run for roses with a side of cramp.

this weekend was a fun filled weekend full of friends, family and lots of sunshine!

saturday morning was AOIIs annual run for roses to support arthritis research.  i did not run because i would not only have had a side of cramp, i would have had a huge heaping helping of pass out.  (its my goal to run in my senir year run…lets see if that happens)  this day always proves itself to be surprisingly fun.  i don’t know if it’s the free food, the poodles, or panda costume, but i just love it! all the girls wore their new philanthropy shirts for rush and i was so proud!  they looked so sporty!  they even finished the look with the rolled up jean and keds.  we gunna rock rush in those outfits girls! we had over 200 runners and raised over $12,000.  can i get an amen?

and by over i mean we could have raised well over that…so yay for people with arthritis!  Gmo would be proud!  i posted a few pictures of the run.  i just love my friends beautiful smiles.  it shows their beautiful hearts.

tis true.  we do.

we just looked so friendly!

yes, everybody looks so great in their new baseball t's

stella the poodle.

umm.  stop being so cute.

my super intense runners.

stunning.

she just loves life and i love it

supporters near the finish line

katie loves arthritis!

just look at those beautiful smiles as they cross the finish line!

sweet friends

blue eyes beauty

saturday night proved to be not nearly as eventful.  when you find yourself in your bed chatting with the auburn librarian, you know you have hit an altime low.  but sue was nice, so at least i made a friend.  and to all who care, i kicked that research papers sorry behind! 

college.  it’s a funny thing.  i mean think about it.  there are over 24,000 people the same age, living together, with no parents, and no real responsibility.  its such a great concept it should be illegal.  college should be illegal.  i mean literally.  you live with your best friends, study with your best friends, eat with your best friends, clean your house (or dont clean your house) with your best friends, make burgers with your friends (thats for you abby), the list goes on people!

just food for thought though.  marinate in it.  strange concept.

tonight we celebrated on of my dearest friends acceptance to the most ballin internship in the world!  we are so proud of you alex!  he will be working with warner music company in nashville, tn for the summer, so all ive got to say is i smell lots of fun summer roadtrips in my future!  we threw him a surprise congradulatory party and toasted in his successes with a bottle of champaign and a bite or a few bites) of very nicely iced cupcakes.  so proud of him!

on that note.  my friends rock.  you should be jealous because they are pretty sweet.

out. 

why are you cast down, o my soul?

hey long lost bloggers.  leigh here.  no, i did not fall of the face of the earth, but rather what i would like to call, a mini sabbatical, at least from myself.


many things have sparked this post tonight.  the events leading up to this epic night have no been anything out of the ordinary, but rather just life.  life has, well i guess just been life, but i feel like my friends and i are just really getting a big dose of it this year.


so long to the days where we stayed up until 3am roller blading in the quad and watching friends on the dorm room bunk beds.  good riddance to the nights where waffle house at 2am tasted way better than the normal eating hours around 7, and peace out to the social nights spent at the library.  if we are going to make the effort to go, in goes the headphones!


life hit hard this year for a lot of people, and it has been hard to watch and listen to.  but it has been so encouraging to see how these godly women, who i like to call my best friends, have done nothing but bring God the glory in their trials.  their trials are things that only haunt my worst nightmares, yet they have handles it with as much poise and respect than should be expected from any 20 year old.  props to you my friends.


a lot has changed this semester.  my time has been doled out a little differently, for the best i might add.  i started a bible study on tuesdays nights and it has been one of the best things i have done.  we are going through a book called "A Perfect Mess" by Lisa Harper and it is a study of the Psalms.  check it out!  what we studied this week i found particularly applicable.

psalms 42 isnt usually regarded as one of the more happy psalms, but i would argue that it is the most raw and real.  the psalmist is crying out in anger towards god, wondering where he is.  in other words, he is ticked off at god and he doesnt even care.  what is so beautiful about this psalm, is that in the end, even though they feel bitter turmoil in their soul, they are able to look up, and say with confidence, "hope in God; for i shall again praise him, my salvation and my God!"  wow!


even in the middle of his trials, he is able to see the eternal value of his life.  So may time i think we start to think our lives are about good days and bad days.  when we lay our heads down to sleep at night, we go through our good day/ bad day check list.  if it doesnt measure up, the day was a waste!  how selfish is that attitude!


everyday is a beautifully wrapped gift from our heavenly father.  the issue is do we chose to unwrap that gift or not.  are we going to chose to step out of bed that morning with an eternal perspective for the day.  that way, when we lay our heads down at night to sleep, we can ask ourselves, did we do the best with what the lord gave us today.  did we give him all the glory back.  it isnt about good days and bad, its about our savior and praising him for our salvation.


i dont know about you, but any day is a good day when i have that truth to sleep on!


so, to all three of you who follow me, hopefully i will do a better job in the future of updating and keepin gyou posted about little things in my life i find sweet.  and on that note...today was a sweet day!