Jaquith Family

This year Jared made the ALL Star team

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Jared had a great year, he made the All Star Team. Here are some of my fav pictures!

July,Aug,Sept.,Oct.,Nov. and now Dec. were has the time gone?

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Amy at 6 month Amy sitting up this is at the tail end of 4 months Our teddy bear Katie turned 6 this year

Happy feet

Amy at exactly 4 months

ACL reconstruction

My older 4 are all in school this is their first day This bird loved Kara's apple scented detangler

Katie at the zoo Amy and IMy wet little monster Katie stayed out of the water

wutch you talkken about mama

Amy talking to herself

Jared is the best big brother and from the start did really well with Amy Crazy kid Katie and Daddy

My girls minus Amy plus on doll Kelsie

Amy sporting her 4th of July duds

Kelsie' soccer team

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Silly Photo

Amy Kristine - May 24th @ 6:00pm - 7lbs 6oz - 20 1/2 inches

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The Baby Bump

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4 weeks to go !!

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Kelsie and Kara are playing indoor soccer this year, This is Kelsie the cutest goalie ever

This indoor soccer is crazy, there is no out of bounds, you play off of bleachers and spectators. Katie has a bruise on her forehead from one of those balls hitting her and then flinging her forward onto the bleacher in front of her. Kelsie is having lots of fun.

Kara's 12th birthday

2010-04-21T21:32:00.000-07:00

Today was Kara's birthday! We got her out of school a little early and head out to celebrate. Dinner and presents at Wendy's and playing at the park.Jared gave her a Nancy Drew game

Katie at the park

Played a little soccer - Kelsie

Kara the birthday girl - 12 years, Wow how time has flown!

Kara again

and again

Me and Kara! I take about all the pictures so I had to try and get into at least one

The girls playing in the sand pit at the park, it was a great park

Katie was posing all over for me "mommy take a picture"

Jared on the swing

all my kiddos on the swing

Katie again

Kelsie climbing

The crazy slide and Kara

We almost forgot the presents so Katie went and got them ALL!

We surprised Kara with balloons and a caramel frappe at school

Here Katie is carrying them over to the school for me.

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School jog-a-thon. Not just for the kids, as seen below. Grandpa even got some sponsors.

This is Kara at the end of her 16 laps

Kara and Emily taking it a little slow

Go Kara

Katie played on the play ground while everybody did their laps

Jared finishing up lap 20

Jared went hard

Kelsie finishing up - she did 15 laps

Kelsie and her teach with some other class mates

Woohooo Kelsie - she was ready

Kelsie's 2nd grade class

Kara with her good friend Ashley.

Kelsie again

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Kelsie turned 8 this year. We took the kids to Fort Stevens for her birthday!

Stopped on the way to play by the water, yes someone fell in - Kara (just her feet)

The birthday girl - 8yrs old

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Jared's Basketball team - finished the season 4 and 4. He really enjoyed playing!

Jared's Basketball started today

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After the game pep talk!!

Between games at Taco Bell getting refueled.

At the start if the Jamboree.

Jared is playing basketball this year. He's playing at point guard for St. Anthony with 3 other classmates from WCS. These are pictures I took today at his Jamboree! He had lots of fun!!

New baby on the way

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Guess I should let everyone know that we are expecting #5, due date May 30th =D

Picture's of today's games (Jared and Kara)

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Jared is the linebacker blitzing!

Man down, take a knee

Jared setting up the ball for the kick off

and the kick, he had to kick 8 times today

Kara during her game, I had a difficult time getting a good picture.

Kara tied her game 3-3 and Jared won his.

What were up to

2009-09-04T15:37:00.000-07:00

Well life is certainly busy of late. The last two weeks of summer consisted of Diving lessons in the morning for Kara, evening practice for Jared (5 days a week)-2 nights a week Kara had soccer practice and then of course Church services on Wednesday and Sunday morning and evening. School has started for Kara, Jared, and Kelsie. Katie hangs out with me.

