Friday Night Lights

This weekend is the weekend we wait for all year... If you're an Oklahoma State person that is.  It's Homecoming!!!  I know what you're thinking.  Lame-O!  And that's fine.  If you've never been to our homecoming you have absolutely no idea what you're missing.  OSU is known for having the largest homecoming celebration in the nation, and we're darn proud of it!  As a part of the Greek community you spend hours pushing tiny pieces of tissue paper through chicken wire to create what we like to call, House Decs.  They are ginormous. Complete with moving parts, sound and the most visually appealing pieces of art you'd ever see.  Thursday night the greek community will pull an all-nighter in order to finish the last screens that need to be pomped and also for the guys to start hanging the screens on the decs outside.  See, there are lots of rules associated with the house dec competitions.  There is a certain time frame set as to when you can actually start the pomping process... this was back in August... then you can't actually start hanging screens outside until 5:00 the night of the all-nighter which is always the Thursday night before walk-arounds.  As a Greek, you hate Homecoming, but you love it at the same time.

So, Friday night is when all the fun starts.  I have participated in homecoming since I was a Freshman at OSU, and now it's just fun to go back and see the tradition carried on.  The streets around the Greek houses will shut down around 4:00 Friday afternoon and the streets will begin to flood with people.  You think I'm kidding?  I'm not.  You have to push your way through the people there are so many of them!  Concession stands start filling the streets and bands set up along Greek Row - all in the spirit of OSU Homecoming.  It's HUGE internet.  I kid you not.

And now it's our tradition that my best friends and I come together for Homecoming every year.  It doesn't matter where life has taken us, we travel to Stillwater, Oklahoma to celebrate together and love on one another.  This year we've got friends coming from Texas and two from Kansas, so I'm filled to the brim with excitement to see these girls!  It's gonna be a fun one!

Once Homecoming has come and gone I'll post again and give you a glimpse into just how amazingly huge our Homecoming Celebration truly is!

And in the nature of homecoming comes fall.  Here are a few shots from around our house these days.  I love, love love decorating for holidays and obviously fall and Christmas rank up there pretty high!!!  I'm just loving my mandle decor this year.