Life of a Crusader...

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2010-03-01T22:07:00.001-08:00

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Beginning of Spring 2010

2010-01-13T12:10:00.000-08:00

So it's that time of year again... school has started back up. Classes are going to be decent this semester... i'm taking a few hard courses but i should be able to pull through just fine. Schedule is as follows:

In other news we're taking off to Garland this weekend to help lead a Disciple Now for FBC Garland. We did this last year and i get to lead the same guys i led last year so thats an awesome opportunity for me and the kids. They're now 8th graders so it should e an interesting trip. :) Here's us last year with a banner we made... i think it's a verse printed on there. Keep us in your prayers this weekend!

And here is a list of things going on... in one sentence apiece:

Intramural sports start up soon with basketball starting on the 25th.

It's 4 days since me and spencer moved back in with corey and ryan. He's got two parking tickets already.

I'm in Crusader Knights this year. It's a man pageant.

I haven't missed class at all this year!

My mouth has completely healed from my tooth removal.

UMHB Basketball beat #10 Mississippi College by 30 the other night.

Last night they beat #11 Concorida by 1. At the buzzer. At home. Legit.

Lane Kiffin is a sellout.

I'm done with class by noon everyday.

Cowboys game. Sunday at noon.

30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens. BRILLIANT.

Its a blessing having ESPN back on the tv.

In 4 days, me and ashton have been dating for 6 months.

Mom, i didn't buy any frozen pizzas this time around. But i probably should of. Cuz im craving one right now.

The End. Finis. No mas.

-Andy Pipes & Associates.

HELLO!!!!!

2009-11-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

So I haven't updated in a while so i figured what a better time to do it than when i'm at work!?!?! :) So here's whats been happening in my life here at the University of Mary Hardin - Baylor since August 24th. :)

To start things off, I got a new job this semester at Campus Rec! I love it because it involves sports, my best friends, and wearing whatever i want to work. :) Flag football season just ended and soccer and indoor volleyball just began. My best friend Spencer and my really good friends Jason and Levi work with me. Our good friend Kelsey is the Intramural Coordinator. She's a junior... and I want her job when she graduates... ie. I suck up and do anything her or Sue (Kelsey's boss) tell me too. Plus i get paid for everything i work. :)

Classes are going GREAT!!! My favorite is strangely Financial Accounting. It's actually not as hard as it looks!!! And the prof is a great guy who works with us and is making sure we learn the things we need to learn. Here's the schedule for this semester... even though it's about 9/17ths over with. :)

Being in an apartment and having a semi-constant flow of income has allowed me to learn how to buy and save my money a lot better than relying-on-the-rents Andy. I got an account at Chase, save with coupons and sales, and limit myself to 3 movies a month. :) But every now and then i do impulse buy and this little guy has got to be my greatest buy yet this semester. :)

UMHB inaugurated it's newest president, Randy O'Rear! We went even though we WEREN'T REQUIRED TO GO. :) Such dedication... And its not everyday you get to see a university president inaugurated. :) And being a Sophomore... you already know... it's Sophomore Bell time... :)

Oh yeah, I'm still with my gf, Ashton. :)

I wonder why she puts up with me most of the time... :) Lol...

So that's whats up in my world! Registration for Spring 2010 starts tomorrow so i'll be updating with a copy of next semesters schedule. :) Mom, Dad, the GPA is at a commanding 3.65. No worries about that scholarship ;) Miss everyone and i'll be back in the 817/972 next weekend for Jesse's 13th! See ya'll then...

-Andy

The Apartment.

2009-08-24T21:55:00.000-07:00

So we're finally all moved into the apartment...

Mine and Corey's room!!!! :)

Our bathroom...

Laundry room...

Living room... with Ryan's head.... :)

The kitchen and Corey. :)

We've been cooking and yes, i even vacuumed Mom... :) The surround sound was finished just a few minutes ago without many holes in the wall. My classes are great, i'm done by noon every day... and loving it. :) I start work tomorrow and plan on having a GREAT semester... :)

It's Like Coming Home...

