Get your tissues...

This song hit home with the passing of my mother-in-law and my best friend, Whitni. Cancer sucks, but I saw how much Jared loved Whitni. He gave up his life to carry her. My heart goes out to everyone else who has gone through the sickness of a loved one or is currently going through this trial. Be there for one another and like Martina sings so beautifully, love each other through it.

Carlsbad Caverns

I had Saturday off, which does not happen very often, so we headed out for an adventure this weekend. Carlsbad is about an hour and a half south of Roswell and the caverns are about 20 miles south of Carlsbad, so we decided to get down there and see what the fuss was about.

Holy Cow! We were amazed the second we walked into the caverns! These caverns are so big, 14 football fields big to be exact, that they put every cave you've been in to shame. Finn, our cute, rambunctious, 2 year old that he is, only let us do a small hike in the "Big Room", but we still had a blast. The $6 to get in was way worth it! If your near Carlsbad, we recommend stopping and enjoying the national park and caverns.

Love this picture of Finn picking his nose and me making a fake grin.

Finn has a hard time being confined in the car, so we were lucky to catch this smile when he was playing with my sunglasses. He's such a good kid, but he's a boy and he's two, so needless to say, he is a handful all the time! Bless those of you out there with a little boy! We know how it feels to be so exhausted from chasing your boy ALL DAY LONG! But we wouldn't have it any other way.

Hi ya'll,
I realized it's been a bit since I posted but life really stinks to put it plainly. For all of you that dislike reading blogs because everyone's life seems better than yours, read this blog, it will make you realize that the grass is not always greener.

One of my best friends is having the worst time fighting a disease that will ultimately take her life and I'm overwhelmed. I don't know what to do for her and I don't know how to handle our day to day conversations. I'm trying to be upbeat, but realistic at the same time. I'm trying to put on a straight face when I want to just scream out in anger, frustration and cry. I'm humbly approaching my Father in Heaven to let me learn and allow to be changed by this earthly experience. This 'experience' is not fun or fair, but c'est la vie.
Love you Whitni, don't give up!

Life as we speak

We are having a good time living in Roswell. It's definitely a change from Utah, but we are getting to know some wonderful people and love the weather! As most of you might think, it does get really warm in the summer, but all the locals tell me it cools down at night unlike Arizona. These pictures were taken of Finn in a dwarf tangerine tree. The tree was so low to the ground it was just his size! We were visiting some friends in Artesia (south of Roswell) for Easter and Finn fell in love with their dog and dwarf tree. I'm glad my friend had her camera, because like usual, we forgot ours.

This is my cute little brother, Garret, on his mission in Auckland, New Zealand. He loves his mission and gets fed dinner four nights a week. They have to limit the missionaries to only four meals a week because the kiwis love to feed the skinny American boys. To say the least, he has gained a little weight, but I think he sweats most of it off. I love this photo because he looks truly happy! I'm so proud of my little brother!

This is Finn's latest portrait photo. It took two sessions to get one photo of him facing forward and smiling. He was so angry during his photo sessions that he was telling the lady to "go away" and was trying to throw a ball at her! You get how energetic and 'full of life' Finn is everyday. My family thinks this looks like a classic 70's picture-plaid shirt, curly hair swept to the side. LOL, this kid cracks me up! But everyone has to have a picture like this of when they were a kid.

UFO Museum

Yep, we visited the UFO museum in Roswell. We thought that since we moved here that we should know about the UFO stuff. The museum wasn't creepy, just fun and informative. There was a lot of history about the "UFO incident" and it was a pretty neutral on the for or against UFO existence. We thought that this coke machine was great. By the way, this old guy is Caleb's dad, Mike.

Odd, but yeah, they had a horse in the museum. I don't know what that has to do with UFO's, but it was covered with the newspaper articles about the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.

We thought this rendition of a UFO would be similar to how my little brother Garret would look if he were an alien. HA HA!

Roswell New Mexico-Land of the Aliens

Dear Friends,
The Montgomery family is officially moving to Roswell, New Mexico! Yeah, I know. Roswell, really? Yes, we are moving to Roswell. My dear friend, Whitni Reese, basically gave me her job down at the local hospital and it's going to work out great. Caleb and I took a trip down to Roswell all last week and we really liked it. Surprisingly, it's a great town. It's about the size of Logan and has everything we need. Yes, it's three hours from any big city, but it has a Walmart and a Target-what else do you need? The hospital is paying to move us down there and giving me a nice signing bonus, so it was hard to say no. Whitni is going to train me my first week which is going to be really great. I will be doing a lot of diabetes education and doing inpatient for the critical care unit. It's a great starting job to give me the clinical experience I need. I'm going to try to get my certified diabetes educator license by next year because of all the diabetes education I'll be doing. I'm just grateful that I was able to get the job and that the Lord is making it all work out. Caleb is going to be the stay at home Daddy for a couple years. He's going to finish his degree online through the University of Phoenix and work part time. He's excited to not work 60 hours a week and actually get some time with Finn and I. We will really miss all of our family and friends, but we're excited for this new adventure. We love you all and are grateful for your support. Best wishes to all of you! We'll be sending updates from the hot and dusty Roswell. One cool fact about Roswell-it has the only UFO shaped McDonald's in the USA. How many towns can say that?! Love you all!!!