Hey y’all!!

My name is Heather McGowan!!I graduated in December 2013 with a Bachelors Degree in Music Education and I recently accepted a job as the Assistant Band Director at Sul Ross Middle School in Northside ISD in San Antonio! Whew!  I crossed into the bonds of Iota sisterhood in SP 2010 with Serendipity.

My big sister is Lauren Lindigrin who graduated in 2011 and my big brother is Will Fields who graduated just this past May in 2014! 

I was fortunate enough throughout my time in Iota to gain FIVE littles!! Yes, FIVE!! My first set of littles were in Spring 2011 where I gained Kim Jones as a little sister, and Josh Soto as a little brother! 

Then! My last Spring semester at Baylor in 2013, I was blessed with TWITTLE Sisters (twin little sisters) and another wonderful little brother!! My twittles are Kristyn Ottley and Elyse Whitmarsh, and my little brother is Ryan Colson!

Throughout my time in Iota I held several offices…

·         Vice President of Membership

·         Sergeant

·         Projects Chair x2

·         Historian x2

·         Webmaster x2

I completed all my official duties in Iota at the end of Spring 2013, and instead of stepping back from Tau Beta Sigma, I ran for district council and was elected into the Presidential position! My last year as a super active member was that… super active!! I helped plan all the district events including Area Workshops and District Convention 2013 (which was held by Iota & Beta Alpha #sicem)!

My time in Iota has been a whirlwind of fun and friendships, but I never thought that some of the lifelong friendships would be created my very last semester on Baylor’s campus! In fact, just a week and a half ago, Elysekies (who’s originally from California), was in Texas for a brief amount of time before heading off to study abroad in London (super jealous)! She took time out of her busy schedule to drive to San Antonio and visit me! It was super-hot that day, so we didn’t take a lot of pictures, but she was really there!!

Literally the next day after seeing Elyse, I left for upstate New York to visit with Kristyn!! It’s really bizarre  that my twittles literally live on opposite sides of the United States, but I guess that’s a factor that makes our lives interesting!

Anyway, Kristyn contacted me back in May if I would be willing to fly up to New York to help her drive home… Her dad normally flies down and helps her drive home, or will drive her back to Waco and then fly home, but this summer he wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. He told her to ask a friend to fly up and part of the incentive was that we would get to do a lot of really awesome things before the 24-27 hour drive back to Texas!

So enough words! I think pictures are worth a thousand words!

After a 3 hour flight delay in Baltimore, I finally made it to Rochester, NY at 3:00 in the morning… Kristyn was waiting for me, so we hugged, loaded up, and headed to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada! 

After a busy week in Canada, we went to Kristyn’s hometown of Painted Post, NY for a few days. While there, we went walking on some beautiful trails and made some glass!! I made a flower and Kristyn made a sculpture! 

Spending a few days in Painted Post allowed us to gain our energy for New York City!! We spent two days in NYC and we did soooo much while in NYC, but rather than me tell you, just check out all of our photos!! 

Unfortunately, when we got to Jersey, these huge storms swept through the area and kept us inside all day!!! We didn’t get to walk the beach until the next day before we left…

So the whole point of the trip was to get ready to spend 24+ hours in the car to Waco!!! Kristyn has a 7 month old wiener dog named Max, so we knew it would be a while in the car since he has such a small bladder! He’s also rather scared of the car, so please enjoy these photos of him climbing on me! 

We finally made it to Waco at 10:30 AM on Friday morning! We were in the car for a little over 25 hours and we made a bunch of stops for us, Max, and to get gas. This was probably one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on, and I will cherish this time with one of my twittles forever!! 

MOTS

So yeah, crush was this weekend(:  It was so much fun and I had such a great time planning it! The theme was field day and we played games like red rover and dodgeball and had a few relay races! I had a little bit of a fright when the weather decided to be mean and rain Saturday night but the field drained pretty well, and mud always makes things more interesting!

Here I am with my two crushes, Andrew on the left and then Josh, my big brother, on the right!  These guys definitely make me feel short…

Here are most of the actives while we were setting up!  

I love these girls and this sisterhood so much and I can’t wait to see what is in store the rest of this semester and the semesters to come!

MOTS 
<3 Lori

Hi, I’m Kim and I’m social chair this year. We just celebrated crush on October 7th with a survivor theme! We played assassins in teams with tau betas as “assassins” and their crushes as their “body-guards.” We drew names and the name we drew became our target we had to assassinate by stealing a clothespin they wore on the outside of their clothes. Once a tau beta assassinated another, she got her target until one winner was left. 

After all the alliances, surprise attacks, broken clothes pins, and silly distractions, the lovely Sara Bitting was the last tau beta with her clothespin. 

We also had a volleyball tournament, tug-o-war tournament, baking contest, and a game of capture the tau (capture the flag, but with decoy taus!). Despite a random cold front and one of our decoy taus getting stolen, it was a pretty fun day :3

ITB, 
Kim

Hi! I'm the new Tau the Turtle for Tau Beta Sigma's Iota chapter!  Right now I'm safe in Keller, TX but I can't wait to meet the rest of the sisterhood when the fall semester starts up!

Here is Kelsey's fish and I just hanging out and socializing! 

The Keeper and I would love to congratulate Sara in becoming Mrs. Bitting with Mr. Zach Bitting! We both wish you the best of luck in such an amazing relationship! 

I love all of the Iota sisterhood and can't wait to see them again soon!  Sic'Em Bears!

Love,

Tau the Turtle  

Hey Everyone! For those of you who don't know, my name is Kim Jones and I'm majoring in Political Science with the aspiration to become a lawyer someday! :) This summer is already off to an awesome start! I have been blessed with an amazing opportunity to work as a part-time legal intern at a really great company, I turned 20 this week (on June 7th!), I've started training for the Bearathon (which will be my first half marathon, so I'm trying to get ready super early), I'm taking the LSAT (law school admission test) next week, then I'm off on a week-long vacation to the north-east, and after I will start applying to law schools. On Wednesday, my boss took me to a meeting with a lot of other lawyers. While there, I got a part time job offer with another firm! I'm taking it, so I will be working two jobs this summer, but I'm getting awesome experience and I really love what I'm doing so far! On the TBS side of things, I'm also working on plans for crush, which is off to a great start thanks to some awesome people who have already submitted ideas and offered their support - thanks ladies!    

Here's a picture of me looking all business woman like for work :)

Random fun fact: when I went to lunch on my first day of work, I got order number nine and thought of y'all <3

MLITB,
    Kim Jones