CMU Homecoming

Saturday was CMU's homecoming football game. The weather was gorgeous, sunny, and warm, which made for a great day to be at a football game! We played Temple and beat them 24-14!! We got 3 or 4 interceptions during the game too, so it was really exciting. :)

Ashley was up at CMU for the day so she stopped by to say hi
This is my friend Grant's little cousin...I painted the flying C on his chest. He was sooooo cute!!

Chip Crew for that game, minus the G...he left right after the game ended. I was the only girl this time.
I was in the Mt. Pleasant newspaper on Sunday...front page, in color!!!
Here's a closer view of the picture.

On Friday there is going to be a whole article about Chip Crew, so check back on Friday to see pics of that article in the paper :)

Student Teaching Placement

This morning I woke up at 5:30 AM so I could drive all the way down to Stockbridge (1 hour 45 min away) to meet the principal, kindergarten teacher, and first grade teacher of Smith Elementary School to see if they actually wanted me student teaching at their school or not.

The teachers and principal were all very nice and friendly!! The school is fairly new so it is really nice and clean inside. The kids were adorable and pretty well behaved also. I LOVED everything about the school!

Later this afternoon, my coordinator called me and told me that the principal and teachers loved me and they definitely want me student teaching at their school! I am super stoked! So...here is where I am student teaching:

-Smith Elementary School in Stockbridge, MI
-It is a K-2 grade building only, which is really cool...the 3-5 grade building is next door
-I will be doing 8 weeks in a 1st grade classroom and 8 weeks in a kindergarten classroom, which is exactly what I wanted!!!
-Here is the school's website if you want to check it out:
http://scs.k12.mi.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=7

Emily's 21st Birthday

Wednesday was my roommate Emily's 21st birthday. Since it was the middle of the week, we were all busy so we couldn't really do anything too exciting to celebrate. However, we did sing to her and have ice cream late that night!

Emily with her ice cream cake and candles
Now this is what you call a REAL ice cream cake!!! :)
Mmmm...licking the ice cream off the bottom of the candles
These are 3 of my 4 other roomies thoroughly enjoying our ice cream. (Aliscia, Emily, me, Laura)
Our band pose...this is going to be the cover of our album when we become famous...
Contemplating....not sure what we are contemplating though. Perhaps some more ice cream?

CMU football- game 2

Yesterday afternoon was our second home football game of the season. For this game, my parents came up, along with the Oglesby gang (minus Uncle Mark), and Jason and Kristina!! Taylor, Jason, and Kristina all did Chip Crew with me, and we had a blast!!

Here's a shot of the whole Chip Crew...Can you spot Jason, me, Kristina, and Taylor?

The girls

Kristina and Jason...and despite the look on Jason's face, they both had a great time
My mommy and daddy, along with Aunt Karen and Madison watching from the stands
The game started off rather slow, but came down to the last 3 seconds...

We managed to hold off Buffalo in the end, and won 27-25. It's a good thing their attempted field goal bounced off the post!

The 4 of us after the game

And of course Madison had to join in on the picture taking fun

The sunset after a fun day of family, football, and fun!

College students like playgrounds too!

Yesterday Aliscia, Emily, and I went to Island Park. We decided it would be fun to play on the playground :) Afterwards we got pizza and had a movie night where we watched 50 First Dates and The Lion King. It was a fun evening with roomies! Here's a few of the 156 pics we took at the park:

I just decided to stop and hug the pole, but it ended up being a really cute picture!
Climbing the rope web thing
Practicing my gymnastics skills
Emily and Aliscia on the slide
Above me was this tire tunnel thing that I had to climb through to get to the swing...it was cool
More gymnastics skills....or hanging upside down like a monkey, whichever way you want to look at it

Wheee!

Balance beam was always my best event....but it never wobbled like this one did!

Jumping off our swings together!

Flying like superman

The three of us at the end of a fun playground adventure (left to right: Emily, Aliscia, me)

Things we do to procrastinate homework...and other random pics

One night, none of us wanted to do homework, so what did we do? Everything BUT homework!

We put together a 300 piece Johnny Depp puzzle

We went to Wal-Mart and bought ice cream, then ate it. It was delicious!!!

We made window clings
And we played DDR...funny story about this...when Laura and I went outside to cool off from playing DDR, this slightly intoxicated guy and his friends were walking by. One of them stopped and said hi and started talking to us. We learned that his name was Ben and that they had just left a party that had gotten broken up by the cops. I asked them if they went to get free hotdogs from His House that night, and they said no, but asked us if we went to His House. I said yes and then invited him to come to the service the next morning. Ben was excited to go and he set his alarm on his phone that night so he would wake up in the morning. He came Sunday morning to His House and it was really cool. It was very much like Beach Reach...funny how God works in such random ways sometimes.
Here is a random pic of Matt and his girlfriend, Lauren. They got dressed up the other night and went out to eat, then stopped by my apartment to get my fondue maker so they could do fondue. Aren't they cute?!

Rope swinging into the Chip River

Over Labor Day weekend, I went rope swinging into the Chippewa River with a group of friends. It was a blast!!!!! I was waiting to make this post until I got pictures from my friend, but she hasn't posted them onto facebook yet, so for now, you get a video. Perhaps pics will be added later.