Christmas pictures

Here is our official Christmas 2009 family picture. I wanted to get them done a little more professionally but we kind of ran out of time so we just took it at home. And this year I really wanted to try making some Christmas cards, so that took quite some time since I made each one different. They're not the greatest, but it gave me a little something to work on and I at least enjoyed making them. Here's some of the cards I made for family and a few friends.

But this is Jacob's first Christmas so here are all my attempts to get some cute christmas pictures of him.

Thanksgiving break

Thanksgiving was a nice relaxing week for us. Luke had been out of town on business trips the two business weeks before and so it was nice for him to then have a week off. The best part though was the Friday before Thanksgiving, soon after Luke got home from Omaha, he found out that he passed his fourth and final CPA exam! We were soo excited! Luke has been working on these tests for a year and a half and we are both happy they're over. Luke has promised that our lives will change as soon as these tests were over- and so far, he's actually been right! We've had a lot more time to do things together and he hasn't had to stay late at work, and so it's been nice having him around more- especially for the holidays!

So we didn't do anything special for Thanksgiving, we really didn't do much all week but just relax at home! But we did have a nice Thanksgiving dinner in our new house with just the 3 of us, and that was all we wanted. Thanksgiving day was gorgeous outside too so we played a little in the backyard during the day, and had our dinner later at night.

playing in the backyard

Jacob crawling around the kitchen while we worked on dinner

clapping for the camera

pumpkin pie cooling in the window :)

our thanksgiving dinner!

we had a ham roast instead of turkey- doesn't it like it's straight out of Green Eggs and Ham?!

we did have turkey- turkey thighs, I felt like a caveman eating them though

Jacob trying some homemade rolls

Catching Up!

So for the record I haven't just been a lazy blogger lately- my computer crashed around New Years (great way to start the year...) and so I wasn't able to update, especially since I couldn't access any of my pictures. But the good news is, after a month of being without my laptop- I was finally able to find someone locally who was able to replace my hard drive for a good price. So I did lose some of my stuff again, but not too much- thank goodness for picasa web albums! Maybe this time I'll learn to actually back up all my stuff! But at least my laptop is like new again.

So it's been driving my crazy because even though I'm not very good at blogging too often I hate feeling way behind- then it's no fun anymore! But I want to get caught up with all the holidays, and my trip to maryland and everything we've been up to lately- so here goes!

8 months!

I can't believe Jacob is 8 months already! He is officially crawling on his knees now, and has been doing that for about 2 weeks now, pretty much days after we moved into our house. So it's nice he has more room, but we got to be really careful with our stairs and everything he wants to get into. He's really moving now!

And I don't have any good videos of him crawling yet, I'll put one up soon though. But I do have a video of his newest trick- clapping! He's not very good at it yet but he knows to clap whenever I say yay! I love it!

And I always like to document when Jacob does something new for the first time. So here are a couple other firsts...

first time sitting at a highchair at a restaurant

first ride sitting in a grocery cart- I love not having to tug him around in his carseat all the time! as long as he's not sleeping- shopping always seems to make him tired :)

first time playing drums- loves to make noise

first time going bowling

And the last one is not really a "first" but more like a 3rd and 4th- Jacob is getting 2 more teeth on the top! So he has been teething for a bit lately, but it will be cute once they fully come in!

Anyway, he's getting big and getting more and more fun to play with everyday! We're glad Luke is back from all his business trips now and has the week off for Thanksgiving so we can have fun!

Baby's 1st Halloween!

Jacob was a turtle for halloween this year! Ever since he was a baby I thought he kind of had a "turtle head", he's kind of grown out of that look now, but I still thought it would be cute to have a turtle baby! So I found the sleeper at Babies R Us and then found an old helmet at a yard sale and then painted it to match! It was a big hit!


We went to a Trunk-or-Treat party at church on Friday night which is always a lot of fun. I dressed as a bunny so Jacob and I were like a tortoise and the hare kind of thing together. Jacob thought my ears were hilarious.

this is the cake I made for the cake walk

more of Jacob sporting his turtle costume

And here is Jacob with all his little friends...

Jacob and Gwen have been friends since they were little, only a month apart

Jacob and ballerina Angela

Jacob with Carolyn and Angela- he loves these girls!

And they love him too! We're going to miss them so much!

Halloween afternoon we went to a Halloween/Birthday party for my friend's daughter Natalie. She turned one and her and Jacob are little buddies- we're going to miss them when we move too!

Then on Halloween night, Jacob and I went over to the house to pass out Halloween candy in our new neighborhood. We met one neighbor that lives two houses down, but it was fun to just be able to hang out in the house and get the feel of the neighborhood and get lots of funny comments from the trick-or-treaters. My favorite was a little girl that said "I like your clean house" but of course it's still just empty- haha but clean works for me! Here's Jacob hanging out in our clean house.

he looks a little bored, haha

So it was a fun Halloween, but now all the fun and parties are over, so we have a busy week ahead of packing, Luke finishing up busy season at work and then we'll be all moved into our house by Friday!

7 month update

A lot of you have been asking if Jacob is crawling yet, and I guess he is? It started kind of slow with the army crawling. But he definetly is moving around now. I took this video a couple weeks ago, and he's moving even faster now and he can get up on his knees but just can't quite crawl on his knees longer for than a second. But you can watch him "crawl" on this video and make all his silly noises...



So now that Jacob is 7 1/2 months, his becoming more mobile is the only real new and exciting thing going on. He is still just so adorable and cute, and growing and changing so quickly! I just love watching him and playing with him all day! He makes lots of really funny sounds and expressions, and is still a very happy baby! Sometimes I joke that he likes to be wicked though, because he'll start slapping my face or something and I'll tell him to stop it and then he laughs and keeps doing it! Haha he does silly stuff like that all the time.

He has started taking much longer naps in the day which means I can get more done (like packing!), but for some reason he has also stopped sleeping as long through the night. That's been a little frustrating because he used to be great at sleeping through the night, so hopefully he'll get back on track soon!

And he's been eating his baby food for awhile, but I'm not very good about always remembering to feed it to him- (haha, whoops). I want to be feeding him food for lunch and dinner though, so that way maybe he'll stay a little more full- he always seems so hungry! But I promise, I do feed my baby- milk is just so much easier!

Funny thing happened last night actually. For some reason when I was picking out babyfoods at the store, I figured I try this chicken babyfood. It actually looked discusting and the doctor said he only needed fruits and veggies, so I don't know what I was thinking when I got chicken, I just figured we'd try it. Haha- well, bad idea! I guess I'll just show you his reaction...



And as soon as I stopped taping- Jacob threw it all up, and then again an hour later. Sorrrryyy Jacob! (And I decided not to post the after picture- too gross!) So... no more chicken, back to the fruits and vegetables!

Also, Jacob has had a couple visitors recently too. Luke's dad was in town for a day two weeks ago. He got in on a Sunday morning, checked out our house, came to church with us, came home and had dinner, then went and walked around Sloan's Lake downtown, and then he left early the next morning.



Grandpa got Jacob this cool glowstick to play with

Then the following weekend Luke's uncle Mike, Aunt Cindy, and cousin Abbey were in town so we got to spend an evening with them- had dinner, played games, visited and had a great time!

Jacob loves playing with Abbey!

We also went to my friend Shandra's baby shower, she's having a baby boy in December!

So that's it for now, there will be Halloween pics soon!