Hot on the heels of Jora's first birthday and Christmas comes Julia's third birthday!! In keeping with our December tradition, Julia is running a temperature of 103 degrees on her birthday. She still manages to rouse herself enough to open presents and lay on the couch admiring her Dad's handiwork on her first princess theme birthday cake. She did manage to avoid the official first day of true underwear wearing though.....
........in a Barbie world.......
FANTASTIC!
Just what Jake needs, an additional dose of SLY.
Do these gloves make my hands look fat?
My own princess camera-at last! I can now catch him in the act! No more timeouts for me!
"Holy Cow! I t will work on Dad too!"
" WHAT THE? How does Santa KNOW this stuff???"
"She's so beautiful, I can't look away."
"....And she's from JACOB"
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Jora (obviously not at NIGHT) first day home
"I just ate my name.... hee hee"
So, two months ago, Jacob gets baptized, once by himself and once by his Dad. On November 18th Jake joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was fun to have Grandma and Grandpa here and to be with all our friends. We showed a slideshow of Eight years with Jacob and had such a large group we had to move from the primary room to the chapel. Here are a couple of the "Eight Years" pictures. 
Jacob and Brock in the jetted tub at Grandma's house.
Jacob, after the eight mile bike ride, four miles to the point, four miles back, yes, in August.
Oh, while Jacob was changing to his white baptismal clothes, he asked Allen if the water was warm. Allen told him to go check, so he did. He waded right in and said the water was fine! Allen turned around to see him up to his waist in the font. Needless to say, he was shivering when he put his cold, wet baptismal clothes BACK ON for the actual baptism about an hour later.
Images from the dinosaur mural (left-the small meat eating Ornitholestes and a group of Diplodocus in the background).
Dolichorhynchops (marine reptile) will be chasing a diving bird and a nice mural will be placed behind him with various other sea creatures.
Juvenile Camarasaurus in position it was found in at the Carnegie Quarry (Dinosaur National Monument).
Stegosaurus completed 
