What 2012 brought us, and what is hasn't...

2012 has been a roller coaster of feelings and emotions and new things!

 Logan started talking in January, and hasn't stopped since. He also officially potty trained. No more diapers at all! Not even at night. He is a champ. He can sing the ABC'S to us and count to ten almost perfectly. He is a little music kid. LOVES all music. A few favorite songs of his this year, Sexy and I know it LMFAO, Party Rockers LMFAO, Gangnam Style PSI, and a few more. He loves the movies, Elf, Letter Factory, Incredibles, Spider Man, Transformers, Toy Story, I am legend, and a few others. He really enjoys cuddling with us and watching movies. He is growing so much! He became  a big brother this year and proved everyone wrong as well. Most people thought Logan would have a really hard time adjusting, but he didn't. He took on the brother role right away and perfectly. The first moment he saw Blaire, the first thing he said was " Oh Hi Baby!" It has been the most amazing thing to watch, how much he loves her and protects her already. Now they can actually play and laugh with eachother. He can easily make her laugh hysterically. At the beginning of the year, Logans sleep schedule was off. Way off. He couldnt make it 2 hours sleeping through the night. It is finally becoming all the way through. Thank goodness! We took Logan to Toy Story on Ice this year. It was a lot of fun for all of us. We also took lots of trips to the bounce house which is always fun! Logan turned two and we celebrated his birthday at Airborne. He loved it! He has grown so much this year. He had a great year of achievement. Learned so much! He is still a very picky eater, but with a lot of patience and a lot of fighting him, he is starting to try new things! He had a great Christmas with a lot of presents. He was extra spoiled, and he deserved it. He made lots of friends this year, his best being Knoxy. He loves Knox! After our lease was up, we moved into my moms mother in law basement where Knox is living right now, these two boys have a blast all day together, They are so much trouble, but I am so glad they are so close. He always loves playing with his new friend Ryu, and all of his cousins. Logans hair is blondish brown and his eyes are a beautiful deep brown with looong eye lashes. Everyone always compliments them. I am so proud of you Logan. I know 2013 will bring so much more to you. Keep growing tall buddy and always reach for the stars! We love you so much!


Staring in January,, Blaire was only 20 weeks in my belly. She had people thinking I was making my pregnancy up due to how small I was. She was a very active baby in my belly and proved to be the same the instant she popped out. She weighed 7 pounds 3 oz and 19 inches long, and now is 17 pounds and 26 inches long. Tall and skinny like her brother. She is growing so fast! She loves to babble and talk. She can say mama and dada and learned to say them both in the same day. She learns very fast. She can pull her self to stand almost perfectly and is crawling everywhere. She loves my cell phone and she also loves music. I sing You are my Sunshine every day to Logan and Blaire and they both love it. She also loves the ABC's. She loves playing with her brother! She laughs at him and it is so cute. She loves doing tricks with dad. She eats baby food like a champ. Her favorite is pears and bananas. She is starting on a sippy cup with water. She is still breastfed and will be til she is one. She is a little fashionista. Her hair is bright red. She gets compliments every where we go! She had a great Christmas with lots of toys! We are very proud of you Blaire. You grow so fast and are hitting your milestones early, just like your brother. We look forward to watching you grow and learn in 2013. We love you sooo much!

Rory accomplished a lot this year! He finished welding school. Unfortunately, the job demand is low and he wasnt able to find a job doing it. He did find a job as en electricians apprentice and he loved it! Work ran out and he is self employed now which has worked better than anything else. He is still great with money, and has helped us save a lot for a down payment on a house. Rory gained a daughter this year and has showed me countless times the reason I love him so much. He is such a great dad to our kids. Always has them laughing and squealing. He is also a great husband. He also always has me laughing. He takes care of me and our kids so well. He has dealt with my migraines so great. Always gives me breaks when I need them, takes me shopping all the time, spoils our kids like crazy, stays in the hospital with me watching the babies when I have to bad of a migraine. He and his best friend Brandon started a business this year and are building websites. They are working on one that will be published later this year. I am so proud of him! He is just amazing. We bought a new 2013 Mazda CX5 this year and traded our Corolla in. He is a great person. I always catch him holding the door for everyone, and stopping in the road to help people on there car that breaks down. He is always willing to help someone. I love him more than ever. We celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary and our 6 years together total and I couldnt be happier. He has held me up through hard times and he makes me so happy. I love him more than I can explain. Even though we didnt get our house this year, we still have eachother and i know with that, we can do what ever we want. THIS is our year babe. Thanks for being so supportive and keeping me on my toes with your brilliant ideas. I am so excited to see where your website is going to take us. I know 2013 will bring you great success and great accomplishment. I love you so much and cant wait to spend another year by your side with our two babies!

