The beautiful momma you're about to see in the next set of images is someone my family loves very much (Christian, you're pretty cool, too!) I met Niquela about this time last year. I was in my first trimester and EXTREMELY sick. My youngest at the time was on a wait list for preschool, my husband was working long hours, and I was more or less useless. I needed help! Enter Niq... She swooped in as a mommy helper/nanny/superhero and picked up where I was falling short. Thanks

There are some things that you don't really care to think about much when you join the Navy {military} life. So often, family "planning" revolves around deployment schedules, workups, and shore duty...but sometimes (actually, a lot of the time) God has a bigger plan. Sometimes babies come days or weeks after daddies leave for a long deployment. Sometimes they come just before daddies arrive home. That's just the nature of the "military lifestyle" beast. The wonderful thing ab