Last post for 2013

Can you believe that 2013 is coming to a end. It still seems like yesterday that it was turning 2013. I guess 2013 was a good year for Mike and I. A lot of things went on in 2013. We tried the fertility treatments again and did not get pregnant. We became great aunt and uncle for the first time this pass year. And our nephew is a cute loveable little boy who is going to be a heartbreaker when he gets older.
Mike got out of the Army this pass year so that has been a big adjustment. Mostly for him but for me some to. Do I still call myself a military wife or what? I just dont know what to call myself now. I know it has been harder for him to adjust then it is for me. Moving and going from one job to another and then to another. Yep he had gotten one job and worked there not even a month, probably like three weeks and they was telling him that he was fired but wouldnt tell him for what reason. But it was a good thing he had a job lined up already that he was going to take that pays more then that one. And yes I mean pays more. Why would he stay at a job making $11 something a hour when he can make $15 something a hour. All that gets gone in no time with bills and buying groceries. So we are still trying to get adjusted to all that.
What I hope 2014 brings us. Well lets see I know it will bring us another great nephew or niece one. In a few short months our oldest nephew and his wife will be having a baby. So cant wait to find out what it is going to be.  Other then that I just hope that 2014 is a very good year for us. I hope we get back on our feet. I hope once we get started with the adoption process that we wont take long for us to adopt a baby. I hope that my photography business, the origami owl business, and the other little business I have got going on will make a big hit and I start earning money from them. Shot Just earn either $50 to a $100 a month on them will be okay with me. It will help us out some.  I also hope that I will lose some much needed weight. I am going getting into running but havent been able to do that in like a week because of a twisted ankle but it is getting better, so hopefully soon I will be able to run again. I hope to do some 5ks in 2014. It may be one or two but I am going to try my best to do them.
Before you ask no those are not resolutions. I do not make those as I never keep them. Those are just some things that I hope will happen in 2014. I know in my heart what ever 2014 brings us it will be a good year because we will have our family and friends and that the love god that that is all that matters.

Seriously some people now days

Seriously some people now days. Mike and I was in walmart's today getting us some milk and him some cakes for work this weekend. We just got to the checkout line and since we didnt have that much so we decided to go down the 20 items or less checkout line. There was this woman who the cashier told her she would have to go to a different line as she had a buggy full and I knew a buggy full of items (so needless to say she had way more then 20 items or less in her buggy) and this woman was so rude about it say that it was just ridiculous that I am having to move. Seriously you seen the sign that says 20 items or less and you want to be rude about the cashier just doing her job. Maybe next time you should go to the right checkout line.
Okay now on to another little vent. When we got to the durango and there was this person parked up behind us and we couldnt back out. We get in and park puts it in reserve and starts blowing the horn at this person parked right behind us. Seriously people are rude, selfish, and lazy. Oh and can not forget materialistic  also. And it seems like around this year they get worse.

Hope you had a wonderful holiday

I hope you have had a wonderful holiday. My was pretty good. I got to spend this holiday with some of my family members. I have missed spending the holidays with them. Got to watch my great nephew open up the gifts we all got him. Sure have missed seeing the reaction of a little one when they are opening gifts. Next year I will have another great nephew or a great niece and hopefully by Christmas of next year Mike and I will know whether or not we will be adopting a little one of our own. I wish my oldest nephew had been there but I he he wasnt able to or he would have been.

What all did you get for Christmas? Mike got me a purse (yep another purse lol) a laptop cover. It is a blue color I love it and I got a pink Ipod touch. And some candy for my stocking. My Christmas eve gift was a necklace that says love you to the moon and back. He sure does know how to make my heart melt. My oldest niece got us a gift. I wasnt expecting that. I actually wasnt expecting to get anything from family. I just wanted to spend time with them. But I thought it was sweet of her. She made us some fudge and pretty darn good fudge to. She is a pretty good cook. My parents got us some kitchen towels as we still havent found out kitchen towels in all theses boxes yet that we are unpacking slowly.

On Christmas eve I twisted my ankle so I guess you can I got that for Christmas to. So I havent been able to go for a run yet. Got to let that heal. Maybe in a week or so.

Other then all that we had a pretty good Christmas. We hope you did to.

This kind of makes me sick

This kind of makes me sick. I also just find it so sad. I just seen a story where this person was bragging about how much they spent on their kids and then asks for donations for toys for their youngest as they are struggling to pay their bills. Seriously you would do something like that. What a bunch jerks. There are people out there who would love to give their kids a christmas but they are having a hard time to doing that. The toys for tots in one community here is struggling to get some more gifts up for like 600 kids. I hope and pray that they was able to get what they needed so theses kids can have a christmas. I also hope that the person who did all that will learn what is important. Dont get me wrong me I am glad that their kids is getting to have a christmas but dont ask for donations for your self when you put yourself in that spot. Maybe instead of asking for donations for yourself maybe you should ask for donation to help a needy family.

Is this what this world is coming to when people only cares about how much they are getting for christmas. Where is the it is better to give then receive? Where is the doing a nice deed for someone? 
I think we as a society have lost what it means to do good things in this world. At least that is how it seems as everytime I turn around I hear stories about things like this.

Things I do not find funny

This is just a few things I do not find funny at all.

People making fun of suicide. Suicide is not a joking matter and people who makes fun of it should be ashamed of their selves.  Instead of making fun of it maybe ask how you can help. Pray for these people and their love ones. It is time people stop making fun of it and find ways of helping each other.

People who makes fun of infertility. That is not a laughing matter neither. It breaks my heart each and every time some one wants to make some kind of rude comment about infertility. Like the phase you must not want kids or you would have them and then start laughing (so far no one has not said this to us but I do know a couple of people that has been told this and it breaks my heart for them)

People who makes dead baby jokes. Seriously when is it funny that someone is going thru the lost of their son, daughter, grandchild, niece or nephew. I am not a very mean person but when people wants to start in on this you better believe that the crap is about to hit the fan. I will  unleash the bitch side and it will not be pretty. I also hope and pray that people out there this making fun of this will never have to go thru something like that. I have lost two nephews and I think of them every single day. As I type this I have tears in my eyes because I wish I could see them one more time and hold them in my arms. I hated that my brother and sister (they both each lost a son) did not have to go thru that. I would never wish that on anyone.

Dont wish infertility on anyone neither.

Another thing I find that is not funny is making fun of people's spelling and grammar. Yes I dont wrote a blog about that so I will not getting into that again but I will say this. It is never nice throw peoples mistakes in their faces because you never know what kind of animal you will be unleashing. 

Grammar and spelling

Okay I wasnt going to get into this as it is a touchy subject for me. I am just sick and tired of people saying that people needs to learn grammar or spell, that it is their pet peeve. Have theses people ever stopped to think that people are not perfect. You dont have to have perfect grammar or spelling. I can tell you this I am not perfect. I have never been perfect. I have never been good with spelling or grammar. Does that stop me from writing, No.  I am so glad that I have spell check on my phone and computer because I can tell you this. None of my writing would make sense without it lol.

I am not going to apologize for not having perfect grammar or spelling. I am not going to apologize for me being me. If  no one likes it, then dont read what I write or dont be friends with me.

And not all that but stop and think before you speak about something like this because I can tell you this you will never know who you are going to offend. They may not the type of person to let it roll off of their shoulders and they maybe the type person to come unglue on you in a not so nice friendly manner.

Okay that is all I have to say.

Seriously what we pay football coaches now days

Seriously the amount that some football coaches are getting paid. I really think that it is wrong that a football coach is getting $7 million to coach a college football team when that money could go to the school itself to help the students better their education. Also it makes me sick that all theses men and women in the military gets a sucky pay for risking their lives to keep us safe while a football coach is getting $7 million a year. It is just so wrong. Not only that, it shows me that football coach is not really out for the that college or that team but for his self. If he really cared about that school and that team wouldnt he renewed his contact without asking that much money.

