Picture Post

These are pictures from last Thursday when i babysat Halle, Carter, and Cooper. Carter and Cooper cuddled up and took a nap on me while Halle entertained me. It was great fun.

Here is Halle's idea of entertainment...posing for pictures. She is definately an Austin.

Me with 2 precious sleeping boys. Coop just crawled up and fell asleep like this.

I had a very eventful weekend. Friday I had to babysit baby Indira....yes i have been spelling and pronouncing her name wrong this whole time. It is in-dear-a. After babysitting, Stephen and I went to Helena to stay at my sister's house. Stephen, Eli, and I went to dinner at the Depot and it was amazing. (one of my new faves) Saturday morning, I got started early by going to babysit Indira from 9-1. She smiled at me and I caught it on my camera.

Here is a pic of me and Indira.

Here is a pic of a fountain in Indira's back yard. I absolutely love it.

Indira smiling

I finished babysitting at 1 and headed to Lake's birthday party in Moody. He is my cousin and he turned 9. He had a fun pool party and here are a few pics.

My cousins Kori and Lexi.

Lex wasn't able to swim because she busted her chin open last week and had to get 6 stitches. Poor thing.

The birthday boy.

Blaine, my little sis, and LK in the pool.

LK being her fun self.

At 4, I headed to babysit again in Pelham. I babysat Olivia, 3, and Brookes, 11 mo.

Here they are. Precious!

Here is Olivia watching Finding Nemo with her high heels and hat on.

Their huge great dane, Zinn.

Mine and Olivia's feet. She wanted me to take a pic of our feet.

Sunday, I had to go babysit Indira from 1-5. As soon as i got finished babysitting, I ran to Target for a few items. I am addicted to Nivea products. Just had to add that in. While shopping in Target, I got a phone call from Stephen saying that he was at the ER. He hurt himself playing flag football. One of my dearest friends, Heather, was at the game because her fiance also plays, so she was able to take him to Brookwood. Immediately I checked out and went up there. Turns out he broke his collarbone.

Here he is at the ER. He was in lots of pain.

It is hard to tell, but his collarbone was poking out and swolen.

Needless to say, he won't be able to work for the next few weeks so along with starting my nanny job this week, I will also be taking care of Stephen. I am kind of excited that he has to depend on me for everything. It feels good to be there for him.

Today I went and got Alli and Ryan. I had planned to take them to the pool today, but decided to stay at Kim's. They like playing with Kim's dog, Malik.

Here are Alli and Ryan playing games on my computer.

That is it for now....I'll update again later.

LOVE

Movies

Seven Pounds is a great movie, but so depressing! I cried through the last 30 minutes!

If I had to recommend a movie, it would be Twilight! Although I cried the first time I watched it, it will never let you down! AMAZING! I am obsessed in case some of you don't know. If I didn't have Stephen, I would probably stalk Rob Pattinson...

I so want him and Kristen Stewart to get together.

If you haven't read the books or watched the movie, I definitely encourage it. You won't regret it.

Loving Life

Today was a wonderful day! I woke up around 8 and immediately turned on Golden Girls. Yes, I go to bed watching it and wake up watching it. 4 episodes come on between 8 and 10. So needless to say, I stayed in bed until about 10!! I guess I am taking advantage my last week of unemployment. Finally at 10 I got up and started getting dressed for the library. My sister in law, Rebekah, and I had planned on taking the kids (Halle, Carter, and Cooper) to the library for a magician at 11 and crafts at 2. The magician was lots of fun and even I thoroughly enjoyed it. After the magician finished at 12, Bekah and I took the kids and had lunch at Habinaros (Mexican is one of my other addictions). We then returned to the library at 2 to make monkey magnets. They turned out really cute.

I left the library and went to Kim's (my sister whose house I am living at this summer). I was really exhausted for some reason. I guess the library wore me out. I pulled out my computer and turned on Golden Girls. It comes on in the evenings too. I mostly just had it as background noise as I read blog updates and checked my email.

Nothing too excited happened until Eli, Kim's husband, got home and they treated me to dinner at The Depot in Helena. It is a nice little place that has hamburgers, hotdogs, corndogs, and french fries. I guess you could call it ballpark food. I grew up at the ballpark so I am a big fan of this kind of stuff. It was so good and we just got back home and are about to watch Seven Pounds. I will let everyone know how it is. I have heard nothing but good things although it is going to be sad.

These are pictures of Halle, Carter, Cooper, and Londyn Kate from the zoo on Monday. I finally got them uploaded.

