JaCoby's Baptism

December 4th was JaCoby's big day.

He was baptized.

I was so nervous to do the ordinance, the last time I baptised somebody was the last day of my mission and I did it in Spanish. I Had never baptised somebody in English. I had a dream the night before that I was going to do the whole thing in Spanish including the confirmation. Luckily that did not happen, there was a cheat sheet on the wall of the font that I was thankful for.

After he was baptized and while we were getting dressed he asked me, "since we are done, can I go home now?"

I said "you are not quite done, there is one more part."

Enjoy the pics courtesy of Megan S

  

Thanksgiving

We had a great small get together with my mother,my sister, Tennille, JaCoby and myself. We had a lot of fun cooking the dinner with all the trimmings and even played Mega-Monopoly. I am proud to say I won. It was sad to see them all go and get back to the grind of school and work. bummer deal dude

Pumpkin carving

Pardon my laziness on getting photos onto the blog. Now I have to play catch up. So here goes. The Wednesday before halloween we carved our pumpkins, something that we enjoy very much.

 JaCoby hard at work pulling the guts out of his pumpkin

 Mom and Dad enjoying a pumpkin moment.

The day after Halloween Tennille and I cut up the pumpkins, baked them and pureed them for all kinds of future pumpkin treats.

Our Revamped Frontroom

It has been almost a year since we bought our home and we wanted to show off our Frontroom. Before as you see in the photo marked Living Room, of which was taken before we bought the home, the walls are painted a really light beige color which we did not like at all. We have now painted it a Roasted chestnut (light brown) color that we totally love. The only thing left to do in this room is refinish the floor, put crown moulding on the cieling.  Enjoy the pics. More painting and such in other rooms to come.

Utah County Fair

The last hurrah before school starting was the Utah County Fair.  Here are a few pics I thought you all might enjoy.

Tennille's entries into the fair of peanut butter cookies and drop filled cookies. She was pretty excited that they took 2nd place

JaCoby entered a drawing to which he entitled the D-Age and he was very excited that he took 1st place and beat mom!

Grandma Winkler came up and went with us to the 3rd annual demolition derby. It was most likely one of the best I have ever seen!

 

We loved this wreck!! Amazingly enough both drivers were OK and continued to drive the beat up vehicles.

There was one car that flipped over, unfortunately I can't find the photo to show you, luckily there were no injuries in any of the crashes.

There was one car in the championship round that lost the right rear wheel and tire and continued to drive and hit vehicles and never quit, he came in second place. Not bad for a 3 wheeled sedan. Sorry that some of the photos are so dark, it got late as the derby went on.

First Day of School

August 24th JaCoby started 2nd grade. Here he is in his new clothes and backpack. He is growing up so fast. :(

Our Little Monkey

JaCoby having a grand ole time climbing the neighbor's tree