Long time no blog....

Okay, I know you really want a blog all about the kids so I will do my best to please you all.

Lets start with Owen. I took Owen to an Allergist on March 17 to see if was allergic to cats. His asthma was getting worse and we were doing a lot of extra meds on him. It come back positive to cats and dogs. So no pets for us, unless he out grows it which he could. We asked around and one of the kids I watch knew someone looking for a cat. So Snowball went to her. I am so grateful that he did. Owen is getting better. We still have to do breathing treatments once a day but it last like 5 min. so it is not too bad. He takes them pretty good. He ears are doing great. No current infections and he is now running. So I guess he got his balance back. Great.

Mia is getting ready to start Tee ball. We have our first practice tonight. We also register her for school last week. We also signed her up for summer school. I am a mean mommy. It will be good for her to get use to going and it is only half day. We also had her tested to see if she is ready for kindergarten. She scored a 90 out of a possible 99. She would have done a little better if she was not so worried about the other little girl in the room.

Hope everyone had a great Easter. We were so busy. We dyed eggs on Saturday. I let Owen dye on himself. He dropped it in and then stirred it. He kept licking the spoon. After it was done he held up the egg for a picture and then smashed it in the table. Mia had a great time dying eggs she loves it so much. On Sunday we had a egg hunt. Mia does not get the traditional egg hunt. She has clues to follow to her basket. She loves doing this.


Owen dying his egg.

Showing off his egg before smashing it into the table.


Mia dying her many eggs.




Mia with the note from the Easter Bunny



Mia with her basket after following the clues.

After breakfast we got ready and went to Derek's parents for lunch.



Kristina's daughter, Adriana is so cute. (Kristen is Brent's girlfriend. Brent is Derek's brother for those who didn't know) She and Owen get along really well. She kept trying to kiss and hug on Owen. He was not into it that day. But we did catch them holding hands.



We then went to Delmar Garden's to visit Derek's grandparents. It was Grandpa's birthday. We went to visit. We had a pretty good turn out.

Owen and Kristen


All the grand kids, who were present.

Afterwards we went back to Derek's parents to watch the Masters and eat dinner. We got home pretty late and I was beat.

Mia and Owen

Owen love a little girl I watch named Cooper. He is always hugging and kissing her. Derek says Owen is too young to understand irony. But it is a great example. Today Cooper was all about giving out kisses. So Owen went and got one. I snapped a picture.


Derek got back safe and sound from Austria. He brought back some wonderful chocolate and a loud, German speaking police car. His plane was late so I spent an hour and half at the airport with two tired kids. It was so much fun.

Owen has his 15 month check up on the 20th and Mia is doing the March of Dimes walk on the 25th so I should have some pictures up after that. It will be a couple of days since I have a bachelorette party on the 25th as well. Can't wait Toni. Hope you enjoyed all the pictures.

Blast from the Past

Okay, I really don't have any updates on the kids. I really can't get any new pictures because he moves so fast. So as suggested I will take some video and up load it in the next couple of days. Instead of kid up date I will tell the story of Derek and me. I have really been thinking a lot of about it lately. Since we are going to Jamaica in May that is kind of our honeymoon. The reason is we had a shot gun wedding. This is the story of Derek and Me.

We met a Macaroni Grill restaurant I was a hostess he was the bartender. I started in August. I flirted with him like crazy brought him his favorite candy and many other things. I was trying to get him to ask me out. Well finally after a month and half trying he finally asked "when I was going to take him to dinner". I took what I could get. After the first date we were always together. If we were working together, we were together doing other stuff. I had already decided to join the regular Army and even signed the papers when Derek and I started dating. I didn't think it was a big deal to date anyone since I was leaving so soon. After a couple of weeks I realized how wrong I was. I knew Derek was the one. So after a day of ice staking we were going out to a nice dinner. I went home to get ready, on my way home I knew that I wanted to marry him. So I got ready quickly and went and got a rose. I went to his apartment and sat him down and gave a speech ending in "Will you marry me". He got up got a card and handed to me. It basically said "I know I am not your first love, but I want to be your last love." He was going to ask me to marry him at the restaurant that night. To this day Derek calls me the most impaction person he knows. That was a Tuesday night. On Thursday or Halloween we decide to tell my family. See I was leaving for Germany on Nov. 7th so we need to do this quick. We were going to do a Justice of the peace so he could join me in Germany. We told my family and they were behind us. My grandma gave Derek a hard time tell him that I was going to be a lot of work. But see Derek didn't believe them and he should have. So I work on getting things together. Derek called his mom and she worked it out of him what was going on. So on Saturday I meet his family and we went to church and we were told that he would marry us in a Church. Derek or me never wanted a big wedding so this was perfect. Sunday we got the dress went to a party at my grandma's house and Aunt Beth's house. Monday we got married. On Thursday I shipped out for Germany. It was fast paced and wonderful. And now I have two wonderful children and a great husband. I would not change anything.

Just wanted everyone to hear the whole story. Yes, we dated from September 25 to October 29 the day we got engaged. We are still learning stuff about each other and we are stronger then ever. This is for the people who never knew the story or never realized that we dated for a month before saying "I Do". We had 3 days to plan our wedding. It was wonderful.

Sorry some of the pictures are not so great we used a 35mm camera for most of the picture and a crappy digital for these.


After we said "I Do"



Back at Derek's parents for our "reception"