BIG LIFE UPDATE | Natalie Nicole

Say hi, guys! Welcome back to my mom's channel. Good morning everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my YouTube channel. I took off my lashes last night and I realized anytime I plan to film, I take off my lashes. So we are— we have to do my lashes today. I think we may or we may not. Um, I'm off of work today, which is exciting. I want to tell you guys all about my new job because that's a big update in my life. Um, I don't really remember when the last time I I picked up this camera was, but I've been really slacking. I need my coffee, hold on. Might as well just sit down and talk now, but I'm in the sunroom right now. And Christmas— so today is the 21st. Christmas is this coming week, weekend. I'm so excited because now Christmas is fun. Arabella kind of understands the gift part. Like, she— I think she doesn't understand Christmas, the meaning and stuff, But I know she's gonna get excited with the gifts, and we're gonna go to our service, and I think Sam's sister is gonna come with us, so we're gonna do that, and then we're gonna head over to her house Christmas Day, but we're doing presents in the morning. Um, so that's really, really exciting. Do you want to come say hi? Oh my goodness. It's okay, Tinky, we'll eat it. Come here. Just watch, watch your plate, watch your plate. You wanna come and say hi to everyone? Ate her breakfast. Do you want to say hi? Hi, buddy. They can't see you. Hi guys, welcome back to my mommy's channel. We're vlogging today because mommy's off of work. I'm off of work today, that's why I'm home. Um, I have a new job. Would you like some? So basically I am selling, um, new construction homes. Um, they're not custom homes, but you can design the house and pick upgrades and stuff like that, which is pretty cool. So I'm in training right now and it's an 8-week process, but I love it so far. We love it. I'm doing that and I work almost every single day, but I have 2 days off to hang out with Arabella and sometimes Sam. And then we do church/service on Sundays. So we've been busy. We are busy girls. The plan for today is going to be cleaning up the house. I haven't been home since last, last day I was off was Thursday, which is not my normal day. Say hi. Hi. I have Christmas presents to wrap, so we're gonna be doing that. And I went Christmas shopping last night when I got off of work. She went to bed early. But main thing I'm doing today is cleaning up the house. Um, Sam's parents are going to be spending some time with us, and so is his best friend. His best friend's coming, I think, the day right after Christmas, so the 26th, which is crazy, but it's gonna be really fun. So yeah, so his best friend's coming to stay with us for a little bit, and then right after, his mom and, uh, stepdad are staying with us. 2, which is really exciting. But yeah, I've been super, super busy lately. That's why I have not been vlogging as much as I was before. I was staying home all day with Arabella, and now I'm not home at all, so that's fun. Also, look at the color of my coffee. It is so good. But I'm excited for Christmas. It's going to be a little bit different this year. Um, normally I'm with my mom and Sometimes, yeah, normally my sister too, but they're down south and it's just gonna be me, Sam, and Arabella this Christmas. And then I think my mom might come up for after Christmas. Um, and then we'll do our little thing at her house, so that'll be fun. And then for New Year's, we don't have a plan. I'm fine with staying home and just taking it easy this year, and Sam wants to do like Disney, and I'm like, we have to get tickets. And I don't know, we don't know what we're doing for New Year's, but my plan is to just lay low and maybe go dinner. Um, but who knows, I never have really a low-key year. The only year that we really didn't do much was when I was pregnant with Arabella and Sam fell asleep before 12, so that was like a bummer. But normally we do Disney, and this year we're not doing Disney. Anyways, I also want to talk about goals for 2024. I think this year I really want to be able to make a lot of money, number one. And number 2, focus on a lot of my goals. I think this past year it was really, really tough with obviously money and trying to manage Arabella kind of by myself most of the time. And this year I'm happy I'll have Sam with me and we're gonna do everything as a family and focus more on the 3 of us, including Tank. I think that's like our main goal. And then also This is a crazy one. Arabella is going to be in daycare soon. She's never been in daycare ever in her life. She's on a waitlist right now, um, and they open up in like February. Yeah, that's gonna be hard for me because she's never done something like that, and it's like school basically. And then I also want to focus on my health. I know obviously health is really important, and not just working out and eating right. I feel like I was eating right so well beginning of the year, and then in the middle of the year too. And then when I moved back up here, I've been eating junk food, and I can definitely tell in my body that not cool. I should really start eating healthy, but it's hard because when I cook for me, Sam, and Arabella, it's so easy to just throw like noodles on a pot and chicken nuggets and Chick-fil-A and drink my coffee. Um, but no, I, I definitely need to go to the doctors this year and probably the dentist. I'm almost convinced I have cavities. I'm almost convinced. I've never had a cavity in my life, but I'm almost positive that I have like 2. But yeah, I think my main focus this year is the 3 of us and kind of figuring out a dynamic that works for everyone because we no longer live in South Florida. So it's really hard for me to just like pack up my stuff and head down there for just 2 days with Arabella. So I don't know how everything is going to play out. Um, I definitely want to do Disney more. I want to book a Disney cruise this year, um, the 3 of us— me, Arabella, and Sam. Um, I also have her second birthday this year, which I'll have to plan. We are thinking about doing something here, but then I also wanted to do like a little trip with 3 of us, um, somewhere either Disney or just something. Yeah, something fun. We got to do something fun for your birthday, right? Right. What do you want to do? You want to vlog? What? I'll vlog on your birthday. What else do you want to do? Maybe do a park? Can you count to 3 for the camera? Count. 