Williams - Family Lake Trip

These are pictures that Kelli snapped of us while camping together this summer.

The Best Trip EVER!! This lake trip brought back so many fond memories from my childhood when we used to go to Lake Powell all summer long with our cousins. I am so glad most of my family and some of Herb's family could make it up to Oregon.

We primitive camped right on the beach at Prineville Reservoir which is about 4 hours from our house. We spent four days at the lake. Swimming, boating, eating, relaxing, and just had fun together. We headed back to our house on Friday so we could baptize Sage on Saturday and bless Abby on Sunday.  Can't wait to do it again.

Goat Panties

  
Sigh.  There goes Alana talking about goats again.


At our house, when something irritates you we say, "It gets your goat."

When something is a little worse than irritating, we say, "It gets your panties in a bunch."

When something is really bad, we say, "It gets your goat's panties in a bunch."

I just overheard Anika say to Brandon, "Hey, Dad!  My goat's panties are gonna be in a bunch if Obama wins the debate."


One of the best things about my family (The Jacobsens) is the different views, religiously and politically, we have.  But no one gets their panties (or their goat's) in a bunch!  Granted, we have fabulously entertaining and heated debates.  But our LOVE for each other reigns supreme.

Williams - St. George

After Vegas, we headed up to St. George to spend two days with my friends.

Thanks Jen for driving us back to Vegas.

 Swimming in Jen's pool. Sage and cousin Hailey

 The four of us together again. Good times!

Williams - fun times

 Cheerleader!

 Crazy Hair Day and Jogathon

Pie You! During the break between conferences, we made some pie and had some fun. I am sure this will become tradition because the kids had so much fun.

Oh My!

Lookey here!

Travis was on Numb Nuts, bahahahahahahaaaa!!!! 

Williams - Vegas Sisters Weekend

Sisters Weekend in Las Vegas

All of Herb's Aunts, girl cousins, Herb's sisters, and sisters-in-law met in Las Vegas for a sisters weekend. I took Sage and Abby and we flew in on Friday night. On Saturday we went to breakfast, swam in the awesome hotel pool, saw the broadway musical Wicked, went shopping, and saw the Bellagio Water show. Too fast but so fun to see all the girls. I believe there was over 40 girls all together.

 The Lazy River

 Tesa and Sage

 Ashley and Abby

 Tesa

 Kelsie, Sage, and me. Dessert from Serendipity. Not worth the price!

 Wicked all together

 Taking a picture of the palm trees for Herbie. He calls them Hawaii trees. He asked if they had coconuts on them when I showed him the picture.

 Aunt Alisa and Herb's mom

Bellagio Water Show

Williams - Last days of Summer

 Welcome to the family, BOB!

 Annual Oregon State Fair Day

 Boating on the Willamette River in Downtown Portland

 Abby's first ride on the tube or should I say couch!

 Off to school. It is starting to turn chilly in the mornings and by noon it is 80 degrees again.

 Look a likes

 Soccer season has begun. And so far no rain. Hip hip hooray!!!

Williams - First day of School

First day of school for Herbie and Sage. Sage is in 3rd Grade and Herbie is in Kindergarten. He rode the bus on his first day. Can't believe he is already old enough to go to school. I remember when he was 2 and how he cried and chased after Sage's bus on her first day of Kindergarten. Now it was Nora's turn to watch him go and she is so different then him because she just waved and smiled and didn't shed a tear. In fact she just played with the hose and got wet instead. Abby just stared at him with her big brown eyes.

Herbie came home so excited about school. He told us that he knows why Sage loves school so much and we asked him why and he said because all they do is Art! He also told me afterwards that he didn’t think he would like it but he ended up loving it. He keeps telling everyone that he got to have 3 recesses. I think he considers PE recess. On Saturday, he was so excited about school that he asked me what time he was supposed to catch the bus and then I had to remind him that he didn’t go again for two more days.