Time with family in July

We were excited to have some of our family come and visit us in July. My brother and sister and their families were able to come one night. We are all on the train above, but Jackson is hiding and unfortunately you can't see too well bc of the shadows. But we had a great time riding the train, feeding the ducks, going to the nature center, and playing in the creek and playground. The usual park adventures.


Just about a week ago we were excited to have Aaron's Mom and sister, Laura, and her kids, Caryss and Gavin come to visit too. Again we enjoyed the usual park adventures and had a great time.
I was excited to get a picture of the three of them together! It will be going on the fridge soon :) Braelyn loves pictures as much as her mommy.
And these last pics are a little out of order......4th of July! We decided to head home and visited with both of our families for the holiday. We are so thankful that we live close enough to go home and visit on the weekend if we want.


Great Granddaddy Jones with me and Braelyn.
Braelyn with her Granddaddy and Nana.

So thankful for both of our families and the time we get to be together with them.

Pictures from June

Looks like Braelyn is saying "Does this swimsuit make me look fat?" :))

I know pics aren't as exciting as videos, but I still haven't mastered the uploading videos yet. So here are some pics from June. Mainly just showing a few things Braelyn enjoys doing.....swimming in her pool, swinging, and painting. We also have been going to the park more lately and playing in the creek and playing on the playground.







It's hard to believe that it is already August. I am 16 and a half weeks now. We should find out on August 20th, hopefully, what we are having!!! I am very excited to find out. I really have no idea what it will be. We are starting to look for Braelyn a twin bed to put in her room. Then at some point we have to clean out our guest room and try to figure out where we will put all of that stuff to make a baby room! On a random note...we got new phones this past weekend and aaron and I now have texting plans!! Yes, we are catching up and will now be texting :) and sending pics. I have three weeks of teaching at church on wed nights, then AWANAS will kick off. I plan on helping with that. I LOVE Awanas. It's such a great opportunity to help the kids learn about verses and how hiding them in their heart can really change their lives. We have gotten to have some good conversations the last couple of weeks in our classes and I am thankful for that. I think the kids have learned a lot this summer...to the glory of God.
Hope you all have a good week. Hopefully more pics from July soon.

New Videos

Here's a video of Braelyn saying our family's name. Sorry that everyone didn't make the cut. She's a bit mesmerized by the camera. Sonya turned the camera screen around for her to see herself. Enjoy!


Warning this video contains my(Aaron) feet and me singing but it's also Braelyn doing this little piggy, and doing "if you're happy and you know it" so I think it's worth watching.



Here's a random video of a deer in our back yard this morning. Just for fun!

Last video is of Braelyn in the swimming pool. She enjoys pouring the water into her mouth over and over. Please excuse my cameo appearance, I was not planning on posting this but her faces are so funny I just had to. Thanks for watching!

Introducing Baby Jones #2

So we have exciting news! We are expecting Baby Jones #2 around January 14th, Lord willing. I am 14 weeks along today and am glad that the first trimester is over! I don't get really sick, I just feel really yucky and have a hard time figuring out what to eat. The yuckiness is decreasing, but still having a hard time finding food I enjoy eating. We praise the Lord for answering our prayer for another baby and for the great gift of new life. It really is such a miracle. These pics and videos were taken at my first appt which was a few weeks ago, at 11 weeks along. I was really excited that we got the videos too. Hope you all enjoy them. My next appt is July 23rd. We do plan on finding out what the baby is, but that probably won't be until around 20 weeks. So stay tuned :) Braelyn doesn't understand yet, but she prays with us "for the baby in Mommy's belly" so hopefully by January she will understand a little better. She is so entertaining right now. She is just talking all the time and trying to say EVERYTHING. She is getting really good at communicating, which I enjoy. She likes to take her clothes off and try to put them on. Her favorite song right now is "If your happy and you know it". We finally visited our public library last week for story time and the Bristol public library is SO NICE!! They have a great play area and the kids part is totally separated from the rest of the library so you don't have to worry about your kid being loud :). More updates and pictures from June/July soon.

Still catching up.....

ok, so I just thought I had posted all of May. I forgot a few pics from Dollywood and from our annual camping trip with my family to Elkmont over Memorial Day weekend. We had a good time camping. My brother let us borrow a much bigger tent than we have had before, so that was nice.




This is special father/daughter time :)) He makes a good reading spot.

We also celebrated Mattie's bday while camping. She turned two and had an Elmo party. Braelyn was pretty excited about that. Katy did a great job on the cupcakes. I don't know if I could pull that off or not.


Our attempt to get a picture of all the grandkids together......pretty good I guess.