Come on people it is time that we really start to look at what is important. Is it more important to go hog wild for a football team and having to pay a coach that much money or  should we not help others and help this country get out of a recession. If this country keeps going like it is we will be in another great depression and then what. Are we going to continue to pay out $7 million to football coaches.

And before any of you Roll Tide fans out there dont get your panties in a wad I feel this way about all the football coaches. I image that all colleges are paying their coaches way too much money now days. And look at what the NFL is getting paid. We take football too seriously now days, yes this is even concluding me. I think it is time for a change. Yes I will continue to cheer for Auburn and support them win or lose but I will no longer make it all about the football.

another businesss adventure

i am doing another business adventure (yes i am still with the origami owl and jewelry candles) but i wanted to try a little something else. maybe with all i am doing i will make some money to help my family out.

https://seatsboutique.kitsylane.com/index.php

this looked like it will do well but we will see. share with your friends and family.

Running/weight loss

I wish running and loosing weight was easier but I know that this hard work will be worth it to be back into shape.  It doesn’t help that I had hurt my foot one day last week and it wasnt hurting when I started to run again today and before I was even half way thru my run my foot started to hurt again so I walked more then I had runned. I am hoping to get up to half a mile by the end of Dec. I would like for it to be mostly running but it will be okay if it is walking to but I want to be able to run a half a mile by then. I am going to try my hardest to get to there.

Well that is a weight loss update for you for now. I am hoping that by the end of this month I will have more of a update for you.

The ugliest of football

You may think that there isnt any ugliest to football or maybe you are just thinking of something different from me. The ugliest I am talking about is how people wants to place blame on the football players of any team. The football players they play their hardest to win the game but sometimes their hardest isnt enough but that doesnt mean that they should be threaten or blamed for not winning and also doesnt mean that the winning team should be threaten. What is wrong with this world when we find it is okay to blame and threaten people. Theses so called fans needs to just suck up a lost and keep given their support for their favorite team (which ever team that is) and stop placing blame on theses players. The work their butts off doing something they love doing and what are you doing but just sitting there on your butt either in the stands or at home watching the game on tv and then when it doesnt go your way you want to place blame or start threaten the other team.

I am proud of the Auburn football team. If they lose they lose if they win they win. It doesnt matter which one I will always support and cheer them on and not place blame on any of them or any of the other teams.

War Eagle.

origami owl

please help me keep my origami owl account active. i need to sell about 199.00 worth of stuff by the 1st of jan. So please either contact me for orders, or go to the website www.elizabethseats.origamiowl.com and buy some things. please. i really need the help. and if you would like to host a online/catalog party please let me know and i can set that up for you or if you want to host a jewelry bar party please let me know. i really want to make a go of this but i can not at least not without your help. so please help me and also share my site and facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Origami-owl-elizabeth-seats-independent-designer/372852232817721 with your friends and family. that is all it takes is word of mouth.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all had a wonderful day and if you going to do any shopping tonight or tomorrow be safe. We had a pretty good Thanksgiving. This was the first Thanksgiving we have gotten to spend it with family and it was pretty good. It was also good to spend biggest part of the week with one of my nieces and nephews. It was really good to spend time with them. We played board games and baked and they also helped me unpack some. No I didnt ask them if they wanted to they just wanted to. They also helped us put up some Christmas  decoration. Yep we are aalready decorating for Christmas. My great nephew loved the Christmas tree. I let him play with a Christmas ball that lights up and play music. He loved it. He really loved the bell that came with our Polar Express train that we have a round the tree.

So yeah we had a pretty good Thanksgiving. Now to finish decorating the house for Christmas and unpacking some more.

Haunted House

Ugh I think we are living in another haunted house again. That or the ghost from Texas followed us here or something. Sunday morning I got woke up to which I thought was just a dream at first and now I am not to sure because I was telling Mike about it last night after he got home from work and he said that he heard it to. Unless we had the exact dream at the exact time then we either have a ghost or some one found away into the house without us really knowing about it.

Well another thing happened this morning. I was laying in bed playing on my phone waiting for Mike to text me to tell me know he made it to work (yes he does this) and I thought I seen a shadow block out the light from the hallway. It was really quick and it could have been my eyes playing tricks on me but I am not to sure.  Why is that we find a house that is haunted or something.

Menu making

I decided to sit down and start on a menu for next year. I am going to try to do a menu for the whole year. So far I have only got like 6 or 7 days wrote down. I really need to get on the ball with it. Maybe the cookbooks will help me get it all planned out soon. I will be spending time on pinterest to make that menu. Maybe doing this menu for next year we will be able to save some money next year.  I will try to share of the recipes with you next year. that is if I do not forget.

Okay to write about something else. I am thinking about entering a short story contest. I think it might be a good idea to do. It something I have never done before and I think I could write a pretty good short story.
Well I am going to go but I will try to write more about the menu planning and the short story later on.

hates moving

i really hope that this is the last move for us for a very long time.  the only time i will move again is if we are buying a house. because i really hate moving. i hate the packing (which we did not do the packing. but still) and i hate the finding a place to live. and i really hate the unpacking. the finding a place to put everything. then boxes every where. i think we are finally about half way thru the unpacking but still got a lot to do. we really want to have the livingroom and kitchen done by thanksgiving. so that is only 2 weeks and four days away. i really hope we have at least those two rooms done. and have our clothes unpacked. i started on that today. done got two suitcases unpacked and still like a few more to go. i also need to find the rest of our pictures and get them hung up but i got most of them hung up but it just seems like there is still some in boxes somewhere. it probably wouldnt be so hard if the boxes had the right thing wrote on it about what is inside it. i can not tell you how many boxes we have opened up and it wasnt what we thought was in it. i still havent found our kitchen towels. maybe i will be able to find them soon or i will be going to buy us some more.

so yeah i hate moving. if you are fixing to move or thinking about moving and you are using a moving company make sure that they right the write things on the box that is in the boxes so that way you wont have to go thru all that we are going thru.

I really hate allergies

I really hate allergies. The two past days I have gotten up with a little headache and a stuffy nose. Well this morning I just got up with a stuffy nose but now I am starting to get a headache. I just wish I was feeling better.

On another note. I have been taken the metformin for over two weeks now and I am not having any side effects from it. I am so glad for that. Been taken the anixety meds for over two weeks and I just dont know if it is working or not. I dont feel any different.  But I think I have been doing pretty good with eating the right foods and working out. I know I could be doing better but I think I am doing pretty good with it. I feel like I have lost a little weight. Maybe not much but a little is a good start. So I think I am doing pretty good with all this. Just wish my allergies would just leave me a lone.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, I hope you all are having a good Halloween and that you all stay safe tonight while trick or treating. You know what ever happened to the good old days of going door to door on Halloween. I remember as a kid dressing up in my costume and going door to door trick or treating. It was so much fun. Now days you have fall festival or trunk or treat. Dont get me wrong those are okay to and a little fun but not as fun as it was when I was a kid.  I know that times are tough and not safe anymore but if you ask our parents they would tell you that is how they felt when they was carrying us trick or treating. I hope that in the next several years we can get it back to door to door trick or treating.

