Hello blog! Long time no see.

So much to type and not enough time to do it all!

We went on a 28 day vacation back to Indiana and stayed with Andy's parents.

We endured 2 over 14 hour car trips with 2 toddlers.

We got to meet up with family, friends, and get sick!


Callie took her first steps unassisted at Grammy and Pops.

Wilson got to spend lots of time with his favorites, Jake and Lacey, and unofficial aunt Kiki.


We had a great time and already miss that easiness of getting to live close to family.

Wilson got to play in snow for the first time.

Callie got to meet all her extended family, and give them the stink eye.

Little girl was not friendly at all! But she's at that stage right now.

So now we are back, getting back into our lonely family groove.

No grandmas and grandpas to visit.

We have our friends though and the weather is so much nicer here!

Hopefully I will find more time to update in the future.

Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013!

The holidays are now over, and our family had a very nice one.

I am thankful for any holiday we get to spend together as a family, because well, when your are in a military family, we won't always get that.

It was a very rainy Christmas and New Years down here in Louisiana. And it has finally gotten chilly outside.

A few weeks ago I was wearing shorts, because it was so warm out!

I made a collage of some of my favorite pictures throughout the year and shared them on my Facebook and Instagram. But here they are again!

2013 is going to be an interesting year! We are gearing up for an over 13 hour car drive to go back home in Indiana for a month.

We are expecting to get new orders sometime in the spring, so I am excited and nervous. Nervous because what if I end up having to move someplace not on my "list" but excited that there is always a possibility that it could happen.

Andy will have to go for some training before we move and will be gone for I think up to 3 months. And that will be around the time I am knee deep in full toddlerhood. Eek.

Then we will get to say good bye to Louisiana in the late fall and move to our new base!

Oh did I mention I will be turning 30?!?!! Aaaaaccccccckkkkkk!

Okay I know I shouldn't freak out, especially since I am still told I look 18. (These flatterers are on my BS list.)

But I can't help it! I'm not upset I'm turning 30. I think more so, I'm just like, whoa, I'm actually getting old.

So there you go, 2013 here we come!!

You don't get these moments back.

When I was pregnant early on with Wilson, I worried about miscarriage, or any of the heartbreaking things that could happen while he was in utero.
Since Friday, I look longingly at my precious children, and wish I could have them safe in my uterus again.
Safe from a world, where there is so much pain.
I can't protect my children from everything. As they get older, more independent, make their way out into the world, I won't be able to shield them.

The scariest thing of being a parent is knowing a literal piece of your heart is that little baby girl with those long eyelashes, and that little boy with that mischievous grin.

A part of me is them, and I don't know how I could endure if I were to lose them.

These past couple nights, I've snuggled them closer, kissed their cheeks far more than they've liked, spoiled them with treats, studied their little features, their hands, fingers, toes.

There is so much pain in this world, and in two rooms under our roof, there is infinite, wonderous beauty.

I crept into their rooms again tonight, to look at that beauty. To try to capture it.

That sweet sigh, soft breathing, hearing a gentle heart beat in one room from a noise machine, and the sound of ocean waves in another.

I know i can't fully capture it. It's beyond words, pictures, it's beyond anything I could describe.

Meeting mall Santa.

Decided that the kids should go meet Santa and so when Andy got off work we headed to the mall.

Callie I think needed 2 naps today because she was super clingy later in the day.

So I got the kids dressed in their little outfits.

Neither baby wanted to sit in the stroller. Doh.

When we got there Santa was no where to be found. He was apparently feeding the reindeer. Aka taking a break somewhere. Probably smoking and boozing it up. I would if I had to be Santa.

I jokingly told Andy I'd even take a picture of both of them crying in Santa's lap. Because that is hilarious.

But instead I got a pretty cute picture. Wilson was totally cool with Santa. He didn't want to sit in his lap but I don't blame him.

Callie has to warm up to people and we literally threw her on his lap and started taking pictures.

Still though, I have seriously the most adorable kids.

Callie at 1 year.

Well it's been a couple days, but last year here is what I was doing! ^ See picture above.

I can't believe how fast my daughter's first year has come and gone. She has been such an amazing addition to our family. A long cherished dream come true for mommy especially. I'm so lucky to get to be a mommy to a little Stinks, and now my very own little Sweets.

Callie is pulling up on everything and starting to figure out how to cruise around the furniture, but I can see the stubbornness in her, she'd rather do it her way than try something new.

She's finally not army crawling all the time, and will crawl on her hands and knees, but if she wants to get somewhere fast she will get back on that belly.

Her hair is getting long enough I can more easily put it up in a little ponytail. I'm a little worried that as the hair gets longer, I'm going to be at a loss at how to do it.

I'm a mess when it comes to doing cute hairstyles, so hopefully I can figure it out in the future.

She loves to eat everything she can. I find her regularly on the floor scouring for any dropped food.

She refuses to drink out of her own sippy cup, but if brother leaves his out, she's on it like a Hawk!

So she is still getting her milk in bottles, but I am trying to give her more sippy cups with water, milk, some juice with water in it.

Luckily I have a bunch of different sippies for her to try out. Hopefully she will figure it out soon so we can get rid of those bottles!

Oh and last but not least her measurements:

Weight: 18.7 lbs
Height: 28.75 inches
Head: 18.3 inches

So she's on the low side for weight, middle ground for height, and like 85% for the head.

I've noticed it can be a chore getting a shirt over her head but isn't that for all babies?

Callie weighs less than Wilson did but is almost a whole inch longer! I don't remember his head stats but how funny.

I do wish one of my babies would've been really chunky.

Wilson was average, he wasn't like super chunk baby and Callie has been just my little skinny minnie!

Gotta feed her more or something!

Christmas photo challenge.

Over on my Instagram I'm doing a 25 day photo challenge for Christmas!

Check me out at Harroanna.

My Instagram is private. Just request to follow me and see my almost daily Instagram of my kids, food, and hello kitty.

Day 30

Well, it's the last day for Nablomo. And it's the last day that my daughter is under 1.

I can't believe that right now, I was on my way to the hospital.

That my son was asleep in a pack n play at our friends house ( who are getting ready for their own little bundle here!)

It was chilly out, I think it is warmer today than it was last year!

I was nervous about getting induced, how it would all go. But it was so much calmer than Wilson's birth.

I do think I should've told the nurse sooner about getting ready to push, I think Callie had so much bruising because I didn't get her out fast enough.

Oh man, do I remember how much she cried though! She was so mad!

That hasn't changed! Even now if I take something away, or don't feed her fast enough, pick her up fast enough, I hear it!


I just spent the evening finishing up the birthday party.

I know, babies don't care about their first birthday. It's something more for me, than it is for her. But still, I hope they will look back someday and maybe hopefully see that I threw them parties, not for presents, not to show off, not to fulfill any crazy thing I saw on Pinterest.

But for them. To celebrate the day they came into this world. To celebrate the joy, the tears, the laughs, the tantrums, the funny stories.

The birthdays will come, but I'm not sure if ill ever be ready for them to go.