Alex turns 25 - Twilight Style

Ben told me dress up and took me to a surprise location - turned out to be my folks' house that was filled with fog, lights, and when I turned around he had fangs in with a werewolf cake! A Twilight themed party - I was so excited!

Shortly after we arrived friends from all over joined us. What a party it was! Complete with twilight paraphernalia! Thanks to Heather and Dave in their Twilight t-shirts.

Erin and Andrew stayed the night and we had a blast playing games. I couldn't quite figure out how come they stayed, not that I wasn't thrilled. :)

The next morning it all came into focus. Joined by Erik, Janet, and Mitchell we all headed to Forks, WA for camping and geocaching!

My model husband in his "camping attire."

We ended up in La Push, WA no really meaning to us and quite lost, see faces below!

But eventually were able to see the sights!

Bella's truck.

The Swan House - home to Bella and Charlie.

Forks High School where Bella meets Edward.

Then off to the hospital where Dr. Cullen works... see his parking space!

Then to Charlie's workplace - the police department.




Next stop - the Cullen Home where we got to read a note from Esme herself.

Finished the weekend with dinner athe site of Edward and Bella's first date. They were such good sports humoring me all weekend long!

And it truly was a birthday to remember. Thanks Ben-Jamin!

Our First Married Valentines Day!

Ben's gift this year was a giant candy card. It read... "All SNICKERS aside, I know we are a couple of NERDS but HUBBA BUBBA you are one HOT TAMALE. Truly my LIFESAVER, you make my STARBURST! No SOUR PATCHES for us, I SKOR'd big . When PAYDAY rolls around you provide GOOD AND PLENTY. You're a WHOPPER of a man, and EXTRA special SWEETTART. You and the girls are my THREE MUSKETEERS. But it's you who makes me RED HOT. You're no FLING, you are forever. Lovey, Ali

Here Ben presented me with our own domain name. You can now visit our blog by entering http://www.benandalexjacobson.com/ much simpler, and he is so thoughtful!

Then we headed to Spiro's for lunch with my folks. Our plan was to geocache and use our new digital camera to remind ourselves of what we did for our Valentines Day gift to each other.
They truly are best friends, it is such a blessing to spend time with them. My Dad is not feeling to great these days but he was still game to walk the clear creek trail and geocache with us!

On our way into the trail, on the trailhead near the hosptial.

"The birthing center" sign pointed right at the park bench. Alex's Mom Wendy is illustrating our thoughts. HAHA!

The men.

The women.

We were without an actualy GPS device, which makes this much harder, so we were trying to use my dad's cell phone and google maps.

My Dad and I spotted it!

They were disappointed it wasn't them who found it this time!

The cache!

Then off to Global Bean for coffee and cards. We played Phase 10.

It was a great day!
We got this card from Alex's folks. They are so enjoying having a son.

This was Ben's card to Alex. Yes he truly is a cake making fiend.

Beautiful flowers too!

That night we picket up a dessert (mocha flan) and appetizer (goat's chesse and marinara) from Burata Bistro - a new favorite spot. Along with some sushi and then ate around the coffee table, just the two of us. So fun!

What a special first married Valentines Day!

Geocaching Adventures

We love to geocache! Below are some adventures we have had with family. For those of you who have yet to experience geocaching yourself - I explain it has "high tech treasure hunting." You use clues and coordinates (on a GPS device) to find caches that are planted all over the world.


When you find a cache it is usually in some kind of container and you can leave something in it for the next geocachers to find. You can also take something from the cache and move it to another cache.

We like to use travel bugs (again a high tech piece of treasure). We usually leave and take a travel bug when we geocache because then you can enter the travel bugs number online and watch where it travels. Some of ours have traveled the world! We also often leave behind a pink ribbon or breast cancer pin in honor of my Auntie Toni and others who have or are fighting the terrible disease.

Here we are selecting a travel bug to move to another location. This was a fun cache found right in our hometown. Tonie was the one to spot the cache on her first time out!

She was SO excited. Ben is the veteran geocacher, he has been doing it for years with friend Brandon and sister Emily. They like to go at night, especially to cemetaries.

We headed off to find another cache nearby. We were using the car GPS which made it quite a bit harder.

AGAIN, Tonie found the cache. This time it was a micro cache. When they are are micro you just write your name on a slip of paper that is contained in the film cannister or other small container. It's fun to read names (we use a team name) of others who have found it and to see when they found the cache!

We can't wait for more geocaching. Alex's parents just discovered it in the past year and have had so much fun treasure hunting. They have been burying their own treasures for several years now as time capsules that mark their love story. Someday we will get to go unearth them! In the meantime we'll unearth other's treasures!