Jacobsen

We have a new puppy, Jake, and the kids are really enjoying him. They are very responsible with him, and he has been pretty easy to potty train. He is a small dog and very mello, which is great.

We have been doing a lot in this month of October. Maranda and I took a little trip to Lincoln, NE to see family. We had a blast, then Maranda and Tariq came to our house for a couple of days. Maranda spent time with me for my birthday, and the kids enjoyed playing.

I had a great birthday!! I'm still on a birthday "high". Isn't that great? Chas made me steak dinner and got me a cheesecake, took me to St. Louis to go to the temple and a weekend without the kids. Thank you to my mom and dad and Kyrell for watching the kiddos, they had a wonderful time and Mark is ready to come back. I was spoiled by all my family, I love and thank you so much for making me feel so special.

This weekend is Halloween and Tyler will be a frog, Mark a cowboy, and Macy can't decide. Either a cowgirl or Sleeping Beauty. What a choice. Maranda is coming back down and I think Tariq will be a Dragon. We are all excited.

We have cutting trees on our property, splitting and stacking for winter. Chas has been working on getting electricity to our storage container and building a leanto (not sure how to spell this, but pretty sure this isn't right, ha ha) and getting all the outside stuff ready for winter. It's coming fast.

Macy and Mark are doing really good in school. Macy can count to 100 (you have to help her with the 40, 50 and so on), sings lots of fun songs, and is sounding out words. Mark enjoys learning, is talking better, can ride his bike with no training wheels and loves his new puppy. Mark is a great helper, he loves the sense of accomplishment. He loves to help mom or dad and get stuff DONE.

Tyler is keeping me busy, we are trying to potty train. I'm not too excited about it and he will tell me he has to go potty, but then sits there, doesn't do anything and says, "All done." Flushes the toilet, gets down, I put on his diaper and he goes in the diaper. I've potty trained two other children so I should have this system a little bit down, but I don't and I don't like the process at all. He did go the other day and thought that was cool. I'm not good at patiently waiting at the toilet. Anyway, Tyler can do a lot, say a lot, and his personality is the best. He is very pationate. When he is sad he's really sad, when he's happy it's great and his funny (now that's a show), his hugs and kisses, folding his arms, and helping mom and dad.