News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
Our big project this summer was getting a fireplace installed in the house. We really like the way it turned out. On a warm humid day it doesn’t seem like such an accomplishment but when winter rolls in we are really going to appreciate it. Here are a few photos of the install process.
The picture on the left was taken the last night we were in Danbury. The larger lens for the camera was already packed so this was taken with my basic setup (and a tripod). It is an HDR image so several exposures were taken and then used to keep both shadows and highlights.
With the gallery below I’ve nearly reached the end of our summer vacation pictures. I believe there are still some on my phone that I need to get off and there may be some worth posting in that lot. Stay tuned!
Well our early summer vacation has drawn to a close. We have successfully made the transatlantic trip once again with little incident unless you count Kai’s meltdown in Amsterdam when he was going on almost 20 hours with no sleep.
Below are a series of photoshopped or otherwise enhanced images that I took over this vacation at our house in Wisconsin. I still have a few more galleries of different family visits that I will post in the coming days so stay tuned!
I was in the grocery store in Webster the other day with Kai. As we were checking out he announced to the woman ringing up our groceries “I don’t have just two Grandma-Grandpas, I have two Grandmas and two Grandpas.” How lucky we were that both the Wiemanns and the Jacobs were able to visit over the Memorial Day weekend. Aunt Lea Ann and Cousin Nina also came for several days and Uncle Paul and Bev were able to stop by as well. The weather could not have been better!
Here are a few random images from our first couple of weeks in Danbury.
Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs visited the other day. We met for breakfast as the Moonglow Cafe in Webster and then came back to the cabin to hang out.
We built the snowman a week ago and with some cold temps and high winds he lost a little weight (and a few teeth) due to wind sculpting. However, the latest snow put a few pounds on him.
Last week we had our first big snow storm and I took some pictures of course. All told it dropped about 7 inches and it sure gave us plenty to play in. Over the course of yesterday we got another 7 inches so there may be more snow pictures coming.
After a little more snow we tackled the task of building our first snowman. Kai had been looking forward to this for a long time but Nora didn’t stomach the cold for very long. The snow wasn’t very sticky so getting the pieces of the snowman made proved quite difficult and we had to scale back the plans for a snowman as big as Dad. Today and tonight we have another 6 inches forecast so perhaps we’ll get another chance before we leave.
A couple of days after we arrived in Danbury we had our first snowfall. That morning we bundled up and headed outside for some fun in the snow. There was only about 2 inches and it was bitter cold but we still had some fun. We’ve recently had a lot more snow (and a lot more cold). Stay tuned for more snow pictures!
