Prayers for Matt

Matt got his orders and he is in fact getting a stoploss. So he will not be getting out of the army this year he will instead be going to Afgantistan in April 2009! Please please please to continue to pray for his family! My dear Sara is yet again be a single mom for as long as the army needs her hubby. I am almost 90% sure it is a 12 month/ 1 year tour but last time they said that they informed him one month prior to leaving (Iraq last time) that he instead would be doing a 15 month tour! Gee Thanks! So Sara will be at home in Louisville, KY hours away from family and caring for three boys! Travis, Bryen and little Dominic.
We are definitely planning a trip to see him before he is deployed, sometime in March.

Learning is fun for both mommy & baby

Miss Addison is quite the character these days and like any little 16 months old sponge she is picking up on anything and everything. She loves books and is constantly sitting down and flipping through one, bringing them to mommy and we read them together. Well she has had a recent fascination with her counting/ numbers book. Although she is not counting yet, she picks up the book and points to the 6 SIX cars on page 6 each individually and mommy counts for her. Last night I said one...two...(Addison recited)three!!! I couldnt believe it! Maybe a fluke because after that excitement that mommy displayed everytime that she pointed to a car on the page she said "thee", but at any rate I think its safe to say....she is starting to "get it".

I fear silence....

Well since this is my official first day of blogging and the kiddo decided to take an awesome nap...I shall blog. The silence is scary and very weird. I relish in it when it happens...usually with a hot shower where i actually shave my legs or on a mad dash to clean every surface in my home but today...not so much. I have decided to take a moment to myself which i always vow to do but never execute.
Things in my life revolve around work, the husband and most of all Addison...which I am going to will be my primary items to blog about.
So I'll start there. Addison is 16 months at the end of this month and all the things she is doing, saying, experiencing amazes me.
She is being quite the little copy cat....and quite frankly...I love it. Its adorable! Jer & I now watch our every spoken word and action.
Here are some silly pictures of Addison to show her new found talents...
They include things from hugs and kisses for everyone and everything, playing wack a mole, feeding herself, working out, cleaning up, riding her horse & "blowing" her nose. And of course a few pics of her with mommy & daddy. She is a bit stingy with her kisses only offering them up when she is "in the mood" or to the dog more often than not or just to random objects! While watching GMA one morning she repeatedly threw kisses to Robin Roberts....why I dunno? We are on the I go 90% you go 10% (like in HITCH, the movie) and sometimes is works....other times...not so much.

Well I hear the sweet whispers and giggles from the other room...I better get going and prepare snack time.

In a Nutshell

How do you wrap your last 8 years into one post? Well, I dont have the time and evergy to do such a thing...so I am going to try and do my best.
Jeremy & I both attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I majored in Photography & he majored in Graphic Design. I carpooled with a good friend from High School, Beth and thus came the chance meeting. Beth was just in the beginning stages of dating his roommate & best friend Josh and I met him after going out with them for a night on the town one night. After a few days he found me in a library at school & asked me out. After five and a half years of dating we wed on August 5th, 2006 amongst our family & friends.
We welcomed our first child Addison into the world on October 31st, 2007 at 9:30AM. She was 6lbs 9 3/4 oz and 19 in long.
We would like to share some of our journey through out the years.