Overview of Fall

The saying goes that time flies when you're having fun. I have never fully experienced that saying until this year. I feel like I was just at Freshman Orientation and setting our room up, now there's snow on the ground and I'm weeks away from having my first semester of college under my belt. This fall I got to experience some really awesome things.
Between school and soccer and trying to have some sort of a social life I haven't found much time to write at all so here's just a quick recap of my fall this year!

The best thing that happened to me this fall was that I got to know these crazy awesome girls. I love each of them so much and I'm so lucky to have them in my life. I'm so happy that I can not only call them my teammates but also my friends!




One of the things I love about SAU is how many fun events they put on for us. Even though we have to miss a lot of them because of soccer, the ones we can make are always sure to be a blast. The picture below is from an event called Choptober Fest and the theme was lumberjacks. We had a mechanical bull, log throwing, ax throwing, sawing competitions and a pancake eating contest.




Early in October,  I was able to go home for a night. It was great spending time with my family but mostly I went home because of the Apple Festival. The food was terrific as always and I got to bring some of the beef and noodles back to college with me. While I was home I got to carve pumpkins, I was pretty proud of my work!

 For Halloween the seniors hosted a party at their house on campus. My costume was just a little last minute but hey it worked!

This was a picture taken at Cedar Bend where our
core camped and cooked our own food. We went at
a beautiful time of fall. After hiking up a huge hill
we got to see this view which made it all worth it!
The picture doesn't even do it justice. At the top of
the hill we spent time in the Bible and just spent time
worshiping our beautiful creative God. Also fun fact
about this weekend: I held a chicken while it's head
got chopped off. Not everyone can add that to their list
of accomplishments ;)

Most recently, just this weekend my team won

the crossroads league conference tournament! This secured us a spot in the NAIA national tournament. The first round is played this Saturday then if we win we head to Alabama for the 

Sweet 16! This season has been so much fun and even though I haven't gotten very much playing time on varsity I couldn't be more proud to cheer on this group of girls! 

 So as you can see I've had a great fall! However, as the holidays get closer I'm getting more and more nostalgic. While every part of me wants us to go to Alabama, we leave the day right after Thanksgiving. I'll be happy for the day to spend with family on Thanksgiving, however, Friday, the day after is always when Chris and I decorate our house and listen to Christmas music all day then we bring our leftover food and do thanksgiving over again with family friends. I'll miss that part of the holidays but I know I'll just be making a new kind of memories with a different kind of family, my soccer family. I can't wait for Christmas break to be back at home and spend time with my family and see friends I haven't seen in a while. However, as excited as I am I'm still not trying to rush these next few weeks because I know that these next four years are going to fly by and I don't want to waste any minute of them wishing time away.