My Dad's Family

Today was my great Aunt Lottie's funeral that my dad was asked to speak at.  (Can I just say incredible?! My dad is an INCREDIBLE speaker! What a blessing to go listen to him speak!) It just so happened that all of his siblings were able to attend.  It was my Aunt Linda's idea to take some pictures with their parents and what a GREAT IDEA! In my eyes these are some of the most amazing people I know! What great examples they have been in my life.  They are strong, good, hard working people with testimonies of the gospel.  Each of them represents something different to me and I appreciate them more than they will ever know for living in a way that makes me want to be like them. 

I joked to my mom while we were standing there that my two little boys about drive me NUTS some days.  I have NO IDEA how my grandma kept up with this giant crew of boys! She is incredible just for that alone! :)

Baptism Day

What a special day for this sweet little girl! What a blessing she is in our lives.  We are so proud of her for her decision to be baptized and become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

MY BAPTISM

Today I took a closer step to be with Heavenly Father

I humbly walked down 5 white steps and into clean, clear water

My loving daddy took my hand to help me stand up straight

Just as he has through all my life till now when I am 8.

My daddy showed me what to do - breathe deep, then hold your nose

And baptized me with priesthood power and smiled when I arose.

Now I'll take another step to be with Heavenly Father

My daddy, uncles, grandpas too will all around me gather.

They'll lay their hands upon my head, bless me and say "amen"

Then the Holy Ghost will be my guide if I but follow him. 

 

 We did Laiklie's baptism the morning of General Conference.  We did it early Saturday morning and headed back to our house for breakfast with the family! What a fun day! We had a house full in support of our girl! Grandma Jacobson bought her a baptism cake and handed her the knife to cut it. 

Great cutting job baby girl! :) Love it! Love her and love our families for being there to support us on such a special occasion. 

Laiklie is getting Baptized

LAIKLIE is getting BAPTIZED

 Saturday, October 4, 2014

9 am Stake Center

 

 

 

Laiklie Turns 8

I can't believe my baby girls is 8 years old! She is such a fun little girl and I am so grateful 8 years ago she was sent to our home!

This little cutie is her daddies girl through and through. She went to the store sure she needed a chocolate cake....then she saw this hunting beauty and the chocolate request flew right out the window. :) She NEEDED that hunting cake - white cake or not! She had planned out who got to eat the moose, elk, and big buck before she even got home.

 

 It seems like we partied for 2 full weeks for this birthday.  We not only had her birthday....we also had a friends party Thursday after school where we went swimming at Heise. 

 

 Emily, Laiklie, Blair, Kaiya, Sage and Ava

 These girls had a blast playing mermaids in the pool.  One funny thing I heard Laiklie say, "In the game (mermaid game) I am 16 years old so I know EVERYTHING!" Ha,ha,ha,ha! I remember being 16 and knowing EVERYTHING! :)

Laiklie had a great birthday this year and we are excited for her to get baptized!!

Look Who Turned 10....

RHETT

 Rhett is now HALF A MAN!:) according to the Jacobson side of the family! 

He had a great birthday....other than it fell on a Sunday. Bummer! :) So we had to party with friends on Saturday.

Mark, Kylie, Rhett and Raegan....and Jackson whom we picked up later all came to party.

 We took them to Squealers Fun Park.  Such a beautiful day to play!

Rhett loved the go carts and the rock climbing the best!

The darn rock climbing pictures wouldn't rotate....so just tip your head! :) This is going up!

 And my favorite picture of the day...coming back down!

Rhett is an incredible kid! He is so smart and so much fun.  He keeps me busy for sure.  He is stubborn like his momma so we butt heads often, but I atleast I know where he gets it.  He is definitely one of a kind and I wouldn't trade it for the world! Love him so much!

Cousins = Best Friends

This post is out of order by date....it should have been back before school started, but I forgot to post it and don't want it left out.  No big deal, right?!

Oakley had Ali come and stay over Labor Day Weekend for just a little more time together before school started.  They decided they needed some Cousin Pictures.  These are just a few of the 250+ pictures we took that afternoon....

These two girls are GORGEOUS! And seriously BEST FRIENDS! What a blessing!

(not sure why some of the pics look grainy...but you get the idea)

 

PUMPKINS

When we planted our garden in the spring I told Ryan I didn't care if ANYTHING grew except the pumpkins.  I told him I wanted ALOT of pumpkins.  I don't know why pumpkins make me so happy, but they do! :)

We were thrilled when our 7 little plants started to produce and when we could see little pumpkins growing.  We planted one giant pumpkin plant and you could see a big pumpkin growing almost immediately compared to the other plants. Then in August it rained and rained and rained for almost 2 weeks and we didn't even go out to the garden.  When it finally stopped raining I decided I better go check on things.  We found this....

 54 - that's right....FIFTY FOUR PUMPKINS (I took this picture after we gave 10 to the neighbor kids) and out of the 54 we had 7 giant size pumpkins.  The orange one in the right corner was our original giant pumpkin.....we were blown away when we found SEVERAL bigger than the giant!

There were SO MANY and they were SO HEAVY we had to drive the suburban over to the garden, load it up and drive the pumpkins to the garage.  We weighed the big ones as we unloaded.  The two largest ones weighed in at a whopping 41 pounds! The other giants were anywhere from 25-40 pounds.  We are going to have a GREAT HALLOWEEN and some amazing JACK-O-LANTERS! Can't wait!!!