Fun at the zoo

Went to the Phoenix zoo for the last time in a long time. Of course Tae loved it and Avery was the perfect baby! 

Overload of pictures!

Must I also mention my story of how I left Avery. We parked the strollers to go into the petting zoo and as we were walking in Chelsea goes, "hey where is Avery?!" Oh my goodness I just left him sitting in the stroller. I ran out to get him and he was just chilling trying to touch the tree!! Such a good baby!! 

New Hair Color...

Went to Wal-Mart with Michael and Chelsea today and decided I wanted to dye my hair. As we were looking at dye Michael picked out my color, I was hesitant but decided to try it. I've never done this to my hair before. Usually it's the lame brown or blonde color...

So here it is my new hair color 

and I am DIGGING IT!

Before I dyed it...

During...

It's...

R.E.D.

And I love.love.love it! 

I might actually keep it.

So thank you Michael for daring me to go this color!

Reminiscing

Four years ago today Michael and I both left our homes bright and early and headed off to the Army. Michael in Kentucky and I in Arizona left this morning having no idea what was going to happen in four years. 

A lot has changed and many things are different then how I pictured them happening. For instance, when I left this morning four years ago I did not picture myself being married let alone have 2 kids. I pictured myself getting out of the military, with today being my last day. I pictured myself moving back home to AZ, going to school, just living the life of a young 23 year old. NOPE that is not at all what happened. 

This morning four years ago I cried, my dad cried, everyone cried. I left, got on a plane and headed to South Carolina. It was the hardest most stressful day of my life and I wouldn't take it back for anything. I was headed into a new life, one on my own. No more mommy and daddy to take care of me, it was just me and I was scared.

I loved the military and HATED it all at the same time. It taught me so much and even though I cut my time short I learned so much and still use those things I learned in my everyday life. 

Every single day I think about what would my life be like if I had not got discharged 3 years early. I think about where the military would have taken my family and what it would have put us through. I do sometimes regret the decision I made, the one where I got out way to early, but then I think about how much better my life is now that I'm not tied to the Army. I am able to stay home with my kids, I can leave whenever I want, and most importantly we make significantly more money then if I had stayed in. 

Even though I was only in the Army for a year I will never ever forget the experience I went through and the friends I made. I thank the Army everyday for giving me Michael and giving me my children. Who knows where I would be if I had not joined and left this morning four years ago!

Where in the world did October go?

It's November, which means it's the start of the holiday season! 

October is over and to be quite honest it flew by. It was a very busy month for the DiFrank family including moving!! That's right we are FINALLY out of Wickenburg!

Moving was super stressful and quite disorganized, I wanted to write a blog post about how to make moving easier but our experience this move was anything but easy. We were literally packing boxes the day we moved and just loading random stuff into the truck that didn't have a box. However it got done and we are finally out of Wickenburg! Ahh so exciting!! I do have one tip for packing that I did learn off of Pinterest, oh how I love that sight! 

To prevent us from having to take all of our clothes off of the hangers I learned this tip,

Pretty fancy ehh!! It made moving the clothes SO much easier, just slip on a garbage bag, shove the clothes into them, and when you arrive take off the bag! BAM done!

Also here we are in front of our first house we ever lived in! I will honestly miss this house, we brought Avery home to it and it's the first place I actually enjoyed living in! 

    

And then Halloween happened! I had the cutest Buzz Lightyear and Woody this year! Tae had so much fun trick-or-treating, he took the candy right out of the people's hands and straight to his mouth. He was so cute I can't wait to go again next year!

Bring on November! I have joined a gym and am ready to kick off these extra pounds! I am also ready for Thanksgiving and tons of turkey! Yum Yum!

Here is to a great month and an awesome holiday season! November means December is coming which means CHRISTMAS!