Let's Catch Up!

WOW, it's been over 6 months since I have last blogged. It's pretty crazy how life can get super busy and things like blogging get pushed to the back burner.

Let's catch up on life. 

In March, I switched to a new job. I now work for a Foster Care company. I help license foster families. It's such a rewarding job to know that we help families impact children's lives everyday. 

In June, we welcomed our sweet baby girl, Cassie.

I was scheduled for a c-section, but she decided she wanted to come early and so my water broke and off we went to the hospital! Talk about throwing plans out the window!

The delivery went smooth and mommy and baby did wonderful. It was a HUGE adjustment to having a newborn. People do not tell how different life is, I don't know if you can comprehend until it happens.

She is now 3 1/2 months old and growing like crazy! She has started to laugh and talks all the time. She can roll over but would prefer not to be on her stomach. She is always wanting to sit up and won't lay back! 

We absolutely love her, but people do not tell you how hard it is. I'm not going to lie, there were a few days I wasn't sure if I could do it. You are tired, she is crying, there is nothing you can do to soothe her... it is hard. But I think we are over the hump of colic crying, but that period of time sucked. 

Now it's a lot of fun getting the smiles and laughs when she sees you.

She is a girl after her Mom & Dad's own heart. She loves The Office, this is her laughing while watching!

The Hubby and I just celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary. It's crazy to believe that we have been married that long! We celebrated by spending a night away. 

We golfed, went to the casino and ate dinner! It was great having some one-on-one time together. PLUS we came out ahead as winners! #WINNING

I am back in my work fantasy football league this year. I was 2-0 until this week. Ugh, all my players decided to get together and suck this week! 

But you can't deny how cute she looks rooting on the Colts!

I am hoping I can get back to blogging again. We are starting to get a routine down and Cassie is starting to play more and more. She really prefers that someone sits with her and talks, that gets the most laughs and smiles!

It won't be long and the Hubby will be coaching basketball. I can't wait to see how she likes the games. We took her to the local football game and she loved it. She is nosey and was looking around and watching people.

I hope all has been going well for everyone! We are hanging in there and figuring out this new adventure together!

Until next time,

Kara

Happy Friday!!!

It's Friday and the weekend is almost here!

I used to watch American Idol and I remember watching Kelly Clarkson win. This week she performed at the last season of American Idol and it was awesome. 

This song is so powerful and beautiful. 

It breaks my heart to hear this song and imagine as a little girl what that would feel like to feel unworthy or unloved.

I was so lucky to have an amazing father who loved my sister and I unconditionally and always put our interests first. I am now lucky to have two wonderful men in my life and soon to be in my daughter's life. My father is getting promoted to Papaw and my husband to Daddy. 

After listening to this song, I reflect and realize that my daughter and I are so lucky to have my hubby. He is such a good person. He is passionate in everything and that includes his fierceness in loving and protecting his family. 

I am thankful everyday that he and I are in this together and we can't wait to welcome our little princess.

Until next time,

Kara

Throwback Thursday

When I was younger, my parents constantly said that time flies by. Well I have always wanted life to hurry up and get to the next thing, but it's true, time really does fly by.

I found this old picture of the Hubby and I when we started dating in college. 

We have been together almost nine years. It's crazy how I feel like it was just yesterday, but I can't remember life before him.

This year will really be a big year to remember. Our little girl (yep you heard me right! A LITTLE GIRL!) will be here before we know it!

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This precisely describes our feelings! I cannot wait to see how this becomes our best year yet! 

Until next time,

Kara

Happy 2016!

I can't believe we are already into to January! Crazy how time flies. The Hubby and I have been super busy with the holidays and everything going on the past couple months.

The Hubby and I have some exciting news. We are expecting in June, so I've been pretty absent from blogging because I've been so tired. That first trimester really kicks some rear end! I think I was asleep each night by 7:45 or 8. That was laying down or sitting up! 

We are super excited and can't wait to find out what we are having! 

I was really tired this year, so I decided to put up my smaller tree. The cat's didn't mind, they love to lay under the tree. 

