Summer Break

Well its been 2 weeks since summer break has started.  At first it was nice getting to relax all day.  Now im going a little stir crazy. Its just Macie and I all day everyday. The house stays clean, dishes and laundry are done, so there is nothing for me to do. I figured blogging would help take some of my time but there is only so much stuff you can blog about. I started selling Stella and Dot jewlery this summer to make a little extra money and give me somthing to do, and we bought macie a little plastic pool. It's fun but usually only takes up about an hour of our time.  Side walk chalk is another fun thing but macies attention span is so short that she  colors for about 5 minutes then the rest of the time is spent chasing her around the yard trying to get her to color again.  Bubbles keep her occupied for a short amount of time. She loves her morning cartoons, and she has so many toys to play with.  Somehow we still dont have enough to do to keep us busy. I thought about getting a cast away cove season pass, but its a little expensive.  Going to the mall  or  same old park gets a little old after a while, and most everything else costs money.  So I guess Im just asking for suggestions on what to do! There is still ALOT of summer left and I dont want to end up CRAZY by the end of it :)

Business Girl?

Here latley money has been tight at the O'Malley household, and with me not having a job I feel like I should take charge and do my part.  I was thinking about becoming a waitress again, or maybe going back into retail.  Everything I was thinking of seemed to complicating to manage with school and a toddler, what job is going to work around daycare, and school hours.  Then I came to the conclusion that I was going to work weekends.  That didnt work out, as soon as Ryan and I were talking it out we both realized that would take away from family time, because Ryan has off sundays and only works till 12:15 on saturdays. We live for our family time and we would hate for it to be taken away. Last week I was on facebook and a lady that we go to church with  had a post about a special deal on starting your own jewlery selling business (called Stella & Dot). Ryan and I talked about it and he seemed unsure at first, as did I.  It just seems like perfect timing and the perfect job.  I can set my own hours, sell off my website, advertise on facebook..I would have " trunk shows" where I would display my jewlery at a party and sell it.  After talking about it a little more I decided to message the lady that sells it and ask her questions.  She messaged me back, and said whenever she gets back in town we would get together and talk about it.  I am super excited and I hope that this job works out for me and gives our family the little extra comfort that we need financialy.  I am not selling it right now but go to Stella & Dots website and take a look! If you see anything you like keep me in mind! Hopefully in the near future i will have my business up and running :)

http://www.stelladot.com/

Baptism

1 year ago today Macie was baptised at Our Lady Queen of Peace.  That was a very special day! Hayden and Melissa O'Malley became her God parents.  Ryan and I took turns holding her as the priest spoke about baptism and asked us to guide her as a Christian. We were surounded by family and close family friends.  I felt a sense of peace.  I had  made a decision for me and my family about which path we were going to take religiously.  When I was pregnant with Macie I had felt ashamed whenever I walked into a church, and felt betrayed at a time where I should feel the most warmth and joy.  That made me question my faith as a Catholic, so I was going back and forth in my head on who I was a a Christian.  My mother in law was the person who put things in perspective.  A sign of being baptised in a catholic church was a sign that the parents were acctually taking the responsibility to grow that child as a child of God, and if I as Macies parent was going to make the decision to get her baptised I needed to make sure to follow through and guide her to meet all her sacraments.  Ryan and I made that decision and took that responsibility.  Here we are a year later and we have been attending Sacred Heart since October 10th 2010 and we absolutly love it.  The people there are so welcoming and warm.  They go out of their way to make you feel a sense of belonging.  Ryan and I have contemplated becoming part of a young adult group, and Macie has been invited to attend tuesdays and thursday school to learn about God and work on other learning skills for toddlers. We have only missed 3 times since then, once when ryan had to be at work early( when he was still at footlocker), when we had pink eye, and when we were visiting my mom.  Since Macie has been getting older it has been harder for us to keep her quiet, and harder for us to listen to the sermon, so today she attended daycare during church for the first time and she loved it!  My Nanny and Pops got her a bible for Easter and every night we read it and then blow bubbles ( because when we first started she thought we were saying bubbles instead of bible) haha, and now we have more bibles and prayers to read, because Hayden and Melissa stopped by and gave her some books as a anniversary present for being their God child for a year!  Ryan and I have also taken up reading the bible every night since lent had started.  I am very proud of us. We have come so far as Christians/ Catholics in such a short time, and I can honestly say I feel a sense of peace, and belonging.  It is amazing how God works in our lives.  I am excited for Macie to be able to grow up in a church home and make life long friends.  I cant belive that all this has come from the one little decision to get Macie baptised.  It all fell into place, and I thank God for the many blessing he has given my family and I.

Getting to know us!

Macies napping so I thought I would blog about each of us individualy.

