It is spring! Soccer season is now underway, and boy, what a difference 6 months can make! But, I don’t claim him….
And meet the hottest HEAD soccer coach in Independence 
Welcome Spring! Oh how I have missed seeing green and wearing capris and fun shoes!!!
Miss Aniston’s arrival countdown has begun! 4 weeks or so and I will get to meet the little girl that has been draining my wallet for about 6 months! Of course, not her fault, I am just so excited to see her in bows and dresses and tutus, and of course, take her pictures!
I can’t wait to see my best friend become a mom. I can’t wait for her to see her daughter for the 1st time, and feel that love and bond that she has yet to feel in her life.
Her mom, aunt, Katie, and I threw her a pickles and ice cream shower. It was adorable and so much fun! Miss Aniston was of course spoiled rotten, and I don’t think she needs a thing before her arrival. Everything is ready to go but baby!
I also drug Erin outside to grab a few photos before she wouldn’t let me anymore 
E – you are beautiful. I love you!
I am giving you the face, you can stop now mom.
not kidding…
We lost a dear friend today, one of the best men ever to be blessed to walk this earth. I am finding it difficult to put together my thoughts about David. He was an AMAZING man. He would never hesitate to help someone out. He was a quiet, strong, and caring. He loved what he did, he lived to be outside. And most of all, he loved his wife, Amy. I knew David before and after he met Amy, and they were two different David’s. Amy brought out everything amazing in Dave that he was too shy to share with the world. They were the definition of soul mates, an example of what married life should be.
Dave fought a horrible cancer, called Soft Tissue Sarcoma, that attacked him in multiple parts of his body for over 3 years. This is a very rare cancer, and much research is still needed. He was determined to beat this, but God ultimately decided he needed our soldier with him instead, and with him, a little piece of our hearts went too. Amy once told me that she found comfort in knowing that, since they could never have kids of their own, that her David would be up in heaven comforting and helping the children who had left their families too early as well. I hope those parents know that their children are very lucky to have him.
The arrangements of his life celebration will be on Monday, March 15th.
Middendorf Funeral Home - http://www.middendorffuneralhomeky.net/
3312 Madison Pike Ft. Wright, KY 41017
Visitation, 4PM – 7PM
Service, 7PM
Reception, 7:30PM – 11:00PM located at the South Hills Civic Club – 10 Bluegrass Ave. Ft. Wright, KY 41017
Please consider making a donation to the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative. 98% of donations to this Sarcoma fund go straight to Sarcoma Research. There will also be multiple benefits today and in the next few weeks to help with David’s bills.
TODAY – Saturday, March 13th, 4:00pm at Zazou Grill and Pub in Covington. $1 of every food and drink sale will go to Amy.
Friday, March 26 at the Brickhouse Bar and Grill on Limaburg Rd in Hebron from 7pm -12am
If you cannot make any of these events, but would still like to help, please send any contributions to:
Bank of Kentucky
c/o The Benefit of David Dearinger
111 Lookout Farm Dr
Crestview Hills , KY 41017
Godspeed David. We love you and miss you, but we celebrate that you are HEALED. There will always be a CASE of beer in our fridge for you.
Today is all about denial.
I am in denial that I will be 29 this year. I am in denial that BB is so grown up lately. I am in denial that my mom might be moving away, and that my baby brother is getting married.
I am in denial that my baby is 1 today.
I find it so ironic that our boys couldn’t be more opposite. I always said this about Nate and his brothers, I just couldn’t understand how 4 boys who grew up in the SAME house with the SAME parents could be SO different! Ben is the lawyer, the analyst. Nate is the giver, the builder, the rock. Dennis is the teacher, the philanthropist. And Mike is the thinker and the quiet one. All wonderful qualities, with the same set of values.
Nolan is laid back, LOUD, and carefree. He does things on HIS time. (I should have known that would be the case from the beginning!) While Brayden is organized and structured, and always ahead of his time. The best example is the train table. They both love trains. For 2 years, our train table has set in the toy room exactly how the picture shows it. That is how Brayden likes his things, neat and organized - where it belongs. Don’t move it to the left because he will know, and he will hate it. Because he hates change. Well, his baby brother is now mobile, and the train table will never be the same. I am finding pieces of track upstairs, in his highchair, and in laundry baskets. It makes BB a nervous wreck. Big brother is just like his mama, and has a lot to learn about patience and not getting things his way all the time! I see so much of Nate in Nolan and me in Brayden that it is exciting and scary!
Exactly 1 year ago today, I did the most empowering thing a woman could ever do. I wanted to do the absolute best thing I could for my baby the second time around. The baby I prayed for every day for 2 years. Little did we know, God had a plan for Nolan. A plan for our family. And we are so blessed and grateful, no matter how difficult the road was to his arrival.
He has brought so much joy to our lives. I love you Nolan Jude, and I am SO PROUD and blessed to be your mama.
Here are a series of photo collages from your first year!
And oh yea, Happy Birthday to Nate! Without you, my precious baby would obviously not be possible And thank you for turning 29 before me! In all seriousness, he jokes that he will never have a birthday ever again, but I say it just makes every one from now on a 1,000,000,000x more special.
Happy Birthday to my boys!