We Three Kings

Decorating for Christmas and wrapping presents are probably my favorite parts of Christmas. This a really great decorative piece and is an easy DIY present for anyone. I made it for my dad last year, and standing up vertically, everyone kind of joked that it was probably a Red Rider bee-bee gun from A Christmas Story.

Basically I took a board of cedar, sawed it to the appropriate size and painted it red. Then I used a gold acryllic paint to do the words and figures... really you could do any words from a Christmas song. Then to finish it off, I put some holly clusters in the corners.

Merry Christmas!

Blah... Finals....

Studying for finals is such a drag. For my creative math final, we have a take home final full of proofs which all require a lot of thought. So in boredom, while I think about how to do these proofs I've been making snowflakes. Yes I'm a child. But some of them have gotten quite intricate and I've made a ton. I might be going crazy.

Paddle Exchange

For the last chapter of the semester today, all the littles have our bigs the paddles we had made during the semester at the local sorority store, Paddle Tramps. I think my big really liked it.

Mom's Weekend: Day 1

So this weekend, our Alpha Chi chapter hosted a Mom's weekend. So yesterday my mom flew in and we got to hang out basically all day. Then last night we all went up to the lodge for a Pajama Party. Everyone got matching Mom and Me pajamas and we had several team games we played.

My favorite game was decorating a pair of cupcakes so they had the same theme (years of watching my dad decorate cakes probably explains why it was my favorite). This is what my mom and I came up with.

Can't Catch Me...

I went to a Christmas party at a Cru staff members house last night. Of all the fun activities they had planned for us, I think decorating gingerbread men had to be my favorite. I even made a whole family. And the only supplies needed are the gingerbread people (obviously), a couple tubes of icing in different colors (I just used red and green in the holiday spirit) and some sprinkles (preferably Christmas as well).

Love me some home cooking

The best thing of coming home for Thanksgiving is the home cooked food made to my liking because I've been away all semester. And I'm not talking about the Thanksgiving dinner, because frankly I don't like Thanksgiving type foods including turkey. No for breakfast this morning my dad made a cinnamon roll ring. Absolutely delicious.

Best Big Ever

Big-Little Reveal took place tonight, and I could not have been blessed with a better big sis! Love her so much!
Basically what happened was, we were all at the lodge for an Alpha Chi workshop, and after it was over they kept the new member class up in the chapter room while they put boxes with our names on it and then the bigs hid outside in our front yard to surprise us, since all that was in the box was a  t-shirt and instructions on what to do. Mine also had an old school kodak disposable camera. Super cute!
I put on my shirt and went out and even though I was pretty sure about who my big was (and I was exactly right) I was still shocked and super excited to see her in a matching t-shirt. Legit didn't even care about the basket, I was just more excited about my new family. Although the basket didn't hurt :) And my big spend a lot of time and effort on it. Take a look.