Aggieland

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'm heading back to College Station tomorrow because my classes start this coming week! This semester I am going to be in the elementary classrooms two full days a week compared to last semester when I only went once a week for three hours. I can't believe that this is my LAST semester before student teaching! I can't wait to see everyone...this is going to be a great semester! ! My laptop is still getting fixed so you may not hear from the until I get it back! Have a great start to your week! :)

Winter Wonderland Texas Style

I have been in such a good mood ALL day since it SNOWED! I woke up this morning at the crack of dawn to get ready for class....as I was getting ready I was blasting Christmas music. I am sure my neighbors just love me! Ha! Around 10:00 this morning it started snowing on campus. But it was very light and did not stick :( But it was still exciting...we never see this in Texas! I made sure to get a few pics...


Can you see it? You might need a magnifying glass....Ha!

Houston had a lot more snow than College Station (Houston is about an hour south of College Station). Now why did I not go home this weekend? Ugh! This was the earliest snowfall on record for Houston.

Houston, Texas December 4th, 2009.

I went over to my friend Kristan's apartment this afternoon. This is what our day consisted of...

Hot soup to-go from Blue Baker in College Station
Watching Christmas movies - we watched Elf...it was my first time to ever see it! I thought it was such a cute movie!!


And drinking hot chocolate!! Couldn't get any better than that!Tonight we treated ourselves to the Olive Garden. It was yummy! I LOVE their breadsticks and salad! The snow is all gone but it is sure COLD! Tonight is the coldest night of the year so far...27 degrees. When we left the Olive Garden tonight there was already ice on my car!!

I wonder who is going to be my 100th follower??? :)

Thanksgiving Day, Tailgating, and Football!!!

For Thanksgiving this year we tailgated for the Texas A&M vs. Texas game! My job was to get the tents set up by Wednesday afternoon - thank God my cousins boyfriend helped because I do not think I could of done it by myself!! Thursday all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents from my moms side came in. We had tons of food - turkey, salad, cornbread salad, fruit tray, deviled eggs, boiled shrimp, green bean bundles, pies, pumpkin cheesecake, brownies, and a lot more! It was such a NICE day outside too!!

Me and my mom
My friend Kristan celebrated Thanksgiving with my family - we were joking that my mom adopted her!My cousin Dalena and I - Dalena graduated from U.T. a couple of years ago...her sister Demi also goes to A&M with me. Family Divided!!Some of my cousins! Natalia stopped by too! My cousin Cameron and I - He's a Longhorn Fan too :(
My cousin Lauren and I All of the cousins with my Grandparents!!!
Thanksgiving 2009
The game was awesome!!! It was my first time ever going to a A&M vs. Texas game! During the first 5 minutes of the game A&M scored - I had to take a picture of the score!! The Aggies played really hard!! I think if we didn't mess up those few times we could of won!
Me and Kristan at the game Final score 49-39 :( I cannot believe that it is now Christmas time! I love this time of year!!!

A&M vs. t.u. game and Aggie Bonfire!!!

Thanksgiving break is HERE! Tomorrow my parents are coming down to College Station and then on Thursday the rest of my family is going to arrive. We are going to tailgate for the A&M vs. t.u. game on Thanksgiving Day! I am excited! It will be a new Thanksgiving Day tradition! I got up bright and early Sunday morning to go pull tickets with my friend Natalia for them game. We got some pretty good seats!

Yesterday I got this cute gift in the mail from my Aunt Shannon! She just started making them!! Isn't it adorable?!



Thank you so much Aunt Shannon!

Tonight I went with Matt and Cait to the Aggie Bonfire....this year marked the 10th year anniversary of the Aggie Bonfire tragedy that happened in 1999.

Every year before the A&M vs. t.u. game they have a HUGE Bonfire - it's a pretty cool tradition! Here are some pictures of tonight!

Picture before it started burning...on top it says t.u. frat house. Ha!
Caitlin and I
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

It's the Weekend!!!

