New Blog Address

We decided to create a new blog so that I am motivated to blog about our little family more often! The blog is : http://kentfamily2009.blogspot.com

Time sure flys by!!!

We are officially 6 months pregnant today!!! I can't wait to see out little son so soon! We have been slowly getting things bought for when he comes, but it's hard to get things ready when he will only be two months old when we move to California. I don't want to set up a nurser twice!

So far... these are the items that we have bought or received for him. We have more clothes than are shown but these were my favorites!

Graco Travel System. I love that the handle flips from one side to the other!!!

A Jungle Crib Set!!! It was a super great deal at TJMaxx! I just couldn’t resist how cute and cuddly it is!!!

When my Mom was here she brought us two nightgowns that will make changing our little guy in the middle of the night easier along with a matching blanket and burp cloths.

I just couldn’t resist this little elephant sleeper! It was just so little and cute!!! (two of my favorite thing as Jake would say!)

Jake’s Mom made the blanket on the left and my Mom crocheted the blanket on the right.

I bought this fabric to make a blanket with; we’ll see when I get out my sewing machine to work on it!!!

And finally… here is a picture of me and my belly at 6 months (27 weeks)!!!

Our Little Guy!!!

Jake and I went to the doctor yesterday for our ultrasound and found out that we are having a little boy! Everything looks really great! He is in the 52nd percentile and is 14 oz. He was laying with one leg bent and one leg straight and then right after we saw that, we were trying to see his little face he yawned for us! It was precious! He is definitely taking after his Mother, tired and sleeping with one leg bent!

Here is our little guy yawning, we were so glad that she caught this shot and gave us a print out of it!


Here is his profile, he looks like a handsome little guy!

Here is my lovely stomach at 21 weeks!

This is our little boy's first stuffed animal that he got from his Great Aunt's, Great Uncle, and Cousin Dalton! He will love it!

Optometry School Decisions!!!

Jake has been traveling all over the last few weeks to interview at Optometry schools. He went to Provo to meet with someone from Houston and he got accepted there. He then went to Oregon to Pacific University and then to California to SCCO and was accepted to both schools. Where would we end up? Well we finally made a decision!!!We will be moving to California in August to start school at SCCO Fall 2011! We are very excited!

SCCO is located in Fullerton, California. This is about 35 miles outside of LA. It is located by many fun attractions! Including...

The Angles Stadium, it will be fun to see"real" baseball again! I hope they have garlic fries!

We will also be close to many beautiful beaches! It will be nice to actually be able to get some sun most of the year! We won't have to switch clothes from closet to closet as the seasons change like in Rexburg!!!

Disneyland is also super close by! I can't wait to buy a year pass and go whenever I want.

All of these wonderful attractions are within 8 miles of SCCO! We will also have a pool in the apartment complex we will live in! I am super excited! It will be a completely different environment then good old Rexburg, I just can't wait!

We are just so grateful that we know where we will be so far in advance. So many optometry students haven't interviewed yet and we already know where we will be. We have seen the hand of Heavenly Father so much in our lives over the past couple of weeks as we made this decision!

GRADUATION!!!

My long awaited graduation came and went! Going to school for an extra semester was fun, I took fun classes and ended up with a 4.0! April 9th and 10th was graduation. My graduation with the business school was the night of April 9th and convocation with all the graduated was the morning of April 10th.

Jake and I before graduation began!

All of my friends graduated in the fall when I should have. Charlotte (on the left) and I had tons of accounting classes together. Michelle (right) and I met in my Nutrition class this last semester and just happened to both be accounting majors! So we became friends fast.

Grandpa and Grandma Eckersell came!

Grandma Marie and Colette came too!

Here I am walking down the stairs after I received my diploma.

Grandma and Grandpa gave me pearl earrings!

I got a pearl necklace from my Mom and Dad!

Dalton and Halceyn came over for food after the graduation friday night.

Saturday morning it was so sunny!

By the famous Brigham Young University-Idaho sign!

4th of July Celebrations!

It was interesting being on our own for the Fourth of July, we didn't get to light off any fireworks and we didn't have our anual trip out to Boom City on the Tulalip Indian Reservation to bargain to get the most fireworks for your money. Although we didn't do these things we still had an eventful and fun day! It started out when we woke up to a noise of what I thought was the wind blowing our fan faster, but then I looked out the bedroom window and there were hot air balloons super close. The American Flag one landed in the church parking lot accross the street. It was very neat!














Then we continued our advenures with the parade just a block from our house. This parade is crazy, people start camping out the afternoon of the 3rd, they bring couches, TVs, game systems, you name it and someone has it. The parade was fun; there were some amazing floats, but it was quite long for someone who was standing up!

It had rained the night before on all of the people camping out, I thought it was sad but Jake found it quite amusing and thought they were crazy for staying on the street in the first place. It started to rain during the parade and several people decided to make hate out of newspapers like this old lady.

The soccer player was so neat, it made me think of Andrew. I couldn't get a good enough picture of the soccer player, but it still looks kind of cool.

It was also amazing to me, that all of the missionaries in the Provo area were walking with a float from one of the stake's in the area.

The night we went to Jake's Uncle's house for dinner with his family. Daniel and Benjiman are their sons they are so sweet! After dinner we headed to Thanksgiving Point to watch Ice Age 3, it was hilarious! Then we picked a spot, set out our chairs and got ready to watch the firework display. It is so funny that a lot of the fireworks that have to be in a show here are fully legal for us to use in Washington, like fountains for example the ones here shoot maybe 10 inches in the air and the ones we could get in Washington shot up atleast 3 or 4 feet! It was a fun day and we sure enjoyed it!

Engagement Pictures

My mom and I weren't able to get much wedding stuff accomplished because of all the snow that we had up in Washington, but after two weeks we found sometime to get stuff done. We went out last week with Jake and his mom and took pictures at Kyak Point. Luckily we went that day because it rained the rest of the week.

Jake's favorite game: Sack of Potatoes!

I love this one!

I love this one too!