Montoya Family Portraits 2010

A good friend of mine, Lauren, who I have known since we were 1-2 years old, has just started her own photography business, and agreed to take our family pictures. They turned out so awesome!! :-)

Our Baby Boy is ONE!!!

When Connor was born, I decided that on the 22nd of every month (he was born Jan. 22nd), I was going to take a picture of him with just a diaper, on a black background. That way when he turned one, I could put them all together and see how much he changed...

We were VERY surprised to wake up on his birthday to find that it had snowed that night. This was the first snowfall at our house. Of course Connor was WAY to into the snow to actually look at me while taking his picture, but that's okay :-)

Connor's hair has been getting really really long lately, and I've wanted to cut it, but EVERYONE tells me not to, that it's so cute. Well normally he just looks like he's got bedhead all the time, lol... but I guess his hair cooperated because it was his day, and it looked so cute with his little curl

We decided to go out to breakfast at Denny's for his birthday, which he LOVES doing.

We also went to get Connor's 1st Birthday pictures done, but that didn't go over very well (thank you JC Penny's) so we might be doing his pictures some time this week instead.

That night we had just a little family get together for cake and ice cream.

Connor tried ice cream, which he wasn't too sure about. I think he wasn't very happy about the cold fingers, and just cried that it was on his tray...

On Saturday, we had Connor's Pirate Party. We just invited some close family and friends to celebrate. I had lots of fun making the cupcakes (with the help of Aaron and his mom).

For some weird reason, Connor has decided that he needs to make this face ALL the time. When he's happy, when he's crying... whenever. Not so sure about it, lol...

Connor loves people, and he smiles and everyone... but when there's too many people, he gets a little scared. That with the fact that he's teething right now and a little cranky from that, makes for an uphappy party goer. He was clinging to me, Aaron, or my sister the whole night, and was not smiling at anyone. But... for some reason he LOVED watching my sister and dad play pool (which he's never seen anyone play before) and was busting up laughing every time they took a shot, hence the reason for him looking down in the next few pictures...

Connor LOVED his birthday cake.. eating and playing in it...

We had lots of fun over the weekend, and we can't believe that our baby is already one year old.

My new job

I found a new job. The past few months I've been working at Riley's Farm, but it was a seasonal job, and once December came, I had no job. So I've been trying to find something to bring in money, especially since Aaron lost his job too, and hasn't been able to find anything yet. He's out all the time job hunting and interviewing, so we hope and pray that he can find something soon. I've been doing photography on the side, which is what I want to eventually ONLY be doing, but until then, I found a babysitting job. I was so excited about it, because it's for a 1 year old girl, and they live only about 15-20 minutes from me, AND I get to bring Connor with me. Sadly it's only part time (about 16-20 hours a week), and it's only temporary because they're moving in Hawaii in about 6 months. But at least it's something for a little while :-)

The little girl that I'm watching, Riley, it exactly one month older than Connor, but it's very funny because she's big for her age, and he's small for his age...

Connor has never really been around babies his age, so I was a little worried at how he'd act around her. But surprisingly, they play VERY well together. The first day we were there, she kept walking up to him, kissing and hugging him, and he was looking at her like "what the heck are you doing?" but by the end of the day, he was hugging and kissing her back :-)