My sweet baby Curls! I love her and her cute personality that is coming out!
sweet...check! cute...check! melts me and Derek's heart...check! Patient...we're still working on that one!

Wowzers!  It has been a really long time since the last time I blogged.  To all those who die to see my cute baby girl growing... I apologize!

Idaho Trip!

Derek's sister got married the beginning of November which meant Derek and I were able to go to Idaho for it!  What a stinkin' fun trip!  It was so nice.  Derek stayed in NM for about a week working and then flew back right before Haylie got married.  I was able to stay with just my mom and Trev for a whole week!  It was so fun. My mom spoiled me big time with good food, rest, good conversation, and everything else a wonderful mom gives.  She spoiled Carly with so much love and attention.  We felt like royalty!  I got to see all of my siblings and spend some good time with them all.  It was a much needed vacation.







Mason the baby man!  What a great cousin! Curls is looking a little tired from the oodles of attention she got from everyone!

Cousin Gibson feeding Curls her bottle.
Funny Story: Curls would not and I tell you WOULD NOT nurse while we were in Idaho.  It was a struggle every 3 hours.  Actually she wouldn't even eat every three hours.  Once she went 12 hours without eating and that was during the day.  I know... I was freaking out.  Anyway, she just didn't want to nurse so I had to keep pumping and give her a bottle.  When we came back to New Mexico she changed her mind and decided she hated bottles and only wanted to nurse. That silly girl! 



Carly loves Trever and Trever loves Carly.  He would pick her up, talk to her, make her smile, etc.
One day I was upstairs talking to my mom and Carly was sleeping downstairs in our room.  All of a sudden I hear Carly crying and her cry is getting closer and closer to me.  I went to see how that was happening and there Trever was bringing her up the stairs!  Ahhh!  He told me she was crying so he went and got her.  Trever doesn't have the best balance especially going up stairs and Carly wasn't very good at holding herself up yet.  It was one of those things that I laughed about because it was over and they both survived without any trouble.  My mom and I just decided that we would have to keep a closer eye on that!  Haha!  Trever is such a stud!

Just cute, plain cute!



Cousin Claire with Carly!  Look at that cute face!





Camping Trip

Derek and I went camping last weekend with our friends the Bisels and Rhett. We had wanted to go camping and we mentioned to the Bisels and they definitely made it happen. Derek and I aren't the best planners so Aimee and Cole stepped in and helped us plan! It was so much FUN!

Derek had Friday off so we started the day off by going to Roswell to the eye doctor. Roswell is about an hour away from Carlsbad. Yes, we could've gone to a doctor in Carlsbad but one lady we talked to said that the doctor here charges about twice as much and it is usually a two month wait to get in. I was blown away. So we went to Roswell and then headed toward Cloud Croft where we would be camping. When we started driving toward Cloud Croft we were driving in land that was BARREN! As far as the eye could see, there was flat, dry, yellow ground with a few tiny sagebrush here and there. I was thinking to myself... this may be a unique camping experience for us! Well slowly the landscape started shifting and by the time we had driven two hours it looked like we were in the middle of Island Park with the fresh mountain air and all. We set up our tent and started a fire (I started the fire :) ). Cole and Aimee made us tinfoil dinners or hobo dinners and they were so, so good! After eating jalepeno fire cheetos, s'mores, and hobo dinners it was getting dark and we decided to go play a game in our tent. Once the sun went down the wind picked up. It was blowing so, so hard. The sides of our tent were caving in on us while we were trying to play our game and the light was waving back and forth and it was really fun but really hard to play a game. With the light waving back a forth it would have been a lot easier to have a disco dance party. We just didn't have the music or the dancing skills! Eventually our tent ripped and came tumbling down pretty much. :( So Derek, Carly, and I slept in our car, Rhett slept in the Bisels truck, and the Bisels slept in their tent that was obviously a little higher quality than ours seeing that it didn't even look like it was touched by the wind! :)

The next day we replayed our game on a flat table in the nice constant daylight and it was a blast. We ate breakfast consisting of apple juice, bagels and cream cheese, and grapes. MMmmm... Then we went for a walk, sat around the fire, ate lunch, and just did what campers do.... Relaxed! It was so nice. We ended the day by driving to the town Cloud Croft which has a West Yellowstone feel. Everything was closed but we did find a pizza shop that we stopped at and ate dinner before hitting the road again to go home!

Group picture of the Derek, Me, Carly, Aimee, little Finn, Cole, and Rhett.

The boys sleeping on our fallen tent :(

Curlzy and Dad... so cute! Carly loves her dad. She stares at him whenever he's around!

A joint happiness to see each other in the morning. Carly slept eight hours straight! Best night sleep yet!

Rhett with Carly

Carly and Finn. Finn is about 3 1/2 months older than Carly. He is such a stud!

Carly and Finn snoozing away for their mid-day nap! I love Carly's hat!

A random, friendly horse that showed up, stayed for a couple minutes, then ran away!

Rhett giving the horse a hug!

Derek hauled in this huge, funny looking log! Looks like a horn!