365 Challenge - Week 10

It was a busy week to say the least! I'm exhausted just thinking about it all again!

March 6 - On Sunday, Aubrey and I met Kristin and Kyle in Houston to go to the annual livestock show and rodeo! It was so much fun! After watching some mutton bustin' and pig racing, we made our way inside to check out the livestock show, followed by some rodeo activities! Shawn Mendes wrapped it all up with a concern in front of a screaming crowd (of mostly 12-year-old girls). It was pretty neat when they all turned their phone lights on and used them like lighters, swaying back and forth. It was a really fun night and it was great to spend some more time with these two. :)

View from our seats at the Sean Mendes concert.

Kyle, Kristin, me, and Aubrey. 

March 7 - On Monday, I received Katie's "will you be my bridesmaid" package and I was so thrilled for it to finally be "official," although I'd known for months. I am so honored to be standing by three of my best friends as they marry the loves of their lives in October (yes- all in October). Each of them will be a beautiful bride. I can't wait for an eventful and exciting fall!

Cards from Megan, Katie, and Kristin. <3 

March 8 - On Tuesday, the executive team of the Brazos County A&M Club snagged some tickets to the suite at the Aggie baseball game. The game was great and the Ags beat Northwestern State 6-7. It looks like it's going to be a good year for baseball (*crosses fingers*).

View from the suite at Olsen Field at Bluebell Park!

March 9 - On Wednesday, Megan was in town because she was helping a professor out the next day with some curriculum planning (how cool is that!?). Aubrey made dinner for us and then we took on Aubrey in two rounds of Jeopardy. We won the first one, but got destroyed in round two. At the end of the night, I took and posted this photo of Tucker in his new favorite color as an indicator of things to come! :)

The official camp mascot!

March 10 - On Thursday, I finally got to share a secret I'd been keeping for a while. I was nominated and selected to serve as a namesake for Fish Camp 2016. This is such a huge honor! Since I was heavily involved with Fish Camp as a student at Texas A&M, it meant even more to me to come "full circle" in the Fish Camp world. I met my two co-chairs weeks ago and we finally met our 24 counselors Thursday evening. I cannot wait to get to know them all more over these next few months before we head to Lakeview to welcome the Class of 2020!

Session F Purple Camp Smith co-chairs! 

Session F Purple Camp Smith! 

March 11 - I took Friday off of work and set out for Chicago to visit Katie. I hadn't seen her since late 2015, before she moved to her new home in Illinois. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend with a great friend. We got to catch up on life and relive some stories from Italy. We spent Friday evening at a local dive bar called Suzy's, where we had some beer and pizza. It was delish!

Katie & I at Suzy's.

March 12 - We kicked off Saturday morning with brunch in Naperville followed by a wine tasting at a local winery. Afterwards, we dropped Mike off at the airport and set off for some site-seeing. The wrapped up the evening with dinner at Signature Room on the 96th floor of a skyscraper in downtown. Then, we enjoyed an improv/short skit show at The Second City. Talk about laughing so hard it hurts!

View from Signature Room before the sun set. 

Katie & I at The Second City before the show began.

365 Challange - Week 9

February 28 - For Sunday, I'm posting two photos. The photo of Aubrey and I was taken Saturday night (technically Sunday morning since it was after midnight). Aubrey stopped by The Woodlands on his way back from a work assignment. We enjoyed dinner with my parents and then went out to get drinks with Kristin, Kyle, Megan, and Nicole. That afternoon back in College Station, actually on Sunday, I took him to the women's basketball game vs Kentucky. The women lost and it wasn't that pretty of a game, but we had a lot of fun. After taking Aubrey to two games where the women have lost, I think this may be his fault. He's not allowed to go to any Aggie women basketball games anymore.

February 29 -  Kellie and I picked this individually packaged macaron up at the TAMU Housing Fair. Our immediate thought was, "we could do this!"

March 1 - This particular Tuesday was "Super Tuesday," when 11 states had their primary elections. Since one of these states was Texas, a few coworkers and I went to vote at the MSC at the end of the day. The line was long, but it was great to see lots of people out voting! Biggest disappointment was getting to the end of the line and hearing that the poling station had already run out of "I Voted" stickers. I've decided that voting is much more fun as a group!

March 2 - On Wednesday, we gave a tour at my office to students visiting from A&M's Qatar campus for a leadership retreat. One of the students, Ahmad, stopped me and asked me if I was in Doha in 2012 doing the new student orientation with HBKU. I was shocked, but so excited to be able to catch up with this student that remembered me and the orientation from FOUR years ago. He said he loved the orientation too, which absolutely made my day!

March 3 - On Thursday night, Kellie, Sarah, Adrea, and I enjoyed the evening at Messina Hof, a local winery and wine tasting room. Every Thursday is "Aggie Night," which means half-priced wine for anyone with an Aggie Ring or university ID. I'm about 7 wines into my 'Tour de Wines,' and can't wait to continue it (I started this before this Thursday)!

March 4 - On Friday, I helped with the Aggie Greek Awards banquet, put on by the Aggie Greek Former Student Network, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and The Association. We had a great night celebrating the wonderful greek student leaders we have on campus and catching up with friends and staff members.

March 5 - On Saturday, Aubrey and I went to the Aggie men's basketball game vs Vanderbilt- it was the last regular season game that the Aggies had to play and it determined whether or not we shared the SEC championship. Thankfully for the Aggies, they won in outstanding fashion and beat Vanderbilt! It was fun to tailgate with Aubrey and his friends before the game and celebrate afterwards! :)