Fall Pictures

You sure keep getting more and more handsome these days. You are really growing up. You are in the sixth grade now in middle school. So far it seems like you have adjusted well in the new school setting. You are a huge help with your brothers. Mostly with Ben, since he doesn't bother you too much yet! Sam and you get along most of the time, but there are times you just want to do "non little kid things." Here are some new pictures of you from my annual fall picture taking. You are always so great at taking pictures now (compared to your little brothers!).

Jacob - 11 years

Boy Scouts Biking

Today you and Daddy got up super early and headed to a huge park to go bike riding with your boy scout troop. It was a little chilly, but you both bundled up and had a nice time biking. You rode your bikes all day long. You were also suppose to camp out, but since the temperature was to get below freezing, you decided to come back home and sleep in your warm beds instead! You and Daddy had a good time and got a lot of exercise! More pictures here!

Happy 11th Birthday!

Today is your 11th birthday! It's amazing how quickly these years are going by. We are going to celebrate in a couple weeks with all of the family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Crossing Over

Tonight at the Blue and Gold Ceremony, you crossed over from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. You had to speak at the ceremony, "At the Ann Arbor Hands on Museum we got to explore and try all kinds of things." In order to make this cross over you had to earn the Arrow of Light. This is the highest rank in Cub Scouting and is the only badge of Cub Scouting that may be worn on the Boy Scount Uniform. You have done a lot of hard work to get this far and I am very proud of you. Congratulations! Here are some pictures.

Pack 295
Troop 243
Den 1

Merry Christmas 2007

Now that you are getting older, I think this is the first year that you had the whole "Santa" thing figured out. You got a lot of very nice gifts this year for Christmas. Your grandparents got you an iPod, that plays music and movies and holds pictures. This is something you have been wanting for a long time. Your Dad and I got you one of the latest video systems, the Nintendo Wii. You also have been wanting one of these for a long time. One day we will have to tell you the story of how we had to get it! You got tons of other toys and stuff also. I think that you had a very nice Christmas!

New Room

I finally got your new room finished. You and your brother Sam are now sharing a room, to make room for the new baby coming in a couple months. I took the Spiderman down that has been up almost since we moved in and made it more neutral for you and your brother. It is nice and bright and hopefully enough space for the two of you! I hope that you like it!

Lawn Care

Today Daddy let you help cut the lawn. You rode on the tractor for part of the backyard and pushed the other lawn mower in the front yard. I can't believe how big you are getting and actually able to do "adult" jobs like that. You did a great job too! Now, that's one more thing that your dad has seemed to take off his to-do list!

4th Grade Play

Today you were in a play put on by all the fourth grade classes in your school. You are not really the out going type, so you took a small part as singing lumberjack. You did a great job singing and playing your part! Here are some pictures. (mind you Daddy does not take the best pictures...).

Your Tenth Birthday!!!

Today you turned double digits! A big deal at your age I guess (I know that it was big deal for me when I was that age). You were at your mom's for your actual birthday (and I heard that you got a new TV in your room - lucky you!). You are spending winter break at your dad's house this year so we got to celebrate with you on Monday evening. Daddy, Sam and I got you some new U of M pajamas and the movie "Cars." And since you are getting to that stage where you like to pick out your own things and we never know what you really want, we got you a gift card to Best Buy to have your own little shopping trip! You were really excited about that and couldn't wait to go shopping with it! We had some cake and Sam helped you blow out the candles! I hope you had a great 10th birthday! We love you, bud!

Here are all the pictures I took from your birthday - click here

Jacob's Own Page

I have decided that since I cannot seem to keep up with the scrap booking anymore, but I still want to place to keep pictures, milestones and just day-to-day stories in one place, that I am going to start a blog for each of the kids.

Most of this blog will start from Jacob's tenth year (since I already have a scrapbook that is kinda sorta half done for his first years through kindergarten and another one kinda sorta started almost finished for his school years of kindergarten through fifth grade).

So whoever wants to see anything and everything about Jacob just come on over here! (I am still keeping the family blog, which I will post things about the entire family.)

Note: This will be written as if I am talking to Jacob, since this is really their memento and I want them to be able to go back and read this like I was telling them a story about themselves.