Happy Birthday Jacob!

November 17, 2008 Happy Birthday Jacob!

Jacob's 1st birthday

Jacob dad's little helper!

Jacob the dare devil!

Jacob is a great swimmer.

Jacob showing off his road rash! Gross!

Jacob and his best friend Paul November 17, 2007

Fishermens warf 2007

Bubba Gumps Pier 39 2007

Jacob # 17

Jacob at Disneyland still not too big for the carousel. Notice the broken hand.

Jacob turns 11 today!

I made this cool plate and cup set with my friend Angela the weekend we were in Sacramento. we used her cricut machine to cut out vinyl lettering.

Thnaksgiving Cookies

Jessica helping Mommy make tukey and leaf shaped sugar cookies for an early Thanksgiving dinner with Daddy's family. It's a tradition in our family to make sugar cookies for each holiday. It started with me and my sister always making sugar cookies with our mom for the holidays and then I started with Jordan and we make them for every holiday and I have several hundred cookie cutters. In my husband's family it is tradition that I bring the sugar cookies to each family get together and if I don't I hear all night long "where are the cookies" "why didn't you make cookies." Luckily Jordan can now help me make the cookies and Jessica only likes sugar cookies! LOL!

Dinner at Aunt Michelle's House



Jordan and KaylaJacobJustin and Jessica
Jessica and her cousin Jillian eating the sugar cookies!

November 9, 2008

This weekend the boys raced in Sacramento at the Hangtown National track the whole family got to go and camp out this weekend cause football season is over now. The boys had a great weekend of racing a road really well I tried to take a bunch of pictures but it is so hard from far away and I took a couple video clips with my camera too!

Justin got stuck in a huge mud hole in one of his races and the mud was to the top of his tires and it took 3 motocross moms to pull him and his bike out of the mud! See pictures below before and after! He is so funny and doesn't really mind the mud at all!

Jacob getting ready to race and a couple pictures of each of the boys jumping. The video at the bottom is of Jacob.

Justin crossing the finish line!Justin and his First Place Trophy!

cookie decorations illegal?

November 1, 2008

Yeah! look what I got in the mail today! I love these shiny silver balls for decorating cookies! I remember sneaking in the kitchen when I was little to eat them from the kitchen cabinet. Well apparently they are to sell in California now and you can not get them anywhere companies wont even ship them here! Either will anyone on ebay, I checked! Some jerk of a lawyer saw them in the grocery store one day and decided that they didn't belong there then went a suing spree and now no more cute shiny balls for all us who in in California! Well I wasn't going to let some jerk tell me what I can and can not decorate my cookies with especially with a very important princess party coming up so thanks to some every special "cookie elves" I got my silver, gold, pink and rainbow cookie decorations! My mom gave Jessica this totally cute princess cook book last year and about half of the recipes called for these beauties so how could we have a princess party with out them!

Mud Racing

So while the girls were cheering in the rain the boys were racing in a Hare Scramble race in the pouring rain at Hang town in Sacramento. Jacob won 1st place and Justin won third place! And they had tons of fun riding in the rain and mud!

Homecoming

This is the Pinata we bought on friday it was a Batman Pinata and we turned him into a Titan Football player for the JV football team to beat before the Homecoming Game.

Jessica thought he was the best thing! She reallt wanted to take a picture of it.

The girls were really excited to decorate the boys locker room. They brought star balloons with each boys # on it, cupcakes, brownies, rice krispie treats, candy bags posters and the pinata.

But it was totally pouring rain all day and all night the girls were great and cheered in the rain the whole game!

They even performed the halftime dance in the rain on the super wet field in rain ponchos! One of the boys dads bought all the girls hot chocolate the second half of the game.

But what a game! 42-0 Go Eagles!

A Week Long Halloween

Halloween was like a week long this year, on Monday we went to the Ghost House. It's not Halloween with out a visit to the Little Ghost House in town. I remember going here when I was little and it hasn't changed a bit.We went with Jenn and Christian"Indiana Jacob" I mean JonesJustin was a T- Bird from one of my favorite Movies "Grease" I found him this awesome leather jacket then add these letters and the bird that I cut out from sticky back felt.Jessica wanted to be Juliet from the new Taylor Swift video "Love Story" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xmxb9K8RI

Surprise! We ran into their cousin Ariel while we were there. The girls were too silly and wouldn't stand still for a picture!The best part! The carmel apples and only about $3.00 each! What a deal!

