Dinner with the President

Thats right. Be proud of that. Mom, thats the daughter you've tried to raise so well. Sherry, that is your daughter-in-law, show it off. I know its a spectacular picture.

So we had our final party we are going to have in Searcy. Kinda sad :( It was a Christmas party and it ended up being a ton of fun. We had a total of 9 people and then 2 showed up later. Chelsie brought chili cheese dip which was gone in about 5 minutes, her roomate Nina brought cookies which were also gone by the end of the night, Shay brought brownies...guess what, also gone by the end of the night haha. A hit! I made an angel food cake, strawberries and whiped cream trifle. It looked pretty fancy by the time I was done with it haha. We played a game of Dirty Santa...college version. Thats right, all gifts were from the dollar store. Now, obviously we weren't expecting anything extravagant, and normally there would be a bunch of different things brought to the party. However, this is Searcy. One dollar store. So everytime something was opened about half the people in the room said "OH! I almost got that!" and laughter then followed. Chad ended up with a set of fishing bobbers...4 of them. Great, great, gift. haha I ended up with the lovely pirate ensemble you see pictured above. Again, extremely useful. Too bad halloween is already over.
Our friend Shay ended up with this mini, mini golf set.

Her boyfriend Barrett (Chads old roomate) got this "gun" which shot about a foot and had barely any velocity too it. Hours of endless enjoyment definitely.

This is our set. Yes, we got lucky.

On Sunday night we went to this "living nativity" thing at the church down the road for us. We ended up waiting an hour before we even started moving - thats how popular this thing is! Crazy. But they had these screens on the side of the building and their own radio station going that had christmas songs and silly songs with larry and moments from old movies, etc. It was pretty entertaining. They gave you hot chocolate and a CD to start when you went through the "gates" of Bethlehem. No joke, it was very well done. The people did a good job, the set design was very planned out, and there were animals everywhere which of course got my attention. They even had 2 camels! That shocked us more than anything ha. It was a fun little memory though :)

Tonight we went to a graduate dinner provided by Harding. Steak, chicken, salad, veggies, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, and dessert. Not too bad. We ended up sitting at a table with none other than the President of Harding and the Dean of Bible. Chad, of course, started right off talking to them and the conversation went smoothly the whole night. I talked to them about going to Italy (and mom they knew Tracy and we got to talk about her a lot!) and how that program is just amazing and they should try to get everyone to experience it. There was a devotional, a few people talked, and we got a little folder full of helpful information. Pretty good to end our Harding adventure with that.

I have taken one exam and have my other one on Friday. Besides that i have a budget project due and another outline project to do. Besides that I am going to start packing tomorrow (yes, pray for me to actually do that...) and cleaning because Friday we have to be inspected for check-out...Yikes.