A Little About Me

Hello everyone!  My name is Kelly and I just had a birthday this month and turned 32.  I have been married to my wonderful husband for 12 years and we have two children Paige who is 6 years old and Ian who is 3 years old.  We also have two dogs Max and Kona.  Max is a Jack Russel Mix and Kona is an English Bulldog.  I married my husband when I was 19yrs old and he was 21yrs old and in the US Navy.  He was in the Navy for the first 7 years of our marriage and we lived in a variety of places to include Hawaii and Australia.  My husband go out of the Navy in 2007 and he got a job as a civilian working at an Air Force Base close to where we both grew up in Ohio.  We moved back to Ohio in 2007 and have lived here close to both of our families since 2007.  I dropped out of college at age 19 to move to Hawaii and get married so in 2009 after the birth of our son I decided to go back to school.  I went to school when our son was 4 months old and attended school three nights a week for two years at our local college to get my Associates Degree of Applied Science in Medical Assisting.  I graduated with that degree on July 1, 2011 and I attended my brother's graduation in Chicago from Kaplan University in August 2011 (a month after my graduation) and decided that I wanted to continue my education.  I signed up and started attending classes here at Kaplan in September of 2011 and have been attending full time since then.  I am projected to finish my Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness next summer (2013).  I have been going to school eight months already and have about a year left.  My husband too is going to school online right now for his Bachelors degree in Computer Forensics.  He is using his GI bill and attending school through DeVry University.  My husband and I are in the thick of raising our young children, we both have jobs, and are attending school full time online, which makes us very busy people right now.  We know this won't last forever and we know we are doing this now because we chose to get married young and not go to college right after high school.  We did things a bit in reverse, but we have no regrets.  We are living life and loving it :) 

I look forward to reading all of your blogs and getting to know all of you better!

Thanks,
Kelly Kearns