Okay here is a few pictures of Mike and I dressed up for Halloween. What all are you dressing up as.
Over look our jeans and the fact that my hair isnt braided. I wish my hair was long enough to braid it like Katniss from hunger games. Yes we dressed up in district 12 training shirts for halloween this year.

jewelry candle

finally got my website for the jewelry candles going right. they had sent me the wrong link last week. so here is my site http://www.jewelrycandle.com/seatscandles/ if you want to go there and order any thing. they have candles with jewelry in them. tarts with jewelry in them and there is soap bars with jewelry them. They also have wax roses you can buy to and yes there is a piece of jewelry that comes with it. the jewelry prices are different. they go from $10 up to the thousands. So you will never know how the jewelry is going to cost.
I hope I can do really well in this adventure. I am going to try to keep at with the origami owl as long as i can but we will see how long i can last with it.

please help us

please pretty please help us raise money for adoption. we need to sell a 100 shirts. i was thinking it was just 20 but no it is 100 shirts. so please help us. if you can not afford to buy please share it with your friends and family and get them to share it. we really want to be parents and adoption is in our hearts. so please help us. make our dream of becoming parents come true.

https://www.booster.com/mikeandbethsadoptionfund

my first origami owl jewerly party

my first origami owl jewerly party was a bust. and it was my launch party. i had people saying oh i am coming and they didnt even show up. the only ones that showed up was my mom (which it was at my parents house), my sister inlaw, and one of my nieces but my niece and nephew was staying the weekend with my parents so that way my niece could be there for the party. my nephew and dad crashed it lol. my mom and sister inlaw bought a couple of things. i am seriously thinking of giving up on the origami owl since no one really wants to buy anything from or set up parties with me. or even share it with their friends and family members on facebook. i can not tell you how many people i have shared things for and helped out when i could and how many family members i have helped in the past. dont get me wrong i know that times are tough right now. i get that but there was some family members that could have showed up just to support me in this even if they didnt buy anything they just could have just showed up. that really hurts. Truthfully i have been having a feeling that it was going to go that way because everytime i have throw a party no one but a few family members shows up. at least if it is a party for me or mike one they dont show up. but if it is a party for them they all show up. well no more. if you cant show up to the parties i plan for myself or mike i will not show up for the parties you plan. and i will also not plan any more parties for any one else. they can do it their selves or let someone else do it. I am just so tired of being the one that people can run all over. i am tired of being hurt by the ones that say they love me and that they will be there for me. i see now who is there for me and who isnt.

i will keep trying to sell the origami owl stuff until after christmas , so if you want something for a christmas gift you better get to it now. i may change my mind between now and then but so far i am saying that i am not going to be. there is no since in it if i am not going to be making money from it.

the origami owl website is www.elizabethseats.origamiowl.com

i just dont get some people

i just dont get some people. i was in this group for adoption. well i made a post about our fundraiser page and shared the link (main you i have seen others do that) but i get told to delete it. dont get me wrong i dont mind do it but when people start being mean to me about it i will delete and move on but i just dont get how others can make post about fundraisers for this and that and i cant. so needless to say i am not in that group no more and i will not be joining back. i dont think they was given me much support in this anyways so there wasnt no use for me being there. i think we all should support one other and not just sorten people.

doctor appointment today

I had a doctor appointment today. My doctor is like nearly 2 hours from me so i had a lot of traveling to do. She told me that my thyroid levels are in the normal range and that things are good with it. That all the problems I have been having with my neck is from stress and my anixety.  She could tell right off the bat that I have a anixety issue as i just couldnt sit still. i was playing with my thumbs and i do that alot. and she also put me on metformin the extended release since i have pcos and diabetes runs in the family. and she also said that my chholesterol was alittle high and that my liver enzymes was high also. she said that could becaused from a fatty liver. so i guess that i have a fatty liver. which is probably true. i have seen where there is some people over weight that has had problems with a fatty liver. lets just hope that with diet and exercise i can get all this undercontrol.

i will tell you this that if none of the pills she gave which are the metformin and prozac then i will be finding another doctor. but i hope they work as i want to feel better.

when you move to a new town

when you move to a new town, you are basically starting over.  you have to find a job, a place to live, and get things turned on in your new home, and make friends. which making friends has never been easy for me like it is for some. i guess that is just because of being made fun of when i was a kid and i just dont trust people to easy. i am lucky enough to have mike and to have family and friends close by. even though they are a hour and half away i am still lucky to have them. i am lucky to have mike because he means the world to me. i am also lucky that he has a job and that helps right now. i will be glad when i will have a job to help him pay our bills. i have some online things going on and my part time photography business (when ever that starts making me money money. beginning to wonder if it is ever going to take off) i also have the origami owl but i dont know how well that is going to be. so i am going to try to find a job to help him out. he cant do it all by his self. we also have been trying to find ways to cut some bills down. and we have actually been lucky enough to pay off some bills. we have paid off like 5 bills off as of right now. we still have like two bills that needs to be paid off (this is not counting lights, water, phones, and internet) so we have decided that we are not going to get any kind of tv service. we have thought about the hulu but not to sure about it yet. will have to check and see if we have enough of data for the internet to use it at times. but we do have dvds so that is okay with us and plus we can always rent movies from red box.

i have my doctor appointments this week. so after this week i will be going to try to find me a job. i want a part time job because i would still like to be home to cook mike dinner. i so can not wait until we get our stuff from storage so i can start to cook meals and not being eating these microwaveable dinners or sandwiches.  i get so tired of eating sandwiches all the time. and i know mike does to. i also know that he misses my cooking. he told me once here while back that there is nothing like your cooking. dont get me wrong my mom is a good cook and he even said that but he thinks my cooking is the best lol.
well that is it for now but i will try to write more later.

Please please help us

Please help us raise the money for adoption.  You know they say it takes a village to raise a child, well it is going to take a village for Mike and I have the kids we want to have. Shoot we would be happy with just one child. But we need help with getting that one child and we have made the choice to go thru adoption. So please help us raise the money by going to this website https://www.booster.com/mikeandbethsadoptionfund and ordering a tshirt and getting your family and friends to order a tshirt. It is going to cost us around 24900 to be able to adopt. So please help us make our dream come true.

just one of the fundraisers we are going to do

this is just one of the fundraisers we are going to do to help raise money for adoption. go to here and buy a tshirt and it will help us raise money for adoption. http://www.booster.com/mikeandbethsadoptionfund  please also share it with your family and friends. we would be really grateful and we are so ready to be parents. thank you all.

after months of waiting

after months of waiting for the doctor to get my medical records they finally got them. i went to the doctor to sign the medical release form on aug 19, 2013 and waited and waited and nothing. so i called the doctor office and they said they haven’t received them yet. so they said they would call the old doctor office. well they called them twice and they still didnt send them my medical records. so a couple of weeks ago i called them and they said they would fax the new doctor office part of my medical records and then mail the rest. well i waited and waited and so i called the doctor office to see if they had gotten them and nope they didn’t so i waited a little longer and recalled the old doctor office. and they told me that they mailed all my medical records on sept 27, 2013. well they wasnt suppose to mail them they was suppose to fax them and i told them that. but my new doctor office finally has my medical records and i have two appointments next week. one is for lab work and the other is to see the doctor after my lab work comes back in so the doctor can go over everything with me. so glad to have a appointment and maybe i will find out what is going on with me now.

found out how much it is going to cost us to adopt

we found a adoption agency and found out how much it is going to cost us. we are going to need around $24,900. $400 for the application fee $1500 for the homestudy and $23000 for other fees. so it is fundraiser time. i hope we will be able to raise all that we need to help for adoption. once we get our stuff from the movers and start to unpack we are going thru what we dont need or want anymore and having a yard sale. to family and friends if you have things you dont want or need would you be willing to donate it to us to sell in yard sales so we can raise money for adoption. we are fixing to do a fundraiser with selling shirts so that way we can make a little with that fundraiser. i will post the link for that as soon as i can.

will update you more on things later.

first day of setting up my little booth for my origami owl stuff

today was the first day of setting up my origami owl stuff at the little yard sale. didnt sale anything though. had a couple of people say they would be back but they never showed back up before i left. wouldnt have left as early as i did but the wind was blowing my table cloth up and causing things to move around and blowing my business cards every where. so i decided to call it quits for the day. but i am going back tomorrow. that is if it isnt raining so please pray that it wont be raining.  i know of one of the people that stopped by is more then likely going to order something. and i already have someone else wanting to order but they are having to save up money for it.

that is it for today's post. please pray that i will be able to set up tomorrow and that i make some money.

