaining my selfish, jerk-store persona that took so long to cultivate (implied sarcasm added for emphasis).

It was virtually nonexistent after the life-altering event that was, and continues to be, Darcito mae; and once he was here it pushed me over the edge I was skating of "sort-of-adjust-things-a-little" change to the "crap-I-am-actually-completely-responsible-for-another-human-now" kind of change.

Along with that change came the odd realization and acceptance that all the stupid and dangerous things I used to do when I was younger (and not so younger)...were in fact, stupid and dangerous.

Yeah, Yeah, my parents, teachers, scout leaders, cops, judges and occasional random passerby's were right..blah blah blah.

There's no need to go into specific detail to describe how drastically my definition of "stupid and dangerous" has changed, just that the list in my head of things I've done that I would admit to being "stupid-and-dangerous" at least doubled. And yes I would prefer it if Jonah did none of things on that list.

Both these things were all that was going on in my head during the first 2-10 seconds of Jonahs' life, although I could blame it on the fact that I had been awake without food for 30 hours or so at that point.

I had planned on teasing Darci and telling the Dr and Nurse that his name would be Jacombsie when they asked, but I was a bit preoccupied and stuck with the name we sort of agreed on in the weeks before of Jonah L

Overall the 20+ hours of labor were and still are very worth it, at least to me, but I didn't do much of the work either. it really seems like it was just a few weeks ago.

so Happy Birthday to Jonah-roni, he sure is fun

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Jonah took Darci and me to the Manti Temple on December 23rd to get sealed as an eternal family, pretty good idea on his part dontcha think?













Here we is after the sealing with G&G Finlinson













And G&G Nilsson














This one is nice, Darci likes it cause you can see my cute butt...
At least that's what I'm claiming she said...





we got our endowments in the SLC Temple the day before (wanted to spread it out a bit). The endowment and sealing were both amazing.
Jonah was a pretty good sport about the sealing and was just fine once he was back in his moms arms, he got less and less content taking pictures in Manti in the 20 degree weather though, along with everyone else involved I'm sure.
Overall it was a great Christmas present to ourselves.

Havin' Some Fun (them, not me)

Darci and Jonah went to Gardner Village with GMa Fin, Brenda and Taryn.


As you can see he was totally impressed...j/k. That is his typical expression, sure is his fathers' son. I love that kid...and his mommy

Darci is always smiling, I probably cant take credit for that one though











Jonah likes touching faces, and then pinching nostrils real hard and laughing, maybe that's just on me though.

He must like hanging out with his cousins, probably gets old just being around Mom and Pop all the time.









Taryn obviously knows how to keep him happy

This stuff is sick Pop....

Jonah was watching Mom and Pop eat some
asparagus and looked like he wanted a taste.
To bad the video quality isnt great, cause he
is making some sweet faces.

After the first few tastes he cant even smell it
without cringing.
But he keeps seeing his Pop (me) eating it so
he gives it one more tastes, then gives me a look
like "are you seriously eating this nasty stuff?"

Jonah sure is radical

Jonah's story

Jonah was getting a bath the other night
and decided to tell us a nice long story, it
was pretty interesting...me and him mom
tried hard not to laugh.

I think maybe he liked how he sounded
with his ears underwater