I took about a week of from Physical Therapy but have decided to continue with 2 times a week for the next 3 weeks. I feel allot better about it, I was worrying about the money because my insurance only allows 30 PT appointments per calender year. I'm penciled in for surgery Oct. 1st but I may wait. Kerry and I have talked about seeing if I can get the surg. at the end of Dec. The timing works out better for our family. Kerry wouldn't be able to keep up with transporting the kids to and from practice and to games, I won't be able to drive.

Starting Sept.21st I will be over seeing nap time for k-5, which will keep things interesting. Currently I am cleaning only one house but because this house is in Portland I normally don't leave until 9:30 to avoid traffic (which will not get me back to the school by 11:45am). My sister (Karen)has been helping me clean since I'm not able to do everything yet. She has been a big help.

Kerry continues to keep busy too.

Jared's 2009 football season (so far)

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Looks like Jared is going to be the kicker for his team this year, he's so excited!

Running drills!

water break

Jared washing one of the officer's car that came to their car wash fundraiser

Jared shaking hands with one of the officer's at the car wash (love this picture)

First day of school!

2009-09-01T11:37:00.001-07:00

Kara and her friend Ashley, the only 2 girls in 6th grade this year!!

Kara is now in 6th grade, her teachers are Mr. Olson (Andy) and Mrs. Olson

Kelsie is now in 2nd Grade and is very excited to be starting school!

Jared is in Mr Stuch's 4th grade class this year.

Washington County Fair

2009-08-01T21:53:00.000-07:00

Jared on the tractor.

We went to the Fair today for a couple of hours- very hot - about 100 degrees - it reached 107 earlier this week. Diana's sister and her kids went with us. Diana was pushed around in her wheelchair. The kids liked the pig racing.

Diana's Motorcycle Crash

2009-07-06T19:28:00.000-07:00

Jared on Caleb Doering's mini-bike. He also rode the motorcycle below very well.

The picture right above is the motorcyle Diana crashed on. It's a mid-size motorcycle. Kara is on it in the picture. Diana took off up the trail and didn't return for a while. We thought we heard a yell so I took off on a 4 wheeler to look for her. I rounded a corner and saw the cycle crashed right next to a canyon and she was in the middle of the trail -she had crawled over from the edge. She had planted her leg to keep from falling and the knee went out and the rest of her didn't. It took us an hour and half to get her to the emergency room. She completely tore her ACL and some of her miniscus. She had surgery about 3-4 weeks ago to repair the miniscus. She has to go to the hospital for a couple of days this week to be put on a machine to make her knee bend before the ACL surgery can be done.

Trip to Idaho

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We went to Idaho for Kerry's Grandma Bollinger's 80th Birthday. Diana couldn't do anything as she was in wheelchair because of her motorcycle crash.

Jared Plays Ball

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Jared at short stop during the tournament.

Below: Jared warming up before a game at Alpenrose main field.

Jared plays for the Mariners this year. They played in a tournament to

start off the year and won the championship for there division.

Their record so far is:

10 wins

2 losses

1 tie

Kara's 11th birthday - mini golf

2009-04-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

Kara is growing up so fast. We took her to the Family fun center for her birthday.

Kara had 1 hole in one and 2 or three other almost holes in one.

Kelsie's Parent Day

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Kelsie follows along during a reading circle demonstration at Parent day.

Kelsie is in the first grade. Her teacher is Mrs. Dean. Kelsie

is doing very well in school. Her last report card was all A's!!!

Kelsie sings with all her might, for those who have not heard her, she has a

very strong clear sound.

The Girls in their Mexico dresses

2009-03-30T10:48:00.000-07:00

Grandpa returned from the Mexico missions trip this week with gifts for the kids. They wore their new dresses to church last night. The girls love to spin in these dresses.

