Ooooooh come SITS with Me!!

Welcome to my Blog if this is your first time stopping by!  I greatly appreciate you doing so!  Let me introduce myself, I'm Annissa, usually go by Nissa Rae...  makes me feel special or something... I don't know..  either way, I'm super excited doing the happy dance in my seat right now (wait, you can't see me can you????)  ...   Why?  Well I'm honored to be SITS Thursday Featured Blogger!!!

YAY!!!!!  Can't believe how excited I am!!  What is SITS you might ask???  Well it is The Secrets in the Sauce .. a group of wonderful women who support each other by visiting featured bloggers and checking out the notes!  It's a creation put together by Heather and Tiffany, a couple of awesome ladies!  :)  I have found many new blogs via their Featured Blogs and the notes ...  So I'm honored to be among the chosen few!

So you have come to my blog in the middle of my scheduled entries with pictures and catching up from the last month.  We recently moved from Wisconsin (the land of Beer, Cheese & Cows) to Washington State..   it was a big move!   We stayed with my Mom for the past month and NOW we have moved into our own little piece of waterfront property!!  We're on the Port Washington Narrows Inlet ... we've been here since Monday and we've already seen a Sea Lion (well the whole family but me did) ... and tons of birds and made "friends" with a couple of squirrels that we've named Nutters and Butternut.

Infact, Butternut came up to my porch door this morning asking for peanuts... ha ha...  I blame my Dad.. lol..

Anyway you can read a bit about OUR FAMILY (click the link to learn more and see pictures through the years).  Both my husband and I are in our thirties.  I am on my 2nd marriage, he his 3rd.  The first one I was married for ten years, and had two boys with him.  I like to think.. everything happens for a reason.  My oldest, Calahan, is 14.  He is the Moody Teen ...   Noah is my miracle, he is 8 years old now, and I was told he wouldn't be born alive because he has a very rare genetic disorder, and if he was, he'd die shortly after.  Proved them wrong didn't he?  You can read his story here...  Noah's Story.   He was 1lb 12oz at birth so he's come a long way.   Then I got divorced. Met my current husband and, literally, the love of my life.   He has a little girl from a previous relationship.  The Princess is 5 going on 6.   Then we added 2 more gremlins to our clan.  Nathan, who is 3, has a lot of medical issues himself.  He was 3lbs 4oz and birth.  You can read his story here .. Nathan's Story ... which also has the continuation of Noah's story.   Then, scared as we were but accepting that God would give us no more then we could handle, we tried one more time... and got our Kaedyn who is 21 months and our healthy budda!

I am a photographer, I'm a writer...  I stay at home with the kids, and I homeschool...   I'm going to be working on getting my first book published soon (I hope) ...   My husband is a computer geek and a trained chef.

If you want to read a couple of funny moments in our lives....  check out...

How to give a 2 yr old a pill ...   (on my other blog where I update on the kids medical stuff)
Bathroom Woes ...  what mom doesn't go through this???
Yes... Poison Control???   ....  Leave it to the last baby to make me make my first call to Poison Control!

There are also tons of links on the sides, feel free to check out our tags, our featured stuff, and whatever else... after all .. that's why it's there :)  

Mainly I share our lives, tons of pictures, funny moments and share my kids stories of survival.  We are a very laid back family who love to laugh and have fun.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my SITS day!!!