My sweet Noah Maye turned 2 on May 12! Of course I cried on and off all day! We didn't have her an all out party in Arizona just because we planned on doing that when we came home to TN over the summer. However, we did do the whole presents, birthday cake, and pictures with just Kevin and I, and that night played softball with the base team, well Noah just watched in the duggout, but she still had a blast! We decided to get Noah a portable DVD player and Princess and The Frog (which happens to be her ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE!)
At the end of May, we went to Vegas! Woohoo!!! NOT... I know, call me crazy, but this 21 year old has other fun things in mind than to gamble money away but, that's not why we went. Kevin had a ball tournament for the weekend, which turned out to be a blast because it wasn't HOT like it was in Arizona at that time. Plus Noah was great, which was no surprise, but she was an absolute angel. (Love you, sweet baby. Even though your not a baby anymore, you always be my baby in my eyes.)
The beginning of June was STRESSFUL from a lot of Tennessee family issues that we won't get into. However, the middle of June totally redeemed itself and turned out to be awesome. The Cheney's were headed east to Tennessee for a month of vacation! Oh how I missed my BEAUTIFUL family and friends! My parents looked AMAZING! My mom was 80lbs lighter and my dad was about 30lbs lighter! They just looked GREAT! Furthermore, I got to see two FANTASTIC kids that hang the moon in my eyes, and at the time I hadn't even met one yet! Yep you guessed it, my sassy, crazy cool niece, Alyssa AND my new, sweet and gentle doll baby nephew, Wesley!...It was great seeing the siblings too, I guess... ha ha. Just kidding! My brother and sister both hold a special place in my heart! I'm truly blessed! Onto other people, both sides of my grandparents are doing and looking great! I'm very blessed to still have all four grandparents and 3 great grandparents. (Yep that's right, Noah has 3 great great grandparents! How many people can say that??) In addition, Kevin's parents are doing great! They both have/had many health problems and they both seem to be doing really well, along with his sister, Kendall and 4 amazing cousins, Destiny, Fawn, Cadence, and Haley.
More about vacation, my husband is/was the best. I realize I SHOULD have spent more time with him and his family (well, he should have spent more time with his family too...Uggh Lathan, is all I can say. :) Hope your reading, buddy), but he realizes how attached I am to family and just lets me be, and I guess he also figures he did drag me away from them because of his career and all too, so he can't say too much ;)
Equally important, I have TWO amazing BESTFRIENDS! If I wasn't with family, you could find me with Amber McKenzie or Brianna Patton. What great, down to earth friends...well to me ;) We spent most of our time at my parents house talking about Aliens or gnomes (which both have happened to been spotted in the Hillsboro area...ha ha), or at Manchester, Tn finest bar, Choices....lol
Also, while we were in TN, we had a Noah a proper Birthday Party with actual kids there, she went on a boat for her first time, and road a horse!
Oh how my little girl loves her pawpaw (my dad) and Pepaw (Kevin's dad). For one, she LOVES men, so if your a women and your not her mother you are tough out of luck if you want interaction with her. However, the last week she did come around and really favored her nana (my mom) which was a big surprise since poor Noah was traumatized by her the first night when my mom ran out the back door screaming like a crazy woman to greet us! And, I also believe she started to get around her mema (Kev's mom) a little too! Therefore, she did progress not too many feelings were hurt.
All good things must come to an end. When summer vacation came to an end it was bittersweet. I hated to leave family, but more than ready to go home and lay in my OWN bed! However, this saddens me because I realized I was a visitor to a place that I once called home, and that's the status I would hold for the rest of my life...
When we got back to Arizona, Kevin had to go straight to work and I had to literally harass the college I attend on a daily basis because I was doing more work than the enrollment workers. When everything FINALLY got squared away, Noah and I became lazy and relaxed for a month. Well kind of, my great grandfather had brain surgery. The doctors removed 95% of all of the tumor with a chance it would come back again. He's 90ish and has had a great, long life and I'm glad he is still with us.
On a better note, Kevin made Staff Sergent!! A lot of his friends study months prior and some even took leave, and still did not pass. Not my smart husband, he studied the night before his test and passed! Probably not the best idea, but he proved me wrong! Also while I was on my break, I found out my best friend, Brianna is pregnant and is due in March! Oh how I hope baby has Jerry curls like Michael Jackson!
I am now in Mortuary College and LOVE every bit of it! My peers are great and my Professor, Dr. Taggart is a hoot!!
I think I have updated major happenings for the most part! So, you wonder what Noah does now?? She can:
-Count to 15 in English
-Count to 5 in Spanish
-Knows most letters of the alphebet
-Sings Twinkle Twinkle, Mr. Kickerbopper , I love you, and almost all the songs on a Toddler Cd(Courtesy of my parents), and her abc's
-Talks very well-about 5 word per sentence.
-She is very polite- Thank you, No thank you, Please, Excuse Me, ect and she uses them all in context.
-Did I mention she is a girly girl?? She lets me know her nails HAVE to be painted and she just CAN NOT leave without a bow in her hair. ("Mama, bow? Bow? BOW!?")
Life is good and I'm blessed with an Awesome husband and beautiful, sweet, brilliant daughter.
Thank you, Lord!
