My first blog!

This is my first blog ever as I said in my about me section I decided to do this after reading my sisters new blog www.familyofspears.wordpress.com.  My intentions for this blog is so family and friends can be updated with the progress of my girls as they grow up and as well as whats new going on in our lives.  Please bare with me I am horrible with grammer and punctuation. I also use many words out of context to make myself sound smart AND I  ramble. I also gaurantee that you will see multiple spelling errors. I know this will make my mother proud since she used to be an english teacher. 

        Ok, Ok back to what this is all about. Here is a quick briefing on what has happened that you all have missed out on.  I have two beautiful daughters. Ava Mai is 4 now. She was born March 8th 2007.  She is about to start an adventure out in public school pre-k this fall  at her mimi's school. For those who don't know mimi is my mom.  I will refrence her as mimi alot and my dad is Papa. Ella Marie is 2. Born February 15th, 2007. Shes quite the character. She is always making me laugh. Shes is now almost done potty training YAY!!!!. Now whoever said being a mom is easy should be shot. Just kidding :) No, I love my children very, very much but I have the mommy blues at times.  For those who know me my children are just like me but worse. My parents love it. Mom, Dad I am sorry for all the hell I have ever  put you all through. For those who might ask if we will be having anymore children NOOOO!! We will NOT is say NOT be having anymore!  We also have 2 dogs. Payton our pitbull and Pixie our chihuahua. What a combo.

      I know some people are thinking why is my username zabelfamilyof4 when im not married YET. Even though we are not married we life the life like we are. We have two beautiful girls and a piece of paper doesn't influence the love we have for one another. YES I want to be married and someday we will be but there is no rush.  I always tell him it took 10 years for my brother in law to pop the question to my sister so I gave him 10 years. He only has two now.

      I also am very excited about the new addition coming to our family very soon. Lyla Day Spears. My sister is having her first baby and I will finally be an Aunt. I hope Travis and I can be at least half the aunt and uncle to Lyla as her and chris have been with my two girls.  I owe them alot. Me having my girls has brought my sister and I  closer together and now her being pregnant is bringing us even closer. I love that I can pass down some useful advice to her. I also want to take this time to say thank you to my brother aka bubba for being a GREAT uncle. He is soooo great with the girls. Also to my mom and dad the two hardest working people that I ever known other than Travis Zabel. My mom and dad have been my biggest support systems since I had my girls. They have gone above and beyond helping me out with everything.  I know our family is not big on affection, but Thank You and I love you. Ok enough with the mush heartfelt speech. 


 I recently have embarked on this new adventure in cooking. I like to think of myself as a present day betty crocker. I am very excited to share my cooking experiences with you.

I hope everyone is as excited as I am to be doing this. I will post many many pictures!

Also I don't know why my text is two different sizes in this post