Pictures of Keslie's 7th Birthday

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Has it really been 2 months

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For any of you trying to keep up on the Jaquith family goingons I am very sorry it's been so long. Were has the time gone. I will try to get you caught up.

Jared: This year Jared had to try out to see if he would be able to play for AAA baseball or stay at the level he played at last year. Were glad to report that he made the cut and was drafted by the coach he really wanted. His first practice is on the 30th.

Diana: I too will be playing for the Sandlot Sluggers again this year (no try outs- they take anyone) Our first practice is on the 31st, can't wait!

Kerry: Kerry has been keeping busy enough with the tax season. I think it's been a good 2nd year.

Kelsie: Today Kelsie is 7 years old, can you believe it??? (I'll get pictures tonight and post them)

Kara and Katie see below

Kara gets the world history award

2009-03-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

Kara was very suprised to find out that she had won 3rd place for the NWACS World History award. Kara loves history! She was given the award during Chapel and had no idea she had won. You should have heard the intake of breath and seen the look of excitment when Grandpa said, "3rd place for world history, Kara Jaquith"

Katie's most recent photos age 4

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Katie - 4yrs

Jared has his first recital

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We thought the loose curl falling in the middle of his forehead was the sign of a true musician, What do you think?

Jared has been taking piano lessons since Sept. and just had his first recital. He played a duet (jingle Bells) and in a trio( joy to the world). I thought he did very well considering the difficulty involved in playing with others. His recital was at a retirement home near our house.

Crossbows and Catapults - Battleground

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Father and son playing on Christmas day in Grandma's kitchen!

Sweet exchange

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I only put this picture in because I thought there should be one of the Mommy and it was the only one taken.

Katie gives Daddy a kiss and says thank you for her present.

Katie and Kelsie try out Kelsie's bear rug.

Jared just gave Katie her present from him (crocs) and Jared just opened the one from Kara (a Dallas Cowboys toothbrush).

Christmas Eve Service

2009-01-13T09:26:00.000-08:00

This year Kara was a candle lighter for the Christmas Eve service at church. She was very excited about it. She was able to do it with her friend Hannah. They both looked so sweet. One other Christmas event that took place was the Cantata but unfortunately I was not able to get any pictures of Kara and Jared who sang in the small children's choir as part of the Cantata.

Summerlake, but where is the lake?

2008-12-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

For several days we've been driving by Summerlake looking at the progression of snow, to more snow, to ice and to snow again - it has been very pretty. Every time we've driven by it has been to dark to get a good picture so today I made sure to get over there while it was still light out, so here it is.

Our snow fort

2008-12-22T23:47:00.001-08:00

This is the entrance to the fort.

In the back ground of this picture I am carrying a piece of ice with snow piled on it that I broke off the picnic tables, these pieces were great for topping off the fort or making the look outs.

Here is a look out at the back of the fort.

For several hours today the kids, Kerry and I built a snow fort. Katie was very diligent in finding chunks of ice to use as filler and support in our snow blocks. Snow block were made by everyone except Kara who didn't have any dry gloves at the time. We were amazed at the amount of snow we used yet the ground all around it was still covered in snow.

a little of the damage

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Key bank suffered sign damage from the snow that slide down the roof. We also saw trees down across the road but I didn't get a picture of that.

More snow!!

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Well, yet again this morning brought tons more snow. Today we had to put our chains on. It wasn't really slick and our van has done very well in the snow and ice but there are very deep ruts on some of the roads because of the amount of snow on them. Today (before we put the chains) on we tried changing lanes so we could turn but our back wheels stayed in their rut and the front wheels didn't so we went side ways down Scholls Ferry for a few feet. The kids thought it was fun until they found out Daddy didn't do it on purpose. After that we found an out door car wash to chain up.

This isn't the most beautiful picture but I thought it would give you an Idea of how much snow has accumulated.

This is a picture of Kelsie standing on the playground at Church. The snow is almost up to her knees. It is hard to measure the amount of snow fall because of the layer of ice that formed over the already 8". For those who know the church playground well, I was walking through it and stepped down on something hard, not remembering what was there I cleared the snow away and it was the balance beam buried in 2-3" of snow.

