Class of 2012

I have some pretty darn exciting news. 

Wanna hear it?

I graduated....from college!!!

(Insert crazy loud I don't know what to do with my life now scream)
This is crazy talk. I never thought the day would come.

.....

There will be more to come on this exciting subject later. 

Because I know you are all dying to hear about it.

Our last two weeks on Kev's phone.

I have been horrible at blogging this semester. And you wanna know something crazy? This is going to be the last time I get to say that. Because I graduate from college in less than two weeks!! 

Yep, I told you it was crazy.

Thanks to Kev's Iphone we have photo's to capture all the fun things that have been taking up all of our time. Without it we wouldn't have any pictures of our crazy little life during 2012.

1.We are loving the warm weather that mother nature has been giving us lately, we wouldn't mind if it stayed forever.
2.Kev got me in action during a photo shoot for my BFA art show.
3.Pretty spring blossoms.
4&5. My BFA show "Capture Design" over the weekend.
6&7. Willow Park Zoo with Missy, Jason, and Lilly on Saturday.
8. Just hanging out with friends.
9. Crate stacking at the Field House = Awesome.
10. True Aggie Night
11&12. My Beautiful best friend Stacia Paige Ellis' Farewell.
13&14. Sunday night fun with the family.
15. Utah State.

Most of these photo's were taken by my talented husband Kevin Grant Young. I love that he loves taking artistic pictures with his phone. Love it.

7 days.

one week everyone. one week.

(even though i know it will not be like this in the least bit...this is what I picture in my mind when I hear those two blessed words)

I cannot wait til spring break!

We may not be doing anything too exciting,

 but one week away from school is exciting enough for me!

Homecoming 2011 USU Style

It was Homecoming weekend already two weekends ago. Time is flying. 

And we had a grand old time. All of the alumni from the Hillam family came up to Logan to enjoy the good ol festivites. Em and Trav and the girls even came and slept over at our house Friday night, it was a lot of fun...and our first time having people stay at our house!

This was my last year to be in the parade with the Ambassadors so everyone came out to watch...and get lots of candy.

All of the Aggie Alumni in our Fam.

 I just really like this boy.

It was a great weekend.

just the two of us.

So...we are now adults. We have our own apartment. We are living on our own.

We even had our first official big time real grocery shopping trip, and spent entirely too much.

Since moving up here to Logan we have gotten into a couple of habits to keep us busy of being bored.

We find ourselves staying up late at night playing Wordfeud (scrabble) against each other on our phones.

I am determined to beat Kevin at at least one stinkin game.

We almost got attacked by our neighbors devil dogs while we were longboarding one night, luckily Kevin is very brave and can scare them away from biting me.

We have a fun little park by our house with tons of grass, sand volleyball, swings and a river.

We go on walks around the Island. It is so beautiful and there are a ton of trees. Sometimes we pretend like we are living in Boston.

We have already watched seasons 2 & 3 of the Office. Hilarious. Now that we don't have anymore seasons to watch I don't know what we will do with our time.

We made a batch of cookies and the dough lasted us throughout a whole week. Which led to a lot of late night snacking on homemade warm cookies.

Our apartment is extremely hot during the day, so what better way to cool off then making milk shakes? So of course thats exactly what we've done.

We are in a family ward, with a lot of fun young couples. I'm excited for it.

And we have become addicted to Chili's Chips and Salsa with Ranch. Delish.

A lot of bad habits might be in the making, but i'm taking a Power Yoga class to work all of 

this bad food off.

-------------------------------------------

It's been an adventure so far, and its only the second week.

I'm kinda liking it.

Silent Dance Par-tay.

So I pretty much go to the coolest school ever.
There are tons of traditions that go throughout the year, and this one just started this year.
During finals week both semesters, there was a silent impromptu dance party.
In order to be a part of it.
You need: An ipod, sweet moves, and no dignity.

It was so fun, and people looked at us like we were crazy. and the best part of it was....we didn't care.
I love Utah State.

Party In the USA.

This post took me far too long to post. I will hopefully be catching up with all the events of the last 2 months soon!

To the Mona Melon Leaf Tribe

well....its official.



school is now over. thank you.



and I no longer live in logan.



Last week was one of the hardest weeks I have been through in a long while.



Filled with hours of my final photo project, few hours of sleep, and many emotions.



My three years living up at school on my own has taught me that I do not deal with change very well. Which surprised me...I always thought I loved change until I found out I don't, and i do not deal with it very well.


Change makes me cry. So this last weekend i cried a lot. Why?


Because I had to move away from these girls:
It is the weirdest feeling.

There are really no words to describe how grateful I am to have been given the opportunity to live with these six amazing ladies the last 2 and some 3 years.

We have become sisters, and all get along incredibly well. I think there are only a handful of times that I can think of where we even disagreed about something. And that is saying something...cause i'm not sure that happens to often when 7 girls live together in one house.


I love you girls so much and am going to miss all of our late night conversations and playing tetris til all hours of the morning. Thank you for your amazing examples and for letting me be your friend...seriously though I am so so grateful for it.

Even though change is hard for me, I am so excited for where life is taking me. It is kind of scary but I couldn't have picked a more amazing person to share it with. Thanks Kev for all your help moving me out, and for putting up with my random outbreaks of tears.

Ms. Laura Luke made a comment Saturday night that pretty much sums up my entire life.

She said.

The Four things that give Ashley the chills.

-Harry Potter Previews

-Pretzel Delight

-The Holy Ghost

and

-Grandma Clothes

and its totally true.

an epic day.

This year St. Patrick's Day might have been my best St. Patricks Day yet.

No not because I found a real leprechaun.

Because I got to witness a Guinness World Record take place.

Utah State is pretty darn cool.

Our Physics department dropped 20,000 Bouncy Balls from a Helicopter!

Yes my friends. I said it.

20,000 bouncy balls.

This crazy phenomenon cause my roommates and I to revert back to our 9 year old selves.

We were running around throwing frisbees, getting in peoples pictures, yelling random craziness.

And Laura and Kailey started an extreme yo-yoing team.

The Sun was Shining and it was a beautiful day.

And

I finally got to see the green laser!!!!!

I was walking on campus last night after doing some homework,

I looked up into the sky and there it was.

I have waited all three years to see the laser beam in the sky and I finally saw it.

It made me smile all the way across campus.

It was a good day.

mission call.

This beautiful lady Katie Jo Parker.

Received her mission call!

She will be serving in the Guatemala, Guatemala City Mission speaking Spanish!

She leaves June 29....one day before the wedding :(

But we are all so excited for her!

This year has brought many many changes to the Ivy House.

3 of us will be gone next year...

I think we are all starting to realize it.

We have been staying up later to have little girl talk sessions like we used to

when we were young freshies and sophomores.

I can't believe how fast these three years have gone by.

We are going to be seniors in college next year.

How did that happen?

Congratulations Katie Jo.

You are going to an amazing missionary.

I look up to you so much and am so grateful we have been

able to live together the last two and a half years!

homecoming. hockey. rain. cold. scones and dreams.

Events of the last week.

Picture Style.

As you can tell. We sometimes get bored and have to think of things to entertain our poor bored souls.





Homecoming weekend was spectacular.
Word on the street is my true aggie status has changed.

:)

My sisters also came up for the homecoming game and other festivities.
To our surprise we ended up all leaving the game early due to
excessive amounts of rain fall that soaked us to our skibbies.

It sure made for a fun adventure though.






P.S. Can you spot Gandalf the White in one of these pictures?
Hali Mariko Hesley you slay me.