Josh & Joni's Family

Saturday with Dad

2008-02-02T09:38:00.000-08:00

January update

2008-01-27T20:09:00.000-08:00

Sunday January 27. Spencer is happy because he got his first two teeth a week and a half ago. The girls are happy because it has been a very nice family day! We now have church at 11, so that gives us time in the morning to not set the alarm, all get showered and bathed, and then have a real breakfast together. After church, if we don't have a family dinner with Josh's parents and brother's family, we can just stay home together. Today Kaylee figured out that Briana makes a decent horse. She used a jumprope around Briana's waist to pull her along the kitchen floor in her Healies! And this activity lasted for quite a while...enjoy it while Briana is young Kaylee! Maybe once the twins get older Briana will be tying up the two of them to pull her around...pecking order!
At about 5 1/2 months old, Spencer is 16 lbs. and Jacob is 14 lbs. Both very happy, and neither think they need to sleep through the night! I guess Mom should just feel loved, right?
Grandpa is conditioning his grandson early..."BYU Spencer...football, basketball, anything BYU!"

Briana is very independent lately. If we don't keep an eye on her she will take matters into her own hands. Take her potatoes and carrots for example, she thought they were not quite up to standard in the taste department, so grabbed the salt shaker and went to town!

The girls are always taking care of their baby brothers. Briana likes to be nice to the buddies. She likes the idea that she is a nice big sister just like Kaylee is.

Oh, did you hear we started a snow collection? This has been a very cold, very snowy winter!

We have really enjoyed living by family...but we have figured out the real reason that John (Josh's brother) wanted us close by...yes the kids are all at our house this weekend night!

Mmmm, doesn't get better than rice cereal! Jacob didn't mind it, and has since gotten much better at actually getting some swallowed down.

Spencer, on the other hand, really did seem to mind it, but that didn't stop him from getting more, especially when Gran had the spoon!

What can I say, these boys are so stinkin' cute!

Say Cheese!

Twins Blessing Pictures

2007-10-28T17:38:00.001-07:00

Getting Ready for Halloween

2007-10-28T17:35:00.000-07:00

Jacob's hair

2007-10-06T14:55:00.000-07:00

Not only has Jacob taken on his Uncle Jeff's and Grandpa's name, he decided to take on their hairstyle too!

Kaylee's First Goal

2007-10-06T14:36:00.000-07:00

Kaylee's Soccer Game

2007-09-08T17:01:00.000-07:00

Kaylee had her first soccer game on Sept. 8. She loves it! She does a lot of "hard work." Briana loves "soccer ball" too, and the twins (and Mom and Dad!) survived the first game as well. Gran and Grandpa were there cheering her on as well of course.

Kaylee played goalie the first half. She stopped 50% of the shots taken on her...it was one of the two times the ball reached her. She has a pretty good team. We didn't keep score, but I'm sure it was something like 20 to 3.

Mmmm...good eaters. Kaylee now has enough front teeth to efficiently eat corn on the cob. And Briana loves spagetti, but does not especially love using her fork to get it into her mouth. Silverware seems to slow her down too much.

Twins First Bath & Blessing

2007-09-08T16:53:00.000-07:00

Spencer Joshua and Jacob Charles were blessed by Josh on Sept. 2. The looked so cute in their little white tuxes! In these pictures, you get a little glimpse of one difference in their personalities. Spencer is calm, and Jacob is protesting. Fun to be able to see differences in them this early on.One Proud Papa!!

Grandma Schramm came for the blessing. She needed to get her "baby fix" since it had been about 2 weeks since she was here last helping out.

Our family...now Josh isn't out numbered.

The boys couldn't have asked for better sisters. Kaylee and Briana loves the boys and are both big helps (Briana in her own way) with them.

The First Bath

Spencer enjoys his bath...cries when we take him out.

Jacob could do without bathing...what a boy!

He cries while in and is happy when we get him out.

The Twins are Born!

2007-09-08T16:42:00.001-07:00

Jacob Charles and Spencer Joshua were born on August 11, 2007. Jacob was 6 lbs. 14 oz, Spencer was 6 lbs. 13 oz. Both 18 inches long.

Here they're getting ready to venture out into the world for the first time.

Aunt Courtney came to see us while still in the hospital. She's lucky Kaylee let her hold the babies...Kaylee doesn't like to share her Aunt Courtney!

Gran and Grandpa getting to know the new grandkids! How many is that for you now?

I think these two make 23, right?

Josh is in trouble for taking this picture...and for putting it on the blog! I'm sure he wants to prove that I really have gotten some sleep since the twins were born.

Jacob and Spencer

Spencer

Jacob

Any gueses as to how big?

48 Inches!

Good thing for Josh's shorts and flip-flops...

Just before going in for the c-section...I'm VERY excited to get these babies out!

Kaylee's Blister

2007-09-08T16:39:00.000-07:00

Kaylee's Last T-Ball Game

2007-06-21T21:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a picture from father's day at John's house, and some of Kaylee's t-ball game.

Father's Day

2007-06-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Here's some new pictures from the last couple of weeks. If you want to save any click on the picture to open the full size picture then right-click on it and choose "Save Picture As".

Bees Game

2007-04-28T18:30:00.000-07:00

We got some free tickets to the Bees game from my work so we went to that today. Here's a few pictures we took.

Josh

Briana's 2 Year Pictures

2007-04-27T18:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a few of the 2 year pictures I took:

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Our Blog Begins

2007-04-27T18:32:00.000-07:00

Well, we thought we'd join the bandwagon and start our own blog. Perhaps it will be easier sharing photos and videos, we'll see. It should be fun to try anyway.

Briana turned 2 a few days ago and I thought I would try to take her 2 year pictures myself. I think they turned out good, but would like to improve my photography skills. I have plenty of time to improve them I guess.

Brittany came and stayed with us a couple of nights ago, the kids had a good time playing with her.

My parents will be moving here the end of May, it sure is getting exciting having some more family close to hang out with.

Well, not sure what to put in the blog yet so I guess that's all for now. If you have any suggestions let us know.

Josh