About Us

Kevin and I met at the end of my freshman year <’97> at a water polo party, I was 15 and Kevin was 16. Ironically enough it was a ‘truth or dare’ game that introduced us! We started dating a few months later during that summer and dated on and off through high school. After Kevin’s graduation he joined the delayed entry program in the US Navy, where they paid him and put him through a year of college. A year later when I graduated and Kevin finished his 1-year of school he went off to boot camp in Illinois, in August of 2001, and I began college myself. When Kevin finished boot camp he was moved to South Carolina for A-school and power school. While there we dated for a couple of months, but the long distance thing was expensive and rough on both of us. So, On December 27th 2001 Kevin proposed to me while he was on holiday vacation from A-school. Then, shortly thereafter we eloped. March 4th 2002, Kevin and I were married in Casselberry FL.

Since then, we have moved from South Carolina to New York to military housing near the navy base in Connecticut, to our very first home that we purchased in September of 2004, Then after we sold that house we purchased another house in Saint Marys, GA in 2007! Right now Kevin is a first-class petty officer on Shore duty, and I am a stay at home mom with the 2 kiddos! ......

[9-10-05]
I took a sociology class this past summer, and learned some really interesting things! I never thought I would be one to enjoy a sociology class but it was very interesting and I passed with flying colors. Since then I have been working full time for Home Depot's Installation Services program as a 'lead generator', Which basically means I sign customers up for free estimates for all of the things we install through Home Depot. Its a very laid back job and I enjoy it quite a bit since I just get to talk to customers all day long!:)
Kevin and I have also been working on remodeling our house. We have made a lot of progress in the last month or so. We have now put down a new floor in the kitchen installed fans in several rooms and planted some flowers and prettied up the yard some. We also started to remodel the spare room and bathroom upstairs. We took out the plaster walls in the spare room and put up drywall and insulation and that is coming along nicely. The bathroom is mostly done but still need to put in a tile floor and finish the molding. Kevin also wants to make a small room for an office in the basement, but hopefully we will finish the projects we have started before starting new ones!!:)
Kevin has also finally made his first trip on a submarine. After almost 5 years in the Navy as a sailor and he went for a short ride from July 25th to August 22nd. We both seemed to take it as well as could be expected. I stayed busy with friends for the most part, and also had Kevin's brother to help with things like, taking out the trash, and taking care of the bats flying around my house at night. <yes I said BATS!> I also realized that Copper is a bat killer! He leaps into the air and snatches them and throws them to the ground and kills them! He got 4 this summer! My great little bat killer! Kevin seemed to be ok with the underway as well, kept in contact with me quite a bit and got to learn a little more about the boat, and how things are different when the boat is underway.
Other then that not much else has changed, Munchkin has a litter of very cute little puppies that are officially all sold and the only people I am waiting on to get their puppies is mom and Grace, and they will be getting theirs in another month. There are lots of pictures the the Photo Gallery of the puppies.

[11/27/2005]

As of 11/11/05 I took 3 pregnancy tests and all came out positive! So I went to the doctor on the 14th and had a blood test done and it was confirmed. I am pregnant! Finally going to be a mommy!! Until I go for an ultrasound or I am told otherwise, I am due on July 20th, of 2006. I go for my first appointment on 12/8/05 and should get to hear a heartbeat then! that will be exciting!!! YAY! so from now on, for updates on the pregnancy I will be updating the "pregnancy progress" link often with new symptoms and news. But for now, since it is still so early...everyone keep me in your prayers, and hope that this little baby will stick around until the end!

[7/9/2006]
Baby Alana was born on 7/3/06, weighing in at 7lbs 15oz and 20 1/2in. long! We are so excited with the new arrival, and cant wait for her to meet all the family! Hard to believe already a week has passed since my little girl was born! Still trying to get into a schedule and get things settled around the house, but we are enjoying every min.!

