{"id":666,"date":"2011-04-16T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/?page_id=666"},"modified":"2019-03-08T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T15:32:25","slug":"1-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/1-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-Matti.jpg?resize=300%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jon and Matti\" style=\"padding-right:20px\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-Matti.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-Matti.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-Matti.jpg?resize=250%2C365&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Our firstborn, Jonathan, works at a local hospital as an ICU nurse. He met his beautiful bride, Matti, when he was 15<\/strong> and both were volunteering as Red Cross swim instructors. <\/p>\n<p>They married three years later and wasted no time in starting their family. At 29, Jon now <strong>juggles the roles of loving husband, doting father, and primary breadwinner<\/strong>, while Matti breastfeeds babies, homeschools, keeps house, volunteers at a local Crisis Pregnancy Center, and makes wonderful scrapbooks. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lot of responsibility for such young shoulders, but by God\u2019s grace, they both do a terrific job of keeping all the balls in the air! <strong>Jon and Matti have given us six grandsons in eight years and are now expecting #7<\/strong>, but whether the newest addition will break the streak of boys remains to be seen. We&#8217;ll be happy either way, as their children are best friends to our younger kids &#8212; the little aunts and uncles who are closest to their ages! <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CIMG0049.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"They were so young!!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CIMG0049.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CIMG0049.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CIMG0049.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CIMG0049.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w\" 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640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-and-Matti-11.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Expecting!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-and-Matti-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-and-Matti-11.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-and-Matti-11.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-and-Matti-11.jpg?resize=250%2C167&amp;ssl=1 250w, 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width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-in-Green.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-in-Green.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-in-Green.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-at-the-Coast.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jon with the Boys at the Coast\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-at-the-Coast.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-at-the-Coast.jpg?resize=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jon-with-the-Boys-at-the-Coast.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>READ ABOUT THE REST OF THE FAMILY:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/doug\/\">Dad<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/jennifer\/\">Mom<\/a> &#8211; Jonathan &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/2-bethany\/\">Bethany<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/3-david\/\">David<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/4-samuel\/\">Samuel<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/5-benjamin\/\">Benjamin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/6-joseph\/\">Joseph<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/7-rebekah\/\">Rebekah<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/8-rachel\/\">Rachel<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/9-isaac\/\">Isaac<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/10-daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/11-gabriel\/\">Gabriel<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/about-us\/our-family\/12-abigail\/\">Abigail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS PAGE LAST UPDATED: 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