A year ago, I was finishing my second year of college and celebrating my first year of marriage. In the middle of the semester, we were surprised and excited to find out we were expecting our first child. At that point I had enough credits to get my Associates Degree and finish school. I wanted to be done. I struggled with this decision for many weeks. After college, I wanted to continue Kylee Ann Photography and Yoli so a degree in Family Life Studies wasn’t necessary.
After weighing the pros and cons, I decided to stick it out and finish. I knew I wouldn’t regret finishing but I might regret stopping. There were so many days I wanted to give up. When I was pregnant, I wished I could just lay in bed and watch Netflix all day instead of long walks up Old Main Hill and some days I did. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it.
In 2010, I graduated from North Thurston High School and came to Utah State University. (Betcha didn’t know I was so young.) Today, just three years later, on May 4, 2013 I walked across the stage and received my Bachelors of Science Degree in Family Life Studies with my husband, son, parents, sisters and sister in law in the audience. The last three years have been incredible, hard, fulfilling, surprising, and rewarding.
Thank you Logan Utah for reuniting me with my best friend and now husband. Thank you Utah State for the parties, the activities, the free food and the friends. Thank you Luke for cooking, cleaning, driving me on campus, study help, writing help and just everything. Thank you mom for the daily sanity phone calls, editing projects and papers and the incredible support with every decision and change I made in my life over the past three years. Thank you dad for all the paper editing and advice. Thank you grandma Falter for all the care packages. Thank you grandma B for all the canned goods. Thank you both grandmas for the constant emails and phone calls. Thank you Barbi for all the babysitting, phone calls, motivating text and meals. Thank you Scott and Marci for all the homemade meals. Thank you Darcie for the job, the advice, the love and being my second mom. Thank you OSRT for the social life. Thank you Heavenly Father for all of my many blessings. I seriously wouldn’t be where I am today without God, my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, husband, son and amazing friends.
Today, I feel proud and I feel accomplished.
Kylee started Kylee Ann Photography 9 years ago, and has since grown from a one woman amateur show to a full associate team. We shoot 50-75 weddings a year, and thrive on kindness and service. After a year of teaching Intro to Photography at the local technical college, she discovered that helping other entrepreneurs create thriving businesses is what fires her up! She hosts semi-annual Kylee Ann Sleepovers all over the US, speak at conferences and teach online courses about running a small business and marketing.
May 1, 2013
Kylee Maughan
