The Seasons are Changing

It seems to be a trend I blog every two weeks. The past two weeks have been crazy. Its been the perfect amount of time before I start my new job on Monday at Geo Services. I'm glad to jump right into the working world, God could have not blessed me any more. Its bad to say, but I now just feel like something bad will happen with all this good luck I am having.

Graduation was low key. I truly was not affected by it at all until the moment we moved our tassels from the right to left. I will even go ahead and admit I did shed at tear at that point. I was turning my back and walking out the door of the University of Tennessee with my head held high ready the conquer the working field. I do feel like UT prepared me well for my first day on the job, but I also know I'm leaving with a lot to learn. I'm leaving with lots of great memories of study parties with friends and classmates, I'm leaving weeks where I've been in tears cause of stress, and I'm leaving a university that I'm proud to be an alumni of. I jokingly like to say "I can't believe the let me graduate" I think its funny to say, and the truth is I couldn't have done any of this without the help and support of my friends...especially these past two years where I have really learned what a Christian community is.

Here is a great shot of my family post commencement.


Since graduation pretty much the only other thing I've been doing is Christmas shopping and hanging out with my lovely girlfriend, Kelly. While I'm graduating and going to work she's doing the opposite and going to get her masters. I'm super excited for her to do this and go be a teacher for elementary school kiddos. With such big changes in seasons for both of us its pretty obvious we won't see each other as much. Which leads into why its been so much fun the past month, we've gone on tons of dates to squeeze what time we have together. We've had double dates, surprise dates(it failed, my surprise date was closed), we've had sunrise dates, dates where the parents meet and so much more. It was fun to see the parents have so much fun together, I think we were both shocked how well they got along. Here are some pictures of some of the fun dates we had. These are in no particular order.

Max Patch Sunrise Hike....1 out of the 4 times you'll see Kelly up before 6. And for just rolling out of bed she still looks beautiful.



Following that date we hung Christmas lights (She likes this picture cause I'm using my tool holder in my carhartts)



We also had a blast on a double date with Krista and AJ Babel that I love getting to hang out with!!!


We also went to Grandfather mountian in October with her parents where we just acted goofy the whole time.