Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Summer has come and gone


Well, it has been quite the eventful summer, and it is hard to believe that it is pretty much over. Over the course of this summer I traveled to and from Canada to swap vehicles with grammy and grampy grant. It was a pretty cool experience because I got to dive through my mission and visit with some of my favorite families before returning home to my beautiful wife and baby boy. I also got to do a lot of cool jobs, one of which was to build a staircase outside of a house. About halfway through the summer I went to Ft. Knox Kentucky to endure through 4 weeks of Army training. It is basically like basic training only it is controlled by ROTC cadets and supervised by drill sergents and officers.
For Jordan, she worked her tail to the core and took a full load of summer credits to make up for what she missed in the spring. On top of that she got straight A's. She is such a good student. I just marvel at how committed she is to her schooling. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with her this year. The greatest thing about it is that she put herself into a position to graduate at the same time as me. We both look forward with enthusiasm to the day we both graduate, and I get commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant. That will be an incredible day. Not only did Jordan work super hard in school, but she got to go up to Alaska with Connor to visit her family while I was at Ft. Knox. While in Alaska we decided to get Connor on formula, and get him eating baby food. Since then things have been great because Connor doesn't have hardly any gas and he sleeps so much better.
As a family this summer was a lot of fun. Going 4 weeks without seeing each other was really hard-nothing compared to our friends Holly and Spencer who spent a whomping 4 months apart(you guys are idols to us).
Connor is now almost 8 months old. He is well over 20lbs and is just getting bigger. Connor's new tricks are that he likes to army crawl to everything he is not supposed to, and everything he is allowed to play with he loses interest within seconds. Connor's favorits things include Daddy's guitar strings, the computer buttons, cell-phones, USB cords, and tags on the toys....not the toys. Connor likes to climb on eveything now as well. Last week he learned how to get up onto his feet and now it is the only thing he does. When one of us hold him, he starts to put his feet on us like he wants to stand up on us. It's really funny. Anyway, here are some pictures for your enjoyment. There is even a video at the end! :D. Jake going through Field Training Exercises at Ft. Knox

Peekaboo!!!!
Out playing in the rain.

Jordy with her mom and Grandma Jones with Connor


8 comments:

Kemp and Whitney said...

It's still so crazy to me to think u guys are parents! Your little boy looks like a very happy baby!

Jiggle Johnson said...

What a chub! Man I miss you guys so bad!

Ashley said...

Sounds like you guys had quite the summer! I really miss you all, especially Jordan. Hope all is well. Good luck with the start of school and all the movings in. :) Who did they get to replace Mandy and Derick?

Holly said...

You guys had such a busy summer! Congrats to Jordan for being an amazing student and to Jake for doing so well in training and to Connor for being so cute and getting so big:) We just love you guys and are so glad we're back so we can hang out again!

Joyelle said...

ADORABLE :)

The Holt Family said...

Ok Connor is so big now and so adorable of course!!! Time sure flies. And mrs jordan how do you do it?? You are amazing! Congrats to Jake too!! You guys are awesome and we're coming to visit in January can't wait to see you guys.

Grant Stoddard said...

Connor looks like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street in the top picture. Glad you guys are having fun!

Grampy Grant said...

Is there any new pictures of your family, We would to see them if there is!

Love,
Grandma and Grandpa Grant