Hello again.
In my previous post I spoke of our after Christmas days with my family. While on our visit, my mother was dying for a family picture of our clan as it isn't often we are all together. So, I of course obliged and whipped out my camera for the occasion. My youngest sister's boyfriend was nice enough to come over one morning and snap a few photos of all fourteen of us. It's difficult to get a whole bunch of people to cooperate, especially with little children in the mix, but we managed.
I thought I should do a little blog post on my side of the family as I know most of you have never met them...and of course Steven's side will soon follow (so prepare yourself Sprayberry fam;) )
So, here we are.
Meet my fam.
Allow me a few moments to brag on them, shall I.
Meet my mom and Dad.
These little children in their arms are their grand kids. They even have one more on the way in April. Oh, not from me of course. Whew.
My dad is an ER doctor in a college town and has been practicing medicine for 28+ years. Yes, I suppose I'm living my parent's life all over again married to an ER doctor myself.
My mother was once a secondary school teacher teaching classes such as Chemistry and fancy sciences I don't really understand. She stopped teaching when I was born, I'm pretty sure, and decided to be a stay at home mom. I'm sure I was like three kids rolled into one. ;) They met at Mississippi State in undergrad, were only friends at first, and then soon took a turn into romance.
Fun fact about my mother... in college she dated a
very famous author for a few years. I won't tell you who but I'll give you a few little hints. He's southern, went to law school, and has been known to write legal thrillers...
Now onto the oldest child in our family.
Meet my oldest sister and her family.
Carla and I are one grade apart and shared a room for most of our childhood. We eventually had our own bedroom and she so kindly stole my American girl doll Samantha from me because I was terrified she would come alive and kill me in bed...but that's another story for another day.
Carla went to undergrad at Ole Miss, majored in Political Science, and began dating J.B. her senior year. After college she then went to law school at Alabama (can I get a roll tide?) and married J.B. the year before she finished.
After marriage and law school they moved north to Boston, MA where J.B. attended Harvard law school. Yes, they are both smarty pants.
While J.B. studied Carla found a job and worked as a practicing attorney in the city. After graduation they moved to New York City for a year so that J.B. could do a prestigious clerkship with a judge there. It was here that Carla decided to leave her law degree and change her career to cooking enrolling at the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan. Fun fact about Carla if you know anything about cooking...she cooked at a restaurant in the Trump Tower Hotel during school and cooked under famous dessert chef, Johnny Iuzzini.
After New York they moved back to Boston where J.B. worked, Carla had a baby boy, and then they decided to fly off to Pasadena for yet another clerkship for one year. Now they reside in Washington D.C. and hope to stay there permanently as of now. She's the one expecting in April.
Okay, on to the next child in line.
OH, that would be ME!
Ahem, since I'm not really into bragging about myself on this blog I'll skip to the third child. Plus, you already know all that you could possibly want to know about us. ;)
So here's the third.
Meet my sister, Katie.
She's the cute short one in the green shirt.
Katie also went to Ole Miss for undergrad, even though I tried my hardest to persuade her to come to Bama after showing her a rockin' good time at a sorority party. ;) But alas, she followed Carla's footsteps.
Katie majored in secondary education and English but ultimately desired to go overseas to the Middle East where her heart had been for quite some time. Soon after college Katie joined an organization for two years and traveled over to Eygpt, living there for six months learning Arabic. I've never heard her speak it fluently but my parents went over for a visit and claim her Arabic is remarkable. Which is quite impressive--apparently Chinese and Arabic are the two hardest languages to learn in the world as they play so much on unique tones. After Eygpt she then moved to Amman Jordan where Katie worked at a gym, teaching the Jordan gymnastics team. Katie was a gymnast throughout childhood so this was a perfect fit for her. Fun fact about Katie...while she was there she coached Princess Rahma's daughter and had many a conversation with the princess of Jordan. Pretty neat if you ask me.
After returning from the middle east she enrolled in the Kanakuk Institute for a year, living in Branson Missouri.
She is now located in Texas getting her degree in Arabic studies at a seminary there. Isaac definitely misses his DD.
Okay, had enough of my family yet?
No?
Good. I'm still going.
Meet the only brother of four girls. Bless him.
My brother Cameron.
And his beautiful wife, Rachel.
Cameron went to undergrad at Auburn University. The only child so far to stay close to home. There he majored in Biology (I think?) and aspired to attend med school after. My brother is one of the smartest people you will ever meet. I would say he's the smartest in the family (GASP! Don't choke Carla). After college Cameron received early acceptance to medical school at UAB and currently is enrolled in his second year there. I can still remember the day that Cameron got accepted. He and I flew out to visit Carla when she lived in New York City and we were shopping in Century 21 when he got an email alert on his iPhone. Got to love technology folks. He had a huge grin on his face and read the first line to me, "Congratulation, you are accepted...." We all jumped up and down and gave plenty of sisterly hugs. Immediatly after he ran outside to call his best girl. Rachel.
Rachel also went to Auburn University and majored in speech pathology. She practices in Birmingham schools while Cameron studies away. We love Rachel and soon realized after meeting her that she was the best fit for our family. Sweet and somewhat quiet. Which is needed in our house with a bunch of loud mouth sistas! ;)
I've noticed that all my fun facts regarding my siblings feature someone famous in them. I'm not really sure why, it's just what popped into my head. So, I'm not sure if I have a fun fact on Cameron and a famous person...but I'm sure there's one soon to come. So...fun fact about Cameron? He's hiked down and up the Grand Canyon all in one day. And if you've hiked the Grand Canyon, as I have, you know that's a real feat. He'll tell you that it was a miserable experience ;), but it's still an accomplishment nonetheless.
Now last but not least...the baby of the family.
And boy is she a baby. hehe. Just kidding Camille.
Meet Camille.
Here she is with her boyfriend Mark.
Camille started her undergrad at Alabama, you may remember, majoring in Communications...public relations I think? She decided to transfer to Auburn University after one year. She's a home body, that girl, and that's okay. There needs to be one of those in every family! I'm sure my parents are glad there is. So she is now in her sophomore year of school majoring in...organic gardening?? Camille is going to kill me because that's not exactly the name of her major but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called. All I know it revolves around the management of farming/gardening. This girl screams farmer doesn't she? ;)
She has a lot of college left to go and know she will have just as good of an experience as the rest of us did. Hmmm...fun fact about Camille? Let me think. She once fell out of a tree in the middle of nowhere Africa and survived to tell about it. I jest, but it
was quite a serious fall when she was 7 years old and we
really were in the middle of no where Africa.
So folks, that's my family.
Hope you enjoyed this little tidbit of knowledge of my crazy bunch and wasted a few moments of your life away reading.
Be back tomorrow.
Umm...instead shall I just say...
be back
shortly.
