I live in a house with {50} girls

Well, not yet...but in a month I will! This weekend I went up to Santa Barbara to visit some of my friends who are doing summer school there right now! We had such a blast and in just a few weeks we will allll be living in the Alpha Phi house together! I'm so so so excited but I was thinking about it last night and 50 women means a lot of estrogen...and that can get a little scary. Here are the things I'm most excited & nervous about! 

Hair  

Ladies understand this one. Hair falls out. It's a normal thing. But, when there are 50 heads of hair shedding, that makes for a lot of it left around the house, which also means hair "spiders" which are pretty much one of my worst fears. 

PMS 

(Sorry if there are any gentlemen reading this) You know how people say when you're around a person enough your cycles sync? Well, imagine a few dozen emotional women...that thought is enough to make me emotional too. 

The Snack Kitchen 

The snack kitchen is basically the place you go in the house to eat. That's where all the leftover dinner/dessert from the night before hangs out, so it can definitely become a dangerous place if you don't watch yourself! 

Proximity to campus 

This one is an awesome one. I literally live about a 2 minute walk from campus. I'm so excited that I won't have to bike a mile to class every morning anymore! I can take a cup of coffee with me because I can walk now instead of spilling it all over myself while biking. 

Clothes

50 girls means 50 closets, and everyone lends and borrows. Oh, the outfit possibilities. It's kind of like we're all Kim Kardasian now. 

50 Girlfriends 

This is what I'm most excited about. I get to live in a house with

all of my best friends right down the hall from me. If I want to study, see a movie, go to lunch, go to the beach, go out, or just talk and hang out, I'll have a friend who will do it with me.

My {Nicholas Sparks} Obsession

I am a huge sucker for anything romantic...stories, movies, books, songs, you name it..but there is nothing that can beat a Nicholas Sparks book. I love getting wrapped up in the characters' love stories and his writing style makes women create a higher expectation for the men that they fall for. Yes, I know that they're all pretty much the same but that's what I like about them. When I pick up one of his books I know the feelings that I'm going to experience while reading his books. The story line is predictable...two people fall in love even though there is an obstacle that should be stopping them. Then there's always another tragic or dark aspect to one of the characters' lives that makes each book different from each other. There's enough variety in his books to make them exciting and interesting, yet there's a familiarity in one that when you go to pick up the next one, you know you are going to be captivated by the passionate love story he writes about so well. 

I have this problem of finishing books at rapid speeds. I start a book and then I get so hooked I physically cannot put it down. I have to know what happens, which results me finishing a 300 page book in a mere few hours...then I'm sad that I've finished it already and now I'm left to search for another good book. It's a vicious cycle really. 

I may or may not have a slight obsession with him considering I've read all but three of his books (Nights in Rodanthe, The Wedding and Three Weeks With My Brother). Steven bought me these last ones but I've been holding off on reading them because once I finish...what  in the world am I supposed to read? I'm so so so happy that there's another book, The Longest Ride, in stores September 17th! I seriously don't know if I'll ever find a writer I like that even compares to him. He just has this style of writing that makes everyone who is already in love fall a little deeper, and those who have yet to find it wish they were. 

Although I cannot say that there is a single book that I don't like, my favorites are At First Sight and Dear John. If you're looking for one last quick summer read, I promise you that these two will have you swooning for more! 

I'd love to hear about all y'alls favorite authors as well! I'm on the hunt for more good books to read! 

xo

My Boyfriend {Jumps} Out of Planes

Steven had three 3 week periods this summer. The first period he had a program called ESET which was basically survival training. The second period he had leave (the best time ever) and the third period, which he is finishing up this week, was jump training! 

At first I was a little scared about the idea of my boyfriend jumping out of a plane by himself 5 times, but then after a little reassurance from the man my nerves calmed down. Also, I figured the government isn't going to throw something that they've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in if they don't expect it to survive...right? Steven has been tandem skydiving before so he had a little bit of background on the whole jumping thing as well. 

He had done a lot of prepping and memorizing of emergency procedures before his first jump in case *god forbid* something was going to go wrong while he was mid-jump. So, I was super excited for him when he got to do it for the first time last Friday! He was a total natural, as always. Seriously, there's nothing that guy can't do well(Why can't everyone have that trait?!)! The next four jumps went without flaw and my man officially has his wings! 

(After 5 solo jumps you get a pin to show that you've completed the training called your "wings"...I love those cute Air Force traditions!) 

It just so happens that Steven fell in love with skydiving even more these past few weeks and is now going to try out for the jump team! He tries out in a week or so, so send him some luck! If you want, you can send me some too because this whole "Bye, love you! I'm going to go jump out of a plane now!" thing is going to take a little more getting used to!

Hope everyone had a great weekend 

xox