ASorry I haven't blogged too much this week. I have been SO busy with tests and homework. I think I did good on both of my tests so I am happy about that!! I am still counting down the days till winter break!! Today President Bush Senior invited President Obama to come to A&M and speak. I did not get to go because it was just invitation only. The security was very tight here on campus today! Earlier this year I got to meet President Bush Senior at Big Event here at A&M. The story is actually kinda funny how I met him...

Back in March A&M held a event called "The Big Event" where students who go to A&M volunteer one day to help out around the community to say thank you. Before we headed out to start working they had a few people speak. One of the speakers was President Bush....I was so excited! Well after he spoke my friend Kristan and I tried to get closer to the stage to get a better picture of him. So as we got closer to the stage Kristan goes, "Mr. President, I was wondering if I could come up on stage and take a picture with you. My uncle got to take a picture with you at an Astros game and is always bragging about it. Could my friend Christa and I come on stage to take a picture with you and Mrs. Bush"? I was sooo embarrassed....I was acting like I didn't know her! Ha! I was trying to hide my face...until President Bush said we could!!!! So the secret service let us on stage and took a picture of us with him!

Isn't that SOO cool?! The pic did not turn out too great because they took it with my phone.


Today my friend Katy and I went to go see the movie Where The Wild Things Are. The movie is based on a children's book. I did not really like it....I thought it was kinda weird. I actually think it was a little scary for children too.


I am really wanting to see the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This movie is also based on a children's book. I do not really like animated movies but I LOVED that book! Have any of ya'll seen these movies yet?


Tonight I am just having a chill night. I went over to my friend Natalia's house earlier to watch a movie. And tomorrow Matt (my cousins boyfriend) is having a party for his 21st birthday so that will be fun! The theme is Matti-Gras aka Mardi Gras. Ha!

Hope ya'll have a great weekend!! I am excited I get to sleep in tomorrow morning!! :)

Weekend Recap!

How was every one's weekend? Mine was pretty good...I wasn't very productive. I didn't get any homework done...but it's the weekend right? Ha! So I guess I will be spending my Sunday night studying!! Friday night Kristan, Natalia, a friend of theirs, and I all went out to a restaurant here in College Station called Ozona's. We all sat on the patio and had a margarita (or maybe two). I love the patio at Ozona's... it is so nice!

Yesterday I went to the game here at A&M with Natalia and Caitlin. Natalia's brother and his girlfriend came in yesterday and went with us as well. Before the game we went to a tailgate party that a girl in one of our classes was having. It was a lot of fun! I have been wanting to tailgate more often....sometimes I think I would rather tailgate than go to the game since we have to stand the whole time. Sad...I know! Ha!

I was so excited to wear my new t-shirt dress my Aunt Tina made for Caitlin and I. Isn't it cute?!

We played UAB (University of Alabama) last night and we won!! A&M is on a roll this year...it's our third game in a row to win!

I took this picture of the sky during half time...I thought it was so pretty!


After the game we went down on the field to take a picture. Excuse my hair...after standing in the heat and sweating for three hours it started looking pretty bad.

Me, Natalia, and her brother's girlfriend Andrea


Afterwards, we all went out to Northgate since Andrea has never been. It was so much fun just sitting around and talking!

Today I am going to go have a late lunch/early dinner with my conversation partner. For one of my classes here at A&M I have to be paired up with an ELL(English Language Learner) for the semester and we have to meet a total of ten hours. They are wanting the ELL to practice their English talking to us. My partner is a girl from South Korea and we met for the first time last week at Starbucks. She is really nice...I enjoyed hearing all about where she is from. She is a little bit older than me and is married. When we meet last week she told me that she found out the day before that she was pregnant. You know I LOVED that because I just love babies!! :)

I hope ya'll have a great rest of the weekend! And don't forget to check out my Q&A post...I am going to be answering the second half sometime this week!


P.S. Katie is having her first giveaway! Go check out her page!

