quick update

So once again I have not been very good at blogging! So just a brief update Payton has started preschool and she loves it! She gets so excited to go! She has been going about 2 weeks now and in that 2 weeks she has learned to spell her name and recognize letters! She is a smartie! I love how excited she gets when I pick her up and she wants to go see Ryker that she missed him and wants to tell him what she learned at school...she is such a sweetheart! Ryker is still a happy boy like always : ) He has 2 teeth now we didn't even know he was teething lol he is crawling and can say mom, dad, hi and ya. He loves his mommy and daddy but he loves his sister so much I can hear them talking to each other and they both get so excited when they see each other...  they are best friends and that makes this mommy very happy!!! I love my little family and I am so grateful for all the trials we have had that have given us the blessings we have now : ) That's all for now I have to get back to work! Hope everyone has a great week!!

New Year

I know I have been horrible with blogging lately and there is so much that I want to write down and catch up! So hopefully this year I will be a little better!! This past year has brought a lot of ups and downs for my little family... First off I was married to my best friend in feb! He knows me better than I know myself! He knows when to just sit back and listen and he knows when to tell me to knock it off that I am over reacting I love that about him!! In July we were blessed with our sweet stud muffin!! Ryker Kenneth Scott Strickland! He is such a happy baby and so easy going! I am one lucky mamma both of my kids were super happy babies and slept really good for me! My little princess is not so little anymore!! She is the most opinionated little girl I have ever met! She is so strong willed and determined but at the same time she is the sweetest little girl that wants to cuddle mommy and help change her little brother and feed him. I love her so much! Words could never express the love I have for my kids! With the new years comes resolutions dun dun dun.... So here are my few I have made:
Stop with the gossip or walk away when people are talking about other people! I am so done with the high school stuff! I know I'm not perfect and had my fair share of gossip but it gets you no where!!
Running 5k's Ty and I are starting to train to run 5ks I know that's not far but when you haven't ran forever it seems like a good goal and I hope within the next year I will run my first marathon with my mamma : )
Be a better friend, Mamma and lover.. If I do this I know my whole year will be much better!!!
That's all for now have to get back to work : ) hopefully I will be here a lot more this year!

so thankful.....

I have been a little off the past month or so... I know its just a phase I'm going through. I just wanted to say I am one lucky girl to have a husband who stands by my side and helps me get through these phases even if it hurts him... I'm so grateful that he doesn't give up on me and does anything to make me happy! I do love you, Tyler!

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Finally "really" happy!!

It has been forever since I have posted anything and I promise that I am going to be better!! We added a new bundle of joy to our lifes on July 10th.. Ryker Kenneth Scott Strickland! We love him so much so he is going to get his own post here shortly :) I just wanted to blog real quick that I am finally "really" happy!! In the past I have always been happy with my life but I just wasn't sure of where I was going or what I was doing... and in that time I was not a very good friend, lover or daughter. The other night I was sitting there feeding Ryker while Payton was doing my hair and talking to Tyler and it just hit me that I am really happy! I have found out who I am and what I want from life! I just feel at peace with myself... I don't know how to explain it.. It was like taking a ton of weight off my shoulders... I still am not perfect by any means! I still stress about things, I still say the wrong things, but that is me and I am really happy with that :) I love my little family and I love the family that we are becoming!! Tyler is seriously my best friend I tell him everything (even when it's bad things about him!) But I love how we can talk and have some really deep conversations... He gets me like no one else ever has! I love my kids more than anything in the world!! Payton has taught me so much about life, how she acts with her cousin Kenidee is so sweet and tender it always brings tears to my eyes to see her helping Kenidee and interacting with her. Whenever she sees me crying she always tells me "sweetheart it will all be ok, remeber laugh!" and she will start tickling me. That little girl is my rock and has got me through so much!! Our new little man Ryker is the sweetest thing ever! I love that he starts to cry and I just speak his name and his eyes light up and he starts to smile!! He is a strong little boy and is always smiling. He just has this thing about him that you know everything is going to be ok. God blessed me with 2 amazing kids! And now that I know who I really am I have been a better friend, a better mom, daughter and wife. I know I have rambled and probably haven't made much sense... it's hard for me to explain this feeling I am just really truly happy :)

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Not feeling normal....

Today I am 27 weeks! I am super excited that this pregnancy has gone by as fast as it has but... this last week has been very hard for me..I went to the doc on Monday and he told me that everything looks fine but once I hit 30 weeks to be prepared at any time to have this baby!! He told me not to be stressed and to pretty much go to work and do nothing else.. well that is easier said then done when you have a 2 year old child I can't expect her to lay in bed all day with me! Well since Monday each day I feel more and more not like myself.. I get all ready for work hair and make-up and dressed nice but then I end up washing my face and putting sweats on and throwing my hair in a pony. I have also been getting really sick from about ten o'clock at night until I get home and finally fall asleep I don't ever throw up but my stomach kills me. The doc always told me he thinks that I am going to go early but 10 weeks early that's crazy!! I am up worried sick that my little boy is going to have to spend the first month in the hospital it is making me sick!! And my wonderful husband has been so good with me and my moods but I don't think he fully understands what is going on... I know he doesn't want me to go early and to have the baby in the hospital I know that but he doesn't feel the baby kick in a weird way and all the things that are going on in my body, that's not his fault but it's just hard to explain to him that something not normal just happened and I don't know what to do about it or if it is really serious and I don't want to make him worry either. I'm just not feeling myself and I hate it!! Hopefully the lil man will be good and wait 10 weeks till I am full term I would even be happy with 8 or 9 but to come in 3 weeks I am not ready so stay in there little man, Mommy loves you and wants to see you oh so much but I can't wait 10 weeks :)