Here We Go...

Welcome!

So, I'm going to try this blog thing out, see if it works for me. I'm a SAHM, so heaven knows I could use an outlet from time to time. I hope this will be a place where friends and family can keep current about the goings-on in the Essley family. So for those of you who don't know me all that well, here's the Cliff's Notes on our eccentric little family...

I met Rob Essley in July of 2000 at the age of 23. His sister tried to set us up. I resisted meeting him at first (blind date you ask? Um, no thanks, I've got enough dating horror stories under my belt already) but was eventually talked into it. I was born in California, but pretty much grew up in Georgia. Rob was born in Georgia, but pretty much grew up in Wyoming. It's a miracle we ever met. But meet we did, and yes, we really were inseperable from the start. We lived together much too soon (and much to the dismay of my parents, I'm sure) but we were among the lucky and in September of 2002 we were married in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Rob was offered a job shortly after the wedding. A job that would take us to Denver. We were married about 8 months when we packed a U-Haul, our one car and our cat and drove cross-country to our new home. Growing up in Laramie, Wyoming, just over the border from Colordo, Rob had always wanted to live in Denver. His best friend lives there and a large percentage of the disillusioned teens wandering the frigid streets of L-town apparantly long for the big city lights of Denver. We had visited twice and we thought we'd love it. Very long story short, I hated it. Hated it. I don't use the word hate all that often, but I use it now. Hate. In retrospect, it was the lack of friends and family rather than Colorado itself that brought about the strong feelings of hatred. I was miserable and I wanted OUT. We lived there for five looonngg years, almost to the day. The only positive thing about Colorado is the fact that our daugher was born there. Miss Avery Danae graced us with her presence in February of 2006 and made me a mother, and a better person. When the opportunity for another job in Georgia arose, I begged Rob to take it, and being that it was a great opportunity, he did.

So here we are, back in Georgia for two years now and life is pretty good. Living here has afforded us opportunities we would not have had had we stayed out west. We were finally able to buy a home (and not be house-poor) and we can afford my growing obsession with organic products of all kinds. We hope someday to add to our little family, perhaps turning three Essleys into four. Thanks for sticking with it this far, talk to you soon...