Thanksgiving break, family, and SNOW!!!!

Right now I am at home, babysitting two of my younger brothers which I haven't done in a very long time, so I am pretty excited about it, crazy I know. We just got back from spending Thanksgiving in Kansas City and St. Joseph Missouri, seeing family I haven't seen in forever! It was alot of fun and my mom even convinced me to get up at 3AM!!!!! and go Christmas shopping with her. It was event let me tell you. Crazy woman climbing shelves int he aisles to grab that last toy, standing outside in lines 300 and 400 people long, and dealing with mean nasty people that have no respect for anyone, but we did survive it and my mom got majority of all of her christmas shopping done. Now we are back home, and my mom is going shopping again today yes i know she is crazy, and i am just having a relaxing day at home before I have to go back to Simpson tomorrow morning. Once I get back to Simpson than I am going to have to buckle down again because there's only 3 weeks till Christmas break, but those are three very busy weeks with Dead Week and Finals Week. Well I better go check on my little brothers, peace out cub scouts!

Paddy Murphy + Delta's fall party = awesome weekend!

So this weekend had to be one of my best weekends this year! Friday night was SAE's Paddy Murphy and we all dressed up like gangsters and danced the night away at the Cub Club in Des Moines. Saturday night was Delta Delta Delta sororities fall party and it was the theme of "Rock the Ages" and I went with a really good friend of mine and dressed up as rockstars. I will let the pictures explain the rest haha.

Fall Parties

This Friday is SAE's Paddy Murphy and it's going to be awesome! We rented out the Cub Club country club in Des Moines and we are taking charter busses up there for a nice dinner and dancing. This is what we call our fraternities fall party. All the guys dress up in gangster, 1950's attire and the girl's dress up with flapper dresses and it's alot of fun! Also this Saturday is Delta Delta Delta sororities fall party and my date and I are going as rockstars!! I don't know exactly what we are going to wear but it should still be alot of fun.
I am getting really excited for Thanksgiving and going home to see the family, which I haven't seen for awhile now.
Also, as i am blogging I should be writing an Anthropology paper that's due next Tuesday. Yes, I may sound like an overacheiver but this is the first time in my college career I have ever been ahead of the game.

Crazy homework, cold weather, papers, Thanksgiving is soon!!

SO this is like the busiest time of the year for most Simpson College students....I got big projects to do and papers coming up that I feel so heavily weighted down by all of it. BUT! it's getting cold outside which I am totally pumped about, that means holidays are closer and I get to see family and Christmas break, duh!

I've really been noticing alot more on campus lately....i'm not creep'n on people or anything but I have been paying a little bit closer attention. I mean, Simpson people are always really friendly but it seems like lately, maybe because of the holidays, that people are alot more friendlier than normal and everyone seems pretty happy for as a crazy time of year it is. A friend of mine from back home came up and toured Simpson yesterday and she said she loved have welcoming everyone was and at home she felt here without actually living here. I think that is so true!

I am going to Kansas State University this weekend to another SAE chapter and sitting in on their initiation and than also on Saturday there is a sorority formal back here at Simpson that I am going to. It's a pretty busy weekend as usual but it's going to be some really good times! Later

HALLOWEEN!

So this year I am not so excited about Halloween, I know that sounds all sad and depressing, BUT I have a test in my Anthropology class at 8AM! tomorrow morning so therefore I can't go out with any of my friends tonight AND my fraternity is having a Halloween party that I will not be able to attend because I am at a study group.....man, the sacrfices I have to make, lol. I guess that's what college is all about. The social life is fun but I am here for school so I guess I can't complain.

This weekend should make up for the crappy week I have had; I am going to a leadership school conference friday and saturday for my fraternity and than Saturday night is my boss, Andy English's wedding. It's going to be crazy!!!! I signed up for next semester classes today....that kind of made me scared because that means I am one more semester closer to graduating and THAT my friend is scary, lol.

Final Thought:

Thanksgiving break is only two and half weeks away...but who's counting? I AM!!!!

Getting back from Fall Break

SO we all just got back from Fall Break and I am pretty sure I can speak for everyone and say that it went by WAY too fast. I enjoyed the 5-day weekend, going home to see the family and old friends and to not have ANY homework to do for just a few days. BUT now it's back to the grind stone to get those grades the best they can be before Finals, which is crazy to think those are only a little over a month away. I got lots of work to do let me tell ya.

Let's see, recently I have been really focusing on my classes and grades because beginning of this year I think I ran Simpson College and all the extra-curricular stuff I was doing so I have cut back on that. I have a wedding to go to this weekend and my fraternity has a leadership school I am going to this weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, and between sorority formals, my formal, Thanksgiving coming up.....I got every weekend in November booked! That's crazy!

It's starting to get cold out here in Iowa now and I loving it! Leaves are turning colors, the smell of Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and the best part of all......snow could come at any time now!!!!! I love when it snows and all my fraternity brothers and girls from around campus get together and go sledding and such, it's alot of fun. Well the homework is screamin my name so I better roll out and I promise not to go three weeks without writing you again, life just gets a little crazy sometimes.

Peace out cub scouts!!!

Homecoming 07'

So last week was Simpson College's Homecoming and I was one of the two Homecoming Chairman! It was an extremely, busy, sleepless, stressful week but I have definitely have seen the benefits of it. I got to plan a car demolition, a powder puff football game, Olympics, Skits, and Yell Like Hell, which all went awesome!

It may seem really easy to coordinate all these things but it definitely tested many of my skills like oraganzing things, being responsible, and being a leader for myself and the people i was directing. I know I have grown from this experience and I am ready for a break! haha

I am sure there will be something else come up soon that will make me busy again, but for now, I am enjoying my down time!