Bryan & Jill Officially Become Brill

Last weekend, my friends and I headed out to Waxahachie for the highly anticipated wedding of our friends Bryan and Jill. Bryan and I became friends during our senior year of college, and I met Jill when she moved to Abilene last year. It has been so fun to be able to see them transition from dating to being engaged to now being newlyweds! We had such a fun weekend celebrating our sweet friends!

Of course we took a picture in our sunglasses in honor of the groom!

Congratulations little lovebirds! So happy for you guys!

March Madness

I can not believe how quickly March flew by! Can I get an amen?!

March has been a busy month, full of lots of birthdays and weddings! But my excitement really started on February 29th when I found myself riding home in THIS!

Yep, I got a new car. Isn't she beautiful?! I felt like I was breaking about 100 rules driving her off the lot. Am I really old enough to buy a new car?! Anyway, she is a 2012 Jetta SEL which basically just means she is smarter than I am. Awesome. I love her! Ashley has appropriately named her Katniss, which I fully support.

I started off the month of March by celebrating the birthday of one of my favorite people, Miss Emily Caldwell!

Such an occasion definitely called for the Happy Birthday banner :)

I also spent a lot of time in Fort Worth helping my cousin plan her wedding! She was married on March 18th, but unfortunately, I did not take any pictures! I did, however, manage to get a picture with my favorite little 2-year-old!

My boss was a judge in the Texas Wedding Guide Cake Competition this year, so I dragged my roommate Emily along with me to check out the best cakes in Dallas. It was SO much fun to see the elaborate cakes, not to mention, taste them all! I think Em and I could get used to eating wedding cake for dinner!

This is the cake that won. AMAZING!

During the weekend of my cousin's wedding, I also had 2 OTHER weddings for work. 3 weddings in 3 days. Crazy!! But my sweet mom came to town a day early to help me organize my room/life and do all my laundry. She is such an angel on this earth. We both took of work on Monday and spent the day being lazy and did a little shopping. Such a fun weekend!

One night, I met up with my bestie Amanda and her little sister Holly who was on Spring Break and came to Dal for a visit. It was so nice to catch up with my favorite sisters at one of my favorite Dallas places, Sfuzzi's!

One of the most exciting things that has happened recently was definitely the premiere The Hunger Games! A few weeks ago, Ashley and I bought our tickets for the midnight premiere and I have been SO excited. I was never on the Harry Potter or Twilight bandwagon, so this was the first big movie I have been excited about. It was SOOOOO GOOD! I absolutely loved it. Ash and I even got matching Hunger Games cups at the theater with about 140 13 year olds. Incredible.

And of course, what would March be without a little March Madness bracket challenge with the old man?! My dad and I always make brakets for the men's and women's NCAA tournaments and this year we actually bet on something. The men's bracket loser has to make a weekend trip to see the winner and the women's bracket loser has to purchase something for the winner with a $50! I was banking on winning both brackets, obvi, but now my chances are a little slim.

Come on KANSAS and MARYLAND!! :)

Sing Song 2012

I realize I am about a month and a half late on this post...BUT Caldy finally found her camera with all the Sing Song pictures, so I feel now is an appropriate time to write about my first experience at Sing Song as an alum.

Here's some quick background knowledge: Sing Song is totally a small private school Church of Christ thing. I know. Basically, groups of men, women or co-eds put on a 3 1/2 minute show dressed as something ridiculous, singing in 4-8 part harmony, and moving only their upper body. They usually practice for about 6 weeks, and it is the best and worst time of your life.

Because Sing Song is such a big deal when you are in school, it is one of the most anticipated events at ACU. Tons of alumni come back to watch the show, and it is so much fun to be able to see so many old friends. We had a great weekend of catching up with old friends and, of course, cheering on our favorite Siggies!

When I was in school, I was absolutely obsessed with Sing Song. Seriously. I would spend months with my friends brainstorming ideas and story lines, writing lyrics, painting props, sewing costumes, delivering props, staying up all night making the director's costume... whatever it took. It is so hard to explain how much I loved Sing Song, but it wasn't the actual performances I loved so much (don't get me wrong, those were great too!) It was the bonding experience that took place between my closest friends and between those I didn't know very well. Let me tell you, it is a humbling experience to lose when you perform a show you believe in 100%... and it happened to me twice.

Watching those girls this year was no different! Siggies were fireworks. They started out as little TNT dynamites and turned into little explosives while they were singing Firework by Katy Perry. Yes. They were AMAZING!! You could tell they put their heart and souls into their performance, and win or lose, they knew they did an incredible job. They ended up getting 2nd, but I don't even think that mattered to them, because, even though you hear it a bajillion times, it really isn't about winning. I was so so proud of all my little fireworks!!

(Watch the video HERE)

I'm already looking forward to Sing Song 2013!! I wasn't kidding when I said I was obsessed.