[10/3/06]
Well Kevin has left on his first 6 month deployment and I am on my way to FL to stay with family. He left on the 29th of September and the next morning I was on my way to VA, with my mom, to pick up Lisa and Hunter to come to FL with me, since Bobby is leaving for deployment too. Hoping it makes time pass faster while being in FL with all the family around and learning to be a new mommy! Ill keep you posted with lots of pictures and updates on Alana and I through the next 6 months while Kevin is gone!

[3/8/07]
Well its almost time for Kevin to come home now, and these past 6 months have actually gone by pretty quickly! Its amazing how you learn quickly to survive without someone very important to you...I just hope it is as easy to learn to have him there again! Alana has grown and changed so much since he has been gone its going to be interesting to see his reaction to her changes. When he left she just laid there and was just learning to smile, now she crawls everywhere laughs, smiles, says mama dada baba and makes all kinds of other noises! Kevin got to see both of us in San Diego over New years while he was in port, but even the difference from then till now is amazing! I cant wait for him to get home and get life back to normal!
Soon after he comes home, we are going to be finishing the house and getting it ready to be sold. The plan is to be moving south before October of this year. Hopefully to Georgia but we wont know until it gets closer when and where we will be moving. I'll keep everyone posted as the year continues!

[7/17/07]
Well more fun updates for us, Kevin has been home from deployment for a few months now and we are almost finished fixing up the house to sell. Although while we are still putting the finishing touches on the house we have already put it up for sale by owner on a site called www.militarybyowner.com and we are waiting to hear any response to that soon! Other then that we found out around mothers day this year that we are expecting a new baby in January! We are both very excited even though it happened a lot faster then we both expected!
We are still waiting to get official orders of where we are going next and as soon as I hear something you all will be first on my list of people to update! But as of right now we have potential orders to Georgia waiting for us, but they are giving Kevin's choice orders a chance to be approved. As soon as we hear if they are approved or not then we can move forward and will have official orders shortly thereafter! As of right now we are expecting to be moving in the last week of September which doesn't give us much time to sell the house and be ready, but we will manage!

[7/27/07]
Well to make a LONG story short:) first of all we decided to use a realtor since we didn't have very much time to sell and we couldn't take a chance on not selling it in time...so we went with a friend of ours more or less <a guy on Kevin's boat, his girlfriend is a realtor> I had just started the contract with her 2 days ago and we haven't even gotten pictures taken and online and officially 'listed' or anything and today a guy says he saw our for sale by owner sign out front and they are looking for a house and went to the bank that morning to get pre approved and it just so happens that they went to Navy Fed. for the approval to since the guy is a veteran and the woman works for the government...so anyways they walk over to look at the house since they are currently renting down the street! and LOVE the house...and want to put in an offer and want to have a contract written for the bank by Tuesday so they can lock in a good interest rate...so we call our realtor and she came over tonight, they came back over wrote a contract with her <since they didn't have a realtor already, which is a bonus to us because her % goes down since she is rep. both of us!!> and then we signed it!!!! so we sold our house for the asking price!! or at least I can say we have it under contract!!!:) so as soon as Kevin gets orders and we can schedule the move then we will schedule closing...we just know that it has to be before Sept 30th as per the contract. So with in the next month I could be headed to FL!!!! so everyone pray or wish us luck or knock on some wood or whatever it is you do that all the financing for this couple goes through without a problem so we don't have problems closing, and we are out of here!!!! I am so excited! Just trying not to be too totally crazy since obviously it aunt over until the bank sends the check type of thing...but still!! OK so that is the update for now...Kevin said by the end of next week he should have some news on his orders and we will find out from there what the dates will be!:) YAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYA!

[9/23/07]
We were able to sell the house in just a week of having it on the market so to say and that was really just on the for sale by owner market! but fortunately a neighbor down the street from us that was renting was looking to buy, and came to see the house and loved it from the first moment! And better yet they offered to pay our asking price which helped us out greatly! So we got ready to close within 3 or 4 weeks and closed and my mom and I headed to FL and left Kevin in CT for another month to finish out his tour.

