Introduction

So...you’re here to learn a little bit about me and my family? Well, this could take awhile...
The first to come along, would be me. I made my debut into this world as Kimberly Lee Brown, on March 31, 1978. It was a pretty great year, really. It’s the year of the first cell phone, Space Invaders, a pack of bacon cost .63 , my best friend Andrea was born and it’s the year that Sweden banned the sale of aerosol products. The BeeGees and the Stones are blaring on the 8track players, while Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars are hitting the box office. Lets not forget Happy Days, CHIPS, Little House on the Prairie and The Muppet Show are playing on the tube. Its also, ironically, the year that the first ever "test tube baby" was born. Her name was Louise Brown. Maybe that’s where the desire to become a surrogate came from? Same last name and same birth year??? Makes sense to me. So all in all, Id say it was a darn good year.

I was born to Bonnie and Roger Brown...and a big sister, Megan (a.k.a. Mimi) in a little placed called Ravenna, Ohio. Population twenty-five. Big fun. My parents separated when I was five and we moved around a lot, usually co-habitation with another family member. We packed up and moved to sunny Florida around 1989 and stopped moving around. We settled in Lake Wales, FL, where I stayed through middle and high school (GO HIGHLANDERS). I joined the Army National Guard in 1995 through the split-opt program, when I was barley sixteen. I remained in Lake Wales and the in the Guard until 2002 when I ventured off to Ocala. I now live in Inverness, FL and have been since buying a house almost 2 years ago.

Next to join my little family is my daughter Zachara Jaide, who was born in June of 2000.

How to describe her...hmmm...okay...here goes: DRAMA QUEEN!! Okay, that sums her up.
Seriously, she is the most imaginative, kind hearted and obstinate child, I have ever met. I suppose she is your basic girl to some extent. Make up (not in public), nail polish, High School Musical, puppies, kitten and ponies. But her creativity astounds me every day. She is everything I wanted in a child - girly, but not too girly. She still likes camping, sports and she loves to wrestle. The budding artist and entertainer in her causes her to spend hours in her room, working on her current project. She is the love of my life and possible the best thing to ever happen to me. That being said, I must warn you, she is the miniature version of me. Not so much in the physical department, but all of the personality and definitely the attitude.

I added the self-proclaimed queen of the Brown house, one year while Zachara was visiting my sister in Colorado. That would be little Lola Bella Rose - the homely Chihuahua. I adopted her in hopes it would quench Zachara’s desire for a baby brother/sister. Well, it didn’t. She has consistently requested a baby brother since the time she was two. Anyway, Lola thinks she is our owner and silently (and sometimes, not so silently) commands us lesser beings.

Lola isn’t really all that crazy about Zachara, she’s more into adults. So, I adopted the next addition to our family Stella Luna, who is a pointer, bird dog, mutt mix. Stella is bascially Zachara’s closest thing to a sibling. She weighs about 70lbs and still takes orders from Lola...too funny. She is our "chunky monkey", bed warmer, squirrel chaser and canine vacuum cleaner.

We are a pretty happy bunch, a little crazy and a little spunky. On any given day you’ll find us giggling hysterically, watching classic movies, dancing to our favorite cd and crafting away.
There’s always a little friendly banter and sometimes a little tantrum throwing. Other than that we are your average, small town, little family.

That wraps up a brief history of us...but stay tuned There’s a lot more to come!