Illinois Residence Hall Association

Oh boy!! I think it's pretty much a fact that I cannot stay away from conferences! As soon as a conference comes up, I have to apply to it. Luckily, I was accepted to this state-wide Residence Hall Conference - the Illinois Residence Hall Association (IRHA) conference!!!

We started having delegation meetings for the conference, and we decided on the sub theme "Reggie and the 7 Dwarfs." The overall theme of the conference was "Wonderful World of Disney" The delegation decided that we were going to dance in our roll call (which is a skit we do at the beginning of the conference. All the schools get to put one on!) When I say "we," I mean that I totally pressured the delegation into dancing hahhaa. They were great sports about my desire to pull out all the stops at my last conference :)

We had many practices for our dance. This is one at 8pm in the basement of one of the halls. We had a friend of ours choreograph it for us!

One of the delegation meetings we had was SUPER long and productive. This was a cute shot of everyone sitting at the table in the office. They were working on spirit items, roll call t-shirts, and talking about conferences!! It was so cute!!!!

This delegation was STELLAR!! Everyone put in a ton of effort to make the conference a success! And in a few days, I will post pictures from the actual conference!!! I love IRHA!!!

Wedding

Have I mentioned this? I am basically so FREAKING EXCITED about it, that I have to say SOMETHING!!!!

Last summer, Stephanie called me at some obscene hour. I was at ISU serving my 30 days on campus for my VP position. Well, don't give me too much credit, I wasn't doing work when she called me, I was definitely watching the George Lopez show. At the time, I was searching for a snack and fiddling with the AC in the room and my phone went off.

What the heck? It was almost 10pm.

I went over to look at the caller ID. Steph. OH CRAP, what happened?!?!

I picked up the phone, my heart was racing..... what happened to have her call me at this hour? I thought she was on a vacation?!?!?! "Hello.....?"

"Amy!!!! Do you have a minute?"
"... Yes...?"
"ADAM PROPOSED TO ME TONIGHT!"

Ok, there were more words involved in this conversation, but I cant remember them because I was internally screaming from excitement!!! FINALLY!!!!! I blurbed out about 10098340283 more questions and she answered all of them. I was on cloud nine! I love Adam and am SO GLAD he proposed to her!

The summer went on and I had about 1 million more questions about the wedding, I just wanted to know everything, this is so exciting! The last wedding I stood up in, I was 5 years old. :) And if you wanted to know, yes, I rocked that flower girl role!

However, I had no idea that Stephanie was planning something all along.... to ask me to be one of her bridesmaids! Here was my reaction:

"................."

Yeah, that indicates speechless-ness! I am SO honored to be apart of her big day. Let's face it, I was already ecstatic to be invited as a guest to her wedding, but to be apart of it in this way? It brought tears to my eyes. Looking back on it, I am especially amused because I was grilling her for hints on who her bridal party was going to be! She must have had a hard time changing the subject!

Here is the adorable puzzle she made for each of her bridesmaids to ask them to stand up in her wedding! It's hanging up in my room on my wall because I just love looking at it!!

Since then, I have been so excited to help with the planning. There have been Save the Dates, dress shopping, invitation making, bridal shower planning.... it's been so great!!! Stephanie likes to keep things under wraps about the wedding plans so people are surprised and in awe when they come. So, I would REALLY like to post a picture of the bridesmaid dresses or even describe the beautiful invitations, but I wont. :) Instead, here is all I can show you of what the wedding:

My feet. :) I picked out the shoes I want to wear for the wedding!!! Haha, so yes, just imagine the rest of the outfit - it's much classier than my rolled up jeans and chipped toe nail polish!!

I cannot wait for July 10th, because it's going to be one of the most beautiful days ever!!! :) I'm so excited!

March 1st Update

I am totally aware that its March 26th and this is 25 days late. :( Things just have been SO busy this month! This will be redundant when you see it again on April 1st, but here we go!

Below are the resolutions I came up with for 2010!

• Be more on time: I am not ALWAYS late or INCREDIBLY late, but I need to work on it in general. I'm known for breezing in just a few minutes late :\
  
• Shrug it off: As EVERYONE knows, I worry about everything-all the time-all day. I plan on letting the small things go. It'll help me so much to not worry so much!
• Swear less: I don't cuss like a sailor, but I do need to work on my language a little!
• Say no: I'm not sure how successful this one will be, but sometimes I get so stressed out because I cannot learn how to say no to people. This is my attempt to look out for myself a little more!

And here are my assessments as of March 1st of how I am doing!

• Be more on time: I was doing ok, but I started to have a few extra meetings this past month that required me to adjust my schedule temporarily. I was frequently late, and that made me sad. :\
  
• Shrug it off: Barely no progress on this during the month of February. :(
  
• Swear less: Not much progress. But I haven't fallen back at all!
  
• Say no: I haven't really had the opportunity to say no this past month, so I'd say not much has changed here, either!

Talk about a boring update!

Eeek!

Remember that one time that I actually updated my blog? Fail!

I think my last blog post was back on February 9th... today is March 9th! What in the world has gone on?

I'm sure you could imagine - a WHOLE lot! I am currently on Spring Break, so hopefully I can update a bunch each day to get caught up!

Thanks for bearing with me!