Hello

Well, this is probably about my 3rd or 4th attempt to start a blog. I am hoping, with the help of some friends, that I will be able to keep this up and running. I can't figure the aesthetics out tonight because I am so tired, but I'll work on it little by little. And if you any of you out there have any really cool tips on how to make a blog look better, please do let me know. It's a bit frustrating to me as I haven't been in "web development" classes for a very very long time.

Anyway, with this being my very first post, I am going to make some introductions. I think the best way to describe myself is "mommy". That is what I am for the majority of each and every day, as I stay at home with my two girls. I hear it about a hundred times as I run up and down the stairs, cook in the kitchen, do laundry, nap, watch tv, you get the idea. That is my roll in life, and it is one that I have tried my best to embrace with arms wide open. Back to the point- I am a stay at home mom, and wife. My husband is a wonderful man who makes me laugh till I cry and cares for me in the most amazing ways. I love him so much and he is my one and only "partner in crime" in life. He has seen me through my best and my worst and he's definitely the only one that can put up with me day in an day out.

I love love love cooking/baking, watching really good movies, rollerblading (I know, it's such a 90's thing, but I've just never gotten over it), volleyball and racquetball, being outdoors, coffee- this is a fairly recent love, my children and my husband.

Our eldest daughter is Ivy. Ivy is three and a half ("mom, don't forget the half!!") and is our very outdoor-loving, rambunctious, tender-hearted, beautiful brown-eyed girl. She is at the age where I am really beginning to have deep, enthralling conversations with her, and I am amazed countless times throughout the day when a sentence will come out of her mouth and I think to myself "she's three??? how did she know that?" She's amazing. I don't know how I even had a life without her, she opens my eyes each day to the simplicities of life that I would never have noticed before. Some of her favorite things are: anything crafty- painting, drawing, cutting, pasting, molding; oysters- she loves to eat canned oysters with crackers; Dora the Explorer- major obsession for at least a year now... and the list goes on, but you'll find out as you keep reading this blog what her other favorites are.

Our youngest daughter is Genesis. She is 13 months old and also quite the live-wire. She began walking at about 10 months, and has not stopped being on the go... she is our Destroyer of all things, kind of like a small tornado that daily goes through the house and makes havoc of everything in it's path. She likes to growl and will have an instant temper tantrum after hearing the word "no". So, I think we are going to have our work cut out for us. I thought, when she was first born and also through her first couple months of life, that she would be our mild one. Boy was I wrong! But, OH do we Love her. She's my snuggly buddy who loves to give kisses and hugs, who loves to hold my hand when we walk, who sleeps through the night (and has since she was about  3 months old), who is attached to her bottle (and refuses any sippy cups- what do I do??)... I do love her so. :)

Oh my, it is late. I will write tomorrow- I think this could get very addicting, if I can just figure out how to upload cool stuff and remember to write on a more consistent basis!

Goodnight friends.