Enjoying the Elmo cupcake. Braelyn had a lot of fun camping and spending time with her cousins.
More updates to come soon hopefully.

Official members :)

Last Sunday Aaron and Braelyn and I finally joined our church here in Bristol. Calvary Baptist Church. We have been meaning to do this for awhile now and it was just slow getting it all taken care of. We feel like we were already a part of the church family long before this though. I just wanted to take a moment to encourage anyone reading this who is not a member or regular attender of a church family to make that a priority. Aaron and I realize that lots of people in our age group for some reason don't make church membership or attendance a priority. I know it can be hard to find a church at times, but don't give up. We went to 12 churches here in Bristol before we found Calvary. We realize that no church is perfect, but God desires for us to be plugged in to a church somewhere, so that we might be a part of the body of Christ and encourage our fellow brothers and sisters and at the same time receive encouragement in our time of need. The church is God's design, He has a special purpose for it, and if you are a believer then God wants you to be involved in a church body.
We thank God for our church family at Calvary Baptist Church. We thank God for answering our prayers to show us where He would have us get involved for the short amount of time that we are here in Bristol. Praying that God has you in a church where He wants you or that God will direct you to a church home soon! To Him be the glory!

The month of May in one sweet post!

May was a much less eventful month for us, as you can tell by the amount of pictures I took. :) Just some random pics of Braelyn, learning to help Mommy water the flowers. She really likes to be outside.




This is Braelyn's toast and jelly face :) She is currently cutting her incisor teeth on the bottom and has been running a little fever with it. But she was feeling a little better today. Those teeth look sharp!
Braelyn still enjoys playing in the tupperware cabinet. Mainly emptying it out, trying to put lids on and stacking some. But recently she has enjoyed crawling in and trying to hide in it.
I thought this was a great picture of Braelyn and her Mamaw. She came up to help watch Braelyn for a day while I was preparing for my class at church.

So, now I have finally gotten caught up on posting pictures......let's see.....

oh, we bought some patio furniture for our deck, a table and 4 chairs and an umbrella, but we need to swap the umbrella. I am excited and ready to get to eat out there soon. We went camping with my family last weekend for Memorial Day...I guess I still need to post those pics. We had a good time, although it was a little rainy. Braelyn loved being outside all the time and did really good sleeping in the tent in her pack n play.
Aaron is still on a pretty good schedule and we are enjoying that. Just a few calls here and there. Braelyn is talking more and more each day. One funny thing she just started doing a few days ago.... we often say "Silly Braelyn" bc she does silly things and the other night she said back without us prompting "Silly Dada....Silly Mama" It was so funny. She tries to sing parts of Jesus loves me and her ABC's. She is so entertaining. I love getting to be at home with her and see all those little things that make us laugh and love her so much.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Vacation to New Jersey

Our last hoorah in April was vacation to New Jersey to see Sarah and Martin, Aaron's older sister and bro in law. This was Braelyn's first LONG trip and she did GREAT. I was definitely concerned about how she would do, but as Aaron always says "I think she'll be fine". :)) And usually he is right. We had a great time visiting and relaxing. The weather was kinda rainy and cold, but we still had a good time. Aaron and I went to IKEA for the first time....it was pretty neat. Nice to be able to say I've been there now. Braelyn enjoyed it too...lots to explore and even a play area. We also went to Lancaster-Amish country one day. That was a fun experience and once again, now I can say---been there, done that. For some reason, the amish clotheslines that hung from like a telephone pole down to the house, just cracked me up! They were so LONG and TALL, and full of clothes. I tried to get a picture, but never could. We were so thankful that it worked out for us to come up and visit with them. Thanks guys for hosting us!! Hopefully we will do it again before too long :)



Braelyn thought Aunt Sarah's step was a slide. She got really good at going up and down by herself. She would say "1, 2, 3...weeeeee"
And she enjoyed Aunt Sarah's rocking horse too and other toys. Thanks again for hosting us and helping us have a great vacation! We enjoyed it so much!

Stephanie and Hugh's Wedding :)

Yes, I am still catching up on April pics!! It was a busy month, but a good one. Once again, the pics are backwards. I don't understand why it does that, and why I can't figure out how to fix it, so just start at the bottom and scroll up. We had a great time at Steph and Hugh's wedding. It was a beautiful day and we were so glad we got to be a part of it. Aaron actually led the ceremony and did a great job. It was a fun day and we got to see lots of old friends too. Congratulations Stephanie and Hugh!!! May God bless your marriage and use you as a blessing to others.






Braelyn had a lot of fun with the camera :) Hope the pics turned out good.

Stephanie was a beautiful bride and the wedding was wonderful too. Congrats again guys!!