Day 119: Gaga

Tonight we made our last Saturday night coffee run. It's sad, in many ways, that this chapter of my life is coming to an end. I love these ladies and I hope I'll stay in contact with them for years to come.

Full of caffeine and sugar, we made a Lady Gaga video. It was pretty awesome, but will never be posted online. We went all-out with our costumes and had a ton of fun.

Day 118: Final Chapel

The picture's not great, but I got this cute dress today at a consignment sale, which a couple ladies from my church host. The dress was $8! I love a good deal.

Today was the last chapel of the semester and, therefore, my last chapel as a student at ACU. Over the past four years I have been to chapel more than 350 times.

Day 117: Fake Tiramisu

For small group tonight Anna and I made this fake tiramisu. It's incredibly easy and really yummy. Our whole group loved it. Thanks to Mom (Linda Childers) for the recipe!

Easiest Tiramisu:
2 packages of chocolate chip cookies (not chewy)


2 Tbsp Instant coffee
1 Tbsp sugar
1 cup boiling water
(or 1 cup of strong coffee)


2 (8 oz.) packages of cream cheese
3 Tbsp milk
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla

12 oz. cool whip
Chocolate chips (optional)

Mix cream cheese, milk, powdered sugar and vanilla. Fold in Cool Whip.

Using 1/3 of the cookies, dip one at a time in coffee and place in trifle bowl. Layer 1/3 of the cream mixture of the cookies. Repeat with 2 more layers of each. Sprinkle top with shaved or crushed semi-sweet chocolate chips, if desired. Refrigerate 2 hours.

We ended up needing two cups of coffee (we may have soaked the cookies more than dipped them). In our bowl, we made four layers of cookies and cream, instead of three. And we used a cheese grater to shave the chocolate chips on top.

Day 116: Dude Ranch

Maybe I should go work at a Dude Ranch. Preferably in Montana. But Wyoming, Colorado and Texas are all options too. Too bad all they want are seasonal employees. I graduate in a week and I have no clue what I'm doing next!!

Day 115: Excelling

Anna and I both received the Excelling Award at our Bible majors award's chapel. It's for "outstanding academic achievement in devotion to the Lordship of Christ." It's nice to be recognized. And the certificates aren't really blank - the sun is just glaring off of them.

We also found it pretty funny that we received the same award. We have recently had several professors comment on our inseparability.

Day 114: Story

I read this book for one of my classes. It's a great guidebook for group study sessions that's actually written by one of my professors. My roommate and I were surprised by the number of times the word "story" appears in the book - 24 times on this one page.

Day 113: May Morning

We wore our cute little flowers in our hair this May Day. One of my early memories is of heading out on May Morning in Oxford, watching the Morris dancers and drinking Snapple. I think May Day is a bigger celebration in England then it is over here!