She's Sitting!

My baby is growing up. Leah is just barely 5 months old and she has already been sitting for a week. Now she is getting up on her hands and knees and trying to crawl. She is so young for this. Brycen didn't sit up until after 6 months and he didn't crawl until 8 months. She is growing up way too fast and it makes me so sad. But it is fun to watch her grow and develop. She is so much fun.

Rough Week

This past week has been rough. Last Friday, my mom had surgery to remove one of her kidneys. The doctors had been monitoring a small tumor on her kidney for about a year and a few weeks ago, at her most recent MRI, they noticed the tumor was changing. So they decided to remove it so they could do a biopsy. On Wednesday, we got the news that the tumor was cancer. Luckily, they caught it very early and they were able to remove all the cancer during the surgery. The odds are very low that the cancer will return so we are cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine. My mom is healing well and everything is going fine so far but it is still very scary to know that your mom has cancer. We are so thankful that the cancer was caught early and we will continue to pray for her to have good health for many years to come.

Trip to Prescott

This past weekend we went to Prescott to visit Jeff's parents. His grandma and two aunts were visiting from Utah and California so we went up to visit along with Jeff's brother and his family from Chandler. It was a full house. It was fun to see Jeff's grandma because we hadn't seen her since Brycen's blessing and she got to meet Leah. This was probably the last time she would be able to travel because she is getting older and her health is declining. The weather was perfect. Every afternoon a storm would roll in and cool everything down about 20 degrees. We had fun sitting on the deck and playing cards and letting the kids play in the grass. It was a nice little vacation.

Brycen & Leah snuggling with Daddy.

Playing in the grass.

Some of the grandkids with great grandma.

Brycen, Ashton, Leah, Dami & Ty

They have amazing wood floors that are perfect for a photo shoot.

Pictures

I love pictures. I like to take them of my kids and I like to look at other people's. So I thought I would post some fun pictures from the last few months.

Leah's blessing dress that Grandma Sherri made her.

Brycen loves playing with Uncle Josh. I think it's because they are on the same maturity level. : )

Brycen's 2nd birthday

Leah's first time in her exersaucer. Brycen liked playing with it too.

This train keeps Leah entertained forever.

Brycen and Leah playing in the crib together.

My little thumb sucker. She refuses to take a pacifier. She prefers her thumb.

A few cute ones of Leah.

And finally, this about sums up the relationship between Brycen & Leah. They love to be together

Our Summer

It has been a long time since we last updated this blog. During that time we added Leah Ashlyn to our family on March 25, 2008. She is such a sweet, easy going baby and we love having her in our family.

Brycen turned 2 on July 6. He is energetic and all boy. He loves being a big brother to Leah.

In June my Grandma Hardy died from complications of a stroke she had a year earlier. We miss her and are sad that she is gone but we are happy that she is with my grandpa and no longer suffering.



My brother Camron received his mission call a few weeks ago. He is going to the Boise, Idaho Spanish speaking mission. He leaves Oct. 29 and we are so excited for him.

It Begins

Life at the Hubbs begins on the internet now. Brycen is 14 months old now and growing like a weed. No one knows were he gets these genes from yet. I think it is the UPS mans but we will have to wait for the test. Brycen is a curious boy who likes to get into everything now. He can reach half way back on the counter tops making just about everything accessible to him, so watching him is definately a 24 hour job now. Here is a picture from his last photo shoot. Don't let the picture deceive you it takes several takes before you can find a happy boy during picture time.

We learned last week that we will be adding a brand new sister to Brycen's family, so the Hubbs are very excited. We are expecting our new little one March 29, 2008. With this comes all of the symptoms that are associated with pregnancy. Mom has been plagued by sickness usually lasting through out the day and progressively gets worse as night befalls us. But even with all of that mom is very excited to have her first little girl to be able to primp up and cuddle with.