sunday, november 21

as always, we finished off our time in college station this weekend with a trip to rudy's for breakfast before tiffany and aaron left town. lee: always the jokester :) (seriously, aaron was happy to be with us)

thursday, november 11

lee has a special relationship with a family that he worked closely with during his time at cho-yeh. thier son is in high school now, but lee has known him since he was very young. mitch invited lee to his school play, and luckily it worked out that lee got to go. he said mitch was awesome in one of the lead roles for othello.

friday, october 29

my two oldest friends...
and my baby brother's high school football senior night

sunday, october 16

one of my wishes for fall was to visit a pumpkin patch. even though they are typically geared more toward kids, i thought it would be fun to visit one and take some pictures. luckily, katy knew just the place in college station (bryan?) to fulfill that wish. complete with a hay maze, fresh produce market, the LARGEST pumpkin in texas, and huge array of pumpkins to choose from, this pumpkin patch far exceeded my expectations!

saturday, october 16

as if spending a weekend in college station is not always fun, this particular weekend i was lucky enough to get to see some old friends from college and pine cove (the camp i worked at for two summers in college). one reunion in particular that just barely happened was with my friend pair. pair was a bridesmaid in our wedding, and i have known her since my junior/her freshmen year. i am so proud of what she is doing this next year with the Forge program at pine cove (a year-long Christian leadership program).

tuesday, october 12

it did not last long because of how yummy it was, but here is a before shot of the birthday cake katy made for me. a peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting, topped with peanut butter m&m's. yum.

saturday, october 2

daniel tosh is one of the funniest comedians around. his show tosh.0 is great. we were lucky enough to see his show in person and have an awesome friend like katy to go with (and pay for the tickets).

friday, september 17

check out this post for some pretty ridiculous comments from my students when i wore this shirt to work

saturday, september 11

texas a&m and louisiana tech played each other this year in football so it was the perfect game for lee and his dad to attend together. we met up with katy, the garretts, and the benolkens in college station. after experiencing step off for the first time, we headed to the stadium for a special 9/11 tribute pre-service special. it wasn't the prettiest game for the aggies, but they did pull out the w in the end.

saturday, august 21

katy, lee, and i went to kemah today. with one last weekend before teaching began, we thought we would explore a part of houston that i had never been to and that they had not been to in many years. it did not quite live up to my expectations, but we did not stay long enough to enjoy one of the restaurants which i hear is the main reason for going. we did enjoy a few rides and a nice view of the boats out on the water.

saturday, august 14

i had the pleasure of spending the evening with some pretty amazing women for a girls' night at "the melting pot". such a fun environment, and combine the delicious food with good friends, and a wonderful night is bound to happen. it was good to see some girls i had not seen all summer, too.

saturday, august 7

floating the river definitely lived up to its hype except for the wicked sunburn that followed. oh and that genius cooler definitely broke when we hit a rapid about not long after we started down the river.

thursday, august 5

we spent the night in college station with katy in prepartion for our trip to san antonio for the weekend. we spent the evening loading up on groceries and a floating cooler for our weekend. these things are genius!

saturday, july 31

after an entirely two months too long of not hanging out, we went to kyle and jamie's for kason's birthday party. he is one of the smartest two-year-olds i know and such a cutie. check out the awesome cupcakes and tower that jamie made!

wednesday, july 28

i got to take a tour of the blue bell factory today with the garrett kids, the snelgrove girls, katy, and katherine. i was so excited to experience this little bit of texas i had yet to see. plus, who doesn't love to get free bluebell ice cream on a hot summer day!?

thursday, july 15

the waco zoo!

since this post was so picture heavy, i will just choose one to represent the day here. i'm such a dork...although katy took this picture when i asked her to take one of me AND one of the kids.

friday, june 25

thankfully, our last day in the city gave us a nice afternoon of sunny weather that we had not experienced since my first day there. we took advantage of this and took a walk along the bay where at&t park sits.later we met up with most of the rest of the epic church team for some ice cream and fellowship at union square. it was a nice end to a fun little trip.

saturday, june 19

morgan's wedding day!

friday, june 18

i did not include this story on our blog when i posted picture from my friend morgan's wedding, but i thought i would briefly discuss how morgan and i met. we lived in the same dorm our freshman year, but this dorm was 14 floors and housed about 900 girls so i could actually say that about a lot of people. more specifically, i quickly discovered that she and i also went to the same church, about a block away from our dorm. i noticed that i would see her some in the dorm, but on sundays, we would both leave at the same time, i would see her at church, and then i would see her again that afternoon when we got back from church. sometimes we would even be in the elevator at the same time and never speak to each other. we both finally decided to say hello and introduce ourselves since it was clear we at least had the church thing in common. turns out, we had a lot more in common and developed a great friendship! we continued going to the same church and eventually were roommates for two years. we had some ups and downs (like most friendships do), relationships, break-ups, new friends come along, and more. i am thankful for her friendship, and i was so honored to stand alongside as she married a man i know will take wonderful care of her and love her.

monday, may 31

memorial day with the ottingers!