First modeling shoot... but certainly not the last!

Um... Wow! I started today with great anticipation for what lay ahead. Anne-Camille and I had a photo shoot unlike the typical photo shoot. We went into the back woods of AR-KAN-SAW, walked on random ledges by the lake, and dodged cars while trying to take a couple good shots on a dam. This day proved to be one of full of laughs which is evident in the pictures taken. It was a great day not just in the productivity, but also in sister "bonding."

While I felt pampered and amazing infront of the lens it was the skill and talent of the person behind the lens that is portrayed. Here are some of the shots from today:

First day at Anne-Camille's:

* Breakfast
* playing with Adobe Photoshop
* lunch at Arby's... woo hoo!
* took a drive
* movie rental (one of our all-time favorites: LOVE ACTUALLY)
* getting cuddly and cozy while watching a good chick-flick... can't beat it!!!
* oh- and TONS of giggling!!!... as usual.

Finals Week = Study Time aka Hang-Out Time

Finals is this week and yet somehow I still feel the need to procrastinate everything till the end. It is a crazy feeling though, knowing that by Friday night it will be done. Period. It is just this time right now that is overwhelming and stressful, but soo much fun!

Debora and I woke up early and went to Panera where we studied for a couple hours, and surprisingly when I say "study" I literally mean study in it's truest form - notecards and everything. After one class we went to Starbucks and studied some more and than finished the day with dinner at Moe's. All in all that day was productive and so much fun. Debora really is so much fun to be with and I am so grateful to have her in my life. She's quite the character and we can seriously talk about anything and everything.

By the way I cannot wait to be with my family in just 5 days!!!! I'm ecstatic!!! =)

First Basketball Trip of the Season!

Not only did we get out of school early, but we got to travel to three different states and see the amazing fall colors, eat food other than the cafeteria, and play a little basketball. Actually that last part is a little under-exaggerated. We played 6 games in 7 nights, so I would say by the end of this trip we were tired! Our first game was in Alabama, where the quote of the night was this:
Currie, Desiree and myself are sitting on the bench enjoying the game (we won by the way, and they are an NAIA team so definitely a good win!). Not only are the refs completely blind and not caring at all that our team is getting hit every time down the court, but these Alabama girls are mean. So this is what happens on the bench:
Currie: "Note to self - never get in a fight with an Alabama-girl.
Desiree: "Note to self - never come back to Alabama!"
I realize this is not funny to those of you who weren't warming the bench, but it was ridiculously funny while we were in the moment.
We went on to Nashville where we ended up coming in 2nd in the tournament. We should have definitely won that last game, considering we had the game the entire time except for the last 8 minutes where none of our shots went in. That was hard to lose that game. Hopefully come Naitonals we can play them again.
Nashville was beautiful!!! The weather was perfect, the leaves were just falling, and coach treated us amazing. We went out to eat at a spaghetti restaraunt where we all got somewhat dressed up and had fun eating, and laughing, and taking pictures!
Best comment of the night....
Our whole team was walking around downtown Nashville later that evening. Let me clarify that it was cold and proper attire is required. Needless to say, I was definitely rocking a turtleneck that night. As we are walking past country bars and the amazing sights of Nashville at night, a random guy happens to say:
"Look at the turtleneck on that girl." haha and yes he was referring to me! It pretty much made my night.
Come Sunday we drove to Kentucky and stayed at our rival school's campus. The dorms we stayed at were older and not nearly as nice as ours, but it was fun!! We all stayed up and watched movies and talked and laughed, and ATE, so it was great bonding time.
However, Monday we lost to Kentucky Christian, which really hurt. They have already beaten us twice this year and we really want to get another win on them.
Tuesday we drove to the complete other side of Kentucky and played another NAIA team that at half-time we were losing by 20. Come the end of the game, we only ended up losing by 3! We finally started pulling it together.
Wednesday was pretty much one of the longest days of my life. We woke up at 3:30 and started driving. We lost people along the way at airports and ended up arriving in Lakeland at 9:30 that evening.
Overall the trip was great. We got a taste of some cold weather, saw how quaint and clean Nashville is, and got to know each other better than we thought possible.

My sister is amazing!

I would never have thought I would be the person to have a blog. However, here I sit writing my first post as a "blogger". My sister really is my only inspiration for me to have a blog, since she is pretty much the master at these. I'm excited to personalize my page more and stay in touch through this. I can't wait to get started!!!!
Thank you Anne-Camille for making this happen for me. =) You are amazing!

In honor of...

my first post- I'm posting of picture of my sister and me!!! She is a blog maniac, so I decided to get a blog too so we could stay in better contact! Here goes: