Precious Delivery!

Emma Katherine Alexander

6 pounds 6 ounces

19 inches

March 30th 2007; 12:57 pm

We had a wonderful delivery team and could not have been more blessed!

Here is the proud Daddy with his little girl!
We were a little tired but soooooooooo happy!

Our first nap!

We get to go home!

We will be trying to put up as many pictures as possible with our new busy life. We love you all and thank you so much for your prayers and support. Even though we are far from home we know that you all are here in our thoughts and prayers. Emma Kate cannot wait to meet all of you!

Matt's exciting day!

I'm sorry that it has taken so long to get a new post up to website. I did want to share some pictures of Matt skydiving with the Golden Knights. The Golden Knights are the Army's demonstration skydiving team. They come to the Yuma Proving Grounds every February to practice and perform tandem jumps. Matt was fortunate enough to get connected with the team and have the opportunity to skydive with some of the best in the world. The individual that Matt jumped with had over 3,000 jumps! I felt that he was very safe and secure. He had an amazing time and would love to do it again.

On another note, our due date is drawing near. We have three weeks left and we are both very excited. Hope all is well with all of you!

Busy February: Part 2

Our next event of February was a wonderful visit from Abbey and Warren (my sister and brother-n-law). They were so kind to spend their vacation coming to see us. We were in Yuma for 3 days and then we headed over to Mammoth Lakes, CA. We had been planning a ski trip before Matt and I got pregnant and so we decided to visit California so that we would be able to drive and see a different part of the country. On our way to Mammoth Lakes we drove through Joshua Tree National Park and saw some interesting trees, cactus, etc. We also drove past Mt. Whitney, which is the highest point in California. We had a GREAT time and Matt, Abbey and Warren were able to have some good skiing. Our second day there we received what seemed like tons of snow which made for some fun skiing. While we were there I got a VERY relaxing massage and was able to sleep as much as I wanted. Below are some pictures from the trip and they don't do justice to the fun we had!

Before we left Yuma Matt and Warren wanted to climb some mountains that are literally in our backyard.

It is amazing that we have these mountains to look at everyday!

Once we left Yuma our first stop was Joshua Tree National Park.

We saw some neat rock formations!

It was chilly and actually sleeted on us a little bit.

This is a Joshua Tree.

Our next stop was to see Mt. Whitney. We were on the eastern side of the mountain and access to the mountain is on the western side. We got some good pictures of the mountain on our way to Mammoth Lakes.

We arrived at Mammoth Lakes and saw snow!

The view from the gondola was GREAT!

On our last day in Mammoth Lakes we went to an area close to Mammoth Lakes that has a saltwater lake and crater formed from volcanic activity.

The rock like formations are called salt spires and are formed by the salt in the water. The lake has slowly been drained, but the original level was at least as high as the tallest salt spire.

We had a great vacation and when I get some more pictures from Abbey I will post them. The update on the rest of our busy February will come soon....