While I have been in FL, my mom and I have gone to look at houses in north FL and in GA. We didn't find much in GA unfortunately since that would be close to where he will be working, but we did find a few nice houses in north FL only about 30 min from his work. The one we are currently most interested in, is a beautiful log cabin built in 1983, it is about 2300sqft and needs a little bit of work since it is a foreclosure and hasn't been lived in for almost a year or so! but nothing that Kevin cant handle and we have the potential of making a great deal of money on this house in the next 3 years as well! So please lots of prayers from everyone willing, that whatever we do put an offer on, will go well for us! and as soon as I get more news I will pass it on to everyone!

[11/14/07]
Well, as some or most of you know, we gave up on the log cabin that we were looking at in Yulee. They were trying to play us for fools, and they were taking way to long to get things settled! So we told them to take there broken down, termite infested house and find someone else willing to pay full price for it! So anyways, we started looking in Yulee, FL and St Mary's, GA again, and ended up finding a few thing in both places but decided against Yulee since it was going to be quite the commute for Kevin <about 45 min 1 way> and while the houses all had property <an acre or more> they were all also Mobile homes. So we decided on a great little house in St Mary's, Ga. Its right outside the base. A 3br/2ba with a 2 car garage and fenced in yard in a great little neighborhood and I am walking distance from the community pool and park. We put in an offer and they accepted. So as of now we are set to close on the 14th of December. A bit close to Christmas and my due date, but we will take what we can get!:) Anyways that's where we are at for now! Thanks for all the prayers with the log cabin and all, I think the 'right thing' for us happened with that! There are pictures of the house from when we went to see it in the photo gallery tab!:)

[1/2/08]
Well, Lots of news to share since the last update. We signed on our new house in GA on the 14th of December and got most of the way settled before the holidays. Then while down here for Christmas and New Years, Damien James decided he was going to make his appearance early and be born 3 weeks early just like his sister! So, on December 27th, Damien James Holloway was born, 7lbs 13oz and 20 1/2in. long! He is precious and doing well aside from some small complications with Jaundice just like his sister, and a slow start on eating and pooping ;) He is doing great now though, and gaining weight quickly I believe. Christmas went well for all of us and Alana made out great with lots of new toys and fun stuff! Thank you all for the wonderful things she got and the gift cards and other gifts for the house and everything else that we got for Christmas this year! They are all Great! Beyond that not a whole lot is going on for us right now. We are looking forward to getting into our new house with our 'whole' family and get settled!

[3/30/08]

Well our little man is 3 months old now and Alana is almost 21 months now! They are both doing great and settling into a schedule well! Damien is sleeping about 8-10 hours a night and eating about 4-5 times a day, he is such an easy going baby. He has started to coo, and laugh. and he is very easy to make laugh too! It amazes me to think he is already 3 months old and one of these days I am going to wake up and it is going to be his first birthday! Time is flying so fast!

Alana is talking up a storm now, more and more understandable as well. I understand a lot of what she says and she is getting better daily! We are working on potty training, and its a slow and steady process:) I am hoping to at least be onto maybe pull-ups or something by her 2nd birthday but its not an easy task especially when I am alone all day and she usually asks to go potty while I am feeding Damien! UGH! But we will keep to it and see how it goes! Our only dilemma at the moment is where to have her 2nd birthday. While I want to have it here at our new house, I want the family to be able to make it and I don't know if that is just wishful thinking!:)

Kevin is getting ready to have his vision correction surgery in the next month or so. He has a class he has to take that explains the procedure and then a consultation to determine what surgery he will have, then the final appointment will be set. We are hoping for the first week in May. He is excited but nervous.

I am LOVING the new house, and getting into a good schedule of housework and kids and me time! It seems to be working well so far ;) Kevin and I have also started a membership at the YMCA up here, and have been working out 3 times a week and trying to watch what we eat. Both of us are looking to lose some weight and get in shape this year! So hopefully by Christmas we will be much smaller/healthier!