Ole Miss Graduate

My Chad started Ole Miss many moons ago. Life got in his way, so it took him a while to finish. BUT HE FINISHED! Thats all that matters in my book!

My younger cousin, Jake, graduated from Mississippi State the same day that Chad did.

My aunt threw them a family divided party to celebrate!!

Here are some pictures from that day....

 Waiting for Jake to walk

Jake

Chad and my mom

Reeves and I with the graduate

the graduate

I love him!!

Reeves fell asleep while Chad pushed him on the swing.

The graduates

A family divided

Waiting on the crawfish

My aunt and I

Reeves and his new friend

The cakes

Chad had such an amazing time!! We want to thank Christie & Paul for throwing such an amazing party!!! Its a day Chad will never forget!!!

Update on the Wicker Family

So, it's been a while. I've missed you. A lot has changed in the Wicker World. I got a job, Chad graduated from Ole Miss, Reeves is potty-trained, talking, no baba 3 year old!

Chad and I had been throwing around the idea of me going back to work for a while. Nothing was concrete, I thought we were just "talking". We were afraid that Reeves wasn't getting enough social interaction. One afternoon Chad asked for my resume. I didn't think anything about it until I got a call from the principal of SHS asking if I wanted to come in for an interview. I called Chad right away, he just laughed. Crazy man. I went for the interview and was hired as the front desk secretary. We quickly (and luckily) found a babysitter for Reeves. She is a nurse and has 5 kids of her own. She was keeping a few other kids at her house. She is a godsend! We are so lucky to have her. Reeves loves her!

Day one of working, I knew we made the right decision! I love the people I work with, which makes leaving my baby all day worth it. I think it has been the best thing for Reeves and I. He has come so far in the last year, he has truly blossomed!

2 months after working at SHS I got the opportunity to be the ADA clerk (attendance clerk). I've been doing attendance for 7 months and I love it!

Reeves is now potty-trained! If you've ever had to potty train a little boy, you'll know how exciting this truly is! We also said bye-bye to the baba! We were so excited to see it go! Reeves has come so far this year with his speech. He was a little behind, I think it was the baba! He goes to speech theory 4 days a week, its more like a preschool. He loves it and its done wonders for him!

Chad has been going to school for the last few years to get his degree in Political Science from Ole Miss. He finally graduated in May 2015!! We are so proud of him! He has plans to get his masters from Arkansas State. I can't wait to see what all he does.

We have been super busy on our little house!! We completely redid the office! We are in the works of making over our master bedroom and bathroom. We have plans to pour new concrete to extend the patio in our backyard soon! As well as tons of other exciting things!!!

Stay tuned to see what all we do!!

Update of the blog

Hey ya'll! Its been a loooooong time and I'm sorry for that! In August 2014 I was sitting in the living room playing with Reeves when I got a call from the principal of a local high school. Long story short, my husband sent him my resume and I got a job! I started a week later. We found Reeves an amazing babysitter who keeps a few kids in her home. I'll share more details later. Things really worked out well for us, but we got super busy! Chad finished his degree at Ole Miss while working full time.

Since I went back to work, I stopped blogging. I missed it all the time! The blog hadn't been up very long when I got the job, but don't worry, I never stopped creating and changing things so I have a ton of updates and new posts for you! (that was the longest run-on sentence ever, sorry!)

Ashley has been just as busy, if not more. I'll let her tell you on her first new post!!!

Stay tuned for the first NEW blog!!!