With the Spring Leadership Conference in full swing, I thought I’d share my blast from the past days in BPA at Gordon Cooper.  Nerd an Dork do not even begin to describe what I think when looking back on these photos.  Why did I think it was cool to have bleach blonde hair again?!

Volunteering at our local Children’s Museum.  I had a ton of fun helping out and being a kid myself.

Did some Harper Valley PTA karaoke with a great friend this year….which we sang the following year…hahaha…. Ohhhh to be an Okie.

Let’s just say I definitely know how to make a boring museum — fun.

Told ya.  Knows how to have fun should be my Indian name….haha.  I don’t think there isn’t a serious photo from this day and yes, they do get sillier and crazier as the roll of film went on.

Touring the JFK museum in Dallas, Texas with some of the most amazing classmates and fellow BPA members.  This was just before our National conference in 2003.

Crutches.  Sad to say — these were a big part of my life Senior year of high school.  Thank goodness my ankle injury finally healed and I got on with bigger & brighter things that year.

One of my favorite Halloween costumes I ever created…until Shirley Temple…  Being an 80′s girl I decided it was best to go as Cyndi Lauper.  The creative juices were flowin’ this year.

My class this year.  Senior year was a blast — I think it’s pretty self explanatory as to why.

There’s just something about OU’s Campus on a Summery night to make you fall in love all over again with the amazing Top 10 Business School you’ve chosen.  Ahhhh….life.

How bout a flashback, an almost 10 year flashback.  To the days of high school football games, pep rallies, Snowman (winter formal dances), Homecoming and all the socialite clubs one could join.  Oh yes, these were my high school days….among other things.

I wound up taking Senior pictures to fully ‘document’ that my parents first born was officially leaving the nest and joining the college life.

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.  And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

 You’ll look up and down streets.  Look ‘em over with care.
About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.”
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you’ll head straight out of town.

 It’s opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen,
don’t worry.  Don’t stew.
Just go right along.
You’ll start happening too.

OH!
THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! -Dr. Seuss

Believe it or not, I still can’t believe I graduated almost 8 years ago.  Where has the time gone?  Seems like only yesterday I walked across the staged & grabbed my diploma…..not really.  Our class actually had their diplomas held on account of “how we acted in Rayleigh Chapel”.  Let’s just say….there were beach balls…fog horns….silly string…streamers…those mini “pop” streamer things…and a whole lot more.  My grandparents had gone to their fair share of Graduations, but this was the first “rowdy” one they had ever been to.  Way to make 2004 memorable Class of 2004!

There is nothing in the world that I love more than anything is fall weather….mix in the University of Oklahoma and you’ve got quite the campus.  …I just hate walking around campus after dark….but that’s a story for another time.