Sunday's are the Best

Seriously, Sunday has to be one of my favorite days of the week. I just love Sundays! This Sunday started with a trip to my Fayetteville church, the Church at Arkansas. I love this church, after coming to college it took me a little while of church hopping before I finally settled with the Church at Arkansas last year. This church is super college focused which is great. Schuett and Nat decided to come with me today to check it out and since everyone was going Dani decided that she wanted to see where we went to church so she tagged along too! I met up with Meag once we got there. Meag's been my church going buddy since freshman year. Since we go to the same church back home it was easy for us to find a church that we both liked up here. The service was great today with probably my favorite line being that "Faith is an action word." This really seemed to hit home with me since its easy to just have faith and not act on it which isn't the way God intended it. After the service I had the opportunity to run into Brad and Debbie who are the couple that runs AAO the non-profit I interned for last semester. I love running into people I haven't seen in a while and it was nice to quickly catch up. After church we decided to grab a quick bite at La Huerta before heading home. Apart from church my other favorite part about Sundays is using them as a day to prepare for the upcoming week. I decided that today I should tackle some cleaning and homework. I love having a clean house at the start of the week and even better was that I got all my laundry done too. Its so nice to start the week without the stress of those little things hanging over my head. Jacob got back into town around five so I headed over there to get some things my parents had sent back up to me and decided to stay and eat dinner with him. Have I mentioned how stinking excited I am that he goes to school up here?, because I'm ridiculously thrilled. I'm now back home trying to finish up some homework for later in the week while watching The Princess Diaries, I'm such a sucker for chick flicks, ha. Happy moment for the day was getting to eat the leftovers my parents sent up with my brother for dinner. It was so fun to catch up with him and have a free meal! Well, bloggy friends I hope ya'll had a great Sunday too!

Hanging on to Summertime

Today was a perfect first official Saturday back to school, well actually today was more of a hang on to summer Saturday. I started the day with some window shopping with B. Nash and Schuett and followed it up with some pool time with Meagan. I love laying out by the pool reading a magazine. I mean I just can't think of a better way to relax than to hang out by the pool and since recruitment I haven't really had a chance to catch much sun and felt like I was beginning to look like Casper. This morning while we were window shopping we stopped by ULTA. I had never been to one before but all my friends from Tulsa love the place and a new one just opened in Fayetteville so we decided we should definitely check it out. It was so cool, it had a ton of makeup and hair stuff. It had brands ranging from drug store stuff to department store brands. It was so neat to just walk around and see it all, and if you know me at all you know I am a straight up girly girl at heart and love all things related to makeup and hair. I definitely recommend stopping in there. So far today has been a perfect first "real" weekend back in Fay. Even with as great as today has been I am so pumped for next weekend and the first Hogs game of the season. I can't wait to tailgate and get to see my family. I just love Arkansas football. So to wrap it up my happy moment for today was getting to catch up with Meagan by the pool. I loved getting to hang out with her since we haven't been able to hang out much since recruitment. Happy Saturday Bloggy Friends!

I'm Back...

Hey bloggy friends (or the one of you that's left since I've left the blogosphere unattended for so long)! I would like to say that my ridiculously long blog break was due to some crazy, outrageous save the world summer I was having, but let's be real that would be a lie. Basically, I just got lazy with the whole blog thing, but with a new school year I'm trying to get back with it. I love being able to look back through the old posts I do have and really want to try and be more intentional with trying to blog. I would try to catch you up with all that's happened since April but that would probably just overwhelm me and cause me to quit blogging again so we're cutting our losses and moving forward from here. With that said, the first week of classes are finally over and so far they seem to be going pretty well. I love that I'm finally in classes that I really enjoy. I'm loving my Public Relations Cases class and creative strategy seems like it should be interesting. I also love that most of my classes have people in them that I have been in class with before, everyone said that eventually you would have all the same people in your classes because your all majoring in the same thing and its finally happened! Yay! Well my happy moment for today goes to opening my window this morning to the wonderful cooler weather and burning my favorite honeysuckle candle while I got ready. Happy weekend blog friends, I'll leave you with a picture of all the Conway Chi O's, love them so much!

Dear Summer Please, Please, Please Hurry. Love Katie

Dear Summer, I need your golden rays of happiness to fill my life as soon as possible please. I need my days to consist of snow cones and work and working out and hanging out with my Conway loves. Thanks, Katie.

So that's my plea with summer, I am currently on the slow trek to the finish line of my junior year. I can't believe this year is almost over, that's sooo sooo crazy. I still feel like this should be the end of my freshman year. I am two classes, two projects, and three tests away from the finish line. In all honesty I really can't complain I don't have more than one thing due on any given day and if it wasn't for the enormity of my internship project hanging over my head I really wouldn't feel overwhelmed at all. Right now my days are pretty much just constantly spent in a state of trying to finish school work or sleeping. I'm pumped because I am done with both of my Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes so the only thing on my agenda tomorrow is work. I'm hoping that with the morning off I'll be able to go to the baseball game tomorrow night if it isn't FREEZING, which is exactly what it was all day today, unbelievably cold. Well, I guess I should get off of here so I can get back to the land of productivity. Love ya lots bloggy friends, picture post coming as soon as I do something fun enough to warrant documentation.

