Here are the pics of Jacob w/Mom & Dad at his baptism.
Yeah Geoff graduated!! The stinker kept us on the edge of our seats until the week of graduation! He had flunked English the semester before and was making it up with an online class.
graduating!
Jacob learned a fun lesson a few weeks ago. I am now finally posting it, sorry. Trying to catch up! During our April break the 3rd week in April Jacob had a new yo yo he was playing with and I was trying to teach him how to work it. So I sent him outside to try it (I didn't want him hitting anybody with it! Isn't that ironic!) Well about that time a little neighbor boy came over wanting to play with Jacob and so I sent him outside too. Half an hour later I hear someone screaming their head off and I realize it's Jacob. He was holding his hand up to his face and just screaming and the little neighbor friend,Isaaac is telling me "I'm sorry, he told me to hit it with the bat and I didn't know it was going to hit him..." So I'm thinking Jacob got hit in the head or nose with a baseball bat? Then they explained to me a little better that he got hit with the yo yo!? In the meantime Jacob is still screaming and burying his head in my chest, but I finally get the story out of the both of them. Jacob was swinging the yo yo out and he told Isaac "I'm going to swing the yo yo out like this and you hit it with the bat..." And you can put the pieces together! You know the saying what goes up must come down, well we also learned that what goes out must come back (especially when it is a yo yo!!!) Well I finally am trying to assess how bad the injuries are and so I get Jacob to look up at me and I realize there is blood all over me and his face, so I use my Mom skills to keep him calm and clean him off and right away I realize that he has a nice deep gash above his eye and it's not going to be good enough to just apply pressure of use a band aid. So we made a trip to Urgent Care. They were actually very fast and efficient. They ended up using a skin glue, not stitches. But they also said we needed to treat it like a head injury and watch him, make sure he didn't throw up or get dizzy, etc. The picture above is one I took that evening before he went to bed. The next day his eye was swollen shut. I felt bad for him because he was asking me why he couldn't see out of that eye.
Yes I know it has been awhile since I last blogged! In the words of my sister-in-law Angela "Christmas pictures are getting a little old!" I love you Angela!!! Here in this picture is my Rachael posing with a cutout Lion in front of one of the snack shacks there.
Anyway, we did something really fun recently, We bought a Phoenix Zoo membership just about a week or two ago. Lilly would live at the zoo if I would let her! She is sitting on this tree stump with her friend Lydia. Lydia's mom Michelle is my friend and we have been enjoying the zoo together. Jacob is in this picture but is sitting in back of Lydia so you can't see him. That is one of the things we did during Spring Break. We caught the zoo at a great time. We saw the tigers awake and the Boy and Girl Lions both awake and the Giraffe's were feeding so we were able to see them up close too. It was an absolute thrill for Lilly!
However,this is what Lilly thinks we really come to the zoo for is to ride the Carousel. And she always makes sure she gets on the Zebra! We haven't missed it yet, I am a little concerned for the day to come that we don't get the zebra. There could be quite a few tears a screams to come. She is so much fun to take there. She now has a new love for Monkey Village too. She laughs and giggles at those spider monkeys swinging and flipping all over the place. I've always said she was my little monkey!
After our official photo shoot was over and Ted was running the older Priesthood boys to the church to help prepare the sacrament, I took advantage of having Lilly all dressed up and tried a few shots of my own with just her. She was still being kind of silly, it didn't help that our cat JoJo was running around up front and Lilly wanted to play with her. But finally in desperation to try to get her to stay posed in one place I told her to hug the tree and this is what she did. I think it was the perfect shot! But then again I am slightly prejudice in this situation.
