I can’t believe how fast time flies. Ask my family or friend’s and they will tell you I can remember the craziest little details in my life. I can remember when I was 5 years old my neighbor’s house was on fire and the man in our yard telling us about the smoke and flames… I can remember the first day of kindergarten my mom walking me in after she bought me a slush puppy. I can remember my mom taking me and my brother to my grandpa’s to sleep over and taking his least favorite movie Matilda with us and him still letting us watch it. Oh and around the same time him telling me I couldn’t come over (he worked nights and was going home to sleep) and me sneaking in his backseat covering up with an old coat from his seat and sneaking to his house! Yep. I really wanted to go! My mom was freaking out looking for me. Oops. I remember the first time I ever got on the internet at my friend Kristen’s house and not understanding what the heck it even was! I can remember so many coversations my sister had with her now husband when they were in highschool while I was trying to sleep in the bed next to her. I remember my parents always taking us to a place we call “the farm” (which was my dad’s family property that was once a farm my great grandparents lived when they immigrated from poland) and them letting us sled, snowmobile, fish, camp, ride dirtbikes, learn to drive, pick apples, mushroom, clean the stream… My favorite place to be was there. I remember being in my friend Nicole’s room on a snowy day in Jan. 2001 and her telling her brother he was going to homecoming with me. He’s now my husband. I remember the every single day I spent in Hawaii on my senior class trip. I remember a laugh attack I had in Florida with Brittany and our friend Nathen. I remember my uncle Larry’s advice. All of it. Sleepovers… trips… fights… pictures I took way back when… the smell of people’s houses… I have the best memory like my Uncle Gerry and our family friend Donny. They both can open the pages of their memory and such amazing stories come out. I LOVE hearing about the past and reminiscing.

I am so greatful for my life. Not everyone is blessed and while my life isn’t perfect, I’m glad. Most people say it…. and it’s so true! If not for the mistakes we make we wouldn’t be who we are today. You live and you learn. Many days of my life stand out more than others and I have to say the day my niece was born was one of these days. My eyes are tearing up as I sit behind my computer at this early morning hour and type this blog. She is a huge blessing in my life. The day before my sister went grocery shopping and her feet were super swollen. My husband and I went and picked her up from her house and took her for a ride down a bumpy road. We came back to her house and ate dinner with my parents and our husbands… put the movie Baby Mama in. I was rubbing her super swollen feet toward the end of the movie when she jumped up and ran to the bathroom. She came out and said, “I think my water broke!” My parent’s had just left so we called them… I called my bestfriend’s… and we went straight to the hospital to meet them. Skip to the moment because I could type every single detail but there is TOO many to bore everyone with. My sister ended up having to have a C-section because she wouldn’t dialate. Every second she was in the O.R. I was a wreak! Then my brother-in-law brought out the camera while my sister was in recovery. I set eyes on that little doll and she had my heart. I knew our bound was going to be strong.

Today is her 2nd Birthday. The whole reason for this post is for her. I remember the first time she ate, the first time she said my name, when she saw her cousin Braylan RIGHT after he was born and the look on her face… and the other day. My sister called me to tell me something. My brother in law was just talking to Elleana and said, “Elleana your my bestfriend. Who’s yours?” She looked at him and said, “ummmm… Braylan.” Total heart melter! More tears.

I hope she has the best 2nd Birthday ever!