Madness I Tell Ya!

WARNING: This post is full of pictures.

When I say this past week has been the busiest week of my life, I tell no lies. The madness began last Thursday...

Thursday: Kyle had his hooding ceremony for dental school Thursday afternoon. He received his oh-so-pretty LILAC (not purple) and orange hood needed for graduation the next day.

So proud of him!

Paul (JB) and his Timothies (Robert, Daniel, Brandon, Kyle, Johnny, and Kevin)

The Family: (from the left-Kyle's Uncle John and cousin Laura, Bruce, Mom, Me, Mike, Kyle, Ramona, Mamaw, and Mark and Anne Koci)

From there we headed to Central BBQ to give our family a taste of yummy goodness. Then we headed to my PT class graduation party at the Balinese Ballroom downtown.

Friday morning, we headed to my hooding ceremony for PT school. As we received our hood, they named us as Doctor So-and-so. This is when it hit me. This is it. No more school. Time to go to work. Time to become a professional and make a difference in peoples' lives.

Here is a picture of our friend group, AKA back row buds.

Back row: Ross, Shannon, me, Matt, Kyle

Front row: Jesus, Kate, Rachael

Now time for him to show me some love! He's proud of me too...

Mom, me, and Mike. Mom showing support of the PT profession in her peacock green :)

Kyle's family came to watch too!

Mamaw, Ramona, Kyle, me, Bruce, and Laura (Kyle's cousin who I absolutely adore!)

Drs. Kyle and Courtney McShan (in two weeks)

Kyle, me, my dad, and his wife Kim

The McShans

At the end of a very long day, it all comes down to he and I (and our terribly messed up hair).

Saturday: In the morning, Mom and I headed to my and Kyle's new house that we are renting to clean clean clean before we moved any of our stuff in. After four hours of scrubbing, we were only halfway through! She's a perfectionist. And what can I say, the apple doesn't fall far. Then Saturday night, FUN FUN FUN!!! My Bachelorette party! We headed to Alicia's for some drinks and appetizers prior to heading to dinner. Where we were eating was a surprise to me and when we got there, I was stoked! We had reservations at Flight (which I have been dying to go to for the past year). They ended up putting us downstairs in the event room which could not have been more perfect. We tend to get a little loud when we all get together. And seeing as how we all love to dance, this private room allowed us to act silly and get down!

One of mine and Kyle's engagement pictures and the adorable invitations

My PT friends: Katie, Kate, me, Kathryn, Rachael

The crew outside of Flight. I have such gorgeous friends.

Dance party has begun! I pretend I'm a good dancer. Even if I'm not, it makes me happy and allows for great fun with great friends!

Pictures from the lingerie shower cannot be posted due to well, you know...

Sunday: More wedding festivities. Bridesmaids luncheon at Ridgeway Country Club. Food was delicious as always. It was nice just getting to chill out and spend time with the women and little girls who mean so much to me.

My ADORABLE flower girls: Sammye Kate and Avery Kate. I love these two little ones as if they were my own. Avery Kate is the daughter of a physical therapist (Alecia) who I have worked for for about four years. AK says funny things like, "When I get older..." and "I'm extercisin' " (exercising, if you didn't catch it). I have babysat for AK since she was a baby (she's 3 now). Alecia, if you are reading this, married women can still babysit. :) Sammye Kate is the daughter of JB and Audrey. JB is a pediatric dentist here in town, but he is originally from Kyle's hometown. JB has taken a group of dental school guys, Kyle included, under his wing and has discipled them for the past couple of years. Sammye Kate is HILARIOUS! I have never seen a child with so much energy and who is so happy. Sammye Kate knows how to count in Spanish and knows that turtle in Spanish is "la TTOOOORRRRTTTTTUUUUGGGGAAAA." Haha. I hope my children are as entertaining and gorgeous as these two little ones are!

The Mothers and their gifts. They each had their own opinion on which picture they thought was the best. They make buying gifts a breeze. These two women. Man. No words. They are the most selfless women I know whose desire for their children well exceeds their own. I often pray that I can be a mother with half the qualities that they hold. If so, my kids will be in great shape.

My MOH, Alicia. AKA best party planner EVER!

The Bridesmaids: Amber, Alicia, Suzanne, me, Kimberly, Emma, Rachael

Not pictured: Kati, Claire, Jennie, Springer

The rest of Sunday was spent finishing up cleaning our new house and bringing over what wedding gifts we have already received. We moved some stuff in Monday. The movers came Tuesday to move the heavy furniture. And now here's Wednesday, and we are in. Well at least our stuff is in. We (and by we, I mean I) have alot of decorating to do. But that will have to wait until after boards are done.

And here it is:

Our bedroom

Bathroom

Guest bedroom

Sunroom: The owners left all this furniture for us since we were without. They are so great by the way!

The Office/Nerd Room. Whatever you want to call it. What you can't see is the bookshelf on the left that houses every single textbook Kyle and I have acquired in our professional school careers.

Living Room. Yes, we need a tv stand. And much more.

Other shot of the living room. That open door leads to the guest bedroom and bathroom down to the left and our bedroom to the right.

Dining Room. Hopefully the table and chairs will be stained in the near future and the chair covers changed. We were very lucky that all of our furniture was either things that Kyle had or furniture that belonged to my mom prior to her getting re-married.

We aren't sure what to call this room. Study room perhaps.

Kitchen

Half Bath (this is a no-man allowed area haha)

Feel caught up? I don't. The wedding is in two weeks! Two weeks people! Time has definitely flown and I feel that there is still so much to do. Not just with wedding stuff. But house stuff. Boards studying. Etc. Etc. Etc.

I'm exhausted. My body hurts. My eyes are heavy. Love you all. Good night.