Friday, April 30, 2010

Friday Five X 3

Not much has happened lately!

1. I finished up banking school {see post below}!
2. We celebrated with a bbq at our house Saturday, the 17th, once I got home and took a 3 1/2 hour nap. It was heaven. Brad bar-b-qued a Boston butt, ribs, two whole chickens, and chicken quarters; plus "all the fixin's".
3. Levi, Brad and myself went to see Clash of the Titans at the theater. It was definitely an action movie with a good bit of history mixed in. I have a friend that's Greek so I appreciated the history lesson.
4. A "lovely" neighborhood cat ripped into our garbage that night and pulled out ALL of the aluminum foil from the bbq. Amos found it and disposed of it for us Monday morning (yes, he ate it). So after a quick panic and a trip to the vet he got some wonderful medicine to take care of his problem. I bet he won't eat aluminum foil again!
5. Brad finally bought a new lawn mower. I was super impressed since it has taken him two years to come to the conclusion that he absolutely had to have one. He and I are both much happier now. He can just zip around on his zero-turn and finish the yard in a day. Now, he can't complain about spending the week choking and gagging on smoke from the other one! :) HA!

6. Whitney and I had lunch together last week. She's getting ready to move to Oxford soon {as in this week} and it hurts my feelings that she's going to be leaving me!! Although, I'm sure she'll appreciate living in the same house as her husband! Yep, he's been staying with a friend in Oxford for several months now and coming home on the weekends.
7. We went back to Dr. Linton in Columbus last Friday. He said Brad is still improving and looking good. Great news! He will still continue with therapy 3x a week for another month until we go back May 24.
8. Last Saturday we had some rough weather. Tornado watches and warnings were all over the area and we got some strong wind and rain for a while. It finally cleared about about lunch time. Later that night we went to Chapman's with some friends for Brittany's 25th birthday. I didn't get any pictures though :(
9. Tuesday I had to take my car to get two new hubs only to find out I needed axles instead. This is a good thing because axles are 1/2 the price of hubs! Woohoo!
10. Wednesday, Whitney and I went to see Date Night for her birthday {which was Tuesday}. It was a really funny movie and we were the only two in the theater! That's a plus!

11. Thursday after work, Brad flew to Tupelo and picked Charles up and flew down to Starkville, grabbed a bite to eat and flew back. He got home about 10:30, but he had a great time. He loves flying any change he can get {especially when he can fly with someone!}.
12. While Brad was gone Jenessa and I took the top off her Jeep and took a tour through town. The weather was nice, but it was a little windy. We also got milkshakes at Sonic and chit-chatted for a while- mainly about my lack of living things around my house.
13. After seeing her accomplishments with her porch I hope to get some ferns this weekend and maybe a potted plant or two. I had some ferns last year that got pretty big so I hope I can do the same this year!
14. Pug and his children, Tyler and Haley, are supposed to be coming in this weekend. The weather is predicted to be terrible, but hopefully we can find something to do!
15. We're supposed to be having a big birthday bash Saturday for Curt {he turned 30 Thursday!} but with the weather they are predicting, I think they are going to postpone it until next weekend.

I won't number this since I'm already at 15, but Monday is my birthday so I hope to do something fun this weekend to celebrate! I know my mom's side of the family is eating at Chapman's Sunday for an early Mother's Day. My grandmother has to work on the real Mother's Day so we wanted to celebrate early! This has been a long, wordy post so I'll throw in a few pictures :)

Scratch that; it won't let me upload!

I just noticed that this will be my 100th post!

Mississippi School of Banking

Last year SOUTHBank sent me to Oxford, MS for my first year in the Mississippi School of Banking. We had a small class of 40 so we all became friends. Our first year consisted of classes from Sunday-Saturday. We sat in a freezing cold room from 8am-5pm or later everyday and listened to speakers talk and talk and talk and talk some more. Every now and then we had a few good speakers! After listening all we long we had a HARD exam on Saturday morning. Thankfully, I passed that exam and entered into the 2nd year of banking school.

Fast forward a year! I had a few homework assignments to complete before I could start my second year. They weren't easy, but thanks to a few loan officers, I passed! :) So, Sunday, April 11 I drive to Oxford for the week. There I meet up with my friends and we catch up on the past year. Then we had classes until 10pm! Second year was much more fun than my first year. We spent our time still having speakers but also doing group work. I love group work! I can finally talk and NOT listen to a boring man stand up and speak about his past experiences with auditors and bankers. The first few days were great. You do your classwork then group work and then you are done for the night!