Random Post....Birthday Lunch, an Elk, Good Deeds, and Bangle Bracelets!

Today we celebrated my Grandma's birthday here in College Station. My parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all came down today to celebrate too. We all went to Texas Roadhouse this afternoon to eat...it was good! Afterwards, we came back to my cousin Caitlin's apartment to have chocolate cake with chocolate covered strawberry's! Yum!

Me and my Grandma Katherine

I had to share these two pictures with ya'll...I thought it was hilarious!! This evening as Caitlin and I were sitting in traffic to go to the A&M tent sale we saw these two guys walking across the street with this....

We started cracking up....only in College Station, Texas you would see this!!
I had to roll down my window to ask for a close up picture! They were thrilled we wanted a picture. Ha! They said, "REALLY you want a picture"?? They loved it! Ha!

I am thinking it is an Elk. What do you think?
Isn't that hysterical???

As we were coming home from the tent sale we were about two cars behind this guy riding on a street bike. All of a sudden we see all of this money go flying out of his back pocket....so we pulled over to pick it up. (We were not on a main highway....just the little street that our apartment is on). There was about 40 bucks laying on the ground along with his wallet. Thankfully he pulled into our apartment complex because he was going too fast to catch up with him. He was so happy that we picked it up...he didn't even know he lost it. Soo that was are good deed for the day!!!

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My cousin Caitlin and I bought ribbon last week to wrap around these bangle bracelets to wear to the A&M football games. Caitlin ended making them the other day....didn't they turn out cute?!


Hope you all had a good weekend! I do not have Labor Day off tomorrow...I have school in the morning!! :(

100th Post!!!!

I can't believe it but this is my 100th post!!! I started blogging in February of this year and at the time I had maybe like a handful of people reading my blog. Mostly just close friends and family members! I remember the only comments I would get were mostly from my mom. Ha! Now I have over 50 followers...thank you to everyone who enjoys and reads my blog! I really encourage everyone to start writing in a journal, creating a scrapbook, or starting a blog....it's a great way to capture and share memories! I think it will be so cool to look back at my blog years from now and to see what I was up to in college!

Yesterday I went out to lunch with my friends Natalia and Kristan to La Bodega. The tacos we had were so yummy! If you live in College Station or come visit go eat there! Later Natalia and I met up with my cousin Caitlin to go lay out by the pool. It wasn't too sunny though. But we all had a good time catching up. Caitlin and I decided to make a trip up to H.E.B yesterday evening to get stuff to make for dinner. Well let me tell you about our trip coming back home....

To get back to our apartments from H.E.B we have to pass a shady area of College Station. Well anyways as we are driving we see this lady standing pretty much in the middle of the street waving at us in front of a gas station. We thought she was hitch hiking and she also looked like a drug addict. So we pass her and a second later I tell Cait to STOP!!! This 18 wheeler starts backing up in the middle of the road and was literally about to hit us. I told Cait to blow her horn...but the truck kept on moving. I was about to jump out of her car! Anyways the truck did not hit us...thank God.

The lady that was waving comes running up to Cait's car. Cait rolls down her window to tell her she was really sorry and that she did not realize that was the reason why she was waving at us. This lady starts screaming at the top of her lungs and cussing at us saying, "I cant believe you did not stop! That 18 wheeler has the right to back up and pull into this gas station". We were both appalled. Caitlin said a few words back to her (I wont say exactly what she said...ha) then we sped off. I mean come on...did this lady really think we did not stop on purpose? Trust me if we knew the reason why she was waving and if we would of saw the 18 wheeler we would of stopped!

Sooo anyways....Ha! I got an email last night from the people that might hire me. They said they went through my application carefully and that they want to do an interview on Saturday. I am really excited....kinda nervous though! But I am sure everything will go fine! I hope everyone has an AWESOME weekend!! :)

Back in Aggieland!

