Molly's Home...A cause for celebration

Thanks to a hurricane, Molly was able to visit Ohio for a few days and I was ecstatic to have her home. She was going to come home for a wedding, then she couldn't get off work, then the hurricane shut down her city and she had to evacuate. Talk about good timing for her to need to leave SC.

I think I was a little excited when she called to tell me!

She and Lauren got to my place around 12:30am after driving 9 straight hours from SC. We had a little slumber party and Thursday morning we headed home. Molly, Tyler and I went to Emma's for a footlong hotdog and a milkshake in the Jeep. It was the first time we'd been together since August, and other than that one evening at the Ross County Fair, we hadn't been together since April!

It was hard to be at work on Friday knowing that my little sibs were hanging out back home without me. That morning when I got a sweet tea I thought about getting one for my friend Caitlyn that is a graduate student here in my department, but I just wasn't sure of her schedule these days. I occasionally treated her to a sweet tea over the summer when she was a FTE. Well that afternoon she walked into my office with a McDonald's Sweet Tea! That girl is the sweetest.

Friday evening I went back to Piketon and Moly and I went to the football game. It was All Cheerleaders' Night and Piketon won! Yay. We got to watch Avery cheer and then left shortly after halftime. It wasn't that exciting of a game. 

Post high school football game, we did what any normal adults do, we laid on the couch and filmed snapchat videos with ridiculous filters. 

Oh my deer.....

Saturday we traveled north for the wedding of our friend Jake. He and Molly were buds during their undergraduate days and I advised him in both student council and the fraternity. He was actually very influential in getting me to advise the fraternity. I was really glad that Molly was home to go to this wedding with me because the week before I had a bit of a pouting fit about not wanting to go because I didn't have a date. Thankfully it worked out wonderfully because Molly and I went together, we danced all night, and had a great time. There were a few awkward moments but for the most part, it was fun!

The best date.

How are the three of us single?

Photobombs.

Molly and her bud Ben. They claim to hate each other.

Sunday morning we got up pretty early and headed back to Columbus. Lauren picked Molly up and just like that she was gone and back to SC.

Luckily, event though parts of SC were damaged and flooded, her apartment was just fine. The pictures she sent us from around town showed damage and flooding debris, but she was safe!

That Sunday afternoon I drove home and visited Papaw in his new temporary crib, as he's doing a cardio rehab bootcamp. He's spent most of the summer just laying around and not moving, so it caused his leg muscles to weaken and a little fluid to build up again. We watched the Browns lose (no surprise!) and chatted about his favorite politician, Donald Trump (100% sarcasm). I also had to deliver Bowie to my parents because a few days later I headed for Honduras!! More on that soon.

Homecoming Weekend

I'm way behind on life updates, but rather than get further behind, I'm just going to update on this most recent weekend, then I'll try to backtrack a little and get other summer updates posted.

This past weekend was homecoming at both Ohio State and Piketon. For laughs, here is a picture of me at my high school senior homecoming in 2002.

I'm in the front on the left. 

Every year the fraternity I advise builds a float for the OSU homecoming parade. They get so into it and I love it! It's like the worlds largest craft project. Some of the boys who are engineers work to get all of the mechanics down - how is it going to move, etc., while other boys help pomp, design signs, film, etc. They put hours and hours and hours into the float. I pop in for a few hours each evening to help pomp, paint signs, and provide encouragement and support. And leave around 10pm while they all stay there till the wee hours of the morning. #noti

pomping the wheels of the cannon.

pomping the actual cannon.

i painted the shield for the side banners.

Ellen and I (the house director and the advisor.....aka Women of FarmHouse) before we called it a night.

Some the boys and our king candidate.

They were interviewed by NBC 4 on the live news.

Brutus kicked the Rutgers cannon and then it "fell apart."

They ended up placing second to the College of Dentistry. They did a great job and put so much work into it! We just need to start gathering ideas for next year!

Saturday morning I helped clean up the alumni fall fest and then headed home to Piketon for the evening. I visited with Mam and Papaw a few minutes, then headed home to take pictures before Piketon's homecoming dance. Some of the dresses were pretty, but some where not. Some girls had pretty make up, while others did not. Some guys were dressed really fancy, while others were not. Ha. It was all over the board. After pictures I went to Bob Evans and had dinner with Payton and Shanon, so I was caught up on things going on at Morehead for Payton.

Sunday I got up really early and headed to Ripley to meet up with Cara. She gave me a tour of her farm and I played with the kittens, then we headed to downtown Cincy to watch The Sound of Music. It was so good! The girl that played Maria talked weird, kind of like the way Kate McKinnon sometimes talks on SNL. Anyway, it was great and I was singing "the Hills are alive with the sound of music...." all evening until I met up with some friends and went to a Jake Owen concert. :)

The Hills are alive......with the sound of music.....ahhhhh haaaaa ahhh.

Jake was playing at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium at the Brighter Days Foundation fundraiser. Jason and Ellie Day were there, along with Colt Ford, Justin Moore, Jake (obviously). I saw Brian Hardline and some other NFL players that I couldn't place. There was a guy from The Office there, along with Elaine's boss from Seinfeld. I thought Cole Swindell was going to be there, but he was not. :(

Jake played for about an hour - he played some good ones, but not all of my favorites like "American Country Love Song," "Alone with You," and "Eight Second Ride". But I have no complaints about watching him sing for an hour! :) Colt Ford and Justin Moore performed a few songs with him too. (PS - I had no idea who Colt Ford was prior to this event!)

And while I didn't get to meet Jake, Thom did give us a ride to our cars and I got to sit in the seat where Jake had sat a few hours before me, so there's that! ha.