Khaily's 3rd Birthday!

Khaily turned 3 today! Her birthday party was on Saturday and she had a blast! She is still running around the house singing happy birthday to herself! :D

Cupcakes with Grandpa <3

The Doc is in! (Doc McStuffins dress up)

Daddy's girl

Presents!

I made 4 dozen...a dozen and a half made it out alive.

Tent from Grandma and Grandpa Duncan

Bike from Woody 

She got a ton of other gifts but there are soooo many pictures I just wanted to share a few! I cant' believe she's three the time has gone by SO fast! Happy birthday baby girl Mommy loves you to the moon and stars and back a billion times!

Worry Gets You Nowhere

Recently I have had some health concerns regarding my anxiety levels...I've had an increase in anxiety attacks, I've basically stopped sleeping, I've gained an unhealthy amount of weight (especially for one who is at risk for diabetes) and a shattering of other symptoms. With these things in mind me and Google set out to find ways to balance me back out without the use of medication. My search led me to the marvelous WebMD...where the solution seems to be yoga and various other at home techniques...cutting caffeine, meditating, exercise, the standard stuff that we have all heard and seen a million times...and I'm taking it seriously for the first time ever. In researching anxiety and anxiety disorders and such I've found that it can be linked to a number of the most common causes of death...and that freaks me out a bit! So that being said I am going to link to another page with relaxation techniques :D

New beginnings!

I have decided that today is the day! Today is the first day of the rest of forever! Today I put aside all the excuses and all the procrastination and start the process of getting where I want to be! I started this today by beginning the search for a better job, and as scared as I am I feel really good about it! My family deserves more than what we have....first step new job...second step paying off the car...then onto a house! This will be great! Scary...but great!

Happy Lil Homemaker

So, I'm on this crazy new budgeting/pinch a penny til it bleeds thing (credit to my dad, whom I love dearly btw) and I've decided that my world should be a DIY paradise...not sure exactly where this is gonna go...so far I've decided to do as my mom used to do (way back in once upon a time land) and make home made bread all winter instead of buying it...and also meal planning...like a weekly menu or something...I'm open to suggestions :D

The Rain Growled At Me!

The weather in Idaho Falls this summer has been awesome! I love the rain! There have been a lot of really neat thunder and lightning storms, but last night takes the cake! Khy woke up around 3am, as usual, because she was hungry. It was raining outside, and just as I leaned over to pick her up there was thunder that literally made my floor vibrate. It was great! So me and Khy laid in bed for the next two and half hours listening to the thunder and watching the lightning.  About thirty minutes into our laying and watching, I told Jason that I was surprised Khaily was not in our bed yet...she haaaaaates loud noises. He said she was probably fine because she sleeps through everything.  She got up around 9 this morning, came out to the living room and said, "Mommy, the rain growled at me!" I asked if it was during the night time and she said, "Yeah it was! So I shut my ears!." And showed me how she plugged her ears.  Not to toot my own horn, but my kids are stinkin cuuuuuute!

They Said I DO!

On August 17th....my baby sister got married! It was a blast to spend the day with them and the kids had so much fun! Photo parade here we go!

Khyri Lynn Raffetto

So. In addition to my wonderful honey, we have a wonderful new daughter <3 who is...well...wonderful <3  Khyri Lynn Raffetto was born on March 14th, 2013 at 12:29PM.  She was 6 lbs 12oz and 20.5 inches...with sooooooo much hair! Khaily is so in love with her baby sister :) she spent the whole pregnancy talking to my belly and being so excited! Now that Khy is almost 6 months old though, Khaily is no longer such an enthusiast about the tiny human who is always trying to eat her toys....siblings are awesome!

Jason

Heeeeeey! So...it's been over a year since my last post. In my last post, me and Mike were separated but "working on it..."...yeah that lasted about a day...and a half...we are now happily divorced.  Shortly after my last post I met Jason...who is wonderful and amazing...so here's that story...to begin with....

K so...that's me and Jason...we met last May when he came to work at Yellowstone Group Homes :) everyone was like..."ooo the new guy's hot"...and I was like..."dibs!"  And then there was a drunk night and some drunk texting that led to a movie night and some cute snuggles and the rest as they say is history.