In coming to Savannah I hoped to meet more people I met in our time in Fayetteville and people with a bit more.....personality :) I joined Cafe Mom but didn't really do anything with it. Then one day was reminded I even had the account so, I was bored I decided to set it up, who knows maybe some other people know it exist then I can chat with some other mamas! I did a search on the school I wanted to go to AASU and found Lauren! We talked and realized how much we had in common as far as our husbands being in the same unit and all that not to mention she is attending the school I hoped to go to. She introduced me to meetup.com, which I never even knew existed, and i found the stay at home moms group and of course...Joined.
from there I started going to these FunFit meet ups, where we all do stroller fitness with the babies and chitchat like stay at home moms don't get to do very much. Also a great place to brag about what the babies are doing since people who don't have kids don't care if you're little one can pull himself up on the couch as of yesterday!
Kristen is the one who leads these fitness groups and she knows how to push you just enough to get you sore but not too much to where you want to quit. I think that's awesome for a lot of reasons, one being its hard to get together a group of people who are fitness freaks-but I like to meet all kinds of people and when i go to these I know I'm meeting people who aren't lazy. I think laziness is a pet peeve of mine which is weird because when it comes to housework, i am lazy with a capital Z :)
so anyway, one day out of desperation for a quick baby sitter i called Kristen, the only number i had for anybody i knew in Savannah and she Thank Goodness, helped me with Brycen so I could go to a job interview. I didn't get the job which is ok because they offered me wayyyyy less money than i would've ever worked for. I got to hang out with her, Charlotte, another pretty mama who has a baby about 1 month younger than our 2 and Lauren, who introduced me to the group in the first place! So now I have a few friends who are great, I'm so glad i met them! much better than any random chicks in fayetteville ;)
Well, one day Kristen and I were doin a little funfit and she informed me of this training that was going on in November for a marathon in Nashville. Now... I never ever even considered running in a marathon, I was just sharing how I liked running and how i just want to be good at it to A)get those sexy, athletic legs and B)be in good shape forever and ever!! but later on she sent me information about it, and I noticed there is such things as "HALF MARATHONS" and you can choose to 'run/walk'. Hmm sounds like something I can do. Then after researching a little more, i decided, 'well shoot... maybe I can just run the whole darn thing, right?'
So, just yesterday I went to the first meeting and decided... I will be running the whole Country Music Marathon in NASHVILLE TENNESSEE!!! I am so freakin excited I can't describe it. not only that but its for a GREAT cause. Team in Training is what I'll be apart of and I'm not sure if the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society are a part of the whole marathon, I believe they are just the ones helping us get to Nashville and have nothing to do with the whole thing, but I will be running for Blood Cancer patients, survivors, and their families!! at the meeting I must've teared up about 5 times just hearing about what a great cause it is and not only that but completing a marathon. A MARATHON. A FREAKIN MARATHON!!! I am just SO ready to get it started and to do it, I never would've thought I would be doing this but its just so great. that's all i can say. i don't even know if I'm making sense to anybody but myself. i just cannot wait. The only catch is I have to raise 2600 to get there or I cant participate. I honestly have no worries about it, I just hope everybody is as giving as I hope they will be.
But anyway I just wanted to share with the world what I am doing and how I got here. while I was pregnant, all I wanted to do was go running. I'm not sure why but that's all I wanted to do. maybe it was because I couldn't? So anyway after I had my brybry it took me a bit to think about it again and to get up and go, but I went! and Ive been working at it, at least 2 miles 2 or 3 times a week. I love it and I recommend it to everybody. I hate laziness! People who say "I hate you" because I'm thin, or complain that they aren't in shape/too fat/not what i used to weigh... well HELLO get up and freakin DO SOMETHING! If you can't do anything than watch what you eat at the least.
Today, when Travis got home, Brycen smiled SO big and while Trav was holding him Brycen actually LEANED in to give him a kiss(or as we call it "un Besito") it totally still makes my knees weak just thinking of how he leaned his head in to give daddy a kiss. Travis didn't even ask for one or anything :) so so SO SO SO sweet. oh my goodness so sweet. I can't describe how it feels. i just love him. them. us. family. one. love. happy. peace :)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
From the beginning
Well, there's a whole lot goin on in this head of mine, where do I begin? Let's start off in May 06 when my life really started.
I met the man who currently calls me Beautiful in person in May 06, graduated high school and decided to join the army a month later.
May 06
I am not a good-early-morning kind of person and I had a love/hate relationship with running at the time, so why I thought joining the army was a good idea... who knows. I guess it was because I wanted to do it and I knew that if I didn't I would regret it 10 years later.
July 06
So, September 21st 2006 I left the sunshine state for Ft Jackson, SC and saw snow for the first time that winter.
Winter
Travis and I got married December 29, 2006-what a great day :)
That day
Also that day
he's everything I ever hoped I would have in a lifetime partner. What I never imagined when I was a little girl dreaming of the rest of my life were all the hard times and arguments everybody has. We were in AIT in Ft Eustis, VA at the time so although we saw each other everyday, the drill sergeants made sure we didn't sit, march, talk or pretty much look in each others direction. The only down/husband and wife time we had was at night when we would either go outside to the official smoking area and hide in the dark and talk, talk on the phone in our rooms, or on the weekends when we racked up hotel favor points :)
At some hotel Valentine's Day weekend, waiting for a cab
He graduated in March, then moved on to Airborne School until the end of April and the day I graduated in May he came to pick me up in his new Dodge 1500. I can't describe how it felt to kiss him in front of the barracks in which we got yelled at on a daily basis just for being married and in the same company. We rode into the night to Ft Bragg, NC.
There begins our journey in Fayetteville Norf Carolayna. Little did we know when we arrived just how much we would grow to HATE and DESPISE fayetteville. army wives and criminals everywhere you look. Not only was in like 3 hours away from the beach but at least 6 hours from anybody we knew and 2 hours away from any form of 'nice' city to see. We stayed in a hotel room for about a week, waiting to move into a house we decided on renting. They kept putting off calling us, so we decided to do what we didn't want to do...get an apartment. The neighborhood was very nice with security cameras and alarms set up. It was the perfect place for our 1st home together.
July 07
Travis left for Afghanistan mid-July 07 and I found out I was pregnant a week later and had to tell him via Instant Messenger. Not the best of ways but it worked! I was just happy I got to tell him less than 30 minutes after I found out, he was still in the process of getting to where he was going so I had no idea when the next time I would talk to him would be. We were trying to get pregnant, or should I say we weren't trying to prevent it. It was something we both wanted, a family. And we couldn't wait. We knew we wouldn't be able to. We loved our children & family before they were even born. We're just lovers I guess :) and I believe that's what brought us together in the first place.
Right before he loaded up on the bus to leave :(
Travis got to come home for 2 weeks in the beginning of November so we got a 4D ultrasound done to find out the gender of our beautiful baby BOY!
My suggestion is, if you can wait to get the 4D ultrasound... Do. That was the only time Travis would be home for us to find out and my normal doctor wouldn't give me an ultrasound until 20 weeks, and I was 18 at the time.
I spent that Thanksgiving with my mom, Step dad and siblings in Alabama where I couldn't ride the 4 wheeler due to my pregnant-ness.
I spent Christmas alone and for my birthday, the day after Christmas, I chopped all my hair off. about 13 inches to donate to locks of love. It took a lot of courage for me to actually cut it, but I had debated about it for so long, I decided to get it over with. When I brought my hair home to mail to locks of love, I left it on the couch in a baggy then proceeded to the mirror to check out my new look, looked over and saw my dog Kino with my hair all over the carpet. Anybody who has donated hair knows that the hair cannot be 'swept' up off the floor and must be in a clean ponytail. If the phone didn't ring right after that I would've bawled my eyes out but instead I talked with a huge lump in my throat staring at my precious hair I had grown, and took very prideful care of for years. I am still upset about this. I brought the new year in with 4 little ones, I babysat for a co-worker. I knew she probably needed a break with 4 kids and I had no plans to get wasted for new years.
Travis got home in the beginning of February, thank GOD his deployment was only 7 months (I say only but when he had to go back in November I cried like I had just fallen down and busted my face open... but harder and with more hormones)
What a great day!
I got out of the army February 22ND. Travis got to see our baby boy born, whom we named Brycen. He is the light in our lives.
Ever since he's been born it's like nothing else matters. Daddy (formerly known as Travis) got orders to Hunter Army Airfield, GA. I know everybody always dreams of going somewhere like Hawaii but we simply wanted to be in Savannah, Georgia. It really was our dream. When we would pass it on the interstate heading back to crappy old Fayette-nam we would look and sigh and say 'if only if only'. When he got those orders it really was our dream come true. We would be closer to both of our families and in a much much better location, not to mention the beach is only half an hour away!!
I applied to Armstrong Atlantic State University to major in Pre-med to be on my way to becoming a Pediatrician. But in deciding my future and doing some serious soul searching I recently decided maybe being a physician isn't for me. Not only do I need a 'back up' plan so in case I don't get into medical school, but when are we going to have time to grow our family? When am I going to have TIME for my family? I absolutely do not want to wait 12 years to have another baby simply for convenience for my career. But at the same time, I don't want to have a baby while in medical school only for my time to be consumed somewhere OTHER than my babies. So, although I got accepted (which I hoped and prayed for), I won't be able to attend for another year. I still would love to help people and be in the medical field, so I've decided to go into nursing. The nursing department stopped taking applications 3 days before I got accepted and another slot won't be up for grabs until next fall's semester. Which is okay. My plan right now is to go to Savannah Tech and get my CNA,which takes about 2 months. Then get into a nurse's assistant position and work my way up to and all through nursing school. Sounds marvelous to me :)
I just recently got a seasonal job working in the children's section of a well-known department store, we will see if I will be able to work into the new year. If I don't, needless to say I won't be too disappointed.
And even more exciting I got into a mom's group here in Savannah and have met some awesome moms. Particularly Charlotte, Kristen and Lauren. I was getting pretty lonely, so thank goodness I met them. Not to mention Kristen's been great watching Brycen for me every time I have something I need to get to. Every Monday we have FunFit which is an exercise meet-up that Kristen leads and we get a pretty good workout. Its not like cross-fit or anything but it is definitely enough to get you sore but not kick your butt. Plus, we all get to chat, do mom-talk and all that good stuff.
Lately, since we've moved here, I've been getting into running which is something I dreamed of doing while I was pregnant. Meeting Kristen has been great, she is an awesome runner from what info I've acquired and she informed me of a marathon in Nashville. They have training starting next month for it and all I would have to do is raise either 1500 or 2500 for leukemia. I think its a great idea, the marathon is in April and I would more than likely be doing the half-marathon which is about 13-14 miles (that's a lot I know). I am so stoked about doing it, I honestly think I could complete that mission. Getting the money together and completing the run. I am trying to convince Travis to do it with me, he is very into fitness and recently has gained interest in biking and triathlons. I'm happy we have a fit family and I can't wait to start doing all kinds of things with our kids.
So, that is the latest news up to today. I am happy I finally got this all down. I basically want to do this to keep track of all my hopes and dreams and to follow me down this path I'm headed. I have many, many things ahead of me and am so excited and anxious to see what comes my way :)
oh and I'm also trying to learn Swedish.
I met the man who currently calls me Beautiful in person in May 06, graduated high school and decided to join the army a month later.
May 06
I am not a good-early-morning kind of person and I had a love/hate relationship with running at the time, so why I thought joining the army was a good idea... who knows. I guess it was because I wanted to do it and I knew that if I didn't I would regret it 10 years later.
July 06
So, September 21st 2006 I left the sunshine state for Ft Jackson, SC and saw snow for the first time that winter.
Winter
Travis and I got married December 29, 2006-what a great day :)
That day
Also that day
he's everything I ever hoped I would have in a lifetime partner. What I never imagined when I was a little girl dreaming of the rest of my life were all the hard times and arguments everybody has. We were in AIT in Ft Eustis, VA at the time so although we saw each other everyday, the drill sergeants made sure we didn't sit, march, talk or pretty much look in each others direction. The only down/husband and wife time we had was at night when we would either go outside to the official smoking area and hide in the dark and talk, talk on the phone in our rooms, or on the weekends when we racked up hotel favor points :)
At some hotel Valentine's Day weekend, waiting for a cab
He graduated in March, then moved on to Airborne School until the end of April and the day I graduated in May he came to pick me up in his new Dodge 1500. I can't describe how it felt to kiss him in front of the barracks in which we got yelled at on a daily basis just for being married and in the same company. We rode into the night to Ft Bragg, NC.
There begins our journey in Fayetteville Norf Carolayna. Little did we know when we arrived just how much we would grow to HATE and DESPISE fayetteville. army wives and criminals everywhere you look. Not only was in like 3 hours away from the beach but at least 6 hours from anybody we knew and 2 hours away from any form of 'nice' city to see. We stayed in a hotel room for about a week, waiting to move into a house we decided on renting. They kept putting off calling us, so we decided to do what we didn't want to do...get an apartment. The neighborhood was very nice with security cameras and alarms set up. It was the perfect place for our 1st home together.
July 07
Travis left for Afghanistan mid-July 07 and I found out I was pregnant a week later and had to tell him via Instant Messenger. Not the best of ways but it worked! I was just happy I got to tell him less than 30 minutes after I found out, he was still in the process of getting to where he was going so I had no idea when the next time I would talk to him would be. We were trying to get pregnant, or should I say we weren't trying to prevent it. It was something we both wanted, a family. And we couldn't wait. We knew we wouldn't be able to. We loved our children & family before they were even born. We're just lovers I guess :) and I believe that's what brought us together in the first place.