Well ya'll I made it back safely to Aggieland today! I had to make four trips from my car to my apartment because I had so much new stuff to bring up! (I am on the second floor too). Wish my dad was here to help! Ha! I was sweating like crazy by the end. At least I burned some calories in the mean time. I am so excited about this coming semester because it will be my Senior year. Last year was my first year here so I was just getting my feet in the door. So I think this next year is going to be great! After next spring I'm off to student teaching! YIKES!

Last night I found out I made a B in my calculus class!

My friend Kristan got to my apartment this afternoon. She is going to be staying with me for a few nights till she can move into her new apartment. So it will be nice having some company! Then my dad is coming up to my place Saturday to help me paint!! I'm soo excited! I will def post pictures!!! Tonight I think Kristan, my cousin Caitlin, Cait's boyfriend Matt, and I are all going to go out to dinner! I am GLAD to be back in Aggieland!!

Back in College Station

This afternoon I made it back to College Station. I have been home the past two weeks subbing a little and just relaxing. It has been so nice not to have to worry about school! But....that's over. I start summer school tomorrow at 9:30 in the morning :( I don't think it will be too bad though. Tonight Caitlin's boyfriend made us chicken tetrazzini and garlic bread. It was very good! Caitlin has found her a winner since he knows how to cook! Ha!

This weekend we went to go visit my grandpa in the hospital in Houston. He has been having really back headaches....they thought he had a stroke. But, in the CAT scan an old stroke showed up. Now there thinking he has the shingles. He's doing better though. He was talking up a storm when we went to go visit him. Hopefully he will get to go home sometime this week.

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

The Big Event and meeting President Bush!

Last night my friend Natalia and I went to Brenham to babysit at a church for Parents Night Out. A girl that's in Aggie Sister's for Christ with Natalia put it on as a fundraiser to make money to go to El Salvador in August for a mission trip. I was so excited that I got put in the nursery. I love babies! I was in the room by myself and at first it was okay bc I just had two babies. One was a little boy who was 12 months and the other was a little girl who was 18 months. But then 3 more came in that were 5 months and 15 months. I was getting kinda nervous! Lol. But thankfully I got some help...Natalia ended up coming into the nursery with me. One little girl cried the WHOLE time and if we put her down she would start screaming. The best one was the 5 month old. She was a cute little black girl names Alayna. She was the best baby she didn't cry once!!!

Once a year at A&M they put on this thing called The Big Event. It's where the students at A&M help out around the community for the day to say thanks. Kristan and I forgot to sign up in Feb. so we were hoping that we could sign up today. When we got there they let us sign up and make our own group. We named our group Short Stuff since we are both under 5 foot. Ha! Between 8-9 they had a band playing and speakers. And the last speaker was President George Bush Senior! After he spoke, Kristan and I tried to get closer to the stage to get a better picture of him. Then Kristan told me she was gonna ask him if we can come on stage to take a picture with him and Mrs. Bush. So Kristan goes, "Mr. President I was wondering if I could possibly take a picture with you. My uncle got to take a picture with you a couple years back at an Astros game and is always bragging about it. Could my friend Christa and I come on stage to take a picture with you"? I was acting like I didn't know her and was trying to hide my face. President Bush said of course we could. Then I decided to be her friend again...since he said we could. I was like oh yeah the friend she is talking about is me! So the secret service let us get on stage and they took a picture of us with President Bush and Barbara. Afterwards, everyone was asking us how we got to go up there. Here is a picture of us on stage with him! I took it with my camera phone so its not the best.

Here is a picture of Caitlin and I taking a picture with Larry King in Hollywood a couple of years ago. I guess I like taking pics with old men!
Kristan and I got assigned a job today washing windows at this old lady's house in Bryan. She was probably in her eighties and she was really sweet. We were happy we didn't get assigned something too heavy duty! Haha!

Here is picture of me ( the back of me) meeting Jenna and Laura Bush at a book signing at Barnes and Nobles in the summer. I guess now I just need to meet George W. Bush and I would of met the whole family.