Home for the Holidays - Part 1

I'm home in Washington for the holidays and here are some pictures from the first few days I've been home. It's nice and snowy here and I'm loving spending time with my family.

Pretty snow right outside of PullmanGpa Sherman was excited to see me

My friend Jenn took some nice pictures for me

I got to see my "sister" Shannon and her family

I also went to a Cougar bball game. It was awesome and they won! GO COUGS!

I'll have more pictures to put up as the days go on. I'm staying around until the 4th and will have fun Christmas pictures :) Merry Christmas to everyone!

Christmas Time in Texas

I LOVE the holidays! This year I'm not working at the Wild Ivy in the land of Christmas so it makes me even more excited because I haven't been subject to the same Christmas music for a month and a half already haha! I decorated my apt a little bit for Christmas but I'm so ready to go home and spend the holidays with my family and friends (3 more days! yay!) Here are a couple holiday events I've enjoyed in Texas this year.

My front door
My tree

Holiday Fest in Denton with my two favorite little dudes, Kalyn and Lane (my bosses kids)
Cookie making at mine and Rach's...Jess was a super frosting machine :)
Watch out, Jess has the rolling pin

I went to Arkansas for a weekend to see Alex and we exchanged gifts early. This is the gingerbread house we made.
Alex putting the "snow" on our house

me with my presents (i have the BEST boyfriend in the whole world!)

Thanksgiving Cowboys Style

Alex got Cowboy tickets for my birthday because they were playing the Seahawks here in Dallas. It was a pretty fun and different way to spend Thanksgiving (we ate Thanksgiving on Apple Cup).

Walking in

At the game. Me the 'boys fan and Alex the Seahawks fan

Cowboy Cheerleaders and the famour kickline

Texas Stadium (first and last time I'll watch a game there, Cowboys Stadium is almost done)

YAY!

My 22nd Birthday

For my birthday, Alex came to visit right before my dad went home and so they got to see each other which was nice. Then Alex took me to Dallas (45 mins away) for a romantic getaway. We went and saw the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It was very cool and super interesting. Then we went out to a really nice dinner and got all dolled up. I love getting dressed up :) We stayed in an amazing hotel in a really nice room. Alex's parents upgraded our room to one with a terrace for my birthday present which I was totally cool with. Anways...it was a great birthday and a relaxing, much needed weekend away.


With our buddy Tut

I really should have bought that but I didn't
At our lovely dinner. The food was AMAZING and the wine was delish. Thanks for a great birthday babe!

GO COUGS!!!! APPLE CUP 2008

Well the Cougs pulled it off and won the Apple Cup. I was pretty sad I couldn't be there but I got to watch it on TV with Alex and love it :) My family was there and called/text me the whole time. Poor Huskies are gonna have a long ride home. GO COUGS!

Coug are still the kings! YAY!

Bringing Dad's Weekend to Texas

My dad came to visit for a little over a week (Oct 31-Nov 8). The first weekend we went to the NASCAR races at the Texas Motor Speedway. It was our substitute dad's weekend since i'm not in Pullman anymore. It was sooooo much fun! We had a blast :) My dad hung out with me until Tuesday evening and then he went to a conference he had in Southlake (about 20 mins or so away). We met back up a couple times for dinner and Alex came with us on Friday (he came for my birthday...post coming for that soon!). I was so happy to see my dad and I can't wait to see the whole fam (and everyone else) when I go home for Christmas.

Dad and I at the truck race on Friday Night

Dad at the Nationwide race on Saturday...wearing his sweet shirt I gave him :)

Jimmy Johnson my fav! (yes i'm a hick)

"Texas Forever" - Chris Cassler and Alex Hill

Dad and I at Thanksgiving Square in downtown Dallas

North Texas Homecoming

This week was Homecoming here in Denton. It was a very long and tiring week, with all the preparations for the weekend along with 2 volleyball games and an 13 hour football gameday. Despite being worn out it was a fun experience plus I got today (Monday) off to recover :) I have a pretty sweet boss

The North Texas Traditions - Talon's 50th Homecoming Bonfire (this is after it was burnt down alot, it was stacked about the poles you can see)

Me and Rach

The Mean Green March as the team comes in. It was fun to watch from the front for a change.

On Sunday I put on a breast cancer event at volleyball called Dig for the Cure. It was really fun planning everything and I think the teams had fun with their pink shirts and the hair bows that Jess helped me make.


The volleyball team - we raised over $500 at the event that will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Update: Football games, Alex visits and the boss's birthday

Well it's been a little bit since I've put pictures up because of my dead computer, but my wonderful gave me his old computer that he cleaned up for now. These pictures are from the last couple weeks.

Football vs. FIU

This is Pagee and I. He's a cheerleader and he's the best :) He comes to visit Rachel and I in the office a couple times a week and helps us out of game week Fridays. He's a champ!
This is the Girl Scout Dance Clinic that I coordinated. It was really fun and the dancers and girls had a great time
All the dancers and girl scouts

Football vs. Louisiana-Lafayette

Alex came to visit for the weekend and helped out for game day
Someone's dad painted his semi in mean green glamour
Jamie (the boss) had a sliver and Rachel got it out with plyers lol

Me wearing the headset for the game. It's hooked up with the press box (Jamie), the band, Paul (the big boss) and the video guys. It's really fun and everything is comical on there because we're the only ones that can hear :)

Alex and I went to the Kennedy 6th Floor Museum. It was very interesting and very cool. I learned a lot.

The window that is a little bit open is the window JFK was shot out of.

The JFK 6th Floor Museum from across the street. That is the road on which he and governor of Texas at the time were shot. They came around the corner where that fence is and it happened. It's so crazy and such a huge part of American history and I really enjoyed learning about it.Here we are at another landmark in Dallas. It's where some pioneers came through with cattle and...I can't remember the rest of story.
Today was Jamie's birthday and Rachel and I threw him a a surprise office bday party

Birthday boy and his FAVORITE interns!

Hittin' the Books

Well I got accepted to the University of North Texas graduate school and the program I wanted to get into finally. I'm really excited/scared about starting school again and moving on with my education. Hopefully I'll be able to do school and work, with all the events for work and class and homework for school. Right now I need to start studying for the GRE (the test to get into grad school). I have to take it before my first semester is up in June. Lots and lots of vocab is in my future :)

Sad Day

My computer crashed about a week ago and now I have no pictures, no music, etc. I'm pretty sad about it actually. I'm sending it back to WA so dear ole Daddy can do something about it, at least get stuff off my hard drive because I don't think it's going to start working. Anyways...I'm lucky that my boss let's me take home a laptop from work so I'm not stuck in the dark ages while I relax in the evening. Alex has also offered to clean out his old laptop so I can have that until I get a replacement...which might be a while. Anyways hope everyone is great and I'll post pictures soon. LOVES

Another Rangers game and weekend in Little Rock

Lacretia, who was in my sorority with me and graduated with me, just moved to Fort Worth because she's working for our sorority and serving at TCU right now. We were able to get together last week and catch a Rangers game. It was great to see her and hope we can spend more time together soon.

Last Thursday I drove the 6 hours to Little Rock to see Alex for a long weekend. It was fun to just relax on my off weekend, hang out with the boyfriend and his roommates dogs (soooo cute!) and cook the starving bachelors of deer meadows court some food :)
I've never been to Arkansas before
Alex playing with Tim's dog Necko, she's a trouble maker
Watching the Coug game in our jerseys
Kiss the cook!