The pictures say it all. We had a wonderful vacation to the Oregon Coast!

Jake, Lisa, Mom and I went to the movies and saw How to Train Your Dragon. What a cute movie! and Jake loved it!

Here we go again! Easter was a fun time for us, especially Jake. We went to the city Easter egg hunt, where Jake found a ton of the eggs. He was so excited to go get them I had to hold him back so he wouldn't run out before all the other kids!

We also made an Easter Egg hunt for him in the back yard! He loved it and got way into it!

Two days ago was Jacobs 2nd Birthday! I cannot believe how quickly he is growing up! We had a big party and had all the family over. He got a little spoiled, but thats okay every once in a while right?
When we were singing to Jake, he kept trying to blow out the candles in the middle of the song. Frankie had to keep pulling the cake away so he wouldn't do it too early! He did get both of the candles blown out in one breathe :)
Jake and mommy!
He picked out the Nemo cake at the pastry store. He kept asking for "Nemo cake" all day.
He finally got a piece of his Nemo cake! So cute!

So I figured that I would have to start at Christmas and New Year since it has been a while since I have posted. We had a really good Christmas this year. We went up to Garden Valley and snow tubed two days in a row and that was a ton of fun! Jake sat in the front of the double tubes and was barely tall enough for his little head to poke out the top. We took him down some of the smaller kid hills and he loved it, at least for the first few times:)

These are all the presents Santa brought Jacob. He was very excited over all the toys and clothes. He loves new clothes! I guess he really does have a lot of his mommy in him.
Big Smile on Christmas Eve!!

Jake rode on a pony at the the Corn Field Maze. He was scared at first, but by the end he was laughing, only holding on with one hand, and waving to mommy with the other!

We really have been doing a lot of Halloween celebrating. We carved some pumpkins and they turned out great. Jake really wouldn't touch any of the pumpkin guts. I guess he thought it was gross. Frankie made a mummy design this year and I made a flame pumpkin face.

We also went to the Boo at the Zoo! Jake wore his adorable pirate costume and rode on the carosel. They had people dressed up and passing out candy and it was a lot of fun. And it is trick or treating tomorrow for Jake's first time. I think he is going to love that!

We went to the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun! Frankie and Jake fed the baby animals in the petting zoo, went through the hay maze, and we all rode the hay ride to the pumpkin patch! Happy Halloween!

I finally started cosmotology school and I'm absolutely loving it! I havn't been this buzy in a long time but I am learning so much so fast.

We also have a garden going and it's at the point where it is going crazy! We have corn and cucumbers up the ying-yang! The only picture I have of it is from about a month ago, but now it is a jungle...

Pictures of my haircuts to this point!

This addition makes my life a heck of a lot easier! We finally have our own washer and dryer! It really is a big deal to us, we've never had this luxury.

At least this won't be for another 15 years in real life:) It is an old jeep at the zoo we put him in.

Jake with his cousins, or my cousins really, on a life size, um I forgot what it is called but a really big lizard thing at the zoo. My uncle would know and he might laugh if he sees this, but Frankie and I don't remember it's name.

We really are doing so well right now. Frankie is back in school and I'm still subbing. I am hoping to find a job at a school but we will see what happens. Jake is almost one year old! He is walking and running and trying to talk and getting into everything! He is such a joy!

So this is my brother and his baby Patrick and Jake and I. Its crazy that us Dykman kids are growing up and having babies! What?! I just wanted to post this picture, I'm not sure how long ago it was taken. Hi Matt and Liz! I love you!!

Jake is so stinkin' cute! It is crazy how fast he is growing up and how much he is learning. He has had the walking figured out since Thanksgiving weekend, but hasn't shown much interest in using it. So he is still crawling his crazy bearcrawl all over the place. He flirts with everyone and gets all the love in the world! We love him so much we can hardly stand it!

We went to a Boise State football game. That was a lot of fun and Jake was so good! He watched the game most of the time!

The same day we went to the zoo, we also walked around Julia Davis Park and in the rose gardens. We stopped and let Jake play in the leaves. I don't think he liked them too much. Maybe they were too pokey, but it made for a cute photo op.