Fall Festivities

For Lisa's birthday we decided to go to Power's Farm Market. They have a bunch of farm animals, a giant tp filled with jack o lanterns and delicious donuts...they sell pumpkins too. It was a rather warm day but nice and sunny which was nice. After we picked out our pumpkins we went to Sharon's house and ate cider and donuts...and david climbed about 16ft up a tree and tried to shake it so it would fall down. I don't have a picture of that unfortunately but it was quite a spectical to behold. He and my dad were able to pull it down eventually btw.

Jakie the cutie bug with aunt Lisa


sharon and her pumpkin

lisa, sharon and dad on the tractor ride

david with his pumpkin

the birthday girl


here I am waiting for the tractor ride

a cute little sheepy

david, jacob and my mom

jacob at home looking cute

okay okay okay

i really have been meaning to get on this thing and post some pictures. the first part of this month we decided that we needed to get away on a family vacation. we had been watching the travel channel and saw a special on disney. SOOOOOO...we decided to go to sunny florida for a while. i have to say i really felt like God was totally watching out for us the whole time we were traveling. we had great weather, no flight delays, no lost luggage, there were no lines in the park, jacob behaved so well, nobody got sick, we had a blast!!!!!!

at the entrance to the magic kingdom...all spiffed up for halloween


Jacob and I in the Winnie the Pooh area


jacob ringing the bell


where did the mouse go jacob???


in front of the park again



on the boat at downtown disney


a thirsty jacob chuggin' down


jacob and the cool dude in tomorrow land


the garden behind mickey's house...notice the tomatoes have ears.....


the fourth day ... ANIMAL KINGDOM!!!!


can you tell we were having fun?

Summer Time Fun

Well these are some pictures from this summer.


Aunt Lisa would not be happy if she knew i put them up here. These are from VBS. It was hat day. Our theme was "Aim High" like as it air planes.



Jacob and David eating Corn on the Cob

Jacob and Daddy walking on the pier...or the rocks next to the pier as it were.

Jacob eating Turkey Bacon

Camping!

We tried to go to our camping spot again this summer. Last summer was so great. Jacob wasn't very mobile yet and played in the pack n play most of the time. He loved swimming and was pretty happy the whole time. He had his first McDonald's french fries on that trip too. We had very high hopes that this years trip would be just as great. Jacob seemed very excited as we packed the car and did last minute shopping for the trip. He really wasn't sure about the swimsuit with the built in floaties in it though. We left mid-morning and made it to the campground before dinner anyways. We had to stop in Crannberry Lake at a public beach because Jacob had been chanting "out" for a good 25 minutes. He is very persistant. We were very excited pulling into the campsite. Jacob scrambled out of the car and ran for the fire pit!!!! Needless to say between the water and the fire pit he had the time of his life all 4 days we were there. It was more than a little frazzling for us!!! I am glad we went but we may wait until he is a little older to try it again.


The three of us aboard the gondola at White Face

At the top of the gondola

Jacob climbing on the picnic table

Jacob and David swinging at Tupper Lake

Jacob at our reststop in Cranberry Lake

David and Jacob at Cranberry Lake

Jacob and I at Tupper Lake feeding geese

Jacob falling asleep eating Cheetos. He often falls asleep while eating funny things in the car. I wish I had gotten video of this because it was HILARIOUS!

Jacob and David at Little Whiteface

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Professional Pics!

Here are the pictures from our photo session last week. We decided to get some family pictures too. I am sure 20 years from now I will be happy that we did. Jacob had a little trouble getting started. He had just woke up from a nap before we left the house. By the time we were done taking pictures he had figured out what was going on

I think this is my favorite picture of the shoot.



Here is Jacob sitting like a good little boy on the bench. What you don't know is that it took several tries to get this. He kept getting up off the bench to play with it.


Here we are....one happy family


I wish that David's hand wasn't in this picture...but we had to hold Jacob's hands still...I thought this picture taking business was supposed to be fun!


Jacob


Jacob the firemen

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CousinS!

Okay just a few pictures of cousin Oliver and Jessica's visit. They had a great time playing together and dancing around with Aunt Gina.

Here are Jacob and Oliver playing the drum and dancing around..
More dancing and playing the drum Jacob and Jessica sitting on the couch....

Take me to the zoo...I want to see it, yes i do!

So Jacob and I were watching tv the other day (I know he shouldn't be watching tv at such a young age but oh well) and a commerical for a zoo came on. He went crazy pointing at the screen and stuff so I figured a trip to the zoo was in order. We checked out our very own Seneca Park Zoo. David and I ran a couple of xc races around there back in the day but I hadn't been to the zoo in probably 14 years. So off to the zoo we went





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