Goodbye, Columbus

Today we are moving to Kentucky.  And that means we are saying goodbye to Columbus Ohio, our home for four years.  While we are very excited for our new home and new adventures, we'll be leaving behind great friends and great memories.

The kids with their buddies, Natalie and Alayna

Margaret and Justin Rooney have been great friends & supports.
Margaret is in the same program at OSU as Elizabeth, and
they were also in our small group.

Our house of 4 years on Swansea Rd!

We'll miss the park across the street

 

... and of course the playground at the park

And our church home of almost 4 years

We'll miss excursions down to the Scioto River

and our membership to the zoo (where E & J rode ponies
last week!)

Above all, we'll miss all the friends we made through church, OSU, Zumba Columbus, neighbors, and more.  Thanks to all who we met in the wonderful city of Columbus.  It was a great experience, and a great home for 4 years. We will certainly be back to visit!

Happy Birthday Great Grammy!

A very happy birthday to the kids' Great Grammy.  We were able to see her just under two weeks ago, and we all had a great visit.  Here are a couple of pictures from our time together:

Happy Birthday!  We love you!

500 Posts

This is the 500th post on this blog.  We hope you've enjoyed following alongside the Jones family as we share updates from life.  It's also served as an online scrapbook for us, a way to look back at the highlights of life since we started our family.

Here are a few of the most newsworthy posts of the first 500:

Post #1 

 

Eliana is born
 
  

Judah is born
 

In Memory of Grandpa Jones

 

Eliana's 1st Birthday Party 
 

Judah's 1st Birthday Party

Eliana turns 2
 
  
Judah turns 2

 
Eliana turns 3

 

Eliana turns 4
 

 Thank you for reading, and enjoy the next 500!

Small Group

We got together for one last dinner with our small group this past weekend.  We will surely miss this group of friends.

 

Meeting Peter

Kevin and Alison, our good friends from college, just had baby #3, Peter William.  We got to meet him on our way back from Philly last weekend.  The kids enjoyed a short visit with their buddies, Chloe and April.

Jeff and Peter

The older kids showing off their popsicles

 

Paoli Vacation

The Jones Family tries to do a vacation every summer.  We missed out on a fun week at the beach last year.  This year, we decided to do a more low-key week at Mom's house in PA with a couple of day trips.  It was fun to get together with all the kids' cousins, aunts, and uncles!

Riding the Strasburg Railroad

Guess who loved riding the train?

Hanging out before seeing fireworks.  Both kids loved them!

With Gramma & Cousin Hosea at Longwood Gardens

Eliana watching the hippos at the NJ Aquarium

Eliana loved holding 7-month old Theo!

The whole fam!

Sold!

We are officially homeowners.  We got a few pictures by the house when we closed at the end of June.  In case you're wondering, Eliana is holding one of the toys left by the former owners.  We move on July 28!

 

Red, White and Blue

Happy 4th of July!!

Meeting Clark

Our good friends, Margaret and Justin, had their first baby on Father's Day, a precious boy named Clark.  We got to meet him last week. We got a few good pictures, which are below.  We missed getting one of Judah with Clark, I think because we were focusing on making sure he was being gentle!