So I finally was able to decipher the issues and get both the month and category working properly. Thank you for your help on that.
Now on to my next issue. Pagination.
The built in pagination is not very flexible for stylizing, and currently they are using a {exp:structure:paginate} on the blog that is perfect as far as styling but for some reason I can’t get it to show all the pages. It caps out at 3???
Not sure if I am missing something
{exp:structure:paginate parse="inward" show_first_last="no" show_next_previous="yes" class="pagination" location="bottom" show_num_pages="10"}
{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="yes" dynamic="no" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="3" category="{get:category}" month="{get:month}" year="{get:year}"}
Blog listing Content
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:structure:paginate}