chronicles of chi o pt. 2

So this past week has been full of happenings at the Chi Omega house....beginning with our wonderful philanthropy! Chi O Cravings is our fall philanthropy that is basically a dessert buffet! We all bring two desserts and sell tickets for 4-5$ and all the money goes to Make a Wish. This year was such a success! We had a live band outside playing for people to listen to while in line, and by the way the line was LONG! And our dessert options were so yummy and we had so many! We had so many people show up that some of the girls had to go buy more desserts!

All the UHMAZING DESSERTS

oh ya know just the back up table!

Today was the day we have all been waiting for here at the 820, Slating! Slating is the process where we pick our new executive board members. The positions being voted upon in slating were President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, New Member Educator, Recruitment Chair, Panhellenic Delegate, Social Chair, and House Manager. This slating was so exciting. First thing first during our meeting at the beginning a mouse began running around the lights in the ceiling, so gross and dramatic with 200 girls. This year we had a lot of positive changes in our process and really the discussions over each position and girl nominated was so classy and sisterly, way to go Chi Omega. The tough part was when the slating committee had to actually develop a slate with our votes, comments, and nominations. We started the process at 2pm and did not get our first slate til almost 8! We have an opportunity to fail or pass the slate and luckily the majority passed the slate! Our new exec is such an amazing group of young women, and really everyone nominated was qualified. I know that these girls will represent Chi O so well and will lead our house to an amazing 2011-2012 year!

Inspiration and Motivation for All!

Thanksgiving favorites!

I have decided the fall semester of school is definitely my favorite. Football games, Fall leaves, Halloween, Weddings =], Birthdays, Thanksgiving, and the most important Christmas! I have lacked motivation this semester due to my easy peasy schedule, and now with the awesome holidays approaching I have reached a new low in the motivation department. So for anyone else who is needing a boost it's ONLY two weeks, that;s right, 14 days until Thanksgiving Break. Then it's ONLY 16 days until we all gain the Thanksgiving fifteen! And every OU student knows when we get back from Thanksgiving Break we ONLY have three weeks until the semester is over! I hope this countdown makes everyone smile because it does me!







This past weekend my bestest friend from college, Cindie, came home to see us for Kayla's 21st birthday. The proverbial 21st birthday shebang has been going on a lot around here and it's nice that everyone is finally catching up to my old age ( I turned 21 in June!) I was so glad I got to see Cindle since she went from being my roommate/confidante/soul mate to living all the way in Nebraska this school year. I guess that is what I get for introducing her to the boyfriend who then introduced her to his hometown which she fell in love with!

Me and Cindie!

Speaking of  someone's love of their life I also went to a beautiful fall wedding this weekend, as well as a funeral! You would think that those two things would be a happy occasion and a very sad one. Funny enough, I cried at the wedding and laughed at the funeral! The funeral was of my 95 year old Great Grandmother and she is now living the life that Revelation 21:4 describes, "He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good= tears gone, crying gone, pain gone=all the first order of things gone."  I am so happy for her, she is now reunited with her husband and one of her daughters, my Nanny Darlene. Her funeral was hilarious because everyone seemed to have an awesome story to tell about Grandma Lowrimore. She was very witty and blunt and never was afraid to set you straight, especially in regards to your faith. At her funeral, we were told of a vision she had of angels and how they told her about a very sad day coming for some, and a very happy day coming for others. This was the day the Lord was coming, and she knew her soul and heart loved the Lord so her day would be happy but that others did not have that luxury. She wanted everyone to know of that story.

My Beautiful Grandma Lowrimore

The wedding I went to was so beautiful, but it wasn't all the beautiful flowers that made me tear up, it was how awesome the idea of marriage is, and how it is based on the marriage between Christ and the Church. It also made me teary watching her walk down the aisle with her Dad. It was just too cute! Anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for anything having to do with weddings and I am so excited people I know are starting to get married. I know Mar Mar had been dreaming about that day for so long and I'm pretty sure it was everything she could have hoped for and more!

Marlissa walking down the aisle with her Dad

chronicles of chi o

Meg's Awesome Burn

When I started this blog about two weeks ago I said I was planning on chronicling the life of a sorority girl. I really haven't included many things that are related to Chi O. Chi O is a part of my life on a daily basis, mostly because I live there! Here's some interesting things that have happened at Chi O recently. Thursday night several of us went to a movie, and in keeping with the Halloween season we went to see Paranormal Activity 2. Lauren and I saw the first one last year so we weren't too terrified. I was literally attached to Lauren's legs the majority of the movie, I have never been more scared inside of a theater. We came home and I walked into the bathroom and our friend Megan was there. Before I even walked all the way up to her to say Hi, Lauren said, "Chelsea, wait a second." Megan had burned her hand and apparently it looked disgusting, and if you know me very well you know I love gross. Here is a pic of her awesome wound! And btw she is fine! And the mustard is supposed to help with the pain! 

Saturday was Dad's Day at the Chi Omega house and all of OU's campus so Kendall, and my Dad both came up for the game. We ate at In The Raw Sushi, and shopped around campus corner. Kendall was convinced by several sale girls to buy "jeggings," which only a select few skinny legged girls can pull off! We went to the game but only stayed til half time because our old man of a Dad was dozing off during the game. And another perk to Chi O Dad's weekend was that our freshman competed in University Sing this weekend and won FIRST PLACE! I wasn't able to get tickets to the show but have heard so many awesome things and my Grand Little was in it so I'm a super proud Grannie! Congrats!!!

Dad's Day

Spiderella and Sacajawea

Sunday was Halloween and I didn't really partake in any festivities but Lauren, Emily and I did have a nice little dinner at Victoria's and finished the evening with Hocus Pocus, which Lauren and I have already watched once this Halloween season. I am also adding some really precious pics of my baby sisters trick or treating. I wasn't there to watch them get all jazzed up, but they went as Spiderella and Sacajawea. Funny story about Gracen this weekend. I had heard about an app called TextFreePlus which is a free texting app for the Ipod Touch. She got it and started texting Kendall and I on Sunday. She hasn't really figured out texting etiquette because she politely asked us, "I want to go now, can I please?" So cute!