Happy New Year! Happy you?

As we get ready to bring on a New Year, I started reflecting on 2019. Mostly ups, some downs…alot of it being in survival mode with it being the first year with our twins.

While we always feel blessed, there have been struggles…with making time for ourselves and our relationship, financially and me dealing with postpartum depression, which still comes and goes every once in a while. I felt the need to share with you because it’s OK to feel tired and down, it’s OK that we are not perfect and it’s OK to let your partner help you. Make yourself a priority.

This past year has helped strengthen my faith, my marriage and my patience. We know that our amazing  Father has a plan for us and we trust him to guide our path in all that we do. We have met some amazing people on our journey that we are thankful to call friends ❤️ living on a prayer is our way of life and we are looking forward to the adventures that 2020 holds for us. Happy New Year to all of you, stay safe and cheers to new adventures!

Bless this mess 😉

Howdy y’all! Hope everyone is ready for Christmas! We are getting there, still have a few things left to buy…I am really struggling with it feeling like Christmas time. It’s like being back in Florida with 58 degree weather and dirt, no season change to get you in the Christmas spirit per say…we didn’t even make our usual photo Christmas cards to send out, seriously slacking this year but we do love y’all! That aside we are definitely enjoying our time with family here in sunny southern California. We are truly blessed, we have our minions that are happy and healthy, each other and family and friends all around us.

We haven’t done too much to write about yet, tomorrow we are planning a trip up the mountain to Big Bear to visit Santa so we’re excited about that.

We continue to ask for your prayers for our travels and our little Maverick is currently cutting his molars so needless to say we are a little sleep deprived so prayers for both him and us! We greatly appreciate it! Will be posting pictures and updates of our Big Bear adventure so stay tuned 😊 God Bless!

The Unconventional life

We got into our hotel room around 10:00 last night, of course the twins were sleeping so we had to do the whole get them in quickly and pray they go back to sleep thing. We unloaded our bags of clothes, toiletries and their beds prior to waking them up. We get them changed and settled into their pack n plays and they start popping up like whack a moles…this went on for a good 15-20 minutes before they laid down and went back to sleep. Autumn and Rayne were out within 10 minutes of hitting the pillow lol. I finally got more than 2 hours of sleep so feeling pretty good today. The babes woke us up around 6:00am since to them it is usually 7. We were able to appease them with some Baby Bum for all of 20 minutes before we have one that poops, well that was our time to get up call lol. After getting the rest of our tribe up and ready we went down to the free continental breakfast…which was a little disappointing, you had your pick of toast, muffin or cereal. We made our selections and sat down to eat or try to anyhow…they did not have any high chairs so we had to play the game of avoiding little slap happy hands while trying to spoon cereal into our mouth, not an easy feat lol. I also love seeing the looks on people’s faces when they see both the babes…then comes the ultimate question. “Are they twins?” 🤔 nope we had one already, decided we wanted a set so put an order in with the stork which we received overnight 😜 I never say that but sometimes I want to. It isn’t always easy especially with traveling… Always someone needing something but I wouldn’t trade my life for anything. I feel very blessed. Everyone is fed, changed and quiet for the moment which means this mama gets to take time and do what she enjoys… Take pictures and Blog! God Bless y’all! Hope you have an amazing day!

Currently traveling through Arizona and it is absolutely beautiful ❤️

35 Southbound

We on the road after stopping and filling our bellies with yummy food from Cracker Barrel! It was an assembly line of diaper changes and bed clothes but we dug in and got er done, now we are basking in some quiet time as 3 out of 4 of our blessings are sleeping 😂😜😉 we are currently listening to Thriller and enjoying the open road again.

Did you miss us? We are back!

Howdy Ya’ll! It has been a while since I have blogged….That is about to change! Life out of a Suitcase is back and will definitely be interesting, since we now have 1 year old twins added to the mix lol. We have been in Iowa for almost 2 years now and while it is beautiful, we are bored and need travel back in our life so OFF we go! Tomorrow (Sunday) we will be leaving Iowa and heading to California to visit family for the holidays, after that we will see where the good Lord leads us! We are EXCITED to embark on our new journey, so please follow my Blog and travel with us! It will definitely be a FUN adventure!

