Moatloaf!

I have never been or ever said to be Susie homemaker, I have very little cooking skills or any other skills a house wife would need. I guess that why I have never wanted to be a house wife. But, today after going to the book store with my baby girl, two sisters, and my niece and nephew I had this great meal planned in my head. I was going to make a meatloaf, some fried potatoes and corn on the cob. I have never made fried potatoes or corn on the cob before so I asked my dad how to make the potatoes and set home to make this meal. I did everything! I started with the potatoes:

I cleaned them!

I skined them!

I cut them!

And I cooked them! With only one phone call to my dad to make sure I was still doing it right.

Then I made the meatloaf:

And since I was the only one eating at that time due the fact that my husband was helping a co-worker after work and this is what my loving daugther looked like that the time

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So I went outside to eat my food, trying to getting the very last drops of summer that we have left. It was nice there is was no noice except the birds and grasshopers. And the view I had was nice but while sitting there taking all of this in I was secretly thinking I can't wait for fall or this would be nice if this was the ocean! This is what I was looking at.

I cannot wait for the leaves to start changeing colors!

I am making it a point to make sure I enjoy ever minture I can with my baby girl because I know it will not be this way long. I am making it a point to do something fun with her when I have day off because while I love working in the nursing home I do not get many days were it is just us girls! And I am also making it a point to take time to see all the great things around me, there have been to many time laterly that I have wraped up in all the bad. While yes there is bad the good are so much better and will keep beening that way as long as I let them be. So with this I end hoping that all of you have had a great weekend. Enjoy the week coming up and Good Luck to all who are starting a new school year this week!

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman

Most days when I came home from work if I was to see this face; we would be make a trip to the bath early but not this day. I was happy to see this face when I came home yesterday. Just 24 hours before this face I saw this face:

The day started out with the promise of going to see Aunt Tiffany's new apt. at school. Dakota was so happy. I had a very cute purple outfit pick out with matching sock and shoes. Has I was putting this carefully picked out Dakota told me that she did not like the outfit and want the SWEATER with the frog on it. I carefully told her that it was to hot outside to be wearing a sweater and went and found the frog t-shirt. That shirt was not good enough. She wanted the pick princess sweater with the frog on it. Well, we wear the pink sweater with the frog on it but I made it more summer time appropriated. We then left to go to my mom's so that we could go to Aunt Tiffany's new place. Well, once we got there my little one got sick every where. The saddest part was that she was more upset with having to take the frog sweater off so it could be washed. We then watched as my mom, sisters, nephew, and niece leave to go see Aunt Tiffany's place. Dakota and I then came home to a house whom key I had sent with my mom because drove my van and I did not think about the fact that if I wanted to go home I need the house key. Once home I open the window that goes to my daughter's room and put my sick baby on her bed. We were home, where she had wanted to be. We started taking medice every 4 hours. She slept all day. So when I came home and saw the face a sweet baby girl who had been outside playing in the sandbox I was over joyed. Dakota has not ever really been sick so when she gets real sick I feel bad for her.

Happy to have my heathly baby girl back!

Autumn Season!

As we come to the middle of August this makes me happy! While I have a great summer, I am so ready for the seasons coming up. I love the autumn and winter season for so many reason. But this year I do believe they will be my all time favorite. We have not had the joy of buying a house yet so we rent a cute little house in our community. The house we rent has been rent or owned by family members of my husband for years now. While there is not much I done to make the house feel like home, to me, I have been thinking about all the great things coming. I have been thinking about the autumn and winter decor I will bring to my house. I can't wait for my daughter to have our "first" family holidays. I know she is two and has two of all the holidays but this will be the first time our family will be in a house were we are doing everything together. I know that I want all kinds of things like some happy fall signs, some pumpkins around, the smells of autumn, and some scarecrows! I can't wait! I want to get some hay, fall flowers, a pumpkin, and some kind of yard art together and take Dakota's pictures. My husband always tells me "he dose not know why I have a Carma like the pros but still want to pay for our pictures". While in the past I did not agree with that idea I do believe I can do it and do a good job. The pictures we had "made" on the beach were with my Carma and I set it up and just told my grandma to push the sliver button.  They have been some of the best pictures we have had made and can't wait to make the craft I have come up with for my bathroom with that picture!
I am ready for all the great things the season coming up will bring with them.

ME!

I have been looking at blogs over the past few weeks now and they all looked so great that I was beginning to think that this looks fun and a great way to get what is on my mind out. So I am going to try this, we will see how it goes from here.

Well, I guess I should just start, that is the best way I do believe!
I have a great life, while it does not go the way I had always planned or dreamed it is much better (for the most part). I have my heart and soul living in the same house as I do. My heart is my husband, for so far, two years. My soul is my daughter.

Topsail Island August 2010.

















My husband and I met while in high school. I don't mean we met while freshman in high school and knew each other all through school, we met the last few weeks of our senior year of school. We started dating a few months after we finished school in 2005. We were married on August 9, 2008. We had a great wedding, nothing to big. Most of everything was made for us by our parents. We have a great family whom loved helping us in our big day.

My baby girl Dakota was born April 3, 2008. That is the day my soul left my body and began to live on the outside. She was everything I had hope for and more. I never knew I could love someone has much as I loved her at that moment. She was a beautiful baby whom looked just like her daddy and had the prettiest orange tan. Which we learned a few days later was kinda a big deal.

 


April 4, 2008.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We love doing things as a family and have had some great fun.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is our life it is not always perfect but it is always beautiful!