OUr yard!

Hey here is some pictures of our yard! the ones with the grass are of our backyard.

One Fine Day!!!.

SO. today was a great day. and i mean it! it has been a long time since i have had a day THIS good. and i dont mean that like i never have good days, i do. but today was just one of those nearly perfect days. i woke up this morning...and nothin too special yet. so i went to school...that wasnt anything extraordinary either. it all started when i had my first client. antoher student named Jill. so after her facial, she gave me a $10 tip!!! WAHOO! thats a GREAT tip. $2-3 is average. so you see why i was so excited.. then i made $2 more dollars on an eye brow wax, so that was kinda nice. then i had my doctors appointment, my first one ever for pregnancy!!! so they did the regular exam and that, and thats never really my favorite thing, but then after that, they did an ultra sound!!! the first thing the doctor said was "there is the sack, you are defitely pregnant!" wow!! i have a water sack! then he zoomed in, and you could see this little tiny cluster, and that was the baby, it was a little blurry because it was zoomed in, but you could see a little Heart light. WOW! a heart beat!! that means the baby is alive and well! and there is only one;). but it is 14 milimeters long i believe. they said i was 7 weeks 5 days. so i think the internet place i was looking at was about a week ahead of where i am, they calculated from the 1st day of last period, and my doctor calculates from when you actually concieve or something like that.. maybe a week before. anyways, so im almost 8 weeks, on saturday. and then he printed out the picture of the baby, we got 3!! (pictures). i am going to try to get them up here. so then i got home, and it was like Christmas all over again! the Chassis for my stroller came! so i got that all assembled! it looks really cool. then my mom sent me an awesome package!!! some materniy clothes, a baby outfit, and money!!! thank you mom!! and maaret sent me another AWESOME package!! a crib set that is SO CUTE< maaret its PERFECT!!!! i love it!! i love all that i got today!! and maaret sent me that stroller accessories. and the crib set is so awesome, i love all the accessories for it!! and then i got to go to enrichment night with audreys ward, audrey talked on spiritual preparedness, she did awesome. very good message. and they had the funniest dinner, you had to circle things like "rock, dump truck or pipe" and then it was funny to see what you ended up with. some people didnt end up with any plate, no fork ect, it was funny. anyways, we are going to finish the March of the Penguins

Doctors appt...

Hey, i have my first doctors appt tomarrow...whoohoo! i am not sure entirely what to expect. but i hope its cool! i would really like to have an ultra sound or something or hear the heartbeat, but i doubt i will get that... maybe the heartbeat. im 8 weeks. will be 9 weeks on saturday. so thats exciting. things seem to be going well. i've been tired, and its been hard to find food i want... but no throwing up or anything. so im glad about that. tonight we went to cracker barrel with audrey and the kids and her foster daugher Candy and her mom , stepdad and brother. its nice, i like that for the kids menu they have "FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES!" thats the way it oughta be. none of this under 10 stuff. because one portion of kids mac n cheese filled me up just fine! and its like $2. thats nice... with the cornbread. so, and we went to target, and audrey got a bunch of stuff for the baby, and i got some bottles that were on sale. very cool. i love shopping for baby things. so anyways, well i better get going. i've got to throw my laundry in... oh and my friend Tamra learned how to do eyelash extentions, and she gave me some ! she's got to finish them, but they look so real. she actually attaches them to each individual eyelash, so they looks SO natural. just makes you lookk like you have nice long eyelashes. i'll have to take a picture when she finishes them, right now they are just sort of on the corners of my eyes, looks good. Well, catch ya lata!

Candy

Hey, i bet everybody has been anxious to meet candy. so i posted a picture , well two, of her, we took them about a week ago. i swear her belly is bigger since then. its so cute, it just pops right out. well, i gotta go.

Sittin on the Dock of a bay.....

so, nothin really exciting has been going on. truly. i feel like right now my life is in a boring sort of rut. and thats why i dont post so much. nothing to post. i'd be wasting your time.i go to school everyday of the week, from 7:30-3:30 im gone , at the same place EVERYDAY mind you.then i come home, take a nap, watch some seinfeld or something, eat dinner, and not too much else. sometimes some missionary stuff. thats fun. but im really excited for when i am done with school, and for when the baby is finally born. we have had some sort of excitment around here, at least something different. candy, audreys new foster daughter, is staying with us. she is really nice, pretty quiet, and is due for a baby boy soon. she really doesnt have anything to do at our house but watch tv, i wish we had a more exciting weekend this weekend, but audreys out of town, and we just dont have much planned. which has been sort of nice, just to relax. i have a test on physiology and anatomy on monday, so i need to study for that. we looked at some model homes today, thats always sort of fun, and dan got a couple little new plants at home depot. took a nice nap today... tomarrow i think i will make potatoe cheese caserole. nothing much has sounded really good, and after i do eat, i have been feeling sort of blah... i wish i could find something that sounded good. but oh well. i took maarets advice today and ate an orange. well,thats about it! hopefully something exciting will happen soon. i mean being pregnant is exciting, im 7 weeks now. but right now i cant feel the baby kick, or anything near like that. im basicaly just tired, and food doesnt sound that good. but other than that, i feel good. no throwing up and all that. Well. i will try to post more okay mare? cya later~

