Meet the Heier's

We are currently a family of 4.  My name is Teresa and my husbands name is Patrick.  We have two children; Hayley who is 3 born on May 14, 2007 and Connor who is currently 13 weeks who was born on May 3, 2010.  Patrick and I have been married since May 20, 2006.  We met in Manhattan Kansas where he was stationed at Ft. Riley on active duty orders for the Army. 

Patrick deployed to Iraq in February 2007 while I was still pregnant with Hayley.  He returned for R&R in May just 3 days before Hayley was born.  He then returned to Iraq for another 11 hard months.  We welcomed him home with open arms on April 14, 2008.  The month after he returned home was really busy with planning a birthday party for Hayley to traveling to see friends and family.  Finally when July came around Patrick decided not to continue with his Military career and we packed up and moved to Ohio to be closer to his family. 

In early 2009 Hayley and I moved to Illinois to be closer to my Grandmother that was starting to get ill.  Through this time Patrick and I had been having a lot of relationship issues due to not having jobs and just the stress of living a totally different life than we were used to.  We finally made it through a lot of ups and downs and Patrick moved to Illinois. 

Thank you to my wonderful Grandmother we have a roof over our heads.  In August 2009 Hayley had to have her tonsils and adenoids taken out and that's when we conceived Connor, lets just say OOPS.  Oh well the more the merrier i guess.

So we moved into our house in November of 2009 with the help of my mom the house was all unpacked with in a week.  Since we moved in we have developed a great relationship with our neighbors on one side of us.  They have 3 kids, Peyton, Cody and Riley. 

Riley is almost a year older than Hayley and they have a love hate relationship.  I think they act more like sisters than friends.  Cody has CP and i think that's what brought out my love and need to work with disabled kids.  Its always something that I have wanted to do but I really want to make it happen now.  Peyton, he is just in a world of his own, I swear he is the Energizer Bunny.  He is my biking buddy now.  On Monday night Pat surprised me with a brand spanking new Hybrid Bike.  Peyton and I took a LONG ride on Tuesday afternoon in 90 degree weather with the blazing sun.  I used MapMyRun to see how far we went and it came up with 2.03 miles.  That is a long distance for a kid who just learned to ride a big boy bike. 

So I plan to update this about everyday to keep a journal of our days, so when the kids are older they can look back and see how life was when they were kids. 

*Patrick joined the Ohio National Guard in July 2008 and continues to serve his country in this way.  As of right now he will be heading to Afghanistan early 2011.