It’s kind of a Circus life for us!

Working the show this week, back to bill posting next week. We have been blessed to be able to enjoy the smiles, the excitement of the families on our show. Here are a few shots that will hopefully bring a smile to your face and excitement to your day as well!

God Bless!!

 

Just some of the shots I captured with my EOS Rebel T6!

check the billymartincircus.com website for the funfilled family show near you!

Contact me at snapshots.lisamarie@gmail.com for bookings!

 

Capture the moment!

Playtime while we were in the Pocono’s @Poconorocks 🙂

captured with my EOS Rebel T6!

To worry or not?

I know it has been a while since I have been on here, it sure has been a crazy month. So we celebrated both my birthday and our 2 year wedding anniversary on January 30th, yes that is exciting! what was not exciting was having our vehicle break down the day before and having to be towed back to our hotel but you know what, we did not freak out or get upset…we actually laughed about it because honestly what else can you do?…All’s well that ends well, our van was fixed in time for us to go enjoy a nice dinner out to celebrate. We thanked God for taking care of us.

So many times we tend to get upset, place blame and lose sight of both our accomplishments and each other during hard times, heck my first reaction was always to stress and worry about the littlest upset that came my way. I don’t know if it was the whole getting older part or finally realizing that worrying did not magically make a solution appear ( or maybe I’m just not a very good magician ) anyhow with that being said I am by no means perfect but I have gotten better about letting life stresses go and giving it to God. We go through the downs in life so we can pick ourselves back up, become stronger and hopefully become a source of light for the next person that stumbles in the quick sand.

We went through a down time last summer and instead of asking God why he is putting us through this, we asked him to guide us through the storm and thanked him for providing for us. You know what, we now have family members going through the same exact situation and we are able to relate, offer encouragement, and help them through it. God often puts us through these storms so we can help others through it. He has a plan for all of us and we just need to put our trust in him and try not to stress/worry about the challenges that we may face along the way.

 

Never a dull month!

Wow… has it really been a month since we returned to New York/PA for our bill posting journey?! Well they do say time flies when you are having fun! Just a few of the places so far that the good Lord has taken us on this tour. These are January’s school shows, February is yet to come… visit http://www.billymartincircus.com, maybe one of them will be close to you!

• Olean, NY
• Salamanca, NY
• Savona, NY
• Naples, NY
• Dansville, NY
• Nunda, NY
• Bolivar, NY
• Tioga, PA
• Elkland, PA
• Coudersport, PA
• Cuba, NY
• Kane, PA
• Wellsville, NY
• Emporium, PA
• Andover, NY
• Holley, NY
• Batavia, NY
• Albion, NY
• Medina, NY
• Red Creek, NY
• Hannibal, NY
• Oneida, NY
• Leroy, NY
• Caledonia, NY
• Phoenix, NY
• Lyons, NY
• Kendall, NY
• Bloomfield, NY
• Canandaigua, NY
• Hornell, NY
• Jasper, NY
• Moravia, NY
• Morrisville, NY
• Watertown, NY

All in a months time! Can you imagine all the driving, loading and unloading of the suitcases, toiletry bag, food and every other thing you have to accommodate your kids…toys, books, art supplies, pack and play for our 1 1/2 year old to sleep in, their blankets into different hotel rooms nightly, sometimes every other night or in rare cases weekly.

Another plus side is that we get our exercise in without even trying… with all the running in and out because something was forgotten in the van, constant cleaning out of the back seat area where the madness of food crumbs, shoes, crayons, food wrappers, water bottles, socks ( little wild child likes her feet free lol) happens, organizing boxes and last but not least walking to different stores/places to billpost. It is a constant craziness that we enjoy, what can I say it is our kind of normal.

Driving + bored = cool photos…I reckon 😋

Florida kinda weather here in New York today, rainy and foggy with a heat wave of 57 degrees! Yay! However, the bad news about all this rain is it will turn to ice by tonight/ tomorrow morning so will make for dangerous driving conditions…so stay safe! 

On a side note, we had quite a bit of driving to do today so was able to snap a couple of cool pics with my handy dandy phone 😋😉 kinda eerie but cool nonetheless.