Hollywood Boy 2: The Sequel!

Well, the first movie went so well, we just couldn't pass up the idea of making another one, right? Jakob's people agreed and last week we wrapped the sequel to his second movie:

Jakob Marcus: Open Up Your Eyes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbduNwn0jU

With all of the Oscar buzz with this movie, its hard not to want to produce another one with this all star cast. We'll see, but at this time no plans have been set to launch the third installment of the series (yet).

After the whirlwind of travel and meeting relatives, it was nice to spend last weekend at home. We took Jakob to see the Liberty Fall Festival and while mom and dad had a blast seeing the shop tents on the square, walking around the craft tents and sampling the finest hot dogs, drinks, kettle corn, funnel cakes and fried snickers bars, the boy did what he does best. He slept through the entire thing. If not for needing to eat while we were there, he would have most likely missed the whole thing. Oh well, like the K-State football motto, "there's always next year."

This week we will finally get Jakob's first professional photos taken. Not that we don't have a gagillion photos of him, but this will be the first of many modeling jobs to come as he gets older. Being the most perfect little boy isn't easy, but he does it well. We're planning a big photo of the family later this month to hopefully use as our Christmas photo. Should be good stuff.

This weekend is Marc's dad's birthday and we're excited because Jakob has picked out the coolest grandparent birthday card to give to his Poppy. We're fairly confident he will get to see him and the rest of the family on Friday or Sunday.

After almost seven years of infertility, Jakob is providing us with the start of cool parent things. In a few weeks we will be a part of Vineyard's Child Dedication Event. Like Mother's Day and Father's Day next year, this is something we've been looking forward to taking part in for a long time, and we would like to extend an invitation to friends and family who would like to share with us in this special day. The information is as follows:

Child Dedication Weekend

Sunday, October 21

11:00 a.m. Service

Vineyard KC North

www.vineyardkcnorth.com

Finally, we have been welcomed into a small group through friends we met at Vineyard and it rocks. Not only are we making a lot of great friends, but we're being challenged. This is definitely a great model for how a small group should be. We're looking forward to covering a marriage and intimacy topic before Thanksgiving and Christmas and then possibly starting a study on the C.S. Lewis book "Mere Christianity" after the new year.

Thanks again so much for visiting this blog. We appreciate you guys taking an active look into our lives and caring enough to keep up with how Jakob is doing.

More soon.