so proud of her...

This is Aj...

She is my baby sister, my world and my best friend! When I was 11 I had surgery on my bladder and kidneys. Aj was at the hospital with me everyday. While we were there she (at 8) found out what she wanted to be when she grew up. A nurse! Whenever anyone asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up, her answer was ALWAYS, to be a nurse. She went to the medical program at our high school, and went to college for nursing. 6 months ago she graduated with her degree in nursing. And today at lunch she received the phone call, that she has a job! My family and I are more then excited for her.

I love her so much, and I am so proud of her. I know with her passion to care for others that she will be an amazing nurse.

{Aj's Birthday Night}

On Tuesday it was my baby sisters 23rd birthday. My family LOVES sports so it was no surprise to me with aj said she wanted to go to a Rays game on her birthday. Sadly momma was not able to make it out.

Daddy met us at Freg's for dinner before the game. He doesn't like the "cheap seats" that we sit in so him and his best bud went to the nice leather seats in the 100rd section. (Brats!)

One of the coolest things about our stadium is that we have a live Ray tank that you can feed and pet them. Every game I go with Aj, we have to go here.

The Rays tank just got 3 new large rays. We weren't aloud to touch them (I didn't touch any of them. I am a big wimp!)

My beautiful sis and me. I love her soooo much! God has truly blessed me with an amazing sister!!!

Our view from the $12 "cheap seats". If you are looking for my dad he is one of the dots behind the catcher.

Doyle was doing anything he could to get on the Jumbo tron.

Take one of the family photo

Take two.. and then we stopped.

at this point in the night I was getting so tired! Unlike my baby sis who is a night owl, I want to be in bed around 9. At this point is was like 10pm.

I think my baby sis had a great time on her birthday. She has a job interview today with a hospital!!! Pray hard that she gets it!

{She's 23 today!!!!}

Today is my baby sis's 23rd birthday! I am so blessed that my sister is not only family but my best friend. We are the true statement of opposites attract. I am so proud of her, she is following her dream in become a RN. She has the grace and patience for being a nurse.

Thank you Lord for blessing me with Aj!!!!

Weekend Recap

This was a fun/ relaxing/ crazy weekend.

Friday was very calm. Jeff was leaving for is Backpacking weekend with his brothers. So we stayed in. I made us breakfast for dinner and we watched some shows on the DVR.

Saturday I woke up with Jeff at 6am (that time should not exist on Saturdays!) to cook him breakfast and to see him off for his weekend trip. I couldn't get back to sleep after he left so I started to clean the house and baking my sisters birthday cake. that night we were going out to celebrate Aj's birthday. I packed all of my makeup and hair products up and headed to my best friends house. I was doing everyone's makeup for the night.

{more photo's to come}

After we were all ready we headed to Push Ultra Lounge. The place was packed but so much fun. We celebrated Aj turning 22 buy dancing all night and having some adult beverages. around 2:30 everyone was getting tired so we called it a night. Sadly i have no photo's of us in the club. But we had a blast and better yet Aj did!

Sunday was relaxing. I went to church by myself, then headed home to finish Aj's cake. It took me about 3 hours to finish but i was so proud of it. This was my first time making everything from scratch(well not the fondant)! I had never even worked with fondant before but I managed to make it look good.

The camera made the colors look weird. It is actually Neon Pink, Yellow, Purple and Orange.

Jeff got home around 4 and I was so excited to see him. We talked about his weekend hike and I got ready for the birthday dinner. When we arrived I put the final touches on the cake and showed Aj. She was so excited! the cake didn't totally turn out the way I wanted it to, but still looked great. It even tasted good.

For Aj's birthday we had her favorite... Supper on a bread slice with random fixings. It was all of her favorite treats.

Pickles, Potato Salad, Chips, Cranberry and Pineapple Sauce, Deviled Eggs, Fruit Salad. Like a sad random but good.

After dinner we sang to Aj and she blow out the candles. If you look close four of the candles are really small. My mom only bought 20 candles... well Aj is 22. So I had to ghetto cut them and make her 22. She can't make a wish on 20 candles, then it wont come true.

The weekend was a blast, but now it is Monday :( Hope everyone had a great weekend and a even better week. God Bless!