Done with school... forever!

So yesterday, as I turned in my last paper, gave my last presentation, and took my last final, it hit me.  This August (like in two weeks), I will not be starting school for the first time in twenty years.  TWENTY, people!  That is crazy.  So in honor of this momentous occasion, I thought it would be fun to take a look back on the twenty glorious years of school.  I'm going to just list my teacher (favorite teacher for the years I had multiple ones) and the best memory I have from that year.  Some of the years are kind of blurry, so the memory may be gross or weird, but hey, they're memories!

Pre-School

Teacher:  Ms. Sumblin

I don't really remember much from pre-school, but I definitely still remember the days of the week song.  Ask me, I'll sing it for you.

Kindergarten

Teacher:  Mrs. Carnes

I remember having to sit in the hallway and read with Cory because we could already read and apparently Mrs. Carnes thought we were bored while she taught everyone else.  I also used to color all my pages the same as Amena Mount.  We were best friends.

1st Grade

Teacher:  Mrs. Amerson

For some reason, all I can remember is telling Andrew Thompson that his last name was spelled wrong.  If you don't pronounce the "th" sound, then the h shouldn't even be there!

2nd Grade

Teacher:  Mrs. Dauphin

Roy used to always ask Mrs. Dauphin if he could go "lose" the bathroom.  Apparently he couldn't say use, and she would always tell him no, you can't lose the bathroom to try to get him to say use.

3rd Grade

Teacher:  Mrs. Hall

Mikey Cobb threw up in the classroom.  It was the biggest pile of throw up I've ever seen... it went the entire span of Mrs. Hall's desk.  Told you some of these would be gross.

4th Grade

Teacher:  Mrs. Kelley

I remember getting so embarrassed when I lost a ticket because I liked Mrs. Kelley so much and I didn't want her to be upset at me.  I also broke my first bone this year and had to wear a cast in the school play.

5th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mr. Kinsaul

Learning the rap song for all the state capitals.  The great part is that our 60ish year old teacher was the one that played the song for us.

6th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Dozier

This is the year I found out mom was having twin boys.  Yuck.

7th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mr. Driver

Building toothpick bridges in science class... and Cory Johnson, Matt Franklin, and Cam Copeland all thinking they were the stuff because theirs was "the best."

8th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Clark

Oh so many!  My parents moved to Mississippi and I lived with Granny for a couple months (no worries, they came back), Mrs. Dee was pregnant and moody and when she had the baby our sub was another pregnant lady, and Mrs. Dee ate a whole pie at break one day.

9th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Lucas

Learning that all the horror stories of Mrs. Lucas were true.  She really is THAT hard.  But I loved her!

10th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Jones (only because I didn't have Lucas!)

Disecting owl throw up in biology.  Gross.

11th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Lucas

FINALLY got my drivers license, after almost everyone else in my grade.

12th Grade

Favorite Teacher:  Mrs. Lucas (of course)

Winning state and national cheerleading competition, driving with the windows down singing "Any Man of Mine" with Hannah Cooke on the way to cheer practice, and getting OH SO EXCITED about going to Alabama.

Freshman Year

Favorite Teacher:  Brandy Frost

Going to football games and freshman Bible study at Calvary.

Sophomore Year

Favorite Teacher:  I honestly can't remember

Joining a sorority and hating it.

Junior Year

Favorite Teacher:  Clifford A. Robb

Changing my major from accounting to financial planning and loving it.

Senior Year

Favorite Teacher:  Jan Brakefield

Long distance relationship, kiddie pool at the Club, watching American Idol with Jess and Nicole every week in our living room.

Grad School 1st Year

Favorite Teacher:  Bill Wright

Being completely lost everywhere I went on Georgia State's campus.

Grad School 2nd Year

Favorite Teacher:  Chris Nickell

The disappointment of not getting to study abroad in Greece, but the freedom of being done with school forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well folks, that's it!  If you stuck through this whole post, I'm impressed!  Hopefully the next time I step foot in a school it will be to take my first kiddo to Kindergarten.  Other than that, I don't want to see any more school!  :)

I. Miss. This. Boy.

SO ready for him to be home!

Because...

I can't sleep in my bed alone.

I'm semi-scared of being home alone.

I just plain love him.

And Jakey misses him too.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, you're only a day away!

