May The Fourth Be With You
WOW its been awhile! So my last blog post was in July….. and then life just sort of got busy. AND THEN A VIRUS TOOK OVER OUR LIFE WORLD EVERYTHING. My husband was like why haven’t you been writing your blog at all, and saying I should write something now since I don’t know cause WE ARE STUCK AT HOME!!!! I think one of the main reasons I stopped was I was getting my body healthy. For the first time in my life I started working out consistently. Then with the kids schedules (the twins went from four days of school last year to five days of school this year) and Yas got older and busier. And just started to feel like I had nothing to say or write about. I feel like I do so much talking on my IG stories I have nothing to say here.
RECAP (since July): The Seahawks had a really GREAT season, and Q himself had a super amazing standout season. Except at the end of season when he fractured his foot in the playoff game against Green Bay Packers game that we then lost to (all while I was at home with four kids and one with a stomach virus and one with the flu), and then had to go back to 1 degree weather a week later to go get surgery on the foot. Which is much better now! BUT I was so proud of him and all his hard work this year. For the first time in four years I actually went to some games by myself! And traveled across the country with all four kids by myself to Pittsburgh for a game! It was crazy Yas was sick but I was also so proud and happy that I successfully did it and that my kids were freaking amazing (now if we could just travel again…..). For the first time ever we actually went away on a trip for bye week to Hawaii. It was such a greatttt trip (minus the part when someone stole my pouch that had my passport in it), it made me really sentimental cause the last time we had been to Hawaii I had Yas in my belly. We ate lots of shaved ice, local food, relaxed at the beach, and went swimming at the pool. We went to Disneyland again this year and I never thought I would be a “Disney person” but I fucking am and I just loveeee it (and the new Star Wars area opened up, if you don’t know we love Star Wars our whole family). What else what else…. Yas turned two (December Cars theme birthday), Zo turned 9 (March also we didn’t know that would be the last weekend we would be out of the house allowed to go places before the mandatory stay home and social distancing), and Charleigh/Quinn turned 5 (July emoji and rainbow theme party). I turned 29 and for the first time in many many years I had a dinner party! I never have enough confidence to invite people to come out for my birthday, I always feel like who cares about my birthday? or why would want to celebrate me? and I hate being the center of attention makes me super shy/nervous/overwhelmed. But I did it!!! It was so much fun and I got all dressed up and felt so loved. And for the first time felt like I had real real friends.
So I guess another reason I stopped writing was because I finally found my people. We had been out here for four years that I finally found people to fit in with and just had real natural easy friendships. In the football world we were getting to be one of the older families on the team who had been there for at least a few years, so I felt more comfortable being a “football wife” and was even part of the Seahawks Women’s Association Leadership Council this year (most proud of co-chairing an event called Just Us Girls with my best friend Maegan who did the most amazing work but I was happily by her side helping her vision come to life for 5 amazing teen girls who were going through different treatments and got to have one day full of pampering.) To say the two biggest best friends in my life I would have never met in my life unless we had experienced football and been on the team together are now seriously the bestest framily/friends I could have ever asked for and wouldn’t know what to do without either one of them. Then in the school world (which has always been hard for me to fit in) I found some moms that I got along with and liked me for me and not cause of what Q did, and we started going out to dinners and planning extracurricular activities together. Those types of friendships are something I have never had in my whole adult life as well as my whole mommyhood life. Also because I looked better I felt soooooo much better to be out in the world, wear flattering clothes, get dressed up, or wear a bikini. I felt confident again.
The biggest news of all WE ARE HEADING TO BUFFALO! Q’s contract ended with the Seahawks at the end of this past season. When free agency hit and with a fucking fantastic agent negotiating with several teams during free agency we ended up with the Buffalo Bills! Not gonna lie it was somewhere I thought I would never want to go but so far we have heard nothing but great things about the team and how family oriented they are, also for the first time we will be back on the east coast. Q’s family will only be 3 hours away and my family 6 hours away. We are excited for a new adventure, you can plop me in any city and as long as I have my kids and my hubba I am good. But that doesn’t mean I am not scared shitless to join a new team, make new friends, figure out a new town new schools new doctors and just ALL the stuff that goes with joining a new team!
To say we LOVE Seattle is an understatement! We plan on still making Seattle our home and I know to some that might sound crazy cause why stay if we have no family here and aren’t with the Seahawks anymore? Because home is wherever your family is and Seattle has given us something we just absolutely love. In the long run whenever football life ends this is a place to raise a family, it is up and coming, the nature and beauty of this place is unlike anything else. Outside of football me and Q have made friends and connections out here. Trust me we know plenty of people who have came here for football and have not left because of how great this place is and the opportunities it has! And like I said as long as I have my babies and hubba I am good wherever we are (but mainly it just needs to here :) ).
Now if this virus could just go away maybe we can start getting our plans and life in order! I hope to write some more while we are all stuck at home but no promises. Some days I am good other days I am sad and other days are just days. Hope your days are good and filled with happiness, good health, catching up on shows (watch #blackAF on Netflix its SO GOOD), baking, being with family (ZOOMing with family), reading books, and dreaming about all the things that will happen when life gets back to normal or the new normal whatever that may be!
Happy May and May the Fourth Be With You!
