Baby Emma

Baby Emma

Today is my first blog post. (This is Nate) I am happy to say that on Tuesday July 23rd, 2008 @ 1:43 PM, Emma Jean Jacobsen was born. Ashley was scheduled to be induced that morning so we put everything in the car and headed up to Alta View Hospital in Sandy. On the freeway up to the hospital Ashley started having contractions. 

When we arrived to the hospital, Ashley was dilated and in labor. The baby was coming on her own terms! This was very exciting. The delivery was smooth with no complications. Emma has a lot of hair and is peaceful... so far. She is so fun and has already brought so much joy into our lives. We feel so blessed to have her here with us! 

Ashley did such a wonderful job with everything. She is the most amazing mother and wife. I am very grateful that I have such a tough wife. She has not complained one single time. I know that she is secretly thinking... " What can I do next? Does everyone have what they need? Am I giving 100%? " Ashley, we love you. We are grateful for all that you do for us. You are an amazing mother. The dedication that you put into the happiness of our little family is heads and shoulders above what is expected of you. You always go the extra mile and we are grateful for that. You are great!

Taylor was fascinated by a real life baby. She seemed to be a little unsure of the new baby at first. This was her first introduction to baby Emma.

After getting familiar with the baby, she wanted to hold her. After that, Taylor began to become protective of her new sister. When the nieces and nephews held the baby, Taylor was a little upset and wanted to keep the baby all to her self. It was cool to see the two of them interact so well together. Hopefully this will be a sign of things to come. 

I was able to give Emma her first bath. She loved getting all of her dark black hair washed. She has so much beautiful hair.

LAGOON

Taylor and William (Phil's son)


We went to Lagoon with Nate's work on Saturday. It was so much fun. We started the day by going on the kids rides with Taylor. She is our little dare devil and loved all of the rides. When she rode the boat ride, they had to stop the ride because she climbed out of her seat belt and tried to jump in the water.

Taylor almost got ejected from the park for her riotous behavior on this ride. She punched the 12 year old ride operator in the nose when she tried to strap her in again. "You cant hold me down. Lets rally this boat. Come on faster!!! Faster!!" Needless to say, when she almost jumped out, I was a proud father.

Nate and Taylor rode Puff the Dragon together twice. She loved that and the tilt a whirl. After riding the kids rides for the morning, we met the rest of Nate's friends at the pavilion to eat lunch and have a raffle for prizes. We won a portable GPS navigation system for the car!!!! We're going to exchange it for a digital video camera!!!!!






The hardest part of the whole day was being more than nine months pregnant. We were hoping that all of the walking around would make the baby come... it didn't work. The only ride that I could ride was the carousel with Taylor.








The company gave each employee $100 spending cash to do what we want with. Other people were spending theirs on games, arcades, special rides, and icees. Nate and I were like..." nah, lets save it. we can share the chicken basket for dinner. we don't need to buy a drink, thats why they have drinking fountains. " We had a great time and cant wait to go again.

Utah Lake!!

Saturday the 12th we went to Utah Lake.
To start of the day we were on a mission to find some sunglasses because neither one of us had a pair, needless to say every place we stopped had the most ridiculous pairs available. We were walking out of the last store and had given up, when we spotted a rack that had sunglasses for
$1.06 so we said we might as well get a pair even if they are ugly they will probably break by the end of the day anyway. We ended up finding Taylor a REALLY cute pair and Nate and I got a few pair each just for fun.





This was the first time Nate has ever been on a Jet ski and he had a blast! He is now feeling the HOURS that he spent out on the lake though. Between not putting sunscreen on until halfway through the day, straddling a jet ski for hours and holding on to a tube.He struggles to get up from the couch haha I just laugh at him. We were also able to take Taylor out for her first time on a boat she LOVED it! She would yell and scream when everyone else did(cause someone would fall) she would point and say whaoo to people wake boarding. She hadn't had a nap all day so I was surprised how well she did.





Our friend Mark Stokes! Playing in the water with Taylor while Daddy was out on the Jet Skis. Thanks Stokes!




Nate was a little unsure about me riding in the boat, considering I am going to be having a baby in 10 days( Not like I am counting) my thought was what is the worst that could happen..... I go into LABOR!!! not likely but I was hoping!



Oh and just an fyi bugs are ridiculous there!! I am suffering through 5 bites right now. Two of which I got before we even walked in to the Fee Zone! I HATE bugs!!

4th Of July Weekend

What a great holiday! We love celebrating our Freedom. For our 4th we went to a BBQ at Nate's Sisters house. We ate lots of food, enjoyed playing in the BLAZING hot weather, and of course Fireworks. We were dog sitting an English Bulldog over the weekend, she didn't do so well with the fireworks so we decided to head home when everyone went to the park to watch the large display of fireworks. Much to our surprise we ended up seeing 4-5 Firework shows just driving along I-15 on our way home. We for sure had the best seat in town! It was great.

 On Saturday we went and had dinner with Grandma v, Jose and Jose Jr. up Spanish fork canyon where they had been camping for a few days. Nate was giving Jose Jr. some tips on building the fire, they had forgotten the Lighter fluid so they were"safely" using gasoline to start the fire. Need I say more? Lets just say the gasoline can ended up with a flame in it clothes and chairs caught on fire. GO Scouts Go!!.... Luckily no one was hurt and it turned in to a laughing matter. We also played Uno attack, enjoyed some bike riding and had a yummy dutch oven cooked dinner. It started getting dark, So we got a good fire going and of course roasted some delicious marshmallows and made smores.