2009-07-29T17:45:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh, home sweet home...

My move in is August 16th, Welcome week training is the 17th, and the 18th I become the proud uncle of 20+ freshmen... :)

That's the way we get down... in a Hicktown.

2009-07-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

Ashton came to visit this past weekend so we traveled up to the Ballpark to watch my 19th and 20th games of the season, both against the Minnesota Twins. (We lost both games, 3-1 and 6-2) Friday night was a fireworks show...

Section 208, Row 11, Seats 8 & 9

And Saturday was the Casey Donahew Band concert after the game. We also met a few friends from school and got tickets with them... Nick and Colton if you were at the Fourth... as well as a few others... :)

Section 321, Row 10, Seats 12, 13, 14, & 15

And hailing from Burleson, Texas.... Live at the Ballpark in Arlington.... The Casey Donahew Band!!!

It was a GREAT weekend, had a blast... Madison, Dalton, and Brighton were also in this weekend... and we got to hang out and play with them as well. Ashton also took pictures with every kind of livestock we saw. :)

That's the way we get down... in a Hicktown. :)

I'm A Working Man...

2009-07-11T19:01:00.000-07:00

This is what I do. :) I love it. That is all.

"STICKKERRRSSS!!!" @ Camp Zephyr

2009-06-29T19:20:00.000-07:00

Youth camp was this past week! A slightly different experience for me since I was a counselor for the 7th and 8th grade boys this year and not a camper myself. We took 95 youth and 15 adults down to Sandia, Texas for Camp Zephyr. Brad Fogarty was the camp pastor with Bob Smiley providing comical relief. All in all it was a GREAT week and we had 7 youth come to Christ!!! Here's some pictures from the week.

The first picture is of rec one day, the next one is of me and one of our 7th grade boys, Abraham. He's from Ethiopia and was adopted by a family in Maypearl. Coolest little guy I know!! The last one is of the entire church group that went. GREAT WEEK!!! :)

Also... find me on Twitter and Facebook! I realize I update those a whole lot more than I update this thing so for more updates about the life of Andy, find me there.

Andy's Hair...

2009-06-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

After a record 8 months without a legitimate haircut, only trims, I, Andy Pipes have received a haircut. :)

Before...

After...

I can now hear and move my head quickly. :) Life is good... Check out the life and times of Andy's Hair @ http://twitter.com/AndysHair.... or follow Me @ http://twitter.com/AndyPipes. That's all for now... :)

PS. I get to go back to UMHB next semester... HUZZAH!!!!!!! :P

For Your Listening Pleasure...

2009-05-28T23:33:00.000-07:00

So who DOESNT enjoy an AMAZING arrangement every now and then??? :) Taylor Swift's 'Love Story' and Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida' mixed by this guy for his daughter... amazing. :) Mad kudos here... :) Enjoy!!

Last post from Spring '09...

2009-05-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

Well... it's finals week. That time of year where every college student in the nation freaks out cuz "Freak! I Never Actually Learned this Stuff". But at the same time, it's a chance for us to reminisce and remember everything you've gone through over the past semester and year. There's also two dead days in there for you to go do whatever your heart feels like... i mean, study of course... :)
Welcome week stuff is all set for next year, I'm an uncle for our family group and i also get to help head the event group which is where we put together the Phil Wickham concert, comedian, and dance throughout the week. This also means I get to move in a week before everyone else is allowed in. :) Melody and LindsayMeg. are also aunts, Pancho the dad, and Lindsay Adam is the mom. :)
The football team, after a great 12-2 season and run to the national semifinals, recieved their rings this past week. Just like to point out that we beat Hardin Simmons TWICE to get this thing... :)
Dr. Baucom, after 18 years of service as President of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, is stepping down from that position and retiring, to become Chancellor. SearchCru put together a photo album to thank him for his service to the school.
And of course as finals DO apporach rapidly, you've GOT to go to the lake to relax a bit! This is us jumping off some smaller boulders, maybe 20 feet up. There's another cliff that's 45-50 feet high that we jump off of. SCARIEST thing EVER!!! But WAY worth it... :)
So as my last post as a Crusader Freshman... it's been a blast. I've learned a lot, experienced so much, grown to love some many people that i'll know for the rest of my life, gotten in trouble, swam in Burt Pond, failed a test or 2, gotten on the dean's list, been an intramural champion, come home really really REALLY late on a school night, pulled all-nighters, danced until my feet hurt, spent more money than i had, and had quite possibly the greatest experience of any college student in the world this past year. Thank you Mary-Hardin Baylor... and i'll see you next August. :)

