Changes.

With everything that has recently happened in my life (like my best friend getting engaged!) I've been doing a lot of reflecting and soul searching. I thought back to my past and realized where I am no is no where near where I thought I would be at this time, but yet, its exactly how I imagined myself. 
With college graduation just around the corner, I thought we'd take a look back to this time 4 years ago. And where better to start than senior prom?

The whole fam-bam

nothing says awkward like 17

my adorable prom date and I.

At this point in my life, my expectations were minimum and I was just ready to leave suburbia. Enter high school graduation:

Fast forward through four years of college... here's one giant collage that sums up my entire college experience:

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I've gone through an insane amount of changes in the past four years, and I don't think its anything short of a complete blessing.

Changing isn't just about the amount of colors you've put in your hair, or the increasing number of wrinkles next to your eyes. For me, change has been about not only discovering who I am, but loving every piece of her. 

Four years ago, I was a soccer recruit with an environmental geosciences major. Today, I'm 70 some days away from graduation with a major in outdoor education. 

Sure, four years ago I thought by now I'd have a dog and a ring on my finger, and I have neither currently, but that doesn't stop me from living my life.

So thank you to the past, for teaching me everything I know, and cheers to the future, because we don't really know what is coming next, but I guarantee it'll be one hell of a ride. 

What to do when your Best Friend gets Engaged!

So my best friend and I have known each other since we were nine years old. We met at Girl Scout camp way back when and became instant friends and I'm at the point in my life where I literally don't know what I would do without her. 
I got a call this morning that I had been waiting for for about a week now. It was a "guess what just happened!" followed by "look at the text I just sent you!" it was a picture of a ring. I instantly couldn't hold back the tears. But then I thought "what do you do when your best friend gets engaged?!" so I have compiled 11 things that happen when your best friend gets engaged.

1. You cry. Are they tears of joy or tears of fear because you slowly start to realize you are indeed forever alone?

2. drink

3. Realize you will probably have to give some sort of speech, seeing as you've known each other a majority of your lives.

4. drink

5. Every time you go to assist your best friend in any wedding planning:

6. drink

7. But don't worry, between all the bridal showers, bachelorette parties, and wedding showers, you will get plenty of reminders just how single you really are.

8. But with all these parties, there's still really only two things on your mind: 

9. With all the socializing with the rest of the wedding party and guests, you really just have one thought to all your best friends more successful friends and family

10. And with that, you hit the open bar and dance the night away

11. Because after all, it is your best friends big day and no matter what, you've always got each other.

So here's to my best friend, I'm so happy for you and I love you more than I could ever say. So here is to a wonderful wedding and the start of your happily ever after <3

Hey! I'm still here!

Hello! Hi! Yes, I'm still here. I got a little caught up in our annual Snofest. So, here is a quick post about what this week has been like for me. (aka un-friggin-believable)

This was the week's schedule

So the past three years, I competed on a team. My freshman year, we were a team of 4 girls who had no clue what SnoFest was truly about or what we had just gotten ourselves into, but through determination and a lot of questionable acts, we placed in third. I don't mean to brag, but we basically changed the game of SnoFest through our pure badassery.

The following year, we joined forces with another mostly freshman team and became a SnoFest powerhouse. We won almost every event, kicked butt in the scavenger hunt and ended up coming in first place! I have never celebrated so hard in my life. I will forever have Yacht Club in my blood.

Before SnoFest 2012, I barely knew any of the people on my team, but after that, this group of people became my best friends and since then, they're people I will always have in my life, and memories I could never forget. So obviously, we stayed Yacht Club for our junior year, but under a new name: Yacht Club 2.0

This year, we only placed in second, but still exploded champagne bottles when we were announced. That is true team pride. Through these past four years, I have done some unreal things, things that I would never imagine myself doing anywhere else. Including wrestling in both goo and baby oil (which is incredibly disgusting in both the mouth and the eyes), rode a mechanical bull, did chicken fighting in a lab coat, and overall had the best experience of my life. So, naturally when it came to my senior year, it was time for me to be on the other end of the competition... A judge!

Being a judge was honestly the craziest experience of my life. I can't even put into words how the week was. Nor can I really write about it because honestly, what happens during SnoFest, stays at SnoFest.

Oh, and did I mention, all of this is sponsered by our Student Association? Man, I love college!
Does anyone else's college have anything like SnoFest? I wanna hear about it! Or just any crazy experiences in general!