One more thing.

I completely forgot to mention in the previous post that...not only am I finished with grad school but that I made STRAIGHT As throughout the entire program!  I'm pretty excited about it!  There were so many classes that I struggled with and were just plain HARD!  But I managed to get through them and now I'm FREE :)

Whatever is God's will is our will...

We put an offer on a house yesterday. 

We're letting the Lord take us where He wants us to go rather than forcing this based on what WE want.  So...we shall sit and wait on Him....

Here is a little info about the property:

3-Bedroom/2-Bath home on 27.93 ACRES in Piperton, TN - 2-acre pond in back.

 























Bulldawg Bound

Davis-Wade Stadium every Saturday during Fall

Our good friends Clark and Valerie invited us to go with them to Starkville this weekend to see MY Bulldawgs play the other Bulldogs this Saturday. When the opportunity arose, we of course accepted! I have not been back to Starkville in years so I'm excited to see how it has all changed. I probably shouldn't prepare to get too excited because it more than likely will depress me once I see all the changes that have happened since I was in school there...over 5 years ago! Aaahhh. Age aside...I do love all of the new construction they've done since I've been gone. The campus looks so much better since I left. I can't imagine what my dad's reaction is to the campus every time he visits Starkville! Probably feels like a completely different school to him now.



Old Waverly Golf Club  West Point, MS

 More than likely MY Bulldawgs will lose and the other Bulldogs will win on Saturday. But we're there for the good times. We plan to eat lunch/dinner/cocktails at Old Waverly in West Point, MS.  They say it's really nice.  In the 4 years I lived there, I never visited Old Waverly because it is a members-only country club.  And of course we weren't members.  Excited to eat and drink and then head to the game.  To finally ring a cowbell!  Well, legally anyways :)

Look for pics to come.  I feel 19 again when I step on that campus.  Then I look around at the REAL 19-year-olds and quickly am reminded I'm not 19 :)  But regardless of the outcome of the game....GO STATE!



Beginning, End and Continuation of Eras

Today, September 13, 2010:

The Beginning of an Era - David and I are starting a new Diet.  Actually, David claims it's not a "diet" but more of a "lifestyle change."  We are doing The Maker's Diet.  Going back to basics.  Fresh, organic food,  how they used to eat in biblical times.  If you know me at all, you know I will struggle more than David will with this.  We just started this today and I already wanted to jump over my desk in class and devour my classmate's Subway sandwich.  Say a prayer that my body will begin to prefer a carrot over a Muddy's cupcake.

The End of an Era - I took my FINAL final exam in graduate school.  I totally bombed the test.  Trying to care but that's a little difficult to do.  Three more Mondays and I'll probably never grace the Union University campus with my presence again.  No tears shed here.

The Continuation of an Era - Today is mine and David's 6-month anniversary.  180 days.  90 of them great.  90 of them difficult.  So we're batting a .500.  That's a pretty good statistic in baseball so I'd say all is well in the world of The Shepherds.

Already failing

As you can see, I'm already failing at keeping this blog updated.
But, to catch you up on the last few weeks:
August 28th - I went to Nashville to throw Angela Bowden a baby shower.  My mom and sister went with me to help and I don't know WHAT I would have done without them?!?!  It was a LOT of work but I'm pretty sure Angela was pleased with the outcome. 

Labor Day weekend - David and I took a 1,500-mile road trip to explore some areas we might potentially want to move to.  We saw Knoxville, Johnson City, Asheville, Boone (NC), Greenville (SC), Clemson and Clayton (GA).  The whole reason we took this little road trip was to ultimately whitewater raft the Chattooga River in Northeastern Georgia on Labor Day Monday.  Whitewater rafting is always a good time for both of us but we have decided that we need to learn to kayak better because the excitement of whitewater rafting is not quite cutting it anymore.  But, after this rafting trip, we can now say that I have still managed to stay in the raft.  My "Velcro Butt" nickname still remains!  David can't say the same though :)

Since our last trip to Asheville (about 18 months ago), we had pretty much decided that Asheville was the place we would eventually land.  But then we ended up in Greenville, SC and now that has bumped up to #1 on our list.  It was definitely the sleeper city of the trip bc we weren't expecting much out of it. 

September 7th - My 27th birthday.  Dinner with my family at PF Chang's and then dinner with David's family the next night.  I received the best birthday gift...David cut his hair!!  WooHoo!  And I treated myself to a hair cut and color as well :)

This week we have Alex.  Amy and her mom went to the beach for a week so we're keeping him for a few days. 

We have a VERY busy next couple of weeks.  I am EXTREMELY BUSY at work.  September, October and November are always crazy for me at work so I don't know why it catches me off guard each year?  David is going strong with his renovation business and things are working out very well for him.

Stay tuned for things to come...

Our 3rd go at this...

(One of my favorite engagement pics)

This is the 3rd time we've tried to start a blog.  I tried to start one for David and I.  David tried to start one to document his 30 dollars for 30 days experiment.  Both were successful for a very short time.  So here we go again.  

We'll of course use this to update everyone on what's going on in our lives.  But the main reason I wanted to start blogging is because, beginning October 5th, I'm going to be quite bored.  Why will I be bored on exactly October 5th you ask?  Well, that's because 10/04/10 is my VERY LAST DAY of grad school.  The day I've had circled on my calendar for the last 24 months is fast-approaching.  I'll have an MBA in 6 weeks and I'll have no idea what to do with myself afterwards.  David will probably tell me I can finally clean our house and learn to cook...after 2 years of not doing so :)