I love the Hokies

For the second year in a row I have gotten to take some of my high school friends to visit Virginia Tech.  It makes me so happy to get to share this wonderful place with some of my Young Life friends.  The fact that they can see the place where I developed these amazing friendships and learned how to walk with Jesus is such a gift!  Andddd not to mention they are considering going to tech so I get to talk about its amazingness all weekend long!!!
We went in the fall but it was an absolutely beautiful day and the pictures were so sweet I had to share them!

Just an adventure....

Ever have those really great days with friends where you laugh a lot, take a ton of pictures and end the day thanking Jesus for such great friends?

Well, this was one of those days!  It had been rainy and gross for most of my weekend up in DC, but we planned an outing anyway!  I mean I didn't get to see these friends that often and by golly we were going to have an adventure.  

We headed out on our adventure and began by driving through an area in search of a cute winery.  Literally just started driving, didn't know where we were going.  Those are the best adventures anyways, the ones you just happen to fall upon. 

We ended up in super cute Leesberg for some yummy food :) and went antiquing.  

Then went on our way to find a winery.  Saw a sign for one and it ended up being an old barn that they had turned into a winery!  Adorable and GORGEOUS!  Suddenly the day was beautiful!

Thank you JESUS!!

Then we left the winery and found a...

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wait for it...

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FLOWER FARM!  

Who even knew those existed?  But seriously amazing!  It was an old barn and FIELDS full of flowers!  You literally walk in, grab a bucket, fill up the bucket and drop your cash into a jar before you leave!  It was amazing!  We had the best time and made for some beautiful pictures of my model friends :)!!  

 

 I loved this picture so much I put the color version and the black and white! ahhh just so fun!!

The model Leanne!

 

Beautiful Booe!!

They had sunflowers as big has my head!!

 I know you are still in shock by the flower farm right?  I know, I am too.  It was just so much fun!  
I want to know where there are these flower farms in NC?  

Such an amazing day with some of the sweetest friends I have ever had.  I literally met these two girls the FIRST week of college and we were inseparable after that!  The Lord has blessed me so much to know them and have them in my life!  I do not know where my life would have headed in college had I not met them!  They teach me a LOT about Jesus, how to love others and find such JOY in life!  They are beautiful inside and out!  

Superbowl

The superbowl is coming up!  Who are you pulling for?
Did I ever tell you I went to the superbowl last year?

yeah whoopsy.  Welp I did.

Daddy B and I got the TRIP of a lifetime to go to the Superbowl last year in Indiana.

Not only was it the superbowl- but the whole trip was the trip of a lifetime.

Here are some highlights.
Night 1- we got to go inside the stadium to watch Madonna rehearse the ENTIRE halftime show.  She is amazing!  She was so involved in the entire show- impressive!

We are Panthers fans so we had to take pics with the Panther things around :)!!

 Night 2-We went to the Indy 500 racetrack and got a tour of the entire building, food, drinks AND got to meet Troy Aikman and Michelle Beadle (ESPN anchor).

Day 3- We went downtown to all of the superbowl activities- basically walked around observed- all that good stuff.

Night 3- We went to the NFL VIP party- crazy!!  It was ice sculptures, chocolate covered strawberries (LOVE), andddd the Steven Tyler/Carrie Underwood concert, sitting in the VIP section!! WHATTT  it was crazy, I was amazed the entire night!

 Day 4- game day
I know you thought the trip couldn't have gotten any better.... but it did.  This day was the best.
We got a police escort to the game- whattttt.  And had this fabulous breakfast.  But then in walks.
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wait for it..
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notice the how I met your mother reference.... love that show
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in walks.


Peyton Manning and Archie Manning
AHHHH!!!!!
Favorite part.
They came and chatted and answered questions.
Very casual, very neat.
Then we got our picture taken with them.

LOOOOKKK how tall he is!!

THEN- we went to the NFL Tailgate- got some more yummy food.  Saw the Frey, Lenny Kravitz , JIMMY FALLON- love him and saw celebs walking around.  

 THENNNN... we went to the game.  We walk in and we are on the bottom section 40 yard line... dad and I are seriously amazed.  Jaws dropped.  Crazy.  WHATTTT.. thats all I said the whole trip.  Seriously.
The game was amazing.  Not only a great game- but the Giants won!!!.

Me and Daddy B..... love this pic!

Needless to say it was an amazing trip.  I felt so blessed to get to go to the superbowl but also to get to go with Daddy B.  I had the trip of a lifetime andddd got some great memories with my Dad!  I loved getting to go and I loved even more to go with my Dad!