Pinewood Derby

This was Dallin's first pinewood derby. He was super excited and I was excited that his dad actually was on the ball this time and had the car "mostly" finished a day or two before the actual derby. They decided to go with camo this time. I tried to get them to let me spray it with varnish but was told that "camo isn't shiny!" DUH! This is what Dallin looks like when his dad is incharge of getting him to pack meeting. Yes, he needs his hair combed and he is missing his scout shirt. :( I wish I would have paid a little more attention when they told me they were going to weigh in. Guess I learned for next year!:)
Dallin is on the far left. He won some and lost some....which is PERFECT!! I am happy when all pinewood derby contestants are happy. It was a good night with alot of smiles from the boys!

Here he is watching the finish line pretty closely! Ha, ha! These cute scouts make me laugh. I especially loved the little arm pumps when they won a race. So cute!!

And here they are with their ribbons and cars. It was a great 1st derby!

This Weekend

Just wanted to share a few things that happened this weekend. They aren't anything significant....just little things I want to remember! :) This is my two little men practicing to be farmers with their round bales (like their daddy uses...AKA toilet paper, ha ha!! They make me smile!) loader and semi.
You not only have to practice loading and unloading the bales, you also have to practice stacking them. :)
This weekend Oakley got invited to a friends bday party. They were playing a balloon game and Oakley bent down to pick one up just as one of her friends kicked it and WHAM!! What do you know? She ended up with a jammed finger!!

I wish the picture showed how bad it really looks. This was taken two days afterwards (that's about how long it takes for my brain to start working!) and so the swelling is almost completely gone. It is the middle finger and you can see the purple around the middle knuckle. We had to tape it for the entire weekend and she struggled with little things like: finishing her homework, shampooing her hair, buttoning her pants and everyday things like eating and going to the bathroom. The poor little thing. She was nervous as she left today as to how well it would work playing the clarinet in band this afternoon. I hope it bent like it was suppose to.

The last thing of the weekend I want to remember is this......Last night Laiklie had tears as she headed to bed. She has them EVERY Sunday night because over the weekend we let her snuggle into bed with her big sister and then during the weekdays she has to sleep in her own bed so Oakley actually gets some sleep. Last night I finally had her settled down and tucked in and thought we were going to be good for the night. I made my normal nightly rounds and tucked in Rhett, Dallin and Oakley. As I was headed to my room I passed Laiklie's and there was my sweet little girl standing in the dark just behind her open door. When she saw me she asked with her sweet little precious 5 year old voice, "Mommy..........can you lay by me for a minute?" HOW CAN YOU RESIST THAT?? Especially from my baby! She isn't going to be asking for very many more years. I know this because I can't even get her big sister Oakley to let me sing her a song anymore when I tuck her in!! So, of course, I laid down by my little Laiklie and we talked about primary and preschool and her brothers and sister and her lala loopsy and her story books and anything else she could think of. It was heaven!

Tears for a tough year ahead

Last night as I sat at Rhett's baptism fireside choking back the tears I realized that Ryan and I have a tough year ahead.
This year......2012......this is what we have to look forward to, be nervous about, learn and grow as we go through, etc., etc., etc.,
1) Oakley will turn 12 this year and not only start young womens.....she will also start Jr. High!
2) Dallin turns 10 this year....which means in the Jacobson house hold that he can go outside, throw his hat in the air and yell that he is 1/2 a man!
3) Rhett turns 8 and is going to be baptized - remember...the reason for the tears that started all this!
4) And our baby Laiklie turns 6 and will start Kindergarten. Which means that her mommy.....me.....will be left alone 1/2 a day everyday!!
I am feeling PRETTY OLD! Old like what I use to think my parents were!! Old like, I saw one of my old boyfriends from high school the other day and almost didn't recognize him, old like Ryan looked at me recently and asked, "WHEN DID YOU GET SO OLD??!!" :( He likes to tease me that I am old enough to just about be the mother of a teenager. NOT FUNNY!!
How come my insides still feel young? Dallin got a pogo stick for his birthday and he counted around 80 jumps, then Oakley climbed on counting near 100 jumps and I sat on the couch telling them, "DON'T MAKE ME SHOW YOU UP!!" So then deciding to "show them up" I climbed on the pogostick. I got through one bounce and as I went down the second time the pogostick seriously decided it hated my guts and flipped me upside-down causing me to shoot out of control (thank goodness for a nearby couch) and then came back to hit me in the shin!! So see....my insides are still young....my outsides are no longer cooperating! :( Hopefully I can keep it all together and continue to choke back the tears as these exciting....kinda scary events happen over this tough 2012!!

Homemade Gynmastics

Laiklie has been taking gymnastics this year and LOVING it!! At the gym they have a bazillion mats including a wedge mat. Laiklie replicated the wedge mat yesterday by taking a mini wedge foam we have, covering it with a blue foam, then placing the open dora couch on top. (Pretty smart girl if I do say so myself!:)

It isn't near as stiff and effective as the "actual" wedge mat at gymnastics, but you can tell by the smile it is doing its job of keeping her entertained and HAPPY!! Yay Laiklie!!

Our Late Christmas

Our Christmas this year was the day we came home from Arizona on Dec. 29th. Our sad little live tree made it through the week-long empty house. We were glad to see its needles were still in place when we got home and not all over the carpet!
This year was a little different. Instead of coming out from the other room to open presents the kids came in from the car.....they were in pj's though, but not like they usually are. This time they were in them because we got up at 4:30 am to fly home. When they came bouncing in from the car to open their presents most of them darted for the bathroom instead of the presents in the living room. It had been a long morning! :)

The kids all had a GREAT CHRISTMAS! They got all the gifts they had asked for plus many more! This is Dallin getting bucked off his banana chair! Ha, ha!

Rhett and his globe. He is a google earth fanatic and was so excited about this funny little globe! Laiklie is in the background with her walking puppy. This is the kinda dog I can handle....you can turn the barking off when it gets annoying and it NEVER poops on the grass!! :)

And here are the girls. Laiklie with a mouth full of stocking candy and Oakley all smiles about her giant package of make-up!

Such a fun Christmas for all of us....even if it happened a few days late!