Andrew's Graduation and WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

I completely forgot to update about Andrew's graduation. It was definitely a good time for all. We went and saw the unveiling of the website. It was a joint project between the video and photo guys. (You check it out Picture Health). Then we had TWO cocktail hours, one at the school where we could view the website, video projects, and photos. Basically a sampling of everyone's work. The second cocktail hour was at the hotel before dinner. I really think we all could have done without the 3 hour break before dinner. lol. Dinner was good, the guest speaker was not. He gave a 45 minute speech that really could have been cut down to about 15-20. The sad thing is we found out later this was the 4th time he'd given the same speech and he had cut it down by 45 minutes already. I really don't think I could have sat through 1.5 hours of that speech! After graduation we all went out to Limericks for one last get together. Which turned out to be our 3rd to last get together with some of the guys since we also went out to breakfast at Stellas and dinner at Dino BBQ the next day. Overall we miss our friends, but are happy to be moving on to the next chapter in our lives.

At cocktail hour at Newhouse

The Marines in the photo class plus two Marine guests

Mary, Me, and Shannon

All the girls
Michelle, Laura, Tiffany, Kailey, Janell, Me, Mary, and Shannon

Andrew getting his diploma!

Andrew and I

Mary, Me, and Shannon at Limericks

The new chapter in our life started off a little differently then we anticipated. When we arrived in Jacksonville we were looking for a rental property. A cute single family home for us to make our lives in for the brief time we're supposed to be here (3ish years). Well evidently God had a different plan for us. We were unable to find a rental and actually got laughed at and called insane by a few realty companies when we informed them how many pets we had and how big our puppy is. Luckily we have some good friends who recommended a realtor and a mortgage broker who have been nothing but great to us! Because of them we were able to find and put in offer in on a beautiful house. 3 bed, 2 bath, and they will be adding a 2 car garage. We were lucky enough to hear yesterday that our offer was accepted. In approximately 14 days we'll be moving in to this brand new house. Then over the course of the next 30 days they will build our garage. When the garage is finished we will be able to close on the house and it will be all ours! While this step in live is definitely nerve wracking (even more so since we weren't planning on it), we're so excited to have a place to call our own. They're also going to sod all of it, cement our driveway up to the garage, and landscape the front.

Our first home!

Last Midterm EVER

So, tomorrow I go to take my last midterm ever of my college career! I'm so excited to be getting done with this degree. I know that I will be pursuing a masters degree sometime in the near future, but for now I'm just reveling in being almost done. I'm under two months left here at LSU and counting the days until I graduate. I uploaded all of the pictures for my project 365 up until this point. After this test tomorrow I'm going to take the time to edit them and get them into this blog.

Day 15

These are my roommates! They absolutely rock. Today is my birthday and Andrew had to go back to Texas today, so they tried there hardest to make my day work. So far it's still kinda sucky but between them and my lovely CW girls things are really starting to look up.


Sunday Andrew took me out to dinner for my birthday since it was his last night in town. I wish we could have spent more time together, but I know that he can only stay so long. I had a pretty good day. His family threw me a small birthday party, basically just cake and ice cream. My whole family bailed on me which made me pretty bummed, but Andrew stepped up and was an amazing hubby man trying to make up for it.



Saturday
Andrew took my graduation photos on campus! I had such a great time. I can't wait until he gets all of the images edited and I get to pick the ones to put in my announcements and the ones I'm turning into the invite for my graduation party!

We also took Laura and Patrick's engagement photos this day (they're my roommates!). We did some in downtown Baton Rouge near the river and then we went to New Orleans and took some in Audubon Park.



Friday
This is my youngest niece. Her name is Camarah (her mom is crazy!). I got this photo from Andrew's dad and I couldn't help but post it. I think she looks precious.



Thursday!
We FINALLY got a new air conditioner. Our old one was crap and ran seriously all the time. Our last electric bill was like 250 dollars for a small 2 bedroom 2 bath apt. I'm so glad they finally replaced it. Hopefully our electric bill will start going down.

Day 3

Ok, so I'll come clean I didn't take this picture. My mom emailed it to me today. It's my nephew and since I don't get to see him often and my mom gets to watch him every other Saturday while my sister works, she sends me the pictures! I'm totally jealous that my mom gets to see him so much lol. I love this little man. I got to see him last Friday when I went home for dinner with my mom, stepdad and sister. I can't believe how big he's gotten or how well he's speaking now! He'll be 2 the day that I graduate from college (December 19th!). We're going to have a joint graduation/birthday party for the two of us. I totally bet that I'm the only person graduating from LSU that is having a Toot Toot (Thomas the Tank Engine) party. Lol, oh well let him have his decorations he's two he totally wins.