It is finished!!!

Finally, after so many years of working and raising a family while commuting to school, I finally finished my degree! I graduated Magna Cum Laude last Saturday from MS&T (Missouri University of Science & Technology) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences and a minor in Chemistry. I'm interested to see where God will lead me next.

Time flies. I can't believe my little man is 6 years old already. Isn't he a dolly baby?




Merry Christmas and lots of love to everyone!

I'm an official blog slackard!

I know, I know. I'm a worthless blogger right now!

I deleted my Facebook account so don't think I "defriended" you. Just don't have time for all the silliness on there.

I started back to school this week. I am so ready for December to be here! I'm so ready to graduate!!

Josh got married.

Josh's beautiful bride, Rachel. It's so funny. When I was pregs with Josh his name was going to be Rachel if he was a girl. Well it looks like I got my Rachel after all! LOL!

Emily will be 1 on August 31st. Can you believe that little stinker has been walking since she was 9 months old? She's just like her daddy. Josh walked at 9 months old too.

Isn't she perfect? I just love how she's colored like Eric- red headed and brown-eyed. Isn't that funny? She's our little strawberry. tee hee...

Ryan is coming home to graduate from Sullivan High.

Connor started first grade.

Eric and I have been together for 7 years as of August 16th.

Sorry so brief but I have an 8:00 a.m. class tomorrow!!

Tree

XOX

Back from Texas!

Gosh, I shoulda posted this a month ago. It has been sitting in my drafts since May 29!!

I can't believe my baby graduated Kindergarten this year. Here he is on the last day of Kindergarten with his bff, Michael.

We went to Texas for a really quick trip over the Memorial weekend.

I finally got to hold my baby for the first time.

Here is a photo of Emmy and her mama, Rachel.

Connor loves his baby niece

My sister's baby, Savahn, is finally getting some hair and man, is she ADORABLE or what in her little Mexican dress?! Tee hee!

As promised, here is a pic of my new piano. I've always loved music, as you can see of this photo of me with my little toy piano at age 2.

Here I am many, many, many years later. Lots of things have changed in my life but my love for music will always remain the same.





About the RAK, anyone who posts on this thread will get a small token of my appreciation of our friendship. I love making cards, so you will get a little card kit put together by me!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Did everyone have a wonderful Mother's Day??

I had such a great day! I actually won a prize at church for being the youngest Grandma!! LOL!!

After church we all went to lunch. I ended up crying so hard on and off all day because I missed Shirley so much. I also missed Ryan's Grandma, Ruth Ann, who passed away unexpectedly exactly a week after Shirley. So those two things together left me so sad amd with a splitting headache!! Has your head hurt so bad that you felt like throwing up? Well that was me yesterday. We went to see Star Trek yesterday evening (I know, I'm a nerd) and it was FANTASTIC!!!! You should go see it! Even as sick as I was, I still enjoyed the movie.

But on a brighter note, I want to share the most recent picture of Emmy and her mom Rachel. I've only got to see Emmy in pictures because she's in Texas and I'm stuck here in Misery, umm, I meant Missouri. I can't wait to hold her for the first time!

As I said, Eric bought me a piano for Mother's Day. He also got me another hummingbird feeder for our front porch as well as some hanging baskets of flowers. I don't know where the camera card is to my Nikon, so as soon as I find it, I promise some pics of it.

ALSO, Eric bought me a piece of furniture to use as a scrap desk in my scrap room, so this motivated me to clean up what the tornado left behind in there! Hee hee....

While doing so, I came across some stuff that would make GREAT RAK prizes!!

SO stay tuned for:

1. Picture of my new piano

2. RAKS!!!!!!

Tree

XOX

My WONDERFUL husband bought me...

a new (to me!) Yamaha studio piano today for Mother's Day!!! He knows how much music is a part of my being, so he got me the piano today and we pick it up next weekend. Here is the touching part. When his mom died, she left him a bit of money left over after paying for the funeral expenses from her life insurance. So what does Eric decide to do with the money that his mom left him? He buys a piano for ME! God love him. I really don't deserve him. He is so good to me. His mom would be so pleased to know that the money went to the purchase of a piano because she loved music so much as well. I will use this piano to teach her grandson how to play.


OMGosh! I can not believe that I've posted like 3 times within the last few days! I guess I am just now feeling whole again and able to share.

I have two more weeks to go of school. My last final is on May 15th. I will be receiving my Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri in December (fingers crossed!). I hope I can pass my classes in order to complete my degree. So far I'm making all As and Bs. I'm a worry wart. I have to worry though so I can make sure I do well on my exams, kwim?

Thanks for letting me share. I will be posting a pic of the piano real soon!!

Mmmmuuuaaaahh!!

Tree

New find

Ok, I don't have time to make a fancy looking link to this blog that I just found today, but I wanted to share it with you.

http://starlitstudio.typepad.com/

This artist blows me away! When I have more time, I'm gonna check her out some more.

Have an awesome day!

Meet the newest addition to the Tyree clan

Introducing.....

Daisy!

I've always wanted a little girl. Well now I have one! LOL! She's a 9 week old Maltese puppy. I wanted a lap dog so here she is!

:0)

NSD celebration over at AMLT!!

Here are the deets:

http://amillionlittlethings.typepad.com/amlt/

I can't wait to get my goodies!

Enjoy!
Tree

Sad sad

My mother-in-law, Shirley, lost her battle to breast cancer on March 20th. A week later, my ex-mother-in-law, Ruth Ann, died suddenly of a heart attack. My poor son has lost two grandmothers in one week.

Hopefully, I will be able to post more in the future.

Tree

Fun with photos

Here's some fun with photos, created by my sister. Ain't she a kook?? LOL!!





I made this one:



Be sure to leave me a comment if you posted any fun photos of yourself on your blog.
Have fun!