I LOVE Rainy Saturdays

So this post is nothing special, I feel so behind but I don't want the desire to catch up on every detail of the past month hold me back from continuing forward. That's my problem with new year's resolutions once I mess up on them I just quit, so posts about my pit stop/flat in Mobile and the gamma function will hopefully appear someday but until then I'm moving forward. This past week is a complete blur of end of the year-ness. Last weekend was formal (yet another event which I plan on blogging about someday, ha) and it was a complete and total blast. As much fun as last weekend was with formal I have to admit I've loved this Saturday filled with nothingness so much. Last night I made my debut on Dickson, which I loved. I love running into people I haven't seen in a while and that's exactly what happened last night. I ran into a ton of Cway people and a bunch of other people I hadn't seen lately. So after a late night last night I slept in today and then did some errands and just bummed out. I've caught up on some ridiculously old season of America's Next Top Model and napped and listened to the rain outside, it has been so great to catch up on some sleep and rest. Right now I am curled up in Sarah's bed, since she's out of town and has a TV in her room, watching Bride Wars. I think the best part of the rainy weekend was I didn't expect to have any free time since I was suppose to get certified again for lifeguarding, but instead I got to challenge out of all the tests on Thursday so my whole weekend completely opened up. It was such a blessing and another reason I should start listening to my mom and trusting God that things work out. I was getting so stressed out about having so much to do this weekend and then all that just completely worked itself out. My happy moment for the day was getting to show two juniors from Conway around the Chi O house. I love showing people around Chi O and I especially love showing Conway girls around. I just like to think that maybe I can help them see the other side of college that they don't show you on a campus tour, ha. Happy Rainy day blog friends!!

If I could do it again, You know I'd do it the same

My roomies for the week! Love them!

Last Night in PCB!

Round 3 of Birthdayness, Meag met up with us in Panama!

Traditional Birthday Pic part two, looovvee you!

My future roomies, so excited!!!

Panama! OMG, Spring Break 2010 was a success! We all rolled out of Conway at 4 am to head toward Panama City! There were 10 of us from Arkansas and we were meeting two girls from Rhode Island. Nick, Austin, and Matt had left the night before and headed toward Panama and us girls (Nat, Chan, Deb, Dani, Kat, Sgibs) began our mass roadtrip. About 11 hours later we eventually made it to our house. And the 11 hour drive was most definitely worth it! We had so much fun, we went out to Spinnaker's and Sharky's which was SO fun. I celebrated my birthday for at least half the trip, at which point I decided that it was time for my birthday to be over, haha. We layed out a few days and then went to Destin one day and shopped at the outlets. It was just so great to have a break from school and hang out with all my faves, loooved it! So this is probably my last catch up post and I really am hoping to blog more, last night when I couldn't sleep I was reading some of my old blog entries and I realized I would never have remembered some of that stuff if I hadn't blogged it! Love you bloggy friends!

It's Yo Birthday, well actually it was MY Birthday :)

The Bartender for the evening, thanks Jake!

The whole group, I seriously have the best friends EVER!!

Love them so much, thanks for the most fabulous 21st a girl could imagine!

Me & Schuey!

Thanks for pit stopping in Conway for my Birthday!

Me & Kat!

Reunited & it feels so good!

Close up of the gorgeous cake, Lisa's Cake Boutique did a GREAT job!!

The cake again!

KB & Me at Old Chicago for the 1st Drink!!

Time for the BIRTHDAY post!!! BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!! I had the best week long celebration ever. I have the absolute best friends and family ever. On the Thursday before my birthday Schuett rode back to Conway with me and we met up with Emily and KB at Old Chicago at midnight so I could order my first legal drink! It was so much fun, nothing like a birthday cake shot to start your 21st birthday off right, ha. My actual birthday was spent running errands with Schuett and eating breakfast at my regular birthday breakfast spot, Stoby's of course. That night my parents pulled out all the stops and threw me the best birthday party I've ever had. It was so much fun. I love them so much for taking the time to put together such a great night for me and my friends. We had a seafood boil and all my friends from Fay were there and so were my faves from Conway. It was like the best of both worlds! My grandma made me a red velvet cake and my mom also ordered me a cake from Lisa's Cake Boutique. Nini's cake tasted awesome, as always but I was so excited to have a store bought cake too. The cake from Lisa's was SO cute my mom did such a great job picking out a cake that was 100% me! I loved how everything from the party was coordinating, all my friends were like at least we know now where you got your love of coordination and birthdays, ha. On top of that my sweet friends had put together the ultimate girly 21st birthday gift including tiara and nail polish! I have to say 21 was probably the best birthday so far. I can't wait to see what else this year has in store. Ps. Sorry this post was so delayed, the continued birthday celebration pics will come with the Panama post! Love ya bloggy friends!