Day 37

Well, today is day 37 of my pregnancy. nothing much is really going on, just thought i would post. yesterday i spent most of the day with audrey, shopping around and cleaning out emma and davids rooms. davids bunny came back so that was good, he would have been really upset had it not. Tom and michelle are adopting! that is really exciting news, in just a couple weeks a baby girl will be born and they will get to take her home! my mom is in omaha now with my dad, i think they are glad to see each other again. mary is thinking of moving up to talkeetna, alaska, near denali, to live out of her car and work up there. i think she has some friends up there... emma got her braces on, and she getting a little better with her speech, she was really struggling the first day, and she still talks different. im just going to school as usual, i have like 10 weeks and 2 days left. im counting down. im very ready to get outa there. i think since i found out we are having a baby, my mind has not been on school, and so its making school feel very long. and we are doing the same stuff all the time, just doing facials, and waxing. i feel like they require too many hours, 600 is a lot, for something not too complicated. well, i will hopefully have something more exciting later!

I'm Pregnant!

Since it's mostly all family that checks my blog, I think I can share this news, because you already probably heard it. We found out on July 20th. So just barely, although it seems like a lot longer ago. We are very excited. as we should be! I think the due date is March 30th, and i am in week 5. (the baby is not 5 weeks, they count like 2 weeks before you are pregnant as part of the pregnancy.) SO, anyways, not too much else we know about that. i havnt been to the doctor or anything, still waiting for him to call me back, although i will try again monday. I will update this as we get more news, and all of that, like what sex the baby is. Dan is really hoping for a boy, so he is assured the Jacobson name lives on (there are just girls so far on his side), but he would be happy with boy or girl. Same with me, i would be happy with a boy or girl, although girls are much funner to dress. so we'll see! i think its starting to sink in. we officially tried 12 months, and in month 12 i got pregnant. so its like i have thought so much about it, but now that its here its like surreal. but exciting.
Here are some pictures of a sunset here a few days ago after a storm. we have great sunsets!!

Sunday Afternoon

SO today we have just been hanging out. i cleaned up the house a little this morning, went to church, had a good time. its nice to be in a ward where i know most of the people. there is this couple with a 2 year old and a 3 month old, and her husband plays the organ, so i have sat behind her the past couple weeks cause she needs help sometimes. today i got to hold their 3 month old during sacrament, thats was fun. he was a pretty good baby, tired, but still very cute and pretty good. then went to class, and then after church had missionary correlation, and then fed the missionaries (luckily i had prepared dinner before church, cause correlation ran over late), so we came home and all i had to do was cook the food. i made fried rice , so all i had to do was stir fry it. it was good. then we had some rice crispies... we had the missionaries over for dinner so that was good. now we are just relaxing, finishing up some laundry and that. well, this week no plans too exciting . audrey comes home wednesday with emma i think. and other than that , just school. everyday....well thats it for today!

Safety Kids

Here are David and Emma's paintings, sorry audrey i missed the posty, but they wil go out tomarrow.
Good job they did eh?

July in Az

Here are a couple pictures of what we've been up to. Jinx really likes the box from audreys game "worst case scenario". Then we took jinx on a walk and she was freaking out. ANd our backyard flooded when this huge rain came along.

tribute

I thought today was blogworthy. it has been offially ONE year since we closed on our house and moved in. july 7, 2005. today was a significant day too, my first real client, and my first day on the floor as a practicing Aesthetician. i am going to get little caesars breadsticks with my tip. haha i almost wrote "with me tip", but i corrected it. kinda funny though. Later! ps marey the kids are working on paintings for toms work. on "safety". dave's is river rafting safty (life jackets), i kinda helped him a lot on that topic cause i thought it would be cool to paint, and emmas was all her one idea, a horse, and a girl or gule as she says on a horse who wears a helmet. Well, im gona go!

Got Three Dollars in My Pocket.