Me, my goals at the beginning were to be more patient, a better mom and wife and get a house. I think I have accomplished them to the best of my abilities. The house wasn't in store for us last year but it brought us a lot of knowledge of buying a house. Things that I know to watch for this year when we do. I feel like being a better mom and wife will never be fully accomplished because every day there is new things to learn and grow from, but I know I can be the best mom and wife I can be today and tomorrow I will try to be even better. I love my babies completely and utterly and have the best job in the world. They are my everything. I love my husband so much. I have everything I need by my side. I slowed my photography down after having Blaire, but hope to bring it back up when I am finished breastfeeding. My migraines have stayed about the same but I switched neurologists in hopes to get a little more hopeful on the whole situation. I met my goal weight and now weigh 106 pounds. I gained a new daughter who I adore. I helped Logan learn a lot! I also pushed my self with working out. I started on June 26th, and have been at it since. I now have a full six pack. That is something I never thought I would say. I am proud of my self all around. Tomorrow I will list my resolutions.


Here are some photos!

Life at this moment

Things have been going a little hectic lately, but great all around. I turned 21 a few weeks ago. It was the best birthday I have had in a long time. Rory woke me up early and had me get ready. Than, we he took me on a shopping spree, $500 limit! During shopping, he surprised me with a gorgeous bouquet of red roses and holly berries. They were so pretty! Than, he took our family to dinner at Tepenyaki. It was a great day. I am so thankful for him. He is my best friend and my better half. I love him so much.

Blaire is rolling everywhere and talking about everything. She learned how to say mama and dada in the same day. She can scoot around, and almost crawl. She can pull her self up to stand. She weighed 17 pounds and was 26 inches at her last appointment. She is a sweet heart. Logan can make her laugh so hard. They both adore each other. 

Logan can sing the ABC's all the way through and can count to ten. He knows his shapes and colors. He can full conversations with us. He is a little genius. He is also a little comedian. He can make us laugh so hard.

We took Logan and Blaire to the bounce house a few nights ago with a friend and his two kids. Logan had so much fun. It was definitely a work out, but we all had a blast!

Today is Christmas eve. Logan is stoked about waking up tomorrow. Tonight we will let him and Blaire open their Eve present. We got them a set of pajamas, a Christmas movie and some hot coco. We decided to do this as a tradition every year.

Logan and Blaire will be having a great Christmas tomorrow. They both got extra spoiled. They deserve it so much.

Rory and I have also started a tradition this year of choosing one person to help out around Christmas.

A woman on my FB page gave birth at 26 weeks. Her son is lucky to be a live, but he also has a lot of complications. He was able to come home last month. He was born the same day Blaire was. She mentioned how she was struggling with Christmas, due to medical bills and gas from driving to and from the hospital. We sent her a $100 gift card to Walmart. It wasnt much, but it made us feel good and she was appreciative. Next year we hope to do $150.
 I am thankful my husband is such a caring man. It was actually his idea, and I am so glad he was all up for it. I think it is a great thing to instil in your children. The act of giving.

Tonight we are all going to Buca Di Peppo with my family. I am so excited!

Waa Waa

Finding out that what seemed like the house of our dreams is no longer in our plans is a bummer, to say the least. I am so sad and stressed about it, but I keep putting it to the back of my mind because I know something good will come out of this. Thankfully I have Rory by my side through this. I know it sounds like such a petty thing to be upset about, and I HATE giving my self any pity, but in all honesty, it does suck! What can I do though, right? Move on with life for now til something better comes along. Sigh, new story!

I have been thinking a lot lately about my migraines. I don't think I mention them a lot on here, mostly because they are not something I enjoy (obviously) and like I said, hate feeling bad for my self, but I figure it is something I would want to look back on someday, just in case the extremely unfortunate event happens that one of my precious babies ends up with migraines.

