Special Spirit

Josh's good friend from college and his adorable wife found out after 5 years of marriage that they were expecting a little baby. We are all so very excited for them and found out monday that it's a boy! They have named him Cooper. At the same ultrasound they found out not so good news about Cooper...


( this is from Melissa's facebook page)
Good Morning, here is whats going on. Our son, who we have named Cooper has a condition called Arthrogryposis, it is a rare congenital disorder that is characterized by multiple joint contractures and can include muscle weakness and fibrosis. basically Coopers little arms and legs are not forming correctly. He also has severe scoliosis. Also his chest cavity is very small and his lungs are not developing...
They worry that if he makes it to birth he will not be able to breath on his own. Cooper is now fighting for his life and we are going to have big decisions in the days and months ahead. I can not express to you the pain we are feeling right now, but we also feel a peace knowing we gave this baby to God in the beginning and will continue to give Cooper to Him daily. Thank you for all the prayers and support.

I don't know what to say to them to make the situation better, but we are deeply sad for them , but we know that they gave that baby a body and he will do his work here on this earth and return to our heavenly father when his time come.

Results are...

New Moon was AMAZING!!! It was a lot better than the first and not to mention Jacob is pretty good looking. Us girls couldn't stop talking about the whole movie. Again is was AMAZING!

Whick team should I pick....

Got my FREE ticket to New Moon for Friday night. Wondering how I got a free ticket....the ortho that works in our complex bought out a whole theatre that night and handed out two tickets for each staff member at a ton of offices as a thank you for referring patients to him. NICE! I'm super stoked and Josh isn't complaining too much either.

Idaho

The sunrise on my way to work. BEAUTIFUL

BABY!!

On Saturday us sisters through our sister-n-law a baby shower! I was so excited to get everything together and buy presents for the little guy.

I was especially proud of myself for making a hooter hider! with a little help from my mom I was able to make it for $4.38! And it only took about an hour.
We baked a ton of mini cupcakes and frosted them for the shower. They were a big hit.

She has about 5 weeks left! I'm so excited for him to get here. And doesn't Elena look so good for being so pregnant.

She got a lot of really great gifts and had a lot of people there.

Old Guy

I LOVE my husband so much and I look forward to any opportunity to spoil him. His birthday was on Saturday and I wanted to get him everything in the world, but no body had anything I wanted to get him! very frustrating! I think he still made out with pretty awesome gifts.

Friday my family all came over and celebrated his birthday and watched to BSU game.

He got a sleeping bag, a new north face jacket, shirts and basketball shorts, not to mention his now beloved hunting vest from his brother.

All he wanted to eat was cheesecake, and cheesecake is what he got.
On his actually birthday he just wanted the two of us to go to dinner and a movie, his choice, and we had a very nice evening together celebrating him! Happy 26th Birthday Babe. I love you so much!

Poor Dog

There is a dog groomers a couple doors down from the dentist office I work at. She always brings her two dogs to work with her. one being a beautiful yellow lab ( which totally reminds me of Phoebe) and a MALE STANDARD POODLE. This poor poodle is always so angry with us and I know it's cause he's a male poodle! To our surprise this is what we saw on Monday! I don't know why, but he was little extra angry this day.

Lucky #3

(a ton of post below this one :)

Jill had surgery #3 on her knee last Monday! Poor Girl they had to replace her ACL and meniscus(sp?) again. this time around she's on old pro at getting around and managing, except at taking care of her 5 month old baby. So on Wednesday I didn't work and was able to spend all of the day there keeping her drugged and Heston happy.

He loves his Aunt Hilary. She was pretty out of it still so she slept a lot and Heston and I played all day. I went over on Friday for a bit as well and she's doing a lot better.
keep it easy Jillyn!

Holler ween

I love Halloween!! I love that Josh and I can still get dressed up and have a good time. All the grand kids came over, including Josh's nephew and Heston.

Kole wouldn't put on anything that Amanda bought him except for this outfit and it was a little short and was riding up his butt. So funny! Grant= power ranger with his big black eye he got by colliding with a little girls head. Then Madelyn was the cutest lookin bumble bee ever!

Our best friend Taylor always host the Halloween party and everyone gets into it and dresses up and has fun.

Boe and charla won for best costume. Grinch and Cindy Lou who

us Native Americans

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

harvest carnival

The ward we are in has a harvest carnival every year. Grant and Mady came this year and it was so much fun to play all the games with them and see everyone dressed up. hula hula girl. So cute

Already?!

IT'S SNOWING!

FAll

Oh how I LOVE Idaho fall!! it's gorgeous all over the state. We had Grant, Madelyn and Kole over this weekend and Grant really wanted to rake Grandma's leaves and then play in them. Who can say no to that fun, so we raked and the kiddos never wanted to come back inside. Josh jumped in the pile and the boys were all over him! it was so fun. ( does everyone see what body part Kole is running over! hahaha poor Josh.)

