Jett's Nursery is done! Now we just need the baby!

Kael Kindergarten Graduation!

Kael is officially done with Kindergarten! His school held a graduation Wed. morning. It was so cute watching Kael sing and to see his excitement and pride in his accomplishment. I'm sure high school graduation will come quicker than we realize.

Graduation 2009

Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa Idaho
MA Curriculum and Instruction

Bee-autiful Yellow Flowers

We live across the street from a field that has the prettiest yellow flowers and of course a lot of bees. Kael wanted to go look at bees and I wanted the picture of him in the field with the flowers. We both got what we wanted.

7 months today! The baby bump!

Spring Break California 09

This last week we drove down to California for Spring Break. The Ogas family was nice enough to open their home to us for like the hundreth time, (Thanks George and Sandy!). We went to California to spend time with family and friends, as well as for Karyn's baby shower at the Farren's house, (Thanks Janine and Kevin!). We also delivered Hailey Ogas' new puppy, Princess, and picked up a car seat and stroller from Craig and Gina Skinner, (Thanks guys!). Our last item of business in CA was to help Karyn's little sister move to Idaho to start work and college. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends who are so generous. We could barely squeeze everything into the car to get home. It was an awesome trip and we miss everyone already!

Baby Jett's Crib

Kael is so excited about his baby brother Jett. Whenever I ask him to help me with something for his brother he jumps at the opportunity to help. For our latest project Kael helped me put Jett's crib together. He helped hold the sides as well as tightening the screws. He is already such a great big brother!

Grandma McGrath's 80th B-day Party!

This last week-end we headed down to Utah for my Grandma McGrath's 80th surprise birthday party. My Grandma was very suprised, she shed tears of happiness and cried out " Oh my gosh" on several occasions. It was wonderful to see and spend time with family we don't get see as often as we would like to.

Jett Ammon Black is Coming in July!

Yesterday, along with Karyn’s sister Mariah, who flew in from Ca, we went to the Dr. to find out the sex of our baby. Its official it’s a boy! We are so excited for Jett Ammon Black to come! We showed Kael the ultra sound and told him that he will have a new baby brother shortly after his b-day, what an awesome present! He squealed with excitement. Now to get ready! We quickly went out and bought a crib and changing table. I spent last night putting together the changing table and we will soon be registering at Baby’s are Us and Target.

News Flash!

Kael has recently been accepted into the most prestigious school of wizards, Hogwarts academy! LOL

Just kidding Mom...Kael loves the new church outfit!

The puppies have arrived!

Cookie Marie gave birth to 2 healthy puppies on January 14th. She had a boy and girl. They are both black and white just like their mom and dad. Mom and pups are doing great, other than Cookie being a little cranky.

Our trip to CA, December 2008!

Halloween with the Givens!

Christopherson's Halloween party!

Our first annual Halloween kids party!

On Thursday, October 30th, we decided to host our first annual kids Halloween party. This party was especially for Kael this year, as we wanted him to be able to celebrate with his little buddies and not have to miss out on the Halloween festivities. It was a fun-filled evening that included games, prizes, YUMMY pizza and snacks, and even a dance competition to our favorite spooky tunes. We will definately be continuing the tradition in the years to come! :D

Below, we've posted pics and a video clip of the dance-off...

Our first annual Halloween kids party!

Kael loves Star Wars!

Kael has become obsessed with Star Wars. Not only does he he enjoy watching the movies and playing with his figurines, and has Star Wars underwear and Under-roos; he also loves to have light saber fights with Darth Vader, aka Dad.

Kael Jon Black Kindergarten picture and new glasses

Too much time on our hands? ;)

Okay...so we recently discovered a new website in which we were able to upload our faces onto a variety of hairstyles from different time periods. Not only did we get a good laugh, but were able to reminisce a little about some of our not so attractive hairstyles of the past. After wasting much time trying on new do's and then giving our friends and family new hairstyles, we decided that we needed to get off the computer and do something productive. Here's a link to the site and some pics we decided to share... careful though, it's addicting!

www.yearbookyourself.com

P.S. Doesn't Josh look a little like Peter Parker in the first one? ;)

Josh's school carnival

Tonight we picked up Kael's "bestest buddy" Ethan and headed off to Josh's school carnival. Excited about his costume, Kael insisted on wearing it to the event. Kael was dressed as Luke Skywalker and Ethan as a skeleton; however, they both turned into vampires after winning a pair of fangs. Among the many games, there was also yummy food, a dunk tank and jumpy houses. The boys both won trays of cupcakes in the cake walk, and ended up with a bunch of candy and other prizes. Karyn also did not leave empty handed, as she won her own tray of cupcakes from the cake walk and a 2-liter bottle of A &W rootbeer from the ring toss game. What a fun evening!