Sarah's blog

I want to make a post

2006-09-05T18:05:00.000-07:00

SO my camera is being weird and it is getting fixed right now so I don't have any fresh photos. I did have some photos that I don't think I ever posted from when I was at home in May before I went to Branson so I think I will put those up now....

At Wakulla spring putting back some dew. Does it get much better than that?

David and me in towels.....around our heads

When I was home in may I got my wisdom teeth out a week before I left for branson. THese are my teeth and I am sorry if it grosses you out but I am kinda proud.

Sketchy man...

Jenna and I were in wal-mart shopping for stuff for her room. We found this amazing moose statue and wanted to buy it for calyn. We settled for a photo instead.

...actually two photos.

Jenna was spending the night and we were scrapbooking and David came by to hang out but he did not scrapbook.

cheese

always an attractive face to make...bold strategy

We asked Anna to bring in the cd player from Mom and Dads room and she did

my sisters came to visit and it was fun the end.

2006-08-17T22:01:00.000-07:00

Classes started this past Wednesday which is crazy because I feel like I just took finals last week. I have been in Auburn for forever so I am glad that I am getting some sort of routine. My sisters came my first weekend I was back in Auburn which was so good because I had not seen Bekah since May and when the rest of my family came to visit me in Branson I did not get to spend much time with them so it was super to get to see them again. They came Friday night and stayed till Monday morning. We went shopping, took a road trip to Montgomery to get my phone fixed, went swimming, watched movies, I got my room settled in, got snow biz, ate Chinese, and hung out...I love them....

We went over to Big Leslie's(Leslie Peacock) new house and she took some sister photos for us

On the way back to the dorm in front of the stadium

Rachel did not get the memo that this was a cute photo not a first grade smiles photo

We went to Panda Chinese Restaurant one night because it is so good

(In a sing song voice) SHe's my sister...I love my sister....Beeze do you remember when we would practice that song and the motions over and over until we got them right? Oh Lucy and Tina what would we do without them? I wonder what they are doing these days...

I promise I will not love lick ya

SIKE!!! We so need to bring this word back...

I am so glad we got sunburned when we were only outside for what...10 seconds? That water was like bath water that we swam in

Beeze you be lookin so good!

i did not know my face could look like this

first grade smile

Bekah you look like you are saying, "look at the size of that thang" from Sweet Home Alabama

Rachey and Anna on the other side of the table...

This photos just sums up Rachey and Anna....Rachel has to go and pick on somebody else and eat their food when she can just keep to herself and eat her own food and Anna freaks out and has some really loud screeching sound come out of her mouth. This photo was not staged at all believe it or not.

So cute...you would never have known that Rachel just grabbed Anna's food right out of her hand and ate it...so sweet....

Awkward positioning guys...

So yeah I was so glad that they were able to come since we decided like the day before. I have the best family ever!

I figured out how to work my blog again!!!

2006-08-16T21:48:00.000-07:00

Wow, well since I have not posted all summer I have been kinda dreading this one because it is going to be long. I guess I should go ahead and start on it so that I can finish it before something else that needs posting happens…..

So yeah this summer I was in Branson, MO with the Navigators as a team leader for Silver Dollar Summer Training program. I learned so much about leading in love and turning to the Lord DAILY for strength, peace, and guidance. I guess I will post photos and hopefully you can get a feel of what I did this summer and learn some names and faces so that when I share stories you can picture (can I put photo here?) it in your head.

This is Casey. She was a team leader from the University of Texas. We hit it off right from the start as you can see it might be a little hard for me to find somebody like me but I think you can tell from the photo that there was a connection.

This is Casey, Nate Brown, Andy, and me. We were a team for a scavenger hunt during team leader training. We had the best team ever. Our team even carried over into Lake Day when we went tubing and had this huge tube that could comfortably fit four college students. We were unstoppable and were so exhausted the next day from holding on for dear life and making sure no one on our team was left behind. But yeah this was at a lookout over Branson that we found during our scavenger hunt and so we got our photo taken.

Andy at Andy’s. The Scavenger Hunt involved us driving around and finding chosen ice cream/dessert places and this was one of them.

One night during team leader training we went to a Branson show called “Celebrate America”. This is Casey if you have not figured it out by now.

Caitlin, Casey and I got a photo with “Ken” who was in the show. We named him Ken because he looked like Ken and he had high kicks that were amazing.

Group photo of all of the staff and team leaders with some of the little girls that were in the show

Liz, Sam(who were both team leaders), and I were about to go to Wal-mart and when we were driving away we realized that Liz had a flat tire and so we changed it all by ourselves. We were so proud. Andy came up half way through and said he wanted to help but we would not let him because we wanted to do it by ourselves.

This is my wonderful team who I love so very much: Liz, Cassandra(San), me and Erin. We found this car in the parking lot and oh it was so hott!

So everybody at the program either worked at Silver Dollar City or Celebration City. Celebration City is a theme park that is set in the 50’s and SDC is a theme park set in the 1800’s. So every day for work since I worked in the kiddy area I wore a 1800’s bathing suit which as you can see from the photo was incredible. My girls worked in concessions. Liz is showing a little bit of leg….scandalous.

Ryan, Tomcat, Half pad lock(because he wore a half of a pad lock around his neck), Shannon and Jonathan at the bottom. We all lived in a hotel together. The guys were on one side and the girls on the other. We had some pretty fun times of hanging out in the hallway.

One if the first nights we were there we went mini golfing and go cart riding.

Our team name is the Cobras. We had the best team ever.

I love this photo. Erin looks like such a babe and I am doing my best to put out the vibe

I think we had more fun taking photos on the random animals around the course than actually golfing. This is Hanley, Philip (the STP director), Richard and then Colton, Philips kid on the bottom.

Hanley got a tattoo over the summer. It was on the top of his foot and it was gushing blood everywhere. It looked like it hurt pretty bad.

Ok see the SDC people worked from 11:30 to around 7:30 and the CC people worked from like 2 to 10 because the park does not open till later. One night after work my team and some other people went over to CC and rode some rides and saw everybody. Here is Andy as an area host working so hard.

“Michael, look at this KU blanket they are selling at SDC!!!” yeah so last summer I was at Jax STP where everybody that goes there is from Kansas and Nebraska and so being up north west I saw a lot of KU fans and I wanted to freak out and talk to every person I saw that was wearing some KU gear because I know people that go there. This one store in the park was selling this blanket and had to take a photo with it to suffice for not buying it.

One night the Cobras actually got dress up and looking nice and went out to Olive Garden.

Liz and me…oh man I love her so much.

Because we were SDC employees we got to go to all of the shows and attractions for free which is really cool because each show costs about 20 to 30 bucks sometimes more. This is us at a thing called Ride the Ducks. You get these cool beaks that quack when you blow in them and you ride in this boat/car that takes you on a tour of Branson and then you drive into the water and the car becomes a boat.

This is Caitlin and she is on EDGE at the University of Alabama. She spent the summer as staff and poured into us as women team leaders and helped out wherever needed. I love her so much and we had to many good talks till way to late at night.

We got a 25 pack of tattoos from Wal-mart and used almost all of them on the four of us. This is our mean faces and us saying something tough like, “Whado say?”

We got asked out on a date by a guys team. They asked us to go to a beach cookout by laying an invitation in the middle of a inner tube and delicately laying plastic cobras around the edge of the invitation with one cobra even tied around a bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers

Nate Brown’s team asked us and they are the Matchstick men

One night we went to a show called Cirque. It was a show of acrobats, trapeze, all of that kind of stuff. It was really incredible all of the stuff they could do. Let’s see in the photo we have Erin, Tomcat, Nate Christianson, Alexandra, me and Katie

This is Erin who goes to Auburn. I discipled her spring semester and then convinced her to come to SDS ’06 and she ended up being on my team and now I can not wait to serve with her in Auburn this year.

Nate, me, and Erin’s head. Good move Erin, Bold strategy, stellar execution

I got to sit by Casey during the show….I love her

The whole group that went to the show

On the way back from the show we had to pile a bunch of people in the car I don’t remember why but it was just on the way back because everybody had seatbelts on the way there. I think somebody lost their key or something.

So we took some photos while we were crammed in the back of the car. It was dark outside but I needed to block my eyes from the bright flash that kept occurring.

Stephen, me and Erin

Our date to Moonshine beach which was lake water and I think ground up mountain as sand…..we weren’t sure. The guys cooked out for us and it was really yummy.

We were eating ice cream sundaes for dessert and I ended up smashing Liz’s bowl in her face and a food fight broke out. Before it got out of control a park ranger informed us that the park was closing in ten minutes and we had to be packed up and out of there so we quickly rinsed off and packed up.

Sick Liz, sick

Before Nate knew what was going on we grabbed handfuls of ice cream and smashed it in is face.

This is Katie. She worked in the same area at Liz Sprayberry (the team leader liz) at the park. Katie actually only worked at SDC for half of the summer before she went home for the second half. One of the last nights she was in town some of us went out to dinner and hung out.

Caitlin, Erin, Katie, Liz and me

We are so sad because Katie is leaving the next day.

Hanging out at the hotel before we said goodbye

Joel playing with my cap gun

So one Monday night we left Branson to go to St. Louis which was four hours away. Tuesday and Wednesdays were our days off because worked on the weekends and so this Tuesday was a “do whatever you want with your team day” and so we teamed up with Timothy’s team (minus Timothy because he was out in Colorado at this time for EDGE training) and went on a road trip.

Erin and me at like two in the morning….half way to our destination.

San and I about to check into the hotel at 4 in the morning

Good thing we can count on the guys to keep us awake….well at least Patrick

When we first got to St. Louis we had a little praise and worship with Nick on the guitar in the parking lot and then we got on the metro thingy and took it into the city. This is Patrick, Nick (Liz’s twin bro), Liz, and San.

Me, Erin, Nate, Dustin, and Stephen on our side of the bus

While we were riding into the city I thought and said, “I wonder if they have a Hard Rock Café here…I hope they do because I would love to go to it.” Then, right when we got off the metro there was a Hard Rock right in our face. It became a joke throughout the day to say, “I hope we don’t miss the Hard Rock because it is so hard to find.” So yeah this is us at Hard Rock Café. We even got matching t-shirts because we are cool.

Nate and Patrick Hard Rocken it

Group photo….The other three guys went to a seafood restaurant….us cobras stick together

At union station there is this pond/lake in the middle of it and there were so many fish

Patrick caught a turtle for us

Cobras + Turtle = love

Union Station

The Wild Stallions

Group photo although we were not really ready as you can tell

The arch!! It was incredible.

It was such a beautiful day. After we went up in the arch we took a nap under it while the guys went and had some team time

In order to get you and the arch in the photo the photo taker had to lay on their back in take it upwards…hardcore I know

Team Cobra excited about going up to the top of the arch

This little bubble held five people to ride to the top. I don’t think you would make it if you were Closter phobic

This is one photo from the top of the arch that I thought worth posting because of the shadow and how cool it looks

There was this cool vent thing that was blowing air up and you could hold the Frisbee to look like you were not holding it but I was not very good at it

So pretty

The cathedral with the arch in the background

We explored the city before heading back home and I had fun climbing on this thing before I was told that drunk people climb up there and yell a lot. Once we were done exploring the city it was about 10:30 and so we headed back home. We got stuck in really bad traffic and did not get home till around 4 in the morning. Needless to say it took awhile before I felt decently rested.

On my birthday I was woken up by a knock on the door where Casey and Liz Sprayberry had flowers, mountain dews, and some cute journals for me. I soon realized my team was not in the room and Casey and Liz informed me to be ready in 10 minutes because we were leaving. Casey’s team drove me over to CC where there was a kitchen for us to use and my team had gotten up and made pancakes, bacon, eggs, and had orange juice. It was so sweet. They even had candles but no lighter so we just pretended they were on fire and went on with things

Me blowing out my candles that were on “fire”. My favorite part about this photo is Liz being the proud mom or something and being all excited that her child is successfully blowing out the candles….that were on “fire”

After breakfast I through around the Frisbee with Andy and then my team and I went to Moonshine beach where Andy’s team met up with us. We had fun making pyramids in the water and never really succeeding because we were laughing too hard and just did not have enough balance. After we got enough sun we went back and got ready and then went and saw Cars in the imax with pretty much the whole STP group. Then we headed over to Steak n Shake where Tomcat got up in front of the whole restaurant and had them sing Happy Birthday to me. This is Liz Sprayberry and me with the hat that they put on me while singing.

Oh my

Nice Caitlin

haha

Josh one of the team leaders

Casey’s close up

Liz, me and Kenzie (Philip’s daughter). All of the single shots up above Kenzie took. She is a very good photographer

During one of the Team Leader Trainings (we had TL training every Monday from 12 to 4….we did not work on Mondays…only the team members did) we played bigger or better and we got a broken wheelbarrow from this man in a wheelchair. He was just sitting in his yard hanging out.

So one night we did some major pranking on the guys. We tried to do something to every guys team and I am pretty sure we succeeded. This is Caitlin and Michelle taping Branson Broachers together to wrap Andy’s car with

Saran wrapping broachers to Andy’s car

Andy’s car

Erin and I were in charge of coloring the guy’s car windows. We did the front so that when they were driving their faces were in the box. They turned out amazing

The finished product of Nate Brown’s front window

Have you ever seen the commercial?

Sabrina on the back of Jonathan’s car. Just a nice little morning message

“no, we are not a sailing company”

Jonathan’s front window

So good

A little Christmas spirit in July

The back of Nate Brown’s car

Don’t mess with us when we have our paint markers…..we are on a mission

Honk for the happy couple

hahaha

The pranking moved inside to the guy’s doors. We had saved up cans throughout the summer and had collected cans from some of the guys that had so generously donated to our cause(little did they know it would stab them in the back). We stacked them up leaning against Timothy’s door so that when he opened his door they feel in on him…..and they did.

Great stacking Erin

These cups had water and fish food and they stunk

Coffee filters? Sure that works for me

Branson broachers never get old

A whole phone book ripped up and saran wrapped in

Don’t mess

The beautiful pranked hallway

Back outside wrapping Richards SUV with Saran wrap.

Job complete now off to bed. We had to wait until everyone went to bed which meant we did not start working until 1 a.m. and finished around 4 in the morning. No one caught us though well they knew it was us but they did not catch us in the act. Sneaky Sneaky…

This sign sums up Branson really well….

One Tuesday we went to Eureka Springs for the day to shop and hang out and this is Erin and I in the car on the way

On the way we stopped and saw this glass church. It was really cool because it felt like you were outside but you were in a building because all of the walls and the ceiling were glass

It was so pretty. It was right in the middle of the woods

Liz Sprayberry….I love her

Liz and me at the Mexican restaurant for dinner

Steve Shank was one of the directors of the program. His wife Kara met with me weekly and I love them so much. They have the cutest little girl, Payton and are expecting another one. This is Shank acting like the statue behind him

One day my team and Liz Sprayberry’s team rented a boat. Liz and I got temporary boating license which involved taking a test. It was so nerve racking because I was the one who had to drive the boat in and out of the marina and I had really never driven a boat before but it went smooth and we are all still alive.

We had this huge tube and so that was a blast. We also drove to a cliff and jumped off. It was about 25 feet and I did a backflip off.

Erin and I in action….I am not really sure what happened next…..maybe that is not a good thing…

Cobras unite!!!

On the boat…..we had so much fun listening to music, dancing, rock climbing, tubing, jumping off cliffs, and cruising around.

For one of our group dates they took us to see the “Beatles”. It was really cool. They played all of the instruments live and their voices really did sound like the Beatles. This is us with the Beatles after the show

Hanging out in Andy’s car after we got back from Ultimate one Sunday night at like 2 in the morning. Jonathan is sitting in Andy’s lap and I am in the front seat…we were not driving like this though just chilling

David, Anna, and Nate in the backseat..Rachel was there too at some point but I don’t know where she was when the photo was taken…oh yeah my family came up to visit and my dad spoke.

We went out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant one night and here is Benjo being so cute

I could just eat him up!

My family was there for the celebration program close to the end of the program

Liz and me

Erin was one of the team leaders. We tried to get together every night to pray for each other. I love her so much

Team photo

At the beginning of the program we were challenged to memorize a verse a day in 1 Thessalonians. We made it a team event every night and made up motions to go with the words. At the banquet we performed our verses with motions for everyone. We were wearing dressing and so brought t-shirts that we made because our moves involved San jumping into our arms and doing high kicks.

Paul, Silas, and Timothy is how the verses started off.

It was so fun having my family there even though I did not have a lot of time to spend with them.

Rachel, me and Anna

I love my family.

What then?

Jonathan, Andy, and me

I love my working partner

Florida navs!!! They let me in the photo since FSU is where my roots are

I miss my girls…Erin needs to hurry up and get to Auburn

Cobras Unite!!! And David in the background….

Go Noles!!! I get to see them really soon when I go white water rafting with the navs from FL! Can’t wait!

I miss Casey

Team Leader Girls….oh man how I miss them

Rachey!!!!!!!!!

Katie another team leader

Is it prom? Nope just the celebration banquet

On the swing on our way out

So yeah….there are many more photos but this is kinda the overview of my summer. It was amazing and I learned so much…I say “GO TO A NAV STP!!!!!”

Family Vacay

2006-05-23T20:23:00.000-07:00

This was the third year that my family went to Destin for a week. It is always so relaxing and good just to get away and not do anything too stressful. It was sad because Rebekah could not come because she is taking classes. She was greatly missed and I was so glad to see her when I got back. We spent the week laying out, throwing the frisbee around, watching movies, scrapbooking, biking, scrapbooking, playing cards, shopping, swimming in the pool, taking walks on the beach, eating, and spending time with the family. My mom took all of the serious/good pictures with the regular camera so I just kinda have the goofy ones.

We were getting ready to go shopping for a little bit and we started messing around with our hair and discovered the new stlye that everyone needs to have. It is hott...We call it the choking look which Rachel is demonstating by her face.

Allison, one of my best friends from Auburn, came to Destin for a couple of days before she had to head to Auburn for summer classes. We were in Ross and found these incredible moomoos.

This is Allison and I showing how we feel while wearing these amazing moomoos.

We made Pina Coladas a lot because they are good and everyone in my family likes them.

not quite ready for the photo

I just love that we are out of control and sweet Allison is just waiting in the backgroud with her cup in hand ready to take the photo.

This photo might not be appropriate to post but the story is really funny and I just want everyone to be a part. David wanted to get his butt tan becase and I quote, "I want to have a tan butt so that when I moon my friends they won't say, 'your butt is really white'" we said, "do you moon your friends often?" and he said, "yes."

Have you ever seen the commercial for Universal Studios and there is this big lady during a ride that is screaming at the top of her lungs and holding her two kids to her chest?...well that is what we were doing.

cute picture after laughing our faces off while taking the previous photo.

Benjo and Leah

Wednesday night we met up with this random youth group by our condo and went to this big thing called Revolution with lots of youth groups and there were some bands and they had a speaker and pizza and stuff. Their youth pastor was really funny and my favorite part of the whole time was riding to and from the church to the Big Kahuna, the water park, where the event was held.

Thursday night we went and rode go carts and played miniture golf. Leah was not so thrilled once we got started on the go carts. I think it hurt her stomach a little too much.

Jessica Delgado is a friend from Camp Good News that works in Destin so she came and hung out with us Thursday and Friday night.

Lydia's golf ball fell into the lake and Jessica came to the rescue and got the golf ball back to safety.

Group photo with the gorilla...everyone should have one.

Rachel, Anna, and I went shopping with my mom and we found these cute sundresses. It was a little funny us being matching and the dresses did not really fit right, but we had fun trying them on.

When we got back in town on Saturday we went to Sonnys which was funny because we had gone to sonny's on the previous Saturday on our way out of town(kids eat free on Saturday), well David and Lydia both got their drinks and we were laughing because Lydia got an adult cup and David got a kids cup.

Good Vacation

Calyn came to pick me up

2006-05-12T16:49:00.000-07:00

Monday I finished finals!!! Yea!!! They dragged on for so long. Calyn got to Auburn Monday night at around twelve (so I guess it was really Tuesday but the next day does not start until you go to sleep). I was not able to leave until Thursday because of R.A. stuff and so Calyn kept me company for the few days after finals until we could come home.

On Tuesday morning we had a fire alarm go off at 9:00 a.m. KeKe, the 6'7 basketball player that lives in my dorm set it off with the shower. It was really funny because she did not come out because she wanted to get dressed and stuff because when she was telling Calyn and me the story she said, "do you think there is a towel that is big enough for me?" so the fire men found her in her room. Can you imagen going into a room to save someone and it being Keke? We went back to bed and then got up at 2:00...yes I know that is late but we were up really late and I had not gotten any sleep the past few nights. We went to Jonathan Peter's pool at his apartment but it was so cloudy and the water was freezing so we sat on the side and talked for awhile.
the ceiling fan down. It was very entertaining because they had never done anything with ceiling fans before. Michael, Jonathan's brother, was there too with lots of good commentary.

"what do we have here?

"It is a very rare species of human form"

We were there for emotional support

One of the many photos of us with our mouths open

I just don't think I have any words to describe this photo

I love this photo because there is not a right way up

We left for a little while and went and played Ultimate and then came back and Jonathan made cookies and we watched a movie. Jonathan is quite the cook.

Wednesday we were supposed to go to Chewakla for a cookout but a massive storm came through and so we just went over to Con's apartment and grilled out hotdogs there.

We did go to target before the cookout and old navy and this guy was really cute on the wall so we took a photo of him

Some of the guys.

look!

I like this photo

We were headed back to the dorm and Anthony tapped on our window and informed us that we had a flat tire. So we put the spare on and got a new tire the next day.

I love that this stuff always happens when it is raining outside

"but I don't know how to change a tire"

"good thing we have Anthony here to teach us how"

Group photo under the umbrella

On the way home we discovered that Calyn's cupholder was portable

While cleaning out my room to move out we found some great e-mails from the past....

On the way home we stopped by the Kuder's and David was not there so we left a note and took a photo with it...

...in his bed.

Taking a pit stop

2006-05-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had two crazy boys come through Auburn for the night. I was hanging out at Shelley, Fran, Spott, Monk, and Sarah Nell's house with Amy Boyd for the afternoon and so they met us over there. Monk's sister got married today and so they were headed out for the weekend looking hotter than ever. We stopped by Kroger to get some things for the sophomore dinner later on in the night.

On our way out of Kroger. David is excited to be in Auburn for the first time and I am joining him in his excitement.

We ate dinner with Superdad and Grandmama at the motorhome with Kenneth. It was weird because Alec and David had never met them but they knew who each other were. I am just glad we made that connection. When Superdad, Grandmama, and Kenneth headed out to the Auburn baseball game we left and went to Samford(where the big clock is), met up with Whitney and Julieann who were on a walk, and had a photo shoot......

When you come to Auburn it is a must do to get your photo at the intrance sign. David just looks like a natural...

First awkward moment of the weekend captured on film

that's better

there is the clock the chimes and it is cool

I'm pretty much really proud of this photo

I don't know what is going on in this photo

the boys and me

this photo pretty much sums up the whole weekend

so cute...aaawwww

I don't really know what to say about this other than...haha

I am officially laughing out loud while I am posting these

of course Alec would take the spot light and be in more than half of the photo.

Right at this moment I thought, "Geeze have a been showing cleavage this whole time while bending over?" and so Alec and David decided they wanted to show their cleavage in the photo

Whitney, our lovely photographer

I love that this is really corny

I can't jump as high as David because I have a skirt on..no fair

on top of the sign

this photo is just really cool

Whitney was just all over the place

Whit and Julieann were matching and we were reliving our trip to Boaz with the hair

After our photo shoot we headed over to Jessica and Lauren's apartment where we had a Sophomore dinner to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. We had a pinata, tacos, pina coladas(no alcohol), and everyone was still in town so that was good.

Amy, Jess, Lil Leslie and me. Amy is so amazing how she gets into everything hard core.

once again + Reagan

We waited awhile for Nathan, Allison, Zach, and Dan to get back from the store to pray for the food but they were taking so long we eventually just gave up and prayed. Well needless to say when they got back and we had prayed they were a little hurt so they formed their own prayer circle and blessed their food on their own.

Everyone was asking me, "Does every guy from Florida have long hair like that?" I said, "no, just Alec and David."