we found a house

yesterday i told you about mike getting another job offer that is going to be paying really good. well we went to that town today to look for a house since he doesnt start until wednesday but his first official day is saturday. he will be working 3 days a week for 12 hours maybe more with getting 15 something a hour. i think it is nearly 16 something  a hour. which is not to bad if i say so myself lol. getting back to the house we found. we got up this morning and left my parents house around like 730 something close to 8 got into cullman, al. (yep that is where we will be living at now) and spent all day looking for a house. we found one that we love from the outside (mainly the size of the yard) but the house was nice to. then we went to realtor office that was renting it out for the owners and filled out a renters application and then had to wait around for the background/credit check and then we got to look at the inside of the house. it is really nice (will share photos when we actually get in it). it is 3 bedrooms with one bath (kind of dont like that idea but it is doable lol ) it also has a pretty good size basement and a little storage like area in the basement. we are going to mail in our despoit tomorrow for the house. the realtor (well renter  broker is what they kind of called him) was not in but mike talked to him this evening and he said we can mail it back in to save us some gas money so that way we are not driving like a hour and half to turn it in. and that one day next week they will get the first month rent and such.  i so can not wait until we get moved in and get our stuff from storage. i am grateful that we have my parents letting us stay with them but we really want a place of our own. a place to really stretch our legs haha.

okay moving on from that and to other things. this weekend i am going to try to have a yard sale and setup a little booth from my origami owl. i got the business cards and the tshirt i order on saturday today. going to have my business cards with me this weekend at the yard sale and i am going to wear my tshirt. will post  a photo of that as soon as i can. i need to get some business cards made up for my photography business and get those photos upload to that website. it is kind of hard to upload photos at my parents because they have satellite internet and you have like a upload/download limit and for some reason it keeps exceeding its download/upload limit. we have been trying to figure out why it is doing that but we have no clue. so we all are trying to limit the upload and download we all do. but i may go somewhere with free wifi serve and try to upload them there. maybe will do that sometime this weekend.

well that is it for now. starting to getting sleepy. took some nyquil about a hour ago and i think  it is starting to kick in. will update you all on how i do at the yard sale this weekend that is if it doesnt rain me out. i hope you all are doing good.

day 3 of origami owl

today is day 3 of my origami owl and i made a facebook page for it today and got my stuff in the mail and made one necklace and order some more stuff for another necklace or two. i really do hope that things will keep up with it soon. count down the days until i have my first party which will be my launch party that is unless someone else doesnt call or message me about a jewelry bar party. that is what they call it a jewelry bar party. i so can not wait. maybe this will help me get out of my shyness some.

anyways here is a couple of pictures for you. this first picture is of all the stuff i got. the second is of me wearing the first necklace i made. kind of a little to short for me but that is okay it is still pretty. good thing it is easy to change up haha.

day two of origami owl

today is day two of origami owl. finally got it where i can log in and buy the things i need to. started planning my launch party. got the date and time and place sit. also got my guest list wrote out. now working on the wish list of the things i need to get for the party. tomorrow i should be getting my first kit ever from something like this. i really can not wait to get it and share it with you all and share my experience with selling it with you.

i know must people aim for a higher money made back within the first 30 days but i am going to aim for making $50 back. i will be happy if i can just make that much back. maybe i will make more but we will seen. then for 60 days i hope i earn a total of $75 more days back. and go up $25 each month after that. i am trying to be understanding as not everyone can afford to buy things and they are living on a budget. but we will see how well i will do.

nicknames and how i got them

well the first nickname is pooh bear and my dad gave me that. the next is little sister and my grandpa used to call me that all the time. then there is beth which i just go by beth on the internet a lot. i have a friend that calls me bethie pooh. she is pretty much the only one that calls me that. then one of my nephews calls me aunt lizzy. and he gets mad if anyone else calls me that.

that is pretty much all my nicknames. at least all the ones that i know about lol.

starting to sell origami owl

follow long on my journey thru selling origami owl. (here is my the link to the shop if you want to buy from me.http://elizabethseats.origamiowl.com/shop/  i am still trying to get the hang of it so please bare with me.)

today marked day one of my journey.  my order that i order last night was shipped to me. and hopefully i will get it soon. i am still trying to figure it all out and maybe once i get all the stuff i had to order here i will get it all figured out. i really  hope that i can do really good with this and that it wont turn out like it did with the avon when i was selling it. i dont think it will but you  can never tell. so far it is going okay maybe in a month or so i will be able to see at least a little profit from it. and be able to help mike pay our bills.

plans/dreams/and goals

right now my plans are getting a job, getting my part time photography business off the ground, and getting started with origami owl. cant forget to find us a place to live and get settled into our new lives really good outside of the military.

dreams to become a parent. there is nothing in this world that i want more then become a parent. that is my only dream
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goals. save money for adoption. get the adoption process started. make money from my part time photography business and from the origami owl.
 loose weight and become healthy.

those are my plans and dreams and goals for now.

who i would want to switch lives with for a day and why

hmm.... a good question i suppose. i have been sitting here thinking of someone i would want to switch lives with and i can honestly say that there is no one i would want to switch lives with. because my life is my life. and i dont want to be someone else. my daily struggles are what makes me who i am and i dont want to change who i am. yes i would like to be at a healthy weight and be healthy but i am still me.

so no there is no one who i would want to switch lives with for one day.

sorry about the blog challenge

sorry that i havent kept up the blog challenge like i have wanted to.  we are still staying with my parents and i am using my mom’s desktop  and i just havent wanted to take up her computer too much.  not only that i have pretty much been busy since friday. friday morning went to some yard sales with my mom, sister, nephew and a family friend. then that afternoon my nephew and i spent time together. i really didnt do a post on the blog challenge friday. and saturday i spent time with mike, one of my nieces and nephews. we went to this fest in town called founders day fest. it was okay. probably would have been better if we had waited a little longer to go up to town then what we did. i did see where i had won second  place in the photo contest i had enter. so that makes twice i have gotten second place. then saturday evening mike and i went to the fair and did a little shopping. runned into my oldest niece and her family in the halloween express store and then at the fair. it was really good to see my great nephew’s reaction to the fair. he just didnt know where to look lol. then yesterday mike and i had to go buy a couple of long sleeve shirts. all our jackets and winter clothing is in storage (will be glad when we will have a place of our own) it is starting to get cool in the mornings and at nights so we needed a few sleeves. and today i just feel like curling back up in bed and going back to sleep. i am just so tired and sleepy today. i hate it when i have days like this. i slept pretty good last night. well at least i thought i did. will be so glad when my old doctor office sends my medical records to this one i am trying to get into see. she will not see me until she gets my records and i am tired of being sick off and on and being tired all the time. i just want to feel better.

i hope you all are doing good.

oh yeah check out my amazon store and tell me what you would like to see more of on there and would like to buy and share it with your friends and family. most of the money that i will make on there will be going in savings for adoption. http://astore.amazon.com/httpthedail0e-20 so please help us as much as you can

part 3 of pcaos awareness

part 3 of pcos awareness and probably my last post on this subject until next september.  this post is going to be about my experience with it.
my experience could be the same as some others but this is my experience. ( dont forget that pcos is going to effect each young girl and woman different. there maybe some that may go thru the same as you but everyone feels differently about each experience) my experience with it some days very frustrating and others not so frustrated. there are some days i dont know if it is the pcos or my thyroid problem one that is making me feel the way i do or if it is both of them. on the days i get up and my clothes are tight on me i get so frustrated. and the days that i have shave parts of my body that no woman should have to shave. it all is so frustrated. now i am not ashamed of it but i do wish that it wasnt happening to my body. yes i can feel that way and not be ashamed of it to. why should i be  ashamed of my medical problems. that is almost like telling someone who has something worse that they should be ashamed of their medical condition. i get to loosing weight and then i just get so tired that there are days i just dont want to get up and go (this part could be because of my thyroid problem.) just about every doctor i have seen for the pcos has put me on metformin. even though i have told them and told them that i can not take it. it doesnt work on me. i am staying sick on even after a few months of taken it i stay sick on it. and to me that isnt healthy. i finally got a doctor last year to listen to me when i say i cant take it. had to prove it to them but they finally listen.  there has been times thru out the years that i have felt like i have failed as a woman by not becoming pregnant. yes i am one of the ones that suffer from infertility with pcos (not everyone with pcos suffer thru infertility but that is probably a select few out of a hundred lol. well dont know the exact amount. ) if you follow my blog here you will see my struggles with infertility. i just wish that i could just become pregnant so much. i want to be a mommy so much that my heart breaks at times. at least that is how it feels. i think that is the most frustrating part of pcos is the infertility. i am glad that i have a good support system in mike (he has been my biggest supporter thru out it all. ) and my family and friends and the group of ladies that i talk to with pcos. hopefully one day soon i can get my weight under control and i cay get the symptoms of pcos under control also.

