It's been a whole year since I updated this blog...wow! And what a year again!! We just found out we are expecting a little girl this August. I will be going part time next month and starting my maternity leave much earlier, so maybe I can get to this more than annually.
After a very long wait, Eryn was finally able to meet her little brother when we brought him home from the NICU. I seemed to take a little while for her to completely warm up (and me to relax) but now she is my big helper. She claims she can't give him enough kisses.
One of my favorite pictures Eryn drew for Montana to decorate his bassinette in the hospital.
There is so much to cover that has happened since my last post, I'm afraid it is impossible to update everything. So I will start with the last event, Montana David Brown making his appearance almost 4 weeks early. After a month of trying to slow contractions and even spending the night in the hospital with the flu, I finally lost the battle and he was born March 24 at 1238 weighing 7 ibs 5 oz.
He had to spend a total of 10 days in the NICU because of fluid on the lungs and underdevelopment. His first day he needed more support and was on a CPAP machine, but eventually was weaned down to just a little whiff of oxygen in his nose. Montana decided to take his own sweet time recovering and the doctors finally decided to let us bring him home on oxygen, which he needed for another 10 days.
He is now 5 weeks old and doing fantastic! He has gained a pound over his birth weight, and judging by the way his cheeks are filling out I'm sure that isn't all. The doctors couldn't be happier and I am finally starting to relax. 
This was the first time I was allowed to hold him. It was so hard to be a mommy and a nurse, watching him as he was hooked up to all those machines. 
We headed up to Glacier National Park for some honeymoon hiking. It was amazing up there, some of the prettiest scenery I have ever seen! We can't wait to head back up next year for our anniversary.
The Ptarmigan Tunnel hike ended in exactly that, a long tunnel through the top of the mountain to the other side.
If only we had brought our fishing rods, this little lake was jumping!
The Many Glaciers Hotel, we plan on staying here next year.
Sunset from the deck of the hotel.
Sharing the trail with some mountains goats.
We have been happily married for 6 weeks now and I haven't seemed to find any time to write about the best day of my life (don't even ask about the thank you cards!) Eryn asked me the other day why the best days are the ones that end the fastest and I wished I had a good answer for her. 
As the big day approached, a mountain storm advisory was issued for our area and temperatures began to drop. We started to wonder if we would be drenched or frozen. But we woke up to a beautiful, clear and sunny morning that Saturday. A beautiful, clear, sunny and freezing morning. Temperatures were a balmy 43 as we exchanged vows in front of our friends and family (some wrapped in sleeping bags and blankets). It meant so much to both of us to look out and know that everyone sitting there in that meadow was someone that had touched our lives, someone that we loved. And most of those people had come long distances and taken time from their lives. We had friends from Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Wisconsin and even Germany drive up that long dirt road!
