please just humor me

This is going to be another whip-lash post. But one of the main reasons I wanted a blog was so that I could post more pictures than instagram can handle. Here are a bunch of random pictures from the past couple months! The first picture is Luke's gift from our anniversary: a watch and photo book of us.

My gift from Luke: a gold necklace that has our initials on it! I love it and wear it allll the time! 

These are from a cross-country meet in Michigan. Probably my worst race this season, but it was such a beautiful course. (my parents came to every single meet that I ran in this season!!) 

I am currently taking a break until indoor track training starts over Christmas break and it is w e i r d. Runners plan their day around their runs, so I feel like a free woman. 

Payne's date with Luke!

Luke and I's Jack and Jill Halloween Costume!

The beautiful Elsa!

Best costumes at the party. Barbie (and Ken) in the box! They could barely move and it was the best thing ever watching them walk around all night.

taking a pic with broccoli to send to our parents. (i didn't actually eat this)

one of the many delicious snacks from cross-country group which we have every monday night!

Did you ever see a more perfect sight? 

***cute boyfriend and Bible***

matching

I don't know 

good bun day

Matching Iz.

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with dirty diet coke. (diet coke with flavor in it: lime or vanilla are my top fav)

I can't get enough.

I love these girls!!!

Our first time to Crepe Crazy!

Izzy bought the new Taylor Swift CD so I have been listening to it quite often. Blank Space is my favorite and Luke new the title when it started playing in the car without me telling him…

let's not talk about it

Starbucks "study" date with Linds and Luke. peppermint mocha-- Holla!

Snow. I was not happy about the first snow this year because it meant fall was over and that is sad.

I liked the way my room looked with the natural light coming in one day!! 

ignore the messy bed

date to see the new hunger games movie, it was so good! One of the few movies where I actually read the books that go with!

Luke modeling one of my headbands from the craft bazaar. His hair was much longer than normal and he has been talking about how "wild" it's been the past couple weeks. His hair doesn't move, but he normally keeps it short so it was a big deal for him. 

Watching the Cowboys game in Luke's room! Pretty sure it was only the second time I'd been up there!

I've been drinking wayyy too much coffee and diet coke. But if my secret santa is reading this, I won't turn down more ;)

On the way home from school for Thanksgiving break we stopped by this building we always pass for pictures in our matching sweatshirt. I left my phone there by accident and realized about five minutes after we had left and then got a lecture from Luke about "what I wasn't going to do again"

He is a goof.

just posing with Zoe

Learning more adult things like making pie!

and every time Lindsay offers to play with my hair I don't argue. What girl doesn't love that?

So there you have it, the pictures that didn't make it to instagram! 

Let's be real. If I posted a picture every time I took one, I would have zero followers. 

ok bye.

Love haley

real question: can I command-strip my roommate to her bed?

 

A few Saturdays ago Tori (angel's sister), Izzy (roommate), and I all surprised Angel for her BACHELORETTE WEEKEND! 

I'm sorry but I'm drinking a peppermint expresso right now from the coffee shop at my school and if you are in the IWU vicinity  S T O P reading this and go get one.

Actually please just read this first then do that because I'm writing this instead of studying for my stats exam. 

 

Anyways, Angel was very surprised when Tori threw the "bride-to-be" sash around her neck! We made her wear that thing all weekend long. Angel is NOT a partier, not that any of us really are. So, Tori came up with some great non-typical bachelorette stuff.  We drove from IWU to Angel's hometown.

We scarfed down some food before we had to head to our first stop!

 

Please ignore the fact that I look way too happy about that food.

Stop thinking about it.

Angel's mom is a F A B U L O U S hostess! She is such a sweet lady and gave us way too much good food! Don't even get me started on breakfast!

 

Angel does not like getting her picture taken which does not really work out too well when her roommate shouts "CANDIDS FOR THE BLOG"

Hi Iz

 

 

Thank goodness for Tori. She is so creative! She came up with the idea for us to go to a pottery place and all paint something for Angel's home! 

 All of the bridesmaids!

(Me, Izzy, Tori, Angel, Jesse, and Erica)

All Angel's sisters except for me and Izzy!

Then it was time for manis and pedis! 

Did we really change for dinner in the Target bathroom if we didn't take pics?

Off to dinner!

LOVE LOVE LOVE

The restaurant was soo cool! It was tree-themed!

I'm going to miss her so much when she moves out! But it's okay cuz I'm pretty sure I'm getting a copy of the apartment key. 

Just kidding Steven! 

 

You know those boots everyone was pinning on pinterest?

Izzy has them. Are we surprised?

 

 

Really though, who's idea was it to put the short girl in the front of the "everyone put Angel's sash around you" pics? 

Am I getting choked? Am I okay?

 

Sunday morning after church, Angel had a bridal shower! It was seriously so fun I would do it over and over again! It was tea party themed and I think she got about 46 crock pots! She is such a relaxed, happy, easy bride! 

I was the gift passer/trash taker and Izzy was the walk-the-gifts-around-the-roomer. 

 

Such a fun weekend with great girls! Thank you Tori for everything you did! 

Oh wait except it's not over. Is there a rule about how long blog posts can be?

Idk my major is psychology not blogology. 

Two weekends ago, we had a semi-surprise bridal shower at school for Angel with girls from the team!

So we started planning this on Monday of last week and I think around Tuesday Angel told me she was leaving for the weekend for a different bridal shower. As I was slapping myself in slow-motion inside my head, I pretended like that was completely okay. 

Poor Steven. He received so many texts from me that week. We ended up telling her about our shower for her Friday night so that she could get back from the other shower in time. (We wrote it on the mirror)

You guys, one of my new favorite things is fashion sketching! I did these the night before for fun and then decided to turn them into a decoration for the shower! 

 

Saturday morning was CRAZY. Izzy, Rachel, Lindsay, and I were so busy getting everything ready for the shower at 3! (I loved every second of it.) We went to wal-mart, the dollar store, starbucks, and hobby lobby. 

Izzy is a genius. We were trying to think of gifts that college students could afford to bring to the shower and Izzy came up with the idea to buy Angel's tioletries/cosmetics for her. This way, it's one less thing Angel and Steven will have to worry about when they get married. I secretly took pictures of Angel's stuff and posted it on our cross-country facebook page. 

And, because my team is amazing, it worked out so well!

 

QT

 

a B E A U T I F U L friend that we ran into at starbucks.

ahhh.

Lindsay is amazing. 

 

...

It was a blast!

Thanks to Lindsay for taking pictures!

It turned out pretty well for having the party in a dorm room. 

Really though, WHY

I am so sad that we're going to loose Angel as a roommate, but I know that she is going to be so happy with Steven! They are perfect! I will be visiting lots and don't be too mad if you happen to find hot glue on your bed. I may be making last-minute attempts to keep you! 

Less than one month til the wedding!

(p.s. i'm impressed if you're still reading) 

Love haley