Being an Eagle

Today,I asked my basketball team to write what it meant to be "an eagle". I don't like to ask things of other people that I'm not willing to do myself so here is a picture walk of the college career that is so dear to my heart.
Pregame huddles, line-ups, and shenanigans :

2 of my favorite fellow tricksters and our short list: snowball fights, hiding under coach's desk, throwing slime, tp and forks in a certain yard, and the infamous vegas prank.

NCAA Tournaments

Team pictures wherever we went (New York x2, Maine, Atlanta, Hawaii, Vegas, and errewhere in VA)

Tradition of winning.

"It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...even when it prolongs the pain"

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."--Orson Wells

 Being an Eagle is having an understanding that to every end is a new beginning. An understanding that I share unbreakable bond with few. And, when you've been there...you've invested the time, worked through the pain, know how the system works, you yearn for others to have a better 4 years than you did. Even if those years were the best in your life so far. You want them to know what to worry about and what to leave alone. You want need them to carry on old traditions and want them to create new.  There is always better. Don't settle for anything less. Control your destiny, but always remember your past.

A Cultural Affair

I discovered a new hip place in the 'Burg this weekend. The Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center puts on an awesome show for Christmas each year as a fundraiser. My friend Charity invited me to come along for the adventure, so we dressed up in the garb, pretended to make cookies, peel apples for pies, and had a grand 'ole time in a house circa de 1850.
Anyway, who else would you want to hang out and celebrate Christmas with than these cuties?

**side note, you should definitely go next year. They have horse and carriage rides, donkeys and goats to pet, a schoolhouse, and lots of other things to learn about.**