Last days in AU

Its hard to believe but today is my last day of work here in Auburn. I am going to stay on with the Truman Pierce Institute doing contract work but it will be different not being in the office everyday with my colleagues.



Leaving Auburn is even harder for Adam. He has been here for over 4 1/2 years and has made so many great friends and connections. He has invested a lot of his time, his sweat, his heart and himself in Auburn! In just the six months I have lived here I know why Adam has loved living here so much. We have been blessed in these last few days by our church family, friends and colleagues with warm wishes, free meals and lots of prayers of support and great hugs to carry us to Starkville!

Adam do it....

2 posts in one day... I know.. I know... a little much for me... but I wanted to share of the break we took from packing on Saturday to go to my brothers and visit with Jackson

I know if you read my sister-n-law's blog you realize how incredibly smart this 2 1/2 year old is but everytime Adam and I are around him we are just more and more amazed at how absolutely brilliant this little fella is. We are in love with him. He has such an imagination and an amazing vocabulary. Have we mentioned that Adam taught him where his patella. Find us another two year old who knows that!
Well Jackson LOVES his uncle Adam and this trip wanted Adam to do EVERYTHING for him. Adam do it he would say....



Well Jackson had a bit of a snotty nose so I said, "Jackson let Mimi get your nose" Jackson said, " NO, Adam get my boogie" Sorry babe. You were pretty much gonna have to do everything.

We need more boxes

Well the time has come to pack up our lives here in Auburn and head to Starkville. I can't believe that six months have come and gone. Life happens quick. So this is what our lives look like right now.


Our goal is to have EVERYTHING packed by Friday when we are heading to a wedding in Jackson and then on to Hattiesburg for Christmas. WE will be heading back on the 28th ,after a detour in Birmingham, to meet the movers on the 29th and then Starkvegas here we come.

I realized before we started packing that so few people have actually been to our home in Auburn so I captured a few pictures before hurricane packing hit.



Here are a few pictures of our humble abode pre-packing storm.

We're not talking Freeze "Tag"

We were tagged by the lovely Samantha to talk about 5 interesting things about ourselves. I am saying WE because if you know me, listing interesting things about myself ranks up there with having a root canal so I am dragging my husband in on this post to make it more complete. As I started compiling this list it came to be a list of interesting facts about mine and Adam's relationship.

1. Adam and I were set up by his sweet sisters Lisa and Lori. Lori wrote the paper in my class about Adam being a "Servant Leader" which peaked my interest and Lisa had the epiphany that she needed to set up "Miss" Amy with her brother so she did all the leg work that led to the magic happening! Thanks sister!

2. What I like to label as our first date (Adam might disagree) was attended by the sisters, Lisa & Lori, Patrick (Lisa's fiancee) and my now mother-n-law. Yep. We do it right. They joined Adam and I after a brief first meeting for a fine cuisine at a campus dining location known as Elam Arms. Only the best. Needless to say great memories were made and I still tease my husband about this "first date". This is why he doesn't call this our first date but labels it our first meeting. Can you blame him?
This picture was taken on one of our first few dates. As you can tell we were already pretty head over heels.

3. Adam and I were in college down the street from each other and didn't ever meet. He was at The University of Southern Mississippi and I was at William Carey College (now William Carey University). Adam's uncle Steve is the basketball coach at William Carey University and we know that Adam came to basketball games during my time there but still we never met!

4. Almost every Christmas growing up our family would pack up the van and head south down I-59 from Gadsden to Hattiesburg while Adam's family would pack up their van and head north up I-59 from Hattiesburg to Birmingham for Christmas. We most likely passed each other every year and didn't know it!!!

5. In the past six months- Adam and I have: Got married, I moved to Auburn, started a new job, Adam wrote a dissertation and became Dr. Knight, I had surgery, and we are moving to Starkville to start new jobs! WOW life happens! and I love him more everyday. Its great to be Mrs. Knight!!

Christmas Picture Fun

While we were home over Thanksgiving we got to experience Christmas picture taking fun with both sides of the family. What other time of the year do you coordinate outfits and squeeze together in front of an inanimate object for a picture. Well I must say we got lots of laughs out of both sessions. I really don't know which was more difficult, wrangling a 2 year old in the picture or wrangling a bunch of adults (at the Knight household). I thought I would share some of the, should I call them, blooper pics. These are two of my favorite "silly" pictures because they show what the shoots were really like. Adam and his dad acting silly and Jackson waiting Uncle Ben to throw him HIGH!!

Allow me to introduce...Dr. Adam Knight

Its official....the countless hours of hard work have payed off. I was able to go to Adam's dissertation defense yesterday and he did a wonderful job. After about a 45 minute presentation (which was excellent and I am beginning to understand a little of what he is talking about) and questions from the audience (professors, students, the audience was dismissed and Adam met with his committee for about another 30-45 minutes fielding questions. I went and waiting in the lab with a student (Matt)that works with Adam and had a nice chat and then in walks Adam's major professor to say "Allow me to introduce, Dr. Adam Knight" He was all smiles!! I am so proud for him!!! He has earned it! I really have never known anyone to work has hard and diligently has my husband does!

Almost There!!

It has been an exciting journey but he is almost there!! My wonderful husband defends his dissertation TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 3rd. The title of his dissertation is "EFFECTS OF INVERSION PERTURBATION AFTER DROP LANDING ON THE LATENCY OF THE ANKLE MUSCULATURE" Did you get that? Yeah that's 164 pages of a lot of really important stuff that I can't really understand but he does. Better him than me! We both have our strong suits. He has worked countless hours, worked on thousand on spreadsheets, typed who knows how many words and tomorrow will be Dr. Adam Knight!!! Keep him in your prayers tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. I will keep you posted.