Sunday, March 27, 2011

Happy Birthday

My wonderful daddy celebrated a birthday last friday! Peter and I were able to take a quick trip down to Natchez to surprise him on Friday. We had a wonderful homemade dinner with dad, mom, and my grandparents. It was so good to see them, even if it was for less than 24 hours! Happy birthday, daddy! Thank you for being the best dad a girl could ask for!



Mom, Laura, Brandon, Rachel, and Peter and I gave daddy an ipad2 for his birthday! I think he was surprised!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Inspiration

Wow.......it has been a very long time since I have posted! Recently my younger sister, Rachel, started a blog (rayholloway.blogspot.com) and she inspired me to keep up with ours again. So, here is my second shot at keeping up our blog!

A lot has happened in our lives over the past two years! I am not going to attempt to summarize everything, so I will just fast-track to what is going on now. Last August, Peter and I sold our house in Madison and moved to Baton Rouge. Peter is in the process of getting his Masters of Landscape Architecture degree at LSU. I am so proud of him for all of the hard work he is doing in school. Last semester he had a 4.0 GPA, and I am sure he will be so embarrassed that I shared that! He will graduate in May 2012, so we are almost half-way there! He was awarded with an assistantship, which means he is a research assistant to one of his professors. He is a very busy boy!
I spent last semester traveling back and forth to Jackson to continue my job at UMC. It was very hard to stay away from Pete for long periods of time, but we did it so I could be vested in the state retirement system. We hope it will be worth it when we are older. February 2 was my last day at UMC. I was so very sad to leave all of my friends and the sweet babies in the NICU, but I am happy to be down in Baton Rouge with Peter full time. I just accepted a position in the day surgery center at Our Lady of the Lake hospital, and my first day is Monday. That's right, I have had an entire month off work and it has been fabulous! It makes me rethink my occupation; I should have been a teacher!
As for Molly, she is still chasing balls and squirrels, trying to get used to apartment living! She is sleeping soundly on the couch beside me dreaming of yellow tennis balls now. Here are several pictures from the last two years.


In August 2009, Peter and I went to Savannah, GA for a little vacation. It was beautiful!


In March 2010, we lost our sweet Pappaw Hammack to cancer. He was such a wonderful grandfather and we miss him so very much! Peter and I are so blessed to have amazing grandparents.


Peter's brother, Zack, got married to Laura on April 24, 2010. We love our new wonderful sister-in-law!


Rachel graduated high school May 2010, and she is at Mississippi State now! We are so proud of her!



In June, Mom, Rachel, Laura and I went to Destin for a few days! It was so much fun! We were just a tad sunburned!


In July, one of my very best friends got married! It was a beautiful wedding!



Our first home was so good to us!


Mardi Gras in Fairhope last weekend!


These sweet nephews of ours are growing like crazy!


Last, but not least, just because we are in Baton Rouge and Peter is a LSU student it does NOT mean we are LSU fans! Go Mississippi State!