Homecoming Weekend

What a great weekend! Friday was homecoming and everyone was home!! It was so great seeing everyone and a little odd not cheering, I miss it a lot :( We had a campfire at Sarah's afterwards with a bunch of our classmates and a few others! It was so much fun! Saturday Liz and I went to the movies and saw House Bunny. Sunday I went with Liz and her boyfriend and some of his friends and played cornhole all day. It was a lot of fun and a pretty relaxing day. And now its Monday! ugh! ha Monday is one of my busy days. I had my first real test today in First Aid (my favorite class) It was pretty easy though. I still have hard days when I really miss home, but when I am home there is still a bit of me that misses it here at IU. I went and actually worked out for the first time today, like on my own. It was good, but I know I'll be sore tomorrow! ha Tomorrow Hanna and I are going to look at some more apartments. We looked at some that we absolutely love and are pretty well set on, but we figure we should keep our options open and explore some more! I'll keep you updated!! Love you all!

Before the game..




Aaron(Liz's Boyfriend) Perfect form!

A Little Intro (well a rather long intro)

Hello Everyone:)
Before I started this crazy journey some call college, I was trying to figure out a way to keep everyone posted on how I was doing. I though about sending emails, but well lets face it, that takes a lot of time and I am limited in that area. So given my new found love of reading blogs, I decided this was a quick and easy way to share whats going on in my life:)
The third week of classes starts tomorrow, and I can now say that I really do love it here. Most of you know this was not always the case, however. The first couple weeks were rather rocky. (I was here a week early for welcome week) I spent a week driving home every night and coming back in the morning for classes. I was sure that I wanted to leave IU and never look back. I see how CRAZY that idea was now. I'm am so very fortunate to have an amazing supporting family who made me stick with it. My mom stayed up with me every night and listened to me cry and tried to motivate me to go back the next morning. I put her through a ton of stress and I know she's my mother and she HAS to love me:) but that week I don't know how she did it. I just feel very blessed to have this amazing family and I know that there was a lot of praying going on that helped me through it.
Now that I'm up here, I do love it. My classes are really good and I really enjoy the health field. As for finding new friends, (Given the fact that my friends and I were/are so close I felt like I could never find anymore like that, so why try) I have met many people who I would now consider my friends...I may never be as close to them as I am to my girls but its in the works. My roommate is great and we get along really well:) there are also some girls on my floor and some from another dorm that we go out with...I have been to kick boxing, yoga, and core workouts and I have also went to Cru (campus Crusade for Christ) all with some of these new friends.
This summer, when I worked at Graber Post, I learned a lot from the Amish guys in the break room. But one of them (Gerald, an Amish preacher) said something that has stuck with me..he said that the world may not be ready for change, but we can't stop it, so we might as well get used to it (I'm not sure the exact wording)....... Life is going to change, I'm learning to just sit back and enjoy the ride..............Me and my roommate Hanna.......

See I could NEVER replace these guys!!!