This is Halle and Carter after they spent literally 2 seconds in the water part of the zoo. They were freezing.

The llama was getting a haircut. I thought it was so cute!

Lk and Carter loving each other!

Lk and Cooper chillin'

Halle and Carter being a lion.

Halle and Carter playing in the water.

Halle and Carter right when we got in the zoo.

Cooper smiling at the macaws.

Halle and Carter again.

Cooper and LK watching the macaws.

Well that is it for tonight! I hope you guys had a great day! Thanks for checkin' in.

Randomness

Here are promised pics from Rosemary Beach! It was a wonderful week despite the amount of rain we got.

This is the beach front side of the main house (Bahama Mama). Absolutely gorgeous!

This is inside of the guest house (Banana Cabana) where Heather and I stayed.

This is a picture of the neighborhood. These houses were ridiculous!

This is another view of the inside of the guest house. I love the colors!

This is Heather, Hayden, and me on the balcony.

Miss Kenley being silly playing in the sand.

This is Miss Reanne. I miss her so much! She was asking so politely for something.

Heather and me sipping on sodas watching Twilight on our last night!

4 of the 5 girls. L to R: Amelia, Kenley, Reanne, and Hayden!

Heather and me on the beach! The day my stomach got roasted!

View from the balcony!

All 5 girls. L to R: Amelia, Hayden, Alexa, Reanne, and Kenley.

Heather and me on the balcony.

This is Hayden and Kenley entertaining everyone.

Me, Kenley, and Hayden. I love these girls.

I am so thankful for the families that made it possible for me to go spend a week at the beach and not spend a dime. It was awesome!

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Today was a great day. I woke up around 8 and immediately turned on Golden Girls. I unpacked all of my things. Yes I have basically been living out of my car for the past month. I have been in and out of town so much that there was no point in unpacking. It was nice to finally say that I have a place to lay my head. I will be living with my sister and her husband this summer. I am really excited. I am going to be a nanny and my work will be right down the road from my sister's house. I have nannied for this little girl before, and I am so excited about starting next week. She is the sweetest thing. She is 8 and her name is Alli.

This is a picture from last summer of Alli, me, and LK.

Once I finally got all of my stuff out of my car, I showered and got ready to go to my interview. It was an interview for childcare one day a week and on the occasional date night. I was amazed when I reached their neighborhood at how nice it was. I met the mother of the 2 children that i will be keeping and it went very well. She has 2 children ages 11 months and 2 1/2. It will be nice to have a change of pace one day a week. Alli will also enjoy having other kids to play with.

After my interview, I went and had Subway. I told you guys I was addicted. Then I headed to my chiropractor appointment. It was my 3rd visit and I can feel an improvement in the way my back feels. It's like I have a brand new back. It's really exciting. I only have like 3 more visits and hopefully I will be able to keep up the stretching to strengthen my spine so that I won't have to go see the chiropractor anymore. If anyone is a little hesitant about seeing a chiropractor, don't be. They really do work. I go to Hug Chiropractic in Cahaba Heights. Here is the link if anyone is interested. I definitely recommend it.

http://www.birminghamchiropractor.net/

After my appointment, I headed to Stephen's. I have an orthodontist appt. tomorrow so it makes sense for me to stay at his place in Birmingham tonight. Once I got to his place, I put on my bathing suit and decided to go do some reading out by the pool. (He was still at work.) I read for about an hour and then fell asleep. I got in a nice nap and got a tan at the same time. It was nice and relaxing.

Stephen got home around 5:30 so we decided to go get some dinner. I suggested my other favorite food. Chinese! We went to Brookwood Mall and had Manchu Wok

It was a nice evening. Now I am watching Golden Girls and getting ready to go to bed.

Lions, Tigers, and Bird Poop

I had a great day today. I slept a little later then I would have liked, but was awaken by a phone call asking if I wanted to go to the zoo. I love the zoo and my sis, Jenn, got the day off from work so we decided to take LK. My sister-in-law is a teacher so she is off for the summer so she also joined us along with my other niece, Halle, and my nephews, Cooper and Carter. Halle is 6, Carter is 3, and Cooper is 11 months. I wish I could upload pics, but for some reason I am still having trouble loading pics with blogger. If anyone can offer any advise or suggestions feel free.