1, 2, 3. Ow! Get hurt. And then can you say good guys? Good guys. And what does the doggy say? And what does— what is that? And what do we say when it rains? Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. Another day. Good girl, you are so smart. She's learning how to talk, guys. She is learning how to talk. She's my talking little girl. Can you sing like Ariel? Okay, let's start cleaning. That was basically the whole update on everything. Okay, next thing I want to tackle is Arabella's room. Her room's like kind of crazy right now because I'm doing her sheets and I'm also doing, um, changing table things. So I need to organize in here. I also want to see what toys she really doesn't play with anymore so we can either donate or just get rid of. Um, but yeah, I want to get her blackout curtains because we've been using the sheet make her room darker. I mean, it works, it just doesn't look great. So let's pick up her room. Okay, her bed is made. Um, I think my mom for Christmas is getting her a comforter, um, which is all princesses that I really, really liked, and I think she's gonna like. Uh, next thing I want to do is the toys. Can you go get me that one by Baby? Can you go get me the square and everything? So far this is what we have. I need to find the pieces to some of these, some of the stuff, but I'm almost positive they're either in here or like the other box. That one's gonna go to another family. Someone's gonna really, really love it because we don't really play with that anymore, right? And then we have all of these, all the Love Everly stuff. We use them all the time but I think she's kinda done playing with them. We haven't touched them in a couple weeks, and I think another family would really love them for Christmas. And then in here we have all stuffed animals that she doesn't really play with. And then I'm also gonna get, I'm gonna get this little horse in here and wipe it down, and then we can give that one away as well, 'cause we don't play with it. She plays with her Mercedes and her little bucket and shovel,. And then, um, Sam's brother gave us this. I don't know what that is, I have no idea. Um, Sam's brother gave us this and it's really cool because it actually like goes on its own, so she really loves that now. Okay, I just put Arabella down for a nap. I'm gonna go outside, my car's in the garage. I've got to clean my car, you guys, it's so disgusting. Um, It's— yeah, it's just disturbingly disgusting. Um, I have snacks, I have paperwork, I have literally everything in my back seat, and it's time for me to clean it. So let's go clean it. Get a trash bag and probably this. Okay, my trunk isn't that bad, just have to like clean this out. Yeah, this isn't bad at all. This is what I mean. I mean, this is like really disgusting. Her car seat's really gross too. I don't know what that stain right there is, but we definitely got to clean that today and do these diapers and just organize. Car is all clean. I did my sheets, I did all up here, I did the back. It's cleaned everything out. I might move the camera, I don't even know yet though, but everything is clean. I still have to do her car seat too. Okay, so it's a little bit later. I changed because I was getting a little hot, but I called about the toys. They said Salvation Army, um, will take them. I just have to drive there and drop them off. That's cool. Um, I don't think I've ever showed you guys this, but we got We got this really cute entrance table, and I was actually just changing out some of the pictures. My sister gave me this for my birthday, and look at Kenzie. I miss her so much. I miss her so much. Um, but I wanted to change out one of the photos because my head was cut out, so I just changed it to a picture of Sam and Arabella when she was really, really little. We're gonna redo these, um, pictures. Like I said, we just haven't printed them out. Um, and yeah, this is our entrance table. This camera literally sucks, but this is our entrance table. Um, it's like the perfect size because our door is right there, and then you just walk in, and then that's right there underneath. So that's cool. I did some laundry too. Um, I still have to watch wash our bedding, but I hung up all my clothes. I also organized all of my clothes by colors, um, and then obviously this is pink and pink's over there, but this is like my more like work side. And then my bags, I need to organize those, but that's fine. Um, and then I put green sheets on because it is Christmas, and I really want to get a new comforter obviously, but we need to wash ours, and I haven't found like the best one, and we still haven't put a picture up there. So yeah. Hi guys, okay, it's the next day because I forgot to film yesterday. We just went to Publix, got some pasta, and then, um, I tried again to lay Arabella down for a nap and she didn't. So, um, I did some laundry and then our washer actually broke and