Meet my AZ grandma!

Meet Connie Espinoza my roomie before Bryan and I got married. I lived with Connie from Feb. 07 to Oct. 07 when Bryan and I bought our house in Goodyear. She is one of my best friends here in Arizona and an amazing blessing from God. This picture was taken in her house last October when mom came out during my fall break. I sure miss her.

Mema and Pepa

Ahhhhh. . mom and dad, oh how we miss you! Can you believe you're going to be grandparents? Wow! Mom I can't wait until you and grandma come here in October! We're going to have such an amazing time together I won't want to let you go home! (This picture was taken at Westgate in front of the Jobing.com Arena in March when both mom and dad came to AZ)

Congrats to my friends Michelle and Jeff Swank! They welcomed their first baby boy into the Big Sky Country on Thurday night! Michelle was a bridesmaid of mine and I sure miss her smiling face. We're very excited for you two! Can't wait for our babies to meet one day. Love and miss you!

This picture was taken this summer at Bryan's parents house in Condon, MT. We were enjoying a cool summer night on their deck. Cinde made me sour cream chicken enchiladas for my 26th birthday which was the next day.

BUZZ gets a shower

Isn't he lovely! Stinky doggy gets a shower with dad on Wednesday night. Buzz was so mad that dad put him in the shower but it was worth it!

Now he's squeaky clean!

BUZZ-lightyear!

Finally our last baby! This picture is a couple weeks old but it will do. Buzz is now 11 weeks old, same as the growing baby inside of me! He just got his second set of shots last Sunday and he was a trooper! Go Buzz! He is a great friend to have when Bryan is gone, although he does get me up too early still on the weekends. I thinks he's just preparing me for our baby.

D-Backs game

The same day as our first doctors appointment we took in a baseball game at Chase Field. Bryan's favorite team the Florida Marlins were playing our hometown Diamondbacks. One of the guys Bryan works with and his girl friend joined us. Good times!

Say hello to baby Barthelmess!! He/she is 11 weeks old and 1.25 inches long! Can you believe it! We actually found out on our one year anniversary in July. He/she is due on March 16th, 2009. What a little miracle. Bryan and myself had our first doctor's appointment on Friday. Our hearts melted as we saw for the first time what only God could create. Thank you Lord and Savior for the miracle of Life.

Flagstaff Blessing

Last weekend we were blessed by a couple from the PPC to join them at their home in Flagstaff, AZ. Bryan went golfing with the husband while I enjoyed Mamma Mia! with the wife. What a blessing to get away from the hustle of the city. It certainly reminded us of home. One of my favorite parts was that it rained! Poured rain, so much that the men had to quit golfing(I didn't enjoy the rain couse of that though, it just never happens here).

WANTED: A wild and crazy Barthelmess family!

We finally got our pictures from this summer back(Thanks Darrell)! This was our splurg during vacation. Don't we look dangerously dangerous?!?!

God's country

Here's one last picture from our trip north. This was taken the day after we arrived in Condon, right out the Barthelmess' back door. Isn't it beautiful there. God's country that's for sure! Miss and love you all

One year!

We arrived back in the Valley of the Sun on July 14, 2008, our one year anniversary. Since we had just got home and didn't feel like doing anything we thawed out the top of our wedding cake. HORRIBLE! That's all I can say. I knew we should have eaten it long before that but my traditional husband wouldn't let me. So after two bites each we threw the cake away and went to get Quiznos! Funny I know.

Well I don't have any pictures of my family from our trip but I do have pictures of our new addition.

"BUZZ"

Thanks to my dad encouraging my husband we bought a mini Australian Shepard while we were home.

Buzz was a tiny six weeks old when we got him, now he's almost 10 weeks. He's still in potty training mod but we've almost got him there. He sleeps through the night but only until 4:30-5AM! He hates the heat which really doesn't work here in Arizona.

This picture is the day after we got Buzz.

Montana/Wyoming Vacation

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to blogging, the last few weeks have been very busy.

Bryan and I left for Bozeman, MT on July 3rd. The trip home was amazing. I wish we had more time to spend with our families. It's never enough and this time was it was harder to leave them all.

We arrived in Bozeman on the night of the 4th and attended the rehearsal dinner of Bryan's cousin. This picture was taken on the 5th at the reception. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding, perfect weather unlike our extremely hot wedding the summer before. Cinde, Bryan's mom is on the left, then Bryan, Mike his dad, and then Blair, Bryan's younger sister.

The next day we drove four more hours north to Condon, Montana and stayed two days with Bryan's parents. The boys golfed one day while the girls hit up the local shops. The following day we all went golfing at the Double Arrow.

We left on July 8th and drove eight hours south/west to my hometown in Wyoming.