News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
Earlier this week several dresses that Grandma Ellen had been working on for Nora arrived. She was eager to try them on so we did a photo shoot that evening. Nora has been wearing them all week.
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!
Crystal has a small point-and-shoot that I just downloaded the pictures off of. Some turned out quite well so I’m including a batch of them here and that will be it for the Christmas pictures. Hopefully by the next post I’ll have some pictures of our new house ready to go–we hope to start moving in the next couple of weeks.
After the big meal in Arlington we headed up to Spooner for a dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs.
Christmas Eve we headed down to Arlington, Minnesota to spend some time with Crystal’s family. We did Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Wiemann’s where we had a great dinner with family. Kai and Nora tracked Santa on the NORAD site and then put out cookies and made some of our now traditional reindeer oatmeal. To make reindeer oatmeal you start with some oats but then anything can go in. Kai and Nora get to choose the spices and do all of the mixing. Christmas morning Kai was up early but Nora wouldn’t leave the bedroom unless she was holding my hand in case Santa was still there. It turns out Santa brought all the gifts to Lea Ann and Steven Post’s house so we headed over there still in our pajamas and opened presents from Santa.
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.
The day after putting Crystal on the plane for her conference in DC we bundled up and headed over to Fort Folle Avoine for “Santa at the Fort.”  Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs met us there. We had a nice meal of wild rice soup, Kai and Nora did a little shopping in the elves shop and we listened to the story on the people-eating elk from the Ojibwe storyteller.  Of course a visit with Santa was on the list as well.
Willa (a sweet tempered Dachshund owned by Julie and Eric but on load to Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs) came to spend the night last week. Kai and Nora were beside themselves with excitement and Willa was a wonderful guest!
Shortly after Thanksgiving we bundled up and headed to Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs at the Jacobs’ Jebel. Grandpa was still in the woods hunting but we had a good visit with Grandma. Kai and Nora even got to go up into the loft for what I think was the first time.
