All our dreams came true!!!!

Well our 2012 Walt Disney World vacation came and went...all tooo fast!!! Our trip started last Saturday (21 April) to which we dropped of Daisy and Dukie pug to the kennels and cleaned up a bit, then we were off to Orlando airport to pick up Mamaw and Papaw Blevins! Living in Valdosta we are only about 4 hours away so it wasn't too bad of a drive down there (or home either). That day we just kind of rested, by the time we picked them up and go to the Shades of Green on Disney we were pooped LOL :) The next day we got our day started, walked around Shades of Green and checked it out. Walked over to the Polynesian resort which was right across the street and rode the monorail and just checked out everything. That night we watched the lights parade and the fireworks at Cinderella's castle at the Magic Kingdom. So Monday started our 4 days at Disney one day at each park. Monday we did Animal Kingdom. Maddison enjoyed the safari, she did the boneyard, we watched the Festival of the Lion King, we did Rafiki's plant watch, and Matt and I rode Expedition Everest...we were so bummed that It's Tough to be a bug was closed :( we also watched a parade that afternoon.
On Tuesday we took a break as we needed to get some supplies from Walmart and Matt wasn't feeling too great. So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we hit it hard and went to Magic Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Epcot. We watched parade's, met characters, rode as many of the rides we could, went to shows, stuffed our faces and just had a blast at Disney!!! Maddison really enjoyed doing the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney on Saturday!!! Althought it was expensive I would trade her fun for the world! She is also a roller coster junkie and enjoyed all that that she was tall enough to ride!!! This was her second Disney experience and I hope she has many more! There is just something about that place!

Catch up and Throwback Thursday!!!!

It's been a little bit since my last post, I  have missed a few Throwback Thursday's :( but life has been a bit crazy! The girls and I went up to Kentucky to be with my best friend in the whole wide world when her grandpa (which was like my own) passed away. She called me early one morning and that afternoon we were on our way! I couldn't imagine not being there for her and at the very moment for the first time since leaving Japan I was happy to be only 10 hours away. We have been BFF's since the 4th grade and I know know we will be those crazy old ladies one day :) Her family is like my family...I love them all. Of course while we were up there the Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA tournement so that was fun too!!! I even let Maddison stay up really late to watch the game with me ha! She thought she was sooo cool! While being in Ky my brother and sister in law came in from NY where they are stationed. He had just gotten back from Afghanistan so it was our first time seeing him a very long time. First time they had met Mollybug and I believe Maddison was one and a half last time they say her...it was nice to spend time with them and see everyone else...we even drove up to Ohio to see some family up there where the girls met their great great grandma!!! It was a nice trip all in all but we were all ready to be back home with Matt...we sure missed him! I believe he missed us as well. Right now we are getting ready for a trip to Disney World with Matt's parents. Maddison is super excited and Molly well she will have a great time LOL :)

Now for this Thursday's Throwback picture:

This is a picture of our sweet Maddicakes and the same age our sweet Mollybug is now :) Matt was deployed it was our first one and we were living in Okinawa at the time. Maddison was such a great baby just as her little sister is. It's crazy how they are so much alike yet so different. Maddison had more hair than Molly at 6 months, her chicken hair as we called it because it always stuck straight up no matter what we did. I had already pierced her ears too. By this picture she could roll, she never crawled, and of course she was sitting up. She didn't have any teeth yet, her's didn't start coming in until she was 1 years old. She looks so much like Matt I think. I always have. I wasn't sure how this deployment was gonna go since I had never been a mom before but because of how great she was it was kind of easy...we had our routine and it made time fly while Matt was gone. She was and is amazing! I can't believe she is almost 4 years old :( It's so true as Darius Rucker's song says, she wasn't like this for long and I don't really remember her like this...it went too fast! I am so thankful for pictures! Hope everyone has a blessed Thursday!!!!

First addition of Throwback Thursday!!!

So I have decided to so my own segment of Throwback Thursday with posting an old picture and talking about it :) And what better way to start with a picture that started it all!

So this was on June 6, 2002 our last day of school Matt's senior, my junior year. By this time he had taken me to prom and already stole his first kiss! That day he drove me home from school in his red truck and that night we went to Walmart and did some shopping around and then decided we wanted to rent a movie. Matt hates scarry movies but we rented 13 Ghosts. I remember him saying how stupid scarry movies are LOL and during the movie ha! We went back to his parents house and started movie night...during the movie he asked me one question I had been waiting on LOL and I'll never forget how the converstation went ha! Matt "So if I asked you to be my girlfriend what would you say?" :D HA HA HA Jessica "I'd say yes!" Matt "Well how bout it?" Jessica "Ok" I still laugh about it ha ha ha but it was our special moment. To think that moment happened almost 10 years ago still is so neat to me. Matt still gives me butterflies even after 10 years! We have made it through me finishing highschool and college, Matt deciding to join the Air Force, and those hard deployments. I had no idea that saying yes to that question was going to bring me and us to where we are today and if I had to do it all over again you bet I would in a heart beat without even thinking twice! It's so neat to look back on all we have gotten to do together! We still enjoy that day June 6, 2002 :) it was our first anniversary so it's always gonna be special to us. It was a day that changed our lives and us forever! Who knew it would lead to the 2 beautiful girls we have now!!! But that's for another day! I added some other pictures from that day!!!