We had a drink spill and so Allison was being so sweet and cleaning it up and Nathan was helping out by wiping it up with his hair. He said, "I just want everyone to see that I have a servant heart." and then he looked up to the ceiling and said, "That one was for your God." so funny.

Allison took photos of the Pinata busting. I have not laughed so hard in all of my life. Watching people swing and miss and stumble around..man...I had to sit down to laugh. So yeah, after we did that we headed over to Cody, Matt, and Bilbos and hung out with Jonathan Peters and some other people. The boys stayed at Jonathan's apartment and so we went over there and were up till 5. Alec was falling asleep and I said, "don't go to sleep we only have this one day to hang out." He said, "Sarah, if we go to bed we can get up and actually be able to comprehend what is going on" so I told them to bring me to my dorm room so that we could get some sleep. It was light outside when I went to bed. No good. We got up at around 10 and went to Chewakla for the day. David took most of the photos with his camera but I do have a few....

being studs on the water fall

The weather could not have been more perfect

ta-da! (or ta-ta for some of you)

While we were at Chewakla we called Mrs. Eileen because they were originally supposed to leave Saturday morning and we had already pushed the limits because it was about five in the afternoon and they were still in Auburn. We called to see if they could stay later and Mrs. Eileen said she was not even expecting them until late tonight so we said "sweet" and left Chewakla to get cleaned up and go to dinner.

David blow drying his hair.

We went to Brick Oven for dinner because David said that he wanted to make sure that all of my blog posts looked the same and he wanted to get the full Auburn experience.

We wanted a group photo and so Alec decided that we would use the timer. After much work and effort we succeeded

and then still got someone to take a photo for us

I made them get a photo with the sign to complete the brick oven experience. They look so happy I know.

By this time it was about eight and I was meeting my Grandparents and some friends at the baseball game so they dropped me off and headed home. I wish I could have gone with them but I have one more final and then have to close up the dorms. Plan lots of fun things for us to do when I get home.

1600 miles in one weekend = craziness

2006-05-02T19:08:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we left on Friday morning and headed to Tulsa, Oklahoma for Regionals with Ultimate Frisbee. Being a first year team we were so excited to have made it this far. We got to play some amazing teams that have been playing together for many years. Every other team besides us had been to Regionals for at least two years and had played together before then. We got to Tulsa on Friday night at about one in the morning. We stayed with the random guy that new Julie a lady that we know through Ultimate and so she hooked us up with him. There were seven of us that rode together in a minivan that the Lord provided....yeah let me explain that story first....so Thursday we were not sure how we were going to get to Tulsa. There were 7 of us that still needed a ride and we only had one car that was really commited to going. Cile called me and asked if I wanted to go to a dealership before practice on Thursday and see if they would donate a car for us to take. We were laughing the whole time at the craziness of the idea but proceeded to explain our situation to a worker who then went and talked to the lady with the authority to give us a car. We then went back to her office and when she walked in I told her that we were with Auburn Ultimate frisbee team and wondered if they ever donated cars. She said yes and that she had just made a phone call and that we could have a car for the weekend. It ended up that a minivan reservation was canceled and we were able to take it. It had a tv/dvd player which was an amazing bonus! I still can not believe that they just gave us a van to take for the weekend. The only explanation is that the Lord is good. Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us." It was so encouraging to see the Lord provide. Needless to say that started off the weekend to a pretty amazing start......

Cile, me, Chealsea, and Brooke on our way. THis is at a rest stop in the great state of Mississippi...

The guys wanted a photo too. This is Jacob, John, and Robert

Cile after finding out that the DVD player has a remote.

Saturday we played four games. The first one we played Rice (in houston) and beat them. We were ranked number nine out of nine teams so we could not go down any more but we did want to do better than expected. Rice was the number seven team so we were really excited. We lost the other three games that we played that day but we were really excited how well we played against these really well established teams. The score to Texas A & M was 8 to 13 and they were the number two team. We were encouraged because we did not get creamed by any team and made a good name for the Auburn team. Right before the third game it started pouring down rain so that was interesting. It is hard to play ultimate when you can not feel your hands and the wind is blowing the rain sideways. At about noon Owen and Michael, my friends that go to Kansas University that I met in Jaxs this past summer, arrived at the tournament. When I found out we were driving all the way out to Tulsa I called Michael and Owen and told them that they had to come down for the weekend. It was so exciting to see them. After we finished playing on Saturday, Owen, Michael and I drove to Owen's Grandma's house for the night the was about an hour away in Coffeyville, Kansas. She washed my clothes that were incredibly dirty from the rain and therefore mud, she fed us food, and gave me a warm bed to sleep in. She told Owen that if she would have known we were coming (because we had not planned on spending the night there) she would have had some Mountain Dews for him. Michael and I then expressed how our Grandmothers always have Mountain Dews for us when we come and visit too. It was really cool that all three of our Grandmothers know of our obsession. When I was getting out my stuff to take my shower I looked in my bag and saw that I had brought not one, not two, but three mountain dews with me randomly. I ran out to show them and was so excited and said, "I mean I brought exactly three. One for each of us. Can somebody just...cry?" Michael thought it was pretty funny that I thought somebody should cry so it became the quote of the weekend. We put them in the freezer and then played some cards and hung out for the night. So fun.

Michael and me. He said that he did not want to be the dumb one smiling and me making the crazy face and so I told him we would do a smiling one and then at the last minute I changed and Owen took it before he figured it out a couple of seconds later. He's a good sport.

Owen and me. I wore my Rock Chalk Jay Hawk shirt since I was in Kansas.

Us drinking the amazing Mountain Dews. We were using the self timer and twice when owen ran by to get to the seat in time he knocked the camera off the shelf without touching it.

While I was brushing my teeth Michael put my Jersey on and Owen took a photo. The best part about this is that Michael thought that the photo was taken on Owen's camera so now I own the photo.

Sunday morning we had to leave by seven and so we were up and at em bright and early. I had sent Michael and Owen some Auburn Volleyball t-shirts in the mail sometime this last year and so they wore them and put duck tape over volleyball and wrote Ultimate in marker. So sweet.

On the way back to Tulsa we stop and took photos with the Kansas sign because on Saturday when we actually should have been welcomed to Kansas it was raining.

They took turns taking the photo so I could have one with each of them

We then ran across the street and took a photo with the leaving Kansas sign. Michael is excited because he is from Kansas and is pumped about leaving and I am sad because I don't know when I will be back.

I was the only one who got to wash their Jersey so we wore these white shirts that were donated to us. These are the 10 girls that played this past weekend. We have about 18 girls on the team but because of finals coming up and it being such a long drive a lot of girls could not come.

Our first game on Sunday was against Texas...the number one team. They were so good. We did score four points on them and we played some really good defense. I guarded this girl a lot of the time and she kept calling fouls on me that were not really fouls and so I started to contest them and Annie told me that I had to be more firm and not let her call stuff like that so we kinda started yelling and stuff. It was sad but noone got hurt.

Because it had rained the day before the fields were so muddy. This is my backside after laying out for a frisbee.

Oklahoma was flat

It was so muddy that sometimes when you would try and jump your feet would get stuck in the mud and you would not even get air.

running zone defense.

throwing the backhand against Texas

Jumping over people to catch the disc

so muddy

After our two games on SUnday we were so muddy. We hosed off as much as we could and then got on the road to come back to AUburn. For the rest of the day I kept finding chunks of mud in my hair. It was good to get back and take a shower even if it was at 3:30 in the morning.

Alright well I wanted to get those posted. I have finals here the next couple of days and then David and Alec are going to stop by for the night and then I have one more final on Monday and then Calyn is coming Monday night for several days to stay with me. I can not wait.

R.A. Appreciation day....let's just add one more holiday to the list here people...

2006-04-19T13:16:00.000-07:00

This posting thing is starting to get addicting. I just have a few photos from this past week that I wanted to put up and I told Michael I would put some of these up too. So here you go...

On Monday I checked my mail and my mom had sent me an "easter basket". The easter basket(box) had a bunch of candy and chick-fil-a coupons and stuff in it and the kids had also written letters and drawn pictures. The kids send stuff pretty frequently and so I have started taping them on the wall outside of my dorm because I don't really have anywhere in my room that will hold them all. My mom even painted the photo(haha Jenna and Calyn) of the water lilies in the pond. Way to go mom. But yeah, I love seeing them every day!

So I was talking to Michael the other day and since I am going to see him and Owen when I go to Tulsa for regionals I decided that we needed a way to count down the days. So I told Michael that he had to in some way come up with a way to count down the days. I was thinking he would just post on my wall everyday or something but Michael did something way cooler. Michael sent in the mail this frisbee with a clock hand tacked in the middle. I got it on Monday which was exactly 12 days till we go to Tulsa(perfect timing michael) and so every day I get to move the clock hand till we get to one. Every number is a photo of something that reminds him of me which is kinda a joke that things remind him of me but that is another story. SO yeah, pretty much the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.

Today is R.A. appreciation day and so Kelli,our H.D., left flowers outside my door this morning with a sweet note. I love flowers so this pretty much made my day. We are going to have cake tonight too so that will be fun. So yeah, go tell your R.A. you appreciate them.

This is where everything is set(now you have a visual Michael).

So yeah I am playing this game with RUF called Assassins where you get a target and you have to shoot them with a water gun and then someone has your name and they are trying to get you. This is Dustin and Kurt at RUF last night (RUF is a safe zone where no one can get shot because that would be totol craziness) and what is funny about this photo is that Dustin(the guy on the left) has Kurt as his target and Kurt does not even know it. I have to get my person tonight by 10 or I am disqualified because you have to kill your person in less than five days and tonight is when my time runs out. I have been really busy and kinda preoccupied with other things so I have not been able to hunt my person down. Although I just saw him and found out what he looks like at RUF last night so I don't know what I would have done to get him before last night but we will see. What is weird is that I have not been gunned down yet.

Ok, well I am going to study and then chapter, biblestudy, and then working the desk from 9 to 12. Peace out homedoggs!

Working the desk

2006-04-18T22:47:00.000-07:00

On Monday nights I usually work the desk from 7:00 to 12:00 in my dorm. Con, Anthony, and Daniel are three guys that I play ultimate with on Tuesday and Thursday nights and they came over to watch a Ultimate DVD from Nationals that Con had gotten on the internet. They brought me Chinese food which was really sweet and so we just hung out while I worked the desk.

I brought down my really big blow up spiderman bat and a blow up beach ball and we had a game going on. Daniel was pitching and I was trying to hit Anthony home

The bananas were the base (we only had one) and Anthony is waiting to be hit home.

hit it and run

take me out to the ball game take me out to the park.......

Con being a bum on the couch hogging all of the toys

Of course we downed some mountain dews. Con is pouring me some in my mouth which took a lot of trust on my part because I was pretty sure he was going to pour it all over my face but he didn't.

Con and his balancing act

so sweet

Happy Easter!! Jesus is Alive!!!

2006-04-17T22:17:00.000-07:00

So I am pretty proud of myself the way I have been blogging like a beast lately. I really do like posting pictures and I wish it did not so long because I would post hundreds of photos. Well, let's see....

Last Monday was my cousin Kenneth's birthday and so at Biblestudy on Wednesday night I made a strawberry cheesecake and I did not have any birthday candles and so I brought my scented candles from my room for Kenneth to be sung to and then to blow out the candles. I thought it was a pretty good idea.

On Thursday night I left with Whitney Webb to go home with her for the weekend to Chattanooga. She lives on Lookout mountain where Covenant College is and so I got to hang out with Alec too. The Webb family was so sweet and treated Alec and me like family all weekend. Alright, so some photos...

Friday afternoon Whitney went to lunch with her parents and Alec and I went exploring at Bear Creek for the afternoon. We jumped off things and climbed waterfalls and stuff for like fiver hours. I was so sore the next day.

everything was so pretty and the water was cold

Alec in the air

Right by the big tree is where we jumped off of. Alec went and sat on the wall to show how high it was. I was honestly a little bit scared about jumping off but we got it done and I am alive.

I did not want to be in a photo by myself and so Alec told me to act like I was taking a photo with someone. So just put yourself there and make up some stories about how much fun we had.

....and Michael did....haha..(After I made the post Michael actually went and pasted himself in the photo and sent it to me)

this is Alec raising the roof

lift with the legs

Mr. Jack, Mrs. Sue, Whitney, Alec and me went to dinner and then went to get ice cream and Whit ran into an old friend and her dog. Then we went a threw the frisbee around with Parker, Whit's younger brother.

This is me trying to take a photo of Whit and me and the camera was zoomed in so yeah, we got whit's teeth.

there we go. Whit and me

We then went to downtown Chattanooga where they had just built this fountain and it was so pretty. I love fountains and water and all of that good stuff.

Alec and me

Whit and me being fountains

Whit, me, and Alec on the steps by the fountain

imitating the stone carved images. Getting some air.

Saturday we got up and went to the Webb family reunion. All of the cousins, Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents were there. We ate lunch and played some Ultimate. Pretty funny. Whit scored...twice. I was so proud. Everyone was so nice and I was so excited to meet Whit's family because I had heard so many stories and seen so many photos.

Ok, so you might think that this is me and Alec getting a photo together but it is not. We both agreed that Whit's cousin reminded us of David Kuder. The best part was that his name was actually David. He was really tall and even had the same mannerisms as David Kuder Weird. SO yeah, we wanted a photo of the cousin David for proof of finding David Kuder's twin so we acted like we were taking a photo of ourselves and then got him in the background. I mean, tell me that that is not the kudaman himself?

I really don't know what to say about this one so we will just move on to the next photo

Saturday afternoon we helped out around the house preparing for the Easter Lunch on Sunday. We were cutting fruit and jamming out to some songs and so we asked Mr. Jack to take a photo of us.

We did not just take one or two

or three

but four because Mr. Jack want to make sure that he got a good one..haha

For dinner Whit met up with some girlfriends from highschool and so Alec and I went to Mojo's Burritos because I really like Moes and so Alec said that I would like Mojo's. It was really good.

After dinner we met up with Whitney and Mr. Jack for a little bit of Karaoke at The Cancun Mexican Restaurant. This is Whit and me singing a little bit of Spice Girls I'll tell you what I want song. Pretty funny.

Then Whit and I sang back up for Alec while he busted out on Tearin up my heart by nsync.

I think we laughed about as much as we sang. Whit and her dad also did some duets and we all joined in together for a little bit of Love Shack. Good times

Sunday morning we went to Church at Rock Creek and then came back to the Webbs for a huge Easter lunch. They had about 20 people over. This was our family photo for the weekend. Trooper the Dog and the Webbs and Mrs Cindy (Mrs. Sue's best friend).

Alec and me with Whit's Dad, Mr. Jack. It was so funny because all weekend Mr. Jack called Alec "Big A" and every time he did Whit and I would die laughing.

So yeah, great weekend. Now I have "Tearin up my heart" stuck in my head and I am completely exhausted. Whit and I arrived back in Auburn at around 10:30 Auburn time and I am now trying to stay alive in this game called Assassins that we are playing with Water guns. I have to shoot (with a water gun of couse) Fletcher Ash....if only I knew who that was......

Samford Lawn

2006-04-13T08:41:00.000-07:00

Tuesday night before RUF, Lil Leslie, Allison, Big Leslie (the RUF intern), and I ate dinner out on Samford Lawn in front. There is this really big clock called the samford clock(not the one right off the interstate that they threw up, Jenna and Calyn) and it chimes throughout the day to let you know what time it is and I love it. At 12 noon it even plays the fight song. The weather has been really pretty and so we had to take the opportunity to enjoy it.

Big Leslie brought her picnic blanket and everybody brought dinner, so good

Big Leslie, Lil Leslie and me

Allison, me, and Lil Leslie

Big Leslie had called earlier that day and told me that we should bring our cameras because she had been wanting to stick her head out of the bushes. I thought that was pretty funny but here she is climbing in the flower bush.

yea for Big Leslie, that is what we are all about, fulfilling dreams.

surprise!

I love my intern

Two of my best friends

We decided we would take some glamour shots and Lil leslie had it down.

Don't really know what I am doing. Lil leslie puts us all to shame

If you do recall from facebook, we are in a complicated relationship

It's complicated

Big Leslie doing her sexy face....or at least trying.

I love Allison's faces.

Allison is so cute

Right when we were taking pictures Richard, the RUF minister, walked by on his way to RUF....I don't want to know what he thinks of us now

Lil leslie had just gotten her hair cut and we are in love with it

I think this is the coolest picture we took.

I love making Allison be the center of attention because she likes to listen and observe and it is so fun to see her do things that she would not normally do. That is what friends are for...pushing you out of your comfort zone.

Big Leslie in the spot light.....literally

the flowers are so pretty right now

Surrounded by Leslies!

We are going to Regionals!!!

2006-04-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

So yeah! We won sectionals! This weekend is a blur but amazing! Friday we left at around 3:30 in the Love's car which held Shelley, Robert, Amy, Jacob and me....

Before we left town we stopped at the snow biz stand because it has reopened for the summer! I was so excited! It was so good and I want to eat it every day.

Friday night we stayed at a hotel. In my room was Tori, Brooke, Amy, and Shelley. We watched "Mr. Deeds" which is so good. When we got to the hotel it was pouring rain and so we went outside of course and threw around the frisbee which then turned into diving into puddles for the frisbee. It is so fun to lay out when it is water you are landing in. We got some of it on video but it was kinda dark so the photos of the actually laying out did not turn out so well. I had to wash my hair twice that night to get the dirt out.

At one point Brooke and Tori were throwing my frisbee around and got it stuck under a bus,...well they needed something long and so we suggested the hotel ironing board. It worked perfect and here you can see how excited Brooke is about saving the frisbee(and she is probably also really excited about me not being sad about my frisbee being gone)

Well because of the storm Friday night, it was really windy on Saturday. This is the team and everyone is so cute! So yeah, we only had to play three games because our section is not giant(although I don't know how big the biggest section is because this whole women's ultimate is still growing) and we did not loose one game! The really exciting part is that the first game we won 11 to 2, the second game we won 11 to 0 and then the third game we won 13 to 2. We were really excited by how well we played. GO AUBURN!! We not only won sectionals! We won it with flying colors!

Shelley, me, and Amy showing off the slits in our uniforms.

I promise that the frisbee really is headed my way and I really did catch it

I love me some Shelley Love

On the line after half time ready to dominate the second half

Wide open!

Go Long!

Dump and swing it!

somebody make a cut!

After we finished playing our games on Saturday we watched the guys play their last game against LSU. This photo is a little tradition we have whenever the guys take a timeout whoever is not on the field at the time lines up and plays paper, rock, scissors. Here we see the the LSU guy has joined in and he actually made it all the way down the line taking the victory. It was amazing. How come he can just come and jump in like that and then take everybody out in the process. It just does not seem right.

After the games on Saturday we went to Memphis because it was only an hour away, oh yeah the sectionals were in Oxford, Mississippi(ole miss) in case I did not say that before. Amy is from Memphis and so we stayed at her house. Saturday night Robert and Shelley went and had dinner with some of their family that lives in Memphis and the rest of us went to the Memphis Pizza Cafe. In the photo above, Cile and I are pointing in unbelief about the Ultimate(get it?..haha) cheese pizza that was on the menu

Amy and Cile chowing down on some good pizza that was really good.

Jacob and me

After we dinner we met up with Shelley and Robert and then went to Gibson's Doughnuts. They have this deal that after 11 you can get six doughtnuts for $1. Yeah, it is a pretty good deal. Laurie and Liza came too! They went to Auburn their freshman year and then had to transfer to Memphis. I miss them and it was great to see them for a little while!

oh course we had to get six doughtnuts each. We all piled into a booth and ate till we got sick. I only ate two that night because I had already eaten a whole 10 inch pizza and a salad. I finished them off the next day. I well spent dollar I'd say!

so my doughnuts feel over and I screamed...

Shelley using the doughnut as a smiley face

In my head I am thinking.."wow, I am really full, I am going to get sick when I eat this" and then eating the whole thing plus one more.

Sunday morning we only had to play one game for the championships and we won 13 to 2! SO exciting. This is Shelley and me refueling with some gatorade that Amy Boyds mom was so kind to bring for all of the team.

Playing paper, rock, scissors. This time I joined in on it. It was a really long line but so fun.

There were two or three bids for the guys teams to go to Regionals and the guys beat everyone but LSU which means both the womens and mens teams are going to Tulsa, Oklahoma to play for Nationals. The guys did really well in beating everyone but LSU. So yeah, a successful tournament for sure. We headed out once the guys got done and arrived back in the 'burn around ten.

sectionals, sectionals, sectionals

2006-04-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

This week was pretty good besides the one test that I had this Friday morning. We have sectionals for Ultimate this weekend in Oxford, Mississippi. If we win we will get to go to Regionals in Oklahoma at the end of April which is pretty exciting because we would be the first team to ever go to Regionals in their first year of existence. I leave today at 3:30 with Shelley, Robert, Amy, and Jacob(the guys have sectionals too). I have some photos from this week so let's see....

Cile sometimes comes and hangs out in my room in between classes and she was on her way to lab and need some close toed shoes so she wore mine and they were way to big for her ebcause I wear a 9 and a half and she wears a five and a half

I was talking to my friend Daniel on instant messenger and he was saying how I was sounding so excited about sectionals this weekend that I should jump up and down saying, "sectionals, sectionals, sectionals" and so then he said that I was so excited that it might make him jump up and down all week saying, "Sarah has sectionals, Sarah has sectionals" and so I told him I would make him a shirt that said it and I did and he wore it when we played Ultimate Tuesday night. It was pretty cool.

On the back I wrote "lay out" just because I like it when people say that.

At Ultimate on Tuesday night Margo(that is his last name) came dressed out in an amazing outfit just for fun. Complete with a gold chain, bandana, and sunglasses....at night.

Wednesday I worked the desk till 12 midnight and then Julieanne picked me up and we went around and put cookies on our guy friend's cars that had a note that said, "Thanks for being a gentleman". It was really interesting actually finding their cars and remember what cars people drive. We even had an encounter with one of them coming outside and having to hide till they went back in. They will never know who delivered cookies on their car.....

So yeah I am about to head out but I wanted to make a post before I left. I will write about sectionals when we get back!!!

Back the nitty gritty

2006-04-03T23:22:00.000-07:00

So Spring Break was amazing. The Lord is so amazing how he brought everything together. When I started thinking about what I wanted to do for Spring Break, Miami came to my mind and so I started to figure out how it would work. I asked four of the girls that are in a Biblestudy that my friend Shelley and I lead if they wanted to come to Miami with me and they said yes. I called Jesse, a girl that was involved in the navs at FSU before she graduated, to see if we could stay with her and then on Monday morning they picked me up and we headed down. It was funny because we knew we had a place to stay but we did not know what part of Miami it was in and we had no plans for the week. I am so glad it worked out though....

Monday morning I was picked up at about 11:00 and we headed to the MIA! We stopped for lunch at Burger King and the exit was a little bit sketchy. The Burger King was inside a gas station and Brooke got a veggie burger which is just never a good idea. We ran into Brooke and Jessica's friend from highschool which was just really random. He made up some story about where he was on his way to when in the end we saw him in a service truck from mobile. So random, but we passed him because we both left about the same time. All five of us were in Erin's suv. It was crazy close but it was fun. The girls were amazing. Everybody was so laid back and we all agreed on everything. It was so relaxing which was great because now looking back on it, it could have been a stressful situation going with four girls that had nver hung out all together. We got in a little after dinner and hung out and watched RENT!!! So good! We were pretty tired from riding in the car all day because that is just so exhausting (I don't know why but it just is).

Tuesday we got up and went to Miami Beach. It was really pretty and fun. We of course had to bust out Will Smith's song about going to Miami. Tuesday night we decided we would try to go to a club because none of us had never been and we were in Miami. Jesse, the girl we were staying with told about this one where the owener had just become a christian so we were pretty pumped about that one until we got there and you had to be 21 to get in. We tried to find something else to do. Actually went in one for about 10 minutes before we decided to leave. For those 10 minutes we did have fun goofing off.

