Five Generation Pictures (Twice)

We spent a few days visiting my extended family in Pueblo, Colorado while we were there on our family vacation. We had a great time introducing Emma Lea to her two great-great grandmothers. Here are our new five generation pictures:

Hazel Cannon, Jerry Wade, Tammi Hitt, Jami Cone, Madison and Emma Lea Cone.


And the other side of the family:

Naomi Carlene Boyce, Bonnie Boyce-Wilson, Tammi Hitt, Jami Cone, and Madison and Emma Lea Cone


Mimi and her girls

Mommy and Madi


Mommy and Emma

My two girls.

We had a great visit and enjoyed our time with everyone while we were there. Love you all!

Fun Valley 2010

We spent the first full week in July at Fun Valley Resort in South Fork, Colorado with Brandon's family from Texas. It was a great week of visiting, fishing, and relaxing by the Rio Grand River. Here are some pictures from our trip. (Amber, I still need the pictures from the Great Sand Dunes).
















We had a great time and already have reservations for next summer.

3, 8, and 16 Months Old

Well since I last posted, all three Cone babies hit another milestone.

Madison is now 16 months old and is full of energy. She loves to give her "cheeser" face to anyone who askes, especially if they have a camera. She is talking more now, we have even heard a few sentences.

Aiden is 8 months old. He is army crawling everywhere and is trying to keep up with his cousin Madison. He is also very interested in his little cousin Emma. He is a very happy baby and is loving being able to move on his own.

Emma Lea is already 3 months old. She is growing like a weed and getting bigger every day. She is working on learning to roll over, and has already accomplished the tummy to back roll several times.

Here are some pictures of the three babies in action:

Madi loves to give hugs, and Aiden is learning this trick too. Yesterday, he was "kissing"Emma, but it looked more like he was trying to eat her head. :)


I tried to get a picture of my girls together while they were dressed alike. Here are my attempts...





I guess a 16 month old just doesn't want to sit still. :)

Madison usually gets to share her bath with someone. Some nights it is Aiden, and other nights it is Emma. Here is their first bath together.

Madison decided to wash her baby sister...it was precious.

Emma is still an awesome baby. Here she is asleep under her floor gym after she played herself to sleep.

She loves her floor gym and will lay under it forever talking and playing with the toys.

If our lives weren't crazy enough as it is, we adopted a barn cat and her five kittens. They are ready to go to their new homes, as soon as we find homes, but it has been fun to have them in our bathroom. Anyone need a kitten? They are sure cute.

Our Flood

On June 22nd, we had a small flash flood in Gillette. We got a lot of rain all at once and it formed a river in our back yard...right through the pole barn Brandon is in the process of building.




Brandon was quite frustrated when he had to re-do all of the dirt work since the storm washed away a lot of the sand he hauled in. Bummer.

By the way...no new progress to report on the pole barn. Hopefully we can get it finished by the time school starts...but I am not holding my breath. :)

Ready to go

Well I promised myself that I would post again before we leave on our camping trip. However, I don't have any new pictures to add...so here is the promise of lots of pictures when we return from our 10 day trip to southern Colorado.

By the way, I am amazed at how much stuff we are taking for our 10 day adventure...and how much stuff we have for these girls. :)

Our packing list includes: clothes for each girl (both warm weather and cold weather as we will be camping in the mountains so that is a grand total of 24 outfits each plus pajamas, socks, and shoes)...blankets (swaddling, receiving, warm and cool)...swim wear...towels, washcloths, bathing supplies...travel swing, floor gym, bouncy chair...two pack-n-plays, sheets, blankets...diapers (and when I say diapers I mean two boxes worth)...books, toys, dolly, blankey...snacks...and that is just for the girls!

I am hopeful that the girls will be great travelers. I am a little nervous about Emma, she doesn't really like the car seat, especially if she is hungry or wet. Hopefully she can manage to go a couple of hours in between each stop. Otherwise our 10 hour trip will be more like 12-14 hours...maybe we should have gone half way today.

We are sure excited to see all of Brandon's extended family for a week of camping in the mountains, and then a few days of visiting my side of the family. It will be great to get to introduce Emma to her family and show off how much Madi has changed in a year. Well I suppose I should be working on last minute details, I promise to post lots of pictures from our trip when we return.