letter to someone who has hurt me

okay today's day blog challenge is a letter to someone who has hurt me. there has been more then one person who has hurt me and i just can not pick just one person so i am going to write to them all.

dear person or persons who have hurt me,
i dont know if you actually realize how much what you have said or done has hurt me. dont know if you really care if you have hurt me or not but i just want you to know that you have hurt me.  but i know that i will be okay. just dont come looking to me for help you anymore. i can only take so much from people and it is now time that i think of myself and my feelings and not worry about what others think or do to me because it will come back to you. it always does.
to this one person, what you really said and did behind my back was uncall for. i was always there for you when you need someone to talk to. i was there for you alot. and you had the nerve to say one thing to me but then go around telling others something else. i dont wish any thing happens to. i hope and pray that you get good things in life and not bad. but dont look to me for being there for you anyone. i dont like back stabbers and i am not going to take being stabbed in the back by someone who says they are there for me and then them not be. my life is so much better without you in it.
peace to every one who has hurt me and i hope and pray that  you learn your lessons on hurting people you claim to care for.

part two of pcos awareness

what to do if you have pcos or think you have pcos. is to find a knowledgeable medical practitioner. then get involved with a support group (there has been some support groups on facebook that has helped me a whole lot. ) do your research. stay active and involved with life. and find ways to cope with the stress.
dont forget that there is no cure for pcos but you can control the symptoms so that the effect of pcos on your body is minimal. to decrease symptoms of pcos, you need to tackle some issues. which are improving insulin sensitivity, restoring normal ovulation, which helps restore normal fertility, stopping androgen levels in the blood from rising.
there is some medications that you can take like metformin but you can also help control by diet exercise and emotional well being. 
you also can have pcos at a normal weight also.
treatment should be tailored to you and the symptoms you're experiencing but it should also take into consideration whether you're aiming to get pregnant. if your not planning on having a baby just yet treatment needs to focus on correcting abnormal hormone levels, losing weight, managing cosmetic concerns.
if you are hpoing to get pregnant treatment needs to focus on losing weight because a healthy diet with increased physical activity allows more efficient use of insulin and decreases blood glucose levels and may help you to ovulate more regularly. promoting ovulation with ovulation induction medications.
a pcos friendly diet helps you to lose weight to get to a healthy weight, or to maintain a healthy weight, reduce insulin resistance and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, ensure a balanced and nutritionally adequate dietary intake.
diets to avoid
avoid diets that restrict the intake of certain groups of foods or ban them completely. also avoid diets that advocate you take certain supplements. such diets are likely to be unbalanced. low carb diets are often advocated in popular books and websites for pcos. these diets arent recommended by many doctors and dietitans.
when you do start a diet make sure you talk to your doctor to figure out the right diet for you and your body.

also dont forget to get physical and no i am not talking about sex (well unless you are trying to get pregnant i guess that you would need to do that haha) but exercise is very important in loosing weight. also with this do not forget to talk to your doctor about what all you can do. and then maybe go to a gym if you can afford it and talk to a trainer and they may can come up with a some workouts that will help you loose weight and maintain a healthy body weight. if you can not afford getting out and going for walks will help. and when you can use stairs instead of elevators and things like that. you can also you use a water bottle for weights and can goods for weights also.

okay tomorrow i will write about my experiences with pcos

how i heard about blogger/wordpress and why i made one

well i first heard about blogger from some friends. i had asked some opinions on it when i wanted to start a blog for our journey thru trying to have a baby. and everyone i talked to recommended blogger. and blogger has not disappointed me at all.

for wordpress i had heard it from some friends to and thru a search on google. and i love it. i love everything about wordpress and blogger to. and i decided to make one on wordpress just to really write about our every day life. and the struggles and the good things that we go thru every single day.

september is pcos awareness

september is pcos awareness month.( should have made this post at the beginning of the month and did some other little posts for it to but havent felt like posting to much ) maybe you are wondering what pcos is. pcos is ploycystic ovary syndrome. it is the most common ovarian function disorder in pre-menopausal women.  until recently it was one of the least understood conditions. research into the causes and symptoms of pcos has shown it to have consequences more far reaching than the obvious physical symptoms;the long term effects extend into menopause and beyond (quoted from pcos for dummies. i may quote a lot from this book as it is the only book i have at hand to make some quotes and then i will tell you about my experience with pcos and what i am dealing with on a daily bases. ).
defining the condition.
according to the american society for reproductive medicine, pcos is defiend as having any two of the following signs and symptoms:
oligo-ovulation( irregular ovulation) or anovulation (a complete lack of ovulation)
clinical or biochemical signs of high androgen (male hormone) levels
polycystic ovaries, which means many small cysts on the ovaries (normal ovaries have five or six follicles, whereas polycystic ovaries have ten or more)
the hormones involved in controlling periods and reproduction are produced in the pituitary gland located in the brain. in women with pcos two of these hormones are produced in abnormal proportions. the imbalance of these two hormones prevents the follicles in the ovary from developing properly. the follicles tend to remain small and dont mature enough to release an egg. as a result a string of small follicles, or cysts, form on the ovary giving rise to the characteristic polycystic ovary that gives the disorder its name.  polycystic ovaries alone are not enough to diagnose pcos.  around 20 percent of women have polycystic ovaries but no symptoms of pcos.

statistics of pcos
around 5 million american women have pcos (which i am very sure that this is in other countries to. )
pcos can start in girls as young as age 11
about 5percent ot 10 percent of american women have pcos.

there has also been some researches that has showed it to be a in the genes. so if your mother or someone on your dad's side of the family has there is a chance you could have it also.
the most common pcos symptoms
weight gain, especially around the tummy
increased hairiness on the face and other regions.
male pattern baldness or thinning hair
oily skin with acne
absent or irregular menstrual cycles
insulin resistance.

okay i think this will be it today and i will post more on this subject tomorrow or friday one.

I did it again didnt I

I did it again didnt I. I forgot to write my blogs didnt I. I have forgot to do it three days in a row but I will make up for it. 

Okay on Sunday it was suppose to have been about something you're proud of in the past few days. Truthfully the only things I can think of that I will be proud of is mike getting his first pay check from his civilian job  and if we can find a place to live and if I can get a customer in my photography business going to give it until the new year and nothing I may have to give up on it but going to keep trying. Oh yeah I will be proud if I can get a job. And loose weight and so on lol but other then that I can't think of anything else. 

Yesterday's blog was suppose to be about songs you listen to when happy, sad, bored, hyped, mad. Well I don't have sort songs I listen when I feel those things. I like to listen to all kinds of music. 