Brooke, Cierra, Erin, me, and Jessica. Well, at least we were able to check that off of our list of things to do in Miami.

goofing off trying to stay close together so that we would not have to dance with some random guy. My favorite thing Brooke said the whole night after getting into the club and going straight to the bathroom, "what have we done"...haha

Thuesday night at about two in the morning back at the house we decided that we were going to go to rapids water park in west palm beach. Everybody agreed and so we left the next morning. It ended up being a great experience and it was pretty much us and a group of highschool guys from new york down for a baseball camp that were at the water park. It was fun not waiting in line. The traffic was going to be really bad on the way home so we decided to spend the evening in West Palm Beach doing something. The water park had outdoor showers so we washed up there but the bathrooms did not have plugs and so we went to a hotel lobby where the lady let us use the employee bathroom to dry and hair but I don't think she knew there were five of us and that we were not just going to the bathroom. We took some photos.

Brooke and me in the bathroom of the hotel

Jessica pointing to the first aid kit? I don't really know why but she is.

Erin and Cierra posing with the Lady's work close that were hanging up in the bathroom.

We drove around a little bit until we found this amazing shopping place. It was so pretty with fountains everywhere. We looked around in the stores for awhile.

We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Brooke and Jessica had never been there before so it was fun being with them for the new experience. Our waitress was kind of out of it. When I was asking if when she said "tossed salad" she meant a house salad she just kept yelling "Tossed" louder and louder like it was that I knew what she was talking about I just could not hear her. We ate a lot of bread and got so full and we had to pretty much be rolled out of there.

We were in this store with really cool paintings and they had this wax police officer so Cierra and I gave him a kiss

Brooke and Jess during dinner

me, Erin, and Cierra hungry and ready to eat.

Wednesday night I met up with Nicole and got to see her dorm room and the University of Miami. I had not seen her in almost a year so it was good catching up. She told me about this Island that we needed to go to so that was when we decided we would go there the next day.

Thursday morning we actually got up at a surprisingly early time of 8 and went to IHOP for breakfast. I don't like coffee but I agreed to hold Erins so I could fit in.

She borrowed my awesome sunglasses for her photo so I guess we are even.

Erin accidently took her towel into IHOP. I guess she was just really excited about going to the beach.

We got up early so that we could have a long day at the beach. The weather was beautiful and we found the island without getting lost(I drove while we were in Miami and we did not get lost one time...I am pretty excited about that)

I love palm trees!!

me, Brooke, and Erin

out-of-control

The lifeguard said we could take photos with his life perserver as long as we put it back if we saw a truck coming over

not really baywatchish but we gave it a shot.

Erin had the whole baywatch thing down a little too well

This photo is just embarrassing.

We needed to take showers somewhere because it was too far away with all of the traffic to drive back to our house so I suggested to just go to the UM dorms and take showers in their community bathrooms because Nicole had informed me that you don't have to sign people in the dorm during the day and that people can just come and go as they please which is a lot more relaxed than the dorms here at AUburn. I suggested going to the dorms to the girls and they were surpisingly ok with it and so we parked and trecked through the campus with all of our showering stuff and towels. I tried to call Nicole but she did not answer so to this day she has no idea we were on her floor taking showers..until now I guess if she reads this. It actually worked out really well and we headed to the Hardrock Cafe feeling so fresh and so clean clean.

The Hardrock Cafe!!! I love hardrock cafes and was so excited when I remembered that Miami had one.

Random guy being ushered away from our table because he was yelling at us telling us that it was the "scumbag cafe" because he had had a little too much to drink that night and when he tried to pay his credit card would not work and so there were some issues there. He kept telling us that he was Alanis Morissette brother and when we tried to humor him and get a photo with him here the manager took him away.

Where the hardrock was they had this thing called the Baywalk with a bunch of cute stores and music playing right on the water. When we got back to the house we watch Derailed with Jennifer Anniston which was really intense. We got up the next morning and headed back to Tallahassee where I got to hang out with my family and friends!! My parents were out of town for the weekend so us older kids were in charge of holding down the fort. I went to three baseball/softball game so see my brother and sisters play. We went to Wakulla springs Saturday afternoon which is always great and Sonny's for dinner

this is the only photo I took this weekend because Calyn had her camera. So if you want more details on the weekend you can go to her blog. This is Calyn, Rachel, and me at Sonny's. We then went back to the house and had a massive dance party with all of the kids and friends. Sunday morning I had to leave at 8:30 because that was the only ride I could find back to Auburn. I did not want to leave that early but such is life. I am back in Auburn now. I had a great spring break!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

2006-03-18T00:10:00.000-08:00

Today was a pretty good day with lots of hanging out with cool people. I went to breakfast with lil leslie McClenney(who is worth more than a penny) at Big Blue Bagel. I had never been there for breakfast before and it was really good. We talked for almost two hours before I had to go to my 11:00 class. I only have one class on Fridays now because my 10:00 has a different test time than our normal class meeting to give us more time when we take our tests and so we get the rest of our Fridays from here on out off which is a well worth trade to me. After class I met up with Rosie and Fran and we went to Moes for lunch...lots of eating..but it you know me I am ok with it. We sat in Moes for two hours before I had to run back and change for frisbee. The weather was really pretty today although I think my face got a little burnt because it was really sunny. After frisbee we got cleaned up and then the night activities started which is where my photos start so I will post those and explain as I go...

I went to dinner with Shelley, Lauren Spotts, Fran, and Laura- Spott's friend who was visiting for the weekend. We went to Mike and Ed's bbq which was really good. I had never been there before. Laura was really cool and she just got ingaged so she told us the story about that.

Fran and Spotts were very St. Patricky with their green.

Shelley and me

After dinner we headed over to campus because they were having this thing called "Tiger Night". They bring in a bunch of free things to do and moonwalks and stuff. They even had dip-n-dots which I thought was pretty amazing because I love it so much. They even had this hand wax thing where you can mold your hand in wax. It was amazing...

For the hand wax thing you have to start off by sticking your hand into a bucket of ice and let it sit there until your hand goes numb...kinda a weird concept I know but it is the price to have to pay. My competitive mode kicked in and I was able to complete the task. Then you put on lotion which is actually hard because you can not feel your hand so you don't know if it is rubbed in or not.

Shelley was a trooper and pushed through with a motivating countdown to encourage her to finish strong. You can also see my hand in the photo. I am looking at my hand at this moment saying, "I can not feel the lotion hitting my hand...that just can not be good."

The next step is dipping your freezing numb hand that has lotion on it into hot wax....eight times. This was actually my favorite part. My question is, "who was the first person who ever thought of this idea?" The cool part though is that you can put your hand in whatever position you want the wax to mold into. I did a "W" for our family gang sign. My dad always says, "Wirgaus unite" and makes a "W" with his hand so I thought it would be cool to have a hand that was stuck with always doing our sign.

Shelley did the spiderman-web-shooting-thing because there was nothing that she really wanted and so she said she would do it and I could have it.

This is where the lotion comes in....it makes your hand slick so that if you mess around with it your hand can slide out.

Here are our creations before being colorized

This is them dipping the hand into the coloring and me saying, "oh my goodness I am so excited to be here right now!"

The finished work! I did mine completely blue and Shelley had the spidey hand half blue and half red. I love them!!!

After we hit up Tiger night we went to the RUF barndance that is an annual event. It is at a farm and we have a man come and lead in some amazing square/line dancing. It went by so fast...

Just a few seconds after I got there Nathan Lucy lassoed me and told me he caught me and he had to have the first dance. It was funny. He said "I caught one". I don't really know what he was aiming for but I agreed to do-si-do with him first which is not saying much because you change partners every five seconds, but it was enough of a promise that he let me go.

We ended on good terms

Shelley and me. Today was a good day of hanging out with Shelley. We had fun at frisbee laughing at a bunch of the stuff. I would just look at her and we would be start laughing and both know what we were laughing at without ever having to say anything. I am glad I have Shelley as my friend.

Zach is a beast...enough said. If you know him, you know what I mean.

Nathan and David swing dancing together...that is sweet....."and dip"

David is a stud..enough said.

lil Leslie McClenney who is worth more than a penny and me! I love her. She reads me really well without me having to tell her what is going on.

Allison, lil leslie McClenney who is worth more than a penny, me, Jennifer, Shelley, and Regan.

Regan and me!!

Big Leslie and me, Big Leslie is the RUF intern and she is so cool. Her grandparents live in my neighborhood in Tallahasse which is really weird because I did not know her until I came to Auburn. Hopefully it will work out some time when she is in Tallahassee visiting the grandparents that I will be at home because we keep missing each other.

Line dancing. We were doing this one line dance where you have to take three steps and you do a little kick and I convinced this guy to try and kick as high as he could and when the part came where you were supposed to kick he through his leg up and then accidently slipped and wiped out. Those of us who were honored enough to witness such an exciting moment lost it for a few minutes. He got right back up and kept on dancing although I will say that he was a little bit more conservative on his "high kicks" from then on out.

So yes, today was a good day and tomorrow my family is coming in town!!! I am so excited! I have not seen them since Christmas(except for Beeze who got to come for the week which was amazing) so I am kinda family deprived. I just got off the phone with Calyn. I was so glad to talk to her. I love that she stays up really late because when I am up late she is up and then we can talk! I love unexpected late night chats when you think your interaction with people is over for the day and then BAM you get another one and it is so good. Thanks for calling me Calyn! I love you! See you in less than two weeks! Ok, well I am starting to see double....

Calyn and Jenna's spring break trip to see me!!!

2006-03-12T21:16:00.000-08:00

It is really weird not having somebody with me at all times. Bekah left Thursday afternoon and then Jenna and Calyn came Thursday night. I love having visitors here at Auburn. I love taking them to experience Auburn and introducing them to my friends. I love that I still keep in touch with people that I don't get to see very often but when we hang out it just picks right back up where we left off. I am enjoying my new digital camera that my parents got me for christmas. Well, I want to tell you guys about Calyn and Jenna visit so let's see where do I start...

Calyn and Jenna got in town at about 10:00 and I was at Shelley's house so they just came over there. From the minute they got here we started having fun. Shelley gave them the grand tour of her house and in the process we found this shot glass that said the same thing that Jenna's shirt did. We made sure the glass did not cover up Jenna's shirt because we are that good at photo taking. They got to meet some of Shelley's roommates and then we headed over to the dorm room to hang out for the night. Smitty did come and pick us up at Shelley's so that we could leave Jenna's awesome new car there and we let him listen to the Michael W. Smith song that says his name at the beginning. It goes, "Yo smitty, it's time to get witty". He was pretty stoked to hear his name on a cd and it was exciting.

While hanging out in the dorm room I put this bean bag chair that Shelley gave me for my birthday under my scrapbooking table to get it out of the way and then I told Calyn that this is where she was going to sleep (in one of my awesome voices of course) and then demonstrated how she was going to fit to get the best night of sleep. The funny thing about this is that I think she was on the phone with Carli the whole time I was informing her of her sleeping arrangement. Jenna Heard...I think

Robert had given me this huge spiderman bat for Christmas to go along with my dorm decor and it was just taking up a lot of room on the floor so I decided to hang it up. It is amazing and I think it looks really cool. Another cool thing about this photo besides the bat is that Calyn even made it in the photo by being in the mirror. Sneaky sneaky calyn.

Friday morning we slept pretty late and then got up and made blueberry muffins that were the best! WE got ready and got picked up by Shelley and Robert to go to frisbee. It had rained Thursday night so the fields were a little muddy but not too bad. Shelley, Calyn, Jenna, and I had all planned to get every other person in the circle when we numbered off for teams and everybody made it on the same team except for Jenna. Way to go Jenna. Frisbee was fun although I felt bad because Calyn has a back injury and it hurts her to run but she still caught really good even making a touchdown or two. One time I was standing by Jenna and I took off to go get the frisbee and I did not see her and ran smack into her and we both feel on the ground. She was pretty beat up from the fall. What was funny is that the frisbee was on the complete opposite side of the field yet we were both on the ground...I don't understand. After frisbee we got cleaned up because we were pretty muddy and then we went to Niffers for dinner. We sat outside and it was pretty cold, partly because it was just cold outside and partly because we were trying to drink a lot so that we could make art...you will see in a minute.

This is us waiting for our table to be open.

We got somebody to take a picture of us and then we just went at it on our own.

These are our "don't mess" faces although Jenna looks like she might be asking for somebody to mess with that smirk on her face

Rebekah I miss you Chi. My hair will never be as straight again

This picture I feel is just a little bit awkward

This is us showing our cheek bones.

The cups at niffer's are really cool. They have little slits on the bottom so that you can stack them. Jenna is showing how talented she is with balancing her diet coke and my mellow freaken yellow.

wow, so talented

Calyn was cold and we knew she was because Jenna and I were cold and we know that if we were cold then Calyn had to be cold.

This is our amazing creation out of our glasses. All of the workers kept trying to take our empty glasses but we told them that we wanted to collect the cups to make some art. This is it and she said that she was just glad that it was not alchohol.

us with our proud cup bouquet

THis is me excited about how much mellow freaken yellow I was required to wash down so that we could have more cups.

After we went to Niffers we went and played car hide and seek with some of the navs. We had joined in after they had already started and then won the first round. It was amazing and we were so proud considering that our car had two people in it that did not even go to Auburn and a driver(me) driving who does not even have a car and is not used to seeing things from a driving point of view.

Shelley and Emily were in a car together. They had awesome hats.

We then went over to Allison, Mary and Jennifer's apartment and played taboo with a bunch of people. It was awesome because I was explaining the words and I got Richard Gere and I looked at Calyn and I yelled, "We hate him!" and she yelled back, "RICHARD GERE" and we screamed and it was amazing.

Allison and me. She has an amazing punk face.

Shelley and me. After we played for a long while we went to Waffle House and hung out till about 2:30 and then went back to the dorm room and made Apple Crisp and then started Rent at about 4. When we went to bed it was light outside. When we turned off the light it really did not do much good because it was still light outside from the sun.

Saturday morning we got up well actually it was 12:00 but we got up and went to Chewacla. It was really pretty outside and we climbed around the rocks and up the waterfall.

Calyn on the rocks

After we hung out at the waterfall we were throwing around the frisbee at the top of the mountain/hill and some guys were playing ultimate and so we joined in. They were really impressed how skilled we were but I think we just looked really good because they were terrible. They quit playing after like five points and so we left and got ready for dinner.

For dinner we went to Brick Oven with Lil Leslie, Zach, Kurt, Dustin, Mark, and Paul. It is Bekah favorite place in AUburn so it was my third time to go in the past week.

cool photo

Dustin kept eating my pretzel and so I had to eat it before he ate it completely

Kurt and Zach

Paul and Mark

Jenna and me!

Jenna and me with the sign. Calyn said that she did not need a photo with the brick oven sign because she was secure enough in her photo taking.

After dinner we went and picked up Amy and tried to get on the roof of the library but the door was locked so we went to the play groud at Covenant Church. THis is Calyn, Dustin, Zach and Kurt on the swings

Amy and me swinging

Zach dancing to the Rent soundtrack

Wearing zach's texas hat and jamming out to Rent

We then went to Shelley's to meet up and go to Keisal Park to go play sardines-in-a-can but we got kicked out by a police officer so we played on campus. Allison and we were a team. We were the octopus because with all eight of our hands we made one.

Allison showing her dedication to the game that she would be willing to take one for the team and dive into the bushes to check and see if the guys were hiding there.

Jenna and I doing octopus hands

Me listening to see if I can hear the guys to see if they were hiding on the roof

I could not hear them but just to make sure they were not on the roof of Cater Mary and I got on the roof and checked. It was amazing and I want to go back.

After we played sardines we went back to the dorm and made strawberry cheesecake. We did not have any milk so Allison and I went and got some at a gas station. The sad thing is that they only had gallons so that is what we got. Because we had to much milk we all ate a bowl of cereal when we got back. We called Michael so on the phone and talked to him for awhile and then we had to hang up because Jonathan Peters and J-mac came by to hang out and eat some cheesecake. They hung out till like 3:30 and then left. We talked for awhile and then went to bed at five. Michael went to bed and so we never got to call him back. Sorry Michael! The weekend went by so fast and I loved having Calyn and Jenna here for more than a weekend although it still went by too fast. I am glad I am coming home in two weeks!

Beeze is here!

2006-03-06T22:58:00.000-08:00

So it is spring break for Bekah and she has come to see me. She got here on Friday and is staying till Thursday. She brought me my digital camera that my parent's got me for Christmas and I would take a picture of it and show it to you guys but that is kinda hard if you know what I mean. I have a test tomorrow and one on Wednesday so I have had to study some while she has been here but when we aren't studying we have had some for sure fun. Let's see....

Bekah made it to Auburn in a speedy time and was able to watch a little bit of frisbee. It was great because my team was on offense and I saw Bekah was here so I started running to her but then I heard my name and I turned around and the frisbee was flying towards me all the way from across the field. I ran back on the field, caught the frisbee, threw it to Robert for a touchdown and then ran to imbrace Beeze with a hug. It was amazing.

I caught that frisbee yes I did and Bekah is a great photo taker

After we played frisbee we went back to the dorm and cleaned up and then went to Buffalo Wild Wings to eat with cool sophomore people.

Cile, me, Bekah, and Amy

Jess, Kurt, and Zach

oh nathan....why you gotta be so tough?

Lil leslie and Lauren(she was visiting from clemson)

Zach is very trusting to let me hold a bottle of ketchup over his face...check out Nathan in the background

Happy picture

"look! I have a straw"

"What should I do with the straw?"

"I will stick it up Nathan's nose"

and so Nathan took the straw and killed it.

I love Bekah and I love my new camera.

Friday night we went camping and it was so pretty. This is the only picture I took before my camera died because I had not charged the battery yet from when I had taken it out of the box. At least I have proof we were there....

Saturday we got up and came back to Auburn from camping, took showers so that we did not smell like campfire, went to lunch with Fran, Jonathan Dean, and Ti and then went bowling with TriDelt

me with some tridelts. We rented out the bowling alley for a few hours for our semester chapter retreat.

Don't mess

After bowling we went back to the dorm and hung out for a few hours before going to Brick Oven with Shelley, Lauren, Lauren, Lauren (yes there were three of them), Fran, and Christina. Beeze and I watch an episode of America's Next Top Model and so I was trying to do the whole no smiling thing....yeah...I am going to stick to my day job.

Bekah was getting ready and I had a camera...what else is one supposed to do?

oh man

oh gosh, this is such a joke I don't even know why I am posting some of these

at least I have good aim?

I think I just really like the whole smiling thing. It makes things not so difficult

In the car about to go eat some dinner

Lauren Spotts, Lauren Monk, Shelley and Lauren McClees.

Christine, Fran, Beeze, and me

After dinner Shelley, Lauren, Bekah, and I went to go to a bon fire at our friends William's house. When we got there we noticed that nobody was there except for William and so we decided to send Bekah in to mess with him because she had never met him. She went in and asked if there was a bon fire and that she had overheard some people taling about it. He let her come in but then after a few minutes informed her that the bon fire was off since noone had come. SHe left but then we went back and let her use his restroom. We went back a third time and Bekah just sat in his window and smiled and waved at him. When he saw her he stared her down for a full three seconds. We left and William then called his roommate telling him to get home, locked all of his doors, closed the blinds, and called Robert to tell him about this psycho girl that had been hanging around his house. I am sure the story is better in person. It is so good. I laugh out loud every time I think about it,

the crew

Sunday we went to church and then hung out in the dorm room while I studied. Went and watched a movie and ate breakfast for dinner. Today we have just hung out and studied, went and worked out, watched amazing 24, I left and went to study while bekah hung out with my friends,.. that is great. It has been fun having bekah with me. I wish I did not have to do school though. Oh well, spring break for me is right around the corner.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

2006-02-16T23:37:00.000-08:00

This Valentine's Day I actually had a date. A bunch of us sophomore girls decided that we wanted to do something fun. It started off as we were all going to draw names and have a secret valentine thing and surprise whoever your valentine was sometime during the day. It turned into an event of including the sophomore guys. We ended up deciding that we were all going to pick a sophomore guy (someone that you did not know that well so that you could make a new friend) and make dinner and hang out. We had a pasta bar, salad, bread, cake, and sweet tea. All of the girls were in charge of something to bring/make. It was great fun and went by so fast.

The girls! Everybody picked how they and their date wanted to dress. Some people made shirts, dressed old school, cute, Stuart and I were matching.

Most of the guys. A few were still at the table listening to a story and we did not want to make them leave so we took the photo with what we had.

Eating dinner was so great. I got so full and laughed so much.

leslie Peacock, the RUF intern, even had a date! She took Scott and it was great. Lauren and Leslie made t-shirts for their dates. They were so cute

Stuart and me. I asked Stuart by making him a really big cheesy card and dropping it by his apartment.

Amy set up this spot for prom like photos to be taken. This is me being amazed at Stuart's hottness.

Amy and William definitely had the best awkward prom picture. Just wait for the next one though.

Amy and william....so good.

Lil leslie and me. Because of this photo we are now in a complicated relationship on facebook

Lauren, me, Leslie, Jessica, and Amy hanging out on the couch watching people take their "Prom Photos"

I love Lil Leslie!!!

Zach is adorable

After we ate and hung out we all headed over to RUF. This is me getting my shoes on and ready to go.

We took a group photo at RUF because there was not really a spot big enough at Cile's apartment where we had the dinner.
So yeah, Valentine's Day was fun. I got a package from my family that was sweet. My dad left a message on my phone that said that he hopes "I am feeling loved and valued...but not by any boys" so that was sweet...I guess. Thanks dad. Love you too.

Alec's Introduction to the 'burn

2006-02-12T14:12:00.000-08:00

Last weekend Alec and two other friends came to Auburn for the weekend. Caroline, one of the girls that came too, is from Colorado where my friend Allison is from. They know each other from back home and are really good friends. Anna, Caroline's roommate, spent the summer with my friend Katie Rhea working at KAA camp. Anna is the only one out of the three that has a car so they decided that they would figure out a weekend that they all had available and come and visit us people in Auburn. I will once again illustrate with photos....

This is Caroline on the left and Anna driving. I got to hang out with them some when I went to Covenant with Allison last semester. They are awesome and so fun to be around. Thank you Anna for being so kind as to escort Allison and my's friends to come hang out.

Alec keeping himself entertained on the way over. I received a call about an hour before they got here saying that they were lost, on the interstate. I don't really know how you can get lost on the interstate but they did. When I asked Alec if they were past Hotlanta he said, "no,....wait I mean yes" I also don't know how you can miss Hotlanta either but Alec did (he tries to use the excuse that he was sleeping....) They were supposed to stay on the interstate until they got to the Auburn exit and so I was trying to figure out where they were because it is very confusing when you know they are on the right road/interstate but they are "lost". They were looking for exit 52, the Auburn exit, and they found 51 but could not find 52. They finally pulled over and looked at a map and realized that you had to cross the Alabama/Georgia line before you looked at Exit numbers because the numbers start over once you get into Alabama. That was entertaining. So once they realized where they were they arrived shortly there after.

"WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!"

Once they got here we drove around Auburn to show them our beautiful campus because we were killing some time while Katie Rhea finished up a dinner that she was at. We tried to go on the roof of the library because it is really cool and pretty but the whole library was closed because Auburn had its 150th anniversery last weekend.

Alec really liked the marble steps and wanted to take a chunk out of it to take back to covenant with him. We talked him out of it and made a deal that if he did not take a chunk out of the step we would take a photo of him with the step.

I had hurt my knee the day before playing basketball. It hurt so bad that when I tried to play frisbee the next day I couldn't and sat on the sideline and watched. Someone said, "you know Sarah is in pain when she sits on the sideline and watches people play Ultimate." It was true, it hurt really bad. Going up and down stairs is the worst so when we decided to take some photos up some stairs I did this hopping move to get to the top. Everybody made fun of me and laughed but it was ok because I was laughing too and do admit that I probably looked pretty stupid. My knee still hurts and it has been over a week but that is a different storie.

Anna imitating me. She only wishes that she could do it half as good as I can.

Once we met up with Katie Rhea, Alec and I went to my friends Lauren and Jessica's apartment where they were having a dance party. I regret that I do not photos to document this event because it was really funny. We had a strobe light which ensures every dance pary to be a success. A bunch of people had dressed up in funny clothes which makes it entertaining to watch. We goofed off for a couple hours and then hung out for the rest of the night. Saturday morning we had breakfast club. A bunch of people went over to Allisons and we made breakfast and watched basketball(FSU went into overtime with Duke). Shelley and Robert came and picked up Alec and me and we went to Chiwakla State part for the afternoon. It was a little windy and cold but really pretty and I was just glad it was not raining.

