Our little princess

So our little princess started pre-school just over a week ago. She absolutely loves it! Every day she has a new "Jesus" story to tell me about that she learned. Yesterday I picked her up and she started singing me a bible song! It was: I may never march in the infantry
Here are the lyrics:
I may never march in the infantry, Ride in the cavalry, Shoot the artillery. I may never fly o'er the enemy, But I'm in the Lord's army. (yes, sir!) I'm in the Lord's army, (yes, sir!) I'm in the Lord's army, (yes, sir!) I may never march in the infantry, Ride in the Calvary, Shoot the artillery. I may never fly o'er the enemy, But I'm in the Lord's army. (yes, sir!)

Ok, so you have to imagine a 4 year old's voice singing this song. So adorable. Instead of of saying Lord's army, she would say "Lord's R U". I asked her "Are you sure it isn't lord's army?" She said "No mom! It is Lord's R U!"

I got to take her to the park for the first time last night and she had a blast. She was so good to go grocery shopping with me afterwards and was so excited to come home and have alone time with mommy since daddy was working still. Of course when he came home she got all excited all over again! I decided to do some volunteer work. I am volunteering through my company to go to a school on May 22nd and teach them about banking and money. I am not sure how it will all go yet as I haven't received my training leadership packet yet, but I requested to teach the 1st graders. I thought they would be more fun than 6th graders. I remember when I was a 6th grader.....oh no! All they do is make fun of you and don't listen. Anyway, it should be fun and I still get paid for it :) YAY! Two more days until my little goddaughter is 2! Oh that reminds me...I need to get her card in the mail! Well, back to work for now. I only have a half hour left until I go home.

Just a Hello

Hello everyone! There is a lot going on right now. Most of it good...just a lot going on. Well, Adam's SIL finally had their baby last night. It was a girl, born at 7:01 PM, weighing in at 7 lbs 4oz, 19 1/2 inches long. She has dark curly hair and Shannon's lips...from what we have been told. They are still deciding on the name..either Madeline or Anna. We are making the trip to the hospital tonight since they didn't want anyone there yesterday until the baby came.

We finally bought our house! We move in May 30th and 31st! I can't wait to get out of the apartment living. It sucks! No more noisy neighbors, no more broken windows, and no more cigarette smells coming from everywhere in the building! EW!

My little goddaughter is turning two in just under 2 weeks! I can't believe how big she is getting. She calls me Mimi which I absolutely love...she can't say Missy :) How adorable! I just wish they lived closer so I could see her more.

Our little princess starts pre-school on Monday! She is excited and nervous I think. She has been testing the waters with Adam everyday lately to see what she can get away with. Not much still! HA! Adam starts back to work hopefully by the 14th :) I know he is happy to start getting up early again....he he! Yeah right! Work is still...well... work. Not much new there.

2008

Wow! I can't believe I haven't written in here for a long time! Well, the wedding went really good! I did end up taking 3 anxiety pills that day and one the night before at the rehearsal dinner, but they really helped. I don't know if I would have gotten through it without those little guys! So, since the wedding we have been looking for a new place to live. We are getting out of the apartment life this year no matter what! We are looking at houses now and the market is so wonderful to buy. Our lease is up at the end of April, so we still have plenty of time to look. I am not looking forward to packing and painting the wall in my dining room back to white! AUGH! Hopefully Adam can get some boxes from Two Men and a Truck since he used to work there.

Married life is great although not much different than from before...besides now being able to buy husband/wife greeting cards :) Mikayla is getting bigger by the minute. She turned 4 in September and is doing great in her dance class! She absolutely loves going and is excited for the recital in June. I have been working on fixing my credit since the first of the year and I am happy to report that I have 2 almost 3 things paid off. They were minor but still worth cleaning up. I would much rather clean things up than file bankruptcy.

I have been hanging out with an old HS classmate (Missy) a lot lately. She is married with two kids around Mikayla's age. I love hanging out with her. We get a long so well and it seems like we are a lot alike....go figure we have the same name. I love her positive attitude all the time and I am so glad we got back in touch. We met up at the 10 year HS reunion. That was more fun we the group left and went to O'Malley's :) Remember Missy... "I used to be a cook for Perkins" HA! That was hilarious! Missy started going to church with us and joined Gold's Gym with us. We have the intention of working out together...just got to get the schedules going :) I am excited to have someone to go to church with too. I think her two kids liked it too. Abby is 6 and Brody is 3. They are so cute! Mikayla loves playing with them!

Adam's sister in law is pregnant and due in April. She is expecting a girl! The baby fever is all around us.... I threw Shannon a baby shower a couple of weeks ago and that was fun too. We went out to dinner with Shannon and Paul afterwards for some "adult time". Then we went out for Missy's birthday. I love going to Majors. They play great music and it is always busy. The best part is...no cover charge!

Well, I guess I better get back to work. I will try to write in here more and keep you posted on our life!

Anxiety

For those of you who don't know, I suffer from anxiety attacks. With the wedding coming up in one week from tomorrow, those attacks have become more frequent lately. Depending on the severity of the attack I can have a few different reactions. A small attack will cause a stomach ache...something that I can cure by laying down and relaxing. A large attack will cause dry heaving, diarreah, and uncontrollable shakes. It will give me the feeling like I am going to pass out and they are really scary! I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and he gave me some anti-anxiety medicine. The first and last time I took it, it made me feel weird all day and extremely tired. I took it and fell back asleep for 4 1/2 hours. I really don't like taking it and am trying to avoid it.

