About Yours Truly

Well hello there! My name is Melissa and I am an early thirty something mama who married the man of my dreams in 2007. I met my hubby, James, on my first day of community college in the summer of 2000 in Econ 100. My friend and I scoped out the class and I knew I would work my way towards his seat, which I did, slowly but surely. We had a few dates where we sat and people watched, I knew in December of 2000 that I would marry him but I had to wait for him to even ask me to be his girlfriend. We officially started dating in February of 2001 and he asked me to marry him in November of 2005. I was still in school earning my degree in English so we set the date to tie the knot on June 30, 2007. Seven days before, on my twenty-fifth birthday we closed escrow on our first house.

In January of 2009 we adopted our fur baby, Delilah, our dachshund-corgi mixed pup. She was our first baby and all we thought we would have until we were surprised in April when we learned we were expecting our first child in December.

On December 18, 2009 our lives changed forever as we welcomed our daughter, Payton Rylee. Payton is currently enrolled in preschool and is loving every moment of it. She is obsessed with princesses, all things girly but also has that kick ass spunk about her.

On October 18, 2011 we welcomed our son, Brayden James. Brady was born with a cleft lip and is our miracle baby. He is truly an angel! You can search his story on the blog to see his progress. You would never know he ever had surgery. He loves anything sports related, can ride his power wheels like no other two-year-old and he is obsessed with Mater, Lighting McQueen and Thomas.

In May of 2012, we bought our new house and couldn’t be more blessed to live in the neighborhood we always dreamt of living in. We finally sold the first house where we began as a family in November 2012.

My blog is another baby. Well, I tend to forget about it sometimes but I always come back. You will find anything from yummy recipes, photos of the kids, rants on why people bug me or why I am bugging myself and some DIY stuff thrown in there. I hope you stick around!