Chiwakla is an Auburn form of Wakulla Springs. There is a waterfall and a lake area that has a highdive. It was a little chilly to go swimming.

Don't fall in!!!

It is fun to climb the waterfall when it is warm enough to get in the water.

My shadow on the left and Shelley's on the right. This photo is so cool

Jonathan Peters came for a little bit and was so excited because he did not know that we had such a cool place in Auburn. He kept saying, "This is amazing, how did I now know about this?"

The guys want to lift this log and watch it roll down the stream.

Shelley was about to take a photo of me and Robert said "wait" and came over to get in the photo. On his way over he slipped and fell in the water after I had just told him to be careful. Luckly he caught himself before he fell completely in. His foot did get completely wet which is not good because is was so cold. He probably was in pain for the rest of the day but he did not say anything so I guess he was ok. It was pretty funny though.

The guys super excited about lifting the log

me and alec trying to move the log. It is heavy and the water is cold

we were trying to do the thing where one person stands on one side to hold it down and the other person stands on the edge. Does anybody remember this type of thing at Student Life Camp? That is where we got the idea

Tada!

Alec's balancing act

warming up in the sun

After we left Chiwakla we hung out and I showed Alec my dorm room. Auburn put on a fireworks show for everybody on campus and we went to the top of the parking garage where they were shooting the fireworks off of. They told us we should probably leave because it was going to get really loud during the finale but they did not kick us off so we stayed. It was awesome because we were so close. Afterwards Alec said, "When I see the finale it makes me want to explode myself". That was great. Then went to Moes to eat dinner with Allison, Caroline, Anna, and Katie.

Welcome to Moes! Anna said that she hates these type of pictures because it makes her neck look fat so Alec puffed his neck up so that Anna's would look slim.

The Covenanters

The Auburnites

yum

After we ate we went to Toomer's corner where people had toilet papered for the 150th anniversery. I was so excited that they got to experience an Auburn tradition

YEA!!!

Caroline throwing the tp! She was a natural. I think she has some Auburn in her blood.

Alec pushing me off. I had no idea that this was going on

Toomer's corner

the best toilet papering you will ever see

so pretty

War Eagle

After dinner we went to visit my friend Whitney because she lives like 5 seconds from Covenant. They knew so many of the same people it was crazy. We hung out with her for a few hours and then went and hung out at my frinds Cody, Matt, and Bilbo's for the rest of the night with my friend Jonathan Peters. We watched the movie Red Eye which is good and even though I had seen it before I was still scared. Sunday morning we said goodbye to them which is sad because "I hate goodbyes". So yeah, fun weekend. Come visit everybody!

ULTIMATE!!!

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ok, wow! Things are crazy! Last weekend we had our first frisbee tournament in Tuscaloosa at the University of Alabama. Robert, Shelley, Cile, Amy, and I stayed at Nathan Lucy's house because his family live there and he was going home that weekend. We got there Friday night and stayed till Sunday afternoon. We took so many photos so I guess I will just post illustrations while I share about the amazing weekend.

Before we left town we stopped at Kroger to get some snacks for the weekend and Shelley and I came around the corner and saw Amy looking at the....beef jerkey that was hanging right in front of the beer. At first we did not see the beef jerkey and we were like, "Amy, why are you looking at the beer?". SHe looked so innocent. It was funny so we had to get a photo to capture the moment that we came around the corner and saw her.

We got to the Lucy's around 6 and hung out while we ate some snacks and waited for some of the guys from the team to get there to eat dinner. Nathan made our girl's team a pump up video. He had video taped some of our tournament last semester in Auburn and had come out to practice one day. It is amazing and hopefully we can get it posted somewhere that you guys can see it. This is all of us watching the video. Over the weekend we watched it tons of times. It is that good.

For dinner they cooked us surloin steak, rice, asparagus, salad (good thing I knew how to spell that), and some amazing cake.

After dinner we were hanging out and Amy showed us how to blow the grape up in the air and keep it there. It was amazing and I encourage everybody to try it before they die.

Friday night I accomplished a life long dream of mine. Ben, nathan's little brother, was busting it out on the drums and I was like "do you think you can teach me something?" I have always wanted to play the drums but I never thought that I had any sort of natural ability and actually thought that I had such little talent that hours and hours of practice would not do me any good. Ben said "sure" and started showing me different things to do. I picked it up really fast and he said that I was doing better than he did when he first started to learn and he is really good. I was so pumped and practiced for a long time that night. I want my own drum set now.

The best moment of my life

That is my awesome teacher ben. I think he was quite amused by how excited I was.

ok, I think you get the picture....

ok, one more....last one I promise

Once they made me shut up with the drums because people were going to bed we played ping pong, watched movies, and hung out till everybody went to bed. This is Robert and me.

Saturday morning we met at the fields at 8:15 to start warming up for our first game that was at 9. We played four games on Saturday and two games on Sunday. We won half and beat teams that we had lost to last semester. Our team is a first year team and everybody is improving so much. Hopefully we will be really good in a few years. It is so cool to be one of the founders of the Auburn womens Ultimate team.

I am a handler which means I do most of the throwing. We have really cute outfits. Even if we are not the best team in the world until then we will definitely be the cutest.

Throwing the flick

Cile and me on the sideline.

I don't know how Brooke caught this on film but she did. I caught that.

Oh yeah, that is hott....Shelley and I should be in a commercial for gatorade or something after this photo

Cile, Amy, Shelley, and me watching the guys finish up their games for the day. It got cold really fast.

After we got back from the Tournament Saturday night we took some photos on the staircase because it was so pretty.

Just the girls. I felt like we were leaving for prom

so cute

so I did not realize how sunny it was on Saturday until that night when I had an amazingly ugly burn...reminds me of the good ole days of bike trip tan lines.

After we got back and showered Saturday night, some of us crashed for a little bit to gain some energy to hang out for a little while. Nathan went around and took photos of people sleeping without them knowing. Sneaky Sneaky

Once we woke up we were ready to jam and hang out till it was time to crash to be ready to play the next day.

dancing to that video of that guy who sings that song and does that move....yeah...pretty clear, I know.
So, yeah....we got back to Auburn at aroun 7. I had a test the next day and managed to stay awake and study. The weekend was so fun.

Getting back in the swing of things

2006-01-17T22:34:00.000-08:00

Yeah, so I am getting back in the swing of things. It was so hard to leave everybody in Tallahassee. I feel like I have been kind of an emotional wreck since coming back to Auburn because I was not really ready to leave home and come back. Christmas break went by so fast. I am so blessed to have such good friends from home. Most of my friends here at Auburn have not really kept in touch with their friends from highschool. I had such a great growing up experience and such meaningful friendships. I am so glad that we keep in touch and I hope that it never changes. So, Michael and Ruth came to visit this past weekend. Michael is my friend from Kansas that was at the summer training program with my this past year. He road a greyhound bus down and then flew back. It was great to show him Auburn and hang out. Ruth got here on Thursday night and left Saturday morning and Michael came Thursday night and left Monday morning. It was great.

Thursday night Ruth and I picked up Michael and then went over to Cile's where about ten of us ate potluck dinner together. It was so fun. We were hanging out and throwing around some of the leftover potatoes that Cile had not used and I said that I want to throw them off of something so we decided to go on the roof of the Library and watch them splat on the street as we threw them off.

On Friday we went to Frisbee and it was so muddy because it had been raining all morning. The wind was amazing. You would throw the frisbee up and it would fly back over your head. We still played because we are hardcore like that. I also went diving in the mudd because it was fun but really really cold.

Saturday morning Ruth left, sad day, and then later that afternoon Michael and I drove to Hotlanta to meet up with Rebekah and Jamie and go to Hard Rock Cafe. Michael had never been to a Hard Rock and I love them so it was awesome.

Michael and me at Hard Rock. Michael is trying to do my face.

The mountain dew being in the photo is in honor of Owen. The fact that Hard Rock having mountain dew makes them even more rock starish.

Rebekah and Jamie stayed with Christi Chondra because she lives in Hotlanta and is awesome. She went with us to Hard Rock. I was so glad I got to see her again!

Jamie and me with a rock star

Right before we left to go to Hotlanta we stopped by David, Matt, and Daniel's apartment where Michael was staying and David, Pete, and John (Matt's brother) were melting candles to make cool shapes. It was really funny but very cool. I said that it was their way of making art.

The "art" in progress. The blue pile use to be a candle.

The last night Michael was in Auburn we played frisbee golf around campus because he had not seen all of it yet. I won..........

Happy Birthday Beeze!!!

2005-12-11T22:56:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Bekah!!! I am so glad that I was able to be at your birthday party!!! I hope that you feel loved and encouraged because you are ao valuable. So for everyone that does not know the story.....Ealier this week I started thinking about the possibility of driving to Tallahassee Friday to surprise Bekah for her birthday. I had a final Friday night from 5 to 7:30 and one on Saturday at 11:00. I talked to my business law teacher and he said that I could take my final that was supposed to be Friday night, Friday morning at 8. All I had to do once I got the final moved was to find a ride or a car to get me there. Everyone that I knew who had offered me their car in the past was using it or was not able to go. Thursday night I was studying with my friends Allison and Cile and I was trying to figure out if it was going to work out and Cile said, "well I have a final Saturday morning at 8 so as long as I am back for that I will take you" and so we said, "we're doin it!" So I took my final at 8 Friday morning and then packed up and Cile and I headed to Tallahassee at 3:30 Tallahassee time. I drove so that Cile could study and we got to T town around 7. I walked in and Bekah came to see who it was and we both just started screaming really loud. My mom and dad came to see what the noise was all about and they saw me and we all started laughing and giving hugs. I was so shakey from so much excitement and the anticipation of getting there. It was so fun because nobody knew and everybody was extremely surprise because they thought I had my final that night at 5. We hung out and went to bed at 2:45 and then the alarm went off at 4:30, 3:30 Auburn time so that Cile and I could get on the road to get her to her final at 8. I drove the whole way home so that Cile could sleep and study. It was pretty much dark the whole way back but we make great timing and had her back in Auburn at 7:10 Auburn time. I was very proud at myself for staying awake and being able to drive all the way. After I got back to my dorm room I slept and studied till my 11:00 final. The rest of my day was whacked because of my sleeping schedule but it was so worth the trip. Eight hours in the car for about nine hours of being there. Fun times!! I kept telling Cile, "This is college!"

Happy Birthday Beeze!!! I love you so much! I can not wait to go to Virginia with you and hang out into the late hours of the night. I love that is gets more fun every year.

Freddis and Panface....

Bekah, you are awesome. I love your faces.

What?!?! Okay!!!

Truly Scrumptous and Shirley DaBomb

Me, Calyn, Jenna, and Rachel. It is so fun to actually be in pictures with them! I get sad seeing fun times and not being able to be there! Side note...fruit is tastey!

Jenna, Rachel, and Cile (my awesome friend from Auburn who decided she would come with me to Florida not much more than 12 hours before we left!!!!)

Rebekah, I love you and am so glad to be with you during the time we celebrated your life and what you mean to me and all of your friends and family. Thanks for being real, honest, wise, trustworthy, awesome, easy going, a seeker of truth, and everything else that you are to me! You are the best!!!

Auburn Ultimate is the best!

2005-12-04T14:44:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Saturday, we had our frisbee tournament here in Auburn. It was so much fun but now I am feeling it. Everything hurts. I have muscles hurting the I did not know existed. I played five games yesterday to thirteen. I just totaled up how many points in all we played and it was 89! That is crazy. The Auburn team won two games and lost two games and then I played for one team that did not have enough players for one game. I was excited by how well we played. This is the first year Auburn has had a womens team and we beat the other two teams that were a lot like ours Rookie wise and we beat them pretty bad. UGA has an amazing team and they won the whole thing. I want our team to be as good as them one day. Today the Auburn team met at the fields today to scrimmage so that we could work on the stuff that we were not the best at. I was not in the mood to play but it ended up being fun and not as painful as I thought it was going to be. My friend Nathan is making the team a pump up video so he game to our tournament and filmed. I made a really cool dive that was caught on film so that was exciting and my friend Julieanne made us a sign to run through which is amazing because running through a sign has been one of my life dreams. I will post pictures when I get some but Shelley has been really busy and it might be awhile till she e-mails them to me.

Fun times

2005-11-30T12:07:00.000-08:00

I am so excited because we have our first Girl's Frisbee Tournament this weekend in Auburn. We are getting our Jerseys in today and will have them to wear for the tournament. This week has been fun seeing people after a week. I went and saw Pride and Prejudice last night and it was pretty good. I am so sore because I did kickboxing and had a volleyball game on Monday and then yesterday we had a pretty intense Frisbee practice because of the tournament coming up and then I went and played in the RUF girls soccer game. The Friday night before I left for THanksgiving break I hung out with Shelley and we went around to different places to hang out with people. We went to the "Plex" where the Navs were having a Ducktape and paper building contest and Shelley and I drank sparkling grape juice and watched Ocean's Eleven, went to Ray and Marchent's apartment where the frisbee team was hanging out, and then went to Farmhouse for a band party they were having and went onto the rough with David Stanley to hang out and look at the stars. Shelley just e-mailed the pictures of us having some fun with the sparkling grape juice so here they are...

Shelley and I did not plan to be matching I will say that. In fact, Cheers to that....

It was so cool because Andy gave us nice glasses to drink out of.

Forget the cup I will just drink from the bottle.

Shelley being her cute self

Andy pouring our drinks for us

Sam, Andy's brother poured us our refills

Good Thanksgiving Break

2005-11-28T14:30:00.000-08:00

I am back in Auburn and trying to prepare myself for the finals that are approaching very fast. Thanksgiving was great and the week flew by. The first weekend of break I was able to go to Jonathan Overholser's wedding and hang out with Ruth. The wedding was beautiful and it is so weird to see people get old and get married. The reception was great. They had a D.J. and I had so much fun busting out moves with Ruth. The night flew by and was over so soon. Saturday night we crashed at the hotel and I just had to mention this because I went to bed at 10:00 on Saturday night and did not get up till about 11:00 on Sunday morning. Yes, that is 13 hours of sleep...so beautiful. I don't think I have ever slept that long apart from being sick. I got into Tally Sunday night and hung out with the fam. I can not believe how much Benjo is talking. I get sad sometimes that I am missing what is going on in my house when I am not there. I guess it is something I am going to have to get used to. The first part of the week was a blast. I got to do a lot of fun things with my sisters and friends. It is so cool to see everybody and I love hanging out with people that I have known so long and that I know so well. You guys are amazing. I am sorry for all of you guys who had class till freaken Wednesday night. We need to start a riot or something because that should be illegal. But to bare with you in your pain of going to school the week of Thanksgiving I do want you to know that I went to class with Bekah on Monday. I even got called out by a teacher that told me to go to the library because I was reading in his class and he thought that I was just there to get the extra credit and not pay attention so that was a little awkward to be called on during my one visit. We spent Thanksgiving at home and the Jones came over. We ate some great food, watched a ton of football, played basketball, ping pong, and I beat my dad in carpetball so the day was a success. On Friday we finally left the house at about 3:00 p.m. and headed to the ranch. Saturday was my Superdad's birthday and all of the family was in town which now a days has become a rare occassion because everyone is so busy. We had a good time of people sharing what they appreciate about him which brought out many tears and emotions. It was so good though. Two different times throughout the day we got some games of Ultimate started which was amazing because now we actually have enough people who are old enough and able to actually play a sport. On Sunday we had a massive picture taking event and then ate lunch, packed up, and headed to Montgomery where we were going to meet Scott, one of my cousin Kenneth's friend, to take he and I back to Auburn. Scott was running about two hours behind so my family dropped Kenneth and me off at Books-a-Million, with all of our stuff, and we killed several hours before he got there. I felt homeless but was glad to have Kenneth in it with me. Scott made it and we got back to AUburn at about 6 Sunday night. Crazy week.

THis is the fam. Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, and cousins...

Blah

2005-11-16T13:38:00.000-08:00

I am sick and it is no fun. I had a seven page paper due this mornig in World Lit II and then I had a test in Business Calculus II and it was all I could do to get through both of them. I did not go to Intermediate Accounting because I knew that walking all of the way across campus to Lowder, the business business, I would kilt over and die. So I ame back to my dorm room and slept from 11:00 to 4:00. I am still not feeling too hot but we will see what happens. Thanksgiving break is two days away and these last two days there is not a whole lot of school going on so that is good. All of my stuff for this week was due today. Shelley e-mailed me some pictures that we have taken over the last several weeks so I think I am just going to post them and explain as I go...

these few pictures are actually not from Shelley but I wanted to post them because it is a funny story. At leadership on Wednesday Richard, the RUF campus minister, asked if anyone wanted to come to his son Thompson's football birthday party and teach the girls that were going to be there some cheers and stuff because they were scared that the girls were not going to have any fun since all of the boys would be playing football and there was nothing that the girls could participate in. Well everyone was pretty much leaving town that weekend but I was going to be here because I had formal that Saturday night. So much against everything I had been taught by my gymnastic coaches to not be a cheerleader...ever....I volunteered. Leslie Peacock, the RUF intern, picked me up and we went together. She was in charge of face painting and I was in charge of the cheerleaders...haha.

It was so cool they had this sign that all of the boys got to bust through. It was everything I could do to not run back there and run through it with them but I restrained myself and just watched. It was amazing though and pretty funny.

It ended up being really fun and Richard and Amy were so appreciative. I did my backhandsprings and taught the girls some auburn cheers. The party was a success and one of the little girls said to her mom on the way home, "mom, that was fun" so Richard and Amy's fear of the girls not having fun was not an issue. It was nice to actually be around people that are outside the age of 18 to 22

This is Shelley, her sister Laura, and me at the Ole Miss game with the basketball girls. They are so much fun.

Shelley's family came in town a few weekends ago and they took a bunch of us out to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner. It was really fun and so sweet of the Loves to feed us poor college students

Shelley and I both drank so many Shirley Temples...hhmm...so good. We had just come from frisbee so we were thirsty. SO good

Because I ate the salad(or saled, Jenna) bar and drank so many shirley temples it was all I could do to take one bite of my hamburger. I was proud though and just brought the rest home.

After we ate dinner we all went to the annual event of TigerNight on Auburn's campus. They have a ton of moonwalks and different activities that are free to college students. This one moonwalk was an obstacle course. It was so much fun. We need it like five times.

This is me after coming down the slide and just flopping down.

We ran into a bunch of friends throughout the night. I love Leslie McClenney!!!

One of the activities was taking a picture that might be put in the yearbook. We got the picture dude to take one with Shelley's camera. I live fighting pictures.

Last tuesday night the Ultimate team went bowling. The guys team was supposed to come but Ray and Rob did not announce it because they thought it was a girls team only and that they were the only guys coming because they are the coaches. Robert, Shelley's brother came because he had shelley who informed him correctly. It was still fun though and most of the girls came.

That is Rob who is the captain of the guys of the guys team and the coach of ours. Ray comes and helps out and Robert is on the guys team.

Shelley and I bowling with style

Me, shelley, and Amy. This is when we came up with my iso name. An iso name is for when in frisbee we have the stack and the handler wants one person to make a cut and nobody else they yell who they want to cut's iso (isolation) name. My name is Buttercup. Shelley's is iso tutu because she is a balarina and Amy's is iso whittle because she lives in the dorm whittle (say it out loud it is pretty funny).

starting from the left that is Merideth, Tori, Annie who is sitting in my lap is out captain, and then amy.

This is Shelley pointing out that she is winning the game...also notice that she is the only one that had bowled so far. Way to go shelley, keep up the good work.

Habits

2005-11-14T12:02:00.000-08:00

So I got punched or tagged or whatever it is by Jenna so here is goes...

Ground Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog/xanga entry about their 5 weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You are tagged" in their blog/xanga and tell them to read yours.

I don't know if these are my top five but I just am putting down five that I know I have:

1. I pretty much always have a frisbee with me whether is be in my purse or in my hand.

2. Whenever I hear rap music I have to bust a move. Sometimes I go all out and pretty much break dance and other times I just bounce my head to the beat which reminds me of another habit that my sisters Bekah and Rachel will tell you about. I have some key dance moves that I bust out in the car when I am driving.

3. It bothers me when cabinet doors are open so usually when I walk into a room, say a kitchen, if there are any cabinets open I close them immediately.

4. Whenever someone is about to take a picture and I don't want to go with the usual expected smile I do the same face with my mouth open as demonstrated below which has now become expected...

Ok so I think that is enough proof

5. I have a habit of making up my own words or if I am about to say a word and a different pronounciation pops into my head I say it. For example, if I am about to say disgusting I usually end up busting out with disgubusting which really bugs Jenna but I do it anyways, now mostly just to be annoying.

ok so I tag Ruth, Lauren, Alec, Todd, Aaron

Formal

2005-11-12T21:56:00.000-08:00

This last week has been fun because I only had one test on Thursday and I was able to hang out with people and have some good convos. So I had formal last Saturday and it was really fun. I took my friend David Stanley who was great. So I have lots of pictures and I just figured I would go through the night with pictures as my illustrations.....

This is me before formal. I wore my dress from highschool that I got for the True Love Waits banquet. It was fun and I pretty much sprinkled glitter on anyone that came near me.

Lil Leslie came over and hung out while I got ready and helped me get ready too.

Jennifer is one of my good friends in TriDelta and we always go to formal and hang out before formal together.

Ok right here is gets a little bit confusing because this is David Peake and David was not my date. My date, David Stanley, was on his way back from Missippippi where he helped out with hurricane relief stuff and was not able to get back until we were supposed to get on the bus to leave. David Peake went with my little sister in the sorority, Megan. We had not picked up Megan yet and Jennifer wanted to take some pictures so since Peake and I did not have our dates yet we just took pictures with each other. It worked out great and actually felt like Spring formal all over again because I took Peake to my formal in the spring. Fun times....

Peake(once again, not my date), me, Brian(Jen's boyfriend/date), and Jen in front of my dorm.

Ok well I am feeling sick right now so I am going to take a break and post the rest later but I did want to go ahead a get started....

...Ok I am going to try and get the rest of formal posted. Shelley just e-mailed me a bunch of pictures that we have taken over the last couple of weeks so I will try and get some of those up too. I can not believe I am coming home in less than a week.

After we took the pictures above Peake and I went up to the hill dorms and picked up my little sister in the sorority. We then went over to some Tridelt's apartment and hung out and watched the rest of the FSU game that we, sad day, lost. Here is me with some of my sorority sisters

This is my little sister Megan and me. Megan is the oldest of five kids so we have had some good times of comparing stories.

Davis Stanley, my date made it to the bus on time and we headed to formal. Yea!!!

Nathan Lucy, the guy I went to farmhouse formal with, told David Stanley that I was the best formal date that he had ever had. So, David told me that he was really excited about going with me because he could not wait to see this "best date ever". No pressure right?

When we got to Stillwaters where the formal was on Lake Martin we ate dinner. A bunch of us pushed some tables together and all ate together. It was so fun.

Nathan Lucy went with Tori a freshman in Tridelt. She did not have a date so we called up Nathan. I was about to take a picture of them and Nathan whipped out his camera and took a picture of me taking a picture of them

After we ate, the guys cleared a spot on the outside patio and opened the door right by the band so we could hear the music and we danced away. David Stanley was really good at dancing so that made things really fun.

Tori, me and Megan.

I love the freshman pledge class

D-Stan

Three of my best guy friends were all at this Formal. I got to dance with all three of them and hang out with them. I went to spring formal with David Peake, went to the Farmhouse formal with nathan Lucy, and then I was at this formal with David Stanley. It is funny how everything links together.

Erin and me

The formal was on a golf course and David and I went and walked around to check it out and we saw this amazing green field right behind the golf and country club. I had brought my frisbee in my bag that was on the bus and so David Stanley told me to go hang out with everybody while he went to see if he could get back on the bus. He talked to the bus driver and returned with the frisbee. It was so much fun. We threw around and taught people how to throw the flick.

Megan is my little sister and Yancey is my big sister so we have the whole generational thing

It was so fun and went by so fast. We were both pretty tired but we had a good time.

