National guard & stay at home mom

Well it's official Brian has signed up for the Army National Guard and I will be a stay at home mom after March 8th! The Lord has definitely blessed our family. We will continue to trust in him and follow him and we know our lives will be great. Brian will ship out April 17th to MO for boot camp. We are so proud of him and what he is doing for our family. He is so happy about this new adventure also. Of course he will still be a deputy sheriff, he will just be in the reserves. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. I will start march11 keeping two sweet girls along with brentlee at home. I'm excited about that and all the fun we are going to have.

Here are a few pictures of the family from recent activities. God Bless!

It's be TOO long..a lot has changed.

Well here its is 2011.....Let me try to bring you up to speed real fast.

Brian and I got married on Dec 12, 2009 with a beautiful wonderful wedding thank to my parents. We had a blast on our honeymoon Cruise, which was one of the best vacations ever. Although I have to say I dod miss Madison very much. That was the first time I have ever been away from her for that long...7 days. WOW!! We had a great Christmas that year and January 2010 right before Beckham had to leave to go back to Nevada we found out I was 4 weeks pregnant....talking about fast! We were all so very excited. The pregnancy was pretty much the same as when I was pregnant with Madison. Gained a whole 17 lbs....morning sickness just the first 12 weeks in the AM only....had a lot of back pain. Then on September 13th we were blessed with a 6lb 1oz 19in long Beautiful baby girl...Brentlee Carmene. One of the other happiest days of my life. Again a delivery in the shower at the hospital with NO PAIN MEDS....Madison, Brian, Mom, Aunt Dana, Macey, and Carla were all in there. It was a wonderful time in our lives.

So here we are now almost the end of January 2011....Thanks to my mom and Brian I am able to be a stay at home mom.....I am so BLESSED to be able to spend this time with my baby girl. Madison is in 2nd grade and is such a wonderful BIG sister. She holds her little sissy, changes diapers, and gets her bath ready for me at night. Couldn't ask for a better big sister for Brentlee. Brentlee is almost 5 months old now and s getting so big TOO fast. She rolls from her stomach to back since about 2 1/2 months, but still not from back to stomach. Although she tries very very hard and gets mad, but her arm is in the way. She has been teething since about month 3, but no teeth yet. She sleeps through the night until 6 or 7 in the AM...what a great baby. Although I have to say she is a MOMMY'S BABY....she use to ONLY want me. She just recently will not fuss with other people.

We are so ready for the summer time so we can actually go back to the beach, since the oil spill is all cleaned up. That's enough for today. I hope everyone has a great SUnday.

Chass

Well a little over 1 month left until the wedding.....

We have I believe 41 days left Until the BIG day.....I am so excited about marrying the love of my life and starting our new life together. I am also excited about extending our family...yay!!! I tell you what these past few months have flown by, and there is still plenty of small things to do before the wedding. I still have to send out invitations and we only have 6 weeks til the wedding week. I've got to get them out this week!!!!

Brian continues to talk to Beckham on a daily basis. He is talking so much better now and I finally got to speak with him the other night and when he heard my voice he got so excited!!! It really made me happy! Then his daddy tried to talk to him again and all he would say is "I want to talk to Cha Cha"....made me fell special!!! I can't wait til he comes back down here. We leave on Dec 3rd to drive to New Orleans and Brian will fly out of there and pick him up and fly back on the 4th, then we will drive back home. We are so ready to see him and spend Christmas together!!!!

This is going to be our First Christmas together and we all get to be together, how exciting...it is going to be the 1st of many Christmas' together.

Oh yeah Beckham has a birthday next week the 9th, he will be the BIG 3!!!!!

Also how could I forget Madison lost her very 1st tooth a few weeks ago...how exciting but sad at the same time....it shows me how old she is getting ;-(

Well I guess that is it for now!!!!!

Summer's over..school has started...

Well the summer came to a end real fast and Beckham is gone back to Nevada. It was real hard to let that little boy go, but I know his moma missed him, like we do now. Madison cried her little eyes out when she had to tell him bye, it was so pitiful!!!! But we just kept telling her it was okay she will see him in a few months.

Madison has now started 1st grade. WOW...and yes I teared up that morning when I was taking my baby to 1st grade. She is growing up too fast on me.

Well the wedding plans are coming along;-) We have picked the cake out and it was wonderful, also booked our honeymoon. Which we will be going on a 7 day cruise out of Tampa. I am pretty excited because Brian has never went out side of the US, so he is going to have fun!!! Well and also because he will have a wonderful wife by his side!!!!! I am looking forward to all the showers and parties between now and December but then again I am ready for December to be here.

