Playing Catch-Up and Making Cupcakes

It's been a busy few weeks- hence the no posting. Lots has been going on at work- lots of fun things, at least! 

My department put on a really fun project for our current students to take part in. We partnered the event with our monthly "Kolache Day" and asked students to tell us what they "gig" or love about being an Aggie. We got some really fun and enlightening responses. While we got some of the expected answers- "traditions," "12th Man," and the "Aggie Family," we also had a lot of students tell us that they loved being a part of something bigger than themselves.

The below response was a personal favorite of mine- Fish Camp! :)
It seems like just yesterday I was out at Lakeview with Camp Crawford. So many good memories!

Halloween also happened since I last posted- and it was such a fun day at work. One of the best fun things about working about The Association is going all out for Halloween. And I mean all out! Two of my coworkers donned full body paint and dressed up as wind animals (see pics below)!

Then came Aggie Ring Day on November 7th. The Association of Former Students presented over 2,100 Aggie Rings to Aggies who had worked long and hard to earn them. It's always a fun day- and busy! It was fun to see the steps add up on my Fitbit app (I also got a Fitbit since I last blogged)! I was over 12,000 steps at the end of the day without even trying. What what! I included the picture below to show what Aggie Ring Day typically looks like- so. many. people! 

Then, last week came Elephant Walk. Thankfully, I had no part in planning the event or making sure it went off without a hitch. My office helps with creating PR materials, but thankfully my duties are done long before event itself. So, last Friday some of the staff from my office went over to participate in the festivities, which, means taking photos with these gigantic, beautiful animals! 

Then, comes the cupcakes! 

These are, simply put, the easiest cupcakes I have ever made. 

I ran across the concept on Pinterest a while back and thought, "there's no way that you can actually make cupcakes that way!" Well, ta-da! It works! 

Cupcake Ingredients

1 box of cake mix

12 oz. soda

Any "extras" you want to add

Yup, it's that easy! So far, I've made cranberry cupcakes and Dr. Pepper Devil's Food Cupcakes. They've both turned out great!

Cupcakes- round 1!

1 box yellow cake mix

12 oz. cranberry sprite

chopped dried cranberries

frosting (can't have cupcakes without frosting!)

Cupcakes- round 2!

1 box devil's food cake mix

12 oz. Dr. Pepper

1 cup dark chocolate chunks

frosting- green! 

Yum! :)