Weird, time is flying

2005-10-31T11:03:00.000-08:00

I can not believe that tomorrow is November first. Time is flying. This was the first weekend that I was not out of town in forever. At least five weekends I think. Shelley's family came in town and we they took a bunch of us out to dinner Friday night. Oh my goodness...we just got hoodies for the Ultimate team. I have not ordered mine yet but one of the guys on the team, Ray, was wearing it. It is just navy blue and it says in block letter in Orange "Auburn Ultimate". They are so cool looking. I will take some pictures and post them when I get one. So random story...right before my 10:00 class on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays my friends Nathan(who I went to Farmhouse Formal with) and Cile are in Parker, the math building. Nathan and I both have class at 10 and Cile has a class at 11:00 but she just comes early because she has a 9:00 before and does not have time to go all of the way home. So Nathan decided that we would start a thing called the 955 club because that is the time that we would meet on the third floor of Parker. So a few weeks ago I got there and waited a little while and then I thought that they were not coming because I was a little later than usual and my class was about to start so I went ahead to class. I am sitting in the second to the front row and a class of over 300 people and all of a sudden I hear, "Sarah Wirgau, You broke my heart" and I turn around and see Nathan at the top of the stairs. I was like oh my goodness what can I say that will let everyone here in this class know that he is just kidding and everything is ok but the first thing that came out of my mouth was, "Oh Nathan, I am sorry" which did not help the situation at all. I ran out of class to try and explain myself and Nathan and Cile are laughing at me. It was pretty funny and kinda embarrassing but mainly just really funny. So yeah I go back into class and the day goes on. Life has been crazy but going really good. I just got back my Business Calculus 2 test and I got a 97 on it so that was exciting. I am playing intramural soccer, volleyball, and flag football and then also club frisbee so that has been fun playing massive amounts of sports. I scored a goal in our first soccer game last week. So exciting. Oh man. Well, this week is looking pretty relazed. I have one test on Thursday so I will be studying for that but not stressfully if that is a word.

Blue Ridge, North Carolina...be prepared...

2005-10-09T19:27:00.000-07:00

Ok so I wanted to write about the Nav fall conference which was a week ago. We went to Blue ridge, North Carolina and it was actually cold which was weird. SHelley, I, and two freshman, Cierra and Erin, rode up together. We had never met Cierra and Erin but we wanted to ride with them because they were like the only other girls that were going and we were excited taht there were actaully freshman that were going to the conference. When Shelley and I were going to pick them up Shelley says "I hope they are not weird" and I agreed that I had been hoping the same thing. When we saw them Shelley says, "They don't look weird...the definitely don't look weird." So we introduced ourselves and were finding out about them and about fifteen minutes into the trip Cierra says, "I am glad you guys are not weird because I was scared that you might be." Shelley and I busted out laughing and told them how we had just said the same thing driving up. We were all instant friends and had a blast hanging out all weekend. The speaker, Fran some last name that is hard to pronouce, spoke through Philippians. He knew so much about the background of everything and even had pictures that showed places that Paul probably walked or was on trial at. It showed me that the people in the Bible actually existed and that they are not just made up stories. I went to a workshop about man-to-man discipleship and even though I am not a man and I don't want to discple a man it still applied to me and I am really excited because SHelley and I are going to start discipling Cierra and Erin. I think I am going to meet with Erin and she is going to meet with Cierra. I love them. We got to play frisbee on Saturday afternoon which was awesome! Shelley and I both had some pretty sweet catches and I even caught one over two guys!!! So exciting!!! Saturday night we had a dance party in the main room that Shelley, Cierra, Erin, and I started. Like 30 people ended up joining in and this one guy even got on the mic and started free rapping. It was awesome. We also played sardines in a can in the house that the Auburn Nav guys were staying in all to themselves. It was a humongo house with a weird layout which made it fun for the game. I one time touched Robert's hair when I was looking in the dark and almost passed out it scared me so bad but I have recovered and I did not die. On the way home for the conference we played this game where you call up a random car and tell them an interesting fact about someone in your own car and the people in the other car have to figure out who it is about. I learned so much about Cierra and Erin. Cierra had been chased by a homeless man with a bat, done cartwheels on the interstate, had tried to jump on a moving train....Erin used to kiss slugs when she was little and when I asked her why she said, "because I loved them." It was fun to learn funny things about them. so yeah, now I am going to post pictures from the weekend.

This is the group photo of the nav peeps...there were about 200 students there from the south east.

when we put shelley down this is what happened....

She somehow gashed the back of her heel open. You can not really see all of the damage from the photo but just take my word for it....it was pretty painful looking.

Yes...I have found my new calling in life...

Shelley and I with our fribees, Bojangles and P.F. Chang. They made their deput together Saturday afternoon. One would be used for one point and then the other for the next. The guys were actually very good at cooperating with our requests. Way to go guys.

If you want to look Hot wear stockings on your head.

Cierra, Erin, Shelley and me went to the playground and took photos.

I am just going to lay it out there and say that all of these group photos were taken with a timer.

Shelley pretty much sprinted like a champ to make it in time for this one

I don't know how we all fit or how we got out but it was many laughs that happened

I love this picture. Robert and I both say that it is framable

I am not a big fan of taking photos by myself but I did not have much of a choice when Shelley aimed the camera at my face

We found a cute little bug and I picked it up and it pooped on my Bible. Sad day.

Dance party

The guy in the front with the hat taught us a bunch of cool moves that we all did together.

SHelley and I getting ready for bed....

Erin, me, and Cierra

We threw around Stealth Saturday night which I might add is kinda hard because Stealth is even more stealth like in the dark. If you caught it you had to do a cool pose.

When Cierra caught the frisbee she decided to include Sterling, an innocent bypasser, in her pose or more like dance...

Erin, me, Shelley, and Cierra! I love them!

Blue Ridge had harvest decoration all over the conference center so we decided to be apart.

have a great weekend!!!

2005-09-30T12:37:00.000-07:00

Ok well I am about to head out to go to the Nav fall conference for the weekend in North Carolina. Shelley is going which pretty much makes the weekend a success. This kinda marks the one year anniversary of our friendship. We rode together and roomed together last year so we really got to know each other. I am excited to go and learn more about Jesus. It will be great to hang out with a bunch of other navs from different campuses too. It might actually be sad because it will probably remind me a lot about this summer since I was with Nav people all summer long. Last night a bunch of us went to Dinner and Dancing that auburn puts on every year. The Auburn nights, the jazz band, played and they had dinner and it was really fun. It was really fun to dance with people who actually know what they are doing. I learned a lot. I should have a few pictures to show sometime soon. Well Shelley is about to come pick me up so I need to run but I have not written in a little while so yeah.....

This is at Brick Oven which is SO GOOD! We went there for Leslie and Reagan's birthday. Amy and I are sporting the athletic look since we went straight from frisbee practice...yes, we are that hard core. Oh and we also made happy birthday shirts to wear for people on their birthday but I messed mine up so that is why I am not wearing mine. Cile and Jessican have them too.

This is Robert's sword..it is cool.

I am about to die

what do want? Touchdown!

2005-09-21T13:20:00.000-07:00

This week seems to be going by so slow. It has been very busy and the weekend will be much appreciated. Auburn beat Ball State this past weekend. 63 to 3 I think it was. It was a pretty boring game so Leslie and I left at about half time and went to eat lunch at Moes and catch up because we had not gotten to talk in forever. After we ate and chatted it up I went back to my dorm and got some stuff done while watching some interesting football games. At 7:45 Shelley picked me up and we went to a 21st Birthday party for Annie, the captain of our girls frisbee team. Shelley and I want to hang out with the girls on the team outside of frisbee so that we can build a relationship with them. It was really fun to hang out with them.....so yeah after a little while of the birthday excitement we went over to a friends apartment and played Mafia which was really fun because I had not been over there in awhile and also I had not played Mafia in awhile. Sunday went to church then went to Sunday Afternoon Fellowship(SAF) at David Peake, Daniel Pope, and Matthew Hinshaws apartment. It was Shelley's birthday on Sunday and so we sang her happy birthday and put candles in the dessert which is always happy. I came back to my dorm room for a little while and then I went to Shelley's house to eat lunch/dinner with her roommmates and her for her birthday. I am kind of an adopted member of the house. From 5:00 to 10:00 I worked the desk at my dorm. It was good because it made me study and I got to talk on the phone to some people too. That was my weekend. It was good and relaxing too. Definitely full of many exciting adventures!
Oh yeah...here are a few more pictures of formal or actually more like getting ready for formal....

Amy is fixing my hair....she is so nice...she even missed frisbee for me. I love her.

Amy is a hair curling beast

Shelley was helping me put the broach thingy on the front and Leslie decided it was time to take a picture...

At the last minute we remembered the toenails so shelley got down on her hands and knees and slapped some clear polish on. She was so cute

Shelley preparing the dress for wearage

Amy, the awesome hair dresser, and Leslie, the amazing friend there for emotional support.

My support group. It was so much fun hanging out and getting ready. It was so good to all be together.

Ok, change of events, this is Annie the captian of the team at her birthday party!

me, Shelley, and Laura at the birthday party. Laura is one of our teammates

me, Leslie, and Cile at the Auburn vs. Ball state game

Leslie McClenney is so cute!

We are going to HOTlanta!!!

2005-09-18T20:29:00.000-07:00

Well it has been an eventful weekend. I was asked by Nathan Lucy to go to Farmhouse Fall Classic Formal in Hotlanta! The formal was this past Friday night. Amy, Shelley, and lil Leslie all helped me get ready. It was fun to get to hang out because sometimes life gets so busy and we never get to see each other. Being that the Formal was on Friday and we left at 4:00 in the afternoon I was not able to go to RUF Ultimate Frisbee which was at 2:30 on Friday afternoon. What was funny is that Shelley, Amy, and I instead of being at frisbee were skipping frisbee to curl hair and put on makeup, things that would not thought to be happening by us who love frisbee so much. Nathan, Brian, Jenn, and I drove to Hotlanta together. It was fun because Jenn is in my sorority and she is awesome and Brian who is her boyfriend is really cool too. I was glad that they rode with us. We stopped on the way and got Wendy's frostys that were so good and I think I would have died of hunger if I would have not had something to eat so it was perfect. On the way we listened to songs and had some really cool convo. I found a slinky that was in the car and had fun playing with that to the beat of the music. The best was when the song that Will Ferrell plays the cow bell to came on and I played that slinky to the beat of the cow bell and even came in right on time. It was beautiful. When we got there we drove and found Centenial Park and just drove around it and looked at the pretty fountain because there was no parking. We found our way to Turner Field where the Formal was at(no is was not on the field it was in one of the rooms that is closed in that looks out over the stadium) and when we got there it was cool because I saw a lot of people I knew. It was fun to see people that I did not expect to be there. They had a buffet for us and the food was really good. During dinner we had some good talks and were pretty much that last ones done eating because we were talking so much and not eating so much. We quickly finished eating and then went and danced our faces off. It was so much fun because we just goofed off and laughed about it. We actually invented some really cool moves that will go down in history. When the band took a break we went to the place where you can go outside to the balcony and look at the field and we took some pictures and hung out with people. The band started up again and we went and danced some more. I was sweating so bad but it was so much fun. We left at about midnight to start the ride home. While we were driving Nathan gave me numbers of his brothers in the fraternity and I would call them and act like I was in love with them and that I had been watching them all night and really felt some chemistry between us and how come they could not remember me since we made eye contact three times(even though I did not know the guys I was talking to). I would say random stuff about them that Nathan and Brian knew, being that they actually knew them, to freak them out and prove that I knew who they were. One guy said, "what is this all about?" and I said, "what is this all about? This is about you and me" and stuff like that. It was really funny and I had to practically pass out to keep from laughing. When I got off the phone with one of the guys, Brian, Jenn's boyfriend, said that his side hurt from laughing so hard but not being able to laugh out loud. I talked to three different guys two of them for about 20 minutes a piece and then one for only about five. When we got back into Auburn we stopped at a gas station and got Krispy Kreme donuts to carry on the tradition of eating donutes after formal. THis past TriDelt spring formal Nathan and Jenn went together and David Peake was my date. After spring Formal we drove to Montgomery to get Krispy Kreme donuts because that is the closest fresh krispy kreme donuts to Auburn. So of course we had to carry on the tradition and get donuts again. When Nathan was dropping me off at my dorm we were getting my stuff out of the trunk and I realized that we did not throw Stealth, my frisbee, around the whole night. Earlier before we left for Hotlanta I was talking to Nathan on the phone to get all of the plans straight for the night and I said that I was going to bring Stealth and he said that of course I had to bring stealth so I did and now the night was over and stealth had not been thrown. So yeah, we whipped it out and threw it around in the quad. It was awesome because it was so me to be playing frisbee in my dress sprinting full speed to catch it. Playing frisbee made that night complete and perfect. It was awesome.

This is what I missing out of by not going to frisbee...getting beat up...oh yeah that looks appealing...

This Nathan and me before we left at the apartment where they picked me up at.

Brian, Jenn, me, and Nathan

Nathan and me in front of the field....I was so sweaty from dancing. We should have taken the photos at the beginning.

Nathan and me hanging off the edge of the wall....not really.

It was so much fun because it was so comfortable hanging out and we could just goof off and laugh about it.

Jenn and me

Laura and me

Katie and me...I was so excited to see Katie there because I did not know she was going and I love Katie Traylor

Joy Beth and me

Eating the donuts in front of Farmhouse. I was working on my tie tying skills and so I left it on for the photo.

Jenn and me eaten it up.

WAR EAGLE!!!

2005-09-12T22:39:00.000-07:00

And a new week has started. Almost the whole family came in town this past weekend. Bekah had to work and so she stayed home. On Friday my friend Fran let me borrow her car and I went to Lowndesboro to Superdad and Grandmama's house for the afternoon and dinner and then we went to my cousin Trent's football game. It was fun to be at the ranch again because I have not been there since Christmas since I was in Jax all summer. Friday night all of us girls drove back to Auburn and spent the night in my dorm room which means that my mom, Rachel, Anna, Lydia, Leah, and me all piled in. My dad and the boys went back to my grandparents and then got up Saturday morning and came to Auburn along with my grandparents. We did not get to tailgate long because the game was at 11:30. It was really not as hot as I thought it was going to be. Rachel and my cousin Abby came with me to the Student section. It was really fun and it was nice to break our losing streak from last week. After the game we went to the motorhome and ate dinner and hung out. My friend Julieanne and her brother Walter came and hung out too. It was lots of fun. The family left Sunday morning. It it so weird because everytime I say goodbye it gets harder and harder. It is so weird to think that their lives go on without me. When they left I was standing at the door of my dorm watching them all walk to the car. It was so sad seeing little Benjamin who is growing into a little boy. Everytime I see him he is saying more words and looking more and more like his own person. I love me family and although it is crazy when they are here when they leave I really see what I am so blessed with. So, the weekend is over and I have a crazy week. I have a test tomorrow and a paper due on Wednesday and 250 pages to read by Friday and a huge accounting test next week and this Friday I am going to the Farmhouse Formal which will be really fun but still crazy because it is so soon! It is amazing how you can stress but in the end it all happens and you move on. Life is Crazy!

At the game! Julieanne, me, Shelley, and Amy. It was tons of fun. A ton of the RUF people sat together which was awesome becaues it is so much fun to dance and scream with people you know.

Shelley and me. I love that girl.

Wreck Tech!!!

2005-09-03T00:54:00.000-07:00

It is Friday and Tomorrow is our first football game against Georgia Tech! Rebekah, Rachel, Anna, and Jamie are here for the weekend. We went to Beta tonight with a bunch of friends and got our groove on. It was so much fun but very hot and sweaty. I love goofing off with my sisters and friends. We are going to do much tailgating tomorrow. The grandparents are in town, RUF is having a tailgate, the navs, and other friends that we will hopefully be able to make our rounds and see everybody and eat lots of great food. I played frisbee today with RUF. It was great fun and tons of people came out. We had to split into two games. We had the Wreck Tech Pajama Parade today that ended with the Pep Rally. It was fun cheering and seeing everybody fired up about the game. The pajama word in the title just means that everybody wears pajama pants with their Auburn shirts. Well, it is late and I need some rest before the game tomorrow. Peace out.

This is a funny story. So I was hanging out with Whitney Webb catching up from the summer before my sisters and Jamie got in town and we went over to some friend's apartment eating dinner and hanging out. Well JulieAnn's brother, who is a freshman, was there and JulieAnn suggested that Whitney take Walter(the brother's name) to her formal coming up this semester. So Whitney agreed that it would be fun because she wanted to ask someone that would just go as a friend and it would just be really comfortable. Whitney is a Junior and Walter's older sister's friend so it would not be awkward. We decided we needed to ask him in a creative way and to not wait for the weekend in case he got asked by somebody else and would then leave Whitney without a date. We decided that Whitney would sing him and song and some of us would be her backup singers. Holly gave us a bunch of clothes to dress up in and so we went to JulieAnn's apartment where Walter was and played a love song that was on Julieann's computer and Whitney sang and we did back up and dancing. It was awesome and he accepted Whitney's offer and then actually serenaded her back with a Frank Sinatra song. It was amazing how it all worked out and now Whitney has a date for formal.....me on the other hand...need to work on that.

Matt, Nicole, Whitney, and me

All of us with Walter after he said yes!!! Great night. It was a blast!

WOW!!! Now spell it backwards, WOW!!!

2005-08-31T21:51:00.000-07:00

Wow! Tonight was great! Wednesdays are kinda long days for me. I have three classes at 9:00, 10:00, and 11:00. Right after my Intermediate Accounting class at 11:00 I went to Toomers and met Todd, the Nav staff, and Shelley for lunch. We just talked about different ideas we had for reaching out. It was cool because Todd is really supportive and will to help. He can not really be involved personally with the Biblestudy we want to get started in my dorm because it is all girls and it would probably just be weird if he came so Shelley and I are just going to ask him questions as we go. I suggested him doing a video series for us to watch every week but yeah.....so after lunch I walked back to my dorm and hung out and got some stuff done for a couple hours and then Kevin picked me up to go to Leadership Biblestudy with RUF. I am really excited because Richard, the RUF minister, is so wise and he really has a heart for people and I just get fired up when I hear him talk. He talked a lot today about how we need to serve and love people and live out of an overflow of our hearts which is what God really taught me this summer. It is just so hard to no use your own strength and truly depend on GOd. I am still trying to figure it out but I am definitely learning a lot in the process. I then went to Chapter which was really short for some reason but I did get to put in my names for who I want to be my little sister in the sorority. I love the Freshman class and I am so excited about getting to know them. They are great. I then came back to my room after chapter and ate dinner and actually scrapbooked some. I really want to get all of my pictures in the scrapbook from my freshman year. I also have so many pictures from the summer! AAWWW it is craziness. I do enjoy scrapbooking though. It is very relaxing. At around 8:30 Shelley came over and we just went around the different rooms on my floor to hang out with girls to build relationships with them. We ended up spending over two hours hanging out with the five basketball girls that live on my floor! I am so pumped I really feel like God has put them on my floor for a reason. Last year I had three basketball girls on my floor and I loved them. I was on the third floor last year but in the same dorm. They came to the Biblestudy that we had and I really want to hang out with them some this year too. Well, this year I am on the second floor in the same dorm, Lupton, and all of the basketball girls live on my floor again!!! It is such a God thing because they just get randomly placed in a dorm and both years the Freshman basketball players have been on my exact floor. My dorm is an all girls Freshman dorm so that is why I only get Freshman. We had such good conversation. I really feel like I got to know them so much better tonight. We laughed so much and we even have handshakes that we do now. They are going to come to the volleyball game tomorrow that I am going to because our dorm is having a competition with another dorm to see who can get the most people to come to the volleyball game and whoever wins gets somewhere to cater for the dorm before a football game. I really want these five girls and then even the girls from last year to be in a Bible discussion/study with me and Shelley. I really wand this Biblestudy to be outreach and I want to focus in on them because most of the other girls are involved in campus ministries and these basketball girls are not and so I really want to go to them and love on them. They are amazing and so open to talk about anything. Hopefully when they start having games our dorm can make signs and t-shirts and go and support them. Wow,....I feel like jumping up and down and crying all at the same time. God is amazing.

This is the Auburn women's basketball team from last year. Aileen, #41, Lex, #34, and Sparkle, #22 were the three girls that lived on my hall last year. I want them to come back and hang out again this year.

A few weeks ago a bunch of us went to Buffalo Wild Wings, this new restaurant in town, to eat dinner and watch Monday Night Football. It was so much fun. Allison is back with her camera so she was snapping away.

I know I know it is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen, just admit it.

Kev and I taking a picture of ourselves. Kev is awesome and we all love him.

YEA!!! That is hott Kev!

Cile and Me being dumb..Cile says, "what up dog?"

announcement for everybody: "DO NOT GIVE ME A CAMERA!!!"

I take Stealth everywhere I go. I do have sad news though. I do not know where he is right now. The last time I had him was at club frisbee practice. I don't know where he went though so if you have seen him please let me know. I get sick to my stomach when I think about it. Annie sad she is going to send out an e-mail to everyone on the club team to see if anyone has seen my frisbee.

After we left Buffalo Wild Wings we went to Target. This is Cile, me, and then Peacoco (Leslie Peacock).

Six Flags!!!

2005-08-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

Today was great. At 6 o'clock in the morning my alarm went off so that I could leave by 6:30 to get to the hill to leave for six flags with TriDelt. This weekend was the new member retreat and instead of going to random camp Mac like we did last year we went to six flags which was awesome. We rode on buses over to Atlanta and it was great because I got to know the new pledges that were sitting around me. It was awesome because I had been told about five different girl's names to look out for because other people had said they were great girls and so I had been making this list of different girls that I needed to meet. Get this, three out of the five girls that I had names of were sitting around me. One was sitting right next to me, one was sitting right behind me, and one was sitting right across the aisle from me. I was so excited. All three of them were telling me how they wanted to get involved in RUF and one of them had come the Monday before. Last year I was the only Tridelt in RUF and now I know of five that are coming. Jesus is taking over my sorority. Today was so good because as any of you know if you have been to a amusement park that you spend a lot of time waiting in line, but this was good because it gave us a lot of time to talk and get to know each other and then we also got to do fun things like scream our faces off together. It was a blast and Emily, our new member educator, did a great job planning the new member retreat. I am feeling so encouraged. I was also asking the girls if they had gotten the e-mail about the Freshman Biblestudy and a lot of them said that they had and that they were planning on coming. Wow, my God is amazing and I am so blessed to be his child. After we got back from six flags I took a shower, because I was really smelly, and then Shelley and Lauren Monk picked me up and we went over to their house and watched Vanity Fair. The movie was a let down and the ending was awkward and I don't even like that word but I will use it because it is appropriate. It was fun to hang out with them though. I am back in my dorm room so that I can get some rest before church tomorrow. It has been a busy day.

Swing low Swing Cheerio...coming forth to carry me home....

2005-08-24T23:18:00.000-07:00

How can things always stay so busy and never slow down. I just think busy would want a break but I guess not. Can I just say I love having my own room? I love having my own room. It is so good to be able to talk on the phone and have people over and not have to worry about the awkwardness of having someone else in the room. I love it! Ruth came and visited this last weekend. It was a blast. We scrapbooked, talked, went to Chiwakla(sp?) State Park and climbed in the waterfall, went to a farmhouse band party, went out to eat, talked some more, went to church, PLAYED FRISBEE....It was Ruth's first time playing and I was so proud of her. She even scored a touchdown! The weekend flew by but it was so cool for her to be able to see AUburn for the first time and the weather, although very hot, was great with blue sky and no rain!!! I think Rebekah, Rachel, Anna, and Jamie might come Labor Day weekend! That will be fun too. I love having people visit. We had chapter tonight and I am so excited because we are starting up a biblestudy for the freshman pledge class. I know of five girls already who love Jesus that are in that pledge class and in my class there are only like two of us. I am so excited about how Jesus is already turning my sorority into one who loves him. I just want to make sure that those girls who do love Jesus know that they are not alone. We are going to six flags this weekend so I really want to get to know the freshman class more. We had girls club frisbee practice on Tuesday and we had eleven girls total come to either the guys practice or the girls practice. You need seven for a team plus subs so we are moving in the right direction. We are going to hopefully play in our first all girls tournament the first weekend in December. We are going to start conditioning and doing sprints and stuff to get in shape. I can not wait. I am so excited about it being really competitive. Well, I do need to go to bed. Cile is coming tomorrow morning to take a shower after she works out before she goes to class. I hope everyone is doing well. Jesus is awesome and worth living for! Be amazed!

