Donovan Pride

 The last month of 2020 is starting to wind down and I can honestly say I'm glad. Covid has definitely made the year memorable. but not to dwell on Covid, we made our December worth while for the kids. We jammed packed the whole month with Christmas festivities and made the month fly by with looking forward to the next activity.  We started our month off on November 28! Yup after Thanksgiving we wanted to spread some cheer to the kids and so we headed to the Fairgrounds in Palmer and did the drive thru lights. The lights were great! The kids enjoyed how they danced with the music on the radio, but i got to say for the long drive to the fairgrounds and the short "mile" of lights it definitely was not worth the $25 we paid but it was still a great time! We even treated the kids Starbucks on the way there and they got a Peppermint Frappuccino. December 1, our elf Sugar Socks showed up for his month of shenanigans. The thing this year for the Elf on the Shelf community was th...

Living Room! When you see these Before and After pictures you will think "That is a completely different house." And let me tell you that is exactly how I feel. Our Living Room was one of the first projects we worked on because it was pretty much just cosmetic things. When we purchased the house I KNEW that the UGLY turquoise walls had to go RIGHT AWAY!!!! The color wasn't terrible but it was so dark and for the layout of the house the walls needed to be a light color to seem bigger. There was so much wood trim that I didn't know what to do with myself! We painted the living room walls with Behr paint in the color WindDrift. It took THREE yes THREE layers of paint to cover that hideous color and I still feel like its not completely covered. I felt kind of bad about painting the walls because the previous owners literally just painted the house to sell it! But not sure why they chose that color. (insert face palm emoji)We then painted the ceiling white. Yes i said whit...

WOW! I'm so sorry in the delay of posts! We have had a VERY overwhelming year since we've moved to Alaska and i just wasn't able to sit down in front of my computer and collect all of my thoughts. But i cant wait to share with you what has happened!!!       My life has been a constant roller coaster since 2019. Since having Kynslee (yes 5 years ago), I have always felt off. I would emotionally have highs and lows and never really understood why. I would just go about my life. I would brush off the emotions and bury them. I thought i had a handle on them. Then i had Dustin. Scott was deployed, i gave birth by myself, had to take care of three children, got my tubes removed and never really fully recovered from birth or surgery. To this day I still cant catch up with life or anything in my life. And being exhausted is an understatement. Constantly being by myself and not having a quiet minute has really taken a toll on me and without seeing a doctor,i can clearly see ...