15 Picture Summary: Fall 2012

1.) Fostering puppies

Chance, Macy, Wendy, Dallas, Lily, Sophie, Hudson, Ally, Watson, Piglet, Diesel and Socks made my semester. I love puppies. As anyone who follows me on facebook, twitter or instagram knows, I had the opportunity to foster these 12 puppies for the Oxford Lafayette Humane Society this semester and I genuinely loved every single second of it! Letting them go is always hard, but knowing they have a good home makes it all worthwhile!

2.) College Corps

 College Corps is a minimum requirement 300-hour volunteer program that has recently consumed my life! I work at Della Davidson Elementary School in Oxford tutoring 4^th and 5^th grade math and I really do enjoy it. Although it is challenging sometimes, I have recently become more interested in public health and school nutrition intervention so I am confident that it is worth putting so much time into working with these kids.

3.) Living room makeover

My lovely uncle decided Lauren and I should feel at home in our new cottage and let us give our living room a makeover! We had so much fun visiting tons of furniture stores, sitting on what felt like thousands of couches and finally putting everything together. We love it!

4.) First Ole Miss football season

It wasn't my first experience in the Grove, but I sure do love Ole Miss football game days! It helped that we were much better this year than in the past! Cody got to come to the Egg Bowl with me over Thanksgiving Break and we won!! Hotty Toddy!

5.) Parents weekend (Aug. 30-Sept. 3)

Shortly after the semester started, I made my way to Colorado with Cody's family for my 3^rd Parents' Weekend. We got to spend our 5 year anniversary together, I went to some of his classes, we tailgated before the football game, celebrated Blake's 22^nd birthday with a cookout, drove to the mountains and went fly fishing. His family rented a house and as always, it was a really good time.

6.) Hanging out with Landon

I was living in Colorado when this little joker was born, but it has been really nice to be able to see him start to grow up and start walking! His momma and aunt are pretty cool too :)

7.) Weekends at the farm

What is really nice about Ole Miss is that it is about 30 minutes from the farm, where you can find most of my family every weekend in the fall! My favorite things were jumping on hay bales with Lauren, the 3^rd annual shootout, riding fourwheelers, deer hunting with Cody, shooting my new .38 special and letting my puppies run free!

8.) Colorado for Cody's birthday (October 5-8)

Cody's friends at USAFA paid for my flight to come spend his birthday weekend with them in Colorado. Blake picked me up from the airport and took me to Cody's room to surprise him. We somehow kept it from him for a few months, which is a miracle in it of itself. We had a really fun weekend camping and fishing. They even wakeboarded in 30 degree weather…crazies. 

9.) My 21st birthday

The title says it all.

10.) Trip to Mississippi State (October 19-21)

I went to visit Kellerhouse and EK on a football weekend for my first time back to State since I went to school there….April 27, 2011. It was good to see old friends and we had fun in the cotton district and tailgating…sooo much catching up to do! I'm not going to hate but I am proud to be a Rebel! 

11.) Decorating the cottage

As soon as Lauren and I moved into our house, we couldn't wait for a holiday to come so we could decorate. My mom has a box of things for us for every holiday and we deck the cottage out! It has been so much fun living with Lauren and decorating our little cottage!

12.) Made it on MTV's: Pranked

 A few friends played a joke on Lauren and I awhile back by throwing a big frog down on our living room floor beside us one night and Lauren completely and totally flipped out. Someone from MTV got ahold of the video from youtube and we were aired in their Pranked, Season 5 in November!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J59zy_PnFw

13.) Trip to Indiana (November 1-4)

Lauren and I road tripped for 12 hours across 5 states and through many corn fields to visit Alex at Indiana University! We enjoyed seeing Bloomington, staying in her sorority house, seeing what the frats were all about and playing in the mud at the football game. We picked up a couple of new favorite songs and treated ourselves to Lambert's on the way home! We're hoping to go back soon!

14.) Trip to Birmingham (December 1-2)

Lauren, Adam and I headed out to Birmingham for the weekend to surprise Sarah for her 21^st birthday! We decorated her apartment, pop, locked and dropped it, and somehow missed out on krispy kreme…what a shame.

15.) New Years Eve

 Cody and I successfully ended 2012 with an intense meal of ribs, baked beans, a baked potato and potato salad. I think it was the first time we had actually cooked together, and it wasn't a total disaster so things are looking good!