These are some more pictures from STP but I just got them so yeah....that is me beating Michael to the frisbee when we went to go see the sunrise before the space shuttle launch.

Owen said I had good frisbee form in this photo so I thought I would share it with you.

That is Owen eating the sun. Jacob is a good photographer.

That is the awesome sunrise and me going to get my frisbee out of the water because somebody threw it in there.

A lot of Mountain Dew was definitely consumed over the summer. It is "so good" said in the same voice as "go home"

I guess I should put one of Michael beating me to the frisbee

I just wanted to share with you the "cool bus". "My mom said I'm special cause I get to ride in a little lellow bus that looks like a cheeto"

The Rocket!!! It was Awesome!!!

Sorry!

2005-08-10T23:36:00.000-07:00

wow, I think I broke my record. This is pathetic. I will try and improve. I do have one reason for it being particularly long and that is because I have not had a monitor this past week. One day my monitor just shut off about a week ago and I had some of my guy friends look at it and then one of the dads of a girl in my dorm but they both said that they could not figure out why it was not working but that they knew that it would not turn back on. Mrs. Donna, the lady I worked for last year, had a sign up in Foy Union about a monitor that she had if anybody needed it so she gave it to me! So yeah, I am back in the running. For what? I don't know. Anyways....I am here at Auburn for R.A. training. It has been great. We start school a week from today. The training has not been to intense and sometimes even pretty fun. One day the police came and showed us different things that people hide drugs in so that we would be able to spot it. Then the policeman proceeded to light up some marijuana so that we would all know what it smelled like so that if someone was smoking we would be able to tell if it was pot or not. I was pretty excited having never smelled marijuana before but I got a headache after the smell filled the room, but hey, now I know if any of my girls are doing bad things. I have my own room which is pretty exciting. I love having people over because there is so much space and you can practically play leap frog in my room. I have been getting to know the girls on my hall and I am so excited to be able to share my life with them and hopefully point them to Jesus. I have really been able to put into practice everything that I have learned this past summer. The Lord is definitely filling up my cup and I feel like my relationships that I am building are coming out of an overflow of my heart. I have been reading through Romans in my quiet times and I see over and over again how as I become more knowledgeable about the Bible it only makes me realize how I can never do enough. Jesus sees me as perfect and I have to have him or I will not survive. Today after training about 15 of us staff headed to Atlanta(also known as "hotlanta") for the braves game. It started pouring and we were going about forty miles per hour on the interstate so we decided to come back home. We ended up eating at Laredos which is this great Mexican restaurant and then watching Million Dollar Baby in Beth's dorm room (She is an R.A.). The night ended up still being a lot of fun even though the movie was kinda depressing. Tomorrow we are going to do community service for about three hours. My group is going to the Salvation Army. Hopefully it will be a blast.

This is my front door of my room and then rotating around clockwise. I am sticking with the spiderman theme and I am pretty pumped because my wall is blue which just works beautifully with it.

So cool!!!

Yea! My awesome bed! I also have a futon mattress under my bed so come and visit!!!

I have put up a couple more posters but for the most part this is the way my room looks.

That is my scrapbooking table! I am so excited. I bought sandpaper, primer, and white paint and then I think I am going to get people to sign the table when they come visit my room.

When I am laying in bed I can look out my window and see the stadium...it is pretty sweet.

That big brown thing is my closet. It is not that bad.

I would like to give a shout out to Jenna Myrick who gave me that awesome door poster...so shout out to you Jenna!

I have a sink in my room! It is awesome!

So much fun!

2005-07-17T21:09:00.000-07:00

Alright...so I decided that I have not posted in forever and I apologize. It just takes so much time to put all of the pictures up and everything but I know that the pictures are the best part. Today was a great day. We had church which was really good. The pastor talked about loving others and expecting nothing in return. It was really good to think about how often I do things just so that I can get something in return. I want to serve without expecting something back. After church we went to Taco Bell which was awesome. Kyle, one of the team leaders, was asked by me to tell a story and so he told us about a game he used to play when he and his friends were about 8 and his brother was about six. When they would go over to their dad's house they would be home a lot with a babysitter who I guess did not do a very good job at watching them but they played this game where Kyle's little brother would go to the garage and get out tools and stuff and run around in the yard swinging it around trying to hit them. Kyle told us how his brother would come running out with hedge trimmers and rakes and other sharp objects. He said he never remembered anyone getting hurt but that if his dad ever knew about it he probably would have flipped. I thought it was awesome and it definitely made the stay at Taco Bell better than it already was. We played frisbee at 3 and it was aweome. My team won and it was a great match up. The last point literally took about 10 minutes. It was intense. At 5:30 Michael, Owen, Lauren from my team, and I left to go to Gainesville, Florida to go eat at Chipotle. After we ate we went to the Florida University football stadium and threw around the frisbee on the field and took photos. It was awesome because I love football and frisbee. We stopped and got boiled peanuts because they don't have them in Kansas. Lauren did not like them but the boys thought they were ok and would eat them again. We shared prom stories, or lack there of for me, on the way back and talked about random things too. I love road trips. Michael and Owen are going to bring me home on Saturday, July 29, because they are going right through Tallahassee. It will be so much fun.

This was during our group date night with Danny and Lydia's teams not this past Friday but the Friday before that. We made a huge banana spilt. It was awesome. We also played catchphrase. It was really fun because we have had a lot of interaction with Danny's team so we feel like we already knew them pretty well so it was really comfortable to just hang out.

Another pic of us eating. I was definitely sick after we were done from eating too much. It was just so good!

We made a superbed awhile ago by pushing all of our beds together. It is so much fun!

This past Friday night different teams were paired up and we had to come up with a skit that had different requirements like you had to have a bible character, a staff impersonation, a nepoleon Dynamite line, and some other stuff. It was so funny. We did a skit about an exercise video called "Jesercise". We sang father Abraham and had his very own son Isaac lead us in the workout. I laughed to hard during it that I could hardly sing the songs.

Another one of the requirements was you had to have a towel in the skit and so Jacob was the trainer and we did the Nepoleon scene of Nepoleon doing a round house kick and then getting hit in the face. Jacob then said "do you think someone would want a round house kick to the face while I am wearing this bad boy" (pointing to his cape).

After the variety show (that is when we did our skit) the guys team that we were paired up with took us to A & W rootbeer to get rootbeer floats. It was so much fun because Nate's team is great and we love them.

YEA! I love my team!

Us with our floats. I got a mountain dew float because I don't like rootbeer. It was actually pretty good.

This is Owen, Lauren, me and Michael at Chipotle. The last time I got chipotle it was really spicy and so this time I got the veggie one and it was not spicy at all and I loved it. When Owen prayed for our dinner he prayed that I would like it this time and I did! I was so thankful because the KU people like Chipotle a ton and I would feel really sad if I could not join in on that love too.

don't go see War of the Worlds

2005-07-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

OK, so I really am not motivated to blog and I really don't know why. It people maybe left some comments once in awhile to let me know how things were going that might help. Well, I have been learning so much about the Bible and about my heart. I have the best team leader who asks the best questions that really get to the root of things and I have really been able to build some great friendships with some awesome people. My family came and left. The came on Wednesday and the left on Friday at around 2. It was fun having them here but it definitely screwed up my sleep habits because Rebekah and I stayed up talking both nights and I still had to get up and go to work both mornings....but it was worth it. I was glad to have my dad speak on Thursday night about being In Christ. It was awesome and now everybody when they see me is like, "Your dad is awesome" and I am like "I know". This afternoon we had beach evangelism and I went with a girl named Jennifer Waller and she is awesome because she goes to KU and I am an adopted KUer and she loves sports and I love sports and so it is cool. We talked to a lady who was a Christian and she had just moved to Jax and was had not really gotten involved with any believers and so she had been hanging out with a lot of partiers. She was probably around 45 years old. She told us all about her struggles and about her family and so when the convo was rapping up I asked if Jennifer and I could pray for her. We did and she started crying and then she got up and gave us both hugs before we left. It was so cool because sometimes I get disappointed when people are Christians because I want to try and convince them to trust in Jesus and if they already do I kinda feel like I am wasting my time when I am trying to Evangelize. I really realized that God can use me even to minister to the hearts of Christians. We prayed that she would find some good Christian fellowship and that she would just really feel loved and taken care of. When we left Jennifer looked at me and said, "that was the best conversation I have had during beach evangelism." It was so cool and encouraging. Sometimes I dread beach evangelism because it can be awkward sometimes but every time I leave I feel more inspired to tell people about Jesus and more thankful about what I have in Christ. When we got back a bunch of us decided to make dinner together and so Eleanor, Owen, Jacob, and me went to Wal-mart to buy the food. The boys were incharge of the dinner part and us girls were incharge of the dessert. I suggested that we get stuff to make banana splits and they all agreed it was the best idea ever which was pretty exciting because I did not want to let down anyone with my dessert ideas. We came back to the dorm and cooked it up and hung out. At 10 we went to see the movie War of the Worlds. It stunk. We practically laughed the whole way through although at one point when one of the robot thingys blew up a guy in the back of the theater let out a really big yell out of excitement so at least someone was enjoying the movie. We got back and then threw around the frisbee for a little bit and then talked some. Oh yeah, on friday night we had a social and different teams had to dress up as different decades such as the post adam and eve decade and the Roman decade. My team was the clown decade which was the only decade that really was not a decade. We had a lot of fun though and the makeup on my face actually came off which was good and now I am about to go to bed and I can hardly keep my eyes open.

LeAnne and me at the social on Friday night. Everyone did a great joy dressing up. I took more photos with my other camera so I will just have to show you those in person.

Lauren and me as clowns.

My very cute team leader Becca who made a hat out of my empty Mountain Dew box.

This is everybody with their banana splits that ate dinner with us. Lets see if I can name them all. Starting with Henry in the green on the far left, Grant on the bottom, Mike behind/next to Henry, Anne, Jacob, me, Adam, Eleanor, and Owen. We almost forgot about the whip cream which would have been bad but Eleanor remembered it right before we took the picture and then ate the splits.

I don't remember Bekah ever getting ahold of my camera but that is ok.

Random pic of Shelley and I after Navs on Monday night. I am going to be really sad when she leaves to go to China/Japan on Monday. I am really excited for her though.

Shelley and I with our frisbee reunited once again.

Birthday cake fights are the best of the best of the best!

2005-06-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

It is sad that I have not written in so long but things have been a little busy. I am going to try and make it more of a priority in the next couple of days. So today was pretty cool. My family is coming in town tomorrow for my birthday and then also because my dad is speaking on Thursday night. So with that in mind, my team wanted to have some team birthday time tonight so that if things got crazy tomorrow we would still have gotten to celebrate a little bit. So we went to this soccer field by our dorm to "eat" these two really big cakes (keep in mind that there are only five of us), throw around the frisbee, and talk a little bit. So we sat in a circle with the cakes in the middle of us and Bekah, my team leader, said that we were going to sing to me and then they were going to pray for me. So they sang and then we bowed our heads to pray and Bekah says, "Dear God, we just want to thank you for Sarah" and then they all took a handfull of cake and smashed it into my face and we pretty much had the most awesome cake fight ever. It was the best idea ever. I love my team.

Yea! We were getting a little bit crusty by the end of it.

"Get your game faces on!"

me with the most awesome team leader ever! I love Becca!

Me and Lauren Zonko, don't you think Zonko is the coolest last name ever?

LeAnne and me!

Corrie and me!

Being on the Patio without the mosquitoes and in air conditioning...it does not get much better than that

2005-06-15T20:04:00.000-07:00

Life is going good and busy. Work went fast today. We swam for like three hours and my eyes are really blurry from all of the chlorine. I have been wanted to post some photos from Sunday when Rebekah and Ruth came to visit me but my camera has been not working until today! I somehow fixed it and I am not sure how. So, yes, Rebekah and Ruth came for a visit on Sunday for the day. It was awesome because I did not think that it would work out that anyone would be able to come over and see me just because our schedule is very tight sometimes and we don't have big long breaks. We went to Golden Coral for dinner and it was so good because you can get some of everything. Our waitress was very entertaining and showed us how to dip our ice cream cones into "turtle" (chocolate syrup). She actually took Rebekah's hand and helped her dip her cone in. We were dying laughing which only egged our waitress more on so we ended up having to get a photo with her. After dinner we went and took a walk on the beach and talked which was fun and then came back to the dorm where I am staying and hung out with some people before the headed back home. It was so great seeing them and even though they could only come for a little bit it was still worth the time they spent driving....so, yes the week is going by pretty fast. I have been doing a lot of Biblestudy which has been challenging and addicting. Tonight we had our small group Biblestudy and we went to the Target patio furniture section and sat in the couches and chairs there. We were shopping there the week before and decided that it would be a great biblestudy hang out place. The workers were nice and just laughed and let us continue on. Tomorrow I don't have to work which is nice. Although I do want to work as much as possible and make as much money as I can it is nice to have a break and to be able to do some other things. I might just be able to scrapbook a little bit. Well, I hope everyone is doing great!

This is Ruth, our waitress, me, and Rebekah at Golden Coral. Our waitress mentioned that if she would have known that she was going to get her picture taken she would have taken a comb to her hair....

This is Ruth doing...well actually I don't know what she is doing. What I do know is that her icecream cone made it into the photo with the "turtle" topping. I love you Ruth.

Rebekah, Ruth, and Me at the beach.

Ruth and me!

Rebekah and Me!

This is me and my team at Target in the patio section doing Biblestudy...it was awesome

Our date with the Nav boys

2005-06-12T20:26:00.000-07:00

Ok, so it has kinda been awhile since I have posted. It has been a busy weekend. I have some photos though that I want to post from the weekend. It has been fun getting to know so many new people. I think I am getting pretty comfortable. It is hard though because I want to be able to be all of these places with people that I love all at the same time. It is hard when I have to keep leaving places and saying goodbye over and over again. I know that I need to get used to it though because it is life. I just don't think I like change very much and so I just want everybody to hang out together all in the same place. On Friday nights here in Jax the different guy teams take the different girl teams out on dates to get to know everybody. It is cool because it breaks up the different groups and it makes it easier to get to know everybody. Plus you make different memories with different groups. So, this past Friday night two guy teams took three of us girls teams out. We were informed that the theme was 50's so we tried to dress accordingly. We started out eating dinner in the cafeteria (now known as the caf) and then came back to the dorm and played human checkers. The put tape on the ground to make a checkers board and then we, the people, were the checker pieces. We had two people standing on the second floor balcony telling us where to move. It was pretty fun unless you were on the back row in which case you did not move very much. When you kinged someone you could either be taped together or you could do piggy back. When someone got jumped you had to do leapfrog. It was pretty fun and my team won both games that we played.Then the guys cut up some watermelon and popped some popcorn and we watched a movie. I think the best part was dressing up.

This is my team all dressed up

This is Becca and me. She has been a great team leader. She helped me get ready and we had fun doing it.

This is Danny, a team leader from KU trying to be cool and imitate Becca and I's pose

This is Kyle and I eating ice cream on our "date"

Corrie and I eating the wonderful watermelon and trying to not get it on our clothes

Here is the group that was on our date

Me, Kyle, Grant, and Corrie after a pillow fight during the movie.

How many grilled Cheese sandwiches can you eat?

2005-06-08T20:09:00.000-07:00

Life is crazy once again. I am working 40 hours a week which is really weird because I have never worked this many hours before. It can get really long. I don't know how people do this day in and day out. I now understand that it is really important to love your job since you spend so much time at it. Every night for dinner we eat at the UNF cafeteria. The cafeteria food is kinda nasty but they do have this think called the "fresh grill" where they cook it right after you tell them what you want. They have the best grilled cheese and I have already ate six of them and I just found out about them like four days ago. All of the girls in my room love them too so we now have a piece of paper on our wall that is titled "Grilled Cheese Consumption" and we put tally marks by our name for every grilled cheese we have eaten. Tonight was our first team biblestudy. For the summer we are doing an overview of the Bible and so this past week we studied Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. One of the things that we are encouraged to do at the STP is have 4 to 6 hours of biblestudy a week a part from our daily time alone with God. It has been really good so far and I don't want to slack off and just run through the Biblestudy because this is why I am here, to learn more about the Bible and to grow to love Jesus more and I don't want to take away from that at all. Well, I can hardly keep my eyes open so off to bed I am.

What will it be like working five days a week from 8 to 4?

2005-06-05T19:14:00.000-07:00

Well today was probably the best day ever..just kidding..but it was pretty good. My team and four other teams were assigned to go to Grace Community Church which was kinda small, about 150 members, but it was still pretty good. Afterwards we went to the mall food court to eat lunch which was nice because everybody could get what they wanted but we could all still be together. One of the guys I was sitting with, his name is John, is the second oldest of eleven and all of the kids are J names. How confusing would that be? I trouble with having just two L names in a row, Lydia and Leah. He is an accounting major which is random and he is thinking that he will get his masters which I kinda want to do too. After lunch we came back to the dorm and I did some Biblestudy which is really good. For the summer we are doing an overview of the Bible. It is really cool to see the Bible from a big picture point of view. So, today I was looking at Genesis which I am pretty familiar with but I am still learning things. After I had done some Biblestudy I decided to take a little nap on the couch until the guys that I was riding with were ready to go to the beach. I woke up to them moving the couch to where? I don't know. They said they did not know how to wake me up so they just decided to move the couch. I suggested saying, "Sarah, wake up" but it was not good enough I guess. So off we went to the beach to meet up with some other people. We played some intense games of volleyball and then threw the frisbee around in the ocean. Let me just say that there were some amazing plays and catches. On the way home we stopped at Taco Bell and ate dinner. Three of us were really excited about the mountain Dew and so we decided to eat there, even though we were really nasty, so that we could get refills. It was worth it. Now I am back at the dorm, all cleaned, and ready to go to bed so that I can be rested for my first full week of work. It is so cool meeting people that have never seen the beach before. I have been adopted into the KU clan as a Jayhawk since I am the only Auburn person here. It is funny because they think I have an accent. They don't really sound different to me. Well, I hope everyone is doing great!

Jax STP 2005!!!

2005-06-03T12:25:00.000-07:00

So I am in Jax and I just had my first day of work at the Jacksonville Golf and Country Club as a camp counselor. It was kinda tiring because about eight of us have over a hundred kids but it is going to keep me entertained and the workers are really cool and I will have an awesome opportunity to get to build relationships with them. I am so excited about this summer and what God is going to do in my life. Last night Joel talked about conflict resolution and it was awesome. I learned so much and it is definitely something that I can work on. I was thinking about all of the people I love and how much I would hate to have something come between us just because of a miscommunication or something that I did that was never discussed. He talked about Matthew 5:23-24 which says, "Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the alter and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the alter. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift." God is telling us that is we have done something that might have offended someone and we should go and talk to them about it. The other verse Joel talked about was Matthew 18:15 which says, "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over." This verse says that if someone has wronged us we should go talk to them about it. When you read these two verses you can see that both sides of the conflict need to be running towards each other to solve things. With this concept you meet in the middle. We are both responsible to resolve the conflict. I know that I love my friends and family so much and I would never want anything to come between us. Joel just really challenged us as teammates to be willing to be vulnerable and to be willing to be called out on things. I am living with four other girls and we are going to do somethings that get on each others nerves. We had some great discussion within our room about being honest with each other and it is so encouraging to know that I have people will love me when I screw up and hurt their feelings. When conflict happens it hits an emotion and you might feel uncared about even though somebody might just have been forgetting to put their dishes away. I am learning so much that I hope to apply to my life back in Auburn and Tallahassee.

This is my team: Lauren, Becca, Corrie, LeAnn, and me. We had just baked cookies for our friend Jake that had to go to the emergency room because he sprained he ankle really bad playing frisbee with us.

"hmm, maybe we will just eat the cookies...forget Jake...jk"

"YEAH! WE ROCK!"

Corrie, Becca, me, and Lauren excited about JAX STP!

This is me with my team leader, Becca. She is so cool and I love her.

This is Grant and yes, he has a mullet. He is really cool and is really good at ULTIMATE

Crazy times!

2005-06-01T20:46:00.000-07:00

On memorial Day a bunch of us went to St. George Island for the day. I left on Tuesday to come to the Nav Summer Training Program so it was good to see some people before I left. The weather started out cloudy but then it cleared up so that was good.

Everybody at the beach!

Jamie and me at the beach!

Well, it has been a long day and my room is shutting down so I better run, but I will write about the STP soon!

Salad, not saled

2005-05-29T20:45:00.000-07:00

Well, time is flying by and I am feeling a little overwhelmed. I leave on Tuesday for The Summer Training Program in Jacksonville (STP) and I can't believe that it is coming so soon. This morning I went and took Rachel to Northwoods for her to go on the bike trip. Every time I come home it gets harder to say goodbye. When I left for college I did not think about coming back home for extended amounts of time. Change can be tough. I went back to Calyn's and we went back to bed and then I got up and went and met my family at church. For the bike trip we let the youth take our van and the Kuders gave us their van. I got to drive it on the way home from church and let me just tell you, IT WAS THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER!!! People move out of the way when you are in that thing. Driving the van home was the highlight of my day. When I got home we ate taco salad (not saled...) and then I slept till youth. Youth was interesting because all of the people on the bike trip were not there but we still had fun. Chris Myrick and Josh Sapp are spending the night with David and Hannah Shoulders is spending the night with Anna so we have all been hanging out. We just finished watch Return to Me (sorry Ruth, you keep missing it) and not I think we are all going to get some sleep because we are getting up in the morning and.....GOING TO THE BEACH!!! You can come if you want!!

THE SPECIALS FOR TODAY ARE.....

2005-05-28T00:03:00.000-07:00

Today was great! Ruth and I got up this morning and left for the beach around 9:00 a.m. We went to St. George Island (no, it is not named after Rebekah) and the weather was perfect. We were a little worried that it would be to cold but that definitely was not the case. When we arrived we rested, read, ate lunch, got matching anklets at a near by gas station, and took a walk on the beach. We also went into a hotel pool for a couple hours to get in some nonsalty water. At around 4:30 we left and went to Finny's which is a seafood restaurant (I know...you never would have guessed). It was really good and I will definitely go back sometime. Our waiter was awesome. He was a little geeky but we loved him. He was really excited about the specials that the restaurant was having and talked really loud when he told each of his tables about them. "WE HAVE BOILED SHRIMP"...(that was just a little taste for you about his performance). ON the way home we listened to an old CD that I had burned for a beach trip that we had taken several years ago. I got to wear Mrs. Tillie's (Ruth's mom) awesome sunglasses and sing to people that we passed. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever and I looked like the coolest thing ever (not really). When I got back I went and met up with Rachel and Anna to see them in their formal dresses for their sports banquet. They got a ton of awards which makes me so proud. One of Rachel's was "most valuable player on the basketball team." I then went and played frisbee at the church with Calyn, Janelle, Anna, David, Nicole, Shannon (although she did not play much because she had sprained her ankle from playing the Sunday before), and Diane. We played three games and my team won all three times. I was very excited because I thought we were going to lose the last game because it was six to six and the next point would win and we managed to get it. I love frisbee....anyways. When the games were over I went and picked up the girls and their friends in their formals after they went bowling and we went to Wal-mart and got toilet paper and went and toilet papered their coaches' house. It was awesome because their coach and everybody that was at their house left for about fifteen minutes and we happened to go toilet paper right when they were gone. It was so sweet. We are back at the house now and I am really tired.

Me and Ruth in the car on the way home from the beach. Don't I look hot in those awesome sunglasses? I wore them the whole way home. Ruth actually looks cute in her sunglasses.

I look like the mayor from Central, South Carolina from the Birmingham trip.

That is hot, Ruth

Not another family photo!!!

