we'll fling our green and gold afar

today begins baylor homecoming!! i am so excited to join in all the festivities with all my fellow bears. AND we are having house guests! super exciting. in honor of baylor and to kick off homecoming weekend (our 100th homecoming!) i will share some of my favorite things about baylor.

1. the campus. in general. if you have never seen baylors campus, you have really missed out! its so beautiful.

beautiful pat neff.

view from the burleson quadrangle.

2. the bears. we have not one but two live bears on campus. how cool is that?! their names are lady and joy and one of mine and blakes favorite things to do on campus is go visit the bears. (in fact blake goes to visit them on a very regular basis.)

lady and joy doing a "sic em"

3. the traditions. from the baylor line running onto the field before every game to cheer on the football players. to the homecoming bonfire and homecoming parade (largest collegiate parade in the nation thank you very much). and dia del oso where baylor students get a day off from class to play! i just love baylor traditions. i hope i can join in the tradition of starting a family line of baylor-goers in the future!

blake and i with two very famous bears at the homecoming parade last year. jeremy wariner and reggie witherspoon (part of the 2008 olympic gold medal relay team) and me wearing a gold medal from bejing!

4. sing! anyone who hasn't seen it/been in it probably doesnt appreciate it. but let me tell you, its awesome! sing is a giant off-broadway type singi ng and dancing competition. and its a HUGE deal at baylor. all the sororities and fraternities spend months preparing and its all a big secret until the opening night. the top 8 acts go on to perform in pigskin revue the next semester during homecoming.

before one of our shows during my senior year.

alpha chi omegas sing act last year. choreographed by one of my besties laura! it was awesome!

5. friends. its where i met my best friends. i met the most amazing people of my life at baylor. i lived with the same group of girls all four years. they and my other amazing friends, our "honorary roommates", are the greatest friends a girl could have! im so lucky to have such amazing people in my life who i know always will be.

hanging out at our apartment junior year (me, katelyn, amy, katie, stefanie)

at the homecoming bonfire i think junior year (briana, me, katelyn)

at alpha chi semi-formal senior year (katie, amy, me, laura)

our "senior pics" (katelyn, me, stefanie, amy)

6. its where i fell in love with my now husband! we knew each other from back home and had gone to school together since 1st grade but it wasnt until we ran into each other on campus that any sort of romantic relationship began. he transferred at the beginning of our junior year from the university of kansas. and im so happy that blake loves baylor just as much as i do and shares my same desire for our kids (and grandkids, and great-grandkids) to go to baylor!

going to diamondbacks for our 1 year anniversary.

at a baylor basketball game

at our last alpha chi formal

blake and i at my graduation

and then at blakes graduation

and those are some of the reasons why i love my baylor! i cant wait to make many more baylor memories this weekend.

"That good ole Baylor Line, that good ole Baylor Line.
We'll march forever down the years, as long as stars shall shine.
We'll fling our green and gold afar to light the ways of time,
and guide us as we onward go.
That good ole Baylor Line!"

have a great weekend!
xo,Lindsay