Sunday, July 29, 2012

I LOVE being Auntie Katy!

The three cousins!


Love my bro! Besides baseball season, there isn't but a couple of days between us talking/texting! We haven't lived in the same town since I was in high school, but we are pretty close!

On Father's Day we threw Jennifer a surprise baby shower! With them not living here, we never were able to do this with Kaitlyn and Kyleigh so I was thrilled when my mom came up with this idea!



We didn't even mean to match for the party

Kyeigh was able to read us all the cards. Proud moment for Auntie Katy!!


The night before I said let's match our clothes when we go play Gator Golf. I was the cool one who got the colors mixed up! Kyleigh got a hole in one on the second hole! Daddy was proud.


Standing by their AGE




Turner pro golfer


Crocodile! He quickly had to let Aunt Lydia know he found one!
Cooling off with some rides

Girls being girls! Turner being the boy!

Before long we will be adding sweet baby #3 to our cute girl picture!

Turner loves these two girls! He loves that they include him and teach him new things. They always give hugs and 'humor' Turner by watching his new tricks. He loves dancing and singing with them. He follows them around and will try anything they do (I have to remind the girls this quite a bit:) I love watching cousin fun!!

Created their individual pizzas!



Auntie Katy knows how to have sleepovers!

Turner impressing them with his reading skills
Cuddle time with Gmama!
Sweetest girl!
Gmama was putting Turner to bed and Kyleigh and I were in my bedroom watching Disney. Kaitlyn couldn't stand it and was worried Turner was going to get upset and waiting on Gmama to come out. She fell asleep in the process. Love her!
This is how wiped out Tman feels too because he has so much fun with his cousins!! He can't wait to meet his new little cousin and be able to be the 'big cousin'

Thursday, July 19, 2012

My work world...in DC

I love my job! I've had many great opportunities to travel and be a part of many wonderful education opportunities. My work is a part of my family. I am with them sometimes more than my own family. Luckily, they are a great group of people to be with!

Love these girls!

The girls outside Old Ebbitt Grill.
Wonderful food and good company! 

Michelle, our principal, is wonderful at organizing wonderful dinners after a hard day at work. We have traditions of taking pictures of our meals (Even when we are home we send them out) 
I made sure and shared these pictures with Addison as well.

We did a lot of our sight seeing at night since we were working most of the day.


Trip to Capitol Hill! We met with Congressman Womack about education in middle school. This is something I love to do and was so happy to be a part of it a second time! It's such an honor to be RIGHT there discussing education. He took us on a little tour afterwards to show us the highlights.
Big Lincoln fan! Where his desk was when he was making important decisions :)!
Best view seeing out towards all the monuments!

We felt very patriotic after that, so we stopped for a cool beverage. It was VERY hot there!
Ended the evening eating at The Lincoln. My favorite restaurant!
The entire floor was made out of pennies.
Copper mug!
I will go back just to eat at this restaurant again

Presentation day!


Award time!

Our sightseeing day
Didn't do the best job at this picture..and I'm a dork.

Beautiful memorial! It was breathtaking in person.

I love my principal. She LOVES taking pictures so she literally has our whole trip in pictures! We can't wait to have our slideshow party to see all the pictures (While we eat the crepes I'm going to make). I'll probably be updating this because I KNOW she has some great pictures I want to capture!  
It was a great trip and loved the experience!

It was the longest I had been away from Tman.
You can ask my roomate, Katy, I did a wonderful job!
Turner was taken care of and I don't think missed me too much.