2005-05-26T21:21:00.000-07:00

Well well...I am getting a little better at this blog thing. I just needed to get a little bit motivated. Today was a good and bad day. It was good because I went to Momo's like old times. Rachel, Anna, Jamie, Angela, James, David, and Alec all came and we just hung out and ate pizza. We only had one drink spill the whole time (sad that it was all over David's pants and he had to go to work). It was also a good day because I got my haircut and although it seems really short it is really not. I got about three inches cut off and it looks healthy again so that is good. It was a bad day because for the millionth time since I have been home we got family pictures taken. We were all meeting at Olan Mills to get it done and it just seemed to take forever. My mom goes insane every time I come home and always wants family pictures and when you have eleven people in your family it is not just a little snapshot we are talking about, it is an event. Rebekah and I finally got out of there and went to TCC to finish up her lab for spanish and then the day got good again when we went to the mall to meet up with Ruth. We shopped around a little bit, then grabbed dinner, and then went and saw......STAR WARS!!! I was so excited because I had not seen it yet. Although it was depressing because Anakin is a stud and I did not want him to go to the bad side, it was cool to see how they brought all of the movies together. I like completed and whole stories. Ruth and I are now back at her house and I am spending the night. We are going to go to the beach tomorrow which is very exciting because I love the beach and I love Ruth. I think Ruth is out of the shower now so I am out.

This is my freshly cut hair. It still feels like it is super short. I guess I just have to get use to it.

Rawring to go

2005-05-25T23:36:00.001-07:00

Yesterday Calyn and I took a very relaxing trip to Wakulla Springs. We got there around 12:00 and stayed till 4:00. It was great weather! We played this really cool frisbee game and I taught Calyn how to throw the flick. She picked it up really fast and I am so proud! The only sad thing was the horseflies that kept biting us while we were trying to work on our tans on the dock. It did make us get into the water really fast though. Calyn and I spent the night with Jenna last night and Jenna and I stayed up talking till 5:00. We were going to get up at 9:00 but Jenna thought that she pushed the snooze button and she really turned the alarm completely off. We left at 12:00 and went to the beach in PC that we went to on the bike trip. It was great. We spent a lot of time on the rocks. I want to post some pictures but Jenna has them on her camera and I also am not sure how to post more than one at a time. If you know let me know. I am off to bed now but I do have one more thing to say...actually two...1) Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get and 2) Rawring to go.....

Me trying to do a backflip off of the railing without the lifeguards seeing

I don't want to be taken off of Calyn's list!!!

2005-05-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

Calyn said that if I don't make a post soon she will take me off of her list of blogs that she reads. Life has been crazy and I just have not felt like sitting down and writing anything, but here I am. I am doing this for you, Calyn. Today was pretty uneventful....kinda sad actually. Last night I went to bed at around 3:00 because I was just hanging out and because I did not get home till almost 1:00 (I was at Shannon's swimming which you can read all about on Calyn or Jenna's blog). I had a dentist appointment this morning at 8:30....let me repeat that time for you again...8:30. I have not seen this time of day since I had my last 8:00 class about three weeks ago. I just had to get my teeth cleaned so it was not to exciting. All is well in the mouth of Sarah. I came home at 10:00 and went back to sleep......and did not get up until 4:15...yes, I know. I knew I was tired, but gee wiz. I did get up though and I was very productive too. I wrote my support letter for this summer which is good because I am leaving next week. I helped clean up the house a little and packed up my scrapbooking stuff from Friday night which can be a pain. I got to talk to my friend, Fran, from Auburn. She is really cool and I want everybody to meet her. In the fall I am going to bring some people back home for a weekend so they can meet everybody and hang out. We will probably go to the beach on the Saturday so if anybody wants to go just let me know. It should be fun and crazy. Tomorrow Calyn and I are going to Wakulla Springs which is very exciting because we have not been since I have been home....I need to get my beauty sleep.....

can there be too much frisbee playing?

2005-04-20T10:27:00.000-07:00

It is Tuesday and sometimes I just do not feel like typing everything up that I want to say. This past weekend was another fun random weekend. I went to two surprise birthday parties, two cookouts, played frisbee every day, went to the airport house twice, and Shelley, David Peake, Sarah Nell, and I went to this park called Chuakula(I have a pretty good idea that that is not how you spell it) where there is a waterfall and a highdive. We took lunch out to the waterfall and ate lunch on the rocks. It was a perfect day with the weather. Then, a bunch of people came and we played ULTIMATE. I did this awesome jump and caught the frisbee over this guy only to realize that he was on my team. But Hey at least I caught it. THen, we went swimming and jumped off the 10 foot diving board. I did a back flip which made me think of Wakulla Springs and Calyn. Then that night we had some friends who were camping and so we went to Walmart and got cap guns and beans(there is a story behind the beans) and went and threw the beans and shot the cap guns at our friends who were camping. Let me just say that I did not go to bed until 4 in the morning and then had to get up at 7 for a Delta Delta Delta breakfast for our seniors. Later on Sunday at frisbee, Shelley and I thought that we were going to collapse because we had done so much physical exercise that weekend. We had both taken some pretty hard falls and were feeling it. At frisbee I caught this one catch that was not hard at all and then just tripped over myself and fell down. Shelley and I both agreed that we needed to rest or else we were going to die. Yesterday they gave out the Gloms which are Auburn's yearbook. My friend Nathan suggested that he sign mine since I had never had a yearbook and thus started this new thing. Nobody signs yearbooks in college...but now we do. It has been awesome. I can not wait to show everybody. Last night after Freshman Bible Study Shelley, David, Alex, and I went and played frisbee with the BCM people till 12:15 in the morning. It was awesome. I have a ton of studying to do and I am about to get off work so I better go. Remember Jesus loves you and wants the best for you!

I don't feel like coming up with a title

2005-04-13T10:13:00.000-07:00

Back at work. Today is really pretty outside but I have to much to get done to go play. This week has been a good one and kinda random too. Monday morning is where I left off. I had class as usual and we got our calculus tests back and I got a 100%. I am not really sure because I know that I messed up a few times but I think my teacher just really likes me because I try and talk and answer the questions and I don't make a bunch of noise during class to distract everybody else. I love and hate that class. It can get old just doing problems over and over again and my teacher has no idea what his plans are for the class and how much things are worth and when we are going to have our tests, but I love it because there are only about 20 people in the class and only about 10 who actually come because my teacher does not take role. We have had some really random laughs and the teacher is pretty easy to talk into doing stuff like canceling class and stuff. I worked and then went back to my dorm where I watched the movie "Along Came a Spider". I thought it was really good and suggest other people to see it. This week is Greek Week where you have all of these activities and competitions that you get points for and you compete against the other sororities and fraternities. TriDelt has won the past six years so we really get into it. Well, we had a peprally at 5:30 and then they had all of these random games like egg toss, dodgeball, and some other stuff. They also had this boat race and it was really funny because the boats were little inflatable things and when two guys get in one it practically sinks. We actually won against all of the other teams and even beat all of the guys. It was awesome. Then before RUF about 10 of us freshman girls went to Moes and ate dinner and in walks Courtney Taylor and Anthony Mix, two very good Auburn football players. I know Courtney Taylor from other stuff but I had never met Anthony. I went up and said hi and the asked them if they could come meet all of my friends because they were like freaking out....haha. They got their food and then came over and went around the table and listened and repeated all of their names. They were so sweet. After the guys left my friend Ashley says, "Was that THE Courtney Taylor?" and I was like, "that's the one." it was really fun and random. That is one of the cool things about college. Being around so many cool people and getting to just hang out and get to know them. We went to RUF which is always good and then we went to Late Night which is just where we go hang out after RUF sometimes. I had not been this year because I actually get up early to go class and Late Night usually does not start till 11:30 but I decided to go and it was fun just hanging out with everybody. Tuesday morning had class and it was my friend Taylor's birthday who is in my business calculus class and so I made the no bake oreo dessert and put them in cupcake holders. They were a hit and even the teacher got one. I went to work and then class again and then we had girls club frisbee practice. Our coach Rob always makes fun of my pink tennis shoes because he said I don't seem like the type of person that would have pink tennis shoes and so all of the girls and I wore all pink. I had pink shorts, a pink shirt, a pink ribbon, and my pink shoes on. It was awesome. After practice I went and worked out and then had to go to this think called "Kristin's Story" for Greek week. It is a mom who goes around telling the story about her daughter who was raped and then committed suicide. She does it to promote rape awareness. It was really good and sad to hear that something like that happened. I ran back to my dorm and took a shower and then went to Freshman Bible Study (FBS). We talked about how much we as Christians should be involved in politics. It was is very interesting subject because you want to use your time wisely but you want to stand up for what you believe. After FBS we went and saw the movie "Guess Who." It was kinda corny but pretty funny. I talked to my sister Rebekah afterwards and she said that she had seen it and really like it and it was funny because I had thought about her during the movie because it was definitely her type of humor. On the way back to the dorm, Daniel Pope, Rachel, and I stopped at Jimmy Johns and talked till 2 in the morning. I love listening to what Daniel has to say about things because he really takes everything into consideration. He is really wise about everything and I really respect his advise. I love asking him, "Daniel, so what do you think about ____(enter in random thing). He is really funny too. Then I came back to my dorm room and did some reading and went to bed. Today has been pretty normal. I had two classes and now I am at work. We have dorm Biblestudy tonight so be praying about the basketball girls. Have a great day.

The weekend continued...

2005-04-12T11:12:00.000-07:00

I am back at work and it has ended up being the place where I make a post. The reason why I don't make posts Friday through Sunday is because I don't work on those days. Ok, so Saturday morning I slept in till 12 and then went to my first Lacrosse game. It was awesome. Two of the guys on the team go to RUF so we make them signs that said stuff like, "Whack their face off" and "RUF smash brothers rock." I don't know if you have ever seen a real live lacrosse game but it is pretty intense. You are allowed to hit each other anywhere from the waste to the shoulders and you can run into them when they are trying to scoop up the ball and make them fall over which is what Ben really like to do. His personal favorite was to wait for the Goalie to come out of his box and then charge him and body slam him. He always tried to hurt the goalie. Pretty funny. We actually ended up loosing which was kinda sad but I definitely want to go to more games in the future. After the game we went to Panera which even though we have one in T-town I have never been and it was so good. I want to go back. Then Cile needed to get some shoes at Payless so Holly, Julieanne, and I all went with her and we all got shoes except for Cile. Yea for us sad for Cile. I was almost back to my dorm room when Kevin called and said that they were going to the intrumural field to play frisbee and so I went and changed and headed out. It was really fun and the first team I was on creamed the other team so that is always fun and then the second game I had to leave in the middle of because I was going to see a Sahara (or whatever you call it) with some girls for Lauren Monk's birthday. It was actually a really good movie. Matthew McConehy (I don't know how you spell his name but you know who I am talking about) and Penelope Cruz were in it. Then Amy called and said they were going to to see the Movie "Guess who" at 9:45 and it was 9:15 and I really wanted to go but I was kinda nasty from playing frisbee and wanted to change into some warmer clothes because I knew we would go get something to eat afterwards. I called Steven, who was my ride, and he said they could wait for me and let me get back and change. So we got to the movie on time but it was SOLD OUT!!! Sad day. There was nothing else we wanted to see so we went to Laredos, a mexican restaurant, and ate dinner and talked. Then I went back to Leslie's dorm room and it was about 11 at night and we talked till like three in the morning, oh yeah and we called our friend Daniel who goes to RUF and talked to him for about an hour, and since it was so late I just spent the night. We both slept in her bed which was kinda tight but Jenna and I did it when Calyn and she came visit me so I had done it before. At 9:15 Sunday morning my Uncle Ricky picked me up on his way to go Sky Diving. He turned 50 last week and wanted to go skydiving. I wanted to watch him and see what it would be like so that when I go I will know what to expect. Let me just tell you.....IT WAS AWESOME. If anyone wants to go just let me know. I am going to at least try and go in the fall with some people here at Auburn but I don't mind going twice at all. I got back to Auburn and my dorm was having a cookout. I taught all of the girls how to play Ultimate. It was pretty funny. Shelley and I stayed outside and talked for awhile after the cookout. I love her, she is awesome. Then I studied for my Macro test that was Monday morning and went to bed. Well, work is over. At least I updated about the weekend. Tomorrow I will try and get caught up with the week.

Mud puddles

2005-04-11T11:03:00.000-07:00

And the weekend is over...back to work. This past weekend was nonstop. Friday my fun started with freshman girls small group. We met at Big Blue Bagel and shared about our week and what we had gotten out of the book we are reading, "The Discipline of Grace." Then we headed over to frisbee. Let me just say that it was the best frisbee day every. I caught this one in the inzone that John threw to me that was a hammer/chunk. As I saw it coming for me I said, "oh crap" because I did not think I was going to catch it and some how it stuck into my hand. It was awesome. Then Matt said (to the other team), "You have Velcro (which is the nickname of my friend Amy who always catches crazy throws), but we have Super glue!" It was really funny and relieving because it was a random throw and he just kinda chunked it at me. After the game was over we noticed that there were some nice mud/water puddles from the previous days of rain. We definitely went and dove in them. It was awesome. We would try and catch the frisbee as we slid into the puddle. Then, I went and picked up Shelley and body slammed her into the puddle. It was fun because I knew that she wanted to get in but that she just needed someone to give her a little push...or just throw her in all together. Some of us hitched a ride with Moe because he has a truck and we could sit in the back and we to the airport house (which is where a bunch of the RUF guys live) and went to go wash off and decided to get in this newly created lake from all of the rain. It was like a swamp and I think it was probably a stupid idea but we are all alive now so that is good. It ended up being about 10 feet deep so this was no small lake I am talking about. A bunch of us were treading water when around the corner came Dustin in a Kayack. It was awesome. Kinda random but awesome. Once we got out I went back and took a shower (which by the way I had to wash my hair three times because it was full of twigs and dirt) and then went to the Golden Rule which is this bbq restaurant. There was about 15 of us there and it was a great time of hanging out and talking about cool things. Then, we went back to the airport house for "Bonfire 2005". They burned everything from wood to couches to computers to ping pong tables to their old roommates dresser with his clothes still in it which is randomly came by the next morning looking for his dresser with his clothes in it only to find out that two of the guys had thrown it into the fire the night before. Sad, one day to late. We stayed there till about 3:45 and then I went back and went to sleep. I am getting off work now so I will finish about my weekend tomorrow. But that was Friday and it was great. More on the weekend later.

The power of prayer

2005-04-07T10:35:00.000-07:00

wow, in the middle of this hectic week I have been reminded that the Jesus is the vine and if I remain in him I will have life. Christin Deas, the Nav intern, and I have been leading a Biblestudy in my dorm, Lupton. We watch American Idol and then look at different characteristics of Jesus in the Bible. It has been a great way to get to know the girls on my hall. We have had several girls that have been really consistent in coming and will be there even if I don't see them during the week. I have also been getting to know three of the Auburn basketball players that live right across from me. They had been coming to watch American Idol but always had an excuse of something they had to do and could not stay for the study. One if the girls, Aileen, and I have hung out a lot and had some good talks and I really want her to come to know Jesus. Christin and I have been praying for these three girls to stay for the biblestudy because we know that when the Bible is open and being read it is alive and active and sharper than any two edged sword. Well, last night after we watched American Idol all three of them stayed!!! I was so excited the whole Biblestudy because I feel like this will allow so many opportunities to ask more questions and to talk about eternity and things that matter. One of the girls, Sparkle, even said, "See you next week for Biblestudy." I can not tell you how much encouragement last night was even though I was almost dreading it because I thought that the basketball girls would have something else that they had to do just like every week. The discussion time about Jesus being the Vine was so good. The girls were getting into it by answering the questions and applying it to their lives. What I think is one of the coolest things about this whole situation is that Christin, being on staff with the Navs, has to raise support and just last week she sent out her news letter to about 250 people sharing all about this Biblestudy that we have been having in my dorm with pictures and everything. This means that 250 people have been praying for the girls in my dorm! Seeing the power of prayer is AWESOME! This was a God thing and I can take no credit. If you think about prayer that I would have the opportunity to share with Aileen the gospel and that she would give her life to Christ. Man, after last night all of my worries and feelings of being overwhelmed seem insignificant. Thank you Jesus for reminding me that you are still in control.

Random Grandparents

2005-04-06T09:38:00.000-07:00

Well, yesterday was long, but there were some good parts. I had normal class and work and then we had girls frisbee practice which was fun. We played this game which is pretty much like ultimate except it is good for when you have a smaller group like six people. You have to score inside of a box and then once you score you just turn around and start trying to score the other direction without having a throw off or anything. It is pretty intense because you never stop but it is fun because the game has no dull moments. After frisbee I went to Step aerobics which kicked my butt because I really did not work out all spring break and then I went back to my room and got ready and went to the Auburn/Georgia Tech baseball game. It was the first Auburn baseball game I have been to. It was fun but sad because we lost by one run. Right before the game my mom called and informed me that my Grandparents were at the game. I had remembered my Grandmother telling me that they sat right behind first base so I went to go find them and I did. It was good seeing them. I got to talk to them for a little bit and watch some of the game. After the game Merritt, my suitemate, and I went to Wal-mart because I was out of everything. It was a massive load. I have all kinds of good food now. I was sad because I never got to talk to Calyn on her birthday. So, here is a shout out to Calyn Reber for turning 20!!! Happy Birthday!!! I tried calling but never got to talk to her....sad for me. I love you Calyn and can not believe you are not a teenager anymore.

So much to do so little time

2005-04-05T10:54:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday was not to exciting for me. I basically did school all day. I did have some little breaks to eat but that was about it besides RUF. RUF was great and it was also so cool to see everyone again. Afterwards a lot of people were going to watch the basketball game that they had taped but I had to go back and do some more homework. It was really sad and I felt like crying but I pushed through. I did get my soccer jersey for the RUF coed soccer intramural team. It even has my last name on the back. I can not wait to wear it. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Ok, so it was 1 o'clock last night and I had just turned off the light and was snuggling down in the covers getting ready for a good night of sleep when all of a sudden this loud noise started.....The fire alarm. I thought it was kinda funny because I was still wide awake because I had not gone to bed yet and it was great seeing all of these half asleep girls coming out of rooms. So, we had to go wait outside for the firemen to come and check it out. I think someone was microwaving something and set it off. It brought back memories of camp when we had the experience with the fire alarm in the middle of the night....and yes we did forget Tamara although nobody woke me up I just heard the banging on the door and Mrs. Diane yelling for everyone to get outside. I really don't know how Tamara slept through all of that. At least we are all alive and well though. Sorry about that Tamara.....

Back in the 'burn

2005-04-04T11:21:00.000-07:00

Well SB 2005 was so much fun and also sadly very short. I went home for the weekends and then during the week I went to St. Pete, FL to my R.A.'s house with 7 other girls from my dorm. It was so much fun and the weather was beautiful. It did not rain once. We got to go tubing, lay out at the beach, soak in the hot tub, watch movies, go out to eat, and just catch up on sleep. My weekends at home were much shorter than I expected. I did not get to spend nearly as much time with people and some people I did not even get to see. I got back in Auburn at around 6:30 yesterday and did some homework and ate dinner and then went over to Shelley's dorm room where we watched a movie and then did an exercise video with Carmen Electra. It was really funny. I then came back to my dorm and did some more homework and then went to bed. It was hard getting up this morning for classes again but I did it and my day is going great.

I can not wait to go home!!!

2005-03-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is the start of my spring break!!! I think I am the last one to get mine out of everybody in the world. It is well anticipated though. I had my Principle of Financial accounting test this morning at 8:00. I think it went pretty well. I have one more english quiz tomorrow and then I am done for a week. In Business Calculus we talked our teacher out of having a test the week after we get back so that was kinda fun. We also talked him into canceling class for tomorrow. I love that class because we laugh the whole time. People will just carry on conversations with everyone in the class while the teacher is writing on the board. Our teacher has no idea what his rules are so we just help him with that. I think I am going to build him a cake or something at the end of the semester. He is a good teacher he is just not very organized. We have our first intramural soccer game tonight. Our game last week got canceled because of all the rain so we are ready for this one. Greek sing is also tonight which is an event put on the raise money for the Humane society. All of the sororities make up a dance to perform and then there are judges that see who is the best. I am not dancing with my sorority. It is just way to time consuming. They have practices for 3 or 4 hours a night. It is insane and very competitive. I am excited about going to watch though because I know a lot of the girls that will be dancing. I have one more class today and then I am going to go to Lamberts which is this afterschool daycare thing that is at a rollarskating rink. We sing songs and then do a biblestory with the kids and then hang out and play for awhile. The kids are super cute and it is fun to see people other than college students. When I came to college I did not think about what it would be like to not be around little kids any more. I miss my siblings so it is probably good that I am not around little kids all of the time because it would remind me how much I miss my siblings.....I can not wait to see them. I bet Benjamin is huge now.

Spring Break...so close yet so far away.

2005-03-23T10:22:00.000-08:00

Well, it is less then a week away from spring break and the anticipation is growing. I just talked to Allison who is going to give me a ride home and I think I am going to get back in town for most of Jenna's party! I can not wait. I have one more test tomorrow and then it is pretty much home free. I am really excited because on Monday I am meeting up with some girls in my dorm and we are driving down to St. Pete to stay at my R.A.'s house and go to the beach and hang out for the week. They are a great group of girls so I know that we will have tons of fun. I had two classes this morning and now I am at work. At 1:00 I am meeting with the RUF freshman girls at Big Blue Bagel to discuss chapter 7 in the book The Discipline of Grace. It has been really good learning that God loves me and it has nothing to do with my Performance. I so often forget this stressing my out about being productive in my Christian walk to earn Christ's favor. I have chapter tonight and then dinner with the RUF girls and then my dorm Biblestudy. I am hopefully going to spend the afternoon studying for my Principles of Financial Accounting test that is tomorrow morning bright and early at 8.

Stupid Deer

2005-03-21T10:33:00.000-08:00

This weekend was sad because my family ended up not being able to come because on their way here a deer ran into the van and shattered the glass and they had to go back home because everything was a mess. I felt like crying. I was really excited about my family coming and everybody here at Auburn was excited about meeting them. I guess they will just have to wait till the fall. I am at least glad that I get to see them this weekend. I still had fun this weekend hanging out with people. RUF had a tailgate after the A-day game and we threw the frisbee around for several hours. I taught these three boys that were like 10 years old how to throw and catch and by the end of it they were catching one handed grabs with their left hand!! They also learned how to throw really well too. I was so proud. Afterwards a bunch of us went to Moes and then I went to the Airport house (a big house where a bunch of the RUF guys live) and watched basketball. I feel asleep because I had a pretty bad headache but when I woke up I felt a lot better. When the bball game was over we played some mad games of Catch Phrase. hahaha....funny stuff comes out of those games, lots of inside jokes. We played guys against girls and the guys won every time. THey would come back from like 6 to 9 when we would only need one point and win the game. They have this cheer that they all say it goes, "guys, guys, guys, guys,....." you get get picture. Afterwards I went to bed and then got up and went to church. After church they had lunch provide because the missions conference was all weekend and so they had lunch just to close the weekend. It was fun having good fellowship and eating together. Two of my favorite things. At 2 I went and played frisbee. My friend Whitney game out and played for the first time and it was really fun having her there. She did really well and even caught a touchdown pass. After frisbee I went back and took a shower and then Shelley and I went to the grocery store because Robert need some waffles but did not have time to go to the grocery store. Shelley and I need some stuff so we decided to go for him. Everyday for lunch Robert eats two pb and j waffle sandwiches so he goes through waffles like nobody's business. Shelley and I went to her dorm room and ate dinner and I played mario on the old old nintendo game. It was awesome. Then, Whitney called and asked if I had any studying to do and if I wanted to go study together. I did so we went to Jimmy John's this restaurant and ....kinda studied. We talked a lot and got a little bit of studying done. It was well worth it. Whitney is awesome and so encouraging. Oh hey do any of you guys remember the Brio magazine? Well Whitney has gone on three of their mission trips and is going on one with her mom this summer! The brio lady, Susie, has even stayed at her house! That is so random to me! anyways, blast from the past. Well I hope I can get home in time for Jenna's party. I have to start working that out. Happy early birthday Jenna!!!