Invisible Children

2009-04-22T21:30:00.000-07:00

On April 25th, 2009... hundreds of thousands of young people and adults... people like you and me... will gather in over 140 cities in over 16 countries worldwide... and unite together to free the innocent from Joseph Kony's reign of terror and ensure that he is brought to justice... by being symbolically abducted... and waiting for the rescue.

What will you do to help the thousands who die everyday? What will you do to help the child abducted in his sleep and forced to kill his entire family and fight for a terrorist? What will you do to help? WHAT WILL YOU DO TO CHANGE THE WORLD? What will you do?

Sole to Soul

2009-04-09T18:21:00.001-07:00

Children in Haiti are walking around with no shoes on... why can't we look past ourselves for one day... ONE DAY... and do the same? April 15th, 2009.

Look past yourself. For just one day.

Fall '09 Schedule

2009-04-09T10:41:00.000-07:00

So it's that time of the semester again... advising and registration! :) Yes, with only 4 weeks left in the semester, I have received my schedule for next fall and it is.........

Intermediate Spanish II - Dr. Pardue - MW - 9:00am to 10:40am
Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS) - Dr. Harper - TH - 8:ooam to 9:20am
EXSS Conditioning (B) - Coach Johnston - TH - 11:00am to 12:20pm
Financial Accounting - Dr. Fischer - TH - 9:30am to 10:50am
Communicating in Business - Dr. Byrd - MWF - 12:00pm to 12:20pm
Chapel - Dr. Loutherback - W - 11:00am to 11:50am

Yes. I only have ONE class on friday :) True that! Double True!

Spring Formal!

2009-04-06T22:33:00.001-07:00

Every year hundreds of decked out college students head to a grand night boldly entitled: Spring Formal. FYC puts this gala on, this year being held at Tenrock Ranch in Salado, Texas. With a dinner, dance, and dessert what could go wrong but a tablecloth catching on fire? That seemed to be the least of our worries as we danced the night away and had an absolute blast.

Our group who rode together, from left to right... Me, Spencer, Bryan... and our dates... Nicolette, Kelsey, and Megan. :)

Me and Nicolette, my date :). She's a freshmen too and she plays volleyball for the school. Like Pancho, she's from brownsville. Also in this pic you can tell we spent the entire morning and afternoon at the ballpark... and I should of wore a red tie instead of orange... :) So there's her bio for you mom... ;)

The boys, with the exception of Pancho who was off chasing girls... ;) Me, Corey (Roommate for next semester), Spencer (Also a roommate), and Joe. Not a roommate, but still a great guy and friend! :)
Our whole group again... without Corey and Jessica... :) Bryan, Megan, Spencer, Kelsey, Nicolette, Me, Meghan, Brooke (W/out date Joe) ;), Hannah, and Alex. All in all formal was a HUGE success, FYC was highly lauded, Spencer ended up with a girlfriend, and I got a cute date and a free milkshake at chilis. :) The End.

New Sadermail!!!

2009-03-31T11:18:00.000-07:00

UMHB has finally moved up in the world of inter-collegiate email! After 3 years of the outdated, sluggish old sadermail, UMHB's tech department partnered with Google to build the new Sadermail. With 8 gigs of storage space (as compared to the minute 256mb they gave us with the last sadermail) I can now recieve all the pictures and sports updates I want! My email will still stay the same and i'm rearing and ready to go. Thanks UMHB, the new Sadermail rocks! :)
This was not an advertisement for Google, G-Mail, Sadermail, or UMHB for that matter. Paid for by the republican party of Bell County. ;)

Spring Break: A Memorium In Pictures

2009-03-24T23:12:00.001-07:00

It's Been Awhile...

