Thanksgiving

I have been SO incredibly bad about blogging these last several months. I really want to stay up to date with everything, but lets face it with a baby days away that's probably not gonna happen easily now. So I will pick up where I left off in the fall. For Thanksgiving this past year we went to Houston to spend it with my brother and his family. Most of us were there so it was great to see and spend time with most of the brothers and the kids could have time with the cousins. Amy did an amazing job as usual and took on a really big crowd. A very big thank you for hosting and everything you did to make it a wonderful thanksgiving. We spent plenty of time eating, playing outside, going to the park, doing some black Friday shopping of course, and laughing one of my favorite things to do while we are all together. Unfortunately the day after turkey day, Connor started  just about all of us off with a nice stomach bug. Nothing like kicking of the Christmas season with the pukes;{ It became quite comical when Austin and Cole came down with it as well about an hour later.  We were all quarantined to our rooms. By the time we all got home most of the adults were feeling it too. Fortunately that was the last day of the trip. not a fun way to spend it though. Aside from the pukes going down it was a blast and we had so much fun spending time together! Thanks again to Eric and Amy for being such awesome hosts!

                                                Of course we had time on the I pad for games.

                           Yeah we made a big mess of toys and games in the living room!

                                A little fun riding the power wheel. look out toddler driving!

                  Eric had a rocket to shoot off while we were their, Yeah it didn't work so well.

                                              Gerret and Eric having fun on the tire swing.

      Once everyone got down to Houston we decided it was a good time to announce the Gender of Baby Montgomery number 2. We are having a Girl!!!  We are super excited;} Bring on the bows, dolls and tea sets!

Pumpkin patch

October wouldn't be complete without going to a pumpkin patch! I love the fall and being outside with all the leaving changing colors, and the cool crisp air. Its just a fun busy time of year. We took Connor to the big orange pumpkin farm out in Selina. They have a great selection of pumpkins along with a hay ride, petting zoo, hay maze and a barrel ride! He loved it all and we enjoyed some family time spent there.

                                                       He loved picking out his pumpkin

                                                              This boy is getting tall!

                                                                 Enjoying the hay ride

                                                       My too favorite people in the world!

Expanding!

We announced a while ago, but I wanted to put it on the blog as well!! We are expanding the Montgomery clan come this April. We are all really excited. Connor doesn't quite understand, but when you ask him where is the baby he points to my tummy. I know it will be a even bigger awakening for him once he or she gets here.  I am 17 weeks now and starting to feel human again. morning sickness really kicked my butt this time around. Zofran became my friend so that I could function, take care of Connor and still work.  We will find out in just a few more weeks right before thanksgiving if its a he or she. Either way it will fun for Connor to have a brother to wrestle with or a sister to be the big brother too! We will keep you posted on the announcement to come soon!      

Texas State fair

We have lived in Texas now for five years and we haven't ventured to the state fair since we moved here. We heard over and over again how you have to go just once and see how great it is, so we decided to give it a a shot a go this past October. They only have it for three weeks so basically anytime you go will be insanely busy. We went on a Wednesday and it wasn't bad, I was expecting much worse. We got in super cheap too! If you donate a few cans of food then you get in for three bucks instead of the normal 17. Anything to save money I am totally for! we had a  few corn dogs, some funnel cake, Connor went on a few rides, checked out the petting zoo, Connor got to be a farmer go threw this cute maze and do some shopping for his farm and ride a tractor. Then we walked around and enjoyed all the people watching which is one of my favorite things to do in a fair setting;) We had a great time. I wouldn't say we would go back every year, but I am glad we tried it and experienced it, the fair its self was pretty big and they did offer a ton of family things to do which was very nice! We had a great first experience at the fair!

                                                      Big Tex is giant and super creepy

                                                                  Feeding the goats

                                                      he loved riding the mini tractors!

                                       to end the day he got to draw on a pumpkin he picked!

3 Years Old

Connor turned Three years old in October! My has time flown by, I remember the day he was born like it was yesterday. He is such a fun energetic happy boy, we are so lucky and thankful to have him in our family! He loves all cars, trains and especially planes. It's fun to watch him focus in on his toy planes and try and understand how they work and what makes them fly. He is starting to ask questions and really thinking about his little world and what makes it so. along with repeating everything little thing we say. Time to be extra careful on all the stuff we say now;) Happy birthday Connor we love you So very much!

For his birthday we had his cousin Ethan and Ella over and two of his buddies Keaton and Nathan out to this kids gymboree called Kid Mania with lots of places to climb and tons of slides, then back to our place for some lunch and cupcakes!

                           he loved opening his bedroom door to the decorations we had on there!

           This was the only good one i could get of them in one spot, before they all took off again.

                                                              Opening presents.

                                                                         cup cakes!  

 Connor and his buddy Keaton are only 6 days apart so we celebrated with Keaton on his big day at a fun bounce house! Keaton and Connor love cars his mom made them both this really cute shirt to wear on there birthdays!

                                                               cute birthday boys!

                                                 Loving all the time he had on the slides.

PreSchool

Connor started Preschool this year. We were both excited for this one;) Its a in home Preschool with a girl that I knew from the Frisco 1 ward, Bright Young Minds. He goes two days a week for three hours! Its so nice because it allows me to do some of my clients during those hours in the day.It was a really rough start he did great the first two weeks then for the last five weeks he was having a really hard time. He would instigate some bad behavior or hit and kick the other poor kids and just not want anything to do with anyone. I was really worried as to what to do but, we just kept at it and trying different things that would hopefully help get him to realize that not good behavior. I think he just needed some time to adjust to a new person telling him how its gonna be and getting used to her way of doing things. Thankfully for now he is loving it again and enjoying his time with Mrs. Kristen and all the fun things they get do!

                                         First day of Preschool! He was so excited to go;)
                                                     Gosh he is getting so dang big.

Peaches

loves summer time, its one of my favorite times during the year! This summer was the first time we went peach picking here in Texas. So glad we went, one of Gerrets Co works  Victor and Antonella invited us to go with there family and we jumped on the opportunity. It was a hot day but we were ready for some good peach picking. Went about a hour North to Red River Peach Orchard. they had so many peaches since they didn't start growing till later in the summer. tons of the trees split in half because of the weight from all the peaches that were exploding all over the place.

                                                    Connor ready for some peach picking

                            the tree were so heavy with peaches the branches just gave out

                                                        trying to get the best ones!

                                     Connor was very happy to carry around his peach bucket.

                                     They had the most delicious peach soft serve. OMG it was good

                                                  Running around playing a little soccer

                                                         Enjoying some lemonade with Mateo

                     Since we had so many peaches it was only right to make peach cobbler!!!

            Thanks Victor and Antonella for inviting us we will definitely be doing this again!!