Welcome!!!

I am so glad that you have made it to my blog. My name is Rian, and I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 11 years. We welcomed our first child, a beautiful baby girl, in April 2009. In March 2011, we sadly lost our second child to a miscarriage at 10 weeks pregnant. Our son was born in March 2012. This is my blog....the journey through my life with the people that I love.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Wave of Light


No matter the time that passes, there are still days that I remember the baby that I loss. Those days are March 4th (when we found out the baby no longer had a heartbeat), September 28th (my due date), and October 15th (pregnancy and infant loss remembrance day). I haven't cried about it in a long time, but today I cried. I cried for the lost dreams. I cried for the pain I suffered. I cried for those that have suffered the same pain. No mother should ever have to face a miscarriage, pregnancy loss, stillborn or infant loss. But we don't live in a perfect world, our world is flawed, and because of that I am not the first to suffer this pain nor will I be the last. May we shatter the silence of it.

This post still holds most of my feelings from losing my baby:


I wrote that post just months after my loss, but I still feel the same at times. Sharing my pain has helped others, never be afraid to share your story, you never know who will need it most.



Thursday, September 25, 2014

Catch up..........a year of pictures

I am going to try this blogging thing again, but first let me catch up with what all happened over the last year...........



We went on our second family vacation....it went about as good as our first one. Family vacations are on hold for a couple of years! ha!

We went to the zoo.



We had family pictures taken.





We celebrated Christmas





Landon saw his first snow.


And then it snowed again.


Landon decided falling on the fireplace would be fun. :-/ thankfully he was okay, but sported a nasty bruise and black eyes for a while. 


We celebrated Kameron turning 5 and Landon turning 2 with a Beach Luau Birthday Party...I took pictures all day only to realize later that my memory card wasn't in the camera. I cried.


Kameron had her first ballet recital.




I graduated college! oh and with honors. :-)



Meet my graduation present. A standard poodle named Daisy!


Kameron graduated preschool


I became a minivan mom.


We celebrated summer with lots of sprinkler time.


I got accepted into grad school.


Kameron started kindergarten. 


Then she and Landon promptly got sick.


Landon got a haircut courtesy of me!



And now random pictures from the year......

my sweet boy.
bathrobes are awesome!
my beautiful girl.
Even though they argue, they still love each other immensely.
My view while I am driving. I am so blessed!

 And now we are caught up! I hope I can get back in the swing of things and get back to my love of blogging. More on my absence later.......xoxoxo







Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Forever......

It has been forever since I last posted, almost a year in fact. This past year has been so crazy. The kids have changed so much and so much has happened. I've been lost to myself for a bit and stopped taking time to even consider blogging. I want to get back on the horse so to speak. I hope to do a post tomorrow on what happened this past year and also to revamp the blog with new pictures. Much love, everyone!