Brandon and Lindsey

Cutest blog on the what? ....

2011-10-31T13:22:00.000-07:00

Ok seriousley I don't know why I stink at this!? Ug I hate that I get on here and look at everyones blogs and when my home page pulls up there is that button on the left side that is all cute saying "Cutest blog on the block" really my blog needs to find a block!!! No joke. Sorry to everyone who wants to know what's up with us, I'm just not too hot with this i try and I think about it but other things sometimes take my time, Facebook, Pinterest(really I could spend all day on that site I have to limit myself on there!!) my kids, my husband, having our own business, looking at houses to buy, bills, kids activities, school, having a 15 month old, thinking of moving, cows, horse, house work, and not to mention LAUNDRY! Seriously I can't wait til my kids turn 12 and have to do there own! Wow when did we get some many!?! Oh wait it's not that we have lots it's the fact that I still have 3T mixed in with 4T and 5T and even 6T! Seriously I need to let them go! But I can't! I love them and I don't want my babies to grow up so fast! But they are, see my debate I have with myself over this!? So I end up leaving the girls room to just move on to another room, someone please stop this madness!! I'll box them up I SWEAR!

Well onto other things, what have we been up too?? The question really should be what haven't we been up too? I feel like November is here and I'm not ready for it at all! I still need summer to come back so I can do the things I wanted to do with my kids! But alast winter is just around the cornor and I'm so not ready for the cold, or wet or snow or BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to move in winter to like hawaii or costa rica or some place warm! ug plus now I have to have the fights with my kids of where are your socks? You can't wear that it's not summer anymore! Flip flops don't work when it's 20 outside! Or this has been the best yet. Here is a conversation I have with Hadley about weekly sometimes twice.

Hadley: Wow it's so hot outside
Me: Um no it's not it's like 60 outside
H:Yes but the sun is shinning so can I put on my swimsuit and play in the sprinklers?
Me: WHAT!! NO!!! Funny girl!
H: But why not it's hot outside!
Me: It's not that hot outside it's nice but not hot! And no you will get sick(saying this I have come to find out really stops alot of arguing with the girls, they must not like to be sick)

But this is just some of the fun we've been having lately! Exciting uh!? I know some of you will get this in just a few years! But anyways, we really did have a fun summer even if I can't really remember all of what we did.

Confession- In order for me to remember what we did, I will go threw my pictures on the computer! Is that bad or WHAT! And sometimes I still don't remember! Wow I should have a planner or something.

Confession- I get tired of taking pictures sometimes! UG! Really? Ya I do! It's so hard sometimes Always have my camera with me, it doesn't always work, upload the pictures, and then they sit on my hard drive and I get to see some randomly on my backdrop cause it's programed to play our pictures. But sometimes I just want to enjoy playing with my kids too. And to be honest with 3 it's hard to take pictures, I totally understand why there are less pictures with 3 or + kids, cause everyone needs there moment to shine, and with Cache being the only boy I feel like I take more of him or I leave him out and take more of the girls, oh it's a hard thing to do. Or when my camera decides to not work I have to use someone else's like my mom's and she NEVER clears off her disk so when I go to get pictures I have to wait till 1000 pictures load! I try to help her but really it doesn't help sometimes. So for those of you who are waiting to see your kids from the girls birthday party, that is where those pictures are! Sorry they will come I promise!

Confession- Life is hard and marriage is harder! Really I don't remember if it's 5 years is the hardest or if its 7 but either way we hit 5 and I have never been tested like this in a marriage! Really I'll be honest here folks cause this is my blog after all and all of you who read this are friends or family so you must care somewhere but we've had a hard time lately and it could be a couple of things that have added up to it that we just take it out on each other, which we shouldn't do but ya it's been a challenge.

Confession- We are looking to buy a home(sorry to alert people in our ward this way!) But it's true we've put two offers on the house we are in and the people that own it are CRAZY and think it's worth a diamond mine! No joke so we have been looking and looking and looking at other places. Just know that none of them so far have grabbed my heart strings and said "HOME" yet. some are nice and we could make a home but I've been waiting for that one that just yells at me when I walk into it "this is the place!!" Ha ha totally stole that from Pres. B. Young! But we will stay here until we find something or some prayers are anwsered and we can buy this house. But don't worry we still love our ward and our callings and that is one thing that we are having issues with while looking at other houses, outside of ward boundries(yikes i know) I don't want to leave this area at all or my road I love my road and I love my neighbors and friends. (*sniff*)

Confession- My house is hardly ever clean. No joking here at all. I will start to clean it and it will be clean for like a night then everyone wakes up and I don't know what happens. It all goes to hell! Serious, it drives me nuts, I so want a clean home I do and I try (I guess not good enough) but it's not clean, so if you come over just know that it maybe messy and dishes in the sink or counter cause the dishwasher is empty but I'm the only one that knows how to load it I guess, so they just haven't made it in yet. And there will most likely be a basket of clothes that need to be folded in my room or by the laundry. I even like to fold but I just doesn't happen sometimes. Sorry.

Confession- I'm not one of those amazing LDS moms that you see on other blogs. I have my bad days lots, and I don't like to compare myself with them. I have crafts that are have done almost done and haven't even touched yet sitting in my room just waiting for me. But those are things that have to wait until I have time to myself to enjoy it cause otherwise all my kids end up in the same place as me and wanting to paint or glue with me and for those of you that let your kids more power to ya, but me I can't. You see that is my escape, that is my time and something I pride myself in and so when I get into my "craft zone" you could say I like for it to be me my craft and some kind of music. Not the best but that is how I am sometimes, same with cooking, I have a hard time letting my kids help cause when I cook I like for it to look nice, ug who thinks that way?! What is wrong with me?!? I will let them help but wow it takes A LOT of pacitence for me and deep breathing to get threw it! Wow! I know, minus 10 points from Gryiffendor. UG!

Confession- I enjoy my confession time on the computer- hopefully I can help someone else out there!

Confession- I don't think I've ever been this honest before, but who am I kiding? Facebook is not the place to put stuff like this!!! Could you imagine all the comments from people? I can see them now! Ha ha I think I would like to see alot of the comments but I'll spare myself! I think there is enough negative out there and I try to keep it happy or just keep my mouth shut! And read about everyone elses drama and then I feel better about myself! Ha ha ha really isn't that how it is?

Confession- Sister in laws. Enough said.

No really where did mine come from? Goodness I don't even know, sometimes I love them to the moon and back and so happy they are in our family and then other days I think, yep no good. I know what your thinking wow that is harsh and you should love them always, oh I do, it's just that sometimes I wish we could all be on the same page, but alast we are not, and I'm coming to find this out more and more and it's very hard for me and my mom.

Confession- Next to Brandon, my mom is totally my best freind. I don't think there is anything we don't talk about, we will call each other just to say hello. and have nothing to talk about at all but it ends up being an hour phone call, or the best is while I'm talking to her I'm packing up the kids to head over to her house to finish the convo with her in person. Love my mama. She is the bomb. I would be lost without her.

Confession- I love my husband. We have our hard times, but we really have a good time together. We laugh and talk about who knows what but we can spend 4 plus hours in the car together and not even remember what we talked about but we are both smiling and happy and holding hands.... yep he is pretty amazing with me. It's hard when I'm the youngest(not gonna lie we are spoiled kids) and he is the oldest(not gonna lie they have it the hardest) but some how we complete each other, I give him what he is missing and he gives me what I'm missing. And sleeping together just completes it all! Ha ha TMI!!! Then again this is my blog!! But that is as far as I go with that!

Confession- I love my girls! Really people think I'm crazy that they are the same age for 8 days or that they are 51 weeks apart, but they are best friends, I never have to worry about them having someone to play with. And they are getting even more into that pretend stage and I love to hear them in there room or out side and they are having so much fun! WARNING- Girls FIGHT! AND they fight HARD! But then 20 mintues later best friends again! I love it! Do I get aggervated with them yes I do but I love them lots cause one day they will move out and get married and then I just won't know what to do! Love my babies!

