Epic Fail, but I am coming back.

So I know that in the last post I claimed with the new tablet and the blogger app I would be posting like crazy....well that is an epic fail.

The good news is, I have high hopes for the future...I have a 9 day break from school starting today and my consecutive days of teaching for my internship are over. The light at the end of the tunnel is shining bright.

This weekend begins the wedding shower season, I graduate soon, its Christmas time, and I get married in 79 days. Holy cow! I should have a lot toblog about :-)

Posting from the tablet

I have been horrible about updating my blog but I just got a new samsung galaxy tablet for the recent birthday celebration. It has a blogger app and so it is an expedited way of posting. Maybe....just maybe this will encourage me to post more. This is merely a text post from the tablet as I figure out how it all works.
Have a great weekend and Happy Friday!

Proud Aunt!

(Warner, just a couple weeks old, with the hiccups and Memaw) 

 (Bode beginning to walk!)

What can I say I am a proud aunt to two of the cutest little ones around! 

Teach, Eat, Sleep, Lather, Rinse and Repeat.....

(because it is funny....you know I would never say that, well maybe?)

First of all, way to go blogger with the new and updated interface. I am really liking it. Second of all, let me apologize...I know it does not take that much to actually produce a blog post. I mean it is about me and things I do...so how hard can it be? But apparently I cannot multi task in that way. I am a teacher intern this semester, meaning I am at the school day in and day out...teaching and doing everything that comes along with it. And well, lets be frank....It is exhausting.

I know, I know..."welcome to the real world and real work hours" but nonetheless it is still tiring. I will say that I think my body is adapting and getting used to the new schedule. I am at a local high teaching all grades psychology, AP Psychology, and 10th grade U.S. History. They keep me on my toes and by the end of the day I just want to lay on the couch and think of nothing (which is a lie, I am normally getting stuff ready for the next day or grading) Anywho...I will get back in the swing of things and I hope all of you have had a great start to the new school year and how about a big Roll Tide to football season being here. RTR

6 dozen...

I feel like I have been baking non-stop in the past month. I was asked to bake cupcakes for multiple functions...one particularly was for a ladys 90th birthday party. I ended up making six dozen which is the most cupcakes I have ever made at a single time. I keep telling my family this process would be a lot easier if they would buy me a bigger and better oven as well as more cupcake pans.

We did a basic vanilla and chocolate with a buttercream frosting to match the decor of the party. I used these fun wilton baking cups that were perfect for the color scheme....take a look

That is a whole lot of cupcakes....

Happy Fourth of July??

I have been meaning to post about my fourth of July dessert, well....since the fourth of July.
I decided to get really festive after I saw a post on plain chicken and I wanted to make the american flag cake. After I made it and was blog surfing I realized it is a very popular idea, but nonetheless it was very fun to make. I did not tell anybody about the surprise on the inside and so when we cut the cake there were a lot of gasps, oooh's, and ahhhh's. I was actually quite impressed with how it turned out and it was devoured in what seemed like minutes. This may be an annual thing from now on, I set the standards high... here are the pics...

I am starting to realize why no one will buy me a big and fancy camera...maybe that is because all I ever use is my phone? But I bet I would use it if I had it...right?

Congratulations Matthew!

This past weekend Matthew graduated from the University of Alabama! He actually graduated in May but due to the tornadoes the graduation ceremony was postponed and it would be paired with the normal August graduation. Matthew actually received his official diploma about a month ago.



It was a very nice ceremony and weekend. They honored the six UA students who were killed in the tornado, they were represented by their families and issued their degrees.

There were three graduations...Friday night, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. That is a lot of names to call!

Matthew is in the picture below, it was taken on my phone so the quality was low but I promise he is in there somewhere!

All in all, it was an exciting day... I am very proud of Matthew and know that this makes us one step closer to the next chapter in our lives and I could not be more excited, oh and...Roll Tide!