About Me

This is my little family!

My name is Nicole.  I’m a mommy, a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a coworker, and a student.  I wear many hats in this crazy thing called life and I’m about to add two more hats to my wardrobe.  I’ve taken up an interest in photography, which I hope to share a little bit of with you in my blog, as well as blogging itself!  I enjoy writing, which probably makes me a dork but it’s cool.  So this is a way that I can write and share my thoughts and feelings without having to worry about whether it is actually good or not!  

I was born and raised right where I live now.  The house I grew up in is less than a half mile from where I live now.  I have one older sister.  We are a whopping 10 years apart!  Crazy, right?  My parents keep trying to tell me that their dog is my brother, but I’m not buying it.  My husband, who we’ll talk more about in a few minutes, was also born and raised right here.  Now when I say right here, I’m speaking literally.  We live right in front of his parents.  I know you’re thinking “why in the world would you want to be neighbors with your in-laws?”  Honestly, I have to say that I wasn’t a big fan of the idea either when we first moved in, but they don’t bother us at all.  It’s actually kind of nice having them so close by sometimes.  I’m blessed in the sense that I don’t have a set of horrible in-laws like you hear people complain about all the time.  Thank goodness!

I guess it goes without saying that they raised a pretty great son, you know, since I married him and all.  Ha!  So let’s talk about him for a moment.  For the purposes of not sharing his “government name” (because he is a conspiracy theorist which is a different topic all in itself) and so that I don’t have to keep referring to him as “my husband,” we will call him Mr H.  Mr H drives me crazy most days and I just want to throw something at him, but the truth is I wouldn’t trade him for anything.  He is a good man.  He’s a wonderful father and our son simply adores him.  In fact, whenever he is around, nobody else exists.    He is a daddy’s boy through and through.  Which only makes me love Mr H even more.  And I suppose he’s a good husband too ;).  Ok, he’s a great husband!  When I was pregnant he was wonderful.  I even got him to rub lotion on my dry swollen ankles and feet a few times.  Now that’s love!  I had to have a c-section with my son, so recovery was rough but Mr H was a trooper.  Then, unbeknownst to me at the time, my gallbladder decided to commit suicide and I thought I was dying.  So I called Mr H freaking out and crying and I told him he had to come home because I needed to go to the hospital.  He was a good 40 minutes from home.  When I tell you that he hung up on me and showed up 20 minutes later, I’m not kidding.  That man would do anything for me.  ANYTHING.  And I know that without him having to tell me. 

We have been together since 2005 and married since 2008.  It’s kind of by chance that we even met.  We grew up right down the street from each other and never knew it.  We went to the same high school, but I never knew him.  He, of course, says he knew who I was but then again he likes to one up me so I’m not so sure I believe him lol.  I was going through a phase in my life where I knew I needed to do something with my life but I wasn’t sure what that was going to be.  I wanted to get a good job that paid decent money but I didn’t want to go to school forever to do it.  So I had gotten a catalog for continuing education courses at my local community college and in the list of courses offered was Emergency Medical Technician.  It was a 6 month course.  My kind of class!  So I signed up.  It was this decision that would eventually change my life.

The first night of class I found a seat next to a woman who looked like my kind of people.  Her name was Trinity.  We started talking and became friends.  After a few weeks of class she started telling me that she had a nephew that she wanted me to meet.  I was not interested in meeting anybody because I had just gotten out of a relationship and was kind of enjoying being single for a little while.  She, of course, ignored me and gave my phone number to him anyway.  She didn’t tell me that she gave him my phone number either.  So when I got a phone call, I was very surprised.  The first phone call was a little awkward, but we made it through it.  It was probably awkward because I didn’t know he was going to be calling lol.  We talked on the phone for about two weeks before we decided to meet somewhere.  I had no idea what this guy looked like, so I was very nervous.  I asked my friend Kadie to come along with me just in case it was a fail and I needed to be rescued.  We decided to meet at a little bar downtown.  When Kadie and I pulled up I saw him standing on the corner outside of the bar waiting on me.  I still remember what he was wearing; red Ralph Lauren polo, carpenter jeans, blue ball cap, brown boots.  I couldn’t see his face from the distance, but I approved of the clothes.  At least he didn’t dress like someone from peopleofwalmart.com.  As we got closer and his face came into focus, it was over.  I was immediately lovestruck.  I don’t remember this, but Kadie says I turned around as we were walking into the bar and said, “I want him.  I must have him.”  Haha.  Lucky for me it worked out in my favor :).  That night turned out to be the beginning of the rest of my life.  It was also the night that Kadie and I discovered that not all guys can play pool haha.  Love Mr H, but a pool player he is not.

We dated for a little over a year before we bought our home together in January of 2007.  In December of 2007 we were engaged.  We got married on May 24, 2008.  I wanted a short engagement and a small, simple wedding.  We got married under the oak trees behind the church that Mr H’s daddy preaches at.  It was a beautiful day!  In July of 2009 I found out I was pregnant and we met our little bundle of joy in April of 2010!  Two years later, here I am!

I’m currently in school completing my pre-nursing requirements and hope to start the nursing program in the fall of 2014.  Fingers crossed!  I’m also taking some photography classes on the side because it has also become a passion of mine that I would like to pursue.  Who knows where that will go, but at this point it doesn’t matter to me.  I just love it and want to learn more about it. 

I’m also a beast in the kitchen.  My husband will tell you that there isn’t really anything that I have cooked that he hasn’t liked.  I love to bake as well.  Pies and cakes mainly.  For whatever stupid reason me and cookies don’t like each other.  I have never been able to make a cookie from scratch that turned out the way it was supposed to.  Maybe one day.

So that’s me in a nutshell!