I-L-L-I-N-I !!!!!!!!!!

[big_d_olb]

YAY!!!!!!! FINAL FOUR BABY!!!!!! woohoo!!! illini won!! by 1 point!!!! i didn't watch the game, but i'm still excited none the less. i was babysitting and couldn't watch it. but oh well. i got to see highlights on the 10 o'clock news after i got home. then at about 11:50pm my dad, sara, jenna, sara's friend caroline, and i went up to the practice center to wait with all the other chambabanans to welcome our team back!!!!! it was crazy!!!! we got up there and already there were at least several thousand people there. there was no way that you could get up close enough to see the players when they got off the bus. plus it was kinda cold. it wasn't too bad though. i wore my big winter coat, so my upper body was pretty worn, just my legs and face. it was funny though, cuz about 12:30 a bus pulled up and everyone thought it was the team, but since we were towards the back of the crowd, we could see the street where the bus was coming from and saw that it was the band, not the team. when they pulled up the announcer came over the intercom and said "c-u welcome home your fighting illini marching band and cheerleaders!!" so ater then, we got to hear the band play. that was fun. saw j.t. gray and some other people from school. drunk as could be. go figure. cigarette smoke wasn't the greatest either. anyways....about 1:10 we could see the police escort and the bus coming down kirby. sara met up with one of her other friends brittany, and man was she going crazy when she saw that bus. she was going insane when the band arrived! although that's only because she thought it was the team. we all thought she was gonna have a heart attack. we were all on the curb by the cop cars on fourth st. and were able to get up close and personal with the bus when they went by. it was awesome!!!! so many fans had rushed the bus on fourth that the bus had to stop. all in all it was fun! even though i didn't get to bed till about 2am and had to practically force myself out of bed to get in the shower and get ready for church. it was still fun! wesley wasn't at church today though. he called me in the middle of 2nd service, luckily i had my phone on vibrate, and told me that his basement had flooded and that's why he hadn't been there. i hope everything's okay over there. i thought about calling and asking if they wanted/needed any help, but i decided against it. shaylee and i started a notebook for all of our inside jokes and last night i a bunch more. i could hardly stop laughing as i was remembering all the fun times.

"i rock the pizzas"
"i don't take beeping from an oven."
"hey steph, are you cold?" "yeah" "yeah, i bet."
"were the bubbles on the whole time?"
"i'm fascinated by this little pen and you guys are arguing about the time."
and of course there are all my little laughs. FISHER BUNNIES!!!!!!!

okay i'm done now. congrats to kirsten and her family!!!! God is good!!!!!!!