January has gone by so FAST

I can not belive that today is January 30th!! It's crazy how fast time goes by. This month I started working again at Solei and LOVING it! We also had a crazy storm here in Washington which really it wasnt THAT much snow but all the snow froze and made all the trees fall which made us have no power. It started snowing Saturday Jan. 14, then the next day I was going to a Mary Kay brunch with my sister (she just recently signed up to sell) and on the way there I slid into a ditch...my car went in sideways which would have been fine to drive but when my step dad Lorenzo pulled it out of the ditch sense it was so slippery it went right into another ditch and the basically the back tire turned the way it shouldnt. So for now I'm with out a car but hopefully I can figure out a way to fix it. So with all the snow we had my work didnt need me to come in all week! Which was fine because of all the trees falling down it was scary to even step out side. Not to mention our power went out Thursday early morning and didnt come back on until about 9pm Saturday night...NO FUN.

When the roads were cleared and the power was on our days went back to normal. Normal for me right now is work. I work Tuesday - Thursday 3pm - 9pm and on Friday from 9am - 6pm. I am SO very grateful for the people who help me with Ryker! His Grandma Lucas watches him Tuesday and Wednesday Grandma Smith watches him Thursday and Friday. Aunt Tia watches him as well when either of the grandma's cant. and last week when my mom, Kenny's mom and Tia all had to work my awesome cousin Jolene watched him. I'm very grateful for the people I have in my life that help me so that I can work and not have to worry about my baby.  

My mom had her 48th Birthday on January 28th!! My aunt Shirley came into town from Idaho and we put together a quick surprise party for her at the Buckley church where we played Volleyball!! It was a lot of fun.

victory dance!

 

Mom with Ryker on her 48th Birthday



(sense we were at the church we couldnt use a candle lol so she got a crayon in her ice cream)

Then the day after her birthday sense we always get together on Sunday for dinner anyways we just had an extra little party for her.

using her new Chocolate Fountian from Tia and Cedar !!





corey made a CTR pretzel that he saw in the 'Friend' magizine

Well that's about it...I hope everyone had a great January!!

Finally starting

I've had this blog set up for almost 2 years and I've never posted anything. Until today, I decided I just need to write keep track of my days so I can have better memories of today than I do of when I was younger. About a month ago I was thinking about my jr. high and high school years and really I can't remember much except for the big things like my first boyfriend, first kiss and things like that but the part that depresses me and this is why I decided to blog a journal is because I can barely remember the year let alone the month of all my big events in life. So now you know why :)
Starting with what I can remember of 2011 in January my dad had been in the hospital off and on for about 2 months dealing with his bronchitis (I believe is what it was) then realizing that his heart wasn't doing very well (he had had 2 strokes and a heart attack I think in 2008 ??) it was a hard time for me my daddy is my best friend and I hated seeing him in that fragile state, I was by his side and did everything he needed. In late January '11 Kenny and I got engaged !! I was very excited and we started doing most of the early planning in the hospital we even set a date for my dad to get his tux fitted. Sadly however on February 11th my daddy past away. Even now writing that makes me cry. I was so heart broken but at the same time I tried to stay strong (just because that's how I am) I can still remember that night getting a call from my brother to come right away because dad had stopped breathing. He had a heart monitor type thing put in not that long before to help his heart to beat stronger which basically kept him alive for a couple hours...I could have gone in and said goodbye but I couldn't bare to see him like that. I didn't want to remember him lifeless. My dad was full of life and I think about all the amazing memories I have of him everyday.

So we has his funeral and drove to Idaho to lay him to rest. That very same day my dad died Kenny and I found out I was pregnant. We were very excited (And yet sad).

Kenny and I got married March 5th !! It was a beautiful day.

Kenny got a job selling RV's a couple days after we got married and I started decided not to work for a while. My sister Tia and I started training for a try-a-tri that would be held the last weekend of July. We spent a lot of time training and I was feelin pretty good, we even did a 5k June 11th 2011, 5 months pregnant. Also in June for my birthday Kenny surprised me and took me to Ocean Shores !! We had a blast riding on mopeds on the beach :) I got a job as a receptionist at Solei Day Spa in Lakeland hills and was set to start on July 3rd, 2 days before that I was sitting out in the sun (that barely ever shows itself in washington) and I got a sun burn....a BAD one I ended up blistering my feet and I wasnt able to walk for almost 2 weeks. So sadly I wasn't able to do the try-a-tri with my sister :( but my feet have healed just fine and I have no scars :) so I spent the next 2 months keeping myself busy with work and took maternity leave at the beginning of October. By this time Kenny started working at a car dealership in Fife and was enjoying his work. The day FINALLY came when my baby boy Ryker was born!! October 16th 2011 at 3:20am. I went into labor around midnight Oct. 15 and just hung out in labor at home till almost 6 am when I couldn't take it anymore and we decided to go to the hospital my amazing mom, sister and best friend Holly were there with me every step of the way (Kenny was there too of corse) I am so grateful to my labor crew for being there through all the pain and craziness that went on during that 24 hour period. Ryker Kent Lucas was 8 lbs 5 oz and 21 1/2 in. I love him more and more every day.

Well that is all the high lights of 2011. Next time I will be in the here and now! :-D Krystal