Locks of Love and Morgan's 25th Birthday!

  

I donated 12 inches of my hair to Locks of Love for a third time ever! I love my new hair cut and knowing this helps a child who is sick and can't have hair. I hope they enjoy the color and curl of my hair, I am so blessed for this opportunity and the ability to grow my hair so long. I have plenty to offer! 

Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization that provides hair pieces to children with an incurable illness called alopecia areata. This illness prevents children from ever being able to grow hair. It takes 8-10 people to donate hair to create one hair piece so consider this option if you have long hair! You can send your picture in with our donation to so the little girl who receives her hair piece can know there are a lot of people thinking of her and praying.

 

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For Morgan's big birthday this year, we went to visit her house and celebrate her quarter of a century birthday! She slightly struggled with it the same as I did but from there, the birthdays are so amazing!! How did we get so old Morgan?!

 

Comparison picture.

 

We took lots of evening walks around her neighborhood. 

  

She decided to go kayaking! I love it! We had an absolute blast!

My buddy waiting for me in my room lol!

 

Why are these trees already changing color in June? I love Fall and all but, June?!

Thank you Morgan for the memories and getting us all together! I love you sister, happy birthday!

Love,

Kayla

6/24/21

Cody's Graduated with his Masters Degree!!!

CODY FINISHED HIS MASTERS DEGREE!! SURPRISE!! I never thought we would actually get to this point! I am so proud of him and his drive to keep going even when it was awful, he never gave up. Cody has been juggling so much these past few years, I've missed him so much. We are finally in this new chapter of life, and we can finally enjoy all of our hard work. Life will look so different from here on! This was the last big goal to accomplish before we have kids. Now we just wait for when the time feels right. Oh, I am just so incredibly proud of Cody. Cody, you should be so deeply proud of yourself. Let's celebrate YOU!

 

 

 

His celebration hug after he turned in his last paper and after staying up all night working his butt off. Lucy looks pleased he will be spending more time with her now too! :)

 

To celebrate these last 4+ years he has been so occupied with school, he has taken it upon himself to build new desks for our office and actually do something he wants. This should help the flow of the room and the fit as well. Look how good mine turned out! I love it so much!

Now he has a laundry list of things to do around the house he has had to neglect over the last year and a half while I was working a lot as well and we couldn't attend to. 

 

This year Cody is teaching 3 new classes and isn't teaching History right now. He is ironically teaching coding, computer applications, and journaling. He's joined the technology side of the family even though he is on the teaching side. What are the chances! We're more alike that I thought ha!

So with that being said, we had to move every single thing you see in this picture across the school and into Cody's room to make it a computer lab. It was insane and took 10 hours total. 

The Soddy field is so gorgeous! Also check out the shelves he built in the football room!

We celebrated after a hard day of moving by going to Firehouse Subs!

Check out this Lucy decal I got for Christmas and finally put up on the car!

 

My relaxing buddy!!

With love,

Kayla

7/16/21

Our 28th Birthday's!!

 28 BABY!!!!!!!! WAAAA FREAKING HHHOOOOOOO!!!!!

I have been looking forward to turning 28 my whole life. For some reason 28 seems so cool, you are older, not a kid anymore, not in that "learning about your new adult life out of college and building your career early 20's anymore) but not grossly old like 30 or 30+. Still cool but young. It is also the age where you could become a mom yourself and start a new generation which is BEYOND crazy to me. The most exciting part of it to me is this is baby yearrrrrr!!! 👶(Lord willing). This is the year we try for a baby (in 3+ months) and I am so pumped. I can't believe this day is finally here, I could pass out from excitement. This is the year. This is my time. 28. 2021. This is NOW!!! Let's go! Plus we get to go back to the beach for our babymoon in December (Lord willing). AAAAAND Lord willing, year 28 is also when our baby will be born in 2022 (Lord willing).

I love where I am in life, I have met and exceeded all of my high expectations for myself. I love who I am and what I stand for, I love how well I know myself and how comfortable I am. I love the life I have built through so much hard work, I love my slower but right timeline over these past 10 years. Slow and steady wins the race. And I just love everything. We are in such a comfortable place in life and all of our hard work has finally paid off and we can just enjoy.

For our birthday's this year, I planned to go tubing down the river in Gatlinburg at the end of the month and for me and Cody's birthday weekend we are going to try the new Top Golf and with family we are doing Dave N Busters where we announced that Cody is done with his masters degree (last class was July 9th, officially done July 16th).

From my 5 year anniversary post:

This is the year we will actually try for kids. I always pictured waiting for our 5th anniversary to start thinking about kids and when we turned 28. Those were the main goals to try for kids on top of being established in my career (4-5 years) before I take off to be a stay at home mom for 5-10 years, being in a house, and having our dog be 2 years old when our baby is born. We are creeping up on all of those things being perfect, we are so close. In a perfect world, I don't want to be 29 when the baby is born and I want the baby to be born before June 2nd 2022 so any time after that will be perfect but if I want to be 28 while pregnant and 28 when I give birth that gives me a 2 month window (along with the June 2nd thing) and making sure I don't suffer from another miscarriage or having trouble getting pregnant. If it is anything like last time we won't have trouble at all conceiving, it would be having a baby that survives. Oh, it is so nerve wracking. It will be perfect whatever happens, after September we will start trying. I pray pray pray this is baby year for us, I am getting so close to being ready mentally. This will also be the year I quit my job after 4+ years and become a full stay at home dog mom/wife/mom and take care of the house, and Cody and I will invest a good chunk of our savings to grow for our retirement. Also Cody will have finished his masters degree helping us financially significantly. 

Next year Lord willing, our baby will be born hopefully before I am 29, and possibly before our 6th anniversary, and we will have gotten a new truck for Cody that has a back row of seats and 4 full doors. Here we are, the next biggest set of goals is among us.

Here's to freaking 28!!! Alriiiight!!!😎

To celebrate, Mom, Morgan, and Nana came down to visit and we went to the Rodeo, Dave & Busters, and played Top Golf at the new location near our house!

Starting the day off, I had mom take pictures of me with these balloons I have been saving for over 3 years. Seriously, I've been THAT excited about turning 28!

 

I couldn't decide which one I liked so I posted the one right above on the right on Instagram. I love pictures and my main request was a photoshoot. My mom was INCREDIBLE at it. Job well done mom!

 

On the left, I have my birthday's 18-28 and on the right, my 8th, 18th, and 28th birthday!

Dave & Busters fun!! I think I played Guitar Hero 6 times!

Perfect weather for the rodeo!!!

We loved having Morgan, Edgar, and sweet Maya visit the house and give Lucy a playmate to play with💓 she absolutely loved it! They got to stay until 1am!

Top Golf was AMAZING! We went here on the morning of Cody's birthday!

 

 

Then we came home and I surprised Cody with ice cream cake!!! His birthday marked the first day of Discovery Channels Shark Week for this year so I of course had to decorate with gummy sharks!

We ended the day going to Cody's parents house and as a birthday gift, Cody's mom gifted me with a sweet canvas picture of Cody as a baby!😍 I could fall over he is the cutest baby I've ever seen. I hope our son looks like him! The casts on his feet were from being born with clubbed feet just like his dad. There is a good chance our future babies may have this as well, I'll get more into that later on!

On my actual birthday day, my mom surprised me and sent flowers to my house! Aren't they so beautiful!!! What a surprise!

This has BY FAR, been the best birthday of my life!! I'm so happy!

With so much love,

Kayla Nicole Raborn

7/12/21