I SAID YES!

On Sunday Wyatt proposed at our favorite spot in Bloomington and I said yes! I'm so excited I could burst from happiness!  He arranged it in a way that my parents, sister, and his parents were all there with us! It was so special and I am still on cloud nine about it!

The back story is that my family was supposed to come here to celebrate my birthday early on Sunday but mid-week they had to change plans.  We were going to meet them in Bloomington for lunch instead.  We did eat at Big Woods, a cute little restaurant right by campus.  Since Allison brought the Flying Cupcake cupcakes we decided to go to the student union to eat over there and I could open some birthday gifts there as well.  We had cake and presents and Wyatt asked for pictures at 'our spot'.  He said it would be nice to have one of the whole family (which I wish we really would have gotten but alas we did not).  First he wanted our picture together...and then after our family snapped a couple, he turned and dropped to one knee and popped the question! It was so perfect! I get teary-eyed thinking about it!

If you are familiar with the Sample Gates at IU at all, there are normally a lot of people around but it ended up being fairly deserted when we were out there!  We can probably thank the weather for that but I like that we got it mostly to ourselves during our special moment!

IU vs. Purdue

I gave Wyatt tickets to the IU vs. Purdue basketball game for Christmas.  If you aren't familiar, there is a huge in-state rivalry between the two schools! Since it happened to be a weekend game, we went down early for lunch at Mother Bears and a stroll through campus.  It was almost 50 degrees and sunny and it's the end of January! We had to take advantage of that!

I was excited for the chance to wear my new Hillflint sweater that I got for Christmas from family as well! After hanging out for a bit, we made our way over to Assembly Hall! Definitely recommend buying a parking pass when going to games.  We're going to from here on out because it was nice and convenient and so much easier to get in and out! We got to see Victor Oladipo as he was recognized with a jersey from his days in the program.  The game ended up being a great game! We didn't pull off the upset but it was a close game for most of the game and we really did play well.  The opening 10-12 minutes were just really great ball to watch!

We decided we need to go to more games! We hadn't been to one in Bloomington together in 4 years!

IU Day 2017

Last year, the IU Foundation began what they call IU Day.  It's basically 24 hours to share your love of all things IU, celebrate the great things happening at IU and donate to a variety of causes at IU.  To celebrate the day, I switched out the bar cart to all things IU!

We actually just had lunch and a quick stop in Bloomington over the weekend on the way to visit my Papaw.  I couldn't resist a lunch at Kilroys and a photo op at the Sample Gates!  Happy IU Day!

Day Trip: Bloomington

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to Wyatt that we hadn't been to Bloomington all summer.  We decided we'd make a day trip soon.  While we were at it we would go ahead down to Orange County to visit my Papaw too since we hadn't been to visit him since May.  So on Saturday we started out early so we could visit Papaw mid-morning.  It's a three hour drive to his house from ours so we were thrilled with gorgeous weather and not much traffic.

View from Papaw's driveway is one of my favorites.

We had lunch in Paoli at the Lost River Co-Op with my parents before making our way to Bloomington.  We found parking right near Kirkwood and made a few stops in stores along Kirkwood before having a drink at Kilroys.  I'm sure I have mentioned before how much I loved Kilroys on Kirkwood so it is always on our must do list when we spend time in Bloomington.  After our beer, we walked up to campus.  There is nothing prettier than the IU Bloomington campus....nothing.  I love it so much.  This visit I decided I wanted to go to the top of Ballantine because I had never been past the 4th floor. The view of campus up there is incredible!

I had several big lectures in Ballantine just down the hall from where this picture was taken.

After going to the top of Ballantine we made our way back over to Teter.  We met there ten years ago when we both lived in Teter Rabb.  I lived on the first floor and Wyatt lived on the third floor along with some of my favorite boys at IU.  I made the best group of friends on Rabb 1 and we were lucky to have such cool guys just a couple floors above us.  After Teter, we headed back to the car and then we had dinner at Nick's!  Wyatt had never had Sink the Biz fries so I forced him to try them.  Word on the street is that he's never played Sink the Biz either. We'll have to try that on a night we're staying in town.

Teter Rabb

Found my old mailbox.

It was such a gorgeous afternoon, we were sad to leave that evening but we're already making plans to return for a soccer game soon! Back in the day, we happened to attend a soccer game together as friends.  And if you've made it this far here is a nice little side by side.  We explore campus every time we get the chance and I'm constantly amazed at discovering new things but some of our favorites are photo ops that we often return to time and time again.  Our very first picture as a couple after a few months of dating was in front of the Sample Gates when we met in Bloomington for a weekend in 2012 and I've been making him get them ever since then because it's my favorite spot on campus. Below is another of my faves.  I just love this old bench!