Miss Claire Hazen

This is Claire Hazen one of the little girls I baby sit and she is the smartest 3 year old I know... but if you had 6 older brothers and sister pretty sure you'd learn a lot too not to mention one younger one.

I baby sit Claire and Lydia (18months) a couple times a week and Claire is hilarious! Lydia pretty much napped the whole time I was there this day so Claire and I had a photo shoot I was trying to teach her to do a fishy face...

and a kissy face...

and a silly face...

and a cute face...

A few funny stories about Claire... One day I went over to watch her and she looked really sad and sighed really big I said Claire what's wrong and she just pointed across the room to a few toys on the ground. I said what is that stuff bothering you? She said (in a mother like voice) I JUST CLEANED! I about lost it.. bet she's heard that saying a few times before.

Last time I watched her she kept telling me how much she loved me and I just couldn't get enough of it..
Claire: I love you Jeni
Jeni: I love you too Claire
Claire: I love you Jeni
Jeni: I love you more
Claire I love you most
Jeni: I love you A LOT
Claire: I love you a lotest

I had a few videos of her signing some pretty popular songs and it was hilarious because she would sing parts and make the rest up but it amazingly still fit the tune of the song. I also have a few where she made up her own song... I just can't figure out how to get them off my phone.

Summer

Since I didn't blog all summer I figured I'd fill you in on some things that I did.

I work at the Frog A LOT!! This isn't a bad thing.. I was able to save enough money to pay for all my rent for a year plus have quite a bit extra money to live off of.. even though I still have a job down here at school.

I went to Zac Brown Band concert in Ft. Wayne and that was really fun with Laura and Tricia.
I also went to a James Otto concert with my roommate Taylor. Funny story about it... She originally told me it was a Kelli Pickler concert and we were both sooo excited then come to find out she didn't come and they put James Otto in instead. Taylor tells me this the day of which was fine I was going regardless to hang out with her. So her dad is driving all of us and Taylor also told me the concert was in Huntington... nope.. it was in Warren. So I'm thinking I'm going to a Kelli Pickler concert in Huntington and I get James Otto in Warren. Haha gotta love Taylor! We had a blast!
I got to play the cowbell with a band at the Frog, 40% Steve to Low Rider... and I was REALLY good at it! Thinking of starting my own band someday! I had pictures of me playing the cowbell but I don't have access to them... long story but I'm sure you can imagine.
Took a solo train ride to Chicago to stay with my friend Ben who just recently got a job in the big city.. we went to a Cubs game and got 2nd row seats to the right behind the dugout. Ben's building manager for his apartment just gave them to him.. kinda a steal! I don't really follow baseball all the much nor do I have a favorite team but it was really fun to go.
This was the view out of Ben's apartment. If I woke up to that every morning I think I would be so motivated to conquer the world. I've been to Chicago several times mainly to go shopping but Ben showed me all over Wrigleyville and other little "towns" and it was so amazing. I also got to see my first transvesdite and hopefully my last :/
Those are just a few big things I did this summer.. all in all I had a great summer!

That's My Brother....

New favorite commercial!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jNGruJDi4

I'm Back!

Hello Blog Readers!

I want to apologize for my lack of blogging for the past several months. I have been so incredibly busy! I wanted to start up as soon as I got back to school but that obviously didn't happen until now.. a month into school. I was trying to finish up online classes from the summer that over lapped into the school year. Let's just say never again will I do that HA!

So I must dedicate my motivation for starting to blog again to someone.. I actually have never met her nor do I know her name, but my roommates Taylor has this friend Emily who's sister reads my blog. She told Emily to tell Taylor to tell me to start blogging again because she likes to read my blog and that made me feel pretty good, so I had to start it up again on behalf of what I like to call "my fan" hah :)

So I want to welcome you all to apartment 405!

This is our living room

Here is our dinning room table that I score for $25 down the road from my house. It is a great table we all love it seeing as how we didn't have a table last year. Thanks to my mom reupholstering the seats of the chair and my dad redoing the back of the chair. I don't know the technical term for that but it looked cool when he was doing it.

We do love our table BUT it's totally not level. Our living room/dinning room floor caves in. I'm convinced one day we are all gonna fall through the floor but I'm just glad we're on the top floor so I won't be squished underneath. Sorry apartment 305 :/ Part of me wonders what their ceiling looks like..
I like that you can see our table from our kitchen. This way we can have a conversation with whoever is cooking or doing homework at the table.
From previous blogs we all know that I was really excited about the garbage disposal and yes it's everything I wanted and more. You can just clear your plate right in the sink it's amazing! I also like the rest of our kitchen we have lots of cabinet space plenty of counter space. Our dishwasher is just a tiny thing though but I'm still happy we have one.
As for our washer and dryer... well it cleans my clothes well it's just in a tiny room where you can't even open the dryer door all the way. It's a tight fit but gets the job done.
Now to my favorite room in our apartment... MY ROOM! :) Same stuff as last year and its a lot smaller but it's still my space. As you can see the majority of my room is bed and I had to downsize my desk from last year. The other piece is in our dinning room you can see in an above picture.
This is where I hang my purses, scarves, and jackets... when the light are off and I'm going to bed I always get scared because in the dark this innocent pile of accessories looks like a scary man with a sheet over his head... I know I'm 20 years old and I'm still scared of the dark.
This was my big purchase of the year from my summer working at the Frog. I bought a 32" plasma t.v. and this nice little t.v. stand to go under it. And yes I put it all together all by myself.
Okay now you've seen my new place and I'm starting to have more time to do fun things like blog so I promise to keep up with it. Trust me I have lots to blog about I even made a list of things to blog about when I couldn't blog.. I've missed it.