Today's is about another picture of me and my friends. Well I don't have a picture of me and my friends. At least not one where I can post from my iPad. But I will share a picture of mike and I. Even though he is my husband he is still my best friend. 

my short term goals for this month and why

my goals for this month are to find a job and find a place to live. and hopefully get my part time photography business up and running good.

you ask why i want to find a job. well because i want to help mike pay our bills. it isnt just on him to pay them. i should have gotten one a long time ago but i do love being a stay at home wife but i cant keep letting him be the one to make the money to pay our bills.

well the reason i want to find a place to live. well because we need a place to live dont we. we want a place that we can have our own stuff and be able to live outside of suitcases. we are still having to use are suitcases for our clothes.

and yes i started my part time photography business but it is slowly getting off the ground and i mean slowly. i really hope that i can get it to pick up soon. maybe it will soon.

that is my short term goals for this month and why. lets hope that they happen before this month is up with.

some or something that has the biggest impact on me.

today's blog is about someone or something that has the biggest impact on me. well actually there is suppose to be a picture of that person or something but i dont have a picture of it or them. there is more then one person that has had a big impact on me. but i think i will write about my nieces and nephews. they have impacted me more then they probably will never know. i first became a aunt at the age of 13 my oldest nephew was brought to me and he was the first to show me that i could love more then just my parents and siblings. then came my oldest niece and she has helped me see that i can be a girlie girl. then came the two nephews that my family has lost. they are now up in heaven and they are looking down on us and watching out for us. then came nephew number 4. he was a little pain in the butt but he should me that i could protect someone. then came nephew number 5 he has showed me that kids can be smart and still be a kid. then came niece number 2 she has showed me that no matter what goes wrong in this world that there is always someone there loving us. then came nephews 6 and 7 they have showed me that there is laughter in this world (well all my nieces and nephews can make me laugh but theses two all you have to do is look at them and smile. ) and now to my first great nephew. he has impacted alot. he has showed me that even though i have struggled with becoming a parent myself that just one look at him has helped heal my heart with my infertility.
so there is my someones that has impacted me. and i know that every day that i think of them or on the days that i get to spend time with them will be greatest moments of my life and i hope that they read this and know how much i love them.

my favorite superhero and why

maybe you think i am going to write about batman, superman or some other superhero like that but nope i am not. my favorite superhero doesnt fly or has xray vision. he cant bend steel and he doesnt wear a cape (even though he does want a dark vader cape oh i shouldnt have said that hehe) my favorite superhero mike. he is all the superheros rope into one. he is always there when i need him. he cheers me on in what ever i decided to do or learn. he goes beyond his limits at anything he does.

he will always be my superhero. and i will love him always.

Ugh forgot to post yesterday

sorry i forgot to post my blog for the blog challenge  yesterday i have been trying to get rid of a headache since monday it is almost gone.

so today is going to be two blogs in one haha.

so for yesterday's post was suppose to be a habit that i wish i didnt have

well that would worrying to much. i am always worrying about things even about things that are not in my control. i am just a big old worry wart.

today's post is a picture of a place i have been

which should I use there are so many. I guess I will go with this one.  Is of the rodeo we went. It was so much fun will defiantly go back to another rodeo. 

picture of my pet (which i dont have one)

day 3 is suppose to be a picture of my pet but i dont have a pet of any kind so i am just going to write about what kind of pet i would like to have.
i am a dog person. i would whether have a dog over a cat. i want a husky. a full blooded husky. those dogs are loyal to you and so pretty. if i can not find or afford a husky then i want a German Shepard those dogs are loyal to.
i hoping that one day within next year we will be able to afford a pet.

The meaning behind my blog name

First of all I have three blogs and that isn't counting my photography business blog. 

The first blog is our journey though trying to have a baby and beyond. I started this blog back in 2008. It is like the name says our journey though trying to have a baby and beyond. When I first started this blog I wanted something that was going to show our struggle to have a baby and our life beyond that. 

The second belong is books books and more books. This is my blog on books review. I started this blog back in 2011   I wanted something kind of catchy and I liked this name for it. Because it is all about books. 

My third blog is the dailylifeofusdotcom. I was just wanting the daily life of us but it was taken so I just settled for this one. I like it though. 

The fourth one and my photography business is called two turtles by the sea. I just love that name. It is so catchy. The turtle part is named after my great nephew. I call him turtle. So I had to think of something to go with turtle and two turtles by the sea works. I actually came up with that from turtles in a half shell but I really love two turtles by the sea. 

A recent photo and fifteen interesting facts about me

15 interesting facts about me. This one is going to be a little tough. Maybe have to ask mike if he can help me on this. 

Fact one. I am 33 years old and I have never really had a job. Yes I did work in a sewing factory once but I probably didnt even work 2 months and then I quit. That was probably about 13 years ago if not over 13 years. Then I worked at a gas station cooking breakfast and then pizzas for lunch and dinner. That only lasted a month and that was like over 12 years  ago. Then I babysit one of my nephews that lasted two years and half. Then I got married and became a housewife and now I am looking for a part time job. 

Fact two. I have two medical conditions (at least so far)  one is hypothyroidism and pcos. I am still trying to learn how to deal with both of theses every single day. 

Fact three I love to read. I may not get to read every day but I do love to read

Fact four. Was a military wife but now I am not. I know it is hard for mike to adjust to the civilian world bit it is hard for me to. I know he has it harder though. 

Fact five. I am a worry wart. I worry about a lot of things. My health, how we going to pay our bills. And so on

Fact six. Mike told me that I am sweet person and that is a fact for him. But I do try to be sweet

Fact seven. I was born and raised in Alabama and I love living here

Fact eight. I love living in a small town/country. I would whether live in a small town/country then a city

Fact nine I love to watch movies and tv shows. So far my favorite movies are twilight, hunger games, and the host. My favorite tv shows are true blood and the walking dead

Fact ten. I love to go hiking. Three years ago mike and I use to go every weekend. We are just now trying to get back to that. 

Fact eleven I love to travel. It is really nice and fun to visit places I have never been

Fact twelve. I love taken photos. I love it so much that I decided to start taken online classes and I have started a part time photography business

Fact thirteen I am having problems with getting pregnant. We have tried and tried and nothing. So we have decided to adopt

Fact fourteen my favorite football team is auburn. Win or lose they will always be my favorite team

Fact fifteen no matter what goes on in my family I will always love them. 

About a new challenge I am going to do

Decided to do another blog challenge. This time it is a 30 days of me challenge. This should be interesting. I hope I can keep this up. 

But I wanted to take a little time to do a quick update. Things are okay. Mike has a job finally. After about six months of looking he finally has a job. Sept 1 was his last day in the military. It feels a little weird not being able to call myself a military wife but that is okay because I still know who I am. Mike's wife. I have started looking for a part time job. Hopefully it won't take me too long to find one. 

Just alittle update

I just wanted to do a little update. Mike is still looking for a job. He has applied for job after job since like April or may one. Has got some interviews but no job offer. There has even been a few that has acted like they was going to hire him but nope they didn't. We are also still looking for a place to rent. Most people doesn't want to rent to us because of not having a job. Both of us is stressed out from all this and we are hoping and praying that mike can get a job and us find a place soon. 

Oh another note all most three weeks ago we met our great nephew for the first time. I figured he wouldn't came to us but he did and he also didnt cry to much while we was holding him. Tried to take some pictures of him but some of them are a little blurry. Also went yesterday and took some pictures of my sister and her little family. 

Other then all that we are doing good. I am hoping to get in to see a doctor soon and hopefully I will find out what is going on with my thyroid that is if it is my thyroid. 

last entry for a while

this is going to be my last entry until we get moved and find a place of to call home. i really hope that this move will be last for us for a very long time. i am so tired of the moving. i just want to be in one place for the rest of my life if possible. i think the next time we move will be either when we buy a place to live or build a home. which that will probably wont happen for a very long time for now. like 5 years. we have been trying to get things that we are going to move ourselves separated from the things the movers are going to move. we still have no idea where we will be moving to but it is looking more and more like alabama. this one place that is wanting to interview mike for like the 5th or 6th are taking their sweet time about getting that interview done. i really hate saying this but we need that answer like last week because we need to know where we are going like today so that way we will have that off of us and can start looking for a place to live. that is what sucks the most not knowing where we are going and where we will be living at. i really know what it feels like not to have a home in some ways. i really hope that where ever we move to that it wont take us long to find a place. i am just so ready for this to be over with.

it be like sept by the time i will get the chance to update you all on how the move went but i will try to get on before that that is if we have a place of our by then and have internet. in the mean time i hope you all have good day.

day ten of the ten day blog challenge

sorry that this is a day late. i was sick yesterday and i didnt feel like getting on the desktop. i had pretty much stayed in bed all day yesterday. but here is my last blog entry for this blog challenge.

