30 from the last 24

1. i have blonde eyelashes
2. i hate having blonde eyelashes
3. i don't floss everyday
4. i bite my nails
5. i used to cry if something in my room was moved even an inch
6. really i did. ask my parents
7. i got married when i was 19
8. i love to bake but i actually own no mixing bowls
9. how did this happen?
10. i love oprah even though she annoys me to no end
11. i'm afraid of the dark
12. i had 3 different majors in college and it took me 6 years to graduate
13. that's ridiculous
14. swishy jogging suit material, satin, and silk make me gag
15. this is a problem for an interior design major
16. and for someone who grew up in the 90s (jogging suit fad)
17. i pretended to hate my brother growing up but i really wanted to be just like him.
18. don't tell him that.
19. really don't. it will give him a big head
20. i seriously considered joining the navy instead of going to college
21. i'm glad i chose college
22. i hardly ever cry
23. i never wore my retainer in high school
24. big mistake
25. i really like being alone
26. i had a crush on Raphael from the live action teenage mutant ninja turtles movie
27. he was the red one
28. my brother and i played x-men together even though he was much too old to be playing x-men with his little sister
29. i used to say i never wanted children
30. i now have 2 and i wouldn't change that for anything

different

well we've been home with rylee now for a week and a half. this is my first week to be home alone with both kids and so far so good. nobody has died so that's a plus. actually it's been much easier than i had expected it to be. rylee is such a good baby. she really never gets upset and she sleeps alot right now, so that makes things a little easier. it's such a crazy feeling having two kids and knowing that i don't plan to have anymore. having a little girl is so different from having a baby boy. i feel so much more protective toward her already. it may be because she is so much smaller than corb was or it may just be that she seems so much more fragile than corb was. i don't know. but i do know that there is nothing like having a brand new baby girl and a now 3 year old self-proclaimed "big boy". i am so exhausted, but i love every minute of it.
if you had asked me when i was 18 what i would be doing at 24 years old, i would have probably told you that i would be married and working and probably thinking about buying a house. i might have even told you that i would be thinking about having my first child. but i know that i never would have told you that i would be a married mother of two with a college degree and a house in oklahoma city. it's so weird how we all try to plan out our futures and we think we know exactly where we are going to be (or hope to be) by the time we are 2o, 25, 30, but how often does life work out like that? while i never would have guessed i would be where i am by 24, i would not change a thing about my life. i have the most beautiful children and the most loving and supportive husband i could have ever asked for. i guess that just goes to show us that no matter how much we try to plan out our futures and take control of our lives, they really aren't our lives to take control of to begin with. God has had this plan for my life all along and i just thought i was in control. i'm okay with it though, because what God has had planned for me so far has been so much better than anything i could have planned for myself. my life is so far from perfect, but i love it because it's my life. thanks to all of you who are a part of my life and contribute to making it what it is.
and now for a couple of pictures of our latest family addition. isn't she just the cutest? i think so too.