We have recently been introduced to the wonder of Fondue. A few weeks ago we went to Karen’s house for a fondue party and it was so much fun Zach decided we needed a fondue pot so we got one. Then yesterday we had a big fondue party at Mom and Dad’s house. This one was more fun for me since we had steak and chicken instead of sea food. I’m loving this!! We have a bunch of left over steak and chicken so I see another fondue party in the near future. I forgot my camera yesterday but Karen took some pictures at her house a few weeks ago. Here are some pictured of Jonathan eating squid. The best part about this is that he wouldn’t eat the steak or chicken yesterday, he just kept asking for squid. There is something wrong with this kid!

Uncle Andy helping him eat his squid

Mmmmm, tentacles. See the joy on his face? definitely something wrong.

Just looking at old pictures of Jonathan and I can’t believe how much they look alike. Emma just needs a little more hair and fuller lips. Both super cute though 

Jonathan at 8 Months

Emma at 8 Months

I found this awesome site is attached to my Picasa web albums and I’ve been playing with in and I LOVE it!! Here are some pictures I have edited

This week on my day off we went to the Kent County 4-H fair with our friends the Vanderbees.  They have a son a little younger than Jonathan named Ammon.

Yes his parents are state fans.

We had lots of fun seeing all the animals.

Then Jonathan spotted…..the rides.

Then there were the games, thanks to Kathy and Brian for the giant hammer, the first thing Jonathan said this morning when he woke up was “hammer? Where hammer?”

Since I did an update on Emma I figured it was only fair to update you all on Jonathan too.

• He is 2 years and 8 months old, will be 3 December 2nd
• He LOVES to “drum”

• He LOVES his sister Emma, sometimes too much
• he is speaking in full sentences most of the time
• His obsession right not is Ice Cream and Garbage trucks and buses (everything is an Ice cream/garbage truck/bus, the table, see below, the couch, my legs…the list goes on) Here is Emma riding in the Ice Cream truck with him.

• He also loves “fixing” things (the hammers were taken away when he started “fixing” the walls)
• He has also recently started saying his own prayers, this is adorable.

A little side story about this, on Saturday morning I walked past Jonathan’s room and heard him “singing” then he stopped yelled Woooo and clapped. Then I heard him say Heavenly Father, Amen. Cutest thing EVER!

I have been really bad a putting out updates on Emma, so here it goes.

• She will be 8 months old on the 16th
• She is fully mobile, has been really crawling for almost 2 weeks
• She is pulling herself up on furniture (thank goodness we moved her crib down last Monday as she did this for the first time in her crib on Thursday.

• She is eating baby foods and Cheerios. She eyes every piece of food near her.
• She finds Jonathan thoroughly entertaining
• and she really wants to walk but is still extremely wobbly

This week I had Friday off since my Mom was out of town so I didn’t have to get a baby sitter. Here are some pictures of the morning.

I went to the zoo with the kids, it was a lot of fun!! Here are some pictures.

Emma the camera hog, ha ha.

Last picture of this hat, we lost it somewhere in the lizard house  : (

My little monkey

Talking to the turtle

What Jonathan does best…Drum

After the zoo we came home and had a mini photo shoot to send Grandma Kellogg some updated pictures of the kids.

Then Saturday was Zach’s 4th best day ever. We had Olivia Emery come and watch the kids for us and we left our house at around 9:00. We drove to Detroit where we attended the 12:00 session at the temple, it was amazing and I am so glad we were able to go. It was also at least the 3rd time in a row that we were the witness couple, woohoo!! From the temple we went downtown to Greek town and had pizza at Pizza Papalis, Mmmmmm

Then we went down to Comerica Park, Home of the Tigers. I got Zach tickets to a baseball game for fathers day.

While we were waiting for the gates to open we walked across the street to Ford Field where the Lions were having open practice, it was fun to see it live after seeing it on TV so many times. Sorry this picture is a little blurry, darn phone camera anyway!

This picture just gives you a good idea where our seats were.

Us at the game

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One AWESOME day!! If my back hadn’t been hurting all day it would have been even better. The weekend would have been perfect if Emma hadn’t woken up with a fever at 1:30 Sunday morning making the kids and I miss church, oh well, it was still an amazing weekend.

Rehearsal

Family picture

Jonathan and Zach at the wedding, wish Jonathan wasn’t crying but it was getting late.

First Dance

Best picture of me in a LONG time  :D   Emma’s pretty cute too, very tired though.

Daddy Daughter Dance

Andy and Emma

Collage of Jonathan tearing it up on the dance floor, thanks to Karen’s friend Leslie for documenting this so well.

It was a great wedding! Congrats Karen and Andy!!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

Started out by making breakfast, Jonathan was a big helper with the sifter. He’s really good at sifting blocks, ha ha.

Then there was some playing, the living room was blocked off because we had cleaned the carpets the night before

Jonathan decided he wanted to sleep on the floor that night and this is how we found him.