I am  a 22 year old Mother, Wife and Student.  I am young but so very blessed with all that God has given me.  I was born and raised in wichita falls. I had a very good child hood I was able to participate in many activities.  I was in gymnastics, tball, pageants, singing lessons, cheerleading, horseback riding lessons, piano lessons, dance, swim team...n I may be missing some..lol. I had many animals growing up. Horse, guinne pigs, gerbils, fish, rabbit, chickens, dogs and cats.  I was very fortunate to have so much as a child.   I also had a very good church home at Wesley United Methodist Church.My parents divorced when I was 12, and that was a very hard time having to adjust from living a very fortunate childhood to living in a 1 bedroom apartment with my mom...plus becoming a teenager at that time didnt help at all.  Lets just say I was a little bitter, but I tried to remain as sweet as possible :)  Time went on and things got easier, I gained a step mother and I was getting used to going back and forth and I enjoyed having my friends over.Then when I was in Junior high I was told that my mom only had 6 months to live, talk about traumatizing, fortunatly she is still here today! I put alot of my time into church activities at floral heights (methodist church ) I was in NS2P (no speach to preach) that helped me get through tough times. During High School I enjoyed participating in school activities, I did cheerleading, PALS, One Act Play, UIL, FCCLA (we went to state!), Soft ball, Volley Ball, Track, I was class vice president, a member of drama club, powerlifting, I attempted debate. I tried to stay as busy as possible.  I was dating Ryan for most of my high school years and those were some of the greatest years sofar.  I got my first job at IHOP, then I worked at Hollister, Silver Elegance, then lastly paws n claws. All throughout highschool I changed what I wanted for a Career.  When I was going through physical therapy it made me want to become one, Then we had a day at MSU where we visited the different career colleges and I was good at the respiratory therapy..so thats what I thougt I wanted to do. Then I job shaddowed one and I changed my mind.  The next year I wanted to sign up to job shaddow a nurse in the nursery so I could hold the babies, I put down Labor and Delivery on my sheet ( not thinking that it was different from the nursery) Then to my surprise that year I got to see a baby be born...from then on I knew thats what I wanted to be..so I like to say I found my carrer by accident :) Now I am about to start my 5th year of college...I am classified as a senior, however I still have two years of nursing left.  I am a people pleaser, I want everyone to like me, I a care about what everyone thinks about me.  Im not sure where I get that from, but its who I am and therefore I try and stay as nice as possible and I feel very ashamed when I do something that may make someone else look at me negativly.  I deffinately have my days of moodiness, but usually a chocolate shake or M&M's can fix it haha.  I am a very high strung stressed out person, and I am not sure why...but I just try and fix it as much as possible...Massages, running, pedicures, any type of sweets all make it just a little bit better. Horseback riding also relieves my stress but I do not get to go very often.  I also am very OCD (WHEN) I clean, clean there can not be a spot anywhere I even scrub the walls, organize the drawers and the remote can not be crooked..I know weird..I love making lists and being organized.  Also I LOVE decorating...If that paid more and people acctually liked my work I would do that as a career.. I redecorate rooms in my head when I am in somone elses house its so weird but I LOVE IT! Also I think that is why I love wedding planning so much too because its so detailed and has to be organized plus it involves decorating!! Well enough about me I could go on forever about myself :)

Ryan is such an Amazing person, He is a Father, husband, Student, and Provider. He is honestly like NO other guy I have met.  He was also born in wichita falls, then moved to Arlington for a little while then back to wichita falls in the 6th grade.  He had a very different childhood than me but It deffinatly made him the person he is today.  His dad wasnt in the picture for most of his childhood.  However he keeps intouch with him now.  He was raised by his mom (and dads side of the family) which I think is so cool. I know he played basketball growing up, and still loves it till this day.  He also had ferrets and a dog as pets growing up. He has been catholic his whole life and he participated in youth activities. In junior high he was very different from how he is now.  He was hanging out with a different crowd from me and being the class clown with the other guys in our class. However I didnt ever see him that way, and I didnt realize he was that much different till a teacher approached me in the hall and said you and ryan compliment each other well, both of you have changed for the better.  I wil never forget that statement :)  Also I think another thing that whipped him into shape was sports! He was in football, basketball, track, baseball. That took up lots of his time and he absolutly loves sports.  He got is first job at footlocker and stayed there till just recently. (which he is now at CITI bank).  He used to want to be a vet, untill he job shaddowed one.  That changed his mind quick. He didnt like to see the animals hurt.  He then decided to change his career to psychology, because he loved helping his PAL clifton.  After he took his first psyc class in college he changed his mind again and finally ended up with a career in Education teaching history and coaching. He is also about to start his 5th year in college...and is classified as a senior with about 2 years left.  He is not as stressed a person as I am but when he is stressed he likes to play basketball with his music up really loud.  He likes to make jokes, play pranks, and give people a hard time.  He makes things fun! He is also a people please an hates to dissapoint people. Thats Ryan! Well I may be missing some stuff but you get the idea :)

