Mr. President!

We had a very fun day on Friday! Our friend and pastor's son, Jeff Pickering is a junior at A&M and has been running for student body president. Campaign week was two weeks ago, and this past week was election week. The first election was on Monday and Tuesday, and Tuesday night, Jeff found out he was in the run-off with another girl! The run-off elections were Thursday and Friday, so on Friday night a big group of us from LJ drove up to College Station to be with the Pickerings when the results came in. We have just been so proud of Jeff and were so excited to celebrate with him either way!

Cooper wore her new Aggie clothes that Pops and Kiki got her - she looked so cute!

We got to College Station mid-afternoon and went out to the house Greg and Kathy were renting to hang out and then eat some dinner. The kids had so much fun running around the property. This is the same house we stayed in when we met Michelle in CS before she left for Africa.


Lots of friends came! The Mitterlings, Sanders, Beams, Debbie, Fonda, and Amy, and then our friends that are current students were there as well. Micaela, Callan, and Peter all helped on Jeff's campaign staff and were all-stars!

Callan loves to hold the babies!

Some of the kids wore "Pick Pickering" shirts, some wore Aggie clothes, but Kendall had to wear her brown and pink dress. What a ham!

We wanted to get a picture of Jeff with all the kids, but some of the kids needed their mommies to hold them. So here is Jeff with the babies and the baby mamas. :)

Already kissing those babies!

Around 7 we left to head to campus to hear the results! We waited in Koldus for awhile, and Kendall had fun dancing on the seal. She was so funny about this back pack - she packed it for the road trip and then kept it with her the whole time. I think she even slept with it when we got home that night.

Waiting to go hear the results!!

The results were announced at the Sul Ross statue in the academic plaza. That's right next to the Century tree, so I had to get a picture of Kendall under the tree, even though it was dark.

And....he won!! By 62% of the vote!! I can't even believe he is the student body president of Texas A&M! Such a big deal. We are so proud of him and can't wait to hear about all his adventures! After the crowd died down a little we took a picture of all the Lake Jackson people with the new president!

It was fun to get to go to A&M with the girls and celebrate with our friends. What a great night!