yesterdays blog topic was suppose to be list of all the city & states you have lived in (add details)

okay the first city would be scottsboro, al. i lived in this town from the time i was born until i was l ike 9 or 10. ( not sure how old i was when we moved from scottsboro) truthful i dont remember to much about this town. but that it is a good size town, well city. i remember having birthdays in the park. it was a good size park. they have this thing once a month called first monday. it is where people goes and sits up almost like a flea market type of thing. it is pretty cool. and pretty big. i am sure that this town has changed alot since i have lived there.

the second town was a little community called fackler, al. it is right outside of scottsboro in the country. i just love the country life. i live here from the time i was 9 or 10 to i was like 13. well we lived here on and off from 9 or 10 or what ever age i was when we moved from scottsboro.  there really isnt much to tell about this place but that it is country living and i love the country life.

i have lived in guntersville, al. it was the place we live in between the on and off of fackler. this place was okay. we lived in a house that was like a couple of miles from the lake. the school we went to was right on the lake. can you image that a school being right on the lake. we lived in this town only several months. then like around christmas we was moving back to fackler.

when i was 13 years old we moved to red bay, al. i know consider this town as my home town. it is a small town. i always tell people that on a hot day you pretty much can smell the dog food factory all over town. and yep that is kind of true. no the town is not about the dog food factory but that does give one place for people to work. there is sunshine homes (where they make mobile homes) there is tiffins (the RV company) and some other little places to. you maybe surprised that there is town grocery stores in this town. i really love a small town living. i would whether live out in the country outside of a small town.

i live in saraland, al for a few months after mike and i got married then we moved back to red bay for a few months then we was moving to livingston, al. so mike could go to college. no i dont have any details about saraland. i didnt get out much while we was living there. livingston is a college town. and if i remember correctly they only had one grocery store (that could have changed by now but not to sure). we didnt do much while we lived here but grocery shop, have date nights at home that was a subway sandwich and movies. that is pretty much it for that town.

then we moved back to red bay because mike got deployed. then when he got home from that deployment we moved to winfield, al. that is a nice place to live also. i loved the park. they also have little things that goes on around there. like in sept they have this weekend called mule day. it is fun. the first year we lived there we didnt get to enjoy it because mike had just joined the army and he was gone to fort riley. but i lived there while mike was deployed for his third time in 2011. but before that we lived in red bay because mike was deployed for a second time. 

then we moved to

st petersburg, va dont know to much about that town because i dont think there was not too much to do there. but we did go to a mall in richmond, va alot on weekends. and we went to a state park that was close by called pocahontas state park. that was a pretty place. we also went to yorktown and to va beach while we was there.

then we moved to harker heights, tx. basically as soon as we got moved here we found out that mike was getting deployed for the third time. after the third deployment was over we was living back in harker heights, tx. there is a bunch of parks you can go to enjoy. it is a okay town to live in. i just really do not like the traffic. it is like no one knows how to drive. makes you wonder where they learnt from. they do not obey traffic signs (which i know that is every where but here it seems worse) so i really do like it here to much. plus it stays hot all the time. you do not want to know what our power bill is like.

dont know where we will be living next but i cant wait to find out.

day 9 of the 10 day blog challenge

today is day nine and the topic is

dream vacation

well lets see i have a few dream vacation. one is going to the beach. we are not able to go to the beach right now because we are fixing to move.

another dream vacation is disney world. i so can not wait until we can go there again. maybe we will have the money to go next year sometime.

and my third dream is going to ireland. i have always as far back as i can remember has wanted to go to ireland. but i am so scared of getting on a airplane. i know people have said that it is nothing. that it is easy and make safer then traveling in a car because there are more car wrecks. well the way i see it is this a car is not going to fall out of the sky. well unless it is going off a cliff or getting tossed in the air but if something happens to a plane while in the air it falls 1000 and 1000 feet right. so in my mind a car is much safer then a airplane. maybe one day i will get over my fear of flying and will be able to go to ireland.

the choices we make are our own

here lately i have been hearing and reading stories where people wants to put blame on others for the choices that they make. they want place blame on where they live, they want to place blame on how they where raised, they want to blame their friends but the truth of the matter is that we make our own choices. no one else makes them for us. the house or neighbor you are living in is not twisting your arm to make you do things. how you are raised is not making you to do the things you do. your friends are not twisting your arm to do the things you are doing. really stop and think who is to blame. i know that my parents raised, my brother, sister, and i to know right from wrong. to think for ourselves. then we got to a sorten age they left it up to us to make our own choices. so our choices are our choices and we can not place the blame on to others. whether those choices are good or bad because we choose to do the things we do.

yes i have heard of peer pressure but you still have the choice to say no to something you do not want to do. so it is time for us to stop blaming others and look within ourselves and really see that no one is to blame but ourselves.

day 8 of the 10 day blog challenge

today is day 8 of this challenge. and the topic for today is
list 5 favorite blogs & why?

well i really do not have any favorite blogs but i will list 5 of my friends that has blogs. listing them in random order.

one is http://thediydreamer.com/ my friend christine blog. it is pretty interesting.

two is http://itsabonnerfullife.blogspot.com/ my friend heather's blog. she writes about her life and about her nails. she does some really good nails.

three is http://lifewiththekoyles.blogspot.com/ this is someone who i have meet in a infertility group . she has a pretty good blog that i like to read.

four is http://allnewhealth.blogspot.com/ my friend Charity. her blog is pretty good to. she talks about her going down the path of getting healthy.

five is http://asecondshotatmommyhood.blogspot.com/ another person i have meet in a group for infertility.

i love reading all my friends blogs. i know i didnt put all my friends blogs on here and i am sorry for that but the topic only asked for 5 so i choosed the first five that came up random. i hope you all will enjoy reading their blogs as much as i do.

day 7 of the 10 day blog challenge

today marks day seven of this blog challenge. the topic for today is

your celebrity crush

well i know most people are going to think i am weird or something but i do not have a celebrity crush. i think there is alot of good actors and actress out there but i do not have a crush on any of them. i do remember growing up i had a few celebrity crush but what kid or teenager doesnt. i think that is the normal for kids and teenagers. if i am remember correctly when i was a kid i had a crush on the guy that played zach on saved by the bell (do any of you remember saved by the bell. they should do a reunion of that show haha). here is another one from saved by the bell. i had a little crush on the one that played screech. (i think deep down i always had a thing for nerdy time of guys. must have because i married one :)  lets see who else did i have a crush on as a kid and a teenager. well i guess one would have to be johnny depp. as a kid/teenager there was just something about him.

that is all i can remember. as a adult looking back i can not believe that i had crushes on those people. maybe it was mostly about the characters that they played in tv shows and movies.

day six of the 10 day blog challenge

today is day six of this challenge and today's topic is

what is in your makeup bag?

well lets see even though i dont wear much makeup. i have more then enough haha. lets start with foundation. i have a cover girl prefect match (but it has been in the bag a year and only used once or twice but i think it is time to upgrade to a different brand and i think you are suppose to get rid of it after what six months to a year). i just bought some new powders (i wear powders more then i do the foundation). i bought revlon camera ready powders. i like it. dont know if it actually has me camera ready but i like it. i have all different kinds of eye shadows. i have cover girl, victoria secret, elf, and there is another kind but cant remember the name of it. i also have mascara and blush (got all different kinds of blush to) and i have lip stick and lip gloss.

so that is pretty much all that is in my makeup bag. which it takes about two to three make up bags to hold it all.

day five of the day 10 blog challenge

today is day 5 of this challenge and the topic is what did you eat today?

well as it is still morning i have only ate a bowl of cereal for breaksfast. dont know what i will eat for lunch. but i plan on fixing some pork chops tonight. dont know what sides i will fix with it yet but i will figure it out.

well this blog post is going to be a short one. as there is nothing else for me to write about.

day four of the ten day blog challenge

well today is day four of this challenge. i think this challenge is going pretty good so far. what do you all think.

okay today's topic is why& when did you start blogging?

