The Official Introduction

So everyone here is our new little baby making it's first appearance to the world. Yesterday I had an ultrasound of the baby and here are one of the pictures ( or the best one at lease). There is only 1 baby, it is about 2 inches long, it's heart beat was 178 and I am officially 12 weeks and 5 days along. And no, we still do not know what the sex is yet. That is later. But here is our little baby Montgomery or more of a side profile of our baby. Enjoy!!!

For Laughs and giggles here is our little princess with her mommy and daddy.

Can you see who she still looks like more?

Laurel Reunion

So there are a bunch of girls I have know for 17 years or so. We all have been in the same classes throughout church and even graduated together and everything. Every couple of years we all try to get together and have a lunch or something. It is so much fun seeing everyone again. Even our old YW leader Sis. Muirhead came to visit us during our lunch to chat. I can not even tell you have much it means to still have these girls in my life. They mean so much to me as they were part of all my childhood and teenage years. So about a month or so ago we all got together when Jennifer ( who lives in California) was in town. All I can say is that it was so much fun to see everyone and we only had about 3 girls missing from our group. Not bad huh. It is hard to believe now that all of us are moms. Where does the time go.

Hat's Off...

So Sydney is going through this trying to dress herself, put anything on and wear a hat phase. It is so funny, mainly because she thinks she looks fabulous ( and of course we think she does). So here are some pictures of her wearing some hats she found around the house.

There is nothing better then pretending to go potty and brush your teeth at the same time

Look at the pretty girl smile

Is there anything better then wearing sunglasses and crocks over your PJ's?

What can I say about this picture... she is such a goof ball

So stylish with the gloves and a everyday outfit... can you say fashion forward?

She is trying to salute our troups while she is wearing my cousin David's old AFA hat

Turning 2 Years old

Yep, you all read that right. Our little girl has officially turned 2 years old on Friday. It was a great weekend, Friday night we had a little celebration with Quinton's family ( Sydney's Aunt Bianca's birthday is also the same day). So it was a great little party, then on Saturday was the big one with all my family and Quinton's and just a few friends. Sydney LOVED IT!!! I mean loved it, it was the most hyper and happy I have ever seen her. She just ran and played with all her cousins and BFF Avery. Needless to say she crashed by the end of the day. She got some great clothes, toys and most importantly baby dolls and a stroller. It was so much fun to have all of our family together in one place. It was a magical day for us all. I still can not believe how much she has grown. Coming into this world at 5 lb 11 oz and is now almost 30 lbs. Wow. She is the love of our lives and we can not wait till she is a big sister, she will be great. We love you Sydney... our little princess.

Here we go again....

Okay, so this is a very exciting post for me today. I have been waiting a while and making sure everything was going okay before I put this up on our blog. What you may be asking.... well I am pregnant again!!! Yeah, we are so excited to be having another baby to our little family. I am currently 11 1/2 weeks along and my due date is April 9, 2010. Only 8-9 more weeks till we find out the sex of the baby!!!

So far everything is going great, besides being super nauseous all the time. We heard the babies heart beat for the first time yesterday and it was magical. I did not want to say anything to anyone until I saw my doctor and I could hear the heart beat. Now that we got that cleared the whole world can know now. Sydney is very excited as well, she thinks she is pregnant with a baby too. She is consistently lifting up her shirt so she can show me her baby in her belly. It is the cutest thing. Sydney and the baby will be about 2 1/2 years apart and we love the spacing between them. We will keep you all posted with all the progress.

And yes, for those people wondering if I already have a baby bump.... just a small one.

Some bad news...

So one of the drawbacks to living so high up in the mountains are the storms. Even though they are so beautiful with all the colors and the lightning everywhere, the lightning can get pretty close. Unfortunately one day I did not get to my computer fast enough to turn it off and BANG... a HUGE lightning strike right next to our house. The result was we lost power for a minute and our computer died. Yes, my sweet computer from college has died. So that is pretty much the main reason on why I have not updated our blog in a couple of weeks. Quinton and I are trying to figure out the cheapest way to fix it. I hate being without the Internet... I feel so out of touch with the world. So this post is coming off of my parents computer.

Everyone is fine and doing well in our little family. Sydney is growing and talking more and more everyday. Her hair is now down to her shoulders and she has beautiful Blonde curls. I love it. She is going to be turning 2 next month, so I will do a big post about that... can you believe our little girl is going to be 2.

