Category Archives: personal

me, my fam, my crazy life

pancy

It started with a car. We were sitting outside somewhere and a car with a business decal drove by and out of the blue Lena goes “oh, that is a pancy car!” Ever since then she randomly states that “when I grow up I need a pancy car. and a cool bus” (pancy=fancy, cool=school) Then...

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turning 3…

Today you turn 3. how did that happen? As each day goes by I love you more and am amazed by you. you see, you’re kind of magic. *** You love to talk You jump up and down when you know someone is coming and your curls…oh your curls! I hope they never go away....

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3 strikes you’re out!

yes, finally, a personal post. I’m trying to catch up with these:) A few weeks ago we went out to the ballgame with the nana and pops. Nana taught Lena the baseball song which resulted in Lena screaming out randomly for weeks “1,2,3 strikes youre oooooooouuuuttt”. Hilarious! Here are my perfectly imperfect snapshots of the...

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wish right now

Lena has her first song crush.  It’s the song by Bob called Airplane.  Or as Lena calls it her “wish right now” song.  Not sure how it came to be but all the sudden a few days ago she started asking for her wish right now song.  At first I had no clue what she...

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5 years and us

Today Brad and I celebrated 5 years of marriage.  It was a normal day with a little celebrating with a family night out to eat. cards were exchanged. lena spilled her chocolate milk. my gas light came on on the way there and Brad rolled his eyes because that is typical me. and we were...

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thank you

before we get back to our regular scheduled program here around the bloggity, I wanted to take a minute to say thank you. while my hurt is far from over and my emotions feel like they are in a bounce house I do know this, that God is so good because He gave me you...

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saying goodbye…

to my baby, I’ve written this blog post in my head a thousand times. it hurts my heart to even have to think about writing this letter, this post.  but I must. you see, this blog is my home on the internet.  its my heart, my business, my legacy. and I want to remember you....

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the first bus ride

Lena loves buses.  loves them.  screams “a bus!!!!” at the top of her lungs as I mentioned in her five on friday. So last week we joined pop’s on his busride downtown.  She pretty much thought she was in heaven and now at random will say “remember when we took the bus with pops?” I’m...

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