Our New Years Resolutions

Goodbye 2009! Hello 2010!

Tonight is New Years Eve and we will be sharing it with our beautiful daughter and great friends. We have had many discussions over the past few weeks about what we want next year to hold for us. February 25th, 2010 we will have been married for one year! February 12th, 2010 I will be turning 22 which is bitter sweet considering I already feel old but my family makes me feel younger and younger everyday. September 11th, 2010 we will have been together 2 years. October 2nd, 2010 our beautiful baby girl will be one year old *tear*. December 1st, 2010 my hubby will be 23... what an old man! lol December 9th, 2010 our other daughter will be 4yrs old...she is such a big girl and almost ready for school! These are just the definite events that lay ahead for 2010 but I'm sure there will be plenty more.

But in light of negative events that have occuried this past year, we want to make sure they do not occur again and we want to learn from our mistakes in order to better ourselves as a couple and as parents. This is the whole reason for new years resolutions right? So after our many discusions we have finally came up with our new years resolutions.

We are going to concentrate on our little family first and foremost! We are going to spend as much time with each other and our baby girl before he will be deploying January 2011. We are going to push aside the drama queens and surround ourselves with only the people that love and respect us as a family. I am going to start back school for nursing this January and hope to be finished by the end of 2011! My hubby is going to choose what he wants to re-enlist as in the Navy for when he returns from deployment. We will no longer be bothered by other people's immaturity and lack of self-respect, because in the end we will always have each other and our baby girl at the end of the day.

These are our new years resolutions that we intend to stand by throughout this upcoming year! We send everyone our love for this Happy New Year!

Cassidy's First Shopping Trip

Today, Cassidy and I went on our first shopping trip since Daddy had duty all night. She has been stuffed up the past couple of days, so I assumed that the fresh air would help clear her up alittle. So I got her all snuggled up and cute as always and and ready to go shopping! She is in training for one of memaw's many girl's day out shopping trips!! We went to Babies-r-us and got a humidifier and of course an outfit or two before we headed to the mall. Then it was mommy's turn to do some much needed clothes shopping with our christmas money and gift cards! Normally, she sleeps through every outting we have had so far, but this time she decided that she would definitely participate! She had everyone oogling over how cute she is and how small she is for her age and she ate it up...cooing and smiling and kissy faces! She is a little stinker! By the time we got home, she was more than ready for her bottle and apparently shopping literally pooped her out! lol She had a major poop diaper that overflowed out of the diaper! Definitely the highlight of our day!
*all ready to go shoppingwith mommy!

*kisses for my little bit!*finally pooped out after a 4hr shopping trip!

Our First Christmas

This christmas was a christmas of firsts... Our first christmas being married, Cassidy's first christmas, and our first christmas as a family!! We had a great christmas, if I must say so myself! It was nice to just have us 3 here at home for a quiet and relaxing christmas together. The hubby and I challenged each other to see who had the better stocking stuff from 'Santa'..lol. I must say that he did a great job, but I think I won! Cassidy was not a happy camper with us waking her up to come see what all she got for christmas. I definitely can't wait until next year when we can really play 'Santa' with her! I would have to say my favorite present that I got, other than the brand new laptop, would have to be the bracelet that the hubby got me. It is 10k white gold bracelet with Zack, Sam, & Cassidy engraved on each link with our birthstones beside our names. It is beautiful and I wanted to cry. The hubby's fav is his mossy oak clemson sunglasses by far, even over his new digital camera! The hubby passed out the gifts and after we were done opening all of them, I got started on christmas dinner! We had ham, corn, lima beans, and macaroni & cheese and for desert we had homemade white chocolate macadamia nut cookies! It was delicious if I must say so myself! Here are some of my pics of our first christmas together as a family!

*Cassidy all ready for Santa to come!*Yeah! Santa came!
*all of my gifts

*All the hubby's gifts!

*Cassidy and her gifts! Not happy about being woke up! lol

Cassidy's Homecoming

My baby girl is finally home!! I'm so excited, or more should I say we are excited, to finally have her home to enjoy and love. I can finally irritate her for all the hard kicks in the middle of the night when she was in my tummy. Pay back is a pain! lol We had the christmas decor up for her to come home to and she was so excited to come home I couldn't get her to go to sleep for hours!

Her first night was alittle restless since I was not happy that our room was colder than it needed to be for her so we slept in the living room, me and her in the chair and daddy on the couch. She has been eating great since she got home minus the occasional spitting up when she burps, but she only has one problem... she is now constipated! lol I guess all the excitement and big changes pooped her out! She hasn't pooped since we left the hospital so I gave her alittle prune juice in her formula at 3pm so we shall see how she does in a few hours.

She has a doctor's appointment next week and on the 7th so we will know how much weight she's gained being home in a few days. But I can't wait to take her to see Santa next week!

*Cassidy all ready to come home!

*Cassidy in her bouncer

*Our christmas tree...she loves the lights!
*Our stockings ready for Santa!

Cassidy's Nursery

Since the baby shower, I have slowly by surely gotten Cassidy's nursery organized and put together. There are still a few things on the floor, but for the most part it's organized. The funny thing is that the only thing I have left to get her is bottles! lol of all the things that are usually left on the list of "things left to get the baby", her's only says bottles. So I will make an effort to do that here soon!

*Her winnie the pooh decorated crib! She might be alittle small for it for now but she'll grow into it soon enough.

*Her bed for a little while til she gets big enough for her crib!

*Only half of her clothes, the rest are in the 2 boxes and in her dresser! Preemie to 3T!

*Her organized closet... probably wont be when she gets home so might as well enjoy it now!