My Mom Kicks...Academics

Well Many of you know that me dear mother just got Teacher of The Year for Catoosa County and I think it was the first time for a Graysville Elem. School teacher to get it! She is so great! My mom is such a great example to me! She has always been a hard worker! She went to college while having two kids (me and Kailey), graduated with honors and got her Masters while having her third baby (Barrett)! She also went bvack to school a few years ago and got her Specialist Degree. She stayed at home with us until we were all in school, she took us on awesome trips during the summer with our grandma Georgia and cousins! We had a great time traveling nearly all over the country together visiting all the historical sites of America's beginning as well as the Church's. I think that is why Kailey and I love history so much. She has worked hard to be a wonderful teacher and I am so proud that she is my momma! So if you are driving down Battlefield Parkway (aka 2A) going towards Ringgold make sure you get a good look at her billboard! We think its so funny that she has a billboard up-I don't think she likes all the attention!


*The day after the sign went up a local business owner saw it and he e-mailed my mom and told her she was stunning! He also said if she were single to call him and then he sent her 3 picuters of himself-one without his shirt! HA! I guess I have a HOT MOM! But that is a little creepy!

New Family Member!

Ryan and I got a new family member this past Sunday! She is a little black lab-mix pup. I had a friend that found her and her sisters in their woods after the big storms and didn't want to take them to the pound. So, needless to say I told her we would take one. After seeing Marley and Me I didn't want a dog for a while but I gave in and now we have a cute little puppy that hopefully won't turn out like Marley-knock wood! I do need help picking a name so give your opinions on the ones I've listed or give new names that you think would fit her...

Names: Sophie, LeLa, Lola, Lilo, Sadie, Lucy...

I'll put better pics on later

New Year's Resolutions

I have made a big list this year and I hope I can accomplish most of them...


1. Like always lose about 10 lbs.


2. Better Scriputre Study


3. Go on a Budget-I have been spending too much money lately


4. Cook more


5. Less TV-I got into a bad habit


6. Run the Country Music 1/2 marathon again, with a better time.


7. Learn a new language-attempt atleast


8. Do well in School!!


9. FHE-We just haven't been on top of it...


Like I said I hope I can accomplish most of these and they are in no order, I just need to start working on all of them...Good luck to you if you have any resolutions made!







**Update: It is the third full week of January and I heard this is the week that most people quit their resolutions...So have I quit or did I do any of them? I am happy to say I have stuck to all but two, cooking and tv-I do plan to get better but at night when I'm alone I can't help but watch TV and I don't want to cook for myself! But hopefully once Ryan doesn't travel so much we can cut out a lot of TV and cook more-we are trying to finish the bonus room so we can put all of our workout stuff up there so we can work on getting some sexy bodies-esp. by MAY!;)**

The Drive Back...

I forgot to mention in the last post that we usually drive to Texas-becuase I doesn't cost as much as flying and we usually have tons of stuff! On the way out there it was just me, my mom, and Ryan, (dad and Barrett got to fly b/c he had basketball) and only took us one long day to get to Lubbock (16hrs). On the way back that was a different story. Ryan flew to Houston to do some work-yeah right he just didn't want to ride back with a bunch of girls. It was me, Kailey, mom, and my crazy cousin Taizsa-we picked her up in Tyler, TX. It was a lot of fun riding back together, we watched Pillow Talk, The Notebook, The Devil Wears Prada, the second season of The Office, and we stopped at a Best Buy near Dallas and got the best soundtrack ever-Garden State-Kailey and I use to listen to this cd all the time in high school but I lost mine a couple years back and it was great to listen to it again! I highly recommend it! We did end up having to stay the night on the road and didn't get home until Sunday at 430 but it was a fun trip back with a few of my favorite girls!

Merry Christmas...a little late

I was in Texas this Christmas, Ryan and I switch every other year and it was our second time to go to Lubbock. It was a great trip and I got to see my MoMo and GenGen (that is what I call my grandparents), my aunt, uncle and cousins that I almost never get to see. We always get together (15 total) Christmas Eve and eat, take a group picture and open gifts. Santa still comes Christmas day-my mom still writes from Santa on the packages- I got an AWESOME gift from Ryan! He is the best and really tried to make it a surprise but if you know me I am a snoop! I hate that I am and will try to do better because I can't act as excited and I ruin the surprise-I did the same when I got engaged but that time Ryan really hid the ring well! Anyway I had I great Christmas and I hope you and your family had one as well!

I passed!

I just finished my hardest semester of school so far and if it gets any worse I don't know what I'll do! I took Business Law, Business Comm, Computer Apps, Calculus and Accounting-I was told not to take the last two together, but I did anyway-I'm a glutton for punishment. B. Law and Comm. are upper division level classes and I got As-the rest were my last lower division classes and I was praying to pass them! I honestly thought I was going to make Ds-which isn't passing anymore-but I somehow got it together right at the end to put out some Cs! Next semester isn't looking any better (ACCT 2. Computer2, Marketing, Stats, Managment, and maybe one more?) Sorry for the downer post-I probably sound like a really pessimistic person-I'll have a more postivie one closer to Christmas!

PDA-Please get a room!

I am at school "studying" for my finals and just had to write about this couple in front of me totally going to town! They are all over each other and it is really nasty! I think it is so gross that people can do that in public without feeling trashy! Maybe I am just a little over the top about it because you should know that I am completely weird about that stuff. Taizsa, my cuz, pointed out to me how anti-PDA Ryan and I are, we hardly even hug each other goodbye if other people are watching. Anyway I am rambling on...all I wanted to say was I hate PDA so please don't do it infront of me!