Keeping up with Four Joneses!

Max turned 18 months on April 29th!  He's doing fabulous!  He has 2 top upper molars coming in, is talking a lot (mostly in cute toddler language), enjoys going outside and has a new love for the slides at the park!  We had a busy weekend in Jackson, MN visiting Grandma Jones and celebrating Grandma Pike's 80th birthday!  Last night we took advantage of the beautiful evening at Target Field!  The Twins couldn't pull off the win for us, but we sure did have an enjoyable night! Update on Baby Jones #2 - first of all we are in love with this little boy who already keeps us on our toes!  Today was our appointment with the pediatric cardiologist from Children's Hospital, Dr. David Gremmels.  After a brief discussion with our ultrasound tech, he pointed out all the NORMAL appearances of Baby J's heart including all 4 chambers, tricuspid and mitral valves and the heart walls.  So...long story short, Baby J does not have atrial ventricular...

Hello friends!  Not much baby news to update....no news is good news, right?!  I had a regular OB appointment last Wednesday with Dr. Witzke.  She's so wonderful!  We really just chatted and caught up with all we know about Baby J #2!  She shared a poem with me that I now have stored in my heart!  We have just begun planning our trip!  Click here for a link to the poem!  Our next appointment is May 2nd with the pediatric cardiologist.  Please say an extra prayer for us that morning! Believe it or not, Max turns 18 months this week!  He continues to be so much fun and hit a huge milestone...tooth #7!  Yep, this little guy only has 7 teeth and manages to eat pretty much anything but steak! We had a very fun trip to the Minnesota Zoo on Sunday morning (along with everyone else who had the same idea to get out and enjoy the nice weather)!  I would say the Joneses tackled our first trip to the zoo pretty well!  Max had lit...

I've learned to try something you are unsure of and if it doesn't work out, ask for forgiveness! I I'll start out asking for forgiveness, this is a long one! We have some catching up to do!  Blogging is new for me (and our family), but we have A LOT going on and being transparent has always been important to me! So, I thought and thought about our lives the last eight weeks and wondered many times "what is happening and where are we going from here?" Sometimes we just don't know. This is coming from a girl who DOES NOT like change and has worked very hard to accept there are things in life you have control over and things in life you just don't. Somethings we just have to accept and make the best of them! The cup is half full, right? In late December, POSITIVE, our family would be growing! We were excited to say the least!  We survived the holidays without telling a soul! All was going well. We traveled to Florida to spend time with Brian's family...