2009-03-03T21:02:00.000-08:00

So I haven't done this in FOREVER, I figured I would update ya'll with the happenings in Andy's world! :) New semester has started and is just about 1/2 way through, midterms are about a week away, spring break is a week and a half away, and i've got two months of school left! Since school started, i've served on several teams leading Disciple Nows across the state...

Gone dancing to celebrate the end of every week at a nearby club in killeen called Junction 45 where we can country dance our hearts away all night long... or until 2 am when they kick us out. :)

We've also roadtripped down to the great city of Brownsville where Pancho is from! We went to South Padre Island and hung out on the beach most of the day and then came back to bowl and hang out with his family and a few of his friends. The only drawback was the 8 hour drive down there... BUT YES!! They have Bush's Chicken there too!! :)

Our next great adventure took us to the great field of intramural sports where our fun loving team completely messed around every game, played in short shorts, goofy tank tops, tall socks, mismatched shoes, etc. AND the most we lost by was 8 points. :) We ended up losing every game but one.... but that was a win by forfeit. So it doesnt really count. :) At the end of the season after not making playoffs, we asked the intramural director if they would let us (the worst guys team) play the worst girls team (A team of soccer girls). They let us play and despite my best efforts, we won by one point in the final seconds. Needless to say the girls were mad. But we gave them trophies anyways... :)

Another one of our adventures took us to the scarred, scorched landscape of Abiline, Texas. And of course those bunch of people all living together that think they're a college, hardin-simmons univeristy. We wrecked shop in mens and womens basketball and then left quickly... (There was nothing else to do there...) :)

Last but never least, we had some friends come to the BEAUTIFUL city of Belton, Texas from that desolate wasteland that is Abiline and visit us! Allison and a few of her friends dropped by and had dinner with me, pancho, and spencer at the mall on their way to one of her friends houses. So of course we took a picture with the giant bear in the middle of the place! :)

So THAT is what's going on in the life of Andy Pipes. :) Spring break is fast approaching and we're planning a trip to New Braunfels and San Antonio! :) Hope to see all of you very very soon! :)

Tom's Shoes

2008-12-10T20:49:00.000-08:00

A group came to our school the other day selling shoes. I really didnt think much about it because 1) I had no money and 2) I wasn't really interested in new shoes at the time. 3 weeks later i'm down a pair of shoes and now know the full story behind Toms Shoes. It's really a simple concept, instead of marking every shoe up a ridiculous amount, Toms keeps the price relativly low, but high enough so they can afford to make 2 pairs of shoes for the price you pay (About $45 a pair). With the pair you purchased... you get to keep, have, wear, etc. but with the other pair... that's where the fun comes in. : ) Toms sends another pair of shoes of the exact same make and quailty to Ethopia or another 3rd world country so people there can... have shoes. They've got a goal for Christmas 2008 to send 30000 paris to Ethiopia. Check out the video... : )

So if you're looking to get someone a present this year but you still want to help society, the world, etc... check out Toms. I met some of the people that head the organization and they're all a real down to earth, committed, sold out group of guys and gals just looking to do what they know God's called them to do... : )

Homecoming 2008!!!

2008-11-16T16:38:00.000-08:00

If one had passed through the town of Belton, Texas two weeks ago... they would of noticed something different about the city. The air of homecoming 2008 was around... Monday started off with the freshman class painting the town, that is, going around the shops and businesses around main street and the major roads and painting their shop windows... FYC mainly participated in doing this... The hype then climaxed at the pep rally friday night:

We had the burning of the letters and had about a twenty minute fireworks show... with the cheerleaders and football team having parts in gettin the crowd pumped for the game the next day... Afterwards we had a dance party in the parking lot for another 30 minutes and took a bunch of people to chilis. : ) The next day we had campus run at noon and then hit the field at 2 pm against another one of our big rivals Howard Payne University.

