Here and there

This is Kai and his best buddy Porter. Kai had a mohawk for "Wacky Week" at preschool in honor of Dr. Seuss. This next one is Jett getting his first hair cut at Snip Its. Not too happy as you can see! Afterwards he got a certificate with his picture on it that said he "met all the requirements of a first haircut with courage and bravery." Wellll...not so much. But he looked so cute after! It actually amazes me how much he looks like Jackson in this picture.

This was just a cute moment captured of Daddy reading to his little boys. I am a big stickler about making sure Jett gets read to every nap and bedtime. I read and read and read to my older kids, and sometime I don't feel like Jett gets the same attention being the 4th. So this is one routine I make sure and stick with. He loves it so much and this time Kai jumped in too. Jett's favorite book is a Star Wars book (no prizes guessing who picked that one out...Tom) that talks about spaceships, and Tom makes sound effects for each one. Cherish the moments.

My crazy kiddos using their imaginations...here they have dressed up as pirates...ARG! Yes, Kai is wearing unders on his head in case any of you weren't sure. Big Brother and Sister can be persuasive about what is "cool" I guess!

My new dining table

For Christmas Tom's parents gave us money to go toward a dining set. We got this one at American furniture warehouse. I love it so much. Now our front room/dining room isn't so empty. Thanks Pam and Norm!

More preggy photos

Pregger shots

I have a neighbor friend that invited me to be the "model" for their photography group. I don't see myself as being the most photogenic person in the world, but it was free and I wanted to document this pregnancy, being that it's the last. When I am towards the end and have an even bigger belly, they're going to have me come back with the whole family for another shoot. That will be interesting and fun. Here are some of my favorites.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

That's right, we had our ultrasound, I saw it myself, it is a girl! Kalea will get her sister that she has wanted so badly! For those that didn't know, we took the home test that you can buy at Walgreens, that is supposed to be 90% accurate, and it told us several weeks ago that it was a boy. So we were just expecting to have that confirmed and see all the body parts. But when I saw it I said, "Is it a girl?" And the tech said "It is definitely a girl." I started crying, I was so happy. Kalea did too. I was just fine with having a boy, just so ya'll know, but deep down I wanted a girl so Kalea could have a sister and we could definitely feel good about having our family be complete! Thank you to everyone that "thought pink" for us!

New Year's Party

Kasey was in charge of the New Year's Party this year, so of course it was something creative. He chose to have a decade party, with each family assigned to a decade. I hope it isn't too hard to decide which decade we had...the 80's. Leg warmers were the coolest.My parents, the 60's hippies! My mom even put some orange flower patches all over her pants. It was so cute.
The 70's clan, complete with chops and Farah Fawcett hair-do's.

Here's where it got scary...Kasey's fam was the 90's. He chose to represent the goth statement that became big during that decade, complete with eyeliner, and black nail polish!

Devin was "the future." The mohawk was classic.

Katie had the classic 90's "do" with the bangs and the hair pulled back in the silver clip.

Poor Cody probably couldn't look at his dad.

We had decade-themed music as well as decade facts that we shared all thru the night, along with a pizza taste test. Cheesies Pizza from Elizabeth was the overall favorite. Games, food, laughter, banging pots and pans at midnight, it was a fun night. Happy 2010 everybody!

Christmas Day 2009

We only have these three pictures of Christmas Day, because of course our camera died. We took the rest on the video camera. It was a great day filled with surprises and lots of love! Tom was setting this easel up on Christmas Eve and was getting very frustrated and wanted to bag the whole thing, but I made him stick with it and it turned out to be one of the favorites for all the kids. Kai loves the chipmunks!

Holding up some of their loot. Santa was way too good to us this year! We told the kids they must've been extra good, which they were. They've been angels helping me through the first hard part of my pregnancy.