Thanks everyone for the congratulations on the baby! I'm at that stage of pregnancy where the morning sickness is kinda going away and there are no other signs of being pregnant so you start worrying that maybe you're not. To comment on some comments on the previous post: Ginger and Brittany, there is no way I'm going to come close to a dozen children. Three sounds pretty good to me. You guys are going to have to pick up some slack with more adorable children of your own. (Ginger, you're excused for a couple of years though) My morning sickness has it's good days and bad days but the thing that is really getting to me is the exhaustion. I forgot how tired you get. When I was pregnant with Blake, in the beginning Jayla was still taking two naps and so I always napped with her which was great. This time whenever I have dozed off on the couch the kids always get into some kind of trouble. Jayla got into the lotion one time and was putting it all over her body and then another time they tried to make muffins. I woke up to them running out of the kitchen with this white powdery stuff all over them. I went to investigate and I found a muffin mix poured into a bowl and then they had been eating it with a spoon. Mind you I probably fell asleep for a max of 10 minutes but they still find ways to get in trouble in that short of a time. I feel like I shouldn't complain though because I knowingly brought this on to myself. It just feels good to be able to share the good and bad moments of pregnancy. My first appointment is coming up soon so then I will have some ultrasound pictures that I will probably proudly post. Yay!

Very Blessed

Some of you might have already heard the news but if not I'm spreading it even more. We are expecting Baby Montero #3 in early March! We are very excited and even though this was a planned one we're also a little nervous. I probably don't realize what I'm getting myself into. We will now be out numbered and I've run out of hands. But I do realize how very blessed we are. I was reading that at 5 weeks the baby is the size of an appleseed. I happened to be cutting an apple for the kids at that time and I just stared at the appleseeds and then to my kids and I was in awe thinking that something that tiny can grow and develop into my beautiful children. It truly is a miracle. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has blessed me with this incredible gift to create and carry a life.

Summer Days

I love this picture of my little guy! I could just eat him up! For the 4th of July we headed to Tremonton and we had a BBQ at the Gledhill's. Diane like always was a great hostess and we ate a ton of food and then afterwards took a little dip in the inflatable pool.

Jayla loves the water and she had a blast!

I love how well my kids play together. It's not always like this but most of the time it is. And I get so entertained just watching them play and interact and laught at each other.

Jayla was so excited to get the fireworks show started. We did our very own show and they loved watching them in the beginning but towards the end they got a little bored. I'm glad that I didn't trudge them all to a big fireworks show with a gazillion people just so they could be bored. Maybe next year will be better for that and their attention span will be a little bit bigger. So last night was perfect.

They thought it was so cool to be able to hold a firework. I can never seem to get many pictures that portray their enthusiasim so you'll just have to take my word for it.

It was a really great day and my kids were exauhsted at the end of it. They didn't even make it to the freeway before they were asleep. Thanks again Diane and Travis for having the shindig at your place. I hope you all had an equally good holiday.

Finally the B-Day Post

So I'm finally getting around to the birthday post. Jayla and Blake had a really great day playing with their cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. We didn't do anything huge and I didn't go all out with the decorations, cake, or presents but it was still a fun time and of course it is when we all get together.

I love this picture! It's very difficult to catch a smile like that from Daniel on camera.

My buddy

The room looked liked it was Christmas. Jayla's favorite gift was probably her Princess Tea Set and second to favorite was her Dora puzzle.

Blake's favorite was probably everything Spiderman and his Curious George book.