That's right you guessed it from the title! So a year ago today Zach and I bought our first house! It was a very exciting and very stressful time in our lives. Our house is a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath ranch. It has everything that we NEED notice the caps in need! No it's not a mansion and it needed A LOT of TLC when we moved it but it's our home and it wonderful to have a garage to park in a very large (although uneven) yard for Riley and a huge playroom for her and a finished basement for Zach and my own "office"! We worked or butts off last summer getting this place in shape and there is still a lot of improvements going on. Sometimes I for get just how much work we have done so I will look at my before and after pictures on facebook and sit back and say wow we are good and most of the rooms are even more updated since I posted pictures!
Zach is a Product Engineer and we are very lucky that he works regular hours! Which means he is home by 6pm every night for dinner and here on the weekends. there is some travel but a lot less often thank goodness since Riley was born mostly due to the economy and we are very lucky that he has kept his job though all this. He was doing a lot of extra work when he got home tutoring math online and selling things on Ebay. Although he had a job he had taken a pay cut and there were no raises for over a year. It hurt us hard so we had to supplement the income somehow! Recently Zach got his salary back with a little bit of a raise. Just enough to put us back at even with the budget and for him to stop doing the extra work.
Riley Jo- Will be 3 years old in 2 months time! She is my beautiful little blonde hair blue eyed beauty queen! She charms everyone she meets and they instantly fall in love with her. When ever I'm at the store with her or out anywhere someone always has to stop and my and tell me how completely adorable they find her. When she was a baby forget it I could barely get my shopping done with people coming up to talk to me about her. She just has this natural chrism about her. I on the other hand find it pretty easy to escape her charms! She is a very strong willed child and is also very smart for her age! Which makes everything that much harder with her! For one I sometimes have a tendency to forget she's only 2 and so many months and 2 she can understand thinks but she can not control her emotions and there for there is a lot of whining and crying. She has a memory like you wouldn't believe except when it comes to listening to things she is not so post to do! She is a changeling I'll tell you that but she was the most easy and wonderful baby in the world!! She slept though the night pretty much from day one only waking for a bottle twice and going right back to sleep. By her second month she wasn't waking at all at night. She went off the bottle like a champ spoke her first 2 words(Hi Da Da Da Da) at 7 months and hasn't stopped talking since! I worried so about her not rolling over and sitting up till she was 6 months and then she just did everything at once! She was walking by 8 months and things haven't slowed down.
She pretty much freaks me out sometimes by the things she does like a 63 piece jig saw puzzles all by herself and saying things like Ankylosaurs when she sees a book with that dino on it!
Me- I'm a wife, mother, sister, daughter and aunt. I like things clean and organized I can't sleep if my pajamas don't match and since having Riley hers either! I'm a horrible Gardener and i can pretty much kill a plant by looking at it although I'm getting better. I like to write I have 2 stories I started years ago that are just sitting there because I can't ever seem to find time to write them because once I start I don't like to be bothered which always happens. I made a bad hair choice in November and I'm still watching for it to grow out so it can at least look decent again and oh yes my major issue. I have IBS it's very horrible although I seem to have it under control right now but it hasn't been that way in years! But it also seems to easy up in the spring so I'm hoping it doesn't flare up in the fall and winter because it pretty much takes over my life and I spend my days in the bathroom in pain and worrying about Riley which stresses me out and it makes it worse and it just keeps going around! But I'm doing good now and I hope to keep it that way.
After high school I worked in a day care I was also a Nanny for 2 older children for a short period of time. In High School I took a Early Childhood vocational class which helped me graduate with the highest GPA I had every had 3.8 I had found my calling all though working with little kids I was sick all the time. I never went to collage I new what i wanted to be and more then anything it was a wife and mother. I got my wish. Although I find it easier taking care of 8 children easier then my own and things are not always easier or wonderful but it's my life and I wouldn't trade Riley or Zach for anything in the world!
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