To much activity

2005-03-16T10:05:00.000-08:00

Well let me just say that I am having trouble walking. Yesterday was definitely an active day. The morning was pretty normal. I had my three classes and worked for an hour. At 3:30 Shelley, Amy, and I went to girls club Frisbee practice till 5:00. Annie, the captain of the team, was sick and so she just watched and the other girls could not come. So, There were three of us. We did a ton of drills and running. The guys were also practicing on the IM fields and so we played with them. Then I went and worked out from 5:00-6:20. I do this step class, 30 minute weights, and 15 minute abs. It was the hardest workout I have done this semester. I was nasty and so I went back to my dorm and got cleaned up and then went to Freshman Bible Study (a.k.a. FBS). It was good. We are reading through Romans and we read the 12th chapter last night. We talked about spiritual gifts. We had some good discussion and how much infuses you should put on acknowledging people's spiritual gifts and how we should not label people. We concluded that our ultimate goal is to bring glory to God not matter what we do. After FBS Shelley picked me and Ryan (this random freshman guy who is cool) up and we went and picked David Peake up and went and played Frisbee with BCM people. It was raining which made it all the more fun. I knew a lot of the guys there and we played two games. I had a chance to dive and I passed it up....dang it. I want to dive real bad but I always think I can get it without diving. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice the body for the love of the game. I have dove before but I want to do an awesome one like diving to catch a touchdown or something. I want it to become natural for me. There is the guy Mark who plays and he used to be a goalie and so he is really good at diving. He dives even when it is not necessary. I want to be like him. After we played Frisbee it was like 11:30 so I just went back to the dorm, did some homework, and went to bed. This morning I was feeling a little bit stiff and now I am feeling pretty sore. I hope it goes away soon and stops raining because tomorrow we have our first coed intramural soccer game. I hope we win.

EXPLOSION!!!

2005-03-14T10:47:00.000-08:00

My family is coming in town this weekend!!! I really miss them and I am super excited to get to hang out with them. It just so happens that RUF is having a tailgating party after the game and so my family will get to meet all of the RUF people which will be crazy. This past weekend was really random. On Friday I played frisbee for awhile but it was really windy. You would throw it two feet in front of you and it would fly up 20 feet and then come crashing down. One of the frisbees even cracked under all of the pressure and it was not one of those cheap frisbees at Wakulla Springs that we go through four a game. Speaking of Wakulla Springs I am just kinda wondering why I was not invited to go. That hurts.....anyways. After frisbee we had a soccer practice for coed soccer intramural games coming up. I am on a team with RUF people. Hopefully we will do ok. I wiped out at practice and kinda hurt my ankle but it is pretty much back to normal. After practice I went back and got cleaned up and then a bunch of us went to Laredo's which is the best mexican restaurant. We had like 20 people so it took forever. Afterwards Leslie McClenney and I made our rounds to different hanging out parties. We did not stay out to late because I was super tired from having all 8 o'clock class all week. On Saturday I slept till 2 and then Whitney, Julieanne, and I left to go to Boaz, AL for a thing called EXPLOSION. One of whittneys friends in her sorority had become a christian at it last year and really wanted people to come. Whitney read the e-mail and decided that it would be good if she went and then when Julieanne and I were at lunch with her on Wednesday she invited us. We had no idea where we were going but we just wanted to hang out together. Boaz is like 3 hours away. We had fun talking, listening to music, and eating cold chick-fil-a that Julieanne had picked up for us when we thought we were leaving at 2 instead of 3:30. There was a really pretty lake on the way so we stopped and took pictures of ourselves in front of it. When we got there we listened to the speaker and then there was this random guy performing that was kinda boring so we went to the foyer and talked to the people running the booths and then Karen, the girl who is friends with Whittney, said that she was not feeling well and if we wanted dinner (because we had not eaten dinner and it was like 8) we should go ahead and go because everything closes pretty early. So we left. Which is kinda funny because we drove 3 hours for this thing called Explosion and then did not even stay for the concert. We did not care though because we were together. We ended up going to Wal-mart and getting stuff to make spaghetti and then went to this lake house that we were staying at. We cooked and then sat around and ate and talked for awhile and then Whittney tried to make cookies but she burt them. Austin, Karen's guy friend, stopped by and said that he would go get us some more dough so while he was gone we made up a dance to the song....say my name say my name...by Destiny's child for Austin to embarrass him. It was really funny because it was really corny and thrown together but I think he at least thought it was funny. We stayed up listening to other old school songs and then talked. When we were getting ready for bed we put our hair on top of our head and made funny faces and took pictures for about 30 minutes. That was fun and then we finally went to bed. We got up Sunday morning and came back home. I went and played frisbee for 3 hours and then cleaned up and went over to Shelley's dorm room. We made bagel bites and then hung out and ate and figured out what classes I need to take in the Fall because I had to register this morning. We then went over to some of the RUF guy's apartment and hung out. oh yeah.....on Friday I found out that I am going to be an R.A. in the fall. I also found out that only 13 out of like 60 people made it which I did not know that only 13 people got it. I thought it was like 30 or something. If I had known that I probably would not have slept so well the night before. But my friends were there in the mail room when I opened up the letter that said I was accepted to be an R.A. and my friend Rosie also got accepted so we went crazy. Then our friends Jennifer, Fran, Shelley, Lauren, and some other people took us out to eat to celebrate at Moes. They are so sweet and made us feel very special. That was definitely a awesome thing finding out that I am going to be an R.A. in the fall. Finally something swings my way. It gets hard when you feel like everything is not falling into place. It was awesome to get some direction for the fall. I am getting excited about spring break and seeing everybody! I love you guys and miss you!!!

Rules for assassin

2005-03-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

Ok Jenna, so here are the rules. Of course you will have to change them a bit for you guys but I would strongly encourage you to make it a rule that you can not be shot at NBC events because that is to easy. It is going to be funny because parents probably won't like their kids going out at 1 in the morning to wait outside someone's house to kill them. I had three encounters with police officers thinking I had a gun and was trying to break in somewhere are hurt somebody. Twice I had real guns pulled to my head. Be careful. Someone is going to have to be the overseer kinda like the narrator when we play Mafia. The way you give everybody a target is by writing everyone down on a list that wants to play and then give them the person that comes after them on their list as their target. This way it will be like a circle and by the end when two people are left they will have each other. If you have any questions just let me know. If all of you guys want to play I could be the overseer because I could just talk to everybody over the phone or on e-mail. Brian did not have to do anything in person. Just let me know. I can help make the list and everything so that it will be random. I hope it all works out. Below is the list that Brian made for all of us to have....

Assassins '05
I know this is a LOT of rules, I think this is the best way to go about setting up the game.
The primary goal of RUF Assassins is to survive.
Game play begins March 1st at 2:00 p.m. and ends when only one person is left alive.
Each player will, at all times, have a target (the person you are after) and a hunter (the person after you). You will be informed of the identity of your target, but you will not be informed of the identity of your hunter (although you may figure it out by various means).
At any given point in the game, the only two people you can kill are your target and your hunter.
Kills are made by shooting your adversary with a water gun. The shot must be obviously made. If clothes or skin is wet (and it isn't raining), then the shot is considered obvious.
The goal of this is not to soak the adversary once they declare that they are dead, stop shooting. (In addition, a declaration of death means you are dead making such a claim deceitfully will disqualify you).
Killing anyone other than your target or hunter results in disqualification.
Any water gun, balloon, or other intentional water projector is legal. Cups, glasses, and bottles of water are ILLEGAL!!!!
When you kill someone, you are obligated to e-mail bsorgenfrei@ruf.org with the subject "I killed someone" and inform me of the fact. Include who you killed, the date and approximate time (to the nearest hour is fine),
I will, for confirmation purposes, e-mail you your new target, even though under normal circumstances you will be aware of his or her identity already.
When you are killed, you are to tell the person who killed you who your target was, for that person is now his or her target. You are also requested (but I guess I can't do anything to you if you don't because you are already dead) to e-mail bsorgenfrei@ruf.org with the subject "I have been killed."
There are certain times and places that are considered off limits for the purposes of this game.
There is a cease fire on RUF Assassins from 9:00 to 2:00 on Sundays, to allow everyone to go to church and allow for fellowship afterwards.
There is a cease fire on RUF Assassins from 7:00 to 10:30 Monday nights to allow for RUF to properly occur.
All church property is off limits at all times to facilitate ministry work done by those playing.
All official RUF events are off limits, including if one is enroute. An RUF event is considered official if it is announced at RUF. This is not a blanket cease fire of time, however. If one is not going to said event, they are still fair game during that time period.
If a player is meeting with Richard or one of the interns, he or she is off limits during that meeting and while enroute. Other ministry-related meetings are also covered by this provision.
In addition, a player is off limits while in class. In class is defined as in the classroom, during the class meeting time or when the professor is present. One is not off limits while enroute to class.
Players are off limits while playing intramural games (but not enroute).
A player is off limits while on the clock at work. However, they are not off limits if at their workplace, but off the clock, or if enroute.
These are the only times and places that are universally off limits. If more are needed, they will be announced at RUF large group and/or on the Auburn RUF webpage.
Buildings are not off limits. You may kill in buildings except for those already listed under above listed circumstances.
If any player fails to make a kill for 168 consecutive hours or 7 days to be exact, he or she dies by default
No Lying - I shouldn't have to say this. But no saying you are dead when you are not, etc. If you tell someone you are dead and then proceed to kill them, you are disqualified.
A note on disputes: there shouldn't be any disputes . . . It's a game. However, if there are any disputes, I will make the final call. E-mail me.
Happy times playing. Don't be scared to plan out your kills.

Peacoco

2005-03-07T11:08:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah, I forgot, Peacoco is the nickname of Leslie Peacock, the RUF intern who rocks my face off, who we call Peacoco because we have a bunch of Leslies and it is hard to tell who you are talking about. Kevin came up with the name when we were bowling and everybody else had a nickname for their bowling game except Peacoco so Kevin started typing Peacock and just replaced the k with an o to add a little bit of flava.

formal and death

2005-03-07T10:53:00.000-08:00

Wow, so much has happened.....I am sorry that it has been awhile. I had a pretty intense week and weekend. I had my formal with Tridelta. David was a great date. He is really good at dancing so that makes things fun. Nathan, Jennifer, David and I all went to Jonny Carinos a Italian restaurant for dinner before formal. There was a really long wait but they pulled us right through so we only had to wait about 2 minutes. We got to formal and they had a lot of good munchies there and it was fun to be dressed up and to get to see everybody. The band was fun. They were mo town. Afterwards we drove to Montgomery and got Krispy Kreme doughnuts. It was so good. I had not had Krispy Kreme in forever and Auburn does not have one so it was fun to get doughnuts and go on a road trip. David and Nathan were really sweet and made it really fun. Thanks Linda for letting me borrow your dress. About the assassins game.....Well I am just going to be blunt about this....I died. It is a really long story so if you ask me about it in person I will probably be able to tell you about it more in detail so don't forget. Holly and I were trying to figure out what to do about killing people and what our next plan was when we randomly ran into Elizabeth my next target. I did not realize that she knew I was after her so I was not being as careful as I should have been and she snuck up behind me and killed me. But then I met up with the person she was after and we went and killed her. So Elizabeth is dead but the sad thing is that I am too. I am kinda relieved that it is over because it is going to probably go on for awhile and it practically consumes your life and stresses you out but then if you know me you also know that I don't like to lose. I hope none of my friendships here at Auburn were hurt by the playing of this game. Well, back to normal life I guess. I kinda don't know what to do with myself..............

I am still alive

2005-03-02T09:47:00.000-08:00

It is Wednesday, my scoop day, and it is kinda chilly outside but blue skies. I think I am going to go out to lunch with Peacoco, the RUF intern, so that we can have some one on one time to talk and get to know each other more. I had my second and last midterm this morning at 8. I think it went ok. We had some short answers and then had to answer an essay question. Well, I am still alive. I went to Margaret Atkins's dorm room last night to make my kill only to receive my next assignment to kill some random guy name Matt Wilson. I have no clue who he is but I do have an address. Tonight I have some plans to maybe dress up like a pizza delivery girl and go knock on his door and act like I am looking do deliver a pizza and then shoot him. I think it would be awesome to win but it is getting pretty intense. I might just need to hibernate to my dorm room for the next week.....no I think not. I carry a water gun wherever I go to be prepared and I am always looking behind me. I have started to take the stairs more to avoid trafficy areas. Sometimes my heart just starts pounding in anticipation of the game. Man, I am getting nervous just thinking about it............

sorry

2005-03-01T11:04:00.000-08:00

Hey guys I just wanted to tell you that I want to call you and I am going to try to soon but I have a midterm tomorrow that I will be studying for whenever I find time today. After tomorrow I should have some good time to spend catching up. I am thinking about you and can not wait to see you.

I hope I don't get shot

2005-03-01T10:21:00.000-08:00

Ok, well let us try this again. Today my Business calculus class got canceled which was awesome. I only had one class this morning which was Principles of Financial Accounting at 8 but that class is my favorite so I don't mind. It got cold all of a sudden. It just makes me confused all this weather change. Last night my basketball team with RUF made it to the playoffs but I had my midterm for Business Calculus and I was not able to go because our game and my midterm was at 6. We lost. I was sad because I wanted them to win so that I could play again. The Ref apparently was not the best and the team we played was also pretty good so I heard. RuthAnne, one of my friends on the team, who played in highschool and is really good, said that she was yelling at the refs and stuff because they were calling stupid stuff and then not call other things. She got pushed down once and put her hands on her head and said, "have you never played basketball before?" I felt bad for her because she just wanted to have fun, but at the same time it was kinda funny because Ruthanne is very laid back and so to see her get passionate about something is very funny. Last night was RUF and it was so good. Richard talked about truly loving people and not being fake. In order to learn about the depth of Christ's love we need to love one another and be there for each other. He talked about how really important relationships with other brothers and sisters in Christ are. We are also starting this game today with all the the RUF people called assassins. Brian, the RUF intern, e-mails you someone to kill and you have to kill them by means for hitting them with water from a water gun before the person assigned to kill you kills you. The last person I is alive wins. It is starting today at 2:00. There are some good rules about not killing people at RUF events and stuff. You have to hunt them down and kill them randomly which makes it a lot more fun. I have not gotten my assignment yet but I hope I don't get killed first. I went to wal-mart today and got some water guns. I hope a girl wins because the guys always team up against us whenever we play a game so that they can win. Last night after RUF a bunch of us girls went to Ruthanne and Liza's dorm room and watched The Bachelorette. It was depressing. She rejected both of them. What was worse is that is was like a three hour ordeal. We had taped it so we got to fast forward a lot but we were all a little bit indignant. I have formal this weekend. I am taking my friend David Peake. It is going to be a lot of fun. Linda Wyman let me borrow her dress so I do not have to buy one so that is super exciting. I have one more midterm tomorrow in English. How do you study for english?.......

I am a little T.O.ed right now

2005-02-28T11:13:00.000-08:00

Well I just typed out this really long blog and when I pushed "publish post" it deleted. Now I am sad. I had a good weekend. I did a lot of stuff that I do not feel like typing out all over again. I think I am going to go and cry.....

No calculators?

2005-02-24T10:56:00.000-08:00

Well remember how I said that I was asking God for more emotion? Well yeah.......I got an answer. Last night Christin, the nav staff girl, and Rachel, my R.A., and I were in Rachel's room and I had a breakdown. I really want these basketball girls to know Jesus and I just feel like I don't know how to bring Jesus into every day conversation with them. I don't want to make it sound like I am preaching at them. I want them to be hungry and to ask questions about deeper things. We had some good prayer time and I feel encouraged but I just want Jesus to overflow out of me. I want to see things happen for his glory. There is another girl Brooke who lives on my hall and she has been coming to out hall biblestudy every week. She seems to know Jesus but I think that she needs some direction in growing more. I am going to try and seek her out and see if we can maybe meet once a week or something and I could help her with the basics like quiet times, scripture memory and stuff like that. I want to be used by God. Not for my glory but his. I think I might have found something to do for spring break. Rachel, my R.A., lives in St. Pete and so a bunch of the girls from my dorm are going there during the week. I think I might go which would be a blast and cheap because we could stay with Rachel. I would still be in T-Town for the weekends which is perfect because everybody back home is going to be in school anyways. Don't worry Jenna, I will still be there for your birthday...I am not going to miss it. Is there an easter musical in progress? That would be cool to get to see that on Sunday. I was in Business Calculus and my teacher is a really big pushover. We have these two football players in the class that are really funny and so Calvin, a freshman quarter back who told me he was going to be good, asked the teacher if we could just stop and call it a day and the teacher agreed! We were also talking about the midterm that is coming up on Monday which the university puts on for all of the Business calculus classes and the teacher informed us that we were not aloud to have calculators and Calvin said the quote of the day which was, "what? no calculators? That is like watching t.v. without a remote" and the whole class busted out laughing. It was awesome. I had a principles of financial accounting test this morning at 8:00 and I think that it went really well. There were only a couple questions that I had to make an educated guess on. We have our last basketball game tonight! I can not wait although I am trying to not get to excited because this team we are supposed to play has a reputation for being a no show. I hope they come....so we can cream 'em. I love everybody!

2005-02-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

So do you ever feel like you are writing the same thing over and over again? I do. Or at least I feel like I start out the same way every time. It gets hard being creative.....anyways. Today has been pretty normal. My mind is one day behind. I keep thinking that it is tomorrow and not today and this has become a recurring thing all week. Is this a disease or something? Do they have a name for this disfunction? So, last night I went to this dinner and dancing thing with my friend Brian. The Jazz band that has been here at Auburn since the 30's played. It was awesome having live music. Brian is really good at swing dancing so it was really fun dancing with him. I ended up knowing a lot of people who went and so it was fun taking pictures and goofing off. The food was really good which if you know me that is a very important factor. I got to dance with some random people too. There was this one guy who was dressed up in war world two clothes and other people wearing top hats and stuff. It was good preparation for formal coming up in two weeks. Now I will have some good moves. We had seven girls come out to girls club frisbee practice yesterday which is super exciting. That is enough for a team and plus we had like three girls who usually come that weren't there so we are growing! I am so excited about that. I have been learning a lot lately. Just today I was praying that God would give me more emotion in the sense of being more sensitive. Sometimes I just don't think about what other people are feeling or what effects certain things might have on people. I want to be sensitive towards others and to have a genuine concern for my friends, family, and random people I meet. Tomorrow is David Kuder's birthday so a shout out to him. Happy Birthday David!!! A lot of my friends have birthdays coming up. I am going to be home for Jenna's 18th which is cool. Hopefully the party plans will work out.......yeah we all know how that goes. Here is a random fact. At frisbee on Friday I got elbowed right in the spot that the cartilage separated your two nostrils. I explained it to Bekah as the wall that separated the two caves....you know that place. Anyways, It is bruised and it randomly bleeds (hence the "random" fact) which is kinda annoying because not only does it hurt but it causes a mess. I hate having to get up and put tissue on it. I hope it gets better soon. I really need to go to wal-mart......

I am starving

2005-02-21T09:48:00.000-08:00

It is Monday again....The weekends are always kinda disappointing because they end up being so short. I did a lot of random stuff this weekend. The Tridelts hosted a best buddies ball for some mentally handicapped people. I was a photographer. It was fun watching everybody dance and goof off. I went to my first frat party with some girlfriends of mine. It was fun because we were already in the dancing mood from the best buddies ball so we had fun messing around and laughing a ton. I made tie dye wife beaters with some girls on my hall. They look professional and are awesome.....don't hate. I played a ton of frisbee which I also heard that there was some major frisbee playing going on at NBC on Saturday. Way to go guys!!! you make me so proud!! Aaron, I hope your dent in your shin pops back out! Thanks for your giving spirit to take on for the team! Linda let me borrow her prom dress for my formal coming up in two weeks. I am super excited about that. So some friends of ours coming from T-town dropped it by on Saturday. I went out to Lunch with Amy and Lauren on Saturday. I watched a movie with Aileen while we ate a ton of Starburst and Skittles that my mom sent with the dress. Aileen is on the Auburn basketball team. Her family drove all the way from Texas to see her game on Sunday. They played LSU which is raked number one and they only lost by FIVE points. sad....I know....Aileen is still cool though. I had a test in Macro today. Some of the questions I was not to sure about but we will see. My business calculus class got canceled because the door was locked to the classroom and we could not get in so that was a pleasant surprise. Now I am at work.....I am going to go swimming or play basketball later today I think to get some exercise. Oh yeah, we won our game last Thursday by two points. We were missing two of our best players and so everyone else really stepped up and did great. I drove the ball like I wanted and I can tell I am already improving. We scream and laugh and we even have an awesome basketball highfive. If you ask me to show it to you I will. Well, now that I have officially used up all your day reading about my life.....oh yeah I got to talk to Calyn, my mom, my dad, Rebekah, and Alec for a good while to catch up so that was good. I also talked to all of the siblings which takes forever and can not be done everyday or else I would never get anything done. Oh yeah, I keep remembering things I want to say, the title is there because I am starving and am waiting to get off work to go get some good Chick-fil-a. PeAcE OuT.

It is Thursday!!

2005-02-17T10:24:00.000-08:00

It is amazing!! I can not believe that today is already Thursday. I slept through my 8 o'clock class yesterday morning which was ok because I have not missed one yet and we were not really doing anything in English anyways....I think english classes are pointless because you should just let people go and write their papers. Discussing stuff in class is pointless because all you do is write papers. There are no tests on the random stuff you talk about in class. What is sad about this class is that it is at 8 in the morning....yes, I know. So anyways...because I missed my 8 o'clock class I only had one more at 10 and then I was done for the day. Wednesdays are more of a scoop day for me instead of a hump day. It is really nice. It helps the week go by so fast. Then by the time you get to Thursday it is ok because the next day is Friday. My Thursdays are pretty busy but it is not stressful stuff. I go to Lamberts, an afterschool daycare place and hang out with kids for an hour or so and I have three classes, I work for an hour, work out, and then tonight we have our RUF basketball game. I want to go out a little early and get warmed up. I need to be more aggressive in my offense. I just get scared that I am going to foul somebody or something. You can actually be pretty rough in basketball. I used to think that you were barely aloud to touch people but you can actually push and stuff. It is amazing. Plus I am not used to playing with girls. I am used to playing with my dad who I can jump on his back and it won't be called a foul. I am getting more used to it but the season is going to be over before I get comfortable with it. I will just have to practice a lot for next year. I am at work right now and things are pretty slow. There are some random construction dudes trying to fix something. The construction people here at Auburn bugs me. I will walk by and they will all just be standing there doing nothing or maybe one guy will be doing something and everybody else is watching. I have seriously thought about yelling at them to tell them to get to work. If I was their manager I would fire them all. People are such slackers these days.....ok well I am pretty worked up right now so I better go before I do something I will regret....just kidding. Everything is under control.....

Yea!! It is not raining!!

2005-02-15T12:56:00.000-08:00

I am pretty pumped right now because it is not raining today and it has been nasty weather a lot lately. We deserve a blue sky every now and then. I am getting ready to go play frisbee so good weather definitely makes that more enjoyable. I have been pretty busy today. I can not believe that it is already 3:00 p.m. I had three classes, worked for two hours, turned in my university notes, talked to Todd on the phone, saw some cool people that I got to talk to. Eric's mom send him some muffins that were really good. There were like 50 million in that box of his but he said they would be gone in two days.....boys are amazing with the amount of food that they consume. I have freshman biblestudy tonight which is always super de duper. It will be a good end to this crazy day. I saw my cousin Kenneth today and he asked me if I had a good valentine's day and I said, "yesterday was valentine's day?" so that is how I feel about that area in my life. I was not disappointed just normal feeling. I hope everyone in Tallahassee is doing great. I miss you guys!

I got a spot on the blog

2005-02-14T11:07:00.000-08:00

Well, I was talking to Calyn last night and she said that I should start a blog so I did. She said it would be a way that she could keep up with me if we do not get a chance to talk on the phone. I just got back from the RUF winter conference. It was a really good time to get to know new people and deepen friendships that I already had. I really enjoyed going to a workshop that Richard Vise taught about and the title was "Means of Grace." He talked about the word, baptism, communion, and prayer. It was a good thought provoking time. I have believe in all of these things but some of them I did not really know why or the reasoning behind different aspects of them. I got to play frisbee duing freetime and go look at the huge waterfalls that were really pretty. The ride up and back was one of my favorite parts getting to know the girls in my car and laughing pretty much the whole way there and back. Today is Valentines Day today and I am really not all that sad. I guess I am kinda used to it by now because I have never had a valentine before so it is ok. It just feels like another normal Monday. This week is going to be crazy because I have a lot to get done but I will try and not procrastinate and be productive. I am about to get off work and then I am going to work on my notes from macroeconomics and then maybe go swimming in the auburn pool or do kickboxing I am not really sure and then go to RUF. I am done with classes for today so that is nice. I am not really sure how you end a blog so this is kinda awkward but I guess I will blog to you later. Happy Valentines Day everybody!