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April 23, 2014

The Sandy Shores of Bass Lake and other Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures as I clear out the memory on our phones and cameras. I especially like the picture of Kai and Nora searching for frogs in Bass Lake. Can’t wait to spend some summertime there!

Longing for Bass Lake

Kai and Nora can't wait to get back to the sandy shores of Bass Lake.

Kai and classmates take on the parents in a marshmallow tower building competition. They lost.

A snowman taller than Dad

Nora bet she could draw a snowman taller than Dad. Here is the offical measurement.

Dapper Kai at the mail center after a haircut.

April 21, 2014

Nora’s Bangkok Gallery

Nora took along her iPod touch with a camera during the Kid’s Club activities and snapped some photos. 483 photos to be exact. Many prominently features a finger or two over the lens and there were extended photo studies of pant legs and what was probably the inside of a pocket. I pulled out a few to post here…

Nora, Kai and at least part of the kids' group.

One of Nora's pictures.

One of the many selfies. At least these tended to not have a finger over the lens.

Cool white tiger

Nora on a motor cycle.

Rhinos

Deer-like creatures.

A temple display

A sculpture outside the mall.

They were really take with this picture of the king.

View of one of the temples they visited.

Entering a temple

Street vendors near the Sky Train station.

A tiger statue. Everything must look huge to Nora.

Checking out the Buddhas

One last selfie. You know she's giving it all she's got by the way she bites her tongue.

April 20, 2014

Bangkok Trip April 2014

Earlier this month we took a trip to Bangkok for the NESA Spring Educators conference. Crystal and Ben were mostly booked with the conference but we did have a couple of free evenings to take in some attractions. During the day the kids participated in Kid’s Club where a tour group took them out to different venues each day which they enjoyed even though it was pretty much the same itinerary as last year.

Kai and Nora pose with a 5kg tub of Nutella.

A peacock at the Sheraton in Bangkok

Kai at one of our favorite restaurants near the Sheraton - Harmonique

Kai and Nora ready for day 1 of Kids Club Bangkok!

Kai and Nora on the imfamous Pat Pong street - during the day.

Kai picked up a cool hat. Made of paper believe it or not.

Nora waiting for the Sky Train.

Nora's hat is made of paper too.

Waiting for the hotel ferry to take us up river.

A girl and her chuppa chup.

The Bangkok Beatles played at the gala dinner. Kai and Nora got thier picture taken with them AND autographs.

Kai dancing with Mom

Kai and Mom. Nora needed to be carried on the dance floor but wasn't above photo bombing.

Kai wating for the orange flag river taxi.

The weather was warm but not too hot.

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March 18, 2014

Some Random pictures from March

I haven’t done a good job of keeping fresh content on the website. Here are a few pictures to keep the site from getting stale.

One of Crystal recent creations. I don't think this one has made the website yet

Another recent knitting project. This one is a snufflelump

Kai has room to grow in those PJ's

At the Boy Scout Pancake breakfast

Nora tries on Dad's coat. Wants to keep it. Promises to eat extra veggies so she'll grow into it.

Posing with a coat and tie

Tie day at the Hills school

The bathroom in Danbury is coming along nicely!

Kai earns his webelo rank.

Ben earns his three year service pin as pack webmaster.

Nora's hundredth day of school project

Kai at flag football.

Kai at flag football. Right place, wrong time.

Nora at a Girl Scout event

Where Nora sees herself when she is 17. Party girl.

February 10, 2014

A Few More Random Pictures

Here are a few more recent pictures including shots from an evening where Nora honed her face painting skills. She came up with a “menu” of designs she was confident with and then set about painting every cheek (and some foreheads) in the house. The menu entry for the cat nose and whiskers was especially cute since it came with optional “angry eyebrows”

Nora tried out her face painting on Dad.

They had to practice on his forehead due to stubble.

Mom selects an option from Nora's "menu"

First a blue heart

Then a rocket ship.

Kai and Nora playing minecraft together.

Ben and webster

Webster and his toy - chuffed

Nora decides she no longer needs sleeves

February 8, 2014February 8, 2014

A Few Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from recent events including Kai’s stint as a volunteer victim at the Boy Scout first aid day. Kai’s job was to play a Cub Scout who spent the day in the woods and came back to camp all itchy. Each group of scouts would provide first aid under that watchful eye of the adult who was scoring their performance.

Crystal was in Oman so we did a McDonald dinner and a movie night with much of the neighborhood.

Here one of the Boy Scouts gets docked points for touching an itchy cub scout without putting on gloves.

Kai hones his sense of victimhood. Kai played an itchy poison ivy victim for the boy (and girl) scouts to practice first aid on.

Here he was a little nervous because the next group up was...(whisper) girl scouts and they were going to give him first aid.

Nora and her bike with basket removed. Bike baskets are soooo kindergarten.

Nora cookin' up a batch of beanies and wienies.

As she would stir pieces of hot dog would, accidentally, pop out of the sauce pan and onto the cutting board to cool.

Kai reads the paper every morning. Only occasionally does he also put on Dad's shoes.

Kai during the grade 4 concert.

Kai and Nora after Kai's 4th grade concert.

February 7, 2014

Cub Scout Campout

Once again I am a few weeks behind the times in getting pictures posted but here are a few from the recent Cub Scout campout. Highlights included fire making, building a catapult, a night time scavenger hunt and winning the desert cookoff by cooking chocolate cake in an orange. We woke up the next morning a rare gentle rain which wasn’t strong enough to be unpleasant but was perfect to focus everyone on a speedy breaking of camp.

Pack 3253 Campout

Den 14 working on their catapult

Kai demonstrates his safe firestarting skills

Den 14 with the tastiest campfire desert award. It was chocolate cake cooked in an orange.

It was raining in the morning when we got up.

Wouldn't you know it our tent was pitched on the one dry spot in the whole camp.

Nora joined us on the campout. She loves tagging along with Kai even if she cramps his style.

January 9, 2014

Random Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures. The main event was the sock assault. One evening we sent Kai and Nora up to get their jammies on and when they came down they did, indeed, have jammies on but they also had their shirts stuffed with their entire sock drawers. It was amusing enough for me to reach for my iphone for a picture. It was when they unleashed a torrent of cottony missiles that we realized that the socks weren’t stuffing…they were ammunition!

January 7, 2014

Christmas 2013

A few pictures posted from Christmas 2013! The Jacobs family had a good year and although we spent Christmas in Saudi Arabia and far from family we managed to indulge our favorite traditions and made some wonderful memories with Kai and Nora.