Ahhh the hard life of a 3 year old...

Well yesterday (Monday) was a fun day in our house...Monday's Maddison has ballet/tap class which she really loves but yesterday was just one of those days! We have all been pretty sick in the house and I offered to let her stay home but she begged me to take her so we went. I knew though that she was not going to listen and that she would be the one her teacher (Mrs. Patty) was calling on and what do you know...she isn't listening then she starts crying and snot is everywhere and ugh class was almost done so I had a talk with her and she finished tap out just fine. Well come time to leave and I was talking to another momma and Maddison did her little you wanna mess with me thing she does and I told her to come on and well she proceed to tell me she was going to bust my ass at which I looked up and her teacher and all other parents were looking at me...I wanted to laugh not going to lie but she knew she was in the wrong and that we don't say those kind of words so...she got a spanking and had to apologize to everyone. I don't know where she heard that, we don't say that to her for that very reason. I have always heard it's the terrible twos but after having a two year old and now a very mouthy, mean at times, attitude filled, not wanting to listen three year old, I think 3 is the number not 2...Maddison was an amazing 2 year old...COME ON 4, I mean it can only get better right...someone say right! I know she is testing the water and I understand that. Sometimes I also think it's just to get attention (Molly requires a lot LOL) and we try to give her her own one on one time. This is also a big time for her, the world is just such a big place and she is trying to figure out where she stands. She is soooo independent...dresses herself, goes to the bathroom herself, always telling me I can do it. I love that about her, she is an amazing little person and I can't wait to see where she goes in life. However I will be glad when we are done with being a 3 year old. It's a hard life!

We love our Maddison Kay!

Thankful Thursday!

So today I am doing a Thankful Thursday! I haven't wrote in awhile so I need to catch up too but today I am most thankful for (other than my husband and my sweet girls) is my brothers! My brother SPC Joshua Shoemake returned from spending a year deployment in Afghanistan. I am so happy he is home safe and with my sister in law! I know she missed him as I know what it's like to be in her shoes! Matt has not been deployed that long but the feeling is just the same. He has been through a lot while serving over there, we are just happy to have him home. Not everyone is as lucky and for those we pray for them and their families.

I am also thankful for my bother Jonathon. I haven't seen him in a little bit but love him just as much!

I'm thankful for my family! I have an amazing husband who does so much for me and the girls! We are so blessed! For Lent I gave up a few things and I can already see a change in me and it's what I needed. I chose to give up things that I really have struggled with and that I feel like really have a hold over me. I gave up processed foods, grains, soda, all things really bad for me. I used to never think twice about food and for some reason it's like now food has a huge hold on me! But no more and what better way to think of it like this...if Jesus died on the cross for me the least I can do is give up those things for him! And it has really helped! I haven't thought twice about eating those things or having soda! I have also started training for a 10 mile race in September at Walt Disney World in FL! I found a running plan on line: 10 Mile Running Plan and I am on week four of it and wow I am loving it! I have lost weight (which was not really my reason for this running) but I know by September I'll be where I want to be! One of my new years resolutions was to lose 50 lbs this year and I believe I might lose more! I have God on my side and when I'm running I can definitely feel him there with me every step I take. I ran four miles the other night without stopping which was HUGE for me! I can not even begin to say how humbled I am right now for our heavenly father! I do not deserve any of the blessings in my life I am nothing but a sinner saved by God's grace! Which is the most amazing thing to be thankful for!

LOVE DAY!!!

Yesterday was good ol Valentines day! Ah you could see all the love on Facebook and all the last min shoppers at Walmart LOL :) It was a pretty normal day here at the Blevins house since Matt has an exercise going on at work which made making his Valentine's day gifts from the girls and I pretty easy! This was Maddison's gift to daddy! Three hand prints (representing her age) making hearts with it saying "These hands forever hold your heart" and then she added her touch to it! She loves her daddy so much!
This is what Molly made daddy! And just let me say getting a 4 month old to let you paint her hand and then try to make a hand print is not as easy as one would think! We got the first one no problem but kept having issues with the second hand so I just painted over it with black and then did her feet! That was much, much easier! LOL So this is what we came up for her gift to daddy! "Every good and perfect gift comes from above" James 1:17 one of my favorite verses! And Molly sure does love her daddy! She knows him so well already! The min he is home and she hears his voice her head turns and she is trying to find him. Then when she sees him she just smiles!!! I love it! Molly also started rolling around from back to belly like crazy yesterday! She has done it a few times before but never like now! She is on a roll!

