On our own again!

We finally found a place that we love and can afford. We are moving into a beautiful townhome that seems perfect for our little family. I am so grateful to have parents who allowed us to live with them (for free might I add) while we got back on our feet. Switching from Army life to civilian, but God is good, and he always provides! Hope everyone has a happy Halloween.

sickly family!

So it's official everyone I know is sick with something. The majority being swine flu. My immediate family has gotten off lucky it seems. Kaylee has strep throat and I have bronchitis. Who knows what TJ has he hasn't been to the dr. Hopefully everyone starts to get better, and we can get back to our lives and enjoy this fall weather instead of being cooped up in the house. Well off to rest a little Hope all is well in your world!

6 months have flown by.

Happy birthday Kaylee Marie! She is 6 months old today, and I can't believe it. It seems like yesterday I was holding her in my arms in the hospital. Looking down at this beautiful baby that had lived in side of me for the past 9 and 1/2 months. So much has happened in the last 6 months and she is growing so fast. As I write this she is playing inher bounce bounce babbling to herself. She loves baby dolls and stuffed animals and she laughs a lot. Everyday my little miracle amazes me, and I thank God for blessing us with her.

On a sadder note, tonight we are leaving to make the 15 hour trip to Florida. I wish this trip was for a happy reunion to meet up with our ranger family, but we have to lay to rest one of our own. Please keep us all in your prayers.

so goes the life of a (former) ranger wife

This has been one of the hardest weeks we have had in recent months. Which is saying a lot with everything that has gone on in our lives. The death of our friend and the constant hope that our other friends will not only survive but return and thrive in life, has sent us on an emotional rollercoaster. Rangers, as my fellow wives now, don't really show emotion; Ranger wives however show LOTS of emotion. This makes for a hard time moving on from the loss of a friend. I wish that I could make things better for our guys, make it easier, make them feel less guilt and sadness. I also wish that they would understand that they can show weakness to us, they can admit they are sad and not just angry. I hope that when we all see each other this weekend, we can use it as a time of healing, and rejoice together, celebrating the life of our Airborne Ranger in the Sky Rob.

A hard night

So tonight has been a rough one. During my small group for church I got a call from a friend of mine, letting me know a good friend had been KIA. I am shocked and saddened by the news, but at the same time sooo grateful that God gave me my husband back safe and sound. We made it through a few deployments with no injury, and I thank God for that. I am sending prayers out to my ranger family. I love you guys.
Rob you were an amazing man. Brave, strong, caring, and your most endearing quality your sense of humor! You will be missed. RLTW

Hello all! Sorry it was been awhile, things around here have been a little rough lately. Now that things are getting worked out and worked through I will hopefully be keeping this up to date!

Kaylee is growing up so fast, it amazes me every day the new things I see her do. She is so beautiful (as you can see above), fun and smart! I know I am bias, but hey her daddy agrees with me! She is learning lots of new tricks and is turning into a little daddy's girl much to my dismay!

We are starting to get excited for Halloween! Kaylee is going to be Tinkerbelle. Her little costume is so cute with the little wand and all! Then comes the first Thanksgiving and Christmas. This first year is really flying by!

Tj's new job is going well, although I could do without a certain aspect of it. It has helped us get back on our feet and adjusted to civilian life again. Hopefully by January we will be out on our own again, but who knows. I am very thankful for parents who have let us stay with them, but boy am I ready to have our own home again!

Let's see what is new in my life? I am working on losing this baby weight. It started off well with me losing 15 lbs, the first month of my diet and workout regimen. Now I have plateaued and am not nearly where I want to be. So this week I am cracking down again, and as motivation I will be posting on here my results and whether I have worked out that day. I am working out this evening when my mom gets off and can watch kaylee for me!

Well I am off to paint my nails while the baby is asleep, hope everyone has a wonderous monday!

sleepy morning

Once again I am awake with a fuzzy head from lack of sleep. Not really because of kaylee, although I guess she has a lot to do with it! Last night I just had to stay up to finish Americas got talent, even though I was exhausted. Then I woke up at 12 45 realizing i had forgotten to premeasure for kaylees bottles. So I headed downstairs to do that and right after i started to drift off back to sleep my little angel woke up to be fed. A few more hours passed with me getting very little sleep and she was up again. Now we are up for good! Oh well the life of a new mommy.
I am excited this morning though. I believe I will be heading down to GA the first week of August. This makes me trmendously happy because, my "family" will get to meet our wonderful daughter! Living in GA as a military wife definitely wasn't easy, but it taught me a lot and gave me a great group of friends that I have come to call family.
Today I hope that Kaylee and I will get to head to the park or go swimming. She loves to be outside, so we try to do something like that everyday! Hope you all have a great day and enjoy the sunshine!

my first blog

Hello all! So I saw a few friends of mine had these blogs and I figured I should have one too! That way I will be able too look back and see fun things kaylee and I have done and it's all documented. Not sayin that i will blog everyday because you know I will forget but occasionally I will post something. So here it goes welcome to my world.....
Last night was great! We have been working on getting kaylee on a better nightime schedule, and sleeping in her crib instead of bassinet. Well Last night she did it! She had a rough time going down because of belly cramps but daddy calmed her down, (I was sick too) and got her to bed! That was 8 oclock and she slept until 10 when it was time to eat then until 2 and at 5 30 she wanted to eat again.....I know she is a piggy at night. So She did it and I didn't freak out to much. I did make TJ go check on her in the middle of the night, but hey better safe than sorry. If it were up to me I would keep her in the bassinett til she turned 18 and wnet to college. but that might get a little weird!
No big plans for today, hopefully we go swimming at some point so I can get a work out in. (Yes I finally found a post baby bathing suit that I am not embarrassed to wear!)
Oh yes and fo the most exciting news..........I am planning on visiting GA some time between the last week in july first week in August! Can't wait for everyone to meet kaylee!