Fun at the Lake

I love my polo team!  Yesterday about 15 of us headed off to a lakehouse about 45 minutes from College Station for the weekend. We spent the afternoon swimming and kayaking and enjoying hanging out by the water. Then, a group played Catch Phrase, while Jen, Katie, and I made spaghetti dinner for everybody. After eating and chatting, we all sat down to play a very intense game of Cranium. We finished just in time to watch the A&M/Louisiana Tech game that started at 8:20 and didn't finish until 12:45 this morning! We all quickly fell asleep, and enjoyed sleeping in this morning. We then went and hung out on the dock while everybody woke up and got ready, then Jana and I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast. We cleaned up the lakehouse and made sure everything was ready to go, then headed back to College Station around lunch.

As a team we are a very interesting bunch. I think we have somebody from nearly every major from engineering, to math, to agriculture, to communication, to allied health, to kinesiology, to education, to biomedical sciences, and everything in between! We are all very different, but all so similar. We all love to have fun. We laugh too much (and too loud). We have no sense of personal space with each other. We like to mess with one another. We are silly and goofy, and we love to eat. We are all different, all crazy, and all a team.

I loved this weekend at the lake, and I love my team!!

On our way to the lake!

Katie and Jen

 

 Such a precious friend in my life!

 WHOO! Cold hose showers because we are too lazy to wait in line for the regular shower.

Being silly while watching the Aggies BTHO LA Tech

 Watching the football game -- WHOOP!

The lake was so pretty this morning!

Plotting Revenge

So, over the last 16 years, Kole has played numerous pranks/tricks etc on me, and I have also turned the other cheek and been the other person -- I've never been one to retaliate.

That time is over.

For Kole's 16th Birthday I am going to be getting all of the revenge that I never got over the last few years! He has my car for the week in order to take his driving test on Thursday, since I have THE best car in the family and is the easiest to drive/park. Therefore, I have been left with the crapmobile.

So, I have until Friday at 2:45 or so to come up with THE best revenge possible. Marooning out his precious truck, A&M style! Yes, his beloved truck will be decked out with as much Aggie gear as possible by the time we switch vehicles Friday after school.

This is what I have in mind so far

• "Saw em off" window decal
• Maroon ribbon around the car
• A&M wrapping paper taped to the inside of the windows
• "Gig'em" plastered across the front window in window paint
• Maroon spray painted packing peanuts filling the cab of his truck (not sure about this one yet)
• A&M pictures taped under the sun-visors (this one he won't find for a while :D)
• Maroon yarn surrounding his steering wheel

You get the idea! But I need y'alls help... PLEASE let me know of any ideas y'all have this week on how else I can get my payback in one huge way possible

Just a Glipse of Tonight

I was hyper tonight and past the point of delirious at practice. One of my friends had borrowed my lab goggles last week, and had brought them back to practice tonight, at which point I got creative...

Lab goggles... swim goggles... they work the same way, right?

Such a fun night at the pool! LOVE my teammates, and the fact that I can be goofy around them :)

Tonight's Breakaway

Breakaway is a huge worship event that is held on campus every Tuesday night. Thousands of A&M students gather together to worship our God and hear a message. It is always such a time of refreshment and refocusing on what is truly important in life.

Tonight's message was so good. Not that the other ones aren't, but this one was just what I needed to hear. This semester we are going through 1 John, and tonight sermon was out of 2:28-3:10. This was the gist.

There is no reason to get discouraged when we are struggling against sin and fighting against it. The struggle proves that you are alive in Christ. It's those that are spiritually dead and don't have Christ who do not have a fight against isn and temptation. Our battle against sin is a great assurance that we are His. Only forgiven sins can be fought, so all the battles we have with sin are already forgiven, that's why we fight against them!

It is such a wonderful reminder and a new breath of perspective that I loved tonight!

"my planner isn't big enough!"

You learn something new everyday, correct? Well, today I learned that my planner does not have enough room for all the things that it needs to have written down for this week!

Between assignments due this week, quizzes out the wahzoo, a major test week coming up next week, this upcoming weekend's polo retreat, water polo practices, and the rare meetings with friends - there is WAY too much going on this week!

At the top of my planner this week, in big bold letters, it says "And God will be praised". That's my goal. Through the studying, the planning, the practicing, and the just "doing" of everyday life, my goal is that My God will be praised!... even when there is so much going on that my planner can't hold it all - just more ways to bring God the glory each and every day!

Why I Don't Dance

After polo tonight, Katie and Jen were begging me to go dancing with them tonight at Harry's (which is half country, half rap music) I had a quiz that I needed to do online, and some reviewing to do before class tomorrow, so told them that I couldn't go. I came back home and grabbed dinner and within an hour my quiz was done and I was ready to put on my PJs and crawl into bed with a movie when Jen texted me, asking me once again to PLEASE go dancing with them. Realizing that they would ask every Thursday until I finally went, I agreed to go for a little bit.

I quickly rerealized why I don't dance!

1. Dancing to rap music is disgusting.

2. You can't dance to country music by yourself.

3. When I get asked to dance, it's by some geeky guy who is wearing a fishing hat and who talks about his biomedical science classes the entire time. Not one song, but TWO. Oh man. And we didn't even 2-step, we shuffled the entire time. Not even a shuffle. More of a side step. And at the end, he concluded with "well, I can obviously tell you don't dance. But thanks for trying!". Rude.

4. The entire place was smoky. Disgusting.

I love my friends, and love spending time with them, but dance halls are NOT my scene!

Project Life Inspires Creativity

I know, I haven't updated about Project Life in a long while -- but I'm still doing it, and still LOVING it! There are some weeks where I have gotten a bit creative with my spreads, for example, my A&M themed spread where all my pictures are black and white with maroon Aggie backgrounds.

This week, I got creative again. One of my favorite things to do in-between classes (or in boring classes...) is to look at designer spreads from their Project Life albums to provide inspiration. Most of the well known names in scrapbooking are turning to digital scrapbooking through photoshop and programs of the like. So, this week, I have decided to do my own kind of version of digital Photo Life. I am adding journaling to the pictures on the computer, and so each picture looks a bit more polished. Then, where the normal 3x4 vertical journaling cards go along the middle of the spread, I am adding a variety of PhotoBooth pictures that Rachel and I took earlier this week of us being our goofy selves. This layout will definitely have more pictures, and more little details than my normal layouts, and I'm excited for that! On Friday night I'm planning on playing catch-up with my album. I've done very well with keeping my journaling up-to-date, but haven't printed out pictures since before classes started. So on Friday I'm going to send all my pictures to Walmart and pick them up, then update my album. I'm excited to see what this week's layout will look like, and the possibility of moving to semi-digital layouts next year!

I am obsessed with Project Life-- if you see me you should ask to look at it! It's a REALLY neat way of creating memories to remember for years to come out of the everyday and ordinary parts of your life, as well as the extravagant and exciting parts!

Random Fact for the day: Cubed Cheese, Grapes, and Crackers make for a delicious late-night snack!