This is what I made for Matt! 52 reasons why I love him! Of course got the idea off Pintrest! I love that website! And I thought I would share what I put on them!
#1. You love me
#2. You have the best smile
#3. You are an amazing dad
#4. The way you make me feel with I am with you
#5. The fact that we will grow old...together
#6. I respect you...and you respect me
#7. That you tell me how beautiful I am, even when I think I am not
#8. That you are my best friend and always have been
#9. The way your hand feels in mine
#10. The fact that I can tell you anything and if you don't really care, you listen
#11. That you are the last voice I hear before I close my eyes at night
#12. The first kiss before you go to work
#13. How you complete me
#14. The fact that you NEVER give up on me
#15. You always let me follow any dreams I might have, as silly as some may be
#16. How thoughtful you are
#17. The way my heart still skips a beat when I see you
#18. I love the way you inspire me to be more than I am
#19. How hard working you are
#20. I love watching you with our girls
#21. My heart smiles when I think about how awesome you take care of us
#22. The moments we share good and bad
#23. For being the most honest person I know
#24. That you are patient with me and all my crazyness
#25. For being my greatest blessing
#26. For being my shoulder, my rock, my everything during hard times
#27. For blessing me with two of the most beautiful girls in the world
#28. How you make me understand myself so much more than I ever thought I could
#29. The fact that you accept my crazy family...all of my crazy, loud, blunt, honest family
#30. Your sexyness! And yes to me youa re the most sexy man
#31. That you are not ashamed of me or to take me around your friends
#32. Your integrity
#33. I love the feeling of being secure that you give me
#34. That you always tell me you love me before you leave and before we hang up
#35. Because I know you will stick up and defend me
#36. Because it sometimes seems like we are the only two in the room
#37. Because you are the one I dreamed about every night and think about every day
#38. The fact that we can talk without even speaking
#39. Because I never have to ask if you love me, you make me know it everyday
#40. You tell me I am most beautiful without makeup
#41. Because you stand next to me and not infront of me
#42. That you put up with me when I am grumpy
#43. You don't mind going shopping with me and giving me your opinion on things I try on
#44. You give the BEST hugs
#45. Not only do I love you but I like you too
#46. Because you value me
#47. That is still feels like I just fell in love with you...even 10 years later
#48. Because you have taught me how to say I'm sorry and to realize just because we fight doesn't mean we don't love each other
#49. Because you keep promises
#50. I love that you sometimes sing love song when they come on the radio, I do hear you
#51. I love your laugh! I always have so much fun with you, making me laugh till my belly hurts is the best
#52. I love knowing that if I died today, I would see you in heaven! My life is better because of loving you!

I hope everyone had a great day! To me every day is Valentine's day since I get to spend it with mine for the rest of my life!!! Be blessed!

What's been going on...

I'm a little bit behind on writing. I have been busy with the girls and now that Matt is home I finally have some down time! We finally found out about Matt's retraining, something he has been working on since he returned from his deployment in 2010...yes it's taken that long! But we finally got our good news and he will be retraining into a new career field in the Air Force, after tech school he will be a senor operator. We will be moving again but not for a little bit! We are excited! Hoping out of the three (as of right now) bases that are available we can go to Creech AFB in Nevada. Hopefully Matt finds out about tech school soon. Not looking forward to our time apart but ready to get it over with! SO that is the next big chapter in our lives! We are planning on going to Walt Disney World in April with Matt's parents and I know Maddison will be sooooo stinking excited! She STILL talks about going to Tokyo Disneyland. She was 2 and a half then lol she loved it! In September I will be going back to Disney World to run The Twilight Tower of Terror 10 mile run. I will be running it with a great friend of mine, (we met in Okinawa and her hubby is now a TI and they live in Texas) she text messaged me letting me know she was going to run it and vola we are doing it! I can't wait it really gives me something to really work for not just weight loss but a really awesome goal and a huge accomplishment! I found my training program online and got all my ducks in a row to get training! Maddison and Molly are doing great :)

We are big UK fans! Maddison asked for a UK uniform since Molly had one. I am not sure what she is going to do as far as sports but cheerleading is ok with me :) She will be starting a dance class this year and hopefully preschool this fall! We are also looking at gymnastics!

Molly rolls all over the place, has figured out how to use her hands really well, and she scoots really well...it was forward and now it's backwards LOL oh Mollybug! She is such a happy baby. She can get up on her knees and raise up on her chest with her arms but not at the same time! I think she will be crawling soon! I'm not ready for her to be moble!

All in all life is busy but going great! Just need to find a church! Today is it pretty cool here in Valdosta. It has been up in the upper 70's almost 80 degrees and today it is 40! The pugs are doing great as usual! They have the life! Well laundry is calling my name and so is dinner! Off to be momma I go!!!