Jana's Blog

3 Months Old

Jana — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:18:40 +0000

Raymond loves attention. He has the biggest smiles right now. He has been a Great Sleeper – 10 pm to 6am and back to sleep until 10am. He spends his awake time chewing on his fist, looking at his hand and watching all of the chaos. He loves to get his diaper changed, always wants to be face out and he’s following all of his siblings in the chubbiness department.

love this chubby baby

Big Mouth Smiles

MOthers DAY RoCKed!

Jana — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:55:52 +0000

The Avengers!

Jana — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:49:56 +0000

We Love Super Hero Movies. We had been waiting for this one to come out and it did not disappoint. We went for a post birthday celebration for Ben. His parents, 4 siblings and their spouses were all able to watch it with us.

the Nettesheim group

Captain America is Ben's favorite.

On Friday night we want to The Pizza Pie with Joel, Brady, Kelsey, LaNell and Dan. I had never been. I enjoyed the variety. And the company was “nice”.

cookie dough dessert pizza was yummy

On Sunday we got to have dinner with Ben’s family. His mom and both Grandma’s were there so that was neat.

Grandma Nettesheim sporting the mustache cookie!

Babies at the Cabin

Jana — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:46:04 +0000

Babies are just cute – so they get more blog time!

Thomas 4.5 months

Raymond 2.5 months

Cedar 2 months

hopefully we'll make it to the cabin again before these 3 are too big for the monkey chairs

Archery and BB Gun

Jana — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:12 +0000

A fun activity that we did at the cabin was a little archery and shooting for the kids. Uncle Sean was really good at teaching the kids how to use the bow. Benji and Packer really liked being big enough to shoot.

Sean teaching Packer how to shoot.

Benji figuring out the bbgun.

Packer on his own.

the shooting range all roped off.

Packer and Sean learning the bow.

Benji and the bow.

gathering the arrows

treasure hunt

Jana — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:09:16 +0000

Grandma planned a fun treasure hunt for at the cabin. She hid 20 brown bags out in the forest and all of the grand kids got to go search for them. I thought I would just waltz out there with Rosie and find some bags but they were hidden really well so we all got to search. Once found we had a white elephant type gift exchange with the treasures. The kids all had fun finding the bags and playing with their prizes. I think there is a picture of each of the grand kids in here. Well 16 of the grand kids, not the 3 babies and not the 3 oldest

the cabin

Jana — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:18:22 +0000

We planned an early family get together this year with my parents and siblings. We wanted to celebrate my Dads 60th and it is also my parents 40th wedding anniversary this summer. The first of May is right in between those 2 events and it was the best time for the Alaskans to come. Anyway all 12 f us kids were able to clear our schedules and spend some time together at the Eggers cabin in Pioneer, CA. We love being together. I’m glad that we all get along so well and EVERYONE makes the effort to have family time.

dad being a 60 year old goofball for the grandkids.

Kiley on the slackline.

Packer

Cali

Benji

This cabin was like camping with a house – - tons to explore and play but nice bathrooms, showers, and recliners when you wanted them.

Brady and Tracie

Jana and Ray

Shannon

Braden

we ate tons of good food.

we found a sandy lake beach for Rose.

we gave mom and dad a testimony book for their anniversary.

and I smoked these 2 girls in Rummikub lots

memory lane

Jana — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:57:41 +0000

While at my parents house last week we spent an evening on the bed looking at old photo albums. It was so fun to see pictures and share memories from our childhood. We didn’t have many pictures from our youth so the ones that we do have are keepsakes. I took a few pictures of pictures as I strolled down memory lane…

Ben and Benji

Jana — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:18:09 +0000

While I was in California with most of the kids Ben made sure to spoil Benji so that he wouldn’t have time to miss us. It ended up being some really good father/son time and we all survived the separation

big bowls of ice cream!

Pirates in 3D - I'm pretty sure theater food was dinner that night.

happy birthday BEN

Jana — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:21:03 +0000

birthday boy

Ben is 1 year older and 1 year wiser. His birthday fell on a busy Wednesday this year but we made the most of it. We went out for lunch with the kids. Then Ben brought home pizza and we opened presents at 5:ish and we had soccer practice from 5:15 to 7:00. After practice we went straight over to the championship soccer game for Diego and Cody. We watched the game and hung out with family and topped off the evening with cupcakes.

Packer worked on an art book all afternoon to give to Dad. His main gift is a new motorcycle helmet

Ben is amazing. I am HAPPY that he was born – so Happy. I can’t imagine this life without him. We are off to see Avengers this weekend to complete the celebration!

Happy Birthday!