So I've been told that I never update my blog so people can't keep tabs on me. Well I don't think it'd be fun to see pics of my studying my little heart out, going to classes, and working. Since I don't do too much else (besides FFA, but I have already let you all see a lot of that I suppose) so I decided to go find some random pics on Facebook, (yah, I know, pathetic) that I have been tagged in from other peoples pictures and put some of them up some explainations! So here it goes!

This picture was actually taken earlier this year, in October I do believe. This was the night that we after our Big/Little night. For those of you who may not know what that is, it's a Greek thing. In the Sororities and Fraternities up here there are a lot of people. So after being in the house for a while, everyone kind of gets to everyone else- our sisters. We then get placed with "Big Sisters". (Different houses have different ways of putting people together.) You get your Big after being the house for a little while. So next year when we get new freshmen coming in, I will get my "Little Sister". Here in this picture we had all just found out who our Bigs are. My big is Ashley (Not in this picture). She is super nice and I love her! The girl next to me in the grey hoodie is my "Twin Sister"! Basically, my big got two littles! And just like real family's, we have a family tree. The other girls in the picture are cousins and second cousins! (Complex, I know, but it's my Greek family tree!)


This picture has more of my family in it! This is most of us that are still in house, or on campus. My pic is the girl right behind me. Her Big (My Big Big- like a grandma I suppose) is right next to her in the brown jacket. And some of my aunts are in there and more cousins!



Here we have a picture of some of the gals at a sisterhood activity. We are in our dinning room painting bed tags. (We sleep on "sleeping porches". basically its a big room with lots of bunk beds in it) That way we can know who sleeps where if we have to find someone or wake them up!
This is me and Amanda!



This picture is actually very recent. I'm actually thinking this was Friday night... so two nights ago. We went out that night to a fraternity- Alpha Kappa Lambda. For some reason I look like I just stepped out of the 80's. haha!! It was super fun!
From left to right we have, on the back row- Karen Margaret, Emily, Michelle, and Amanda. On the front row there is ME! and Montanna. (Yes that is her real name.)

This picture has nothing to do with my sorority, but I was tagged by Kristin and I love it. For one of our more recent FFA events last month our state officer team went on some business and industry tours. At the United Dairymen of Idaho they gave us milk. Kristin and I were really excited to get a dairy product in our favorite color, PINK! Yahoo for the blondes on the team! haha!

So hopefully I will have something fun to update you all with here in the new future! But until, maybe this random pictures from facebook think will work out! I had fun finding and explaining them anyways!

"Oh so this one time on a chapter visit..."

Every time I say that phrase I get laughed at. My roommates and all my friends say that it's one of my often used phrases. It how I start out most of all my stories. So I decided to start this entire post out the same way!

For being a state officer for FFA I get a lot of really great opportunities. One of which is doing chapter visits. I get to go around to various high schools that have FFA programs and put on workshops for the students. A lot of the workshops I do are about the FFA Organization, and the great opportunities involved. One of my other favorite workshops is about communication. It gets students involved, and never fails to get everyone laughing. Not only do I get to meet lots of awesome people and do all this fun stuff, I get to travel with some of my favorite people!!! (The other state officers!!!!) So here are some pictures of what I do on my chapter visits:

Oh the joys off the FFA, and my amazing chapter visits that I so enjoy... maybe next post I'll tell about how Stephen, Mr. Vice President, got us lost on our way to a chapter visit. ha ha!!!

College 101: Random Road Trips

So this past weekend my friend Stephen, a fellow FFA State Officer, and I decided to take off to Seattle for the weekend to get away and have some fun (while working on a little FFA stuff if we were to get the chance). We took of Friday after our last class, went and stayed with some of his relatives, and got back around midnight on Sunday night. Check out some of our adventures!

First off, the Ferry:

Second, we have Idaho kids in the BIG CITY:

See that lit up sign in the background? After further inspection we realized what that was....
WHAT THE DEVIL!?!?! YOU DON'T FIND THAT IN MENAN!

Finally, our sushi experiment:
(this may have needed a post of it's own! haha!)

I have Uncle Brian and Aunt Kathi to thank for this delightful opportunity at Sushi Land in Renton. Oh what an adventure.... Here goes the first bite of... who knows what!?!

As you can likely guess... whatever that was that we put in our mouths was... interesting to say the least. Somehow Stephen managed to swallow it quickly (maybe whole!?) But a good 5 minutes later this was still me....

Lets just say that was really really really chewy!!!

Here is me, failing at using chopsticks, so I used my fingers to place the sushi on the chopsticks... I'm a white girl (one of the four white people, and the only blonde in the entire restaurant not to mention) who was raised on a cattle ranch people!!! So you can just cut me some slack!
This dish was better consumed without viewing...
Oh and Aunt Kathi... she's not a fan of sushi....


Overall, it was a great weekend! If only I had pictures of me driving and freaking out in 5 or 6 lanes of traffic, Stephen attempting to calm me down while giving directions and figuring out the map, us eating Tai food the night previous our sushi dinner, our reaction to a 9 story Macy's department store, us finding the ferries, and Pikes Place Market. But after this little trip, it got me thinking... taking off on random road trips is a pretty good idea.... next trip NEW YORK CITY!!!! (ha ha... I wish...)

~Roller Disco~

So this past Saturday I went to a Roller Disco! My friend James from the Fraternity next door, Theta Chi, asked me to come along with him. So of course I said yes! (Who turn down dressing up like you're from the 70's and then go roller skating!!!) Friday we went shopping at Goodwill and Ross to find us some fabulous 70's clothes! Here is what we found:

My $2 sunglasses and $8 dress

Not sure how much his stuff was, but yes, those are girl dress pants!!! Ha ha!!!

Then here we are the roller rink skating the night away!!! (I think we skated until 12:30!!!)


Here are some girls in my house... and one really confident Theta Chi Boy!

These are all of the Kappa Alpha Theta girls who went to the Roller Disco! (And a guy in sparkly nylons who somehow snuck into the picture...)

And here is whole group of us! It was a pretty fun and exciting night!!!