The top is a bunch of us from the couch cru, me and pancho painted our faces, his purple with yellow eye strips and me yellow with purple eye strips. The bottom is Eric Henry our All-American linebacker before the game. We ended up winning the game... by a lot...

It was a pretty lame game. It was 40-0 at the half. The highlight of the game was halftime, where they announced the homecoming king and queen, Tatenda Tavazeva and Martha Sicking : )
This is the pair at the semi-formal later that night. It was a ton of fun and me and a few others did a jonas brothers routine on the stage for the crowd... (I broke some hearts...) ; )

For my first homecoming at UMHB... it was a blast. There were so many traditions and things going on that weekend we didnt know what we were suppossed to do! I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but it was mom's 20th year reunion! : ) The alumni were ALL over the campus friday and saturday and took all of the good parking... : ) This was UMHB's 99th homecoming celebration so next year celebrates 100 YEARS of homecoming at UMHB!!!

A Trip To Aggieland...

2008-11-11T22:17:00.000-08:00

A few weekends ago, me and a few friends took a trip down to College Station to Texas A&M University. A friend of ours had some extra tickets to the football game, so we took off friday after class and went down, hung out, and went to the game saturday morning. Will I thought you'd appreciate some of the pics of the band that we took. : ) These next few were from our seats in the upper upper upper upper deck... lol... : ) We had nosebleeds to say the least, but it wa a blast. You can see how big the band is and some of the formations they do like he diamond and then the A&M logo...

The Aggies were playing Texas Tech the weekend we were there. It's a pretty big rivalry between the two, so we were lucky to get tix. About the end of the 3rd quarter people started leaving... (YES, even in Aggieland people leave if it's a bad game...) because Tech had a 21 point lead. So, given better seats, we moved down! : ) Here's where we ended up:

MUCH better, no? : ) Dad, check out the size of that instant replay screen!!! There wasn't much left of the game, so we left kinda early and saw this character on the way out... : ) Anyone know his name?

All said and done, we had an AMAZING weekend and hope we get the chance to go back soon! : )

Salsa & Soccer

2008-10-31T07:34:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been a while since i updated this thing... I've been really busy... studying and... stuff. : )

Intramural soccer started this week... our team name is El Fuego... The Fire. We had kind of a sketchy start since our game was at 930 Monday night, and most of us on the team had FYC at 10. We got through that and played the best team in the league last night... but we held them to only 3. They beat the team before us 12-0. : ) I'm a Co-Captain with Lindsay and we kinda give talks to the team to get them ready... or to just laugh because we have SUCH a blast... : )

Here's all of our hands, breaking it out after a game...

We're 3-3 right now... Backtrack a few weeks with me... and me and Pancho started going to Salsa class on thursday nights. We learned the salsa, tango, 2-step, spins, and all kinds of dances. It's been a blast, but a couple of sunday nights ago we went to The Oasis in Austin on Lake Travis. This place was BEAUTIFUL. We got all dressed up and ready to salsa the night away... : )

We went and hung out for a few hours, took some pictures and then went back home in time for us to get a few hours of sleep before our 8 oclocks the next day... : )

It was so much fun, that's me and Taylor in the first two pictures and me, Pancho, and Curtis in the second one. I'll try to finish updating everything that's been going on in the past few weeks in the next few days... : ) Miss ya'll!

Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisian War that is Destroying America

