Birthdays and Babysitting...

Well for the four people who seem to be reading my blog lately, hope you enjoy my post. I check daily for comments and since I have posted my last blog I have checked to see if my four comments would increase and they never did, I'm not going to lie, I was bummed... hopefully everyone got my blog address change. I'm vowing to be a better blog commenter, so no one else will be disappointed as I was this past blog. On to happier things...

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Summer School is DONE!!! Brandon and I finished our class this week and we couldn't be more excited to be done and have a short but good summer vacation. For anyone who commented on my facebook question, Science is...? this was what I was using the information for, it was a canvas that we had to decorate and I think it turned out pretty great! I love using all my fonts so this was a fun project to do. We learned a lot in this science course and it will definitely help us be better teachers!

Today I had the pleasure of celebrating and going to 

Lyla Blakeney's First Birthday Party! 

I can't believe that she is one already, I remember walking over after work to go visit her in the hospital. She is just such a cutie and was a lot of fun to watch eat her little cupcake... she was very very pink and sticky by the end. Julia and Caverly made some cute lady bug cupcakes which you can see on facebook. It was a great day and I was glad I was able to share in this special day with friends, it's really nice having Josh and Julia living across the street, even when we don't see them, it's nice to know they are across the street!

Little Miss Lyla eating her birthday cupcake, I wasn't sure if this picture was going to turn out okay I thought the flash might have been too bright but I actually love it!

The Blakeney Family of Three on this special First Birthday!

The Birthday Girl, Lyla Jae Blakeney!

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Saturday night I had the pleasure of babysitting the Nelson 5, I'm not going to lie, it was very busy with 5 but I LOVED having them over and spending time with the kiddies, I just love them all soooooo much! I give kathy a major shout out, I don't know how she does it every day, she is one super mom! I gave them all baths while they were over, Cooper didn't love his, bathing a baby is challenging, he was so slippery, but don't worry I didn't drop him :) Here are a few shots of some of my most favorite people!!!

The Nelson Boys... tried my best to edit out Jake's orange mustache!

Crazy little miss georgia, I love this shot... it's my laptop back drop right now!

The Nelson 5 it's hard to get them all to look and smile, this was the best attempt!

I LOVE this shot... he is just such a chubby happy guy!

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In one month we will be HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't wanted to make too big of a deal because not everyone in the family is getting to go to Disney this time, although I'm sure everyone will get to go sometime because mom and dad love it there so much. I do have to share some excitement because Brandon and I can't wait to get away and enjoy Disney together. I have always wanted to be in Disney with my special significant other and Brandon missed the last family trip by a year, so I'm excited to go and experience this magical place together and take so many pictures. This is such a wonderful opportunity for us, we really needed to get away, but both being students it was not going to happen any time soon, so there was no way we were going to pass up the opportunity to go. We'll be there for 5 days with mom, dad, and mike,(don't worry keah said it was okay for him to go without her) and are so looking forward to the vacation. It's been a bit stressful with work, since technically I am not allowed to have time off at the end of the month, but I'm hoping everything will work out, I don't want to leave Roots but I am prepared to if I have to, we need this trip! We'll also be celebrating dad's birthday when we are down there, they celebrated mom's there in February and now it's dads turn, he's such a big kid at heart!!

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Hope everyone is enjoying their summer, and the sun when it is out. Brandon and I are just getting out summer started and are looking forward to every minute of it!

July so far...

Well after my evening fix of Merlin I finally was able to load some pictures on to blogger... my goodness it took forever, but they are here and ready to be viewed.

We are 19 days into July and we haven't been too busy here at the Bing home... Both Brandon and I are in our second summer science class and both enjoying it a lot. Brandon has been enjoying it and wants to take some more courses so he can teach science too. We are entering the last week of class and even though we like it we are ready to be finished... I have my final project pretty much done, it's on the clown fish and I have learned so much! We are both ready to have our Summer Begin... I'm ready to have time to clean my apartment, make cards and work on my wedding scrap book, which is a book of invites and pictures from my friends past weddings. Don't worry though we haven't been all work and no play... we have been able to have some fun this month and here are a few of the pictures... hope you enjoy!

I was able to take a day off from work and school to go and hangout with Sonja and the kids. She is babysitting this summer, so she has four cuties at her home every day, so I went down and spent the morning with them enjoying the fun and the sun. We went to the play ground and had a fun time... Sonja and Karington enjoyed the rocking froggy!!

Little Miss Lyla growing up so fast!!!

Baby Karington... too cute in her little sun hat!

Later that Friday Brandon and I were able to go and hangout with his family... we went out in the boat and then had a BBQ with almost the entire family. It was a lot of fun and I was able to get some more sun, I'm so pale that I take any chance I can get to get some color. I didn't venture out in the boat this time, but enjoyed taking pictures from the shore. I spent some time talking to my brother-in-law Jaccob's girlfriend Sarah and her best friend Sarah, which was pretty funny, they ventured out in the tube, this is them just before they headed out!

Lucy the Beagle... she is such a cute puppy... love this picture of her!

The boys paddling into shore... Jaccob and Brandon

Brittany and her boyfriend Ian... this was the first time I met him but he seems very nice!

Chels and Ryan after the lake waiting to eat some delicious food!

The Bing back yard I love it out there... so pretty!

Brandon and his mom chatting as he BBQ's us some dinner... he's a great cook!

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Canada Day 2009... this year on Canada Day we headed over to my sister-in-law Meaghan's house for a family BBQ. We hadn't been to the Stewart's in awhile so it was great to see the changes at the house and to see them and their chocolate lab buddy. They recently renovated their bathroom and it looks amazing they did such a wonderful job! We had such a fun night, the food was delicious ad the company even better. We ate, we played catch phrase, roasted marshmallows and had some fireworks too!! Great night... a BIG thanks to Meaghan and Jason for having us all over!!! Happy Canada Day!!

Akayjah, Ryan, Chelsey and my father-in-law Peter... doesn't Akayjah have a great smile she is such a little beauty!

Sarah and Jaccob relaxing after a day out on the water... Jay got a little burnt

Great friends were there to celebrate too.. Stacy and Akayjah with my sister-in-law Meaghan

Brandon and I being festive... when you work at ROOTS you have your choice in Canada Day Wear... I chose my latest Canada Hoody and a printed maple leaf tee... I love love love this shirt and all its fun... I don't know why I didn't wear it last Canada Day!

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Hope that this post finds everyone well and enjoying the summer even though it hasn't always felt like summer yet in Nova Scotia but it is coming. I will post again soon since I'll be done school and enjoying my summer holidays... all 5 weeks of it before practice teaching starts again... I'm going to be in grade three this year and couldn't be more thrilled about that... it's the grade my mom retired from so it'll be nice to chat with her and bounce ideas off her!!

Annoying Morning

Hey everyone,

I had the time to update this morning, but now it won't let me upload pictures and I can't do a post without pictures, I'm so annoyed!!! So stay tuned for a new update I need to be better with them.

I guess this little post will let me know who got my new blog address change, please leave a comment so I know you got my message.

Off to wait for Brandon to be ready for class this morning, we were going to take the bus, but then someone couldn't get himself out of bed, so now we are driving... which I don't mind, I just hate that I was up at 6:45am... oh well... that's my complaint for the day!!

Hope you are all well, and I will update again soon, when I can get pictures on here!!

Love Karen