Those are as big as I am!

You would be curious and scared too if you were in his place! lol!

Poor Mr. Cooper!

Poor guy! Cooper's second bath!

Poor Mr. Cooper!

Mr. Cooper got fixed this week. He hasn't been the ideal patient either. After a sleepless night (literally sleepless!) Now he is on pain killers, anxiety medication, and has to wear an buster collar. The poor boy! And for those of you who don't know what a buster collar is I took some pictures! lol! I feel bad for him, but he still looks really funny!

Don't even think about taking my bone!

This is our new baby!!! Mr. Cooper!

Our Weekend Getaway!

Jesse Surprised me by taking me to the Star of Texas bed and breakfast in Brownwood, TX and we had so much fun!!!

More Elijah's Birthday Pictures!

Even Jesse got to be a princess! but we could only get a picture from behind! lol!

Elijah's Birthday!

We all got to be Princes and Princesses for a day!

Our Niece!

Matea is our beautiful niece who was born on July 14th! She is so sweet and Jesse is so good with her! I had so much fun going out and buying pink clothes for her. It is not fair that Jesse gets to be there in Round Rock and I have to be here in A-Town. The Zimel boys are so cute with their new baby sister they absolutely adore her and it is so precious to witness!

The attack of the golf cart and the sprinkler

Ok so we all know that I am not the brightest crayon in the box, but two nights ago I proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt when I got lost walking Daisey the yellow lab I am watching for the week. We started our walk around 8:30pm I wanted to make sure that she was good and tired by the end so she would sleep and not bother me that night. So after about half hour of walking and taking random turns on random streets in the neighborhood I realized that I was completely lost and it was completely dark out. I started guessing my way back to the house I finally started to recognize some of the streets when a car (what I thought was a car) came speeding toward me without its lights on. I thought for sure I was going to be raped and murdered so I decided to hide behind a car that was parked on the side of the road. As the speeding car with no lights got closer I saw that it was actually a golf cart and as I realized that I was shot in the back with a sprinkler. Soaked and totally freaked out I finally made it home an hour and a half after we started on what was supposed to be a nice little walk. Daisey and I both drank a ton of water and collapsed in the living room I thought I might have killed her the way she was panting. I now pay better attention to where I am going and what street I am turning onto so that I can find my way home and last night we had a very successful and uneventful walk.

ONE YEAR!!!

For our one year anniversary Jesse got us a session with Cotton Photography! We had so much fun! These are just a few of the pictures! The bleachers that we are on are the ones that we used to go sit on and talk for hours before we really started dating and they are where Jesse first told me that he loved me. I thought that they were where he would purpose, but he said I would have guessed what he was doing if he had tried to purpose to me there. lol!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I never realized how much Jesse did for me until he left. Now I have to take out the trash, check the mail, get the oil changed in the car, fill the tires when the pressure gets low, get rid of dead birds that show up on our porch, kill spiders in the bathroom.....all these things he did for me and I took for granted. I appreciate him more now that he is gone than I did while he was here. I miss him so much!

Near Death Experience

This morning when I got up and went into the bathroom there was a huge spider in the bathtub! I, being the huge arachnaphobe that I am, freaked out and started screaming! Jesse of course was out of town the one day that my life is in great danger. So I called my mom. She tried to help me calm down. It helped having her on the phone. I got the kitchen cleaner and sprayed it. It started scrambling, which made me freak out even more. I kept spraying it until it was in a ball and then I obliterated it with Jesse's flip flop until it was no longer recognizable as a spider. It was a close call, but I survived.

High Society

Today I got to go to the Country Club with Sam. I have never set foot in a country club before so this was all new to me. We signed in and found some chairs to put our stuff on. Immediately Sam wanted to shoot hoops in the kiddy pool. I made myself comfortable sitting on the side of the 2ft deep pool watching Sam make baskets and cheering him on. After about 15min a thin, tan, blonde girl came up to me and asked if i would like any water or tea. I said some water would be nice and in a minute she was back with a cup of water, lid and straw included! It made me feel like high society. After about a million baskets we ordered some lunch right there by the pool and Sam's dad told me I could just put it on his tab, talk about living it up this summer!

Our Practice Child

Jesse decided that he would feel better if there was something tangible that he could do to prepare himself for having children, which the rest of us realize there is nothing to prepare you for kids. So he decided that we should get a pet. After discussing it for a while and doing a lot of research we decided that we would wait until after I graduate before buying one. The day after we made this decision a baby bird showed up on our doorstep. After looking for the nest and being unsuccessful we decided to take it in. I told Jesse that it was like God had just delivered us a free practice child. So the little fledgling came to live in our quest bathroom. We are pretty sure that it was a female grackle, well at least that is what Jesse said. As I was working around the house I could hear her "talking to herself" in the bathroom so I decided she should be named Gabby the Grackle. So, Gabby made herself at home. Jesse went and got dog food for us to dissolve and feed her with an eyedropper. The first feeding seemed to be a success. We set alarms so that we would remember to feed her every 3-4 hours as we had researched. But despite our efforts Gabby to the big birds nest in the sky sometime between her 1am and 5am feeding. We decided that maybe that was a sign from God that we should wait a little longer before thinking about having any children.

Online Summer Class

Jesse graduated in May, which was really exciting. It has been so nice to have him home in the evenings without having to worry about distracting him from his studies with my inability to keep quiet when there is another warm body in the room. However, when he graduated he "walked lacking hours," which is a fancy way of saying they are still going to make you pay for one more course even though it has absolutely nothing to do with your degree. So as of June 2nd Jesse has started his online course on educational psychology. What does this have to do with Business Marketing you ask... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! But it is the only online course offered during summer one so we are paying the thousands of dollars so that they will mail Jesse his diploma. Anyway back to may original train of thought. The month of may was nice not worrying about bothering him and now I have to be good and bite me tongue for another month. I guess I will survive!

Uh-oh my ninole!

This summer I have been taking care of a 2-year-old named Sam. He now calls me "my ninole" which we have figured is his way of saying "my nicole" so I now call him "my sam." Whenever I call him my sam he laughs and says, "ha, ha, my sam." We were making play dough worms the other day and whenever the press would get stuck he would say, "uh-oh my ninole!" It was so cute!!!

The Happy Couple

Smoothie King

Since visiting Jesse's sister Amber-Rose and having smoothies for breakfast our house has become a Smoothie King. Smoothies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I have even gotten my mom to make them, which if you know my mother you know it is no simple task. My mom does not like to try new things. So yesterday I guided her from 2000 miles away step-by-step how to make a smoothie! It was so cute! She successfully made her smoothie and said it was delicious, she sounded quite surprised! Good job mom!