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July 14, 2015

Hanging out at the fire pit

we’ve spent a lot of time out at the new fire pit so far!

Picture of Crystal with my new portrait lens

Kai and Nora hauling wood.

Kai takes a rest from hauling wood.

Apparently wearing a baseball glove on your head is a "thing".

Kai and Nora with Mocha - the bulldog next door. She is like a 2.5 foot tall line backer.

Dusk at Bass Lake.

Swimming in Bass Lake.

Roasting dogs in the firepit.

July 9, 2015

Duluth Huskies and More

Here are a few recent vacation pictures including our annual Duluth Huskies baseball game which we almost missed due to a nail in our tire.

4 Loons frolick on Bass Lake. This was taken with an iPhone - they were very close to the boat.

Kai cuts the dutch oven pizza.

Nora taking a bubble bath in the master suite.

Kai at the dairy queen.

Nora with a dairy queen cone.

At the Duluth Huskie game. This is our 3rd annual game and we've had a win each time. This one was close!

Going through the Duluth Huskie signature line after the game.

Kai and Nora with their signed bat and ball

July 7, 2015

The Fourth of July

For the first time we did the fireworks in Siren this year parked on highway 70 overlooking Crooked Lake. A great show! Nora did her part by painting American flags on everyone’s cheeks.

Kai and Nora on the hunt for mini-doughnuts at the park in Siren.

Nora with her sno-cone.

Kai with his sno-cone.

With a prime viewing spot on highway 70. Let the mosquito feeding begin!

Nora paints on Crystal's flag.

Patriotic!

July 2, 2015

Summer Vacation Begins

Summer vacation begins!

In the Amsterdam lounge - vacation starts.....now!

Kai in the KLM Crown lounge.

A panorama from a moving boat. The iPhone did a good job though it did give Crystal a 3rd arm when she suddenly spotted a loon.

Roasting hotdogs at the Stonehenge.

Nora has committed herself to a summer of studying slime. Here is slime #2. More of a putty really but it turned out better than slime #1.

Slime #1. Really more of a bowl of glue.

June 19, 2015

Some Random June Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the month of June so far. Enjoy!

Nora ready for her dance pictures. Believe it or not Ben did the hair. It is more bobby pin than bun.

Nora during the dance finale

Summer is here!

Kai and the gang goofing off while waiting for the Wahoo water park to open during his birthday outing.

Another shot with the gang.

Ramadan Kareem everyone!

The kids enjoying dessert in the mall before heading out.

Nora and Crystal at the Boy Scout court of honor.

Kai earned his Scout badge and got his kerchief.

Kai and his buddy goofy off after the court of honor.

Nora mugs for the camera.

This is her grumpy face. Not very convincing.

June 4, 2015

At the end of May we took a weekend trip over to the Ritz Carlton in Bahrain for a bit of R&R before the end-of-year crunch sets in. We booked a club room but ended up being upgraded to the diplotatic suite which gave us plenty of room. Dinner was a Trader Vic’s nearby which had a fabulous menu. All Kai wanted was a cheeseburger and Nora ordered off menu. Noodles. Just Noodles. Totally plain, nothing on them at all.

Nora sips hot chocolate at Ric's Country Kitchen. We don't get there often but it is arguably the best greasy spoon diner on the island.

They also have a courtyard with chickens and rabbits. Always a hit with Kai and Nora.

At the Ritz club lounge.

Heading over for dinner at Trader Vics

We limited ourselves to a single drink.

Nora tries to hear the ocean in the butter dish.

Panorama of the Ritz Carlton at night.

June 3, 2015

Random June Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from June including Robin’s Run, Kai’s cooking and practicing photobombing technique. Enjoy!

The new back yard. It is certainly big!

Kai and Nora at the Robin's Run. My camera was still set to black and white otherwise the sea of pink would be obvious.

Nora at Robin's Run.

Nora and Crystal at Robin's Run.

Kai cooks chicken with what he calls the "survival spatula". It has a bottle opener, knife edge and fork built in. Gadgets are part of the joy of cooking.

Shopping for Kai's camping trip. He agreed to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for the patrol

Kai after the campout.

Kai make an argument that it is too cold in the house. The root cause of the complaint, I suspect, was that it is more engaging to bundle up and complain that research the Battle of Yorktown.

Nora and Kai have been working on photo bombing.

Nora with her gymnastics certificate. She isn't sure when Kai is going to pop out next.

Nora isn't above photobombing either. At this point they are staging picture for the express purpose of practicing each other's photobomb skills.

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015

Homework and Pizza

Here are a few recent picture of Nora attempting to get her reading log signed and Kai developing his pizza tossing skills.

Nora and Crystal doing homework

Crystal charges a kiss to sign the reading log

And a hug

Things get goofy

Kai's first shot at making pizza dough like a champ - or at least like Dad.

It took some practice. His first instinct was that all that was involved was throwing the dough in the air and catching it. Challenge enough in that I suppose.

This one looks like it was going up and not coming back. No dough hit the ceiling though.

Eventually Kai's technique evolved to include a decent spin.

April 5, 2015

2015 Easter

Since Sunday is a school day and a work day the Easter Bunny was good enough to come on a Saturday this year.

Crystal mixes up a home-made dye recipe.

Crystal, Nora and Kai getting ready to dye eggs.

Crystal during the egg dyeing.

Coloring Easter Eggs

The night before a spread was left for the bunny.

The Easter Bunny was clearly here.

Nora gets ready to read her note from the Easter Bunny.

Real eggs get dropped off with Mom.

They really enjoy this

Kai shows his haul.

The early morning egg scramble.

Sorting Easter candy

March 24, 2015

2015 Random Spring Pictures

The family blog has been a little bit quiet over the last few weeks with the posts few and far between. Spring is well on us now and the temperate weather seems to we winding down. We did have some sprinkles the last few days but we also had our first 90 degrees and humid day. I think it is only going to get warmer from here on out. Enjoy the pictures.

Nora and Crystal.

Crystal's first selfie. Oddly compelling.

Den 14 presents Den Leader Crystal with a commemorative plaque.

Nora, tired of waiting to have an iphone purchased for her and wanting to drop a hint, takes an "Aging Booth App" picture of mom on her notepad smart phone.

Kai post haircut.

Dinner at Phuket in Al Khobar. A Jacobs family tradition stretching back decades.

Kai packing for his first Boy Scout campout. Spoiler alert. He survives.

Nora with her puppy hat knit by mom. It is a puppy, definitly not a squid in an oil slick.

Nora and buddies at a girls' night out.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get, Another day older and deeper in debt

Webster wrapped up in Kai's blankets.

The Worrells stop by for a visit in our new backyard.

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