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.

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”

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.

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.

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!

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.

Some Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures that I threw together into a post.   They include some from Bahrain, flying kites and a Cub Scout event.  Enjoy!

Mr. Slug

A few weeks back Crystal found a slug in our front yard and he joined us as a pet for a couple of weeks.  The kids enjoyed making observations and we learned a lot more about mucus than we did before.    A couple bonus pictures are here as well including Nora holding up her “How To” book that she wrote titled How to be a Zombie.

2013 Gingerbread Houses

This last weekend we hit Tamimi early and raided their candy aisle for anything that would fit on a gingerbread house.   Crystal had already baked the walls and roofs so it was just a matter of slathering on the frosting and sticking on the candy while the Christmas tunes played in the background.   It is a holiday tradition we love!

2013 Madrigal Dinner

Last weekend was the Dhahran Chorale’s annual Madrigal dinner where Crystal played a singing noble woman.  Nora wore her princess outfit (of course) and Kai wore his polo shirt with collar and jeans with no holes.   He even wanted to wear a tie which just about floored me.   He was pretty excited to slick his hair down with some product and he got to splash on a bit of cologne.   Nora and one of her friends were choose to be flower girls during the wedding ceremony – they walked down the aisle throwing rose pedals before the bride.   When she was asked if she would like to be in the show Nora just about came out of her seat with excitement.