How it all began

Ralph and I have been together since the summer of 2008 but it all began in 1992. Ralph's sister, Colleen and I have been best friends since 6th grade and we grew up at each other's houses throughout the years. Ralph was always around but being the younger brother was forbidden to be around us (not that he wanted to make up dances with us). We said hi during high school and when I needed a jersey to wear to school on Fridays, Ralph was nice enough to let me wear his. He visited Kent State while I was there once to look at the football team and campus but decided against attending. He joined the Marine Corps and we spoke through emails every now and then just to see how the other was doing. Life went on and our paths finally crossed again in 2008 when Colleen invited me to their families yearly 4th of July party. Ralph was home on leave from Iraq and I just moved back to Cincinnati. This time when we saw each other things seemed a little different and the rest is history. In December 2011 we were engaged, July 2012 we were married, April 2013 we bought our first house and March 2014 we had our first child, Braxten! Each year has been more blessed than the last and we are so excited to see where our future takes us!

Friday, March 27, 2015

Noah's ark

We are very busy moving all the animals and tasting them of course!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

One year check up

Today we had our one year check up! Everything went great!! Poor little man had to get two shots but once they were over and he had a yogurt melt in hand we were happy once again! We are going to start introducing milk and have a goal of no more bottle in three months. No promises but we are going to try :)

Kane had another appt today too and she is sounding great! Although she is carrying very low the Dr said that he would guess I would deliver within 5 days of the due date because B came late. Guess we will just wait and see!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Cute Dad video

Hope this plays!!! Daddy and Braxten were playing today. Bs little personality is coming out in full force!!!

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

New tricks!

We have a new face that we have started to make a few days ago, our little fishy. Braxten is now clapping and has waved Goodbye a few times on cue. (He has done it fewer times than not but its cute when he does)

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Nap time

Braxten has been a good sleeper for a while now so today when he woke up after 45 minutes I let him try to go back to sleep. He wasn't having it so I went to get him. As I picked him up he laid his head on my shoulder as he has done in the past to wake up and calm down a bit. This time his little head stayed there for a while so we sat in the glider and he slept on me for 20 minutes!! This has never happened so I savored every minute! I can't get enough snuggles with my little man, I am still amazed that I can love him more each day! We are truly blessed! Now for the amazement that he is almost 1 year old!!!!! Oh my!

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