Herzlich Wilkommen to Jake and Melissa's BLOG

If anyone wants to check out Melissa's new blog the address is http://www.ladybugpower.blogspot.com/ . You can get your Sam fix there.

Here are some pictures of the new house.

As many of you know, we have moved from West Jordan to South Weber. We're very happy with the new house. We saw it early on, before we w...

After much encouragement from Melissa, I've finally made some time to update the blog. The kids are doing great. They are growing like...

A nice day at the Draper Temple open house.

Griffin and daddy enjoying a round together.

Lily's cute haircut.

The kids have had a lot of fun at family reunions this year.

We took the kids to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. It was a lot of fun. They do a great job up there. Griffin loved it. He is a plane ...

Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman. Once there was a snowman tall, tall, tall.

Lily wearing her dress from China.

What a cute pair of kids. They are the best.

The sleepy, happy faces shown below didn't last long. Christmas morning: the setting of the first of many battles over the Little Peop...

Happy 30th!!! Happy Birthday Jako! I am so glad to be married to you! You are the best. Hope you have a great day. You are a great husband ...

Cute! I am going to try to start blogging a few of the funny things my kids say. It's hard to do it justice since they don't have a...

Stone Cold Lily. Bret and Haley really mess up this picture by smiling. It was supposed to be tough guy faces.

Lily was much more relaxed for Santa this year. Griffy wasn't too interested. He just wanted to get down and run.

CHEEEEESE!!!

Thanksgiving 2008. As you can see above, Griff was pretty into playing in the leaves. Lily liked it, too.

Meet Lily's entourage: Pinky, her pink bear; Bear, her other pink bear; Bat, her pink lamb (named Bat because of the 'baa' soun...

This picture of Griffy waiting to have his diaper changed is pretty funny. It's all just part of the routine.

They got a little rocking horse toy earlier this year. As you can see, it initially posed them a few problems. Clearly the rocking horse w...

The kids have been pretty fun for football season this year. They love their little Utah jackets. Griff says "Go Utes!" whenever...

Aunt Linda was very kind to our kids this year. She gave each a present on the other's birthday. Lily just opened her present from Gr...

We often come into Griffin's room to find that he has positioned his bears like so. It actually scares me a little. If he starts mutil...