I did it! I'm posting again, just like I said I would. I am so proud of myself! Scottie will be excited when he gets to see this. He loves "The Get Down". Thanks for nagging me, y'all are good friends.
In honor of posting 2 weeks in a row I decided to upload 71 pictures. I had to be thorough. It's been a busy few weeks. I decided to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas to see my family and all my friends. Most of my friends are graduating in the near future (or yesterday) so I wanted to make it a point to get around to see them all one last time at their colleges...
My journey started in Austin visiting Katie:
In Austin (and probably anywhere else cool) the new thing is to have food places out of trailers. It's awesome! We went to this particular trailer, Gourdough's.
They serve gourmet doughnuts. The best food ever invented.
While in Austin, Katie asked me to dye her hair. She's mentally insane. Luckily, I didn't do any damage but I didn't do much good either. It looked exactly the same. If you ever need hair services my specialties are high and tight's, dying hair to an exact match of your previous hair color, and cutting shaggy college boy hair.
Katie's in a service organization called Texas Spirits. If you go to the University of Texas, you should be in it. They put on a concert for Make-A-Wish Foundation. Aren't they sweet! This is her and her friend Scroggs and her roommate Georgia at the concert.
After the concert we went to the premiere of Harry Potter. It was ok but it ain't no Twilight. We were all really excited...
Katie and I made butternut squash ravioli! But I had to leave before I could try it. I still don't know if it was any good. Katie?
Overall, I loved Austin. Mostly for the food. But also a little bit for Katie. Thanks for dragging me around all week and for letting me destroy your apartment!
Next stop, AggTown! College Station, Texas.
Whitney came and picked me up from Austin and took me to College Station to stay with her and her roommates. While I was there I graduated and chugged a pitcher of beer and got a class ring! Nope, that was a lie. But Whit did those things! Minus the beer, it was non-alcholic because she is a good Young Life leader.
Home, sweet home.
This is the pile of goodies my parents had for Scott. How great are they!? Don't worry, all that stuff is now boxed up and en route to him.
For the first time ever (well, since I can remember) my parents and I had dinner with just the 3 of us at our house. I loved it. So did my parents.
And for dessert, Milk Bones!
This is at 3:30 am the morning after Thanksgiving. We decided to go ahead and get in the spirit by borrowing some sweaters from my mom.
Have you ever tried to chug water?
Last year, Scott got a deer. This is it! And his cousin, Connor.
This is my most favorite Meema, ever. I love her because she makes me food and lets me sleep in late and stay in my jammies all day long.
Doesn't she have a beautiful Christmas tree? If you need your tree decorated, call me. I'm good.
My sister asked me to take some pictures of her and her boyfriend, Colton. And their dog, Uttley. And her BFF/college roommate, Audrey. They're all so stinkin' cute.
Meema and Papa have a picture wall for all the grandchildren. In the past year, 3 of those grandchildren have gotten married. This section of the wall is now referred to as "the old ladies corner".
Betcha can't guess who this little cutie is. Yep! It's my stud husband. I cannot wait to have little babies that look just like this.
I love staying in Tulsa. My visits are always full of doing nothing and lots of love! Just the way I like it.
My sister drove me to Stillwater, OK. Home of Oklahoma State University, where she attends college. This also happens to be where Lauren goes to college!
Danielle and Audrey took Lauren and me to this fancy restaurant in a hotel on campus called The Ranchers Club. They had the best food. And desserts!
Then, we took cute pics.
Later that week, Lauren took me to her CRU Ball! Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) is a Christian organization that reaches out to college students all over the world. Lauren loves it. And so do I!
This is me with Lauren and her roommates, Bailee and Christine, at CRU Ball.
Stillwater was a blast! With both Lauren and Danielle there, I don't know how I could not be. We had a busy week but a fun week. There will be more pictures posted on facebook shortly. I will include a link to them in my next post.
After spending a great week with Lauren we packed our bags and drove to Abilene, Texas to watch Sadie graduate from college!
I am now on the final leg of my journey. Back in Texas! And back home.
It has been a busy month of traveling but I am so glad I've gotten to do it. I've almost fulfilled my goal of visiting all of my friend's colleges. I just need to get on up to the University of North Texas to see my friend, not sister, Danielle and it will be complete. I was able to watch one of my best friends graduate! I got to spend some time in Oklahoma visiting Scott's sweet family. And now I'm ending my trip in my sweat pants, on the couch, in my parents house, vegging out for 2 weeks. I could not ask for a better way to spend my vacation.
I'll post again next week, it probably won't be as exciting. But you never know, weird things happen in this town...
Love, love.
4 comments:
It looks like you had a lot of fun! I've been trying to join the Texas Spirits since I moved here to Austin, but they're meetings never work with my work schedule. I hope I may be able to next fall!
I love this blog thing...it's really cool! Sounds like you are having a lot of fun with your new married life. It gets me excited to what it will be like when my fiance and I get married in a year. I can't wait to see what you do next. Oh, and by the way...I was out late at night between Thanksgiving day and Black Friday and saw this HUGE line of people waiting to get in to Target and thought, "man, they are crazy!!!" HAHA. But it looks like ya'll had loads of fun and got great deals. Anyway, enjoy your time back at home and have a safe trip back to Cali.
It was okay. But I don't want butternut squash again for a good while. I think I had too much. Also, there's a Texas-shaped cutting board at Macy's. You should probably invest in that.
I made the blog! I'm so excited. Even though this one is old, and you might not see this comment. I'm still excited. I'm proud of you too. For different reasons. Mostly that you like to dress in a banana costume.
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