The Bachelorette with a Southern Twist

So, a new show Sweet Home Alabama started last week on CMT. If you like shows like The Bachelorette/The Bachelor, I would highly recommend it! There's one girl with about 18 guys to chose from - half are city boys, half are country boys. Should get pretty interesting considering she is as southern as it gets! And if you refresh your blogger quite often, it starts rightttt NOW! (9 p.m.)

In the summertimeeee when the weather is high

Reasons why I love being home for the summer, despite living in a small town with practically nothing to do:

Iced coffee made in the comfort of my own home & coffee bonding time with Mom :)

Painting! I'll eventually post the finished product of what I'm working on now. Time consuming, but so relaxing.

Being able to go to my favorite chinese restaurant, which happens to be in my hometown. Oh!..and good fortunes!

Also, I'm obviously enjoying my new camera! Haha…I am such a nerd.

HP 7 Part II!

Tickets to midnight premiere of Harry Potter 7 Part II tonight…check! My goal was to finish reading the whole series this summer before the final movie came out, however I only made it to the 4th book. I fully intend to finish the series with the remainder of my summer, don't worry :). I think it's kind of cool how we really are literally the "Harry Potter generation." No doubt I'll be passing these books down to my kiddies!

Sorority + Transfers?

Hiii!


So, I am transferring to a new University this fall and will be a junior. I so so excited to meet new people and be at a school that I love, and I think joining a sorority would be a great way to make friends right off the bat. Plus, it’s something that I’ve always wanted to get involved in. I would do informal rush most likely, which would be in the fall. Since greek life is pretty big at this particular school, I know that I’d be hard to get into one in the regular formal rush and I don’t even know if they would let a junior rush then. Basically what panhellinic says about informal rush is that it is up to the sororities whether or not they want to participate in informal, and they will be given a list of names and basically choose who to ask to their house, I think? So pretty much, I’m at a disadvantage in that 1) I don’t really know any girls in greek life at this school and 2) since informal rush will be in the fall, I wouldn’t really have much time to get to know people to where they would be able to distinguish my name from a list of other girls rushing. Does anyone have any advice for me?…or have any of you dealt with informal rush in your sororities? Would it help if I had an alumni write a letter once I find out what sororities are participating in informal? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks :)

So, I've been slacking on my posts a little bit and I have some ground to make up for! My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year and half as of this past Sunday. After he asked me what I wanted for a year and a half gift, I insisted that he didn't need to get me anything. But of course, he had to spoil me a little more and get me something. He got me a Nikon D3100 camera, and I can't say that I'm complaining! I absolutely love it. A while back I told him I was starting to blog and whatnot a lot more and that it would be cool to take my own pictures for my blog. Well apparently, that thought stuck in his head! Haha (he is also really into photography…WAY WAY WAY better at it than I am at this point). 

Anyways, I took it for a few test runs the past few days so I thought I'd share some pictures :)

Meet my boyfriend, best friend, and giver of my awesome new camera!

The image quality doesn't look great on here (I think I need to change a setting to make my colors a little more saturated to bring out the greens and blues). I took this in a field near my house... Oh, the joys of living in the country!

I thought this was kind of cool! 

My little buddy, all tuckered out from swimming in the creek and taking a walk.

Like I said, the image quality looks a little weird when I inserted them on to my blog. Any other wanna-be-photographers out there?!

Warm weather, celebrating America, good food, summer clothes, fireworks - who doesn't love July 4th?!


Red, white, & blue themed food…check! These cupcakes are specifically from Sprinkles, which I was thankfully able to indulge in when I spent a week in Los Angeles for spring break. Literally the best cupcakes I have ever tried!

Stripes for everyone! Patriotic, yet nautical. 

If only I could locate that hat, shorts, and bag before Monday...

Snap, crackle, pop!