ANCOC Graduation April 26,2010

I was so excited to get the opportunity to go to franks graduation because most of the time when he goes to a school, its too far for me to attend. But this time it was just an hour and a half drive to get to fort gordan. My friend Evelyn offered to go with me because she knew it would be impossible for me to go by myself and thank god she offered. Everything that could go wrong, pretty much did. On the ride to his graduation, Frankie threw up like crazy because he gets car sick when he is in the car too long, so we had to pull into a gas station and change his clothes. It was disgusting, his car seat was covered in puke and he was too. And i had the boys in these cute matching outfits but needless to say they didn't match anymore,lol. So we end up getting there literally right on time. Then Frankie gets diarrhea, we change him. Right when we are done changing Frankie, Nathan gets diarrhea, so we change him and run out of wipes to top it off. Nathan is crying most of the graduation because he doesn't like loud noises from the music/ lady talking in the microphone. I could of pulled my hair out. ANYWAYS, it was all worth it because i was so proud to see my honey make another great accomplishment in his career. I couldn't be more proud of him and it doesn't hurt that he looks exceptionally handsome in that uniform!! I was thinking as i was driving back home from Georgia, one day i will look back at this little experience and laugh at all my misfortunes but right now its not funny at all!! :) Oh and also, i decided to keep Jenna out of school to see her daddy graduate, she looked so proud of her dad. Here is some pics....

Mommy is being creative!

So, what can you get with 3 bags of beans, a big white container, sand toys, and three kids?????? A bean sand box, lol. I was reading through this magazine and there was an article about what to do on rainy days/boring days and i came across this idea. I bought jenna these sand toys last easter and we still havent gotten to the beach to use them. So i thought this would be a perfect opprotunity to finally use them after they have been sitting in her closet for a whole year and we needed something new and intresting to do. At first i thought well its kind of a weird thing to do but i said what have i got to lose, if they dont like it, oh well. But they ended up loving it. Jenna and frankie played with it for hours. And the funny thing about it was it didnt cost any money because i had everything i needed already. Daddy wasnt happy about all the beans that ended up all over the driveway but he knew they had fun, so it didnt matter. :) SO here is is.....

Nathan,Frankie, and Mommy's Playdate

Every Friday we have a play date with my friend Jenna and her daughter moriah, as long as everyone is healthy of course. Nathan and Moriah are pretty much the exact same age, moriah actually was born on Nathan's original due date, but he decided he wanted to come on my birthday instead,lol. Anyways, i look forward to these play dates every Friday because i get to talk to a grown up for one and also its adorable to see Nathan and moriah interact. For the most part Nathan just shyly watched her and looked at me like whats going on here, lol. But i saw him eyeing her little cute bow in her hair and he is in that hair pulling stage, so of course he gets a hold of her hair bow and pulls. POOR MORIAH, she didn't cry or anything but other than that they played extremely well together. So, i decided to break out the camera and take some pictures, so you can see Nathan and his scheduled play date on Friday's. So don't try to make plans with him on Friday's, he's booked. :)

Easter Weekend with the Jakubowski Kids!

So this is going to be a very long blog with a lot of pictures. I'm going to start with Saturday morning. On post they were having a "SPRING JAMBOREE" and Easter egg hunt, I'm figuring out that the army doesn't put much money into family events. On the flyer they claim they had tons of fun activities but they had a bunch of tables set up with literally junk, one table had an aluminum can stacking contest,lol. Anyways, there was a couple cute things we did while we were there, so i'll begin with the pictures...

^Frankie wasn't scared of the Easter bunny at all. He's a tough guy but Jenna was kinda apprehensive



^Jenna in the fire truck

^This was Jenna and daddy at this put you hand in the box and guess whats in there, just by touch and again Jenna was apprehensive,lol




^ Here is Jenna and Frankie throwing bones into the doggie's mouth, you were supposed to stay behind the line but Frankie is too cool for the rules, lol, as you can see. KEEP READING THERE IS MORE.......

Moving on to Easter Egg Dying! This was later in the day after Frankie's nap, you can see that he looks still tired and his hair is still messy, lol. This was more fun for Jenna but Frankie enjoyed it....





SOOO, Here come's Sunday, Easter morning. They got up, opened their Easter baskets first. Then they did the Easter egg hunt which was by far the most exciting thing for both of them. And then we had some homemade waffles for breakfast. It was a nice, relaxing morning. Except that Nathan was running a 102.2 fever and cranky as can be. More pics.. keep going...







SOOOO... After breakfast, we got all the kids dressed in their easter sunday best and went outside to take some.... guess what you think it might be... PICTURES!!!! It was wet out, so we had to put down a blanket so they wouldnt ruin their clothes. Let me tell you, it is very hard to get three kids to all look at the camera at the same time, but we tried our very best. And the outcome.....





So, they boys went down for their nap and my Jenna and I started our traditional easter lamb cake. Every year we do this and i would say this is the first year where jenna was really excited about it. Her job was to die the easter grass(coconut)green and to help frost the lamb. She named him LAMBY, how original, huh? LOL. She also picked out the black eyes and pink nose for the lamby's face. She opened up all her plastic easter eggs to find the jelly beans for him. So CUTE!!! I look forward to easter to make another cute cake with jenna. Every year we make him a little different, this year we decided to put pretty easter sugar sparkles all over him. So here he is.....




Here comes the end of the day when we had our dinner. I cooked ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and rolls. As you can see frankie's favorite was mashed potatoes, just like his daddy. Jenna loved the ham, she had like 3 pieces of it. We all had full bellies and we relaxed together for the rest of the night.. here are a couple more pics....



And that is the end of our wonderful, easter weekend. I hope you enjoyed it. We had tons of fun!!!!!