Graduation!

I feel like graduating from college definitely requires a post...but I don't really have that much to say about it, so I'm just going to make a list.

1. EVERYONE asks you how it feels to be a college graduate.  News flash: it feels exactly the same.  I'm sure around August I'll start feeling it when everyone else goes back to school & I don't.  Or when I get a job.  But right now, nothing is different.  However, I need to come up with a more interesting answer because apparently everyone expects for my life to have been transformed when Dr. Potter put a big piece of paper in my hand.
2. I had all my family & a few friends over to my apartment after the ceremony.  This meant 33 people in my little apartment.  And strangely enough, nothing was spilled or broken...there was a lot of screaming & laughing, but very little crying.  If you'd met all the kids in my family, you'd know that this should be considered a milestone.
3. Favorite part of the night: when I went to find everyone after the ceremony, Shea was the first to run up & talk to me.  And that mischievous little 4-year-old immediately unzipped my gown & stuck her head halfway down it to see if I was wearing anything underneath.  Good thing I was...
4. My grandmother, aunt, & cousin came down early Friday & my mom & I rode up to Dahlonega with them & spent the day walking around the square.  Then Saturday we shopped in Dawsonville & Athens.  My grandmother is my kind of shopper...she can outlast everyone but me (we tie).  :)

And...a few pictures.

 

top: my mom's mom (Grandmama), the Pagetts (close friends of my family...LOVE those kids!)

bottom: my mom's sister (Aunt Debbie), my dad's parents (Mom & Dad...I know, weird...don't even get me started...), my cousin Amy (who graduates next week!)

 

me & my brother :)

 

my family.  I'm the short one, in case you can't tell...

 

friends :)