lets see. i actually started to keep a journal back in 2005. mike and i had talked about it and we was going to start a journal of writing letters for our future kids. then in 2006 i started keeping a journal for when mike was deployed the first time and i have been pretty much writing since then. i started this one website for him to keep up with family and friends and where family and friends could keep up with mike while he was deployed that year. dont really know what happened to that website. then i started writing a blog on blogger in feb 2008. i started it to have a recording of our trying to get pregnant journey. then it just turned into a place that i would go and vent about daily life. but i would still write in my journals there is nothing like a handwritten journal to read back over years later. and something that your great great great great grandkids can read and know the person that you was and to know where their history comes from and things like that.

i think it was around march when i decided to go from blogger to wordpress. i still use this blog every now and again. so it is still here. i like writing there and here. i just wanted a blog where i can show that our life isnt just about trying to get pregnant or adoption. i have things i would like to write about that i really want to get it out there for everyone to see. so here we are. i also have a blog called books books and more books on blogger. it is where i go to review books that i read. i really like doing that. i started it in feb of 2011. i think i mostly started it to have something to do while mike was gone on his 3rd deployment. i always read more when he is deployed. what else was i going to do haha.

i hope every one likes reading my blogs and if there is anything that i can do differently please let me know.

day three of the ten day challenge

today marks day three of this challenge and i am suppose to write about my favorite childhood memory. the thing of it is, that i dont just have one memory of my childhood that is my favorite. there is plenty of my memories that are my favorite. so i just can not choose one. so i will be naming a few. 
i was born in the 1980s so we really didnt have computers or video games and so on. i was always outdoors when or as much as i could as a child and no my parents didnt have to make me go outside. i went outside because i enjoyed it. while outside i would play hide and seek, tag, baseball, basketball, kickball, rode bicycles,  and so on with my brother and sister (well that is when my sister would go outside with us. she used to like the indoors better then the outdoors. dont know why lol ) and with some cousins and a few friends. those was some fun times. i remember once (i use to live in alabama) it came up a blizzard like in march (i think it was march i think it was around the time we was out for spring break so we didnt miss too much school) my brother and i stayed outside to play in the snow. our parents had to make us come back in every so often to keep us from getting frost bite. we use to live in the country and we had a drive away that was pretty long. and my brother and i tried to see how far we could walk in the snow and we carried a tape measure with us to see how deep the snow was. we tried to get our sister to come out side to build a snowman with us and build forts and have a snowball fight but she would barely step out the door.

so as you can see that i have a lot of childhood memories. it would probably take weeks or longer just to write them all down. and i really do not have time for that haha. but i will say this growing up in the 80/90s was the best. it isnt like it is now. where most kids just wants to play video games, be on their cellphones constantly, is always on the computer, and so on. i really think that we need to take away  video games, cellphones, and computers away from kids now days but then again i guess if you did they wouldnt know what to do haha. but i think they need theses things took away from them. or they are never going to know what the real world is really like. they will always want to live in a fantasy world. if they want to live in a fantasy then we need to teach them to pick up a book and read it. they can learn so much more from a book.

day two of the 10 day blog challenge

today is day two of the ten day blog challenge and todays topic is a photo of my family and facts about them. well as i dont have a group shot of all my family and i really dont want to put a photo of them on my blog not having their permission to do so. so i will just put a picture of mike on here and give some facts about him. 

so here we go
  this is my hubby mike. is a fun loving guy and i love him so much.

okay some facts about mike. he knows how to make me laugh, he is a hard work, he does his very best at anything he does. he is fixing to get out of the army and going back into the national guard. he loves computers. he would like to have his own computer shop one day. ( i hope sometime in the future no telling when though. we will be able to get him a small computer shop going i know he would love that). he also loves to read and it is because of him that we have started our own little library.  he loves history. he loves watching the history channel. he loves books on history and books on military to. he is a all around american guy who loves life and is a very hard work. and doesnt care what people think of him. because he is going to be hisself no matter what.

first day of the 10 days blog challenge

this is day one of my blog challenge. day one is a photo of myself and 5 facts.
the photo of me was take a few months back. but i havent changed much since then, so this works haha.

five facts about  me lets see

fact one is that i am 32 to years old and i love my family

fact two is that i love taken photos. i really do love it. right now i am taken some online courses for photography and i hope that maybe some day i can have my very own photography studio. right now i am thinking of starting a small photography business as a hobbyist to just get my foot in the door.

fact three i am infertile. nothing wrong with it. but it is a fact about me. and i have accepted that there is a chance i will never carry my own baby but i know that we will have our baby or babies thru adoption

fact four i married my best friend nine years ago. and i have enjoyed these pass nine years and wouldnt trade them for nothing in the world.

fact five lets see what to write about. i am a great aunt. i became a great aunt back in feb. havent had the chance to meet my new little nephew but i know will one day soon. he is a little cutie. and i cant wait to give him a kiss on the cheek. there is nothing like being a aunt. i love it.

hello world

i know it has been a couple of days since i posted last but been busy with spending time with mike. i love spending time with him. our anniversary was a wonderful day. we exchanged two gifts one in the morning and one when we got back from dinner that night. we go every year to applebee's for our anniversary dinner. it is just something that we started to do on our first anniversary as for the simple fact that is where we had went out to eat on our honeymoon and decided then and there that we would like to go back to applebee's every year. so far we have minus the 3 deployments that mike was gone on on our anniversary.

fourth of july was okay day for us. it really didnt feel like a holiday for us. we wish that family could have made it down to see or even just popped in for a surprise visit since we was not able to go back to alabama for a visit but that didnt happen. but oh well.  we cooked out for ourselves yesterday and cooked way to much food. we didnt feel like eating left overs for dinner last night so we got out around 5 and went and got us something to eat. then we came home finished watching the walking dead and then started watch pt 2 of the star trek movies that i got mike for our anniversary. then around 830 maybe it was alittle closer to nine. we heard people shooting off fireworks so we sit outside for alittle while watching them. even though this town has a band on fireworks in the city limits people shot them off anyways. that has me wondering why cant people respect the laws. they are there for a reason. dont get me wrong what is a fourth of july without fireworks but when you live in a town where the house are almost on top of each other and there has been no rain for weeks and the chances of catching something on fire is higher then why put your home and family and put others families and home at risk of being in danger. that is just something i dont get it. good thing that the people shooting off the fireworks wasnt right close to us. but it was nice to see some fireworks even if it still didnt make it feel like a holiday.

i am fixing to do a 10 day blog challenge starting today (and no this will not be the first post in this challenge lol). i am hoping that this challenge will give me fresh ideas to write about. i really would like to be able to write everyday and this is going to give me a chance to. if i start it today my last will be july 15 and then i can just put everything into our move. it is coming up fast and then once we get moved and settled i am going to do more blog challenges.

i hope you all are doing good and that everyone who celebrates the 4th of july had a fun but safe night and that you didnt get out here and drunk and drive. i also hope that you all have a good weekend and a good summer.

9 years ago

9 years ago today i married my best friend. my one true love, the guy i was meant to be with. my soulmate. the guy that god had sent to me. i really can not believe it has been nine years already. there are times it seems like just yesterday we was getting married and there is times it seems like it has been years. but i still can remember the day we got married. it may have not been the wedding of our dreams but one thing that we will always keep in our hearts is that we married each other. we had wanted a outdoor wedding but instead of outdoors it was a church wedding (nothing wrong with getting married in a church it just wasnt something we wanted) we choose this date july 3, 2004 because we thought our families would come to it since they really wouldnt be taken time off of work to come to it that they was already getting that week off. so in others words when we picked july 3 we wasnt really thinking of our selves. we was thinking of everyone else. dont get me wrong we would not change nothing that went on on that date for nothing in the world but we do plan on renewing our vows next year so that way we can have the wedding of our dreams and also thinking back to our actual married we didnt have all that much money to put in for the wedding of our dream as we was having to pay for it our selves. but it would have been nice to have more then 10 (minus the kids that was came) people to our wedding. i think that is what hurt the most that out of 100 people we invited only 10 showed up. but what ever. i am just glad that i got to marry my best friend. i do not know what i would have done or where i would be if i hadnt met him when i did.