Oh YOU make me smile ;o)

This is my ABSOLUTE favorite picture of Aaron and I to date! This was a picture taken from our vacation to Saint Simons Island in July 2009.This was the trip that means SO much to be. Its where we really fell in love and on the way home he told me he loved me. Sappy and annoying I know, but it was such an amazing moment. I LOVE HIM! <3

School ... AGAIN?!?

So I am going to do it ... go back to school to get my RN.

Yes, I said it! I. AM. GOING. BACK. TO. SCHOOL.

I never really thought I could do it, honestly. My best friend just graduated from Mercer and I looked at her the last 3 years and thought there is no way that I have the time to devote to it. But what I really realized is that I could MAKE the time, I was just scared because I did not think I was smart enough to do it.It was always a wish in the back of my head but never something I thought I could actually do.

It was not until I got the job working for the hospital that I started putting that thought into action. Everyone around me was encouraging me to go forward with it because they saw potential in me. Don't get me wrong. no one in my family ever discouraged me or put me down in any way an are ALWAYS very supportive of any and everything I want to do, but families can be biased sometimes. It was just nice to get those encouraging words from people you respect and work for.

My plans are this...

I am doing the rest of my prerequisites at Perimeter College and then I am going to transfer to North Georgia College and State University into their ASN (associates of nursing) program. It is a 2 year program from start to finish going to school full time. It is nice because you can take your prereqs along with the nursing classes and go to school everyday all day OR you can get all your prereqs done at youe leisure and then start the program and just have class on day and clinicals. Meaning, you can still work and go to school.

Which is my plan...to work full time, go to school full time, and be a mommy full time.

THIS IS OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE THE HARDEST THING I WILL EVER HAVE TO DO.

PERIOD.

But I have to do it. I WILL do it. For my baby. ALL for my baby boy.

Wish me luck. Words of encouragement. Prayers. It is all welcomed with open arms.

LOVE TO ALL.

EM




 

The little things ...

Coleman and I were drawing pictures late last Friday night and he asked me to draw him and smiley face. I frew just the eyes and the mouth and he drew the head. I was SO proud! This is the first thing he has drawn that hasnt been intentional scribble.

I left the room and came back and he had drawn the bottom smiley face complete with legsm and hair!

I MEAN HOW CUTE IS THAT??

House does not always equal HOME...

It totally amazes me how you can have everything you own in a house and everything still seem so foreign. I mean pictures on the walls, walls painted, nick nacks here and there, and something was still missing.
Well here is my HOME!! It finally feels like a home to me. Thanks to sweet neighbors for selling me their couches at an amazing price. I just love them and they fit perfectly!!!

To Infinity ... and BEYOND!!

To

My big boy laying in his new Toy Story bed! (and his new big boy boxers)

Waterfall Walks

Wow .. awesome picture of Coleman .. not so much me! We went to a waterfall thats down from our house it backs up to a nature preserve. It's a LONG walk... probably about a 2 miles round trip. He was a trooper though. He is too heavy for me to carry so we pushed our buttons on our chest for our wings to pop out (just like Buzz Lightyear people) and we flew all the way back home. Making flying noises and all. Give me a break, thats the only way I could distract him enough to make him walk and me not have to tote him home.

New big boy bed!!

I know this picture is dark but I LOVE it. His first night in his big boy bed. Sleeping like the angel that he is.