OOH LA LA that's pretty (My scenic pictures)

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This is looking down our side walk, it's starting to get difficult to see were the side walk ends and the road begins.

I can't get over how beautiful everything looks. The snow, the ice, it really is breath taking.

Our walk in the snow

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Daddy had to help and carry Katie on the way home, I love this picture!

Kara points out the ice cycles at McDonald's.

I really liked this picture of Kelsie that Kerry took. If you click on this picture for a close up you can see the ice that has formed on the branches.

It was very slow going. Katie had some trouble walking in spots not already broken through, while Kelsie had fun pretending to fall every few steps.

Jared stayed the night at Grandma and Grandpa Jaquith's (in case your wondering were he is.)

Day 8 of cold and snow

2008-12-22T00:42:00.000-08:00

Last night we had freezing rain fall leaving 1/2" of ice on top of our 8" of snow from yesterday which resulted in church being cancelled for the 2nd Sunday in a row. Here are some pictures of Kerry scraping the ice off of the car. We now need new wipers.

Notice, no gloves.

Kara and Jared had fun breaking the pieces of ice off of the top of the snow. Look at how well Jared can balance ice on his head.

That piece is almost as big as Kelsie!

My favorite picture of the night!

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Jared was in charge of picking up all the wrapping papper.

"Mixer" Christmas

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We spent the evening at my Mom and Dads last night exchanging gifts for Christmas. The kids had alot of fun with their cousins. Katie stuck to Stephanie like glue, it was very sweet. We ate, exchanged gifts, and played a game. It was a great evening.

My Sisters and ME

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My sisters (Karen, me and Elaina) and I have a fun time just being goofy.

Kerry puts up the Christmas lights- brr-brr cold!

2008-12-14T22:13:00.000-08:00

The kids have been begging us to put up the Christmas lights but because Kerry and I both have been getting over colds we thought we might skip it this year. After much persuasion though, Kerry decided to put them up today while it was snowing. He was cold. He didn't put them all up but it was enough to make the kids happy. It does look really pretty in the snow!

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow

2008-12-14T21:52:00.000-08:00

This morning when I woke up I expected to see tons of snow, well not really, but it was in the forecast. Well when I woke up it wasn't snowing (no surprise)but about 1/2 an hour later it started to snow and before we knew it the roads were white. We then proceeded to church, I have to be there at 8:45am for choir. Well it was then, that we found out services were cancelled for the day.. The kids had lots of fun and stayed out for several hours. Katie even had fun, I wasn't sure about her at first but once she woke up she enjoyed it (although she didn't stay out as long as the other kids.) It ended up snowing steadily until late afternoon.

Decorating our Christmas tree

2008-12-06T23:07:00.000-08:00

The kids have lots of fun decorating the tree every year. It was Kelsie's turn to put the angel on top of the tree. They get to see the ornaments they've made in years past and special ornaments that were bought especifically for them. Every year we've bought one for each of them although this year I think we need to start buy just a family ornament because we now have so many . I should have taken a picture of the finished product, it really looks beautiful. I'll probably dress them up and get a picture of them in front of the tree, all in their Sunday best and you can see it then.

Katie gets mud on her shoe

2008-12-06T22:59:00.000-08:00

As you can see from these pictures Katie was not happy at all about getting mud on her shoes during our Christmas tree outing, the weather was very nice but we did get a few inches of mud stuck to the bottom of our shoes. Katie did eventually get over the initial shock of dirty feet and had a good time anyway.

Getting our Christmas tree (Grandma and grandpa's too)

2008-12-06T22:53:00.000-08:00

Today we also went and cut down our Christmas tree. We picked out a Grand and Kara pick a Douglas fir for Grandma and Grandpa Jaquith. Every year we go out and cut a tree for us and one for the grandparents. It's lots of fun. The weather was very nice this year.

Katie - don't let the costume fool you! Hee Hee

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This morning the kids had their rehearsal for the Christmas Program. I never get tired of seeing the kids all dressed up in their cute little costumes. Katie surprised me and did very well during the rehearsal so hopefully tomorrow during the real thing she will be in good spirits. As you can see Katie in an angel and she is very excited about it, all my little girls love dressing up like angels.

Kerry's new office

2008-12-01T16:56:00.000-08:00

Kerry recently moved his office out of the home and into a office building. It is still a work in progress but were getting there. The space has two rooms. One of the rooms is a smaller reception area (pictures 1 and 2) and the other room is much larger (pictures 3 and 4) in which Kerry has his desk, files, refrigerator, shelves and other such office furniture. The larger space is still needing a conference table, were he can met with the clients. I personally have had fun picking out paint color, pictures, furniture and the plant (of course Kerry helped.) This has also created more space in our home so that has been great too.

A Family Favorite - Board Games

2008-11-30T21:01:00.000-08:00

The Jaquith family LOVE games!! Everyone here is playing Niagara, I believe Katie won this game. The kids favorite has been Carcassonne. Kara, Jared and Kelsie have all won a few times (Katie usally keeps score - when she does play she likes to help everybody else.) We recently had a family over from church and introduced "our type" of games to them. That was lots of fun.

Kara's Bible study for Girls only!!

2008-11-24T15:23:00.000-08:00

Kara started a bible study on Sunday's before the evening service. They have been meeting for three weeks now. The group has been studying the book of Ruth. They also have Bible drill, snacks and are planning a Christmas party. Last night I poked my head in and took a couple of pictures. All the girls seem to be really enjoying it.

The Kids all Dressed up for the Banquet

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Annual Stewardship Banquet

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This years fall banquet skit was "Steward on the Roof." Kara took some pictures for us because Kerry and I (Diana) were both in the skit. It was tons of fun. Kerry is the Rabbi (in case you didn't recognize him.)

Jared's Birthday Party

2008-11-11T21:57:00.001-08:00

Jared had 7 friends over to play football. 2 ended up with bloody noses and a fat lip when they tackled him.

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Lord, we will trust in Thee

O Lord let me see,
What thou hath planned for me,
When Obama has won,
What is to be done?
Have mercy on us.
We will trust in Thee
For what you have ready
To make us steady.
We will trust in Thee.
In the past
People would fast
And pray for you to bring to past,
But we will not fuss
For what you have planned for us,
Though we may doubt,
It will come about,
That we will trust in Thee,
For I see
What you have ready for me
Lord, we will trust in Thee.

By KARA JAQUITH

Jared Football

2008-11-01T18:48:00.000-07:00

Jared played football this year. He played for the Southridge 3/4 Red team mostly as a Wide Receiver and Defensive End. His coach said he needs to play quarterback next year since he has an awesome arm.

Class field trip to the pumpkin patch

2008-10-24T18:58:00.000-07:00

Kelsie's 1st grade class went to the pumpkin patch. She learned about the different types of pumpkins and what you can do with them. She also went on a hay ride to see the farm plus went on the hay maze and corn maze. Then she got to pick out a pumpkin.

Vacation at Great Wolf Lodge

2008-06-05T23:29:00.000-07:00

We got out of town for 2 days to the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, WA just north of Centralia. With an indoor water park the kids had great fun.

2008-02-01T19:10:00.000-08:00

My field trip to the Oregon Trail was very fun. First of all we went to the exhibits of things used on the Oregon trail. Then we went to a demonstration of what they used and how they used it. There was a movie about people in the Oregon trail. We had fun dressing up as pioneer women and grind corn into meal. We saw the toys and books that the children used. Then we finished with shopping at the gift store were a bought a rabbit fur, a stone shaped like a arrow head plus fools gold and a buffalo tooth. This text was entered by Kara!