celebrating being done with college, part 5.

^ college: year 5. finally...all 3 sisters in utah ( :

and me...ruining all of our adorable pictures.

^ i hiked the y with some awesome people. this was the second time in 2 days...since less than 24 hours before, i'd hiked it with ryan.

^ i was the executive producer for the daily news at noon.

here is my wonderful wednesday crew...

^ ...and here is my fabulous friday crew ( :

producing was a definite learning experience but way fun.

^ also for the daily news...was an advanced reporter: anna carrera.

and reported LIVE from outside sometimes.

^ went to vegas with a gorgeous group of broadcasters.

we networked, we saw cirque du soleil shows and we had tons of fun.

^ worked in the theatre again with some of my fav people and still loved it. this was for my lighting design: "children of eden."

^ had sleepovers with emily in the hospital after her accident / :

love love love her. she is my best hard-core awesome friend ever.

^ hung out with rachael in the freezing snow

and went tubing for my first time ever.

^ enjoyed the company of some awesome boys.

mom...you love mikey ( :

^ made some new friends. went to some ridiculous dances.

and took some fun photo-booth pictures.

^ made up my own halloween costumes:

daphne from scooby doo (not pictured) and wonder woman.

^ actually made friends with some news people.

here we went to natalie's play in the middle of nowhere.

^ and sometimes we all went to lunch together.

please keep this tradition alive ( :

^ enjoyed time with my ward for the second year.

emily is kissing me towards the right side of this picture.

^ re-visited the festival of colors.

and i danced like the crazy hippy that i secretly am...

^ became newsroom bffs with my producer opposite: beth.

the glam girl to contrast with my just-rolled-out-of-bed look.

^ oh. and ruth's going to have a baby boy ( :

and i secretly only have one leg in the picture.

college: year 5. a little bittersweet to be done with all of it.

but that's how it was. happy graduation to me.

celebrating being done with college, part 4.

^ college: year 4.

moved in with my bff to our awesome house.

^ went to ward talent night.

yes. we finally had a ward that wasn't totally lame.

^ went to some fun christmas parties and met some people that i would re-meet a year later (no wonder you looked so familiar, ryan...)

^ we had more awesome osu parties at ruth's house

and watched football and ate buckeyes.

^ i got accepted to the broadcast journalism program and was suddenly surrounded by many beautiful and talented people.

^ i hula hooped a lot. this time was at ward talent night.

...and andrew watched...

^ i did the lighting design for a brand new play: "houseboat honeymoon" and ruth came to watch it with me ( :

^ i made gingerbread houses at fhe.

and was very tan around christmas time, i guess.

^ i went to byu football games (of course).

and had awesome seats right in the front....because...

^ ...this was the year collin played!

just love having a totally dreamy friend on the football team.

^ i was recruited to be in my first campaign ad.

and had to wear yellow. the one color in which i own nothing.

^ i went camping with emily!

and we conquered this giant hill thing!

^ oh. and i met anderson cooper.

no big deal.

^ went four-wheeling with emily in april. and there was snow.

college: year 4. better than all the years before ( :

celebrating being done with college, part 3.

^ college: year 3. the year people took pictures of us

with their camera phones without telling us...creepers.

^ when ruth finally moved close enough to campus

so it was convenient to be friends. just kidding. (sort of...)

^ i had a roommate from OHIO! and she was awesome. she made me wear crazy clothes so we could do black + white photo shoots.

^ this was the year i really, really wanted glasses.

i think sarah is going through this phase now ( :

^ i had crazy bohemian / hippy friends who liked to dance to off-beat music and have paint fights in the middle of big fields of grass.

^ we watched ohio state football games at ruth's house!

with nicole! and it was awesome!

^ lucy made a bunch of kittens. desmond was my favorite.

plus i was really tan.

^ sarah visiting and going to general conference in the fall

(and ruth's crazy yellow / orange hair)

^ waiting in a super-long line super-early in the morning

to go to president hinkley's funeral in slc ) :

^ going to vegas with my bff emily

and inside my favorite hotel, the bellagio.

^ going to the festival of colors for the first time in spanish fork

and getting totally covered in the colored chalk dust stuff.

^ celebrating my 21st birthday with my bffs: emily, kimmie + rachael.

college: year 3 was awesome ( :

celebrating being done with college, part 2.

^ sophomore year...we did a lot of photo shoots this year.

one old roommate, two new ones.

^ bowling with roomie, kimmie.

and yes. i wore skirts over my pants.

^ realizing that we could wear sweats...all the time.

hah.

^ going back to my roots.

loving theatre and wearing blacks backstage.

^ power texters and other crazies...

the dangers of hula hooping on the balcony...

^ still going to byu football games?

OF COURSE!

^ jumping on the beds.

oh yeah. we moved our mattresses into the living room.

^ killer pillow fights.

and then being totally crunched.

^ wearing matching leopard-print lingerie to church ( :

love all of our different styles.

^ pummeling boys...only when they deserved it though.

(those are our mattresses on the floor behind us)

^ realizing we can dye our hair.

we did this a lot.

^ oh. and then we flipped the car on the way to california.

and had to sit in the back of a police car.

happy second year of college ( :