The Past Month... part 6: Misc. Photos

Seriously....  who cares about anything else when you can sit there and just do bubbles.... 

Seriously.... can you let me out???

PLEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSE!?!?!?!?

Serious cuteness in the window... (he was watching the rain)

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!!!

The Past Month... part 4: Photography

Let's take a break from our regularly scheduled program and share some of the wonnnnderful photography I've been taking over the last month!!  It is so breathtaking around here.  I love the blooms and the mountains that you can see from any which way (including our new yard!  We have waterfront property!!  Course we are renting but dang... we are on the water where the whales come up!  YAY!) ...

So here is some of my photography from the last month ...

The Past Month... part 3: Viking Fest & Good Food

One of the other things we did was go to the Viking Fest

I thought it was going to be a little bigger, but it was fun to go!  We are planning on going next year.  We went on Sunday because there was going to be an Iron Chef (local Chefs) Competition and .. well, Dennis being who he is, I knew he'd want to see.... well we got there and found out that the competition had been canceled due to the fact that only two people had signed up....  well, Dennis would have if we'd known about it prior two days before hand.  Darn darn darn!  But he wants to participate next year.

Next Year... we might have to find out what exactly a "Troll Wrap" is....
The boys got free "lucky" marbles and bouncy balls ... 

We also saw a singing Pirate on the street!!  I kept trying to get Noah (who loves pirates) to go by him for a picture, but he wouldn't...

We went past a lot of little neighborhoods that looked like this....  the same house, different colors, right next to each other.  I have started to refer to them as Dr. Seuss Neighborhoods... 

Because frankly, it reminds me of the movie Cat In The Hat....  seriously... it was kinda creepy... I mean they are cute little houses ... but I'm not a fan of cookie cutter homes either...  I like a little individual personality.  I know a lot of people find this type of neighborhood appealing, and that's fine... nothing against the neighborhood really, or anyone who likes them, just a personal preference.  LOL...

And then we went to our new favorite place on Earth... nooo not Disney Land!  Central Market!!!

The produce was just amazing, and colorful ... and everything is so nice and fresh.  :) 

Then we went home and grilled out......... oohhh nummers!!!

And can I just point out that it's a GOOD day to the kids when they can just pig out on fruit for breakfast!