30 days of happiness....

Day 5

September 14, 2009

Hailey has begun weaning... I know that once you start feeding your baby any food you can officially say that you have begun weaning. But she has finally taken an interest in eating food along with only nursing to go to sleep and only when I am around. My sister is watching her when I go to work and for obvious reasons cannot nurse her to sleep. She is still waking up every few hours at night to nurse but once I get her her own bed I think she will stop. I am hoping to be completely done breastfeeding by the end of this year, and I think I am making good progress.

The food she has shown interest in liking so far are pasta salad, rice, cheerios, watermelon, scrambled eggs.. and some others but her most favorite it toast. She absolutly loves toast. I have a picture to upload but it might take me a few hours maybe even a couple days, but I will post one on here!

30 days of happiness....

Day 4

September 13, 2009

Hearing this song, this morning at church, spoke to me and it gave me peace inside from all the crazy things life has been handing to me.

What reason have I to doubt,

Why would I dwell in fear,

When all I have known is grace,

My future in Christ is clear.

My sins have been paid in full,

There's no condemnation here;

I live in the good of this,

My Father has brought me near.

I'm leaving my fears behind me now.

The old is gone, Yhe new has come,

What You complete is completely done.

We're heirs with Christ, the victory won.

What You complete is completely done!

I don't know what lies ahead,

What if i fail again?

You are my confidence,

You'll keep me to the end.

I'm leaving my fears behind me now.

The old is gone, The new has come,

What You complete is completely done.

We're heirs with Christ, the victory won.

What You complete is completely done!"

Completely Done - Sovereign Grace Music

30 days of happiness....

Day 3

September 12, 2009

Yesterday was my first day of work, and well it was work. I have never worked retail of any kind and by the end of the day my feet were killing me. I actually really liked it... I handed out samples of the new Jessica Simpson fragrance Fancy Love; assisted restocking Coach handbags, Bath and Body Works and Victoria Secret lotions and body sprays; I even helped someone pick out clothes that matched (not really in my job description or even in my line of work but whatever). Anyways, after a long 6 hours of being away from Hailey I was so happy to get to see her again and she was just as, if not more, happy to see me! I wish I had a picture to show you of our little reunion but I don't and even if I did I don't have a cord for my camera right now :( (that explains why my bog is so bare lately). My happy moment was seeing my daughter happy to see me!

30 days of happiness....

Day 2

September 11, 2009

Todays moment of happiness happened just a few minutes ago. My sister gave me a call to tell me the most wonderful news I have heard in a long time. This is the sister who has already gotten me a job working for her part time and for the holiday season. She was talking with a co-worker who by the end of the conversation offered me all of her available seasonal hours. My sister was only going to beable to give me maybe 30 hours...a month and now I just was handed another 40- 50 hours extra for each month.

About my new jobs. I have the same position with both jobs, just with a defferent company. I will be a "Fragrance Model". My first day is tomorrow, wish me luck!

restarting of the 30 days of happiness...

Day 1

September 10th, 2009

My hapiness today comes from two things one is the hope that somehow or another writing about what makes me happy each day will help get me out of my state a depression. and Two is what I am planning for Haileys 1st bithday. I wish that my original plan for her could go through just a small get together with my and my husbands friends at our apartment, or at least having her dad there. But that is NOT going to happen, so I have to get over that. I am planning a cupcake theme cake and ice cream party. Here is a pic of the cake I am going to attept to make:

Instead or black pink and white as the colors I will be using all different colors to make it more "child friendly"

homecoming 2009

My Husband finally made it home! After 5 months of being on deployment on a ship he is home safe and sound. After 5 months of taking care of Hailey to the best of by ability and everything around the house, I am so happy he is home.

Marriage is hard work and the military makes it even harder on a couple. Deployments are not fun, they suck. Having your spouse leave and then come home 5 months (or however long the deployment is) later, sucks. When both of your lives have been changing and life keeps going during those months it almost forces your lives to grow apart, it sucks. When they come home are things just magically suppose to go back to what they were? No, people change unfortunately. Influences, circumstances and stress are all things that change what and who you are if you don't have anything that keeps you grounded or to remind you of who you were and the person you want to be.

But this is not supposed to be about the deployment it is about him coming home. For that I am grateful!

virginia beach aquarium

A few weeks ago I took Hailey to the Virginia Beach Aquarium. She's a little young to remember but hey, her admittance was free! She loves to look at our fish tank at home so it was no surprise to me that she was loving being able to look at and touch the huge ones with giant fish, turtles and sharks inside of them. Here are some pictures:

Hailey's walking!

4th of july

I am extremely grateful to those who fought and those who still fight to preserve our freedom! Thank you to my loving husband for serving his country so proudly. I love and miss you!

This is how I celebrated my independence this year:

We were packing our lunch for our day at the beach and Hailey in her new favorite spot to race towards when I am getting something from the fridge... (Yes, I do put a sponge roller in her little pony-tail or it stands straight up!)She's becoming a good little helper, she keeps the door open for me...

Hailey loves the water! I'm lucky to have friends who help me with her at the beach.

Hailey wasn't very interested in the Fireworks... all the little kids holding glow sticks were a lot more entertaining for her!

the great american backyard camp out!

This past weekend Hails and I went camping! Can you believe it? The Armed Services YMCA sponsored "The Great American Backyard Camp Out" for military and there families. They charged $7.50 per person, but they provided a tent, lantern, dinner, dessert, educational tours, compass reading lesson, crafts for the children, breakfast and 2 days of free parking at First Landing State Park. We actually got to keep the tent and the lantern, so I'd say it was a bargain!

For dinner we roasted hot dogs...and for dessert we made the famous camping tradition of s'mores!

Hailey did really well considering the extreme heat and humidity! She ended up in just a diaper and moving to a cold spot on the sleeping bag every few minutes... Needless to say I didn't get much sleep with the little wiggle worm beside me.


Our practically free tent was a lot nicer than what I had imagined we would be getting... Close your eyes and picture...wait don't close your eyes...you're reading a blog what am I thinking. So I'm sure you can picture just an old triangle tent with no zippered doors... like the one below.
The next day we went to the beach at First Landing State Park. I had never been to a beach on The Chesapeake Bay but I realized the waves were a lot smaller (I didn't think they could get any smaller) than the normal coastal beaches here in VA. The water was also a lot warmer. We ended up taking a nap on the sand... Hailey tried to "surf" on a boogie board...and we even attempted to build a sand castle...