For as long as I remember, I have had Chronic Migraines. Being little and having your whole head feel like it just might explode, was tough. I had a hard time telling my mom because I didn't understand it there for I didn't know how to explain it. Thankfully, they werent a daily, weekly, or even a monthly occurrence at that point. As I grew older, I started to notice my head hurting more and more. It got particularly worst when I hit the age of ten. Ten was just the beginning of a rough time for me. Problems occurred with my dad (something I wrote about in a previous blog post) and I became extremely depressed. I am not sure if the stress and depression made my migraines become deliberately worst, or if it was the fact that was around the time I started hitting puberty. Either way, they did become worst. Still, it was only once a month or two. By the time I hit 14, I was getting them at least once a week. If you have ever had a true migraine, you know the pain is a lot worst than a head ache. You get hot, the light feels like it might just be burning holes in your brain, sound echoes and it seems like any little thing could kill you. I always end up puking once or twice from the pain. After seeing multiple doctors and having tests done and MRI's and cat scans, it was becoming clear that it was just something that was apart of me, nothing that could really be fixed. I was trying all sorts of pills, with really no luck. After having my gall bladder out (due to it no longer functioning) I went a week with no head pains, not even a head ache. I was thinking I was better, but I was wrong. I got a migraine, it ended up putting me in the hospital, the first of many times this will happen, they tried all sorts of medicines to get it to stop, and nothing worked. They ended up sedating me over night. Thankfully I woke up with just a head ache.
These days, I havent gone a day with out atleast a head ache, and no longer than two weeks with out a migraine. It has been a good three years with only maybe two weeks tops going pain free.
I have been having a hard time thinking about the rest of my life with this, but I see the best things that I could possibly ask for, my husband, my babies and my family. I could not imagine living with out them. I am thankful for the fact that my migraines are just that, pain in my head. It is nothing that will take me away from my family to soon, nothing that will make me unable to walk or debilitate me for longer than a day or so. I am thankful that it is nothing worst than that.

My mom was diagnosed 4 years ago with Multiple Sclerosis.  She has days she can not walk, but she pushes through the pain and works, because it needs done. She is a strong woman. She is the most perfect mom. I hope to be some one like her. My mom has good days and terrible days. I am just so thankful that her MS is slow moving. She has shown me how to be strong on days I wake up in terrible pain, because life has to move on.

I truly hope my babies don't have to deal with the pain of a migraine more than they should have too, but if they ever do, I hope I can be an example to them like my mom is to me.

Rough with a capital R!

The last week has been rough to say the least! After FINALLY figuring out insurance issues we were having with the guy the rear ended us and getting our car into the shop, we got the bad news that they were having issues on our home loan. Oh no. Not this! Turns out, we were not able to meet closing dates. We tried getting an extension on the closing, but the seller wasn't wanting to do that. Unfortunately, we had to cancel contract and now we just cross our fingers the home of my dreams is still for sale once our loan is fully processed. I am so bummed, but I have to stay positive. If the house sells, it wasn't meant to be. Hopefully.

While bumming out about that, Rory decided to let us do a little shopping. It kept my mind off of the house and we had lots of fun. The babies got lots of new clothes and toys. I got new clothes as well.

The new waiting game begins. Thats what this whole house thing is, a lot of hurry up and wait. I hate it!

Blaire got her first tooth finally! Second one is on its way. She can sit up, say mama, roll both ways, loves bananas, apples and green beans. Adores her brother. Just her hearing his voice or seeing his pictures makes me light up! Logan loves her as well! Every night he tells her good night and that he loves her. It melts me completely. These two little babies, they make everything alright!

I have been packed with photoshoots this month. Which means lots of editing. I do love it, dont get me wrong!

Better go to bed now, bye!

Home!

What a busy month! We finally found our house. We close on the 8th and move in on the 9th of November. I could not be more happy. It is 3300 sq feet. 3 bed, 3 bath, unfinished basement. Fully landscaped, fully fenced. It is a beautiful home. I am so anxious to move in! Before we move in, we are painting and cleaning everything. Logans room will be a dark blue, airplane theme, ours will be grey, with one grey and white chevron wall, Blaires will be grey and pink. We also just got the prettiest washer and dryer. Whirlpool duet steam, in an awesome teal color.

I have been extra busy with photo shoots this month, and trying to catch up on all editing. In total, I have already done 5, with 3 more to go. I am loving it!

Logan is to the point on potty training where he no longer needs to tell us, he just goes! It is awesome and so funny to watch. He is growing way to fast! Blaire is a laughing, talking machine! Her newest thing is blowing bubbles are growling at us. She also likes to copy us when we cough.

Last week we were in a car accident.  It was very scary, but it could have been a lot worst. Reece was in the front seat, leaning down to pick some stuff up off the floor, I was in the back with the babies and Rory was driving. We got rear ended at a stop light waiting to turn, he hit us going at least 30 mph. It did not feel good. It knocked me out and scared the babies very bad. Logan was playing games on the Ipad, so when we were hit, he smashed his face into it. It left a pretty good welt, that is still there. Poor Rory slammed his head into the window, and Reece was just very scared. Thankfully the airbags were not deployed or he could have gotten hurt a lot worst. It was lucky he was bending down, otherwise he would have hit his head on the dashboard pretty hard. We ended up going to the emergency room for some xrays and check ups, thankfully we only ended up with a fun case of whiplash and nothing worst.

This is our home! I am so excited!