2008-10-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

As some of you know, I work for the graduate college here at UMHB as part of my work-study job. I assist in doing minuscule office work, grading papers, making copies, and anything else that the boss-lady needs me to do. Tonight that included helping set up for our biggest lecture of the semester. Before I left work yesterday I was told to dress very formal and that this was a very serious event. Two of the USA Today's leading journalists and political analysts, Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel held a debate based loosly off of their new book, Common Ground: How to stop the partisian war that is destroying America.
At first I thought that it was going to be a pointless thing for me to attend and didnt expect to get anything out of it but the two, one a devout democrat, the other a devout republican, have found a place where the two titles can coexist. They are friends first and foremost, Thomas led Beckel to Christ 5 or so years ago and they've lived, wrote, and been friends since. Among the things they said were we're Americans first. On the beaches of Normandy, at the American graves, there are crosses and a few stars of David in neat, perfect rows. On these crosses and stars, are names, ranks, branches, and dates of birth and death. There's no D for democrat or R for republican. We're all the same, we all bleed red, and we're all Americans. We can have different political thoughts... but when it comes down to it, we all want to 'promote the general welfare' as one prominent document once said. The two speakers had their differences, but they have agreed to disagree and find a common ground where they can discuss the differences rationally, find out what works best regardless of what side of the table it came from, and either accept it or agree to disagree. What would happen if Obama and McCain figured this out??? Different presidential race, huh??? What if congress figured this out??? This bail-out bill may never of been needed. Peloski wouldnt of put full blame on the president for something that was mostly her branches fault. The democrats wouldnt of said none of this was our fault. Agree to disagree. Figure out that we're Americans and friends first. And then republican or democrat second. Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel have opened my eyes to the politics of the United States of America. And who knows, i'll do my research and if there's a democrat that i think would do a better job than whos in office right now or whos running against him... i'll be voting for the democrat. It comes down to who will do their job the best... in my eyes. So i'm glad i got the work-study job i did. Opened my eyes to some things. : ) Thanks ya'll.

Couch Cru!!

2008-09-30T23:07:00.001-07:00

So every Saturday afternoon, around four-ish, a group of young, dedicated youngsters from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor gather in Van Circle, in their trucks, cars, vans, buses and proceed to ride around the city of Belton screaming, honking, and holding up the CRUsader sign. Campus and Belton police have the roads blocked off, much to the dismay of blue-collar workers headed home to their families, and wave back, holding their Crusader sign proudly. This would be called... Campus Run. : )

Here we have our Couch Cru leaders in the front truck, Tatenda with his Zimbabwe attire and UMHB studded clothes, and of course the flags... : ) Next one is of our car this latest time. Garrett and Yager came down this weekend and fell in love with the place, they both want to come back soon : ).

There really are no road laws during campus run since all of the roads are blocked off, so people drive on the wrong side of the road, honk really loud, throw frisbees in the Baucom's front yard... stuff like that. : ) After Campus Run is over, we meet up at the field and welcome the football team into the stadium. We'll wait for the game to start, run across the field and then form a line for the boys to run through out onto the field.

We then return back to our designated section in the endzone where we shake propane tanks full of gravel and coffee can shakers (Courtesy FYC!!) making as much noise as humanly possible. : ) Needless to say most of us have headaches after the game. : ) Here's a few pics from one of our games.

The Couch CRU. : )

Couch CRU Captains. : ) They run the show... Tatenda's on the end as the Couch CRU Captian's Captian : )
The Crusader Sign. Learn it. Love it. Live it. : )

UMHB is now 3-0, ranked number 3 in the country, with a point differential of 49 in our favor. : ) We play our arch-rivals the hardin-sinners cowgirls this week. : )

Miss everyone back in the Pearl!

Monday, Tuesday or Thursday Night Lights.

2008-09-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

Intramurals are here!! : ) Our team, the Fireants, have been practicing relentlessly over the past three weeks, for flag football. I didnt realize how intense some of this actually is, people take this stuff seriously! There are a few teams who are just out to solely have fun, but most are out to win first and have fun next. After a few discrepencies, we decided it'd be way easier on all of us to have fun first and worry about winning second... after all... it IS just intramurals. : )

This is our team, the Fireants! Yes, we all have matching jerseys... and the girls in front are our coaches... : ) We went a little overboard with the publicity aspect of everything... we have coaches, team trainers (3 of our friends are athletic sports science majors), cheerleaders, photographers, and fans. We may not be the best team on the block, but we sure have the most people show up to every game! : ) The guy on the bottom left, laying down is our quarterback... he was the number one recruit for UMHB this year, but tore his ACL, MCL, and miniscus last summer. So he's stickin to intramurals. : )

Us stretching before a game....

