~GULF HAMMOCK~

Pawpaw had a 60th(i think) school year reunion and my two aunts, pawpaw, and i went. It turned out to be more fun than I had imagined! Uncle Parks had some hilraious stories to tell and I laughed the whole time!! We went explorin all around the little town of Bronson but it was worth all the drivin I did (I got stuck with drivin the whole time until we decided to go home.) Can't wait for the family reunion in October!!



Eating the lunch they had for us!

The crew!

Pawpaw, Aunt Teri, and I.

Uncle Parks, Aunt Rachel and Pawpaw! (three of the Smallwoods)

He is so precious!

This man can tell some awesome stories!! You would think you were right there with him!!

The school he went to from K-5th!

He had to go in it!!

He's so cute!!

There wasn't any stairs so I was terrified he was going to get hurt!

Pawpaw called some horses with grass and they came to him!!

His house still standin after around 100 years...

& of course he had to go in here too!!

There was bats at the celing which was enough for me and Aunt Teri so we took off runnin outside!!

He has a picture with this pose as a little boy so we retook it again...

& after driving all the crazy place I took a nap on the way home!!

!FlOrIdA!

I've been home a month now and am having a blast!! It's like I never left and all my relationships haven't changed too much!! I am taking classes at the community college in Lake City and working at my mom's video store... Life is going great and here are some pictures which are very unorganized sorry!! Hope everyone had a woderful summer :)

Lots of love,
Ashes!!



One of my good friends Cece!!

Pawpaw's neck brace that he broke as a state patrol man and his weapon from war is in my lil sis's hand!

No one came ot help us with cutting out the fabrics so we turned into rebels and did it ourselves!!

I missed this puppy so much!!

We got lost in a place you don't really want to get lost in (if you know what I mean)... We found our way eventually though!!

Cooking Pawpaw breakfast! He told us we were his slaves so he wouldn't help us and then told us all of our food was nasty HAHA!!

The weekend I came home, my sis Tab had a cousin slumber party at her house! This is most of us and Taylor and Shannon's air mattress deflated HILARIOUS!!

This past Sunday we went to Tab's house again!! This is Paige... ADORABLE!!

Baby Brynlee =)

Dylan bein his usual self... goofy!!

She's so CUTE!!

Brynlee's Blessing/ Paige's B-day!!

Paige had no idea what was goin on but Kelton (her cousin) just had a birthday so he knew what to do!!

My grandpa!!

Playing the classic cup game as a family!

Brynlee's blessing!!

Roomies <3

So I got super dooper lucky with roommates this semester!! They are HILARIOUS and always watching out for each other!! Praying really hard does turn out to bring some amazing blessings!!




Ok across from each other is the roommates that share a bedroom!!
Names starting from left: Amber, Anny, Me. Then Jessi, Tanya, and Kylee!!



Of course us two are doing something stupid!!

This is why she got the nickname Legs!! She is so LONG :)

Man, I swear I look up to this girl so much!! She's AMAZING!!

These were all taken at the gardens on BYU-I campus!! A graduating class created the whole thing and they did a really good job it is BEAUTIFUL!!

BuSy!!

Life is crazy right now!! I haven't even got around to taking many pictures but life is good!! Passing all my classes and coming home in 29 days :) WOO-FREAKIN-HOO!!! This weekend I am going to Lagoon in Utah with some friends so that should be fun... Anyhow hope everyone is doing well and having an AMAZING summer!! Love you all...

19th Birthday!

I had an AMAZING birthday! I was worried being away from home on it and thought I'd get super homesick but it wasn't too bad. My roommates tried super hard to make it a lot of fun which it turned out to be!!




While I was at class, my roommates decorated my bed!! I love them :)


My birthday present!!

My bestie Marlie made me a candy card!

I live by this sign... LITERALLY!

Blowing out my candles...

At Wingers eating Concrete Pies...

I LOVE COOKIES! HAHA

Taylor Swift shirt from my daddy! I look horrible because I stayed up all night HAHA!!

This just shows how eating too much sugar can be no good!! But what would a birthday be like without hyper people?? AHAHAHA!!

Teaching Moments...

You know those times when God just happens to speak through someone else? Well I've had a few of these the past couple of weeks and I don't keep a journal so this is as close as it gets for me!!

I was in my sewing class and we were learning all these techniques and I couldn't figure this 1 out and I spent over 30 minutes on it and I had to get 3 different fabrics because I kept ruining them and I was so fed up after all this time that I finally went and asked for help seeing as they had moved on and I was getting behind. Well she decides to call my entire class up there to look at it and I'm thinkin wow I messed up so bad she wants the entire class to see it!! Then she irons it and the fabric goes back to how it was before she ironed it and she said, "Do you see how her fabric went back to the way it was?" (people shook their head) and she continued... "her fabric gave up before she did that says so much about Ashlynn and how she's willing to keep going even though you can tell she's getting upset and almost ready to give up." Then she told me she'd hold my hand through it and gave me a new fabric and I finally figured it out after FOREVER!! I never knew that about myself. I mean it makes sense because it takes me so long to sew stuff because I want it to look good and be close to perfect even though I know nothings perfect in sewing!!

I was once again in sewing class and I had a super cute dress (or so I thought) on that came to my knees but I had leggins on underneath so I figured that was ok. Well when I got to my class the professor told me it wasn't appropriate but that she wouldn't ask me to leave. As I was sitting there all I could think was why in the world would I not want to go home and change?? Yeah it's a good walk but at the same time I signed a contract saying that if I attended this school I would obey the dress code regardless of any matter. So I asked the teacher if I could go home and change (this is a 2 1/2 hour class and I had another right after it). She said ok so I went home and came back and she told me that I earned her respect and most people wouldn't do that nor handle criticsm like I did. I just said that's how I was raised I reckon. Then she said if it was any professor even if I didn't have a class with them would I have went home and changed and I didn't have to think twice because duh I would. I want to obey the guidelines and even though growing up I wasn't the most modest person I realized that I've come to understand that my body is a temple. Crazy how my sewing professor teaches me so much about myself!!

I just love how we can get into our "lows" and there's always someone to pick us back up and we can never forget that we have to put our trust in God and He will take care of us even though I'm not even good at applying this I try my best. Anyhow that's a few teaching moments for me :)