About Me

In 2005 I began working at a Home Depot as a cashier.  I was 18.  I was learning my coworkers names and regularly screwing them up.  Oh c'mon!  I was new!  Anyways, one evening I met a guy with buzzed hair who seemed really helpful and of course he just HAD to have a cute butt.  Dang it if I hadn't had a boyfriend at the time....

Fast forward from that April to July, that cute butt, I mean helpful guy and I started dating.  This is where the government stepped in.  September 2005 Chris got deployed to Iraq.  That was the hardest 22 months of our lives...Yup, 22 MONTHS!  From September 2005 to July 2007 he and I were apart but getting to know each other through phone calls, e-mails, letters and IM's.  We spent Christmas '05 together, I flew down to Mississippi before he went overseas and then he was in California for MOS schooling and I got to go visit him again.  We got engaged over his R&R and started figuring out when to set the date for.

We set the date for November 17th, 2007 and had a very small, very wonderful wedding.  Since then we have gone through a few milestones...First house, first (of many) renovation projects, first anniversary and then the biggest milestone...First baby!!

December 30th, 2009 we met our baby girl Alyssa.  The most amazing thing to have happened in either of our lives was her birth.  We brought her home on New Years Day--talk about new beginnings!!

And so begins our journey as a family....