Happy Birthday to Jacob

Newborn












4 Months Old












8 Months Old












1 Year Old












18 Months Old












2 Years Old












4 Years Old












5 Years Old












6 Years Old












6 1/2 Years Old












8 Years Old












9 Years Old












10 Years Old

Is it just me or did he wear the same shirt for three years in a row on picture day?











11 Years Old












12 Years Old












13 Years Old












14 Years Old












17 Years Old











High School Graduation










19 Years Old









Jacob and Laurie's wedding day









His beautiful family

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB!!! You have been everything I hoped my first born son would be. I hope you have an outstanding day!!!!! We love you!!!

Shopping For the Pregnant One

Sarah came to town this weekend and Rebecca and I had a great time shopping for maternity clothes with her. My only regret is that I forgot to take my camera and wasn't able to document the girl with the fake baby belly attached to her--that the store so kindly provided--that added 20 weeks to her pregnancy so we could get the full effect of how the clothes would look on a pregnant woman. She did look cute in all the clothes--big, fake belly and all.


It was nice to have a day out with my girls. Thanks, Jeff, for letting Sarah come up.


And thanks, Dallas, for watching Brooke all day so we could shop and talk and laugh and enjoy a mother/daughters day together!

Albuquerque

This past weekend found us on a road trip to Albuquerque. We made a stop in Monticello to attend the temple and spend the night.



We saw lots of beautiful country and even a gorgeous rainbow.


Steven and Patricia seemed happy to see us and were gracious hosts the two nights we stayed with them.





We attended a second temple--the Albuquerque Temple.


After the temple, we ate the most delicious meal at Paul's Monterey Inn.


And that was the point in our trip where the camera battery ran out. OOOOPS!!! Forgot to check the battery before we left. Oh, well. I'll now have to just tell you about how we helped clean the church on Saturday morning, went to breakfast on our way to the football game, watched BYU squeak out a victory, ate dinner at Garduno's, watched some other game on T.V., woke up the next morning to snow, ate a delicious breakfast cooked by Steven, bid our good friends farewell and made the long drive back home. Just use your imagination on what those pictures might have looked like.

TRIPLE Thumbs Up!!

There was a little detail I left out about our recent trip to Las Vegas--or I should say on our trip home from Las Vegas. We stopped at Jeff and Sarah's home for a very short visit as planned.

I had asked Sarah to get me a small bridal photo of her to put on display by Rebecca's bridal photo and she had complied with my request. When I pulled her bridal photo out of the envelope, there was this picture there as well.


WOW!! That took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting two photos, especially one with such an exciting announcement on it.


Sarah looks pretty pleased with herself and Jeff is a happy papa-to-be. Way to go, guys! CONGRATULATIONS to the two of you!! A little baby Excell due to join the family on 6-10-10.

But, I'm not sure Sarah realizes that other people in the family have special news of their own...


And not to be outdone...


That makes for TRIPLE the exciting news!!!