All I know is if I had continued on that path, it was only a matter of time before I either ended up dead in an ally somewhere or I would have died from alcohol poisoning. I was drinking at least a case of beer a day. Sometimes I would get so drunk I would press my boundaries with the law and hang around people who was never no good for me. So when I found out I was pregnant all this had to stop in order for me to have a healthy baby girl. Halie May had saved me from totally destroying my life.
At the doctor's office is when I knew Halie had saved my life. She saved me and had changed me from a life that was never going to go anywhere good, fast. I knew right then and there that if I am going to commit to being a mother I needed to be one hundred percent a mother. I stopped drinking and smoking cigarettes that very day. When Halie was born I never knew I could love somebody so much. You can say she had me at hello. I looked in her eyes the first time on a cold October 9th, 2004 at 2:45 am. At that very moment I knew I was looking at my hero. When Halie was fourteen months old, I found out that I was having another daughter and could not have been more excited. My boyfriend at the time, which was Halie's father as well, and I had decided that we was going to name our second daughter Skyler Ray Evenson. Halie was super excited to be a big sister. After Skyler was born and Halie was seventeen years old, I had decided that I was going to get back into softball. I played fast pitch softball for a very long time and when Halie was born all my attention was focused on being the best mother I could be. About five months into softball Skyler had become six months old and Halie was twenty two months old. My fast pitch softball team had made it all the way to states! The second to last game we played we were undefeated and playing the other undefeated team in the tournament. We had won! Our team had won states and was off to the World Series! .