Me, Poppa Bear (Spencer), and Clay sitting around, waiting for a game to start,

Me and Big Sam after a touchdown... i didnt know it, but Big Sam and Bryan... two of my best friends... went to the exact same youth camp that we did this summer... so technicaly... we knew each other way before school started... : )

Me and Tatenda after a game. T's our student body presdent and also one of the RA's in our dorm. He's always at anything that's going on cheering people on and being loud and crazy... He's also the leader of the CouchCru! He's a senior and we've already gotten to become pretty good friends... I'm gonna miss him a lotnext year... But THAT... is the fireants! : ) We bite!

-Andy

FYC!!!

2008-09-26T10:25:00.001-07:00

So about the second week of school i applied to be in FYC... or First Year Council. We partner with the student government and hold different activities around campus, with the big ones being spring formal and crusader nights. I applied and got accepted after an interview where i answered questions like 'Who's your favorite teenage mutant ninja turtle and why?' and 'If you could have any useless superpower what would you have?' and of course 'What's your definition of commitment?'. After a lengthy 5 minute interview i left and got a call later that night that i needed to be at initiation the next night. So of course i went... not knowing the path that lay ahead of me was quite a messy one... : )

For this one, we made a pyramid of people... which evidently fell... with me (left) and Joe (middle) at the bottom. : ) The leaders were pouring bags of flour, honey, and chocolate syrup all over us. Needless to say we loved every minute of it... ; ) Next we ran around campus and interuptted a kickball game and caused a large ruckus. Hahaha... Then we had a massive slip-n-slide!!! Full of FOOD!! : ) I honestly dont have a clue about what was on it, and i probably dont want to know... but i know that it was wayyyy too much fun... : )

This is after the fact. : ) Hahaha! Then our leaders talked to us semi-seriously about what FYC is reallt all about and the commitment that comes with it. I'm pretty excited about whats gonna happen and i've already made a tons of friends just through FYC. It's a blast, we always have a dance party after our meetings, and we just have so much fun doing whatever we're doing, either chalking a sidewalk, making announcements at chapel, or throwing a dance party in the quad. : ) Our leaders are great and have a real desire to help us learn and grow in our Walk and grow together as a campus community.

These are our leaders, Andrew, Lindsey, Brandon, Erica, Katy, and Ryan.... not in any specific order... hahaha. : ) After the meeting, we of course had to take pictures!

Most of our family group got in, probably because our big sister is roommates with the head FYC leader... : )

Just a whole big group of us... most of us are pretty tight, we all hang out most of the time... : )

Part of our group of guys that regularly hangs out... Me, Seth, Pancho, Ben, and Jake across the middle. : ) FYC IS AWESOME! : ) Hahaha...

Miss ya'll... love ya'll...

-Andy

Welcome Week

2008-09-25T23:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry this is so late... kinda been busy... studying of course. : ) Our first five days we were in Belton, Texas at THE University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, us incoming freshmen participated in what we call Welcome Week. Basically it's a crash course in the school before everyone else moves in. We played games, had rec, did worship, hung out, ate, all that good stuff as a 'family group' where our big brothers and sisters took good care of us and showed us the ropes of UMHB. Each group had a name based on a tradition of the school. Ours was the Easter Pagent (Which is in it's like 120th year... and it's NEVER rained on it either...), so our team name was the Krunk Disciples. : )

This was our group... minus a few soccer and baseball players... We're all still pretty close and hang out together all the time... it was an awesome week. : ) The guy on the far right's name is Pancho and he's probably one of my best friends down here.

This is me and Pancho at the Dubbing Ceremony where we officially became Crusaders Forever. It's a pretty nice event so we kinda dressed up for it. This is also where they break out the eternal flame... but it was so windy, it almost caught the back three rows on fire... so we used a quick flame. : )

Dr. Theodore... dubbing us!! : ) After Welcome Week was over, we had a huge rally where we worshiped and gave out awards for the most spirited and best dressed, etc... Guess who's group won what.... : )

: ) That would be us... All in all Welcome Week was like a miniature youth camp where we met people that i'll be friends with for the rest of my life!! : ) I'm loving every minute of this place and wish yall could experience some of the things that i'm getting to learn and go through. : )

-Andy