Summer is ending too fast....

Well here it is the end of July and the summer is coming to an end. It flew by too fast. But I did enjoy every second I got to spend with Brian, Madison, & Beckham. Beckham will be leaving in 3 weeks and we are NOT looking forward to it at all, but we will get him back in 3 months. We were going to have a birthday party for him before he left since he won't be here for his, but he will be back the week before Thanksgiving so we are going to have it then. Since it's closer to his birthday. Man I can't wait til he comes back b/c that means we will only have a few weeks left until Brian and I get married. Oh how i can't wait til that day. It's going to be wonderful!!!!

Well only a couple weeks left of summer for Madison and then she starts 1st grade;-( A Part of me is happy but then a part is very sad b/c my baby is not a baby anymore and she is getting so big too fast!!!! I am trying to enjoy every moment of her life right now when she actual wants me around because the day will come when she can't stand me I am sure. Doesn't every girl go through that stage...not looking forward to it at ALL...that's my baby!!!! I wish I could spend more time with her and be there to take her to school every day and pick her up but unfortunately I have to work!!!! Hopefully one day we will get ahead so I will not have to work, but I don't really see that day in my future;-(

Well I know it seems like 4 months is a LONG time away but really it is not....December 12th will be here before we know it and we still have quit a few things to do for the wedding. Order favors, make sure all girls have dresses ordered, get more decorations, meet with a cake person and finalize that, sit down with the parents and finalize the menu for the reception, also sit down with the MIL and discuss the rehearsal dinner, also finalize the HUGE guest list and get the invitations printed up. But I am going to enjoy every minute of planning our wedding.

We are engaged

Well it's the day we have been both waiting for....a day that Brian has had planned for a while now. I knew it was coming but didn't know when it was going to happen...THE PROPOSAL!!!!!

First of all, for the record...I messed it all up in Brian's eyes, but it mine it was perfect and I couldn't have asked for a better one. Brian had original planned for us to go to the beach to watch the fireworks and he was going to do it then, but I insisted we go to the Fairhope Pier. Kristine, Marc and the girls also went with us.

We show up in Fairhope and find a parking spot. We then loaded up all the kids, all toys, and walked down to a pretty grassy spot. When we got there Brian showed me how Beckham only had one shoe on, so he said he would go back to the car and find the other one. Right after he got back Kristine & I walked over to a hamburger stand to get a hamburger, I was HUNGRY!!! As soon as we walked back over to the spot Madison walked over to me and handed me a white piece of paper folded up and said, "Mommy here I made something for you." Of course leave it to me to say "how, I didn't bring any paper down here" she just walked away. (2nd oops) I knelt/sat down on the blanket to look at the paper, opened it up to find a red heart and in the middle said "Will you?" I got a big smile looked around real slowly and Marc & Kristine was looking at me, then I looked behind me to see Brian on one knee with a ring!!! ;-) Still I was sitting down and just looking at him, waiting for him to say something. Then come the BIG question "Will you marry me?" The finally I stood up and walked over to him and said yes and hugged and kissed him. That is a moment I will cherish and remember for the rest of my life. The best 4th of July EVER!!!!!! I am engaged and I have a fiance now!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

7 years ago...my life

You know as I sit back and look at my life....what I have..... what God has given me I am very thankful!!!! He has given me a family, daughter, friends, job, a car, a house, and recently sent the love of my life to me. But it did not all happen at once or over night.