On another bad note, my father - in- law got into a terrible car accident a couple of weeks ago in Gunnison. Thank goodness he is still here with us, unfortunately I can not say the same thing for his car. He ended up with 5 fractured vertebrae in his neck, 2 in his back, 9 broken ribs and a collapsed lung. After spending almost 2 weeks in the hospital, he is finally home. YEAH!!! WE have missed him so much and I know we all have been worry sick over him. I would like to say thank you to everyone for all the prayers, love and support. He is doing better and better everyday.

4th of July

So, yet again, I am late posting but better late then never. Our 4Th of July was so much fun ( well in the beginning) we started out going down to the springs to have a breakfast with my parents ward in the morning then heading back up to Woodland Park for an "Old Fashion" 4Th of July as they call it. They were tents, rides, a play ground and fun music. It was so much fun just taking it easy and just walking around. That is until we got hail the size of grapes... yes grapes. Then a huge thunderstorm that lasted the whole evening came. Unfortunately we had no fireworks and we had all of our family crammed into our small apartment for the whole afternoon and evening. Good thing is we were able to go to Symphony above the Clouds the next day and watch fireworks there. It was a rainy 4Th of July but a fun one.

A Child Family Reunion

So again, I post about how I am late about posting stuff. My reasoning are not really good, I just never got around to it. But nether less, here it is. In June my family had a CHILD reunion. The main reason was that my sister and her husband was going to be in Utah for the weekend and since we were going to see her, might as well see everyone else. It was an amazing weekend, I loved seeing my sister again ( it has been 2 years since the last time I saw her), she got to meet Sydney and see the rest of our cousins. We went to a Temple Open House, that in it self was absolutely amazing and beautiful. To be in the Temple with all of my family ( my parents, siblings, Quinton and Sydney) was a unforgettable morning that I will always cherish forever. Then last we met up with the rest of our family and had a huge BBQ at the church. There were so many of us, that we had no where else to go. I loved seeing cousins, aunts and uncles that I have not seen in many years. What a wonderful and cherished time we had together. On Sunday we went to see the Spoken Word, at the end of the broadcast we were tolled that the Prophet was there. I could not believe it, I have never met the prophet or seen him before in person. It was truly a special moment. Then we all went back to my aunts house for an amazing lunch and dinner. On Monday and Tuesday we devoted to spending time with Quinton's side of the family. He has all of his aunts, uncles, cousins, both sets of grandparents that all live in Utah and Wyoming. I was so glad that Sydney got to meet and get to know better her great grandparents. She is the only Great Grand daughter on both side, so it was a lot of fun. To make things even better we got to see Quinton's brother Colter and his new wife Holly. They just moved to Utah and are attending BYU... go Cougars!!! Even though it was only a couple of weeks ago that we saw them. We got to see their apartment which is literally a block away from the Provo Temple.... Amazing. On Tuesday we drove up to Wyoming to spend the day with Quinton's Aunt Karen and her family. They are so sweet and were so good to us. It truly was an amazing weekend full of fun, laughs and most of all love. It was probably the most special seeing my sister since visits are rare and few ( it can be hard when you live all the way in Alabama). Thank you to everyone, we love you all!!!

An Awesome fighter pilot

So a couple of weeks ago my cousin David got to fly down to Colorado Springs for a couple of hours. So naturally my parents and I went to see him and his plane ( which is an A-10 for those who want to know). It was so much fun seeing him again. He is unfortunately going to be deployed soon so this made this visit even better. He is such an amazing guy and even better fighter pilot and we wish him good luck. We are so proud of you David!!!

Durango

So we have a tradition that we do every year with Quinton's family, we go to Durango Co. Rick Quinton's dad is way into cycling and always does a race down there in Durango. WE love it!!!! Rick won both of his races, and we are so proud of him. It was just nice to get away for the weekend to somewhere else. Sydney did great the whole weekend. She really could not be any easier. Well there are tons more that I could say but I will just let you all look at all the pictures. Enjoy!!!

A long overdue hello...

Well hello everyone. It has been a little while since my last post. Here is the reason why, I like to take pictures and because of that I have a lot of pictures on my computer. I had so many pictures on my computer that I really could not do anything but check my email. So to make a long story short, we had to end up buying an external hard drive to put all my pictures on. I had a little over 17,000 pictures that I had to put onto our hard drive. So now that we have a ton more space, I am back.

Well a lot has been going on, on May 2 Quinton's brother got married to the very beautiful Holly. It was a beautiful day and it could not of been more perfect. Tons of family came in. Most have not seen Sydney since she was a very little baby. Needless to say she has change a lot since then. It was a wonderful weekend full of laughs, fun and lots of food. We are so happy for Colter and Holly and know that they will have a beautiful marriage together.