So today i took my last test for basic test out !!! yesterday i did my "test out" practical test where mrs. daniels watched me , alyssa, and tamra test out of basics, by doing a basic facial , eyebrow tweezing (one hair), eyebrow waxing (mock), and makeup. i got 94%!!! i was happy with that. i was so nervous to be watched, sanitation is the biggest deal, and timing, she said "you have 45 minutes to do the basic facial including cleanse, massage, mask and moisturize" or something like that really vague. i thought she was going to stop us after each separate phase like "you have 15 minutes to drape the client, remove eye and lip makeup, cleanse, remove and tone". then "you have 15 minutes to steam, massage, remove and tone". then "you have 15 minutes to apply the mask, remove , tone and moisturize and dispose of all materials preparatory to the hair removal and makeup portion of the test". thats what i expected, all i got was "you have 45 minutes to do the basic facial". and i didnt have a clock in front of me. i was a big nervous. but i took a deep breath and tried to stay focused by not looking at anybody or anything, just giving all attention to the facial. and i think i did a good job. so anyways i think it took me around 40 minutes, 5 minutes left or so, but i think thats pretty dang good.
so then today we had out written test out. it covered the whole book , and i didnt even study, and guess what? i got a 96%!! out of 50 questions i only missed 2! so thats alright with me. so then they put me on "the books". which means im on the appointment book for clients. i had a walk in today, my FIRST real client. a Euro. (european or machine facial, we use machines during the facial like the steamer, ect. the basic facial uses no machines ). so i was a little nervous. it was a man named Neil. he was from india i think. it was sort of different to give a man a facial because you cant go up and out like you normall would in your movements, they have to go int he direction of the hair growth which is in and down. but i got a TIP too!! $3!!!so thats exciting!! its nice to bring home some money. and now i take my lunch whenever i want. i am on my own for the most part.. wow huh? well. im gona go! audrey told me today she was leaving town tomarrow. we are gona lap swim and then go over there and hopefully finish up those paintings the kids have been working on!
oh ps yesterday i got my legs finished waxing, the thighs. oh i love it! my legs are so smooth! i love having no hair, they are just smooth! okay. thats enough! hopefully i will have some pictures to post!

June in AZ

Well. i've been up to school lately. no pun intended..thats what i've been up to...going up to the valley for school everyday. im in my 6th week. i am testing out of basics next week! this morning we practiced a basic facial on our dolls, then i waxed a girls arm, then went to lunch, then treated tamra with the high frequency , then she treated my face with it, and wow i tell ya wow! it cleaned my face up so much!! before, i felt like my face was very oily, and its been sort of breaking out, and even though i washed my face this morning, it felt dirty, and after that, (high frequency has a sanitizing effect on the skin), it felt so much better! i didnt notice it til later, but i looked in the mirror and my face looked so much better!! and it was dry, it wasnt oily anymore!! what a wonderful machine. and then i gave my vietnameze (sp?) friend a back facial, i am feeling better in all areas of my work. not perfect in any degree yet, but at least more confident. here are some pictures of what we have been up to. we went out to eat friday with Han and her husband , both from vietnam, and allyssa , who is a native from Guam. we ate at Saigon Pho. a vietnamese restaurant. now look, i spelled vietnamese right back there! just now! isnt it wierd how you can remember somethings without thinking about them, but when you try to think of them, they dont come? anyways, enjoy the pictures! i added some pictures of my class, the one with 3, is Tamra, Me, And Allyssa. that is my "basics" class. just 3 of us. then i added some of the group that went to do baptisms for the dead, Jeff, Diana, Kelly (our new member, almost 1 year now), and Me.

Life in the SUn. and MARY!

So today i got WAY sunburned. wow. i didnt even see it comin! that day me and jenny went to the scottsdale resort with aud and the kids we didnt get burned at ALL! hardly any color. so today i didnt slap suncreen on much, a little but not too much. i am a lobster! not good!! and all day i couldnt even see a tan line, i thought i was gona be lucky if i got any color. i got color!! im a red skin now! youch. thats gona hurt. its already hot. i got home and im just beat red..so you get the picture. but we had fun at the water park today. me, mary, david and emma. it was a lot of fun, we went to the one in mesa. for marys layover. i bet thats the most fun anybody has EVER had in a layover. shes gona get to alaska burned up i bet. i bet she got just about as burned as me. she had a better tan to begin with so maybe not so burned.... we'll see. oh ya we got to town SO early. mary flew in at like 6:30 am. we got her around 7. and then we went to wal mart for water and snacks, then to bk for some breakfast , cause it was across the street from the waterpark. and audrey dropped us off. so we had like 2 hours before the park opened. but it was good. we just chilled for a while. it felt good to finally get in some water though!
anyways , i put a couple pictures on that we took today. and then i put one of dan cutting his own grown (and still growing) putting green lawn. special lawn mower and everything. pretty exciting stuff huh. well, school is going well, speaking of school i need to go read and do some work! but its been fun. we've been waxing! which i love! its so gratifying. i love tweezing ingrown hairs. its so satisfying. i had part of my legs waxed yesterday and then my bikini (no bikini's here..just swimsuit) line. didnt get to finish my legs because we ran out of time. ... but it wasnt so bad. i was expecting a lot worse. just stings a little. not a big deal. but ya, i am loving school.. its very interesting, and im learning a lot. i love being in school. i love learning new things everyday. i miss that when im not in school ya know.. well, talk to ya later!

Monsoon Storm Season is here!

So we had this incredible, wierd, and very powerful storm last night. First monsoon of the season! it came in and out within a mattter of minutes. me and dan were standing outside, and all of a sudden, the wind , it started to blow. and the dust, it started to move in like an unstoppable rebel force. so we took some pictures and ran inside. it got so dark within just 5 minutes from us taking pictures of the dust a little ways off. so here is our pictureS!