Confession- I love having a boy! Cache is the coolest and cutest boy EVER! He is my buddy, until he hears that Daddy is home or hears his truck pull in and I'm last on his list! This boy loves his da da! And loves everything that he loves, he loves to get in his truck and pretend to drive and to walk around with him and feed the animals with him and to sit on the couch and read or play barn on the floor, as long as he is with his daddy he is happy! Love this boy he is SO DIFFERENT then girls too! So it's pretty exciting for me to watch him grow cause he is growing into the cutest boy who will treat all girls amazing! :) And he can thank his mama for that one then his sisters next!

Confession- I love my life! Really I have days that are hard and tough but then I have days that I just feel so over whelmed with emotion and joy for the blessings in my life! I Love that feeling. Life is hard but it's worth it.

Thanks for reading and I'm gonna try and find some pictures to share with you of how much and fast my family has grown up!

Not so different ....

2011-05-22T23:03:00.000-07:00

Ok so this post is just one of those ones that I have to get off my chest.

So when I named my oldest I thought "Wow her name is SO different I love it!"

Well it was .... then we moved to Hooper .... there is a Hadley in our ward!

REALLY????!!! Out of all the places we have two Hadleys.

So that is ok it's kind of fun, BUT now I'm hearing it EVERYWHERE!!!!! Ug, really
when did it become so popular? I ALWAYS ALWAYS HATED, seriously, HATED being
Lindsey S. in school. It totally sucked, AND everyone ALWAYS SPELLED my NAME WRONG! And now there are TONS of lil Hadleys runnin around!!

Well come to find out people have been spelling Hadleys name wrong, LIKE at SCHOOL! UG!

Or they try to make it different, STOP doing that it messes people UP! (this is how we spell my childrens names: Hadley, Taylor, Cache. Really? Is it that hard? Should I have stuck with names like Ace? Or Texie Or Summer?)

So HERE is my real annoyance, I was told the other day that my honey knows a girl that went to school with him or something like that and she is having a baby girl..... GUESS what HER name is going to be ...... HADLEY PAIGE!!!

UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Why?!?! What?!!?!?! Poo! How is it that someone can have the same middle name as my daughter? Really?!?!?!?! I mean I really thought her name was so different and NO ONE would ever name there daughters that. Cause it's such a country name to me and it has SO much meaning behind it for us. Her WHOLE name, not just first but middle too!

Then we went to Kindergarden Round-up and there is a BOY with the name HADLEY!!!! Serious! She better not be in the same class as him! But really, how annoying!

Well so much for being DIFFERENT! I guess she gets to live with the Hadley M.

Sorry Hads, I really thought it was a not common name. I did try, but as fate has it you get to live what I did in school. Oh goodness. So is the story of my life!

Annoyance written, thanks.
More to come on what is new with life and the chitlins!!!
Love Love!

Spring ... Nope ... New Food ... Yes ...

2011-05-19T10:58:00.000-07:00

Ok so besides the face that I'm totally annoyed by the weather .... so is my honey... hard to cut wet grass, and even worse while it's rainning. So to make myself feel better I decieded to cook! Ya lets get fat with food! That was my thinking, not the best but hell if summer and spring don't show up soon, I might as well move to Washington! Who needs sunshine anyways? So off my soapbox ... sorry.

So Like I was saying I cook. My family nicknamed me "Martha" and so I may like crafting and cooking and trying to be organized but hey by no means am I good at it.
So my mom actually got me hooked on this new lil treat, and it's kind of healty too! Go figure! It's Bruschetta. And boy oh boy so worth the make! And it's way EASY! Couldn't believe how easy it was and wow just good. But the thing was I needed some french bread to eat it with and me being the cute momma I am totally forgot the french bread at the store so I found a recipe and made some ... it's now a favorite of ours and it made 2 loaves! So here are my pictures of it and try not to drull and if ya would like we can plan a get together and I'll make it all for ya! I felt like I was in Italy or something eating and making all this! Love it! You even toast one side of your bread! Awesome! I love makeing new fun things like this!

Oh and there is the funny part, when Brandon came home he tried it and he doesn't like tomatoes so he put a bit on his bread and eat it and then SHOVED the rest of his bread into his mouth! Seriously so funny! But he also thought that was our dinner so he would dip the bread into the sauce .... he ate half a loaf of bread! So funny! I was making pasta for dinner too! He is crazy but that is why I love him! (Like I would really just give my kids and husband this for dinner?)

So we had a nite in Italy! And I have lunch tomorrow!

I know I know how amazing is that? And really that is all the ingredients! But SO GOOD! Ok I'm done talking about it...for now:)

Harry Potter is in all of us ...

2011-03-29T21:35:00.000-07:00

So my husband is very funny, seriously. he can come up with the best one liners or just at the right moment say something and you will have tears rolling down your face. Ha ha I'm laughing right now thinking about funny things he has said, some are inside jokes that only i would get which to me is sad cause I think why is noone else laughing at this it is funny, but that is just me, anywho ... so we have this on going joke about Harry Potter, the girls totally love the movies, well the ones I let them watch, up to movie 4 and not even that one all the way, it is scary for them. So we had to watch 1 and 2 alot, and by alot i mean ALOT, daily! And Brandon hated them, serious. But then one day he says out of the blue "lets watch Harry Potter" For real?! So the girls are all excited and can't wait. Well my whole family has given him crap for not liking it etc. And when I told them he wanted to watch it they just started to laugh and someone said something about him getting "on board" and so now it's our joke of "toot toot" and this one is my favorite, we will text it to each other or out of nowhere in the middle of the night I will hear "Give me my wand Tom" HA HA HA HA! Serious it's so funny. So just little jokes like this are too much for me and I think at least weekly we talk about something to do with it. And this was our last one.

We were sitting at the dinner table and Hadley was kicking a ball and I said something about her being right handed but she hits and kicks lefty. And how she is amidixtrous that way and I say " when I was little I was amidixtrous" and here is the response I get "Ya anyone can pull out there wands and say amidixtrous. AMIDIXTROUS!(Pretending to pull out a wand and point it at me)" Ha ha ha oh man too funny. So I'm going to start putting our latest Harry quotes on here cause he kills me or anything else funny he does, like today for instance. I text him telling him he didn't smell like Santa he smelled of beef and cheese. and he text back saying no I smell like fire. Me WHAT? I get home and he says go look at the garden! He burned all the weeds down. ME: Why did you do that Him: Because I had some gas I wasn't useing and a hose with water. Ha ha ha ha then he got in his truck and left to do some work! Serious!
Nice a total piro! One more reason I love that man! Oh my goodness too much! Anyways, some of you may want to not read this since it's more for me to look back at and laugh, sorry I'm not good a journaling, but I want to be, and this is mine, in a way. So peace!

Hello world how you been? ...

2011-03-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

Ok so I really sucked this up! Goodness I have the best intentions with our blog but man 3 kids is alot and when I have time to myself I want to sleep! So this gets left in the dark, or I look at it while I look at all of my friends and see how they are then I say I should write, but I don't I find something else to do ... clean, clean, oh maybe clean, I may cook, or sleep. Wow I know some of you are so not missing out!

So where in the world do I start??? The last post was 8 months ago, time flys no joke, and goes even faster when you have kids. So lets just start with this ...

June:
Let see here. I'll try to tell you how Cache was born, without boring you. The saturday before we went up to East Canyon to go fishing, hoping the drive would help move things along, I was at a 2 and 80% and I really wanted to have him on the 27th it was just a good time with our vacation coming up. So we did that and walked around with the girls and they got really bord of fishing like that cause face it when you aint catching it's no fun for 3 and 4 year olds. So we decieded to go to the fish farm and they girls love no like really love the fish farm. They ask if we can go all year. So we did that and i was having pressure and contractions but nothing too serious yet. So we decided to try castro oil - Note i do not recomment this it was GROSS!! I couldn't even finsh my milk shake, ug I still get the gag reflux when I think of it. So we just had a fun night in and settled in the ice cream and a movie with the girls, well I couldn't for the life of me get comphy, and I was in pain. I had to get up and move around, I was up at 2 3 4 5 6 and finally at 7 I couldn't take it anymore, we got everyone ready for church (it starts at 9) and I told brandon that I would see how i was doing after that, well it was just painful and we decided to go up to the hospital and just have a look cause my contractions were hurting. My brother and sis in law were speaking the their ward and my parents were to speak in theres later that day, so we dropped off the girls to my parents who went to hear them speak and told my mom and sis in law to come up after if the keep us. So we get there and get checked and they tell me i'm at a 4 and call my doc and he says to check me in. I'm so excited! So we get to our room around 11ish and start with the monitors and iv and things like that well I get to a 5 or 6 and ask for the epidural (very much heaven sent) and everything is going like clock work my doc was out on a hike in the mountains and came right from there to break my water and then he said he was going to go home and change etc, that was around 1 and come 3:30 they were getting me ready to have another baby! So excited! It was so easy too! They are like push and I do and push again and I do ( ok not that I have any idea why they say that cause I really don't know how to "push" or if I'm even doing it right I just kind of squint my eyes and act like I'm pushing!!) And then there he was our still un named boy! With lots of hair and as cute as a button! Well the name thing was kind of a big thing to us. I wanted Payson first and B wanted Cache first, and all in all i kind of really didn't care cause I love both names. So we got all done and then everyone left the room and it was just me and B and baby and Daddy was holding him and I told Brandon that he could choose the name, so we had a prayer with our boy and then Brand just started to cry and it was really an amazing experience, we both were filled with the spirit and brandon told him his name is Cache Brand Manscill. And we both cryed and hugged and kissed and then kissed our boy and spent a few more moments with him before we let everyone back in cause that is just how it was, they were all taking bets on what we would pick to Bran wrote his name on the white board and they all came back in to see what it was. And it was a really sweet moment. And now we have our super cute little boy who looks just like his daddy! And I love it! I loved seeing Brandon with our girls, and still do but I love seeing him with his boy! He is an amazing father! And he loves his babies so much! They really do change a boy into a man and then they have a very tender spot in his heart, My honey may look like he is tough and not nice but he is the gentalest man ever, kids really do soften them up. Love it!
Cache was born! Yahoo! He sure was a cute baby!

July:
Family Vacation to North Carolina; drove with my parents and 3 kids, and got there in 2 1/2 days, non stop! Brandon flew. Lucky. No serious it was so fun! I would do it in a heart beat again. The girls were awesome and Cache just slept, and we made some great memories. We celebrated my Grandparents 65th Wedding Anniversary and then also turned it into a family reunion, the last one was there 50th, been a long time. And we hit the beach( but not my proudest moments in a 2 peice after 3 weeks of having a baby, still look at the pictures and gag) And we got to see the country and it was amazing! I love driving and I just wish Brand could of drove with us, dang that owning your own business crap. Hopefully soon he will be able to do a drive with us and we can spend some more time in different states instead of driving threw and just stopping at gas stations and food resturants. But still so fun! And the girls loved swimming at the pool and playing in the ocean. And I loved seeing my family! Sure do miss them!

I could add TONS of picts to this one but I won't, I'll wait for another day!!!

August:
Celebrated Hooper Tomatoe Days. The girls tryed out for Lil Miss Pink Tomatoe, Hadley got 1st Princess!!! She was a freaking cutie! Holy cow! ( Don't worry pictures will be at the bottom) And she just loved it! We even got new cowgirl clothes for it! And everyone told Brandon to watch out cause this is just the beginning! And trust me our future is looking scary with the bank account if she and Taylor keep this up!! Ha ha no just kidding we are excited for all that they are doing! And they have an amazing Daddy who will work his butt off to support them! Love that guy, just thought I would put a plug in there for my honey! Love you!! Lets see oh yes we also celebrated our 4 year anniversary, we didn't go anywhere just to dinner, and Brandon got me some really cute horseshoe earrings! He is amazing! We spent some time at the fish farm and doing family things like that!

September:
The girls both started pre-school, Hadley for the 2 time and Taylor for the first, thier Daddy cried! He is such a tender guy! So for 2 1/2 hours it's just me and cache time, or we are at the grocery store, it's no fun taking 3 even thou they do good, some of the time. The girls also started up dance, I love it, they are so good and learning to much. And Cache turned 3 months, and is growing so fast he can hold his head up and is sitting with support. Crazy how time flies. We also blessed Cache this month too! Brandon gave him a great blessing. And he was really excited too!

October:
Hunting season ... enough said. Dad gone for a couple of weekends, and nothing "cool" to "report" I was going to go but didn't cause I didn't have a sitter(my mom) to watch the kidos. And it's ok. It was fun to be home with them. I hung out at my parents which was just as fun and like a get away for me. We also celebrated Halloween, Hadley was a witch/nice one, Taylor was a nice devil(ha ha right) and Cache was my bear cub! He was pretty cute. They had fun trick or treating, and the trunk or treat was great it just finished down poring in time for it! And the girls had parties at school, it was fun! We also got school pictures taken from my moms school at the beginning of the month, they turned out pretty cute!

November:
Mowing season comes to an end and Christmas Lights go up. Meaning my honey is up on roofs making peoples home pretty! So exciting! And life risking! Oh my days are never dull! We had a fun time with Brandon's side of the family for Thanksgiving down in Orem. And we got ready for the holidays to start up. And ya ... doing all this from memory and it's kind of hard. Brandon also got into an accident this month too!!! Don't worry it wasn't his fault and he is ok(remember this for march)

(Ok I don't have any pictures of this stuff, I can't find any right now but just know we did eat turkey!!!)

December:
Happy 26th Birthday Honey! Wow amazing! We have been together 6 years! We went on our first date on the 3rd and pretty much have been together since! Don't know what I would do without this guy! Worthy to take me to the temple every month and to hold the preisthood and to have an amazing calling as the 2nd coun. in Elders Quorm. And still loves me and wants to be with me! That is amazing cause sometimes I can be .... well like me!!! I love you Babe and I can't imagine life without you in it!
The girls also put on a Christmas program at school, it was so cute and they still sing the songs. And I rode front runner for the first time with the YW to see the lights at Temple Square, that just really sets the mood for the season if you ask me.

Merry Christmas! What in the world was up with the pillow pet crave this year?!?!? Oh well my girls each got one! Hadley got the unicorn she wanted and Taylor got the Bumble Bee. They love them. They also got new boots and leapsters!( best money ever spent) They had a great Christmas! Cache got lots of clothes, he was more interested in eating the paper than anything!! Brandon said I got spoiled, and in a way I did! Hey sometimes Mommies go without for lots of things and sometimes we deserve it! And Brandon got some pretty awesome things too! My parents also gave each of us 4 kids video cameras that have the option of taking pictures on it as well! I love mine! It's so amazing! They really are the best and my mom started to cry when she was telling us why they got them for us. Love my parents they are totally amazing! Don't know what I would do without them! My mom is so funny she says that Brandon is one of the hardest people to shop for, which he is sometimes, but she's like but when I find a "theme" for him it's so fun and I find so much for him! She is funny! We of course did cookies and my mom and hadley made a gingerbread house, taylor fell asleep at the table waiting to start. But me and her made one the next day! And the girls were spoiled by all the grandparents, we have amazing families that love us so much! Truely blessed beyond belief!

January:
New Years was so fun! Brandon and I went to Bull Wars before the ball dropped with his Dad and his date, it was fun I love getting all Cowgirled Up! We looked pretty hot. Then we went down to my brothers house to bring in the new year!!! It was fun! I celebrated my 26th Birthday!!! Wow really?!?! Can I be this old??? We didn't really do too much to celebrate just dinner and cake and presents!! I'm still in the YW's program as the 2nd Counslor and we do a thing called "Winter Camp" which is just a fun way to say sleep over and play time mixed with a bit of Personal Progress. We went down to our Pres. Cabin in Manti and it was a blast!!! We went snowmobiling and had good food and even planned some fun activities for the year and even had special spritual time too! We have amazing YW in our ward they are so strong, I don't think I was ever that strong when I was thier age or even had a testimony like they do. Sure are an amazing generation. We also celebrated my Daddy's Birthday! Love him lots! Amazing man right there! And loved me and my family like nothing else! Oh and big news!! My brother and my sister in law had there sweet lil baby Addison Kate too!!!! Oh man she is tiny! And cute! They are the cutest new parents! They moved into there new house last year. Mommy and Baby are doing great! And my brother is the cutest Daddy to his girl. He is so super tall, and he holds her and she looks like a lil football!! Too funny! BIG NEWS!!!!! WE GOT A HORSE!!!! Her name is Blue Jeans! ( Thank you very much hannah montana!) She is a gray 20 year old mare! And is very good with kids and letting us learn on her! The girls love her! They are so excited to finally have a horse! They say we are "real cowgirls now!!" How cute is that???? Oh and we also got 3 baby calves! How exciting right?? They are pretty cute! And they all drink from bottles! I now have 6 kids to take care of!!! PS Cache learned to roll over the beginning of this month too!!! crazy!!!

Febuary:
(Almost caught up, good cause my brain is almost fried!) Happy Lovers Month!! That is what I texted Brandon on night, and he texted back what does that mean?! Really? Gees some guys! He's totally not thinking like me ... TMI??? But lets see here, Happy Birthday Nater Tater!!! Happy Birthday Heidi!!!! Happy Birthday Adam!!!!! Is that all .... yes it is. The first like 6 months of the year are full of birthdays!! Love it! I also LOVE valentines day! I have so many decorations that I forget what I have!!! Love decorating the house for each hoilday! The girls had a tea party with there friends and bubba is still the only boy!! Bubba is Cache's nickname. I love it and he responds to it, but when you say his real name he gets this big ol smile on his face!! So stinkin cute! Love that boy! The girls are great sisters to him and love him lots! Wow I haven't talked much about the kids, they grow so stinkin fast it's hard to keep up. The girls are awesome and learning lots! Wow so love pre-school they are so smart! And they love going! They are also doing amazing in dance! I can't wait for the recital! It will be busy but fun!!! I love my girls, even if I don't get to do there hair the way I want and you only see them in pony tails, sorry but they both have lots and I don't think I will ever cut it! I'm afraid it won't grow back!!! I do trim it and they get there bangs cut, only by my mom ( again too scared and not the best at cutting just look at my honeys hair, I cut his too) and bubba is tryin to catch up to his sisters! he's eating food, baby food, and sits like a star! He taught himself how to sit up from laying down this month! Crazy! and he just rolls all over! Not excited for the next step... crawling. He already rolls everywhere! And then he gets stuck and cries! It's kind of funny! And he loves to play with his sisters, he likes to sit in thier room with them or in the front room and just be around them. He also says Dada. he is in love with his Daddy! Such a fan! Don't get me wrong he loves his mamma, who does't?? But when Daddy walks in he is the only thing he follows and gets a big ol grin and so excited to see him! Love it. This next year is going to be so fun, he will have such a shadow at his feet! Can't wait. The girls are the same way! ( How did I get blessed to have such an amazing husband whose kids love him so much? They want to be with him all the time and always ask where his is if he is gone. Love it) Lets see here, we made our valentines breakfast too, love pink pancake hearts. And spent time with the honey! During the winter months he works a grave shift to keep busy and out of my hair!! So he's home during the day well half of it and then goes into work. it's not too bad and he likes it, it keeps his mind going for business, he comes home and tells me all these ideas he has and we run from there! So if you see us during these months (jan Feb and March) that maybe why we look like we are crazy cause we are for one but we are getting ready to start up a new season! ( If you need some yard work give us a call! GrassBusters Yard Care! 801-710-2433, tell him Lindsey sent you and you may get a discount!!!;) Or that you saw it on our blog!!!) Anywho, like that I so just thought of that on my own! Yep I'm pretty business smart too!!! No not really, anyways.... That seems to me like feb.

March:
Oh you roll in like a Lion and CRASH!!!!! Oh what was that Lindz you were just in a car accident!??!?!? And Cache was in the car and you were on your way home from the doctor with him!!!??? She was 16!!!! She didn't stop either, just keep driving as she was hitting you!!!! She totaled your Tahoe!!!?? You have to wear a knee brace for 5 weeks cause you hit your knee cap on the dash as you were hit and you have whip lash and Cache was hurt(only a bit)!?!?!? And you are going nuts!?!?!! And and and OH WHAT A MONTH!!!!!! Yes that was the start of this month! Pretty exciting uh?!?!? No not really not even how I wanted to start my month! Very un cool! Oh wait what's that 5 days later someone hits your honey too!!! What the HELL!!?!?!? Ok yeah this month is totally not cool! What what was that he has the work trailer with him and what is inside of it, oh a baby calf!! Are you ...... kidding me!?!?!? Wow what else can I say?!?! It's been a crazy start of the year! Oh ok so I totally forgot about all of this, my kids have been crazy sick this year too! So I was so done. Done with the crappy weather, ready for spring summer anything where the sun shines and we can get out of our house and play outside and not freeze our butts off. But now all this. March you better roll out like a lamb or heaven help me! (ps no animals were harmed in any of this by the way and all are very healthy and eating in the barn as we type) So this has been a recap of the last 8 months, kind of, my baby is crawling! So cute! And pullin himself up onto everything! My girls are totally amazing! And I don't know what I would do without them! Hadley had Kindergarden round up this past week!!! I almost cried at that! But I'm so excited too! We drive past the school now and she goes there is my kindergarden school!! ha ha ha love it! taylor went on a field trip with her class to the living plant aquarium, we have never been and it was so fun! She loved it! Glad I get to go on field trips with my kids! I like being the mom with the baby stroller and hanging out with the kids, totally worth the headache and tiredness when I came home! I do have alot to look forward too this next month, the girls will turn 4 and 5, easter, spring.... seeing what the doc says about my knee, pray i don't need surgery, spring, planting our garden, spring ... um did i say spring?!!? Sunshine, playing outside, sunshine. SPRING!!!! Can you tell I'm excited for it?!?! But I also live in Utah where we woke up to snow on the ground this morning and going to bed with it all melted, So you never know, you never know and you can't trust the weather guys cause they have been wrong for the past like 2 weeks, you just have to wake up and hope for the best! My sister celebrated her birthday this month, and so did brandon's brother, too! They actually share the same day! Nice! But alast my sister does live in Montana so I wished her a happy bday on the phone and threw texting! I've have been extreamlly blessed this month also thew all this my neighbors have been amazing, they have brought us meals, made sure we are ok, some offered for us to use thier cars while we were looking for new ones(we had super nice rentals 2011, hard to give back) Our business has been good, and we even spent time with just the two of us! My kids ALL spent the weekend with my mom and dad! Cache got to have his first sleep over at my moms with the girls! So fun! So we went to the temple and out to dinner and then, slept! Serious it's so nice to sleep all night long! All in all it's been a good month, I even got in a girls night! Brandon and my relationship has gotten so much stronger and our love has only grown more and more. I truely love that man! I can't imagine life without him in it! We have spend lots of family time in the barn every night feeding cows and taking care of blue jeans. We have been in this house now for 3 years this august! Crazy! I love it, we talk about moving but I just can't see it right now. I love my ward and my friends and I love where we live. Nothing better than Hooper!! Well my knee is killin me so I'm gonna head off to bed, all my kidos are fast asleep and not in there beds, one is on the couch and one is next to me in my bed!! hee hee she is so cute! She read her story and then rolled over and was out! Love my girls! But anywho I guess I'll try to put up some pictures too! This could take some time but everyone loves pictures! I know I do! It's like a suprise in a book oh look some pictures! Even better if they are in color!

Our Boy!!!

2010-06-28T15:29:00.000-07:00

Well it finally happened .....

WE HAD OUR BABY BOY!!!!

That's right at 3:40 pm on June 27, 2010 and was 7lbs 2oz and 19 inches long. And he has a head full of cute blonde hair. We ended up naming him ......

CACHE BRAND MANSCILL

And I don't have my pictures uploaded yet, to post but here is some of him

I'll post more later.

Sunshine where are you...

2010-03-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

Well crap I suck! Gees a whole month and no updates!! That is just crazy .... well not really but I guess that is what has been going on here, not a whole lot. My girls have broken my camera AGAIN! This is the second one since October! I'm so tired of having to get new cameras! But I've got to get one cause lots of stuff is going to be happening soon and I need some pictures! And I want to know where the sunshine is. I've done nothing but freeze the last couple of months, I'm so ready for summer! I have loved watching our grass turn green and watching the pasture behind us turn green also. Gets me so excited for summer. Hadley keeps reminding me that we need to get a pool for the backyard!! She is so excited to go swimming too! And to just play outside without coats again! I'm ready to just get out of the house for longer than 20 mins. I'm not a fan of the cold, or the cold wind that likes to blow with the sunshinning! Ug. So...

So baby update, he is still inside! Ha ha ha and growing great! We went to our Targeted Ultasound on the 16th and man he is a lil stinker already!! He never wants to show his face or anything. But he is growing good and oh my goodness a doll! I can't wait till he is here and I can just kiss on his lil checks and cuddle with him! Instead of him kicking me in the ribs or just anytime for that matter!!! But I've got his bedroom stuff picked out and I can't wait til it comes. And I'm starting to get some clothes for him. Man i've got to start all over with alot of things cause I got rid of alot with the girls!! So here is a picture of my boy and also of his bedset.

But we are getting more and more excited get him here! I think Brandon is more excited but is hiding it from me!

Lets see here, April is going to be a busy month, which I love busy months. And we started our garden, inside first this time, hopefully I get my produce before October like last year. And the girls loved getting the seeds and planting them and now watching them grow! It's pretty exciting!! Not too much has been going on thou. Brandon is starting up the Grass business again and staying busy with workin and I'm staying really busy with the house and children! We will have more exciting things coming up but for now, enjoy our lil boys picture and I'll try to have something exciting happen soon!

Wee Care I'm sick of you!

2010-02-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

So I'm just posting to say my annoyance with sickness. I've been to Wee Care 3 times this past week. And let me tell you it sucks!

Tuesday - Hadley comes home and has those nasty boogers in her eye, so I call and make an appointment, the only one to note that we get in with in 30 mins or so. We go and she has a cold in both her eyes, it's really gross. And a bit of a cough. So the Doc gives her some Amoxicillan to cure it. And I know that soon Taylor will for sure get it cause that is just how it is with kids. Well Tay is allergic to Amoxicillan.

Saturday- I come home from a Bridal shower and a bit of shopping with my mom, it was a blast we even went to the Mall without kids! I felt like I was in High School! It was nice, but I come home to find, ug, yucks in Taylors eye, well I didn't want to go back into the Doctor cause I knew she would just have the same thing as Hadley so I called and asked if I could just get a different Medicine for Taylor cause she can't have Amoxicillan. So they say we will call you back. Well I called around 5, I didn't get a call back until 8:30! Crazy! So in the mean time threw out the week Hadley has woken up with red rash looking stuff on her. So she just got worse that night so I'm concerned. So the girls were in the bath and we pull both out and just pack up to head to Wee Care and I get the phone call as we are driving there, weird. Plus Hadley eye is getting gross again! I mean BOTH girls with yucky eyes, I can't handle it. They are so helpless. So as I'm talking to them they tell me the Doc wants to look at Taylor first to make sure it's the same thing! What! Well I tell them I'm on my way with both of my children. And the lady on the phone says well we are booked for the night, our next opening is at 12:40 and 12:50 AM!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! You are Wee Care in 5 hours they aren't going to be the same as they are now. So we still go and make those LATE appointments and hang out at my parents until it's time. By this time Hadleys rash has gone away lots! Like they would look at me and say she had what! So we get in and it took forever to see the doctor. I think they only had one guy working, serious, it was lame! Well he tells us Taylor has PINK EYE and CROUP!!!!! And Hadley now has PINK EYE and ALLERGIC TO AMOXICILLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UG!!!! Noway this is just lame. So he gives us some eye drops and Taylor gets a shot! So everyone stays home from church, but me. Cause I'm feeling fine, Brandon has a cold to top if off, so I have 3 sick kids to look after! When I get home we all take naps and try to get better. Well the girls still aren't at there best but getting better,we hope. So Monday morning Taylor has this wicked HOT fever! So I give her some meds to take it down, so i give it to her all day, nothing is working. By 5 or 6 I call my parents cause I'm nervous, she has this yucky cough, short quick breaths, and this way hot fever. And after looking online at different things it sounds like RSV! Now I'm trying not to freak out or start crying my eyes out on the phone with my mom. She tells me call W.C. and to get over to her house. I call WC and they tell me "WE ARE BOOKED UNTIL 11 PM. OUR NEXT APPOINTMENT IS AT 11:40!" I can't believe it. So we head in at that time, and they talk to me about things that have been going on and take her temp, it's 104! And the Doc is kind of funny cause I tell him ya we were in her last night, and he goes, you didn't see me did you! ha ha ha, funny old guy! Well they check her oxygen and it's fine, and they do a strep test and then they were going to do some kind of white blood cell count, don't remember the name for it cause all things medical have to be really long and noone can say it. The strep test comes back neg, so they run the other test, yep there is an infection in her lungs! Holy Shiz is all I can think, what the ________ does that mean!!?? Well it means if her fever doesn't go away in 4 days we have to come back in, or if her breathing is more than 50 breaths per min we have to go back in! Otherwise we just let it run it's course. So thus I'm sick of Wee Care. OH to top it off Brandon wakes up on Monday saying to me, look at my eye! Yep PINK EYE!!!!!!!!!! Oh man you know lets just get it all on the board and everyone get sick at the same time. My house smells like LYSOL and my big bottle of hand sanitizer is almost gone. It's like a freakin hospital here! I'm the only one not getting anything, and I keep saying it's because I have this sinus infection and it's blocking everything. So for that long long story that I could of just summarized a bit better, there is just so much to remember and type. I'm really tired of the doctors office, and that I'm not allowed to ever have Amoxicillan in my house since my husband and now 2 girls are allergic to it! Goodness, what next, healthy? That would be OH so nice!!! So this is my rant for the night. Hope that everything works out great and that everyone gets better soon! Well one is better, Hadley, she is for sure going back to school and to dance cause wow, she is so full of energy now but it will be nice to have Taylor all better and Dad.

Be Mine .....

2010-02-15T03:39:00.000-08:00

Well yesterday, really like 4 1/2 hours ago was Valentines Day(I'll explain later why I'm up at this EARLY hour) But it was also Sunday, wow could it be on a busier day? But this had to be one of the Best ones yet! Don't ask why cause I'm not even sure I could tell ya, ok well maybe it's the fact that I was super excited for it, not that I was expecting anything big like a new car or anything like that but because my honey was going to be home with me and the girlss and I kind of was excited that it would just be our family to celebrate. Well come to find out, Brandon had to give a talk (which was AMAZING) and with our early church time, 9 is very hard for us, and I had BYC at 8 it made for a bit of a stressful morning. And my advisor called to tell me that her baby was sick and if I could teach, which wasn't that hard cause it was an easy lesson and Beehives aren't too hard to teach. Cause that ment leaving Brandon to get the girls ready!! AHHHHHH! But when I rushed home after the meeting they looked ... well.... like there Dad fixed there hair! Time to spend some more time in the bathroom with him and the girls is what that told me. Wish I had my camera but he did good for me not being there, I did set out there clothes before I left! So I had wanted to make this cute little breakfast for them before I left, cause last year I made pink heart pancakes, they were super cute, and had strawberries cut up and it was fun, but I was a bit rushed this year so I found this cute thing to do with Pop Tarts that wouldn't be much work, you get Cherry ones, cause they have pink frosting on them and then a heart cookie cutter and press and you have a heart pop tart and then take some iceing, white and pipe it into a prastry bag and write a message on them like love ya, well needless to say I set the box of pop tarts on the counter and left for my meeting, that is how I roll sometimes! So I'm going to try and make a breakfast sometime this week to make up for it. I did feel bad. But when I got home the girls had eaten half each, so maybe they don't like them or it could be that they were burnt, I may need to spend a few more mins helping B with kitchen stuff. But the day before I had made red velvet cupcakes and so I had those to take to church with my lesson and my parents came to hear B talk and to help with the girls, so my mom asked if I would also get some T Bone Steaks for her and my Dad from our frezer, we had a cow, now I have a frezer full of meat, I live in Hooper hopefully enough said. Plus I married a cowboy and that is what they do and a frezer with meat that we don't eat too much of. So I kind of give it away to family!! Ha ha ha except the ground beef we do eat that. Anyways, I had planned to have a great dinner, we did have the girls so it had to include them so no steak and lobster for us, by the way how did that become such a popular thing for Valentines Day? Been wondering that for a bit now, so I made this

Yep I just took it right out of the box and put it in the oven!! What a great way to spend the day! Didn't even slave over the stove! I took a nap instead! But I did have a salad, ok that was a kit I bought at the store too! It was still made with LOVE!! And then green beans, corn, and some pears with cinnimon and sugar on them. That way we all eat them! And after I made browines, cause chocolate is yummy and even better when it's hot with vanilla bean ice cream and chocolate sauce drizzled over the top with a raspberry to top it off, B had chocolate ice cream. And the girls just wanted browine. They are pretty easy to please most of the time. But then after dinner we did gifts, which is kind of a big first for us, we have kind of done it before but it was more like dinner and a redbox was our present. So B went with Hads on Saturday to get my gift and he calls me while at the store asking if I got the girls anything, I think in my head um.... no was I susposted too? So he said he would get something for them! Wow this guy has come a long way! Well they were at IFA, my children know this store like nothing else I've seen, they can hear it on the radio or we drive passed and they say there is IFA! Weird, they do the same thing with CAL Ranch. Anyways, so they ended up with these cute long sleeve shirts, on is pink with a heart and horse on it the other is black with a boot and flowers on it, they are rinestones by that outline them. And then B gave me mine and WOW, it's this bracelet that I like it's all silver and has bling all over it and it's a cowgirl belt bracelet, looks like this

I was so excited, this is the most he's ever spent on a weird holiday like this one. Then he opened mine, it was a Harry Potter movie and Oreos, like I said we kind of go cheap on these holidays. Ug, if I only knew! One extra point for him!!! So it was a fun filled day.

Now as to why I'm up this late. It's my NOSE!!!! Ever since I got pregnant I've had a sinus infection. And I've taken every pill out there and ya it's Febuary and I still have it! It's really annoying. So around 3:30 am every morning I wake up cause I feel like I'm about to die from not breathing! (My Doctor had given me prescriptions for this but I'm not sure if they are helping, I go on Tuesday so I'll get a refill on one that I think was working) And i can't sleep, so I toss and turn and I'm just ug. So I figured I would blog instead of sleep, I may regreat this come 7ish. But there just isn't much I can do, i hate breathing out of my mouth at nite, it really bugs, and my lips get all dried out, gross. I feel like her, only not this cute.

So this way I can drink my water and stay up til one side decides to unclog and I can breath out of it and i'll sleep on the couch cause right now I have a little girl in my bed and I just don't sleep good on my bed. I don't know it's totally weird.

But I'm sure you want a baby update, well I'm forsure showing, I wear jackets ALOT to cover my bump. I'm not ready for this yet! And it feels weird to have a "tummy" even thou I know it's not a "tummy" come on it feels and looks like it! And I'm sure you want to see like the side picture, well I don't do that. If you get to see a picture of me pregers on here it will be my face! And even then maybe not, cause I'm in that I don't feel pretty stage. I feel like a lump of goop. But I did redo my Babyfit.com page, they are amazing for eating and exercise and counting down the days for you and giving you weekly updates on what is going on inside you! Plus what the babe looks like, I've done this now with all my kids, cause I have so many!!! And it's really fun, (Holy cow I've written alot tonight! Wow sorry) so i've also been looking at bedding and colors and all kinds of boy stuff, I'm going to go and get this super cute blanket thing tomorrow to sew for him. And ya I'm really excited for him to be here, I keep thinking that I'm having him in like 2 months, cause I had both the girls in April, and I forget that I still have 4, wow that seems like a long time, but it's going by and he will be here soon enough and then I'll wonder what have we done!?!?!? (I think I'm writing so much cause I feel like I'm talking to someone that isn't under the age of 4 and that can relate to me in someway or another, like an adult, I need to get out more!!) Ya those are just side notes. But I think for the night/morning I'm going to head off to the couch or bed or somewhere and try to sleep and hope my nose will stop draining, and let me breath again. Thanks for listening, or reading.

Something Blue ....

2010-02-07T20:46:00.000-08:00

Well I've told myself I need to get better at this so here is some news.

First off....

We found out what we are having...... A BOY!!!! Oh man I'm so excited to start shopping for boy's stuff! And Brandon is so excited to not be the ONLY guy in the family now! So we have two names that we both like and we've decided that we are going to have to look at him when he is born to name him cause .... really I just can't decide on what one I want first!!! Ha ha ha.

And we are now in the process of moving our office out of that room and into the dinning room to make my first nursery! That is what happens when we lived with my parents for the first two!! This means I get to do what I want to it!! Love it! And now deciding what decorations to do and colors, lots to think about and do. Good thing I have till June/July!! I'm starting to show now, which is never fun, cause you start to feel fat. And no girl likes that feeling, no matter what the cool things await. And it's that inbetween stage too where you look at me going .. Um is she getting fat or pregers? I'm hoping to start feeling him with in the next couple of weeks. Sometimes I think I feel him but then I'm not sure if it's just stuff inside me makin room. Oh the joys of bringing something super cute and awesome into this world!!!

Second.... they redid our Young Womans Presidency and I went from being the Laurel advisor to the 2nd Counslor! And it's so fun, I'm so excited I'm still in but I miss the last Presidency too! They sure helped me in lots of areas in my life. But it's really fun to get to know the new ones and to get to work with the Beehives. I still get really nervous when I think about having to teach cause I think, I'm not that good! But it will all come together! I'm hoping I get to make it to girls camp too! That is my most favorit part of Young Womens but ... with baby on the way we will have to see.

Third we are going to be heading to North Carolina this summer to celebrate my Grandparents 65th Wedding Anniversary. And that is at the end of July so we get to take the new babe with us too! I'm super excited!

So those are just some of the things that are going on and we can't wait to hold this new baby in our arms!

When you pee on a stick .....

2009-11-24T16:23:00.001-08:00

So when we, well I, peed on the stick I got this out come!!!

And this is what the doctor showed us .....

So this means that little Manscill will be here, July 15, 2010. But the Doctor said the baby was so small that by our next appointment he will know forsure the due date. So we are really excited and I've had morning sickness, well this may be too much TMI but i guess it's something that isn't really talked about when prego so it freaked me out so I'm talking about it! But my morning sickness wasn't throwing up it was sittin on the toliet wishing I was dead, really it sucked. Until I looked it up online and found out lots of woman have that problem. So I have been on the B.R.A.T(Bananas, Rice, Applesauce,Toast) diet, kind of sucks but it works. And I get really sick at night and in the morning, and since I haven't had any of these problems when I was prego with the girls we are PRAYING this means it's a boy! So pray with us! I so need some blue and trucks in my house!!! But I can't wait! This puts a bit of a kink in some of our summer plans but oh well. I can't wait! And Brandon is really excited too, he told me he didn't mind if it was another girl!! He's crazy, plus he's not home with them like I am!! So the journey begins .... for the 3rd time!!! Ahhh I'm gonna be a momma again!! Wow 1 more and I think we will be done!! But only time will tell! For now this is it! Keep ya up to date!

Such a big girl

2009-09-25T16:12:00.000-07:00

Well I never thought the day would come that my biggest baby would be going to school.... pre school that is. And it's not like it's every day it's just Tuesdays and Thursdays but still it's weird to think that she will be turning 4 in April!!! But the good news ..... SHE LOVES IT!!!!! I'm so excited for her, she is making friends and doing all kinds of fun things and comes home with her cute papers that they did in class that day I love it! Like on A day she had to bring an Apple and on B day they brought bears and had a teddy bear picnic! So cute. But not only did my girl start pre school but she also started dance! Oh my goodness she is so funny in this class, we still have our hard moments with her not being happy but for the most part she does a great job, she does tap and ballet and tumbing all within 45 mins! Amazing! But it's scary how fast the time goes! Cause in 2 years she will be a big KINDERGARDNER!!!! Ahhhhh! I think I'll be ok with it but her Daddy well he had a hard time saying his byes to her at school, he's a real softy under it all. But it's so cute I love it! And I'm so excited for her, she is getting to do something different and it sure has put the rest of us on a routine too! Getting up early is still hard, haven't had to do it since I was working early mornings at the mall! Weird! But it's nice to have just me and Taylor time too! And so nice to just take one kid to the store! Wow talk about getting done fast and easy! So here are some pictures of our fun days!

Slacking

2009-08-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

So it's my goal to keep this up better, so I'll be posting alot this week. With the girls birthdays, summer trips, girls camp and family things just going on.

The Big 3!!!!

2009-08-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

Wow where has the time gone? Besides me slacking on the blogging?? But today 3 years ago was one of the best days of my life!!! I married my best friend, and father of my children. Yep brandon and me are celebrating our 3 year anniversary today, well we will really celebrate this weekend, he surprised me by saying we are going to jackson hole this weekend and I told him to keep the rest a surprise. But I'm so glad I married Brandon and I couldn't imagine my life without him in it. And I can't wait to have many many many more with him. To stay up late looking at the stars out in our backyard and to take our amazing drives to just be together! I'm so glad that I can stay home and be a mom to our kids and that Brandon works so hard to keep me home. I love him more and more every day and he is my one true love and I love that I can "soak it up in a hot tub with my soul mate!" Ha ha Love you more and more Brandon. Happy Anniversary Baby!!

Sealing Day

2009-06-05T16:40:00.001-07:00

well we are offically sealed as a couple and a family!!! Yahoo! On May 23, 2009 we were sealed in the Salt Lake temple and it was beautiful! We had so much fun and it's such a releif for us. The girls looked so cute in there white dresses and Brandon in his tux, he is such a hottie!! Love him so much! It was such a neat experience to see the girls come into the room to be sealed to us and they were in there white dresses, and just so awesome. hadley was so funny she saw brandon and i crying so she got this sad face on but she kept quite until after the sealing and then she started to cry it was so great! But they did so good. And it was so nice to kneel across from my sweatheart and be sealed for eternity to him. I think we cryed the most at that. Just to know that we did it, we worked so hard to get there and we were finally there! It's such a great feeling. And wearing "G"s isn't bad I was so excited to finally get to wear them! and they really don't bug us and I feel normal in them! So it's pretty fun to talk to people about it cause I love having them. It helped that I didn't really wear clothes that I couldn't wear with them. So anyways our sealer was a hawaiian so it was kind of hard to understand him but I know that it will all come to me I tryed to take in as much as i could but I tryed to just take in the moment too. But it was really fun. And then we took pictures after and that was so much fun! The girls only lasted for a little while before they were gettin tired and bored but brandon and I got some Great pictures, Natalie is amazing! She took our pictures and did so good!! I love them so much! wow she is great I highly recommend her!!! ( I'm advertising for her) But after we took pictures we changed and went home to have our open house which was so much fun! I really enjoyed it and it was just nice outside a storm was blowing in at the very end of it so it was pretty cool. So here are some pictures of that day! Hope you enjoy them I know I do!

Carson Bradley

2009-04-07T18:03:00.000-07:00

Well on the 6th of April my newest nephew was born. And here he is 7lbs 10oz 18 in long born at 7:59 am. here are a couple picts!

A Wonderful Day

2009-03-02T17:39:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was an amazing day. Brandon blessed Taylor and it was so beautiful. My mom bought Tay a dress and she looked amazing in it! I can't wait til we get to the temple. But the blessing was awesome. Brandon was ordaned two weeks ago and so this was his first time blessing on of our kids. And he was so great! I love it when I can see him cry! Really it was so cool cause he was fine until he saw Taylor walk into the room with her white dress on. And it was cool to have our families there too. We have amazing families. And after the blessing we had dinner at our house and it was so goood! Thanks to Margaret's awesome scones!!!! Love that lady! And we had najavo tacos and they were well ya so good!! we'll be doing that one some more in our family! But it was a great day, the spirit was with us all day. And I'm even more excited because Brandon and I started our temple Prep classes last week so we have 4 more to go and then it's to the temple, we are thinking in May!! So we are going to have like a reception thing after for friends and family to come and hang out and celebrate with us! I can't wait! So it's coming just you wait! And we have been truly blessed! The lord is with us all the time and Satan is really just around the bend, if we aren't careful he sneaks right in. What a blessing to have the gosple in our lives! And I know our ward has helped us so much! I know I have friends for life from this ward! They are so great! And such an example to me and our family!

Time just flys away ...

2009-01-27T17:47:00.000-08:00

Well lets see here, it's been a month since I last put anything up here, and to say the least, I didn't even put everything up! So here are my excusses!!

1- I'm sad to say that both our computer and laptop got the same virus and we can't use our internet on them, annoying.

2- We took our laptop to get fixed, it's still not fixed!!! UG $40 dollars down the drain!!!!

3- I have to travel the new 4.5 miles up to my sisters house to use the internet, is that really in excuse? Well I'm saying it is!

4- I have two children?!! Oh yeah and a husband that is being semi-retired until the season picks up. So thus I have 3 children I have to take care of!!

5- I'm just kind of lazy sometimes!

6- I'm also slacking in the taking pictures area!!

Ok so there that is so lets do a quick run down of the month.

On the first we didn't do too much, Brandon and I went and watched my cousin in the iFLY and then went to dinner at CostaVida, which was so dealous!! We are still talking about it. I love that place! Then we went home put the girls to bed and just hung out with the two of us! It was kind of fun! But we went to bed at like 12:30, um yes I know we sound like old people! We need to find more people to hang out with!!
Then on the 6th it was my 24th birthday! And I've never felt so old before! But it was a pretty cool day otherwise, beside seeing old! But I don't think we even took any pictures of it come to think about it ... um I guess that is ok. We did go out to dinner and the girls slept over at my moms, which was pretty cool.
Then lets see ... I've been gone to Young Womans every Thrusday night! (This is a shout out to everyone in my ward that reads this, and the girls!!!) But I love it! It's so much fun, and I've been making some great friends, and hopefully teaching some good lessons on Sundays.
And then on the 21 we celebrated my Daddys birthday! And that was fun.
And my Aunt and Uncle from North Carolina came out here with there two boys, there daughter is out here already for school and work and stuff! So that was lots of fun.

And lets think .... thinking ..... thinking .... yes that is about all, besides seeing friends; high school friends, and other friends. And ya, it's been a pretty good, new year!

Oh by the way ..... HaPpY nEw YeAr!!!! Man it's 2009! That is just weird! So i'm gonna try to upload some pictures, but not positive on that one, and work on this page a bit more.

Christmas

2008-12-26T22:39:00.000-08:00

So Christmas is over and so is Christmas Eve and some other Holidays that I haven't blogged about, but I'm only human and can only do so much! Kids take lots of time and so do husbands!! Ha ha I'm only hafe kidding about that!!! ;) Anyways I also just got my pictures unloaded onto this VERY SLOW new laptop we bought, ya it's way freakin slow at loading pictures for some reason, so anyhow ...

Christmas Eve! Oh what a wonderful day! We had so much fun we had dinner at my mom and dad's and it was oh so good! And then we had our Nativity after and then my parents did something new they bore thier testomines to us, so amazing! I love my parents, so spiritual. But then we all opened our new pajammies!! And it was so fun! The house was FULL of kids and love and laughter! I love it! So here are some picures of that, ( this may be a little bit long! Gonna get ya all caught up!)

My Mom got all us kids these boxes from Lehi Mills and it's all this breakfast stuff!

