GIllville and the game...

There is this thing at liberty where students can get together the night before the game and campout, eat pizza, drink hot chocolate, and be woken up by coach Gill who brings donuts and orange juice. It was 28 degrees outside. freezing. i was wearing 11 layers and had just as many blankets. it was fun though, with my girls hannah, grace, and liz. because we gillvilled, we got early entrance to the football game and then we were chosen to go and watch the game with the chancellor and his wife. it was great:)

All aboard the hot mess express!

so everyone, please pardon me while i say for a minute how awesome these girls are. Hannah and Grace are two incredible Liberty Ladies who have helped me through the past couple weeks. I met hannah a couple three years ago doing CEF in Richmond. we recently rekindled our friendship and she is becoming one of my closest friends. She introduced me to grace who is great. i didn't even know that we have the same early morning class every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (just goes to show how tired i am these days. ha!) she is just one bundle of sunshine and such a blessing to me. 

There has been a lot going on lately and hannah and grace have been very encouraging to me. when i told hannah i was having a rough week she invited me to stay the weekend with her and grace on the other side of our campus. when i got there she had it all set up perfectly and, if you look at the picture below, you'll see she even got new england coffee for me so i would feel more at home. what a gem she is:) 

we made a spontaneous surprise trip to richmond to see some friends and it was so fun. nothing like early morning adventures with that girl. it was such a great weekend away. 

We were extremely tired by the end of our weekend so we now have our very own hashtag as seen below (#hotmessexpress). this is us. we are both the run around and take care of everything kind of people and so it certainly suits the both of us. Starbucks even puts it on our pumpkin spice lattes. it's great. 

a pleasant surprise!

It had been a rough couple of days and i was really stressing over an exam that was coming up. Just as i closed my book to take a study break i told my study-buddy that i wish i could see some people from home and was really craving a hot dog. Right after those words left my mouth i got a text from my friend Holly saying she and her family were going to be at LU for a football game and she asked if i would like to join them and have some hot dogs at halftime. how cool is that?! i said yes of course. it was such a blessing to see their family and just take a break. i love them all so much and i'm so grateful for the opportunity they gave me to spend some time with them:)

a special weekend :)

so far, my favorite thing about being here is that i am closer to the one i love. He came to visit me last weekend and we had some fun times. we went to thomas road for church on sunday (a little bigger than we're used to, but it was a great experience.) it was a nice relaxing weekend for the both of us. even though it was really hard to say goodbye, as always, it was so special to see him and i can't wait to see him soon:)

happy birthday, sydney!

my friend had a birthday last weekend and we went to bloop ( a fro yo place) and celebrated :)

school shenanigans

my weeks are already packed with work and so lately i just need to make a strong cup of tea and get it done :)

the jammed door knob encounter part 2

if you read my post from a few days ago you should know that i was locked in the bathroom in the middle of the night and had to call for help.  well, i submitted a work order for this obvious issue. no one came immediately. however, katlyn forgot and let the door latch. from there it all spiraled down. she got locked in. i tried and tried and tried to get the poor girl out of the bathroom! we called the SLCs, the RAs, the RD and eventually the LUPD. it took about half hour, but we did eventually get her out of there!