a look at the past (senior year)

i started the year off in the lodge with 3 girls i never would have ever thought to be friends with. even people who knew them and knew me were like um what yall are roommates? thats bad. it started off okay, but by late September it all got bad, so i moved out.. i was supposed to move to logan, but that didnt happen, then i was moved to a room by myself in tuckey for what i thought was just the weekend, but that didnt happen.  i had my own room until i got put with cinnamon, and my gosh i wish i could have just kept my own room. i hated living with her, it was a nightmare, and im so glad that is over with. what else happened this year, my beautiful niece was born, which was the best thing that has happened to me. i love that lil girl more than life itself. i hung out a lot in zirelle house with my friends, played a lot of just dance. anthony(my ex of 2 years) came back into my life(even though he was married), he moved to indiana, and he came to see me.. that ended up in a mistake happening, but it is what it is. i worked two jobs from january to april and finally quit the dc at the end of the school year. some sodexo worked tried to force himself on me, and that ended up in this huge ordeal. graduation brought lots of tears, my class was graduating and i wasnt going to be walking with them. i said goodbye to a lot of amazing friends, who i happen to still talk too and miss all the time. i was a 5 star coach and those girls impacted me in a huge way. i also went to a bible study group in the beginning and that was fun while it lasted.

so here are some pictures.

 my favorite long arms. :)

i went apple picking a lot that year. and i had good friends to go with. 

 brittanys graduation party.

walks with this girl are one of my favorite things. 

 lauren and faith. i cant tell you how much i love these two, and how amazing their friendships are. no matter where we are or who we become i know i will always have these two in my life, and for that i am greatful. lauren helped me become the person i am today and i cant thank her enough.

 two of my favorite people to work with. they were most definitely missed this past year. 

 bre and amber.

 shanti, my favorite  girl from nepal. this girl is one of the sweetest people i know. we had many breakfasts together and many many many talks. she made my mornings working at the dc so much better.

 the year i discovered froyo!

 pink hair. enough said.

 my last year playing powderpuff with some amazing girls.thanks for the memories!

so many things to say about this girl right here. who knew five years later she would be one of my closest friends and she always will be. no matter where life takes us, katie, you WILL always be the best friend i ever had at bethel. i love our chats and our hang outs. i dont know what i would have done without you my 5 years at bethel.

 lauren. so much to say here too. we had tuesday and thursday night dates nights, probably my favorite nights of the week. i have so much to thank you for, and i appreciate everything you've done for me, and the talks we've had. i also could not have gotten thru my years at bethel without you.

 trying on dresses for their graduation.

 my beautiful niece.

the bible study group i went too.

its kind of funny how friendships dont last. i dont wish anything bad on these girls, they were good friends the four years we were friends, okay no they were okay friends, i definitely feel like i had better. especially when it all came down to it some of them i thought were just downright rude to me and i never expected us to stay friends. i wish them all the best in the future and i hope they stay friends forever because it was always better with me not there. so good luck girls! :)

a look at the past (junior year)

the only year i lived with someone the whole year.. this year i went on a missions trip to atlanta, georgia and fell in love with the south and the people.i also made some amazing friendships on this trip..i really dont remember anything big that happened so onto the pictures....

 on labor day we decided to go to the "beach" which is actually just lake michigan but anyways we ended up getting lost a bunch of times, eventually we got there and had a lot of fun. it was a good day.

 i lived with these 6 girls in logan village. we called our townhouse our toho.it was an intense and interesting year, with lots of fighting, crying, and laughing. i never really felt welcome and half the time i didnt want to be there. it was then that i realized that they werent really my friends but since it was my junior year there was no time to change my whole core group of friends. when sign ups came for rooming the next year they totally left me out and didnt even ask, i would have said no if they would have but they didnt they kept it all secret. talk about feeling left out, thats how i've always felt with them for realz. which im no longer friends with any of them.

 i lived with emma and brittany downstairs in the cave. we had deep conversations and i did enjoy living with them. however i always felt that my "friends" (the girls upstairs) had treated them way better than they had ever treated me so that made me resent them in a way.

 emily and i had a class together and one of the requirements was to learn a language from someone. we chose Portuguese. we struggled thru that together and became close. :)

the first and only jv soccer game i went too. katie whos in the blue was dating this guy at the time and we went for her. katie is one of my closest friends and i wouldnt have gotten thru my time at bethel without her. jordan whos in the middle was the same major as me so we had a ton of classes together and got to know each other that way. she was also one of my RA's sophmore year. 

 powderpuff. this was the year that we won it all.

 snowtubing with bethel, except that we went to the wrong place and it was just us and a few others. it was the first time i had gone with my youth group many years ago. it was a really good time and it was then that i got to know faith the girl on the end in the blue a lot better.

 ice skating with bethel. my skates were way to big so i fell a bunch of times.

 this is shrimpy.aka colette, we worked together since freshmen year. she took me to walmart and mcdonalds a lot this year. we can talk about anything and everything. she was my lifesaver while working after kalin decided to quit.

 my normal work crew. we were taking pictures because i was going to quit, now if that only would have happened.

 the group from bethel.. spring break. atlanta missions team. so many memories on this trip, if i started to talk about it this post would be 10 X longer than it already is. God really blessed me on this trip and gave me some amazing friendships that i wouldnt take back for the world.

 long arms, aka jessica. we met on the missions trip and formed a great friendship! 

 i received this beautiful car.