Sophia Naomi Armstrong

Baby Sophia was born Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:11 a.m. ... a wonderful birthday present for her Mommy! Sophia weighed 6 lb. 14 oz. and measured 19 inches tall. Sophia is spending some time in the NICU due to some breathing and lung difficulties. Doctors aren't sure if this is a result of being born 3.5 weeks early, or if Sophia has some kind of infection. Hopefully she will be better soon and can go home from the hospital with her Mommy. Emily is doing well, and is obviously very anxious to "love on" baby Sophia. Emily is able to hold her 2 times a day, but it is a very difficult process since Sophia is hooked up to so many monitors. Please keep baby Sophia in your prayers, and we'll keep you posted on any progress!

Kit kitridge the Movie is finally here.

Part of Madeline's Birthday present was a ticket to see the movie Kit Kitridge The American Girl. She was so excited and kept asking is today July 2nd for a week. Finally the day came and we went to the first showing. Conner, Brynn , Olivia and Elle came too.

Happy Fourth of July!

We had a really fun fourth of July. We went with all our cousins to the movie Walley, and then went to Pizza Factory. Then we went swimming at our house and did fire works out front. It turned out to be a fun day.All the kids waiting for Mark to do the big show.







Grandma made really cute and yummy sugar cookies.

Bear World here we come

One of the highlights of our trip was Bear World. The kids and adults had so much fun. You can just drive through the park and see lots of wild life and lots of bears. Mark and I also took a ride on top of a bus that let us feed the bears that was so cool to be so close to them. They had a petting zoo and little rides for the kids it was really a lot of funThey had little baby deer that were only a week old in the petting zoo.

Waterfalls!! Waterfalls!!

On the second day in Yellowstone we visited all the cool water falls. They were so spectacular just breathtaking

This was the last bit of snow left in the park. Oh my look at that belly.

Big Springs in Island Park

We went to Big Springs just down the street from were we camped that had these huge fish you could feed. One problem the mesquito's are like nothing you have ever seen before thousands and thousands sworming around. So we sprayed and ran down to see then ran back for safety. ( of course we got a few pictures in the hurry)Mark said I looked like the Una Bomber

What good sports they were trying so hard to smile, but just wanted to run for cover.

Old faithful here we come

We made it to old faithful just in time we didn't have to wait at all. Now that was lucky. We are so glad Marks parents could meet us up there at Yellowstone it was fun to be with them.Olivia and Papa
Here's the gang at Old Faithful.
Maddy and Olivia enjoying the stinky hot pots.
Olivia and I just before it started to down pour.