He's HERE!!!

Brecken Zachary Camp

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Brecken Zachary Camp was born by scheduled c-section (although I went into labor the night before. They slowed contractions enough to wait until our scheduled c-section time). He arrived at 10:20 AM, Nov. 3, 2010. He weighed 7 lbs 13.8 oz and was 19 inches long. Mommy and baby are doing great. Everything has gone so smoothly from the c-section to recovery and nursing. Taeya appears to love her baby brother and keeps asking if we can bring him home.


We think that Brecken and Taeya look SO much alike as newborns except that Brecken has a head-full of his daddy's dark hair. He looks a lot like his daddy did as a newborn.

Here are two pictures of Phillip as a newborn. What do you think? Does Brecken look a lot like his daddy?

Pumpkin Patch 2010

On October 10, we decided to head to the local pumpkin patch as a family and let Taeya pick out a pumpkin. We usually go with a group of friends when we do our Annual Harvest Party. This would have been our 3^rd year but unfortunately, we’re not throwing a Harvest Party seeing as I’m 8 ½ months pregnant. This was the first year we went where it wasn’t really cold yet and we had a fun time walking around the patch looking for the perfect pumpkin and taking pictures. You can see our family photo from last year in the blog header. What a fun outing it is to go to the pumpkin patch. Although the pumpkins cost a little more than the grocery store pumpkins, it’s a great way to support local farmers and it sure is more fun than picking out a pumpkin at the store. This is a tradition I hope we will continue to do for many more years to come.

More Estes Park Pictures

I got some of the pictures Aunt Kay took in Estes Park. She has a great camera that takes lovely pictures. Enjoy! I love the last one of Taeya.

Estes Park, CO

This past weekend, our little family had the opportunity to drive to Estes Park, CO to visit with Phil's Aunt Kay & Uncle David. Although it was a short trip as we only stayed one night but we had a lovely time visiting with Aunt Kay & Uncle David. One of the reasons they go to Estes Park is to see all the elk that come down from the mountains during the rutting season. It was a little early in the season but we still saw quite a few elk in the 24 hours we were in Estes Park. Here are our pictures from Monday morning. I'll post more from our drive into Rocky Mountain National Park later.

Summer Projects

While Phil is still unemployed, we decided that this was a great time to get some of the house projects done that we've wanted to do since moving in last August.

*Re-do the flagstone patio. Take out the little rocks that get kicked up everywhere and lower the flagstone so the wooden beams show so we can build a railing eventually for safety.

*Plant a veggie and flower garden on the side of the house in the flower beds.

*Plant flowers and plants out front to make the front of the house look nice. As you can see, it's still a work in progress.

*Build a storage loft in the garage so we can park one of the cars in the garage and clean/organize the garage.

I am so proud of my husband and what a great job he did on the loft. I helped a little here and there when needed but he was the mastermind behind the job. Great job for your FIRST EVER construction job!!

Over the past 3 weeks or so, we were able to accomplish all of those projects. We still have a little more to plant in the front of the house but the other projects are done! Now for leveling, tilling, topsoiling and seeding the side-yard. I can't WAIT until we have a nice side-yard of grass for Taeya to play in. I'm also looking forward to not tracking in TONS of dirt every time we go out to water our garden.