growing up is optional

Today was Carrie's birthday! We had a little get together in our room to celebrate her turning 20. What a sweet evening with such a sweet blessing.

What a champ blowing those contraband candles out.

Presh roomies.

We love each other so much, it's disgusting.

Yay. She's twentyyyyy!!

I made these cream cheese brownies from Martha's recipe. I'm still trying to figure out all the nuances of our oven, so these were a little more dry than intended, but otherwise they were quite excellent. One day I'll figure out how to better execute the marbleing technique.

have your cake and eat it too

Peanut Butter Cupcake from Gigi's. So rich, but soooo good.

pondering...

Not that I'm very math-minded, but I bet if we were to graph all of the fire alarms in Auburn dorms, the all-girls dorms would have more than any other buildings on campus.

have a nice day!

He was amazed

When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave. So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. “If anyone deserves your help, he does,” they said, “for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us.” So Jesus went with them. But just before they arrived at the house, the officer sent some friends to say, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself by coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such an honor. I am not even worthy to come and meet you. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed. I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.” When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!” And when the officer’s friends returned to his house, they found the slave completely healed.

Luke 7:1-10

I have been so challenged and encouraged by this scripture. It can be difficult to possess faith like this Roman soldier, but it is so incredibly worth it.

google is still better

why does this commercial crack me up?

What does a clam do on his birthday?

He shellebrates!

One of my roommates is turning 20 this weekend! We're throwing her a little dessert buffet party after her family leaves to go back home. We're cooking up (no pun intended) a few ideas for sweet treats, but we would love your suggestions for your favorite dessert recipes!

The invitations. :)

today was a fairytale...

...okay, just kidding but today was kind of awesome.

It started out eating crepes here with my roomie, Carrie. We've been going to this little spot for quite some time, but today I created the best crepe combination I've ever had. It contained bananas, honey, and cinnamon. Holllllllllyyyyyy smokesssss it was so good.

Following our little breakfast, we went to Children's Harbor on Lake Martin to surprise all of the baby pandas on their pledge retreat. We had a lot of fun, and I made these to snack on:

Peanut Butter Nutella-filled cookies. They were pretty legit, if I do say so myself. All in all, it was a good day.

a strange new phenomenon

I love back to school shopping. Seriously, it's like a sick pleasure how much I love trips to office supply stores. I wish someone would send me a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils one day. Anyway, this year's shopping list included the usual suspects: binders, paper, felt tip pens, good ink pens, post-it notes of many colors, index cards, so on and so forth. But upon going to class for the first days, it became apparent that I was indeed missing something that I found to be of great necessity.

I said I would never wear one.

I felt like I never understood people who did.

It never dawned on me how much I was missing.

The satisfaction that comes from it is positively disgusting.

So, I caved.

I did what I said I wouldn't.

I bought...

...a wristwatch.

Not only did I buy it, I sport it every single day. And I'm a huge advocate of the previously misunderstood accessory. Even one of my roommates was coveting said watch so much, she had to go out and buy one, too. And the other roommate is going to get one as well.

I think this sudden change of heart stemmed from the fact that professors have gotten really hard on cell phones in class. Some of mine even threatened to kick students out if they even lay eyes on a phone. And apparently Auburn can't put clocks in all of the classrooms...so, desperate times call for desperate measures.

Who knew such a tiny device could bring so much unadulterated delight.

And this is the part where I apologize to all the wristwatch wearers out there, and hope that you will accept this convert into your special society.

a room with a view

I'm starting to get settled in my new dorm room, and it's looking pretty cozy already. Here is the progress I've made thus far: