Family Pictures!

We just got our family pictures back! We took them on Christmas Eve while everyone was here. My sister in law, Jessica took them! she is fantastic. You can go to her official website at raeportraits.com. Anyways...here are just a few for your enjoyment. I really love my family. But you already knew that.

 mommy and daddy.

 steve. alli. cami. sophie. 

jon. lisa. caleb. jacob. and wilson.

 megan. russ. mckenzie. and brinley.

robbie and jessica.

 me. myself. and I.

 my siblings and i.

the whole thing. it's so weird how big we are now.

i love and miss my family. alot.

Mother To Be

So this weekend i am nannying a family of four children. Wow. Now i know why mom's are addicted to Diet Coke. I am so tired! And it's only 11:17 p.m. During Christmas break, when all of my nieces and nephews were here i kept on thinking how excited i was to be a mom one day. Well, i'm here to tell you i can definitely wait a while.

One reason being....i have been driving this beauty:

Just so you know, i will never own a minivan. However, this is surprisingly a really nice car. I feel like a mom when i drive it. When i got in it, i felt like i needed to go get a diet coke to put in my cup holder. Today, when all 5 of us got in the car i started talking to kids when i was backing out and i couldn't figure out why none of them were responding to what i was saying. So i looked in my rearview mirror and found they had all immediately put their headsets in watching their own personal movies on the back of the chairs. I just started laughing. P.S. it's really overwhelming to look in the rearview mirror and see 2 rows of children. I won't do that. I will only have 1 row. Just for the record.

So today i gave the kids an after school snack, took Kira to swim team, took the boys to get haircuts, picked Kira back up, made them dinner, played battleship with the kids, rented a movie, and got them to bed. I'm such a mom.
Tomorrow i am taking Brianne to a birthday party, and Trevor has to be to karate at the same time as the Birthday party (sheesh), and then going to Trevors Jr. Jazz game, and then Kira has dance tomorrow night. Again, i'm such a mom.

It's kind of fun to do this every once in a while...but I'm glad i'll be done after tomorrow. Wish me luck!

...Alive...

I'm alive! Seriously... i am! I have been getting tons of crap lately for not updating my blog. I am horrible. So to all of you....all 4 of you, who might read my blog...i am sorry. Life has just been crazy lately, but i feel like it is always crazy. I always think to myself, one more month and life will slow down...but it never does! I think i better get used to it. Am i right?

Anyways...tons has happened since the last time i blogged...and i am going to choose to not update you on everything that has been going on, because it's really overwhelming to me at the moment. You know, like when you haven't written in your journal for two years...and you finally write in it again, and you don't know where to begin to write? Yeah, thats how i feel.

So right now, i will tell you what is currently taking up 99% of my life. Flippin Dental Hygiene school applications. No one told me it would be this big of a head ache. Everyday i have to tell myself..."Lindsey, this will be worth it. And Heavenly Father knows what he's doing. You don't." It helps.
So...i am applying to

(They only accept 12 a year into the program. scary!!)

(I would rather poke my eye with a needle than live in Ogden, but beggars can't be choosers) 

(This is right by where my sister lives, in Texas. This school is secretly my first choice. Don't tell my mother)

(This school is in McKinney, Texas...just a little north of Dallas. This would be super close to my 2 brothers. This is also secretly my first choice. Again, don't tell my mother)



Oh...and i forgot to mention, i applied here.....

And i got accepted! Cool huh?

But guess what? I declined the acceptance.

Am i stupid for doing that? You can tell me i am. Lots of people already have.

I just didn't have a good feeling about it for various reasons. That was a hard decision for me to make, but i did it!...and i'm having faith for greater things to come.

Anyways...later i will post a little more. I'm off to yoga.