June, 7 years ago is when I found out I was pregnant....at that time I did not think I was so blessed. All I could think about was being 17 years old, it was the summer before my senior year, I am pregnant, and Madison's biological father and I were not together and I did not love him. What am i going to do? I was so scared, but not one time did abortion cross my mind. To me that is not an option!!!!!! Everything happens for a reason and I knew that there was a reason that God has blessed me and gave Madison to me. I went over to a friend of the family's house Mrs Christine and spoke with her that day. There was a lot of tears, I needed her to help me tell my mother. So that night she came over to my mom's house and sat her down while I sat on the couch and broke the news to her. I think not only was mom hurt but very shocked!!! It didn't take long and my family realized that there was nothing we could do, the only thing we could do at this time was be happy and prepare for a bundle of joy that would be here in 9 months. We went on our yearly family vacation to Port St Joe in Florida the first weekend of August in 2002. While I was down there i had got a call that her biological father had gotten on a plane and went back to Oklahoma, where he is from. When I finally got in touch with him he informed me that his best friend had gotten in a wreck and was in a coma. I asked him when he would be home and he informed me that he did not know, he was going to wait for him to come out of his coma. I finally just had to tell him that I understand that that's his friend but he needed to realize he has a responsibility down here now. Well off and on he would call and I continued to call him. I started my high school Senior year in August, but my great friends never looked at me any different. They really supported me! I prayed about the situation and finally just woke up one morning and said I am done, if he doesn't want to be part of her life, then I am not going to force him, I can do it without him. The last time I talked to him was December 7, 2002 it was after the baby shower my friends threw for me. He never tried to contact me after that day. On March 17, 2003 at 6:35pm my daughter was born a beautiful blue eyed little girl. I couldn't have asked for a better pregnancy and delivery. Everything went great!!!! I was out of school for 2 weeks after giving birth. When she was exactly 2 weeks old I went back to High school to finish. In May 2003 I graduated from Robertsdale High School with my class and my 2 month old baby sat with my mom watching in the stands. I was so proud!!!! When Madison was 6 months old I went and met with my lawyer and got papers drawn up to send to her father (btw his name was not on the birth certificate). He could not sign his right over until he was 19 years of age. He had a CHOICE to either pay child support and would unfortunately be able to see her or he could sign his rights over to me. We never heard anything from him, so a court date was set and my mother and I showed up and there was no sign of him. I was so nervous...but I stood before the judge as she asked me questions like, When is the last time you spoke with the father, has he ever sent you money, where is he at this time, when was the child born....she said my lawyer would need to have the papers drawn up and she would sign them. Well he, my lawyer was on top of things, because he had them in hand and ready to be signed. The judge then signed the papers which terminated all rights that he had to my daughter. I was so relieved I walked out crying tears of joy!!!!! SHE WAS ALL MINE!!!!!! That afternoon, I got a call from my lawyers secretary informing me that they had received the papers in the mail from her father and he signed his rights over. So they were terminated and signed over to me all in the same day. Now since then about 2 1/2-3 years later he did contact me and I had let him see her, to me it felt like he wanted more to do with me than her. So I stopped it and we went on with our lives and he never tried to call again. Without the help of my friends and family I could have not done it all. On October 31, 2006 I signed on the dotted line for the best investment ever, our home. Without the help from the USDA Rural Development I would not have been able to afford it, but because of them I have been a homeowner for 3 years now and we are enjoying every minute of it!!!!!!



For the young mothers out there that think they can not do it, I am here to tell you that you can!!!! But you have to make up your mind that you want to be the best mother that you can and set an example for your child. There are too many young mothers that think they can have children and pawn them off of their parents to take care of while they go out partying and that is NOT right at all. You need to take responsibility, you brought that child in this world and you need to take care of it. There are too many families out there that can't have children and would love to be able to have just one!!!! It doesn't matter how old you are, children are precious gifts from God and you need to take care of them! Get a job and be a great mother and support the child. Don't depend on everybody else to do it. BE RESPONSIBLE!!!!! There is help out there for single mothers, believe me. You just have to find it and want it!!!





When we thought our life couldn't get better he blessed us with Brian and Beckham. Brian is so awesome and wonderful to us. We have been best friends for 9 years now and have always been there for each other. At the beginning of the year we started dating and couldn't be happier. We are planning on getting married on December 12 of this year in Robertsdale. He helps me around the house, opens my car door, always tells me how beautiful I am, helps me with Madison and most of all LOVES me and my daughter. You know the little things is what means the most....the things that some people may think isn't a big deal.



My mother and I have always had a close relationship and over the years I don't know that I could have made it without her. I really look up to her. She is such a strong and hard working woman and would do anything for her kids. She is always there to help me and she believes in me and I think that means the most to me!!!! If it was not for my mom and my dad I would be as responsible as I am today. I was raised working every summer at my dad's business, Billy's Seafood. Although I hated it because all of my friends were at the beach and I was working, it really taught me a lot. I also saved up money and my dad matched what I had saved and helped me purchase my first car when I was 16 a 1995 Mazda 626. When I graduated he bought me the car I still have today, 2003 Honda Accord. My parents divorced when I was 3 but I am lucky to have a wonderful step family also.



We also have Aunt Julie and Uncle Paul....they have known me since I was a baby....and have always treated me as their own. They stood by me after I got pregnant with Madison and Aunt Julie was actually in the room when Madison was born. She is Madison's Nana;-) They would do anything for me and Madison, no matter what the cost. They have helped us out in so many ways that I could never be able to express all of my thanks to them!!!!



Thank you to all of my family and friends for always standing by me!!! I love ya'll!