The Post School Years

Its been a little while.  Ok so it has been exactly 1 year and 4 months since my last post. A lot has happened since then. I had intentions of posting, but there were other priorities.  And to go ahead and answer that burning question. . . .no the kitchen is STILL not quite finished, but it is close.  Just a few more finishing touches and we can call the biggest don't-ever-do-it-yourself-again project "finished"!  But in the meantime, here is an update of what has been going on in the past year with us.

School kept us very busy. This entire bookshelf is filled with

my nursing textbooks, notebooks and flash cards! 

 I spent countless hours studying. Sometimes I put in 10 hour study days

(sorry again Brian for neglecting you!).  Fortunately I was in good company.

This is my sweet friend and study buddy Kelli.

My parents renewed their vows in celebration of their

30th wedding anniversary in November 2010.

This is our graduating nursing class at Athens Tech.

We eventually graduated on June 9, 2010 (my birthday!).
I got my associates degree in nursing and Brian got his
associates degree as a network specialist!

Brian's mom and step-dad came into town for the week. It was great to be

surrounded by our family for this momentous occasion!

I took my NCLEX on July 1st and found out I passed on July 3rd! I started orientation as a nurse at Athens Regional on July 25th. And after 12 weeks of orientation (and one week of vacation) on November 1st I worked my first shift on my own! And that pretty much sums up the last year and 4 months!

Vacation pics from Panama City Beach in September!

So now that school is over, and I am adjusting to my new job and my new hours, the projects are starting to flow again. We have been a little burnt out on the kitchen so we started with some other smaller projects that we have been itching to get to-like everything on the outside of the house! So soon I will be posting the "after" pics of all of our new projects. We are excited to be finally getting some of these done. And we are VERY excited just to be done with school and able to spend more time together and be less stressed.


We just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary on 10/26 and are looking forward to our 10th year together as husband and wife. It is exciting to be going into our 10th year and sort of starting a new chapter in our lives-"The Post School Years"! Here are some pics from our little getaway to Helen to celebrate our anniversary!