then I fixed it, but it was like off balance, I guess it said. So I was like panicking about that because our air conditioning also went out, but we got that fixed. We got like a whole new unit. So I was praying to God we wouldn't have to replace our washer because that would really, really, really, really suck. But I fixed it, so we're good. Sam's off today and I'm off today. It's Friday. So the good thing about that is we were both home, so I got to wrap some presents and do some gift wrapping. But I have a nail appointment at 12:50, and I'm holding my camera because I really don't want it to fall again. I have to get my nails done. My nails are so bad. Like, hold on, let me see if I can show you guys. I don't know if it's focusing, but my nails are really, really outgrown and it's time to get them done. But since Sam's home, we're gonna go to Chick-fil-A, um, for lunch. Um, so we're probably gonna do that after my nail appointment, but I thought since I didn't have time to do the Salvation Army drop-off for all the toys that we did, that we have, that we don't we just don't want anymore, I could do that right now before my nail appointment. So I'm heading there right now. I'm gonna go drop all these toys off and I'm like 13 minutes away, so it's not that bad. And then I also have to go and get Sam's game at Target. I've got to do that today too. I'm praying to God they have it. So today is the 22nd. A couple days before Christmas and I have not done a lot of Christmas shopping. Definitely my fault. I still haven't gotten anything for my mom, Sam's mom, Sam's dad, Sam's stepdad. I haven't gotten anything, so I'm going to try and do all of it today. And then Sam has, um, soccer at 3:00, so I think we're all going to go to the, um, field and watch him play and maybe, you know, walk around or I don't know, just watch him play, I guess. So super, super excited for that. And yeah, that's my day. I'm so excited and have a lot to do today. Let's go! There goes our toys. I'm so happy. Oh, going in reverse. Awesome. So all that just got dropped off. Now another little kid— some kids can enjoy those toys because we don't need them anymore. Okay, now let me figure out where I'm going. I have to go to Target. My nails is at 12:50 and it's only 11:15, so I think I could probably do Target now. Yeah, I think I could do Target now. And the bank. Let me see where I'm going though. Bank now, Target after. Let's go! How cute is this? It's like Louis Vuitton. That's so cute. That one's cute, and then that one up there is really cute. This one is too. Nails are all done. I got Funny Bunny, just nice and classic. Now I'm gonna go— it's so crazy where my nail place is, they have the biggest, um, bounce house in the world, like in the parking lot. It's right— let me see if I can drive over there, but it's right over there and it's so big and massive and it's not always here. But also, when, when is Girl Scout cookies coming out? You're like, we like never got any Girl Scout cookies this year, which is really sad because I love Girl Scout cookies. Okay, let me see if I can show you guys this huge bounce house. Like, it's so long and so big, and it's literally called the world's biggest bounce house. Let me go this way. Let me see if I can show you guys. Also, this was probably not the best day to get my nails done because— oh no, yeah, I definitely went the wrong way. Okay, let me see if I can show you guys. It's so busy here, but hold on. Look how massive that is. Literally huge. I think my nail is messed up. It's like— I don't, I don't know if you can see that, but like it's like peeled. I don't have time to go back in there. There's literally a line, so I don't know what to do. I'm going back in. I think they can fix it. Okay, she fixed it. Thank God I said something because I guess my nails weren't dry when she told me to take them out, and then when she wiped my thumb— oh, when she wiped my thumb, the actual polish came off. So she's fixed it really fast, thank God. But it's really gloomy out and Sam said yes to Chick-fil-A, so I'm gonna go head home pick them up. Arabella just had a nap and we're gonna go get something to eat. Woot woot! And then I think he's still going to soccer at 3. Yeah, that's the day so far. Oh, I never got her— I was gonna get Arabella chalk, um, at Michael's and I completely forgot, but that's okay. She probably doesn't need it. All right, let's go home. A little lunch dinner. Chick-fil-A, thanks for the food. What was that? Gang gang! Got the food. Okay, we just got home. We ate Chick-fil-A, but I just picked this up from Target. I'm gonna wrap it Sam's gift. This is all I got done for wrapping. Not my best year. This has not been my best year, but it's okay. Let's wrap this. And yeah, I still haven't gotten anything from my mom or Kenzie or Sam's mom or Sam's dad or his stepdad or any of his family members, so that's fun. Little stress C'est yé! Oh, are you setting the table up? Are we gonna have a little bit of a dinner? What are you doing? You're setting the table up? Can I have a cookie? Thank you. Oh, I get 2 plates? Thank you. Oh, thanks. Can Daddy sit with us and have some food? Can I have a cookie? Macaroon. Oh, macaroon. Haha, Daddy gets none. Oh yummy, that's good. Can I have some? Daddy? Hi everyone, hi everyone, welcome to my restaurant. She can finally count to 3. Listen to her. Can you count to 3? Let's do it. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And then can you also sing like Ariel? Ha ha! Very good. Very good. He's gonna get you. Say bye. Love you. Thank you for watching. We gotta end the video. We love you. Thank you guys so much for watching, and we will see you in our next video. Bye!