The Jester Family

Snow Days

2011-01-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

Mikayla was upset how her snow pants made her look, but other than that we had a fun time sledding and making snow forts in our home nestled in the foothills of the Appalachians.

Inside pictures of the house

2011-01-17T07:41:00.000-08:00

This is what Kim has been keeping busy with the last few weeks. Enjoying the home!

Autumn Dusk Almost Done

2010-12-08T12:48:00.000-08:00

Autumn Dusk House, more pictures

2010-10-02T11:55:00.000-07:00

All Bricked up

2010-09-30T13:47:00.000-07:00

Nice picture with the port a potty out front.

Parenting: Touching the Hearts of Our Youth

2010-08-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

Great Video on Parenting.

Mike

Parenting: Touching the Hearts of Our Youth

First day of school and Sycamore Falls Tennessee

2010-08-27T18:44:00.000-07:00

First day of schoool for Josh, Mikayla and Jacob. The kids are enjoying Hampton Cove Elementary and their new classmates.

This was a fun trip to Sycamore Falls in Tennessee. Jacob and Nathan had fun jumping in the water after the 1.5 mile hike on the Fiery Gizzard trail. Mikayla and Josh also braved the jump but only once! There are many more hikes in plans for this beautiful part of the country.

House Week 4

2010-08-27T18:27:00.000-07:00

The house now has windows and doors. Some of the plumbing is started and the roof is almost complete. It seems like a busy week for the workers. We have a frame walk through in 2 weeks. Whatever that means!

New House week 3

2010-08-22T20:04:00.000-07:00

Things are moving along. We even have 2 bathtubs already! The kids are having fun exploring the house while mom and dad stress over little ones falling out the windows. Next week hopefully the actual windows will be put in and maybe some brick going up.

New House Week 2

2010-08-13T18:59:00.000-07:00

Wow, we are actually posting something. This is our new home being built in Owens Cross Roads Alabama! Everyone is very excited. I promise to show new pictures more often.

Christmas Picture

2009-12-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

Fail shopping network. Very Funny video

2009-11-24T07:57:00.000-08:00

Maine and New Hampshire

2009-07-23T18:37:00.000-07:00

Lots of good pictures from this trip on the family photos link. We had a great time in New England and visiting new family on Kim's side. We ate lots of Italian sandwich's and swatted lots of mosquitos. Dad only found 2 ticks, both on him! Maybe we will do it again in 2 years!

Having fun at Diana's Baths.

Portland Headlight

Hike in Maine. Bradbury MTN

Milford Connecticut. My first mission area.

Jacob's Baptism was great!

2009-07-23T18:12:00.000-07:00

Had a wonderful baptism for Jacob a couple of weeks ago. Grandma and Grandpa Jester made it for the occasion and Dad mad it back from Alaska just in time. We are proud of you Jacob!

Lazy around the house

2009-06-08T17:50:00.000-07:00

Nathan gets his Arrow of Light

2009-04-26T19:18:00.001-07:00

We are so proud of Nathan, he is now ready for the road to Eagle!

Picasa Web Albums - Mike - April_09

2009-04-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

Picasa Web Albums - Mike - April_09

Thanks for the gifts Grandma Jester and Happy birthday to Nathan and Mikayla!

Josh's Birthday at Walt Disney World

2009-02-26T05:38:00.000-08:00

Joshua turned 6 on the 24th and we took advantage of the free Disney ticket. It was fun because all of the workers made a big deal about his birthday. Joshua really liked the Thunder Mountain Railroad but Splash Mountain 'made his tummy hurt'. Everyone had a great day and we just love living so close to the Magic Kingdom. Thank you Grandma for watching Benjamin so we could enjoy this fun day! See our picture link for more pics.

Teacups, just before we made ourselves crazy dizy!

Hangin with Goofy!

Mom and Josh taking a rest in Tom Sawyers Island

Happy Birthday Joshua. The big 6 year old!

Pine Wood Derby 2009

2009-02-23T11:00:00.000-08:00

Nathan took 2nd place in the Stake Pine Wood Derby this weekend. I will post more pictures when I get them downloaded. Nathan was excited to finally place. It took 3 long years to make a fast enough car. Only 9 more pinewood derby' s to go for Mike! Benjamins's car's should be really fast.

Georgia Cabin

2009-01-05T16:33:00.001-08:00

We had so much fun with Grandma and Papa at the Tower Lodge in Elijay Georgia. The hikes were very fun and sometimes a little long for the kids. Grandpa used plenty of ice packs! The weather was good and you can check out the rest of the pictures in our picture link.

Grandma helping with Smores. YUM

Tower Lodge

Searching for lost treasure on High Mountain Lake

Hot Tubbin it with Papa!!!