Lastly there is my Baby girl Macie!  She was born on December 25th 2009, and was the best christmas present ever! She was a drama queen from the time I went into labor haha!.She was 6 days late and decided to come in the chirstmas blizzard of 2009. I was in labor for 12hrs and 21 minutes and she was born at 5:23pm. 8lbs 4oz 20 3/4 inches... She had to go to the nursery and was there for 3 days.  She had swallowed her poop when she was in my belly and then inhaled it when she took her first breath... so they had to get it out of her lungs by putting her on a machine and iv with antibiotics. She has changed so much in the past year. Hit all of her milestones on time and even some early! Some of the main ones were April 1st she rolled tummy to back,May 5th back to tummy, July 23rd she craweld ,september 12th she took her 1st step. first teeth started coming in June pulled herself up July 13th.  She was a very easy baby, I didnt lose that much sleep, she was easy to ween off the pacifire, easy to put to sleep in her own bed, easy to ween from nursing...She has been such a joy in my life. The only problem we have had with her is at times she is teething.  Here latley she is testing her limits and wants to be more independent.  She also is becoming a little diva and likes to get her way (it doesnt help that ryan always let her get her way haha)  It makes me sad that my baby is growing up and doesnt need me like she used to.  She is now growing more attached to Ryan, and I knew it was going to happen.  I just didnt think it would be this early...I still NEED her <3 but I couldnt be more proud to be her mom and I got so lucky to have such an easy baby!

Sorry for all the grammer errors :-/

Catch up

I decided to start blogging to allow my family to keep in touch with what my  little family and I are doing! Its summertime and I am on a break from school so now is the perfect time to start one, since I have all the time in the world.


I thought I would catch yall up.  I started going to City View Elementary in 4th grade, Ryan started in the 6th grade. I always had my eye on him from the very begining. We never really talked untill junior high though. I think everyone in our class knew that I liked him except him haha. We started talking on AOL instant messenger.(AIM)  Everytime I logged on I hoped to see his IM name.  He told me he did the same :) we were 15 at the time.  On July 27th 2004 I was on the phone with Chelsey Wilson when Ryan instant messaged me and said hey can I ask you something..... and yes that was how he asked me out! haha I know I know soooo romantic, but we were both shy and I remind you only 15!  I ofcourse said YES...I was soo excited I had cheerleading practice the next morning and I remember telling everyone I am dating RYAN OMALLEY!!  It started off slow, we were both really shy...It was almost to the point where I even asked him do you even like me...who would have though that would have broke the ice from that point on we were hooked! Now here we are almost 7 years later and we are still totally head over heels about each other. We moved in with each other in March 2007. We lived at his moms house. We graduated in May 2007 , got a dog in July 2007 and started college in Aug 2007 and my mom  moved away in Oct 2007..At this point our relationship was moving very fast, but I knew I was going to Marry him! February of 2008  we moved into a different house with his mom, because there was now a new addition to the family Hayden Matthew OMalley Jr. born Feb 15th 2008...there was now 6 of us living together.  I absolutly LOVED living with my nephew! In Nov. 2008 I started getting hives everyday and sometime swollen lips, eyes and hands for an un explaind reason...I honestly think I am allergic to stress! This took a toll on me emotionally and physically, however ryan was always there to help me and be my rock. This support made me love him even more. on March 14th 2009 Ryan asked me to Marry him! He sent me all over wichita falls to all of our special spots (1st kiss, high school, where we 1st said I love you) and finally he proposed at the top of the Falls! I said YES!!! I was soooo happy even the hives went away!! I started planning right away! The date I had picked out was July 10th of 2010. I was going to have the perfect wedding that I had been dreaming of since I was a little girl!  Plans changed quickly on April 14th 2009 I found out I was pregnant.  I was so scared, untill I called my mom and she made me  feel at ease.  She called the dr. and got me an appointment made and she told me No baby is a mistake, and God is putting this baby in our lives for a reason. (the hives came back ugh) I didnt want to have the baby out of wedlock so Ryan and I planned a small family wedding, with intent to have a bigger one later.  We got Married and found out we were having a baby girl on Monday July 27th 2009 (our 5 year anniversary) one of the best days EVER! The hives (for the most part) stopped in september 2009 and Macie was born on December 25th 2009. My Grandparents bought us a house on March 5th 2010. We moved in on April 10th 2010, and we LOVE living as our little family of 3. We have contiued to go to school have added many more nieces and nephews to our family, and in October 10th 2010 we found a Church home, November 2010 Ryan got a Job at CITI bank, now we are just continuing to live our AMAZING lives. Now your caught up! Sorry so long, however this was the short version!!