aug 21

Friday August 21st, I took on the task of nannying plus watching my two nieces. Their school was closed for teacher planning day, so my brother asked if i could watch Taylor and Ainsley until 1pm when he would come get them and take Taylor to her Kindergarden Orientation. I just had Tatum, because Addie was out of town for a wedding. It was a great morning, but I was happy when 1 o'clock came, because i was exhausted. 

Taylor wanted to pull the wagon. Bless her heart. I love this picture, it wasn't too heavy, but it looks it because she was just getting it started.

I offered a hundred times to pull, and she FINALLY let me.

The sun was BRIGHT!

(excuse the horrible looking bruise, not sure how she got it)

Ready for a nap for sure!

Lunch: Pizza, grapes and Juice!

mexico beach, fl

Today is my parents 30th Wedding Anniversary! Amazing! I hope to have a great, successful and long marriage like them some day! Congrats to them! 

Anyway, this past weekend, they rented a condo at mexico beach. the condo was very very nice, and if i go back there, i would love to stay there again. My parents went Wednesday of last week, and enjoyed some time to themselves. My brother, his two daughters and i, drove down friday after work and stayed all weekend with them. Besides all the rain, it was beautiful!

I really enjoyed all the family time. My niece's are the cutest things ever. even when they woke up at 630am and wanted to go to the beach right then and there! 

My amazing parents!

my niece Taylor

my niece Ainsley playing in the sand!

My daddy and Taylor!

Me, Taylor, Ainsley and my brother

7months!

Caleb and I celebrated our 7 month anniversary last night. (after working all day) We went and got pedicures at Royal Nail Spa. We got a few stares walking in there, a guy getting his toes done is a little different, and i suppose that i would stare too. This was Calebs first time ever getting his toes done, and he is a VERY ticklish person! So it was funny to see. We sat next to each other and i just couldnt stop giggling at him.

I had 3 (older) ladies stop me and ask "how did you get him in here?" "ive been trying to get my husband to come here for years" "this says a lot about him" "keep him around"

To be honest, it wasnt much convincing. I mean, i mentioned it to him a few weeks ago. He said he would do it. Then i came home on monday and told him i made the appointments for 6pm on tuesday. He then said "ohh youre serious" i said yes, and he said okay. Wasnt hard at all. He loves me!

After getting our nails done, we went downtown to Jasmines to enjoy some sushi! We both really enjoy that place, so we thought it would be good for our anniversary. And it was!

Then we came home to enjoy a delicious cake from The Cake Shop!

(sorry its blurry, i didnt realize it was blurry until i uploaded it this morning!)

(To show off our toes and the cake!)

new friends

Last Monday, Addie and I met Caleb for lunch. This was a BIG deal because Addie doesn't like people she doesn't know to be around. In fact, the first time she ever met Caleb, he just walked into the room and he said "hi addie" and she burst into tears. dramatic i know. She has since seen Caleb a dozen times, and will just stay curled up in my arms and bury her body in my chest. So Caleb was a little hesitant to meet us for lunch because he didn't want to upset Addie in public. He met us at Steak n' Shake, and much to both of our surprise, Addie giggled at him all throughout lunch and even let him carry her out to my car.  I HAD to get that moment on camera....

This one makes me laugh. Caleb has his ears gauged, and Addie must have just noticed his "earrings" because she is staring them down with a puzzled look on her face. 

new

Since I am still new to this blog, I do not really know how to arrange the photos/start a new topic, so I guess I will just have to make numerous post in one day to catch up. But with helpful hints from my friend Jessica(<--this is where her name would be linked so that you could look at her blog, but i dont know how to do that)

I also do not know how to:

-make this thing fancy

-add my friends blogs to the side of my blog, like the ones i follow. 

Today, I put in my 2 weeks at Starbucks. A company i have worked for for years. I am really going to miss it there. The people i work with, and some of the customers are like family to me. The reason for quitting? Nannying Monday - Friday (730am-530pm) and then working at sbux on Saturdays and Sundays was just getting to be too much. I had no time for things, like ME time, Family time, and even just to enjoy the day off. So i am pretty sure August 23rd will be my last day. Sadsad.

Tatum was out of town last week, visiting her grandparents (and great gma) in SD. I missed her sooo much and cannot wait to see her Tuesday! So last week, It was just me and Addie. It was fun. We did lots of shopping and even met Caleb(my boyfriend) for lunch one day.

I will end this post with a few pictures of the girls, taken the week of Addies Birthday!

Tatum crawls in here(the coffee table) all the time, its cute, but she cant get out.

Tatum!

Addies FIRST!

Baby Addie is no longer a baby, she turned ONE July 30th. I threw her a mini birthday celebration at my nannyplace, which included a birthday hat, and delicious cupcakes from The Cake Shop!