Piggytails, beds and smiles

Here are some of the highlights of the week:

My neice, who tried out in the beginning of February for a part in Annie that is playing in Tuacahn, got a final callback for last Saturday. They cut the girls from around 300 or more to 18 and we found out on Friday that she made it! For those that don't know of Tuacahn they call it the "Broadway of the West." It is an amazing outdoor ampitheater that does performances throughout the year. Every year they have around 3 plays and Annie is one of them. She and her sister and mom will move to St. George in May until August while she is in the play. I am so excited to have my sister live so close for a few months and to see Keola perform!

We finally got back to school for the kids after surviving weeks of being sick and I think that is where I got pink-eye, yuck! I have had horrible allergies so it was a mixture of both.

Leilani's hair is finally long enough for pigtails. I put them in and the first thing Brady said was, "Mom, she looks like Afton (my neice)." I thought that was funny. I know this isn't a big deal but it sure is fun!

Leilani also had a big week since she no longer sleeps in a crib. Yup, we did it! I can't believe Bryce talked me into it, but we really need to eventually move her into the bottom bunk of Brady's bed and move Carter over, so it is necessary, at some point. She did pretty well the first night but then she learned how to open her door on her own. Crazy!
I have been nervous about naps more then anything. She seems to be doing okay when Brady is napping, so that has been a relief to me. I need naptime to survive!

That is my week in a nutshell. I am putting in pictures of Carter, because he is just so cute and is finally starting to smile. So much fun!

Leilani's piggies! I need a little more practice!

Here she is on her "big girl bed."

Here are pictures of my baby. He looks so dapper in his Sunday best!

Aloha last minute!

Hello all!

It has been awhile and there is so much going on but most recently Bryce, myself and baby Carter went on a last minute trip to Hawaii.

I had an uncle that passed away, well a cousin, everyone is either auntie or uncle over there. Anyway, my sisters, brother, my father and his wife were all going to make the trip back, so last minute, 2 days before we left, we made the decision to go. It was a har decision to make and I keep feeling that financially everything will workout, so I am hoping that it won't bite us in the rear later!

I felt that I would never have this opportunity again to be there with my family, so I got my mom to watch Brady and Leilani and off we went over the Pacific to the land of paradise.

It was a nice break away, but not the most ideal time to go. It is the rainy season and yes, it rains, a lot in the tropics! That didn't stop us and we saw almost all that we wanted to see.

While we were there, my sister, who had been wanting to get married in Hawaii, decided that she would! Yup, we drove all over Honolulu getting a marriage certificate and then the marriage was performed on the bach on Monday, the day they flew home. It was a sweet ceremony and I am glad that we were there for it. It was sad, because my mom was unable to be there, but there will be a big celebration at her house in the early summer.

Okay, enough typing, here are some pics of our trip!

Here we are at Waimea Falls, absolutely beautiful hike and what a reward at the end!

Best friend Jenni, she lives in Laie and it was awesome to see her!

The happy couple, welcome to the family, brotha!

My siblings with our new brotha Howard.

Our little family at the luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Most of the women in the family. It was so good to visit with them.

All of us that went and my Auntie Annie (my grandma's sister, her twin, except she is darker). She is a total sweetheart!

Bryce cliff jumping at Waimea Bay! Wow babe, that is kind of high!

My sisters and I at Waikiki.

Me with Carter, his first time "in the ocean!"

Bryce and I at dinner, don't you love the Hawaiian shirt???

Baby Carter, what a cute baby!

Baby Carter, again, he looks like he is smiling, so cute!

Bryce and I at Hanuma Bay, after a wonderful day of snorkeling. Bryce fell in love with it, he saw 2 turtles (Crush and Squirt?, that is what we told Brady!)

Cute Daddy son picture in their matching shirts!

Chain of Love

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2. What I create will be just for you.

3. It'll be done this year.

4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a song. It may be a self portrait or maybe even some creation I haven't yet dreamed up. I may draw. I may bake you something and mail it to you. It may not be big or impressive. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure! But lets be honest here. This is me and I will likely do something amazing. =) So come on, sign up!

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to post this same blog on their blog and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Let's keep the chain of love going around!!

Missy and more pics

I took some random pictures this week and I got the most adorable one of Leilani, aka Missy Blast-off (Brady's nickname for her). Then of course some more of Carter and all of the kids together.

Life has been crazy with 3, but a lot of fun to see the kids with their new brother. I am hoping to get more sleep as the days and weeks go by. Maybe Carter will be like my previous two and sleep through the night by 2 months? I doubt this, since he is still really little.