Christmas Eve 2008

2008-12-24T16:52:00.000-08:00

Alice and Nathan

Jester's love their gifts from Beth and Cody. Wish you were here.

Trying to take a picture without too much crying

Elfin fun

2008-12-19T12:51:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Fun in Utah

2008-12-16T06:17:00.001-08:00

Kim and I had a wonderful trip to Utah. Cassidy's wedding was great and seeing all of our friends and family was awesome. We are happy to be back in warm Florida after unexpected flight delays and rerouting yesterday. We had to go through Chicago on the way back! Here are a few pictures. Check out our photos link for more pictures and we will add some more soon.

The Schillers at the St. George Temple.

Kim looking beautiful

Kathy, Scott and Jaden at the Blue Iguana.

Feeling the cold at Temple Square

Kim and her niece Taylor at the St. George Temple

Disney World and Epcot

2008-11-19T12:27:00.000-08:00

youth talent show dance

2008-10-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

ok, so while mike is away the mice will play. we had a talent show for youth night and the young women leaders got together and performed a dance to the chipmunk song witch doctor. we had a blast, well atleast i did. i love to dance. they made me the dj in the song. so check out me in action. The young women seemed pretty impressed at how we could still groove.

Tropical Storm Fay from Goodiers front yard

2008-08-22T19:14:00.000-07:00

Tropical Storm Update

2008-08-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

Nathans Kids Picks Debut!

2008-08-13T10:43:00.000-07:00

Nathan was interviewed in NY after watching the new Mummy movie. Here is his review.

http://www.kidpicksonline.com/reviews.html?movie_id=68

Grandpa's 90th B-day

2008-08-01T09:16:00.000-07:00

This is some pictures from Kim's Grandfathers 90th birthday. We had lots of fun and took some great pictures.

Friends in California

2008-07-29T11:26:00.001-07:00

Some of our friends in California. Kim new the Ohaia's in New Jersey. Kapono and Tiffany have triplets. Tiffany did not want her picture taken.

Benjamins 1st B-Day

2008-07-29T11:21:00.000-07:00

We had fun at Chuckie Cheeses on Ben's B-day. As you can see, Ben had a great time too!

Grandma and Grandpa come to California!

2008-07-19T05:43:00.000-07:00

We were so happy that Grandma and Grandpa Jester could come visit us in California. This is the first time that they were able to see Benjamin. We had fun hiking and just visiting with one another. We hope to see them in Florida in a few weeks!

California Dreamin

2008-07-07T09:37:00.000-07:00

Finally,

We are in California for the summer. Life is good so far. Our good friends the Seijas, have let us use their home for the 2 months we are here. They are currently in Kwaj visiting while Tom is doing some work.
We are have a great time visiting friends and enjoying the sunshine. Mike is keeping busy at work, with just enough time off to enjoy the family.

Patriotism

2008-05-22T17:48:00.000-07:00

Funny Navy Video

2008-05-02T06:06:00.000-07:00

Navy Hey Ya | Funny Jokes at JibJab

North Carolina and and the Smokey Moutntains

2008-04-13T14:17:00.000-07:00

North Carolina,2008

We had a great trip to North Carolina and the Smokey Mountains. Horseback riding, fishing, boating and lots of hiking were the activities. It was nice to be in cooler weather and some beautiful scenery. Check out the pictures above.

Mike

Easter Fun

2008-03-23T18:12:00.000-07:00

Had lots of fun at Grandma's with the 1st annual Goodier, Jester, Terry, Adams Easter Egg Hunt. All 77 (or was that 78) Easter eggs accounted for. The bonus part wast that nobody fell in the pool. Hope to see Beth and Cody next year, but we will settle for the cuter shorter version that is Morgan. Happy Easter!

Nathan gets his braces!

2008-01-19T19:21:00.000-08:00

Nathan has his braces now! He was excited that they didn't hurt getting put on. He called me at work after the appointment and seemed very surprised that it didn't hurt more. Fun, Fun.

Fun run and Jacobs Super Week!

2008-01-19T18:50:00.000-08:00

We had a blast running in the Harris family 5k. Nathan took 3rd in his age group out of 14! Daddy took 2nd in his age group out of 16. Looks like running, runs in the family! Kim had fun? pushing Ben and Mikayla in the stroller and she took 4th in her age group just barely missing a medal! Kevin also ran in the race with Jill helping to blow up balloons for the kids. Jacob, Joshua, and Mikayla ran in the kids race afterword and each received a medal! Joshua loved the strethcing part before the run. Here is link to the finishing results.

http://www.runningzone.com/results.html?id=416&PHPSESSID=b5fab2e57075d61be607a81dedd4f0e2

Jacob was the super student of the week and Kim and I were invited to his classroom on Friday to eat lunch with him and talk to his class. Being student of the week, Jacob was able to be the 'line leader' and he really loved that! He also had a big poster on the wall with his baby picture and some interesting information about his life. Kim and I were able to talk to his class about Jacob and he seemed so excited, he kept hugging my leg the whole time we were in there. Kim got to measure the whole class to see how much each of them have grown since the beginning of the year. She had a good time too.

