Why wouldnt ya?

My Daughter, Izzi

Daughter, Sami

My Amazing, wonderful parents, Scott and Jacki

My brother Casey and his family - George

My brothers Tucker, Peter and Sander visiting at My Aunt Cathys

Tucker at Adventureland

My brother Cameron and Jared at Camerons High School Graduation.

So I decided that I am going to start blogging. It seems like all the cool kids are doing it so why wouldnt I? Where to start, where to start... I guess I can just tell you more about myself in this post so if I ever refer to different people you can somewhat have a clue who Im talking about. Well Im Stefani. I was born on March 3rd to Jacki and Tony Erwin. When I was under a year old my mother and biological dad got divorced (best thing ever!) and my mom married my dad, Scott Carder. I refer to Scott as my dad and my biological dad as Tony. My mom and Tony also had a child before me, Casey. Casey is my only 'full" blood brother. My mom and dad had 2 more boys Jared, and Cameron. Tony and his 4th wife had 2 boys Peter and Sander. Peter and Sander live in The Netherlands and I never get to see them. Then Tony and his 5th wife, Anne had one son named Tucker. Confusing I know! I have 6 brothers. Casey is married to Louise and lives in Louiseanna with his 4 kids, Serena, Casey, Tea and George. Jared is married to Beth and they live in Cedar Rapids. They have no kids yet but Im secertly hoping it will happen soon. Cam lives in Iowa City and goes to The U of I (GO HAWKEYES!!!). Dont ask me what hes going to school for because I can never get an answer out of him. Cam dates a really nice girl named Nikki. She is so good for him. Like I said I dont get to see Peter and Sander so I dont really know too much about them :( I did get to see them 2 Octobers ago. It was very emotional! Then theres Tucker. Tucker is 11 and is in school. Hes ornry. But I love it when he comes and spends the weekend with us.

I am and will always be a mamas girl. My husband jokes about if anything ever happened to my mom he might have to lock me up cause I would go crazy. This is true. The most important people in my life are my daughters, husband and mom. They mean the world to me. I am very very close with my family. Sometimes I would rather hang out with them then anybody!

I married James on March 13th 2004 in Las Vegas in front of our family and friends. It was a perfect day, well besides the fact that the groom and best man accidently switched tuxes. Then after a year of trying to have a baby we finally got pregnant at the beginning of 2006. Isabella Eve *Izzi* was born on October 11th and my life has never been the same. Which is AWESOME! We decided to make Izzi a sister and had her baby sister Samantha Ann *Sami* on June 15th 2009. I never knew it was possible to love someone so much that it literally hurts sometimes. I hate when they are in pain, which for Sami has been pretty constant lately. Sami is allergic to EVERYTHING, well at least I swear. milk, eggs, peanuts, tree pollen, dust mites, and the list goes on. Izzi is my dancing queen and drama queen and Sami is my wild child tomboy! My life is great!

Well I suppose, thats the end to my first blog. Hope you enjoyed and come back for more!