Grant and Madelyn

Kole refused to come inside when it got dark.



Also the whole family came over and carved pumpkins and eat homemade stew. mmmmm so good!
Elena's belly compared to the pumpkin :) she's getting ready to have the baby soon.

Mine and Josh's finished product. grrrrrr

I bought these beauties last night and I'm in love with them. Yes they are 4 inch heels and i'm a little over 5'9", but they are fabulous and want to wear them everyday. (I actually bought them in metallic silver, but you can see the details better in the purple picture)

Really

It's really dark in the morning on my way to work and then when I get to work it's really slow! Needless to say it's really hard for me to get up and get motivated in the morning. At least my coworkers are always entertaining.

that's all, just venting.

Home away from home

the Jakobson clan (minus Brent and Elena) all loaded up into two cars and made the LONG drive to California for a week. First stop was in Fresno for my beautiful cousin Carissa's wedding. The wedding was lots of fun and intimate. We had lots of fun. After Fresno we traveled farther south to Avila Beach. My family used to go to this beach once or twice a year ever since I could remember. So it was nice to go again and take Josh to all my favorite spots.

We had a condo right on the beach so we all played in the ocean and sand. It did end of raining most of the week, which was a bummer ,but us ladies sure did get a lot of shopping done! :)

us sisters and Madelyn all matched for the wedding, it wasn't planned!

My uncle(mom's bro) and cousin Carissa. Her dress and flowers were gorgeous.

We needed to wasted time before the ceremony started so we found this amusement park that had mini golf, race cars, bumper boats and little kid fair rides. it was a blast!



It was a fun week to hang out with the fam. I was only able to work 4 days in between Hawaii and this trip so I'm all traveled out and ready to unpack my suitcase for awhile.

Mother dear

Happy Birthday Mom!! today is my wonderful mom's birthday. She is an incredible woman and I love her so much. She does so much for her family and loves to spoil each one of us kids and especially her grand babies! She is a great lady which is a good thing cause I take a lot of her traits. :) she's very funny, smart, beautiful and very thoughtful. I love her and glad she brought me into this world and always there for all my doings.

Grace Face

We just wanted our great friend Rachel to know that we didn't forget about Grace's birthday! she turned 2 on the 2nd. She is the sweetest, funniest and most beautiful little girl and we love her and glad that she was the first baby born into the group of friends. hopefully one day she'll have some friends to play with.

work or play....play!

My work took us to Hawaii for a dental convention. The convention was only three our of the8 days we were there so we played in the sun a lot!!!

We snorkeled at Haunama Bay. it was incredible and I saw a ton of tropical fish.

Haunama bay before the hike down

we rented a car and drove up the north shore and stopped at a ton of different interesting places.
Sunset beach, watching the surfers and obviously the gorgeous sunset

we saw a bunch of cars stopped so we stopped and saw this huge turtle just basking in the sun! I actually think is was turtle bay we were at.

also stopped at Waimea bay and it was BEAUTIFUL and so peaceful. We swam a lot and one of the doctors jumped off the rock in the picture.

we hiked up to Waimea falls and swam in the water.

same day we stopped at the famous shaved ice place that is always on the food network! i was so very excited and it was really yummy.

Dole Plantation. who knew that pineapples grew out of a shrub? I was so fascinated by it. And some of them were so tiny and PINK!

Another day we spent all day at the Polynesian Culture Center! it was incredible experience. So much culture to learn about, amazing dancers and food!

Hiked Diamond Head. It was very very very hot and humid. It was harder because of those elements but totally worth it when we got to the top and saw the view.

Gorgeous sunset outside our hotel on Waikiki Beach.

view of the Waikiki. You can't tell in this picture, but the water all around the island is this gorgeous shades of blue. closer to shore is a bright sky blue. So breathe taking!

my view from the hotel room. it was awesome

I had the best time in Hawaii, missed Josh like crazy, but still enjoyed myself and recomend that everyone someday will go there and experience it!

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boys will be boys

We hang out a lot with our best friends Boe and Charla! We love them and usually when we get together Boe and Josh end up in some sort of game or competition and char and I get left out to just watch. we looked our the window the other day and saw the two boys playing darts by seeing how far outside the "man cave" they can throw and hit the target. They are so entertaining! A few weekends ago Boe got all four of us tickets to the Boise Golf Open. Boys were super excited girls would've rather gone shopping. It ended up being so much fun to walk to course and cheer the players on. it almost felt like we were at a pro golf game, but these guys were playing in hopes to play one day with Tiger Woods!