My Introduction! (here goes nothing...)

I'm going to be a blogger. I'm not sure how timely I will be, and I will probably be terrible and uninteresting. I just think that maybe sometime I have things to say that everyone may not want to hear, but I never know if someone is listening. This is me.

My name is Jana. I'm 25 until October. I'm a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a niece, and I feel like a total mess more of the time, but I'm pretty laid back (or so I hear).

I have a husband, Jacob, who is pretty amazing. We have been married for a year and a half. He drives me insane and gets under my skin like no one else, but I love him anyways. He is a hard worker and thinks about others first. He provides for our little family and that lets me stay at home with our kids... and we have 2 pretty great ones.

Amberleigh is 7. She is a mess. A drama queen, an amazing big sister, a great student, and I wouldn't trade her for the world. She is mine from a previous relationship, but we definitely aren't going into that one. We will just say he has chosen to stay out of the picture. This is another reason Jacob is pretty great. Before long, we hope for him to adopt her. She is extremely smart and very wise for her 7 short years. She loves to cheer & dance & is interested in gymnastics. She is finally to the age where she wants to stay with her friends and have sleepovers. I made her grow up too fast, now I wish she would just slow down a little!

Asher is 6 months and 3 days old. He has completely changed our lives for the better. He is very bright. He sits up, and has been for over a month now. He tries to crawl, even if he only scoots an inch at a time, and gets into everything that his little hands can reach. He has given me many sleepless nights as well as stretchmarks and probably worry lines, but I don't mind a bit. I wanted him for a long time, and it took some convincing to get him here ;) I'm trying to keep him little, but he's not letting me!

Molly is our Chocolate Lab. She is 4 years old (we got her at 6 weeks) & the sweetest 80lb lap dog I've ever seen. 

Karma is our German Shepherd. She's almost 2 (we got her at 5 1/2 weeks) and loves nothing more than to chase a tennis ball & bark at cats.

On that note, Lily is our cat. She is extremely patient. I got her when she was 5 weeks old (Amberleigh was maybe 2?) and she was tiny tiny tiny. She is 5 years old now, had several litters of kittens, gotten fixed, and now she's fatttt :)

We recently got 2 fancy goldfish (orange fantail) from some friends of ours & Amberleigh named them Fred & George. They lived in a bowl for a while, then we got a tank (from the same friends) and bought 3 more. Pops is a black moor with big popped out eyes. Dot is white with a big red/orange bump on his/her head. The last is orange with a white belly & tail. Amberleigh named it Sparkle, and Jacob named it Flash. I call is Splash.

I graduated 11 months ago from Nursing school (I was preggers). I took my NCLEX once & failed it. Had I not been going through everything in my life that I was going through at that time (I'm not going into all of that either), I'm confident that I would have passed. Since then, I have had Asher, so I'm just now getting that extra time to study like I should. My goal is to pass before I turn 26, so feel free to hold me accountable.

We live in a small town. Everybody knows everybody. We are ok with it, we just want to be somewhere else. That is also on my list of goals. Buy a house. And a new car. And lose this baby weight. And then have a couple more ;)

Wow, are you bored yet? A peek into my life. Feel free to check back in for maybe something more interesting next time! :)