Then Wednesday rolls around and you spend every waking minute working on your group work and presentation. Wednesday was a late night, but Thursday? Thursday I got in bed at 3:00am (Friday morning)! Only to get up at 6 to get ready to present! We were 6th to present out of 8 groups. We finished up at lunch and then had more speakers that afternoon. The entire class was doing the best we all could to stay awake, but it was hard! We were finally free about 5pm and I went to Applebee's with three other ladies and had the best time out of the entire week. We talked and laughed and laughed and talked. Then it was back to business because we had to study for our exam on Saturday morning. This exam wasn't as hard, but still tricky. After the exam, a few ladies and I walked around the Grove (it was Red/Blue weekend!) and then went to Holman Hall (the building I practically lived in my senior year at Ole Miss) for graduation. Yep, everyone in our class passed!


This was my group {New South Bank};
Renea, Jarrod (CEO), Ben, Jamey, and myself

Amanda and I (she's from Biloxi!); maybe I should go visit her?!

Mrs. Wanda and I; s
he's from Vicksburg
Mrs. Wanda's group! I love that woman!

Hays' group {he's the blonde- works in our Oxford branch}
I really enjoyed spending time with Cynthia {in blue}- she's CAJUN and from Baton Rouge

Most of the ladies in the class!

Jarrod and I- he said I was like his wife- always staying on him to do something!
He was our CEO and in charge of major decisions... of course I had to harp on him a lot!

Three of the funniest men you will ever, ever, ever meet...
Jarrod, Doug, and Jay

Mississippi School of Banking
Class of 2010!!
I had a great time and learned a lot that week, but part of me is glad it's over! I'll tell you more about Mrs. Wanda sometime when I have a minute.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Sara's Baby Shower

Sara's baby shower was Sunday, March 28th

The only picture I got of Sara!
What shower is complete without food?
Cake table with pink tulips- they opened about 10 minutes after I took this picture.

My mother-in-law made the cake and mints!



Dani's Skating Party

Dani Paige's birthday party at the skating rink was on Saturday, March 27th.




Chloe's first skating party All by herself!Chloe and the birthday girl!
The only time the party-goers were still enough for a picture
Chloe and her Mammy posing for a quick picture!
The 3 youngest grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild: Chloe, Dani Paige, Savannah Grace, and John Aaron

All of the grandchildren {plus Chloe}

Sorry about the red eyes!! I cannot correct them without putting dark blotches on our faces. I hate that!


My Patient

Brad's shoulder surgery, Thursday, March 11, 2010

I'm only posting these so you can get a kick out of them like I did. :) I have one that's far more embarrassing so he should be thankful I'm not posting it!

Check out the new sling...
Look at the left side of his face. They did a nerve block and he was completely numb on the side of his face, his ear, and his neck! Can you tell? I can! :)
Amos, in the meantime, decided he would put himself in the corner. I have no idea why he's suddenly fascinated with putting his nose in that corner.


February Snow Day

Monday, February 8, 2010

My "pretty" crepe myrtles
BackyardDriving down hwy 45!!! {Brad was driving}
See the road? Or the bridge? Long drive!!

Blogger is letting me upload pictures, but only one at a time and it's still not letting me upload all that I want.

Schedule

Just when I think things will slow down around here...


To help, I decided I'd post my March-April schedule :)


March 1- 2nd wedding anniversary, Brad's doctor's appt
March 11- Brad's surgery
March 12, 13, 14- Pug, Billy Joe, and Anthony come in
March 17- Brad's surgery follow-up in Columbus
March 18-19- Levi stays with us
March 19-21- Brad in Birmingham
March 22-28- Levi stays with us
March 24- private celebration for a divorce and paternity test (looooong story)
March 27- skating birthday party, shopping in Tupelo
March 28- baby shower and Passion Play with family
April 1-4- Pug stays with us
April 2- Brad's appointment in Columbus, visitation for family friend
April 3- funeral for family friend
April 4- Easter, family get-together at church
April 6- Brad back to work
April 9- Brad's 29th birthday, eating with family
April 10- hot air balloon race, Brad's long cross country, eating with family
April 11-17 MS School of Banking in Oxford
April 16-18- Pug, Haley, and Tyler staying with us
April 21- John Aaron's birthday


Keep in mind, this is only the "big" things that filled my days besides work :) HA! So, forgive me for the lack of posts. I am still having trouble uploading pictures and I haven't had time to try to do them from home. Maybe sometime soon!