So it seems that the issues surrounding a wedding only get worse as you get closer to the date. We have not only already replaced one bridesmaid, two groomsmen, and a personal attendant, but now we are getting a new pastor....wtf? Our pastor that we are so comfortable with and have been seeing the past 8 months has informed us 2 weeks before the wedding that he can't marry us. He has something going on with his family..not an emergency..but something he needs to be there for. Our church just got a new pastor who has agreed to marry us, however we have never met him. One of my bridesmaids informed me last week that she needs to make up 4 inches to fit in her dress...Yikes! I am a little nervous about that one. I finally got a hold of our caterer and actually met her for the first time on Tuesday. That made me feel a lot better since it has been months and a long process to get a hold of her. My Matron of Honor is flying in Thursday, only to be rushed to the tailor to get her dress altered. I hope we don't have issues around that...?? I am pretty confident with that one since she has been very responsible with losing weight and I don't think I have to worry. I just hope that everything works out. We met with our cake lady last night and she is having issues getting the color right on the buttercream. After a trip to Sweet Celebrations and some quick brainstorming, we changed the whole look of the cake. It will be a lot easier to make and still look beautiful.

Work is more hectic than usual. Kim is leaving us Wed. next week and so our work starting to double yesterday since she isn't taking any more requests. This way she can work on getting rid of the 100 that she has. I am really going to miss her because now I am stuck with the "boys". At least she will still be working downtown so I can still see her for lunch and stuff. I am really happy for her that she got a permanent position. She deserves to be with a good company and have a stable position. I know how I felt when I was offered the FTE position.
Well, back to work as much to do!

Another bad one!

Saturday night I had another bad dream! This time it involved my mom trying to take Mikayla away. What is the deal with these dreams. They are only a few days apart and in each one someone is trying to take Mikayla. We went to church on Sunday and had to leave a little early to get some more wedding things done. We went to Adam's parent's house and picked out his pictures for the DVD that will play before the ceremony. I have them all scanned in and on their way from Snapfish. I can't wait to see how they turned out. Then I have to get them to the videographer in St Paul. I can't wait to see it :) I can't decide if I want to see if before the wedding or be surprised. I guess I wouldn't really get to see it if it plays before the ceremony. Anyway, my bridal shower is this Sunday. I am so excited. I think it is all coming together now. I know that Megan and Rhonda got together and went over all the details and stuff so it should be fun. I am so fortunate to have two such great people in my life. ( I have more too :) ) Well, that's about it for now.
TTYL!

Bad Dream

I am in a somewhat bad/weird mood. I think it started with the bad/weird dream I had last night. It was about Mikayla's bio-dad trying to take her from me. Adam was there and was really mad about the whole situation. I can't remember details but I remember the main point. I think it got me thinking about what happens to Mikayla if something happened to me. Would Adam get to keep her or would they try to give her to her bio-dad? After talking it over with one of my friend's at work I decided to make a will. I found out that you don't have to go to a lawyer to make a legal will. You can go to any stationary store, buy the "Will Kit", and get three people to sign with a notary present. That's alot cheaper than paying a lawyer to do it. Then I also started thinking about letting Adam adopt Mikayla. He really wants to and for some reason I am the hesitant one. He is the only "dad" she has known since her 1st birthday, so why not. He hasn't paid child support since 12-06 and hasn't seen her since her first birthday by his own choice. Maybe he would love getting out of having to pay child support anyway. I just fear that she will be turn to me later in life and be upset for not putting forth an effort to find him or contact him. I don't want her to feel abandoned by him or think that I was keeping her from him by any means. He just up and left and never told me he was moving or leaving the state or anything. He just didn't ever call again to see her. I feel so bad for her. Anyway it is Friday the 13th today too so you know kind of just a weird day all together.
TTYL.

Another Day

So most of you that will read this already knows that Adam and I are having problems with our apartment building and the security that it does NOT provide. Last night after picking up Mikayla I found that the front security door had paper shoved into the latches therefore restricting the door from locking. My 3 year old daughter was able to push this huge and heavy door open all by herself. Nice security! After getting the mail I went upstairs, dropped everything and grabbed my camera. I immediately went back downstairs and took pictures of the situation. This is not the first time that paper has been shoved in the locks. Usually it is our side security door, but the front door I feel is a lot more serious! I am preparing to print out all these photos that I have been taking and package that with a long letter to the office explaining that they need to fix these issues or lose several renters. I am so tired of this! Anyway I just wanted to vent about that since I am so frustrated with it!

Our wedding plans are still coming along. I just realized yesterday after I got the invitation to Megan's wedding that I should probably start making the invitations. I think we have one box and need like 3 more boxes. I am working on getting all the photos in order for the DVD that will play before the ceremony. There is like 60 photos that I have to get in order and off to the videographer. Fun times!

I am finally a full time employee with Wells Fargo! YAY!! Starting July 16th I will be eligible for all the Wells Fargo perks. I am so excited. My benefits won't kick until until September 1st, but that's ok. They have great benefits so it is worth the wait. I need to start planning for Mikayla's birthday party too. Lots to do. Well, back to work. TTYL!