Congratulations, Nathan!!

Last night we had the family over to celebrate Nathan's graduation from Georgia Tech!!!

And also to celebrate him getting his first "grown up" job!! 

He will be an engineer in Atlanta!!!

 Nathan, his girlfriend, and her sister

 My cousin Kendyll

 The kid table -AKA the "fun" table.

adult table- AKA the "boring" table.

 our family gave Nathan one of my dads paintings. 

 Kendyll finally beat me in the height competition. :( 

she is so pretty

 I forgot to take a picture of the cake before it was cut! 

I love me some Anna! 

The host of the party, Aunt Beccy

Nathan,

Congratulations!! We are all so proud of you!! I know the feeling of being done with college and having all that stress off of you! It is the best feeling in the world. I know you had a rough last few months of college, but I am so proud of you for pushing through and finishing out strong! I am so proud of you and the man that you have become! I know your Mama would have been so proud too!! Good luck in Atlanta! And you better not forget about your family down here.... 

Love you,

Mandy

Class of 2007 Christmas Party

Every year, I have the girls that I graduated with over for a Christmas party. This year, not everyone was able to come, but we still had a lot of fun! I honestly think that we had the closest class out of any of the classes at Sherwood. I am so thankful that we have all not only kept in touch, but we have also stayed really good friends!! 

 We invited April and Abbey to the party, just because we love them! They graduated a year before us. 

 Laura and Kendyl 

Amy, Me, Abbey, and April.

Hillary.

 I love her outfit!

 Dont know what I would do without this girl.. 

 Amy :)

 Kendyl. 

My sweet Ivy!

 Can you tell its been a while since we have seen each other?!

 Sara and Ivy. 

Best. Friends. Forever. 

 My silly friend, April.

Friends are everything. 

 Ivy posing. 

One thing that I love about these girls, is that several of us have been friends since preschool.We have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of each other, but we have loved each other and supported each other through it all. I also love that each one of these girls are strong Christians, so I know that I can always count on them to pray for me or encourage me when I need it.  I always look forward to this party so we can talk about old memories and also have fun making new memories. I am so proud of all of these girls and where they are in life right now. I seriously do love these girls. Sherwood may not have always been perfect, but I am so thankful that I had a perfect class with the perfect people. 

My early birthday party..

My birthday is not until December 21, but we decided to go ahead and do my family birthday today since this week is normally hectic for most people! I hate that I do not have very many pictures to post, but I know that other family members took some on their cameras!! I was so blessed to spend the day with my family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and boyfriend!!!!

 We went to church this morning.. and then everyone came over to my house for lunch and cake!

 my beautiful cousin, Kendyll.

 Anthony playing soccer with Avery.

 My cousin Nathan and his girlfriend (my friend) miss Anna!

My friend Geordan was able to come!

 I love my family so much! I dont know where I would be without them!!

 Aunt Manly and Avery.

This was my first birthday without my Aunt Melanie. She always made my birthday so special, so I knew that this year was going to be different. However, my Uncle Tod gave me an extremely special "birth-mas" (birthday and christmas) present. He gave me Aunt Melanies pandora bracelet. I was already in tears when I opened this, but then he told me the story of this bracelet. This was the last present that he gave my Aunt before she passed away. It was his anniversary present to her in July. I feel so blessed to have this. I will forever treasure this bracelet. 

Thank yall so much for making this day special for me!! I love each and every one of you!!! I could not ask for a better group of people to spend this day with!!! God sure knew what he was doing when he formed our family!! Thank yall for being so encouraging to me and loving me unconditionally. I wouldnt be who I am today without yall!!

Girls Christmas party.

Last night, I was able to get together with some of my best friends for a Christmas party! I must admit, I have some of the best friends in the world. This was such a wonderful party, full of laughter and fun conversations!!!! The one thing i LOVE about this group of friends is that we grew up in church together and have been friends for atleast 15 years!!!!

 Me and Ivey.

 Oh, Lauren.

 Hannah Blackwell, Fowler, Anna, and Me. I LOVE these girls!!!!

 Jetta and Ivey.

Hannah Grace Blackwell . It sure was good to see her. She is the girlfriend of Phillip Phillips, so she is ALWAYS on the road or in the air! I think she needs to stay in Albany!!!

 I am short.

 Anna!!

 reuninted.

 friends are everything. Me, Hannah, and Fowler.

 BFF.

 What we do at a party... play on our phones...

I love these girls more than they will ever know!!!