Are Mormons' Christians? Go ask your Mormon neighbor!

2008-01-02T11:31:00.000-08:00

Are Mormons Christians? Here is a relevant article on the discussion.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/12/are_mormons_christians.html

Looking Snazy with new church clothes and pictures of Christmas

2007-12-30T18:35:00.000-08:00

Use Blog to educate and share the gospel

2007-12-17T12:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church

Elder Ballard recently called upon church members to use the Internet to share their testimonies and put out correct information about the church and it's beliefs. We have the power to make a difference one Blog at a time! With all of the false information going around about our church it is our duty to engage in the conversation and not be "ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ" as the Apostle Paul wrote in the New Testament. The church is true!

Mike

Great Grandpa Goodier and St. Augustine

2007-11-30T11:03:00.000-08:00

We had a good visit with Great Grandpa Goodier. We had fun picking oranges and grape fruits, then eating brownies that Inez made for us. After the visit we went to Ft. Mantanzas and the Fort in St. Augustine. The kids loved the cannons and they were able to see the workers fire one off at the end of the day.

Check out the Jester Family Pictures to the right to see more of our trip and our house.

Halloween 2007

2007-11-05T17:48:00.000-08:00

Here is the scary bunch. The first picture was taken before we went to our ward trunk or treat. the kids weren't allowed to wear masks. that is why jacob and joshua's faces are painted. i thought i did a pretty good job painting jacob's face. they had a wonderful time trick or treating both nights. you can see our pumkins that mike and nathan carved in the last picture. there was one for each kid. mikayla enjoyed being a tiger. maybe next year she will get to be the princess. ben could care less as to what was going on as you see in the second picture. i hope you all had a fun halloween.

Key West and Summerland Key

2007-10-10T05:55:00.001-07:00

The trip to the Keys was fun. We attended Kim's cousins wedding on Key West and spent the rest of the time swimming, snorkeling and kayaking. We stayed in a nice house with access to the water and right next to Kim's family. Dad lost his fishing pole in the ocean and unfortunately it was not because a big fish took off with it! Enjoy the new new pictures I have uploaded to Picasa. See the link in our link section.

Dad and Ben

2007-09-29T16:21:00.000-07:00

Check out our new pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/home?tab=wq&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 We had fun on our trip to California. Mike worked at Vandenberg and Kim came to visit the last few days. We had fun seeing all of our friends. It is nice to be back in Florida now getting our new house in order. Lots of work to do!

Benjamin & Mikayla

2007-09-21T09:11:00.000-07:00

Mikayla loves her new baby brother and is always asking to hold baby Benjamin. Benjamin is almost as big as Mikayla! 14lbs already!

Best ending to a game EVAR!

2007-09-10T14:57:00.000-07:00

The last 25 seconds is the best. Go Broncos. My thoughts and prayers go out to Kevin Everett and his family.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/broncos-15-bills-14/3712142834

2007-09-10T09:42:00.000-07:00

I love this video. Joshua likes the pilot with the skeleton mask.

Go Mighty Mights! Nathan sweats Blue and Gold for the Mighty Lightening of Viera Fl.

2007-09-07T16:03:00.000-07:00

Nathan loves playing football for the Viera Lightening. Practices are hard but he has learned quite a bit already this year. He will be playing offensive line and linebacker. Go Lightening! I couldn't get the video to load. But check out this link as Nathan unleashes his power at practice. (he is in the white jersey with a blue shirt underneath)

http://picasaweb.google.com/mknjester/August2007/photo#5108643557096054930

New Kid, New House, New Job, New Schools = Stress in Jester House!

2007-09-07T15:28:00.000-07:00

Relaxing in Grandma and Papa's pool has helped us through the streesfull 2007 summer. We left our beloved home in Santa Maria California in June and have been living in the beautiful Tuscany Apts. in Viera Florida. Great place if you are a single person or newly married with less than 3 kids!

Last week we finally closed on our new house in the Suntree area of Melbourne Fl. We love our new house and are slowly adjusting to life in hot, humid Florida. The kids are having a time adjusting to a new school. It seems the school is ranked very high in Florida, so they drill the kids into preparing for the FCATS on day 1 so as to keep them ranked high in the state, which means more money I suppose. Right now it means cranky kids and mom!