A Year and a Half of iPhone Photos

I finally decided it was time to download the pictures from my iPhone onto my computer, you know, since I've had it since October 2009 and have never done that... anywho... here are some iPhone photo (and video) worthy moments over the past year and a half!  :)

Our first Christmas tree!

The day we got Baby Jake

One of Jake's favorite sleeping spots

Shopping for wedding bands

Graduating puppy class

Our beautiful honeymoon resort... can I go back?!

One of the best views we had on the whole honeymoon... Chinese man in a Speedo

I kept two doggies for a week by myself (do you notice the shock collar on Jake?!  Yep, it happened.)

Tay got a new ride

Jakey lost his manhood :(

Dom and I attempted to be Julia Child

Jake became an acrobat

We call this compromise.

Baby Kaden was born!

We like to call this one "Debsie's Wiener"

Jake turned 1!

Cousin Marlee sent Jake a birthday card in the mail

Uncle Taylor

Our first married Christmas tree and family stockings

Lazy pup (or spoiled, whichever you prefer)

Kaden got to come with me to the Christmas party!

I got footies!

We love Cane's

It snowed in Gatlinburg

My BFFs got engaged!

Handsome boy

Biscuits and Gravy... mmmmmm

Painted a room green

Baked Tay a chocolate and peanut butter birthday cake

SafeHouse Friday and 300 hot dogs.  Yummy smell in my house.

Painted a cool table

Phew... that was a fun/quick blast from the past year and a half!  No, this is not all that was done... only the things documented via iPhone.  And really, I didn't think anyone wanted to see all 300 pics on the phone, so I narrowed it down to 30... Hope you enjoyed!

Loner...

So.... camp week has arrived.  Taylor is gone to South Carolina for youth camp and I'm home alone with Jakey.  He's been doing a lot of sleeping and I've been doing a lot of nothing.  I mean, I'm just really not motivated today.  Maybe another day.  Plans for my alone time, you ask?  Well, since it's already 6:30 and I haven't done anything today anyway, I'm thinking an early bedtime sounds pretty good for tonight!  I didn't sleep at all last night, so it's much needed.  Tomorrow I have work and class all day/night, boo.  Wednesday I work from home and then I plan to go to the outlets to get Tay some new undershirts and possibly shorts.  Thursday will be a repeat of Tuesday and then Friday the hubs comes back home!

Just in case you care about an update on my summer goals, here it is!

1.  I haven't painted the nightstand in our bedroom yet, but still planning on it!

2.  I'm reconsidering building the closet in the family room now... I'm trying to decide if we need it.  Right now, I think we're fine without it, but it's not a firm yes or no yet, so it probably won't be checked off during the summer.

3.  The backwards shelves have not only been turned around, but relocated.  My wonderful in-laws bought me a sideboard and dining room table with six chairs for an early birthday/graduation gift, so I put all my dishes and crystal in the sideboard and moved the shelves into our spare bedroom, and yes, they are now facing the correct way!

4.  Countdown to completion of grad school:  17 days!!!!!!!!

5.  Progress has definitely been made on the third bedroom.  I unpacked all of the office stuff and got it all organized, now all that is left in there are two boxes of random things I don't know what to do with.  I'm okay with that for now, but those two boxes will be unpacked by the end of July!

6.  Bookshelf has been purchased and is looking fab in the family room.  I'm semi-obsessed with it.  I got it at Ikea, and it has plenty of shelves for books, but it also has 4 "cubbies" with doors and 2 drawers, which makes the perfect little hiding spot for things like notebooks and camera/phone chargers, etc.

7.  Roman shades are hard to find (affordably)!  Still looking for those....

8.  Haven't bought the drawer liner yet.  After I got over the initial "omg this is so adorable" factor, I realized it's kinda dumb to spend that much money on drawer liner.  So, I'll be making a trip to Target for that.

9.  The gym.  Ugh.  Let's revisit that one later, mmkay?

10.  Menus are getting better... I made one before I remembered that Tay was going to camp this week, so I have a week's worth of groceries that will have to wait for next week, which is fine with me.  I loathe the grocery store, and I'm great with leftovers and cereal all week for me!

So... that's it!  I'm going to get back to my night of nothingness.  I may do some schoolwork, but that's doubtful!  :)