We left the zoo around 3:30 and I went with Jenn to her dentist appointment to help with LK. LK fell asleep in the car on the way there so I joined her while Jenn went in and had her teeth cleaned. LK and I had a great nap then I grabbed Subway for dinner which is my new addiction. I get on my kicks every few months and I am on one now. Love Turkey Sub on wheat bread!!

PS. It let me load this pic, but no others. How wierd!

I spent my evening babysitting Miss Indira. She is at the age where she smiles now when you talk to her. It is so precious!

After I finished babysitting, I went to Victoria Secret to pass by time until I needed to pick Stephen up from class @ 8:30. I picked up my free cotton panty and got a new bra. Very exciting. Then I picked Stephen up from class and relaxed until bed time.

Great day! Hopefully I can figure out the pic problem and post pics from Rosemary Beach, Memorial Day, LK's 1st birthday party, Carrie's lingerie shower, Eli's birthday dinner, and the zoo today. I will try my best.

LOVE

Blessed day

Today was an awesome day. I began my day by watching Golden Girls from 8-9. Highlight of every morning. Then I went to get my niece (LK) from daycare. Let me just add how excited she was to see me. It almost brought tears to my eyes. We then went to two of my favorite places: Target and Victoria Secret. Last week while I was at the beach, I purchased the Twilight Saga books. I paid $62 for the 4 of them and then found them online at Books-A-Million for $45. I decided to return the ones I bought at Target and go for the cheaper box set from BAM. So with my store credit for Target, I bought some black skinny jeans (which I have been wanting for a while for only $10, some new mascara, and smooth away.

I can't really say how satisfied I am just yet, but I think I will be pretty happy about my purchase. I have heard it works. I will keep everyone posted.

After spending the morning shopping, I met up with my sister, Jenn (LK's mom), for lunch at Bogue's. It was my first time eating there, but I am always up for veggies. Here is a pic of LK at lunch chewing on a lemon. She loved it.

Funniest thing ever!!

My evening was spent babysitting baby Indira. She is absolutely precious. I can't ask for a better job then getting to sit on a front porch swing and rocking a baby for hours.

Here is a picture of Indira sleeping.

And here is one of me holding her...

I could spend every day like this.

I will soon be posting pics from my beach trip and Memorial Day....having trouble with Blogger tonight. Stay tuned.

LoVe

1 year already

So I didn't get a chance to update yesterday, but it was my precious niece Londyn Kate's 1st birthday. She is a very special girl and I cannot believe that it has been a year since her arrival on this Earth. She was very tiny at birth weighing in at only 4 lbs. and 15 oz., but has since made up for the loss and is quiet the chunker.

Here she is one year ago....

The first time I got to hold her because of her NICU stay at the hospital.

.... and here are some pics from our day together at the park one year later....

I have to sneak one in of the both of us (ignore the way I look).

Here is one of LK and her lucky mommy (my wonderful sis) who has been blessed with such a beautiful, healthy baby girl!!

As if the pictures didn't already make this obvious, I had a fabulous day with my precious angel! I always enjoy the days I get to spend with her.

That is all for today, but I'll update again soon!

I have to prepare myself for the finalists on American Idol!

Love!

Summer officially begins!

So I am officially summer bound! I took my last 2 finals today and I am so thrilled to be finished. This will be the first summer in a while that I have not taken classes.

The past few days have been awesome. A very dear friend of mine, Sara, has been visiting along with her adorable son, Parker. They have been staying with me and I have really enjoyed catching up on lost time. She moved to Maryland in January and is only here for graduation. The past few days have really reminded me of why we were such great friends. She is awesome! Here is a picture of me and baby Parker. Absolutely precious!!! Also a picture of mama Sara and son Parker from when he was teeny!

Anyways it is getting late and I have to babysit at 6 AM. It is going to be here before I know it. Goodnight! :)

Procrastination

So.....here I am 14 days until summer break and am slowly, but surely losing my motivation. I am trying to study for a huge test that I have tomorrow and can't seem to get it together. The good news is that after my test, I get to go see my bf. My little sister, Blaine, and I are going to spend the day together. We are planning on renting Twilight and just relaxing by the pool (if the weather permits).

Thursday is the day that I have been looking forward to for a few weeks now. One of my very best friends is coming down for the weekend and I am picking her up from the airport on Thursday. This Saturday is the A-DAY game so it will be alot of fun for us to get to hang out like old times. This is a picture of us when we had her going away party.

I miss her dearly, but we have 4 days this weekend to make up for lost time.

I know I have been slacking majorly on my blogging, but I promise to do better.