Carter is adored by all of the family. They love to be right by him, and smother him. Oh well, he will survive, they all do.

I just love having this sweet new spirit straight from Heavenly Father. What a blessing he is to our family.

Miss Hollywood!

Leilani getting ready to go, somewhere???

Brady and Leilani excited to have their brother home.

Carter all cuddled up, so little!

A closer look at our new little man. Look at that hair!

Carter Dillon Montierth

Happy Birthday Carter! Yes, I know he is a week old, but here is his official post.
Carter was born January 9th. He was scheduled for the 21st but he couldn't wait any longer. After going to the hospital late last Wednesday and then contracting again on Friday the 9th he was born.
Carter weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 21 inches long.
He is a very sweet little baby. I can't tell who he looks like, but my mom swears he looks like my brother Jeremy. Since Jeremy and I are almost twins, then I guess he looks like me? He has really dark hair, until he is in the sun and then it looks blonde.
Welcome to our family. He is loved by all, especially his big brother Brady and big sister Leilani. There is a lot of love for this little guy and we are so excited to have him. It was a lot of fun for me to not know what gender. What a surprise! I love having another boy and can't wait to watch him grow up. Sorry it took so long to post but here they are.

Carter in the nursery before I got to see him!

Bryce and the kids! 3, wow!

Our little family.

Leilani adoring her little brother.

Brady loving his litte brother, he is so excited to have a brother.

Look at that face! He even looks chubby, but he isn't to me anyway.

He has a lot of hair, that is a first for us!

Sweet sleeping baby.

Let's go home!

New pics for work

My last post I talked about trimming our tree down a little, but I didn't have any great pictures of the actual process. My friend Jolene just sent me some she took, so I thought I would share them with all of you.

think Bryce decided to do this on New Year's Eve day, so that I would go into labor on the last day of the year for taxes! Well, he was pretty high, but I have faith in his abilities.

Bryce with the help of our neighbors, Bruce and Justin. Kind of puts it into perspective how high it really is!
Bryce with the saw. Glad I wasn't up there! Good job honey, the tree looks good!

Visitors, Snow?, Work and New Years!

I just downloaded my pictures and I had over 100, only from about a period of 3 weeks! Christmas took up most of them, and I should have blogged but oh well. The time after Christmas has had a lot of activities. Bryce is home until the 5th, so we have been trying to accomplish little things before the baby comes, in 3 weeks! Yeah!

The day after Christmas we were blessed with a family visit from Bryce's brother Richard and his wife Courtney and yes their darling girls, Afton and Madelyn. They arrived in the evening and stayed with us for the night. They were headed to visit Bryce's family in Ogden and due to possible pregnancy complications and a note from my doctor telling me I was not allowed to go farther then an hour from home, we were unable to join them. We had fun for the time they were here. Brady loves Afton and they had quite the slumber party in Brady's bunkbed, playing "Peek-a-boo." Thanks for stopping by, it was so good to see your darling family and good luck with your pregnancy, we shall see which baby will arrive first!

Our visitors, without Madelyn, she was sleeping.

Once Richard and Courtney were on the road, Brady kept asking to go on a walk, since it was a beautiful day and Santa brought him a bike and he had not yet ridden it. So we went on a walk and while we were gone, I suppose the sky opened up just on our front lawn and snowed! Well, some friends had a truck full of snow from Mt. Charleston and decided to bless Brady with it. We had a fun time playing and our neighbor friends, Myra and Myles decided to come play too. It was fun for the kids. Leilani just liked eating it!

Brady, "king of the snow!"

Myra, getting a good shot at Brady!

Brady getting ready to get Myra back!

I thought this was cute, so I had to put it in.

Leilani trying snow.

Leilani enjoying her snow.

On to our work. Bryce has been wanting to cut down the top of our big tree for awhile. We get some good winds during storms and he has been afraid of it coming down. Our neighbors the Hatch's were able to come and help. Once they got up there, there was a lot more rotted out branches then we thought. We don't want to lose the whole tree, since it is the best shade tree, especially during our hot summers.

Brady trying so hard to help!

Brady still helping, with our neighbor Jolene.

Here is our tree, all trimmed up. On the bottom right of the picture, you may notice a bent up fence. One of the huge branches that was trimmed, landed on the fence and will soon be fixed.

And of course, Happy New Year's! I had an adorble video of the kids playing with their poppers and saying "Happy New Year," but for some reason it won't download. I don't have the best luck with videos. We wish you all a wonderful New Year and hope it will be better or as good as the last. May we continue our holiday spirit all year long and focus on the Savior and all that he does for us! We love you and wish you the best.