Pre-school begins

Aiden started pre-school 2 weeks ago, and we've been meaning to share some pictures. Aiden is now a proud student of 'Pre-school in the Valley' 2 mornings a week. The pre-school is in the church where Rob grew up, and coincidentally, both of Aiden's grandmother's work there!

Here's some pictures from the first day before heading out the door.

Not quite ready to let go of my baby!!

Being silly with daddy

Here we go!

Aiden was teary the first day, but is now loving school and doesn't look back when I drop him off in the morning.

Zoo again

We made another zoo trip last Friday. Mimi and Pop-Pop came along this time which was lots of fun! Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures. But, we got some great ones of the new baby giraffe that was so cute, I (Jen) could barely contain myself!

With mama

Rob and Aiden checking out the baby giraffe

We also saw the otters again, which is one of our favorite exhibits. It was lunch time for them and they were all eating fish- they eat the whole thing- bones and all!

And even though this is not a great picture of us, it's the only one we have from the trip.

And sorry there are no pictures of Mimi and Pop-Pop, but they were there, I promise!

Overloaded!

As another summer turns the corner into another fall there are some changes afoot at the Jones Abode. Nothing too crazy, of course, but significant enough to alter some of our daily activities for the foreseeable future. The first thing is that Aiden will start his first year of pre-school in just a few days! He will go two mornings a week, and he will be attending with some of the same kids that were in his "Mommy and Me" class last year. Jen and I went to the open house last week, where we met his teacher and saw his classroom. We've also been talking it up as much as possible and, let me tell you, the anticipation is building!

Another change is that I am actually getting in back to school-mode myself. Last week I started a program which will allow me to complete my bachelors degree and continue on to get my masters degree in nursing. The school that I am going to is called Excelsior College and it has a very unique, 100% online, (super flexible) curriculum. It's going to be a long, slow road, but after much prayer and consideration we decided that it is a worthwhile journey to take.

With the added time requirements for my school assignments the reality is that my posting here will probably continue to be quite infrequent. I used to try to get something up at least once a week, but I think now I may aim for twice monthly updates.

So thanks for checking in, and I hope that you continue to do so. If anything exciting happens, we'll let you know! (And if nothing much at all happens, we'll let you know that too...)

Ocean City 2010

We've been a little lackadaisical on the blog posting front recently. Oops.

Lets be honest though, it's August, the height of summer, who has time for blog reading/posting this time of year? Not us, that's all I know.

As hard as it's been to keep things up to date around here, I couldn't put off any longer sharing pictures of our trip down to Ocean City with Jen's family. Our time down there was great. The sun was shining, the kites were flying, and the boardwalk was humming with activity.

As per usual, our activities for the week centered around of the "big three" of shore vacation life. The "big three" (as we all know) are:

1) Relaxin' at the house

2) Cruisin' at the boardwalk

And of course, the most important of all...

3) Chillin' at the beach

Maine 2010

Hey, it's Maine!

I know we've been home for a few weeks now, but I promise that I've been working tirelessly (for the last hour) to allow these pictures to see the light of day.

What else is there to say? It was an amazing 10 days, and here are the pictures to prove it: