Family News

Lynn D. "Jake" Jacobson 1951 ~ 2010 Lynn D. Jacobson, Jr., 58, died at home unexpectedly on Wednesday, August 18, 2010. He was born on October 29, 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Lynn and Jone Jacobson. Lynn married Margo Larson in 1970 and they were blessed with three children, Jenny, Sam and Dan. They divorced in 2006. Lynn married Theresa Enyedi, Sept. 1, 2007; they were separated at the time of his death. Lynn was a lifelong Utes fan, and enjoyed attending U of U football games. He was an entrepreneur and his own boss for 37 years as the owner of an insurance agency and then a medical practice management firm. Lynn is survived by his wife, Theresa; his children, Jenny, Sam (Heidi), Dan (Cassie) and six grandchildren, Karlee, Katie, Kortney, Andrew, Carter and Abby. His parents, and his beloved St. Bernard, Fritz, precede him in death. A viewing will be held for family and friends on Monday, August 30 at Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary, 10055 South State Street, Sandy from 6 to 8 p.m. Interment at Lake Hills Memorial Cemetery, Sandy, Ut.
(above is the obituary, which we could add his sister Terri to, now that we have found her).
We attended that yesterday (the memorial) and today is the service. A lot of people came to the viewing, people he worked with, old friends from alpine and some family. it was very neat that we got to see his sister Terri, i have never met her. there was a falling out like 17 or 13 yrs ago or something, and nobody has seen or heard from her since. so that was nice, she is the only living member of her family, so we are hoping to get to know her. she was really nice, and its sad, she has lived in salt lake the last 5 or 6 yrs, but we didn't know where she was, or how to get ahold of her. Anyways, so its been a little bit of a stressful time around here. i think its hard to andrew too, he had a good relationship with his grandpa, and i read that kids deal with this sort of thing by being overly fussy/whiney when they are little, and that definitely seems to be the case. since yesterday when we explained what was going on as best as we could to a 3 yr old, and since the viewing and all, he's seemed more upset and he just has a shorter fuse than normal (which normally is pretty short, but its worse). so i am looking forward to saying our goodbyes today, and this weekend we will go up to midway for swiss days. i think we are all ready for a little time to relax. cleaning out the house, and taking care of all the affairs has been a big job. I think what I will take from Lynn's life is that he was a great provider for his family, and provided them with a good home and stable environment to grow up in, which allowed dan to become the wonderful man he is. i will always be grateful for the good things his father taught him that helped him become who he is. and i will always be thankful he decided to bring dan into the world;) it has definitely blessed my life. on the other side of things, i will remember what losing the gospel and making poor decisions in life will bring. unhappiness, misery and hopelessness. its a very tragic way to end his life. luckily, our Heavenly Father has a perfect knowledge of his heart, and everything will be according to His will. I just feel very unsettled right now. kind of sick to my stomach. in alaska, it didnt hit me as much because i was so far away from it all. but being at the viewing and the house its sinking in. and it makes me really sad, because i dont know exactly how things will turn out for lynn. but theres nothing i can do about that. he had his agency, as we all do. Well, I'm going to leave now. I hope Lynn finds happiness and peace where he is now.

I told you I'd be Back...

So it really happened, our trip came to an end. 3 wks was great, but there was still so much to do! i didn't make it to the fair, or the carving place, i didnt spend hours working with my mom on heritage makers stuff, we didnt all paint our nails really cool with audreys nail stuff, we only used the hot tub a couple times (i know its shameful!) and we didnt hike Russian River Falls. and i didnt get to go spend any time up in North Pole with  my sisters (but we did see each other at my parents)... but enough of what we didn't get time for, the time we did spend was on great things! like this last trip, on Audreys birthday out of Seward to Prince William Sound, gorgeous, the weather was literally a miracle, almost not a cloud in the sky. which for Seward is like once in a million years. probably almost literally. i have never seen a day like that. the sea's were calm, the fishing was pretty good, no slivers, but lots of ling and black cod. my dad shot a bear, and so did the boats deckhand. so we did have a good time. i need to buckle down and upload pictures i know, its just such a commitment, because i will want to share my best ones. and that is like 200 per trip roughly. our of usually 700 pics. and i haven't figured out how that will work exactly on the blog. but i will do it. i can't do the slideshow, because it wouldn't be in the blog book. and picnic is great but i found i don't LIKE the LITTLE picture collages because it makes the pictures small so you can't see them. i think when the time comes though, i am going to just pay for unlimited storage on my blog, i cant keep getting new ones. so now the question- do i go back to cassieanddan.b or keep this blog? i use the other email most, so i think maybe keep this blog so i dont forget to sign in or something and lose it. but i do want to make a grand ol' book out of it as well. so dan is over at the estate sale for his dads place. i had planned on going to help because its spread out (house, garage ect) but its 10 am and my weary babies are still OUT. andrew went to bed at 6:30 pm last night. incredible. unprecedented. andrew has NEVER slept 15 hours and counting...its good though. its now 10:20, both still sleeping. great news here- ANDREW GOT INTO HEADSTART! i am ecstatic about that. he is SO going to love it. i have been really hoping he would get in because i know how ready he is for that. he is so excited to go get a backpack "with wheels you pull", he saw some in AK before we left, they were for preschoolers i think, had things like thomas the train on them. so he informed me that we need to go do that "before school starts". how did he learn that...? to get things for school before it "starts". and he really wants a watch too...anyways, so thats our new exciting news. andrew boy is headed for school. i told him to say "i feel like a school boy!" and he said it with pride and excitement...haha...well, its almost 10:30 and little man is starting to stir....

its a comin'

all the grandkids my parents have

the girls in the family 

me and my sisters

me and my siblings. L TO R- Audrey, Tom, Maaret, Jenny, Mary and Me. we are in order of appearance (aka age, me being the youngest, audrey the oldest)

family with spouses again

My immediate family and their spouses. we are all married now!

My immediate family. mom and dad on the left.

playing with picnik here

My family. one of my favorite pics. thanks to maaret:)

Andrew. 3 yrs 4 mo

my sweet baby

7 years after we met....and i still love him more everyday. he's amazing.

man i got lucky. i will just leave it at that. i sure got lucky.

what a gorgeous baby

I will add this picture, even though i think i look like the barn door here, but the kids are really cute in it, and so is dan.

sweet siblings

sweet happy baby girl

so i know its been a while since i posted, just wanted to let ya'll know i am alive and well! since my last post we went fishing out of Seward Alaska, in Resurrection Bay and even in the open ocean. it was a great time. gorgeous. absolutely amazing views and good fish! we caught a lot of black cod, which we called seabass. and i caught 2 silver salmon, and we also caught some ling cod (those were HUGE), and a sea anenome (sp? we let him go) and a 20 leg starfish which we also let go back into the ocean. and some orange fish i dont think we kept either. but it was a blast. we went with my dad, uncle dallas, brother tom, uncle stewie, myself and my husband. and we went on my dads friend Travis's boat. he is a guide by trade, so his boat is bigger than my dads, better for open ocean. then we had cooking and people, and the wedding. 19 grandchildren here. thats a LOT of kids. 3 1yr olds, 5 3yr olds, 1 4yr old, 1 5yr old, 1 7yr old, 1 8yr old, 1 9yr old, 2 11yr olds, and dave, who is 13. my aunt cathy, cousin tammy, uncle dallas, uncle stewie, and ALL my siblings and their spouses (and children who i mentioned earlier) were here. also dons mother and sister were here. and of course my parents. what a house full! it was great to see everybody. and for the first time have EVERYBODY together. never before have all my siblings and their spouses been in the same room. or even the same city at the same time. we waited until it was a little too dark to get a picture, but we got some. and thats what counts, even if its not perfect, we got some. i had a blast being a photographer for my sisters wedding, along with maaret and her nikon D90, both of us got some pretty sweet pictures. it was nice having 2 cameras because we thought of different things to take pictures of, so i think everything got covered. yesterday and the day before i was up in a-town (anchorage). we went to the Matsu Valley- and went to a privately owned glacier (the family had homesteaded the land long ago, so the gov cant come in and overtake it, which probably drives the gov. CRAZy.) it was fun to go hike on it, and see it up close. it was a gorgeous valley, i could easily see why that family chose to settle there. we also went to the tallest man made chocolate waterfall (and do i really need to specify that its man made? show me a natural one....) and we saw caribou, oh i mean reindeer;) and a stuffed polar bear, got some trinkets to take home...all in all a fun day. its funny, some of my favorite things i got i got from costco. but just incase ours didnt have the stuff i liked i got it here anyways. andrew is outside playing. he has had a blast with the 4 wheelers, hasn't ridden them that much, but when my dad or someone does take him out, he loves it. my dad said he kept telling him to go faster and faster. wasn't scared at all. abby has been pretty clingy, although shes made friends finally with my parents and people here most of the time. shes terribly concerned if i so much as walk around the corner....today its sunny and gorgeous out. we will probably go to a festival we just heard of in Kenai, so that should be fun. its my dads birthday today. 61. we also had some sad news, dans dad has passed away. well, i will update pictures and things someday. but for now , this shall do. i have soooo many pictures to upload. but at least i've gone thru most of them. edited- No. but gone thru. some of my favorites i have edited. and given more time, i would edit so many more. but anyways, im out! okay, update, yah i couldnt leave you without any pictures, so i added our family pics.

WE MADE IT

okay these first few are out of order...but oh well.

So here we are! we made it to alaska. its been very crazy. 12 kids , (three 1 yr olds, 2 three yr olds, one 4 yr old, and two more 3 yr olds and a baby came today with tom and michelle, with jenny and her 3 kids coming still). wow. its been great being here in alaska. fresh air. green trees, green everything. overcast and raining a lot. jackets and pants. wedding. plans and cooking underway. cousins playing outside in the dirt. babies running around the house . dan coming wed night. excited for that! we flew up on friday, it was a long day. we got to the salt lake airport around 12:30 pm, and got to anchorage about 12 am our time. the flight from slc to denver wasn't bad, the kids enjoyed it and andrew was SOOO thrilled about flying on a big airplane. a lot of the time he pretended he was flying the plane with his little delta airplane my mom got him. the second flight was not so fun. the kids didnt really sleep like i was hoping, andrew didnt sleep AT ALL, and abby only slept a few minutes. i had a pounding headache with nothing to take for it, and little water on the plane. i didnt know i could ask for more water...so when i got off i was just wanting to throw up. i was just glad our trip was over. my dad came to pick us up, and got me some advil and water and even an ice cream. the kids slept really good on the way home to my parents (which was 2 1/2 hrs from anchorage), until we were almost home and then abby woke up with a night terror (she does that when she is OVERLY tired) and she cried even after we got home...it took her quite a while to stop. since we've been here we've seen lots of good friends, my sister gets married saturday and my husband dan gets in on wed night, i might not see him til thurs morning if they decide to stay in anchorage for the night. and thats our news...