Ending and beginning to a good week

What an eventful but tiring week it has been! From all night pomp (staying up all night to finish pomping the rest of our homecoming deck) and staying up from 7pm Thursday night to 11am Friday morning, and spending some much needed time with my mom and sister, it has been a blast. 
In case you didn't know, Oklahoma State is very well known for the homecoming celebrations every October! Thousands of people lined the streets of University Ave. Friday to check out all of the fraternities and sororities homecoming decks and to grab a snack.. or two.

Here is a shot of our homecoming deck this year.. which does not do it justice.. And here is a shot of the first place winner this year.. just to give you an idea of how outrageous our homecoming decks are:

I'm truly amazed every October when I see these decks.. so much time and effort.  Homecoming makes me love OSU even more every year.

Aside from Homecoming, yesterday my bff celebrated her 20th birthday (yeah nothing really happens at 20 but we celebrate anyway!)  Her mom made the best bunt cake!! This is a chocolate peanut butter bunt cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate sprinkles.  My bff's favorite is this bunt cake from the store Nothing Bunt Cakes in Norman, but they were all out of this flavor for the month--soo her mom made a nice spin off of it and wow it was tasty!!

And to end my wonderful week I got the opportunity to baptize one of my Switch girls yesterday.  Wow. This picture I feel is such a great capture of this serious and joyful moment in which we were celebrating.  At my church, Lifechurch Stillwater, we had over 80 people get baptized yesterday.  It was such an honor to have been apart of this sweet girl's big day!

On a more personal note, now that homecoming is over I now have enough time on my hands to do things I have been doing but want to do more of.. aka working out, eating healthier, and reading.  I borrowed this book from on of my close friends and have heard manyyy people rave about it! I started it (finally yeah I know Tori) and am already 50 pages in.  It is definitely an eye opener.  It talks about how we live in a society that practices "religion" but doesn't practice a relationship with God.  Today, many people believe that just by "acting" like Christians that they are true Christians. I could go on and on about this book, but you should just read it for yourself!

Your (finally) back for good blogger,

Birthday fun for the roomie & weekend update

As promised, I was going to update you guys on a great past week! It included my roommates' 21st birthday, room change at theta, and the beginnings of homecoming week! 

Here is a pic of me and my old roommates! So sad that I had to leave these babes. Rachel (the girl on the far left in her sassy blue dress) celebrated her 21st birthday this past weekend and we made her a little book of memories and pictures from all of her friends! 

Here's the page I made for Rachel! I loved the cupcake scrapbook paper from hobby lobby and just knew this was the perfect time to use it! My other roommate and I also gave her a sweet little birthday card that we thought suited her and this occasion: 

We had so much fun eating together and helping to celebrate her 21st! Love you Rach! 

This weekend also included a room change for all of the girls living in house. Imagine 96 girls and all their stuff (we have a lot) moving rooms. It was pretty crazy but I now live with more roommates and am getting used to my top bunk bed. 

This weekend we also kick started our homecoming week off at OSU with football frenzy! Aka flag football with sororities and fraternities on campus. Homecoming is OSU's biggest tradition and is unlike any other celebration in the nation. This upcoming week (lol I know it's Tuesday so it's happening now) will be filled with pomping over 24+ hours, late night snacks, and sleepy eyes in class.  But also it will be filled with laughter, homecoming hoops, and house decorations. Love being here and can't wait to share more. 

Your sappy card loving blogger, 

Gettin' a little crafty

Hello friends! I hope everyone is having a good week! This past week (well two weeks) my roommates and I have been getting very crafty! We figured why not take a break from studying & life and do something fun!
Soo here are a couple of the crafts we have been working on/finished for initiation!

 

Some of mine and my roommates Mom/dot (big/little) crafts! I made the box for my dotter and mod-pogued it.  I forgot how much I enjoy mod poging (is that a word?)!

 

USA KAO letters that are so adorable. 

Gotta go celebrate my friend's 21st b-day! I'll take some pictures of our fun night planned.
Your crafty wafty blogger,  (lol idk)

I'm so glad I live in a world with Octobers

October is here! (It has been for a little while I know) October, November, and December are probably my favorite months because of the weather, the holidays and time relaxing and with the family. I feel everyone is getting into the spirit of fall! 

In front of my sorority house the gardeners put out new flowers and pumpkins- they look so good with our cozy brick house. 

A couple of girls carved some pumpkins the other night and I just had to take a picture. I love the way our house looks in the fall. 

P.s. These photos are all featuring Claire-she really wanted to make my blog she said. Lol 

Yesterday, I drove down to see my sister and we decided to go pumpkin picking at a pumpkin patch in Norman. It was so cute seeing all of the little kids so excited to get their own pumpkins. 

My sister and I posing by a hay barrel made to look like a pumpkin. So cute

So many to choose from! We ended up buying thee mini pumpkins (so I could put them in my room) and one big pumpkin we plan to carve today! 

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful October.

Your pumpkin loving blogger, 

Sick as a dog

Hello again! Wow I can't believe it's been so long since I've lasted posted. My life has been hectic, to say the least.  

Currently I am writing to you as I'm sick in bed. I went to the doctor today (waited 4 hours) and found out I have some type of virus. Soooo since I'm supposed to be resting, I feel like this is a good time to blog! 

Here's what I have been up to lately: 

A couple weeks ago we had Dad's day and was so happy that my dad could come! (Hi dad I know you're reading!) Thankful that he puts up with coming to my sorority events when it's def not his first thing he'd like to do on his agenda for the day. Love you dad. 

Here's another part of my last three weeks! Pomping! Yay! Oklahoma State has the BEST homecoming celebration. To say that we go big in celebrating it is an understatement. 

My sorority recently had a date party titled "dress like a sailor, play like a pirate" 

 Here is my showing off my best pirate impression (my hook arm/finger). My pirate costume consisted of a pleather skirt I borrowed from a friend, a scary skelton face shirt I cut and tied, a borrowed American flag bandana (pirates like the USA right?), and my white high top converse--which is all the new thing for pirates these days (lol). 

My sweet dΘtter Kelsey! In my sorority we do mΘm/dΘt instead of big/little. And now that I am a sophomore, I got my little dotter! We had a big reveal this night where we bought a pair of socks and hid them around the house and our little had to go find them and put them on. After she put them on and came outside, she looked for a sock that matched hers like so: 

We had a big curtain up between us both and then when it was time we dropped the curtain and did our reveal! So much fun. 

I'll blog more soon from our reveal and kite flight! 

Well now Im getting really tired and my head feels like it got hit by a car--soo I will have to check in more another time! 

Sorry about my absence, but Ill be back soon after homecoming settles down! 

Thank you! 

Your cough-drop popping sick girl,