Last year, I compiled several pictures to show the year in this post, and that was a lot of fun. So I thought I'd do it again this year. I just scrolled through the pictures on my iPhone, so that's why some might be poor quality or weird sizes. Fortunately for me, I'm a bit of a picture hoarder, so I still have pictures from this past year.
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| Our first finals week! It was long and crazy, full of naps and coffee and laughter. I'm glad that I had these girls around me to eat pancakes in the middle of the night and "break" into greenhouses to pet fluffy cats. |
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| Over Christmas break, we got a new puppy :) Molly is Dad's favorite, but she's pretty cute, so she's kinda everyone's favorite. (Although that first night when she was in a box by my bed and cried all night, sleep was my favorite) |
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| My two sisters and I went ice skating. They both did wonderfully. I, on the other hand, wobbled around the entire 90 minutes. In this picture, I'm holding tightly to their coats so I wouldn't fall :) |
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| Back at college for spring semester! I remember that my suitemate and I had just spent a good hour debating the best food delivery options when we heard girls on the hall start yelling that it was snowing. So we grabbed coats and boots and ran out in the middle of the night to make snow angels and have a snowball fight. |
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| I met Olan Rogers for the first time! I look chill in this picture, but I was pretty much shaking with excitement. |
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| Ah yes, the Great Ice Storm of 2015 that gave me my first snow days! And I spent all two of them well: sledding on trashcan lids, eating waffles, and teaching my Southerner friends how to efficiently walk up icy hills. |
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| After a long, hard process of applications, essays, and even an interview, some of my best friends and I got accepted into the school's nursing program! We my have done some squealing when we found out :) |
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| Spring semester was a time of hosting for my roommate and I! These girls stayed with us one weekend for a college tour... |
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| ...and one of my roommate's friends came over another weekend for a visit, and we got to meet Olan Rogers again! |
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| My best friend had a birthday, and we celebrated in our traditional way: we dressed up, went to a favorite Mexican restaurant, and then had our annual photo shoot. |
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| Last Sunday of the spring semester. We struggled through another finals week and ate lots of junk food together. I had no idea when this picture was taken that I would be transferring to a new school before our sophomore year started. I was more concerned with my Anatomy & Physiology final, how to pack up all of my stuff, and soaking up the last hours of the semester with my suite. I'm so glad for all the hours that we spent laughing at goats, hanging out in the ENO, and all of those breakfasts when we complained about how sleepy we were and laughed about whatever was on the TVs. |
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| I took a week off from work to spend with a fabulous group of Bible quizzers at their national meet. I got to quizmaster, which was great and all, but we all know that the main event was going to The Parlor (the best ice cream shop in all the land.) That was a great time. |
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| These were taken on the long ride home from nationals, but they're pretty applicable to any time my sister and I are together. One of the best parts of this whole commuting-to-a-new-school is that I get to hang out with her more. We share the same kind of weird, dozens of inside jokes, and often a bowl of popcorn :) |
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| Late summer and early autumn brought about lots of festivals. My brother and I went to one celebrating pork, and my sisters and I went to one we go to yearly. We pretty much just go for the food. |
