Still playing catchup with pictures in my queue to process. Here is the first of three galleries from Summer 2021. Enjoy!
Here is the first vacation gallery with pictures from our travel and initial arrival in northern Wisconsin. Due to COVID we mostly stayed to ourselves with Grandma Ellen and Grandpa Art being the only family we interacted with. Thankfully Chez Jacobs is a great place to hunker down. Some early snow helped us get in the holiday mood as well.
This winter I was all set to do some great astrophotography. It is a really hard thing to do over in Saudi due to the dust, haze, and light pollution but I remember the clear winter nights here in Wisconsin as being just about perfect. Unfortunately, the cloud cover has been almost complete the whole time we’ve been here. A few days after we arrived, the sky cleared enough to see some stars so I went out and took these pictures even though there were still a few clouds. Enjoy!
Here is a gallery from the family gathering for Christmas which included Paul, Lea Ann, Steve, Nina, Sara, Art, Ellen, Julie, Eric, Charlotte, Evelyn and Teddy. With the 4 of us as well it was a cozy house. We feel really fortunate that even with a short trip we were able to gather so many family together at the same time.
Gingerbread houses are another tradition. This time around we built 3 houses so the kids did some pairing up with cousins. Since we arrived back in Wisconsin so late in December there would not have been time to bake all of the pieces so Crystal made them well ahead of time in Saudi and we carried them over in our luggage. Enough of the pieces survived to make a go of the houses.