Jake

My nephew Jake came and lived with us a couple summers ago and became one of my kids best friends! They talk about him all the time! He has been able to come stay with us off and on for a week or two when they need his help building bins.  He got to come last week and is here for just 3 short weeks and OH MY WORD he keeps us hopping!

 Here he is with all the little girls at my house and the little girls from next door.  He let them paint his fingernails and they ATE IT UP!!

 He likes to do all of these crazy competitions! He heard that Oakley held the pogo stick record of just over 400 and so he decided he wanted to try and beat it.  So he climbed on the pogo stick (it is Dallin's size, not Jakes size....he seriously bottomed out every bounce!) the other night and went crazy! He got 1010 bounces! That's right....ONE THOUSAND AND TEN!! He only beat me by 1001! :) Then the next day he decided we were going to have a hoola hoop contest.  I got 7 minutes, Dallin got 17 and of course Jake has to be the record holder.  It took him 3 tries, but the final record held by Jake is 21 minutes! What a kid!!

And this isn't a good picture, but here he is clogging with my baby in the kitchen.  You can see why they like him! He has taught my boys everything there is to know about a chin-up bar and how to use one (and of course Dallin bought one today! Ha, ha!) and he jumps right in doing things with the girls too.  We sure love Jacob! He has grown and matured SO MUCH over the past 2 years.  We are very proud of him and the decisions he is making in his life right now! We will miss him when he heads home next week!