Right before he loaded up on the bus to leave :(
Travis got to come home for 2 weeks in the beginning of November so we got a 4D ultrasound done to find out the gender of our beautiful baby BOY!
My suggestion is, if you can wait to get the 4D ultrasound... Do. That was the only time Travis would be home for us to find out and my normal doctor wouldn't give me an ultrasound until 20 weeks, and I was 18 at the time.
I spent that Thanksgiving with my mom, Step dad and siblings in Alabama where I couldn't ride the 4 wheeler due to my pregnant-ness.
I spent Christmas alone and for my birthday, the day after Christmas, I chopped all my hair off. about 13 inches to donate to locks of love. It took a lot of courage for me to actually cut it, but I had debated about it for so long, I decided to get it over with. When I brought my hair home to mail to locks of love, I left it on the couch in a baggy then proceeded to the mirror to check out my new look, looked over and saw my dog Kino with my hair all over the carpet. Anybody who has donated hair knows that the hair cannot be 'swept' up off the floor and must be in a clean ponytail. If the phone didn't ring right after that I would've bawled my eyes out but instead I talked with a huge lump in my throat staring at my precious hair I had grown, and took very prideful care of for years. I am still upset about this. I brought the new year in with 4 little ones, I babysat for a co-worker. I knew she probably needed a break with 4 kids and I had no plans to get wasted for new years.
Travis got home in the beginning of February, thank GOD his deployment was only 7 months (I say only but when he had to go back in November I cried like I had just fallen down and busted my face open... but harder and with more hormones)
What a great day!
I got out of the army February 22ND. Travis got to see our baby boy born, whom we named Brycen. He is the light in our lives.
Ever since he's been born it's like nothing else matters. Daddy (formerly known as Travis) got orders to Hunter Army Airfield, GA. I know everybody always dreams of going somewhere like Hawaii but we simply wanted to be in Savannah, Georgia. It really was our dream. When we would pass it on the interstate heading back to crappy old Fayette-nam we would look and sigh and say 'if only if only'. When he got those orders it really was our dream come true. We would be closer to both of our families and in a much much better location, not to mention the beach is only half an hour away!!
I applied to Armstrong Atlantic State University to major in Pre-med to be on my way to becoming a Pediatrician. But in deciding my future and doing some serious soul searching I recently decided maybe being a physician isn't for me. Not only do I need a 'back up' plan so in case I don't get into medical school, but when are we going to have time to grow our family? When am I going to have TIME for my family? I absolutely do not want to wait 12 years to have another baby simply for convenience for my career. But at the same time, I don't want to have a baby while in medical school only for my time to be consumed somewhere OTHER than my babies. So, although I got accepted (which I hoped and prayed for), I won't be able to attend for another year. I still would love to help people and be in the medical field, so I've decided to go into nursing. The nursing department stopped taking applications 3 days before I got accepted and another slot won't be up for grabs until next fall's semester. Which is okay. My plan right now is to go to Savannah Tech and get my CNA,which takes about 2 months. Then get into a nurse's assistant position and work my way up to and all through nursing school. Sounds marvelous to me :)
I just recently got a seasonal job working in the children's section of a well-known department store, we will see if I will be able to work into the new year. If I don't, needless to say I won't be too disappointed.
And even more exciting I got into a mom's group here in Savannah and have met some awesome moms. Particularly Charlotte, Kristen and Lauren. I was getting pretty lonely, so thank goodness I met them. Not to mention Kristen's been great watching Brycen for me every time I have something I need to get to. Every Monday we have FunFit which is an exercise meet-up that Kristen leads and we get a pretty good workout. Its not like cross-fit or anything but it is definitely enough to get you sore but not kick your butt. Plus, we all get to chat, do mom-talk and all that good stuff.
Lately, since we've moved here, I've been getting into running which is something I dreamed of doing while I was pregnant. Meeting Kristen has been great, she is an awesome runner from what info I've acquired and she informed me of a marathon in Nashville. They have training starting next month for it and all I would have to do is raise either 1500 or 2500 for leukemia. I think its a great idea, the marathon is in April and I would more than likely be doing the half-marathon which is about 13-14 miles (that's a lot I know). I am so stoked about doing it, I honestly think I could complete that mission. Getting the money together and completing the run. I am trying to convince Travis to do it with me, he is very into fitness and recently has gained interest in biking and triathlons. I'm happy we have a fit family and I can't wait to start doing all kinds of things with our kids.
So, that is the latest news up to today. I am happy I finally got this all down. I basically want to do this to keep track of all my hopes and dreams and to follow me down this path I'm headed. I have many, many things ahead of me and am so excited and anxious to see what comes my way :)
oh and I'm also trying to learn Swedish.
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