I have an OSU email now!!!

jennifer.mckinney10@okstate.edu

Email me!

FYI, my Baylor email will work till about October-Novemberish....

April Fools and Life

Oh April Fools, how I love you. For the first time since I can remember I participated in April Fools. Me and my co-workers dressed up as our facilities manager, mustache and all and surprised him. Bless his heart, he is one of the few guys that works in an office with many women and all of our to-do lists. He is literally stretched in 3 different directions daily with all of the things we need done. So to show him that we appreciate him we decided to dress up like him. Mimicking is one of the best ways to show someone you like them!

Will the real Sammy please stand up? Sammy and the Sammies

So I am basically done. I am still waiting on the graduate school to give me the all clear to submit my thesis online, but essentially I am done. There is nothing at this point that will keep me from graduating. So that is very exciting. I have yet to pick up some books and start reading but I think I need to give my brain a rest before jumping back into heavy reading. So for the rest of the semester I will be working, packing, and saying goodbye to friends.

I decided on Oklahoma State University for my Ph.D. program. I am very excited and think it will be a wonderful place for me. I will move there in August and classes start August 17. But I feel good knowing I have a place to go and I have made plans! As for the summer, I am moving back home (cue dramatic music). OK before you judge, let me assure you that me and Mom have set down several ground rules in an attempt to prevent any and all unnecessary problems that might occur over the summer. Luckily I have a job lined up with the National Park Service as a guide for the Alibates Flint Quarry. I am super pumped for this. It pays well and it is my area of specialty. I couldn’t have found a better job and one so close to home. Rent free! I also talked with my grandma and she is going to let me join her quilting group. I have been wanting to start quilting for a while but I have not had the time to do anything. She knows of an easy pattern to get me started on my first quilt. I can’t wait!

As for everything else in my life, Izayah turned 2. Kris, Shawnta’l, and I drove down to Fritch and celebrated. Here are a few wonderful pictures of the boy-o:

The ginormous bubble wand I got Izayah. Oh how he loves bubbles!


I am going to Houston for Easter to spend time with some friends I haven't been able to hangout with since I started my masters. I need to spend as much time with friends before the Ph.D. program starts. I can only imagine how much work that is going to be. Oh well....