On Tuesday we carved the pumpkins

Made Halloween cake pops for the cub scout pack meeting and Halloween party. http://bakerella.blogspot.com/

My friend Lisa bought me this cute lolli pop stand last week! and then Justin informs me that his book report is due the next day! I just love it when that happens! So then we stayed up late doing this book report.

On Wednesday we went to the church Halloween Carnival but before that my cell phone broke so I had to run and get a new one. And I have no pictures because I forgot my camera and I didn't have time to run home and get it because I had to run back to the cell phone store to pick up my new phone and be back at the carnival by 7 to run the bean bag booth from 7-8. So after the carnival we drop the 3 little ones at home and I wrap up the m&m cookies I baked earlier in cello bags and curling ribbon to drop off at 6 football players houses with posters and streamers to decorate their houses before the big home coming game. Oh but first we had to run to walgreens because target didn't have the "runts" candy one of the boys had suggested was his favorite. Then we go to Jordan's best friends house and get in her car with her mom to drive all over decorating houses and delivering the treats. So we finally get home about 10:45. and I call in to see if I have to go to jury duty the next morning and of course I do cause I'm not going crazy already! Jessica coughs all night with her asthma cough( no sleep).Here's a picture of my cute new phone!

Thursday: bring Jessica to Judy's go to jury duty (not fun) really really sucks. After I get out for the day ( I have to go back on monday).I call the doctor for Jessica because she is still coughing really bad go to Kaiser that is always fun and they are always really quick (just kidding)! Then I get to go to the pharmacy and spend $150. Rush to pick up Jordan from school go home for a few minutes Jordan has to cheer at the freshmen football game tonight so I take her to the football field (it's raining)then rush back to the other side of town to take Jessica to ballet but we are late and now she is coughing too much and doesn't want to dance today and the dancing and jumping would just make her coughing more. so we just watch and try on her costume or the Nutcracker that is in a few weeks. Then I had to go home and make the cupcakes for Jessica's class the next morning. I made pumpkin cupcakes with real pumpkin in them!

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/pumpkin-cupcakes

Here is Jessica Halloween morning before school.

Friday arrive at work and find out that both of my assistants have decided to call in sick! Happy Halloween to me Trick or Treat? I think it's a trick! So I'm very irritated now! Then because they are not there I didn't get a chance to go up stairs to watch Jessica's class do their parade, ok really really mad now! After work I needed to go to the Stanford shopping center to pick up some "sprinkles" cupcakes they were having a special carmel apple cupcakes Halloween week only. http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/

I have to wait a few minutes for the cupcakes so I run into Williams Sonoma to buy a princess cookie cutter set for Jessica's birthday that is in November. Then we stop by Michael's work to bring him a cupcake and some other treats Jessica made at school. I'm supposed to be at the high school at 3pm to decorate for the homecoming dance so we get there as soon as we can. When we are done decorating we go to the store to buy a pinata for the football game, more on that later. We get ready for the dance and I am supposed to chaperone and wear a costume so put on my old cheer uniform from high school throw my hair up in a pony and finish it with a bow sorry no pics of that one! LOL! So we get to there lat but there really was no reason for us to be early and it took for awhile to decide what to wear army girl, boy scout or cheerleader. Well the dance is so boring and I am totally missing taking the kids trick or treating. Sooooooooo I sneak out of the dance and meet up with Michael and the kids and trick or treat looking like a cheerleader in the rain! When we got home Michael and the boys left to go motocross racing for the weekend. But before they left I got out the cookies that I had been promising Jessica she could decorate for Halloween and we discovered that the boys had eaten almost all of the cookies before we could decorate them! Jessica as so made at the boys it was so cute. Lucklily there were about 8 or 10 left just enough for Jessica to decorate. Poor thing was so tired and sick you can really see it in her eyes she can barely keep them open.She was so proud of her cookie a and her candy stash! I'm so glad Halloween is over it was a very scarey week!!