Meredith 5 Year Reunion

Five years has definitely flown by! The reunion weekend was fun, although I did miss seeing many classmates who I was hoping to see -- who aren't on Facebook and I haven't seen since graduation. Still, it was fun to catch up with my girls!

Everyone at the President's house on Friday night.

Class of 2004 PJ Party

And dinner at Cafe Luna!

Thursday Thirteen-- Thirteen Things I bought this week

I could probably do this post every week...but I'll spare everyone the extent of my shopaholic-ness.

1. Hiking boots to start to break in on our camping trip next weekend. These are supposed to have the "stickiest" rubber bottoms to help me from falling off Half Dome when we go to Yosemite next year.
2. 8x8 scrapbook, paper and stickers to do a small scrapbook of our vacation to Jamaica!

3. A dress for my cousin's "formal dress" wedding in December.

4. A signed 1st edition of History of Meredith College by Mary Lynch Johnson (technically a Christmas gift for myself).

5. Frozen pastry to make Chicken Pastry last Sunday.





6. Thanksgiving cards and birthday cards for my Mom, Grandpa and Grandmother.

7. A baked potato from Wendy's for lunch yesterday--all of my co-workers were jealous.

8. A shelf for my pantry to stack canned goods on--my project to tackle this weekend is cleaning out the pantry. Yuck.

9. This cute hat, again for camping and Yosemite and it will match my purple Columbia jacket.

10. Christmas presents! I love online shopping and I have purchased almost all of the presents!

11. A birthday present for my mom, that will arrive late :-(

12. These alligator Sperry's--I had been searching f-o-r-e-v-e-r for brown flat shoes! They are a lot cuter in person than this pic and they were on sale.

13. ? This proved to be a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Guess I need to go shopping at lunch!

Anyone have any fun purchases this week?

Welcome to Meredith- would you like to buy a t-shirt?

I really enjoyed my college experience at Meredith--and trust me, you do just have to experience it-- including every single t-shirt that came with a tradition, event or fundraiser.
I knew that I wanted to have a quilt made and earlier this year had decided on the company I wanted to use, since no one in my family is a quilter, and had ordered some samples of their fabric for the binding and backing. In September I received an email that they were having a sale, so I went ahead and got everything together and shipped off my shirts. This was supposed to be my big Christmas present, but Joel's kind of letting that slide :-) Here she is:

Now you Meredith girls know that this is a VERY small representation of a proper shirt collection. I picked out 4 of my favorite shirts from each year because some were just plain ugly, bless their hearts (though I did include the sadly tragic Ring Dinner shirt, just because I couldn't leave it out). So I still have some shirts to wear and will have this quilt to remember some of my favorite memories!