#251. bubble tea on the quad

Had bubble tea on the quad with Anna & Kate today.

#241. stephanie & michele

Tonight was CRU's final party of the year. Big Dessert.

Stephanie & Michele dancing. Love these girls.

 Dear Steph, we miss you.

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30 Day Song Challenge

Day 21: A Song you listen to you when you're happy.

"Firework"- Katy Perry

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag floating through the wind?"

#214. pancake brunch for the MEN

As a way of saying thank you for the CRU guys cooking dinner for the us ladies on Valentines day, we had a pancake brunch for them.

There was balloon blowing..

and cooking,

and eating, 

and of course, posing with mustaches. 

(Photo cred: Cynthia)

(Focus is a bit tricky with a 50mm 2.8 lens)

#165. CRU Valentines Day

Syracuse CRU has a tradition for Valentines Day where the boys host a dinner for the girls. Today was that day..and it was absolutely amazing. So much fun! Nice job guys :)

(I decided to be lazy and not bring my SLR camera. Let me tell you, I regretted it... Maybe its because I've become spoiled with the quality my SLR will produce.. but I'm just not as happy with the photos I took. Oh well, moments are moments right?)

Dinner was great, the V-day music was great, and the decorations were great.. but probably the best part of the night was a speed dating game the guys came up with. (What the above picture is from). The girls were given a question to ask on our "speed date" with one of the guys. And we had to attempt to get the answer to the question but without directly asking the question. And we had to do that all in 2 minutes. So much fun.

#148. worship at CRU

This photo is underexposed (dark) and a bit grainy because the ISO is so high.. but I like it that way.

Photo taken on January 27, 2011

#101. CRU Christmas Party!

Photos taken on December 11

At this year's Christmas party, there was.. 

Dancing... 

Awesome decorations..

AND Santa & Rudolph! 

(played by Tony & Mike)

As well as yummy snacks, great friends and great music. 

Such a good night. 

#75. women's retreat (last morning)

The women's retreat planning committee (myself and 5 other amazing ladies) realized that it's probably a common struggle to truly believe in who God says we are, and that instead we intend to believe negative lie about ourself. So we brainstormed an activity that would allow the girls to walk away with a visual reminder of their true identity.
 We asked everyone to think of a word /phrase to finish one of these sentences: "As a follower of Christ I am" or "In God's eyes, I am" Then we had everyone either write that phrase on a card or on their face with eyeliner. and we did photo shoot displaying our true identities.
Jo was the photographer for all the girls, so when it was her turn to be on the other side of the camera, I gladly photographed her.

"In God's eyes, Jo is whole"

(Photos taken Sunday (Nov 14) morning at 4am.. yeah, we stayed up pretty late)

#74. women's retreat (saturday)

Modge Podge of how Day 2 went.
To be honest, I'm too tired to tell a cohesive story through pictures, so enjoy these random ones:

Our theme for the weekend was "Identity" and man-oh-man, did the Lord have ALOT to teach/re-teach me about that subject. Honestly, this retreat came at the absolute perfect time. Because without it.. all the things I've been personally struggling with/all the things God had to show me about who he really is and who I really am.. would have just been pushed aside for later (as it often is). Yeah, I can't even begin to go into how grateful I am for this past weekend.

(My Devotion Time)

After our second meeting and personal devotion time we went into the town of Skaneateles, had a picnic lunch and explored a bit!

Pre-story to the following pictures..Sarah and I are eating out rock ledge thing. Someone asks to take our picture and I suddenly feel my hat slipping and then hear a splash. I immediately start screaming/laughing. Screaming because this is an awesome hat,  I got it in Ecuador, and I thought it was gone forever. Laughing because everyone else in the above picture was cracking up at my screams and it was just a ridiculous situation over all. Sarah, (bless her heart) took charge and retrieved my hat for me.

Walking around town we found 2 cent candy.

Yup, I told you I'd be random. I'm hopefully putting all of the pictures on Facebook within this week.. (the key word here being hopefully).. so you can get the complete picture there.


(Photos taken Saturday, November 13).

#73. women's retreat (friday night)

This past weekend was our second annual CRU Women's Retreat.
Great weekend. The Lord taught me so much, and had a great time with some pretty amazing girls.

Friday night, after our meeting and icebreaker we had icecream sundae desserts..

(Friday, November 12)

#25. fall retreat (day two)

A few from Day 2!

Slacklining

I took a few girls on a mini photo shoot.

And we found a tractor..

And an empty field

Heidi's ahmazing chucks.

Jen wanted Abby to be part of my 365 day project!

How ADORABLE is she?!

Football

We all dressed up in togas to watch the talent show..

And then, those sheets were our entertainment for a good hour..

And then we played game after game until we got tired and went to bed around 4am!
Going to put most of the 740 photos on Facebook sometime early this week (hopefully).. so keep an eye out!

(These photos were taken on September 25th)

#24. fall retreat (day one)

 As promised.. here are the photos I took everyday while I had no access to internet..

CRU Fall Retreat was this weekend. This is my fourth year at fall retreat, and while I've had fun every year... this year was by far the BEST retreat yet!It was the absolute perfect weekend to get away from campus, laugh until I cried, and hear all that God had to teach me.

Although I took a whopping 740 photos over the course of the weekend.. I only took a few on Friday night. Here's my favorite..

Photo taken on September 24th

#15. tabling

I helped table on the quad today.

I pull out my camera to take the picture above, and DC says.. "Can I be your 18th picture?" I say, "Yes." And Drew poses..

PS- Drew.. you asked to be the 18th. I'm actually at 15, but I'll still post you today! 

#2. New haircuts & cupcakes

A few things..

1) Sarah Elyse. You are hot stuff with your new hair cut. And you model a cupcake like no other.
 2) Tonight was the first CRU of the semester!
3) I'm late again with this post (by 50 minutes). I promise, I'll get better