Which means, when there are zero presents, we wake up to the tree skirt being in weird places because they decide to fight over who can lay under there!

I think we attended 4 different Christmas parties this year! I was wore out after that! We got a ton of great stuff for us and baby! 

Indiana decided to have weird weather for Christmas this year. We didn't have a white Christmas, because it was in the 50's!

It was really strange Christmas day, but that didn't stop Socks from getting cold and retreating to the covers! It's so funny to randomly see lumps in the beds... it's usually a Socks cat!

While the Hubby was off on Christmas break we decided to do some fun things. For the past couple years, we have attended the Pacer game right before Christmas, so we went again this year. It's always a fun time!

We also decided to do a mini-getaway and went to Fort Wayne to stay the night and attend a Mad Ants game. They are the NBA D-league team that feed into the Pacers. I got a great deal on tickets through Groupon!

We had a great time just getting away and spending time together, and we also got to try a new restaurant. 

It was called 800 degrees. They cook your pizza in a wood burning oven. It was super yummy! 

In anticipation for our new addition I took a trip down memory lane and went through all my childhood books. I have a ton of the Golden Books! I LOVE to read and I hope the baby takes over that love. 

It was so much fun to look in the covers and see the date I received the book. Some of them were from 1987... talk about old! HA-HA! Of course Bella had to inspect the books and see what was going on.

We are so excited for what 2016 holds. Last year was an amazing year, but 2016 is setting up to be the best yet! We hope that you and your families have a great 2016 as well!

Until next time,

Kara

Catching Up....

Wow the holidays are just around the corner! I am looking forward to eating at Thanksgiving. I LOVE turkey!!!

Have you started Christmas shopping yet? I am almost done! Now I just need to get to wrapping!

I was in my college roommate's wedding last weekend. Here are a couple pictures of the Hubby and I. Isn't he just the cutest?!? I got super lucky!

I am super pumped for the week. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 comes out. We are going to see it on Thursday with my sister. I CANNOT WAIT!!!

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I have been excited all week when I see commercials for it! 

We have been busy battling a roof leak, so hopefully our roofer will be out this week to fix it. If the weather would just cooperate, it would make it so much easier.

I hope your week is going great so far!

Until next time,

Kara

Fall Break in Las Vegas

I am officially back to the land of the working people. P.S. I hate it. Can't we just always be on vacation? No? Okay, well I guess I'll just tell you what we did while we were on vacation.

We just got back from 7 nights in Las Vegas. Don't get me wrong, Vegas is still our city, but 7 nights was a little long. Our butts dragged all the way home!

We packed in a ton in the week we were there!

I always love being in Vegas during March Madness or during football season. Everyone is so pumped to cheer on their teams. Our football gear is always a huge hit!

We saw Nathan Burton's comedy magic show. It was awesome, we really enjoyed it. We got our tickets on Groupon.com for $10 each! You can't beat that!

We saw Zarkana at the Aria Hotel & Casino. 

Wow, this hotel is gorgeous and Zarkana was AWESOME. It was one of our favorites!

We also saw Love at the Mirage. The music was good, but it wasn't our favorite show. 

It didn't have the WOW factor that I feel like most Cirque shows have. If you loved the Beatles, you would love this show.

We love the MYVegas app. We got our Zarkana and Love tickets for free. Plus we got 2 free buffets from all the station casinos. This allowed us to visit some more places we had never been to, plus get free food! That's a win-win!

We were also able to go to the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef Aquarium. 

It was really neat to see all the animals! 

We got to see the divers trying to get a tiger shark to go into a separate holding tank to get examined by the vet! We also got this free from MYVegas!

We stayed at the Gold Coast for 4 nights and the Golden Gate hotel for 3 nights.

We enjoyed both places, but I really like staying downtown, this is our room at the Golden Gate. We upgraded to a suite. 

We went bowling, watched The Martian in 3D (can you say awesome?!?) and The Intern. Oh yeah and we also got massages! 

Plus add in all the walking we did. We were busy people! Here are some of the random pictures from the week!

One of the best things to watch in Vegas is the fountain show at the Belliago. Here is a clip of one of the shows we watched this time!

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