The Sprinkles of Life

Monday, February 13, 2012

Katie Comes To Visit

She finally came! After four years of being in Waco, Katie finally made it out from Boulder to visit, and we sure had a fun weekend! It started off with me picking her up at the airport in Dallas Friday morning and grabbing a delicious breakfast at Bread Winners. We had to get the free Sprinkle's Cupcake of the Day courtesy of Twitter and figured my roomies would want some as well.

Katie and I both LOVE coffee, so of course we went to Common Grounds, the best and cutest coffee shop in all of Waco before we headed to campus to give Katie a little tour.

The campus visitor's center has this great photo booth that we took advantage of.

It just so happens that Katie is a Kappa at Boulder and that we were having initiation the same weekend she came out. This meant that she could come to all of our activities, but I can't say anymore about what we did, because, of course, it is a secret!

Saturday morning was more initiation activities and then a Waco-must for lunch, Taco Z. They have the best quesadillas and Katie will still send me a text every now and then asking if I can find a way to send her some.

Saturday afternoon we made our way to the Baylor basketball game. It was quite a cold walk from my house as you can tell by Katie's attire. We only stayed long enough to get a free shirt, but it was still pretty fun!

We finished Saturday off with a trip to Klassy Glass, the new wine bar in town. Great wine, great food, and great convo made for a perfect night!

Sunday morning we went for a nice but chilly run in Cameron Park, tossed tortillas on the suspension bridge (a Baylor tradition), and had a delicious breakfast at Caffe Cappuccino.

All too soon it was time to take Katie back to the airport, but I loved my visit with her and she can come back any time that she wants!

Friday, February 3, 2012

The Seven Layer Cake

Well now that I have transferred all of my pictures to my computer, I decided to go back to where I really left off on my blog to try to catch up. I guess it is a New Year's resolution come early. Don't ask me how, but somehow I forgot about this cake.

Bekah is pumped to get cooking!!

Now this is no ordinary cake, let me tell you......
2 brownie layers
2 cheesecake layers
2 chocolate chip cookie layers
5 graham crackers (this is one of the ‘cake’ layers)
1 recipe for marshmallow frosting
1 recipe for chocolate frosting

It took some serious converting...

And maybe a spill or two...

After $45 at HEB to get the ingredients, a mixer because ours broke, and more pans, plus over 4 hours of cooking, it was complete and tasted DELICIOUS!

Finally Stacked!

Starting to Frost

Almost done

If you have a whole day on your hands, you should try out this recipe! Click here to see the link to the recipe.

Delicious!

We had to literally take apart the freezer to fit the cake in it,
and then the shelf broke it was so heavy. Now that is some cake!

Sapphire Ball

One of the highlights of college is sorority events, especially formals! What is more fun than getting all dressed up, going to dinner, and dancing the night away with friends? Sapphire Ball is our annual formal for Kappa.

Since my roommates are all in different sororities, we always love helping each other get ready and then being the official welcoming and picture taking crew. They did not let me down and gave Austin quite the screaming welcome when he came to pick me up.

Candid pictures are a roomie specialty

Love these girls

Over half of my pledge class went to dinner at an Italian place in town and we loved all being able to fit in one restaurant.

PC '09 - Best Pledge Class Ever

Just fixing the tie

After dinner we headed off to the beautiful Phoenix Ballroom for the dance. Since we just switched positions, this was my first Kappa event not as the social chair. It was weird not having to be the first to arrive, set-up and clean-up, but the new social chairs did a wonderful job! We had so much fun dancing the night away.

The Family: Rachel, Mallory, Lisa, Lindsay

Little + Big

We had so much fun dancing the night away and it is crazy to think that was my last Sapphire Ball of college!

She Said Yes!!

January 14^th, 2012. ‘Twas the long awaited day for two of my very best friends: Emily and Dave. The two have been dating since senior year of high school, made it through a year of long distance before Dave came to join Emily at Baylor, and are truly the most perfect couple. They complement each other in every way, and I am so happy that they are finally engaged!!

Dave tricked us all with the proposal. He and Emily were going back to Dallas for her brother’s birthday and a fancy dinner for the two of them since his mom was giving him a hard time about not going on enough fancy dates (this comment was all part of the plan). Dave also told Em that they should stop by some jewelry stores while they were in the city so he could get a better idea of what she liked. He even told her to paint her nails for trying on rings (part of the plan too because Em’s nails weren’t looking the best the day before and no one wants chipped nails in their first engagement pictures). Little did anyone know that Dave has already had Em’s ring since last April!!

Crazy to look back old pics of the two...

The two got all dressed up for dinner, but Dave suggested they leave early to try out her new camera at the Dallas Arboretum since they didn’t have time to back at school. Em recalls it as perfect….walking through the grass barefoot on the 75 degree unusually warm day, completely oblivious as to what was about to happen. Just as the sun was setting they came to a pretty waterfall where Dave got down on one knee, told Em how much he loved her and popped the question. Apparently Em just stood there and Dave was like “So….” Before she said YES!!! Em claims that didn’t happen, and that she said YES right away. Maybe time sped up for one and slowed down for the other but that doesn’t matter because she said YES!! They then proceeded to have an intimate, fancy dinner before joining her family.

Of course when they texted me the picture above I started freaking out and ran around our house screaming! I called immediately and could not have been happier…they had to remind me that I was on speaker phone and yelling extremely loud. Since they were coming home the next day, all the roommates went straight into planning mode to make sure we threw a special “She Said Yes Party”.

Encouragement Notes

We invited their closest friends, did a major clean-up of the house and decided to go for artsy, anthro decorations. Our family room became a “shrine” to Emily and Dave. We even went through Emily’s computer to find old pictures of the couple to make a short video slideshow of them.