OBU Homecoming & Tiger Tunes 2015

OCTOBER

One of my favorite months of the year. Why? Because October at OBU = Homecoming + (more importantly) TIGER TUNES. 

Tiger Tunes (for those living under a rock who do not know) is an annual event at Ouachita Baptist University where the "social clubs" put on a song and dance show all in the name of raising scholarship money for students.  About three weeks out, the clubs, having decided on their themes at the end of the spring semester, learn the routines and songs and practice practice practice.  Then the shows are performed over a a four day span, Wednesday through Saturday. Awards, like "Theme & Lyric," "Best Costume," and "Choreography," are presented each night and then the winners are announced in the final show on Saturday night. 

It is SO FUN. 

I may be a little biased, because I participated in Tunes for 3 out of my 4 years at OBU.  We try to go to at least one show every year. My husband seems to enjoy it too, unless the Arkansas Razorbacks are playing. ;) 

This year, my youngest brother is a freshman at OBU.  I thankfully had the weekend off so my family made plans to drive down to Arkadelphia and attend the Homecoming game and Tiger Tunes…oh yeah, and to see Clark. (LOL)

Aaron and I got the game a little early because my social club the EEE's have a Homecoming Tea before the game every year. I was able to run into some old sisters and some of my pledge sisters that I haven't seen in a good while! It's always nice to be back on campus, considering that it was my "home" for 4 years. 

I hope that Clark will enjoy his time there as much as I did. But anyways…

Aaron is obsessed with the hamburgers at the OBU games, so he was tickled to get not one, but TWO burgers. Basically his trip was made right then and there. 

me & my cute, little mom

I always "need" to go find my name on the sidewalk on campus

Clarker

Joshua

Love my Dad

It's always fun to see these friends!

we had a great time at the game!

We found my family and sat with them during the game.  It was tough, but OBU pulled out a win over Harding University! We went to a late lunch and then my parents went to the early Tunes show, Joshua went to hang out with Clark in his dorm room, and Aaron and I roamed around campus and posted up in the student center to watch the Razorback game before the late Tunes show started. 

Tunes was wonderful and my EEEs made me really proud! They didn't win, but it was still a great show, and I think the group that won really deserved to win. We didn't get home until 1am but I think we both thought that it was worth it because we had a wonderful Saturday at my old stomping grounds!

BOTH of my pledge sisters are recently engaged!

Just a few of EEE PC '08

Go Tigers! 

-Holly

More catching up!

So my last post was two years overdue and more about what I had been doing. BUT, the past two years have also been exiting times in our families as well!

1) May 31, 2014

Logan & Morgan got MARRIED! They were wed at a church in Benton, AR and had the reception at the brand new event center in Benton. It was a beautiful day.  Not in the sense that the weather was necessarily perfect, or that mini potential disasters did not occur (cue the first dress mishap of 2014), but the day, the family, the celebration of Logan & Morgan's love, was beautiful.

2) Logan graduated from ASU in May 2014! We don't have an pictures, because he chose not to walk, but he has his diploma and I guess that's all that really matters :) #howlyes 

ALSO Logan got accepted into the brand-spankin new OT program at ASU and started a few weeks ago. It's a 3 year program, so there's a lot of hard work ahead, but he is a smart guy and we are all very VERY proud of him! 

3) Clark graduated from Conway High School in May of 2015.  Both sets of grandparents were able to come into town AND attend graduation.  All four siblings were reunited. That was a fun weekend. 

from Senior Sunday at 2BC Conway

Senior Sunday at 2BC Conway

4) Clark made a 30 on his ACT (He's SO SMART) decided to attend OBU in the fall of 2015.   He was very excited about moving off to college. The night before he moved, I ugly cried the the whole way home. I had to work the day that the family moved him in on Freshman move-in day and I fought off tears ALL.DAY.LONG. Not a fun day. I got to love on some sweet little babies and thought about how one day they would grow up and move off to college and break their sister's (and mommy's) hearts….kidding…..kind of….

pre-ugly cry 

5) Joshua. Ooooohhh Joshua…. Joshua has celebrated birthdays, kicked butt in Special Olympic power-lifting, become a little more ornery (haven't we all), shared his view on many topics, become slightly obsessed with psychology (or as he says "Pie-sology"), and is still an active member (he considers himself more of an "alpha-leader") of his therapeutic recreation group. 

about to watch cinderella

hanging out with his furry nephew 

That's about all I can do for now! My day-off duties (aka laundry & housework) are calling my name!

Happy Rainy Wednesday,

Holly