Here are the girls in there Jammies, I really don't like to match them but I just couldn't pass these up! They are so dang cute, and on the back of the robe it says "Yee Haw" So fun!!

Here we are opening our new jammies! This is one of my most favorite things! Look forward to it every year!! Who doesn't like new jammies? I wear my year round, I get really cold and they are very warm!!!

Here are all the grandkids, and soon to be grandkids, with our moose as the baby, hey we improvised! It's nice to have enough kids that we older kids just sit and watch it! Love it! They were so funny!!

My moms tree, so pretty!! And this is presents before Santa and the rest of the Aunts and Uncles added to it! It was great!

So that was christmas eve, and christmas day, WOW! Santa sure loves us or we have been EXTRA GOOD this year!!!;) We first went to my Mom and Dads house, we had to be there at 7:30 so we woke the girls up, they were asleep in our beds, no surprise here, well first having kids makes Christmas so much more fun, cause you get to "set stuff up" and do all that fun stuff, Brandon and I didn't go to bed, well fall asleep til like 3, we were both so excited! It was really funny, but we got the girls up looked at our stuff Santa left us and packed into the car and drove to my mom's where we had doughnuts and juice and waited for everyone to get there. And then all the kids line up, youngest to oldest and run into the room to see what Santa left! It was awesome! We had so much fun, the girls are at that stage where it's all exciting and they are starting to understand it all, they really get it now, Santa gives us lots of fun toys and clothes!! Well as they call him, Ho Ho. But we opened up our presents there and then headed back to our house, it was snowing and so perfect! I loved it! That was the only traveling we had to do that day! So nice! Then we opened up ALL of our gifts and the girls knew exactaly what to do, they got new pillows and pillow cases from santa so they sat on them and just started opening up! It was so funny, I loved it! I could do it every day it was so fun!! But Brandon and I also had some gifts under the tree as well, I so couldn't wait for him to open his!! He was really shocked at the things I got him, a new Carhartt Coat his been wanting forever, new cowboys boots that I LOVE! They are so HOT!! And some new clothes( I always worry when I buy him clothes so this year I got him some Cowboys clothes and he likes them alot, they aren't from Old Navy!!! Cowboys are funny that way!!) And then he had some great gifts for me as well, some new hoodies, so super cute sandles, and the perfum I've been wanting and it SMELLS AMAZING!!! WOW! And then last but not least, everything had been opened and Brandon was all what's that in the cornor?? Under those blankets?? And I looked and was like oh he has some more things hidden and so I go and take off the stuff and it's a big box with the sweetest note on it for his "beautiful and wonderful wife who he is so lucky picked him and gets to spend eternity with!" I'm of course bawling like a baby cause I know what it is and I didn't think I was getting one but I opened it up and it was my Kitchen Aid!!! Oh man it was so amazing! I've wanted one for so long and I finally got one!! Oh let the caking and making begin! I'm so inspired now to cook!!! But it was great cause just as we got all the paper picked up his Dad and Brothers and Sister had come over, and brought a TON of gifts! Oh man it was crazy!!! But so much fun!!! I loved it and so did the girls, they got these super cute Build a Bears I love them! I have them up on shelves in there room cause Hadley was taking off the clothes and I didn't want to lose anything! But then Brandons Dad just spoiled the girls so much! They got all kinds of things from him, bags and bags of things. And then we had a lunch with them and they girls took naps, they were so tired Hadley went a put herself to bed! And we started to watch a movie and they left in the middle of it and we tried to take a nap but couldn't so we just hung out til the girl got up and then picked up a bit more and started Dinner cause my parents were coming over to see what we got and have dinner with us! So I made some Chocolate Covered Strawberris to celebrate! They were yummo!! And that night we made a fire and we all fell asleep in the living room by it. It was so much fun! I love our families! They are the greatest!! I hope you all had as much fun as we did! And may the season always be in your hearts!!

Oh yes I almost forgot, the best part of the whole day! We stayed in our jammies all day! LOVE CHRISTMAS!! Love all of you, even if I don't know ya, say hi, I'm sure I've looked at your blog a time or two! Blogs are great! Merry Christmas to all and to all the count down begins again, 364 more days til I get to post about it again!!!

My Best Friend ...

2008-12-09T10:05:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to send a message to my husband. Happy Birthday Day!!! 24 years old! Holy crap we are gettin old!!! I'm so greatful to have you in my life. I don't know where I would be without you! You have helped me more than you will ever know! You are truley the most amazing man ever! I'm truly so blessed that you can work to let me stay home all day every day and be a wife and mother. I'm so lucky to have that. I can't think of anything better than raising our children! You are such a strengh not only to me but to our family and our extended families. You bring things that noone else could. Thank you for helping me when I need it. And for being my best friend. Thanks for letting me yell at you sometimes and cry on you and to love you for ever and eternity. I'm the most luckest girl ever! I'm glad you picked me to be your wife and to make babies with!! Ha ha just had to throw that in there!! I thank your parents for all they taught you and all they have put you through. It has made you an even better person for it and even stronger! They love you but not like I love you! Thanks for being there for me and the girs! You are the best daddy ever! The girls love you more than you know. And they will always be Daddys little girls. I'm scared for the day they go on there first date, more for the date than anything. Thanks for taking me hunting, and teaching me all that you know. Thanks for taking me into the mountains, and into parts I've never seen before. Thanks for helping me know where I want to be, and for bringing out the country in me even more, and for the "ranch" we live on. And the animals we have. And for all that is going to happen this next year! I can't wait! I can't wait to have more babies with you! Oh there is nothing better than that! Thank you for loving me - even if I don't get the laundry done on time or at all - or cooking dinner every night - or getting things 100% in the acount - thank you for loving me and all my crazy ideas and all my craft stuff that is all over this house!!Thanks for saying you will go to the ocean with me again and again, even thou you don't like it all that mcuh! Thanks for saying you will go back east to visit my family, even if it is during the busy time of the year for work. It means the world to me. You put up with alot and I'm so glad that we have each other.You are my cowboy that swept me off my feet and rode away with me on your horse and took me to your ranch where we are living our happy ever after! I love you so! With all my heart! Your one true love! And wife! Lindsey

The "Twilight" experience!!

2008-11-22T20:57:00.000-08:00

Twilight ....

Ok so I saw the movie tonight. I'll be honest I wasn't way excited or thrilled or really cared who played what part. I also kind of cheated and read a bunch of reviews. So I went into the movie, sorry for all of you fans, but I just don't get into movies and books to much that I have to clap and were shirts that support it, I just laught and look around at all the funny monkeys! PS to all my friends who do this I still love you all the same, this just doesn't "float my boat"

But I have never read the books. I haven't really talked about it with people, all they tell me is, "YOU'VE GOT TO READ THEM" ya ya ya. maybe one day I will but truth must be told, it just doesn't sound like fun to me ... even after seeing the movie.

So since I was problably the ONLY person in that whole audience that had no expections or visions in my head of things, or how something should be or what they should have put in or foucsed more on or not done this or that. I was suprisingly pleased with the movie. It held my addention, the scared me in parts, I "felt the love" and I just thought "Wow that wasn't all too bad" - Yes some parts were a bit on the cheese side for me but oh well what movie doesn't have a cheesey line in it?

I went to this movie with My mom, sister, sister in law, cousin, oh and my neice (ok so maybe 2 of us hadn't read the books, she's 10, but she wants too now!! Funny girl) And it was a nice evening out. We went to dinner after and it was just so funny to listen to them talk about it and oh he's important in this book

"She is so important for the next book"

"I wish they would have talked about this"

"They should have not foucsed so much on Bella and Edward"

and blah blah blah.

So I give you MY review of the movie from a "NON READER SIDE"

*** I enjoyed the movie. I liked how the actors kept my attention, I like Edward, I like Jacob (truth be told I leaned over to my mom and said, "So that is Jacob? I thought he was white!" Ha ha ha, that's what I get!!) But he was still cute. Edward was cute, I highly wish I could "Hang on like a spider monkey" and fly in the trees too! Wow that would just be fun! I loved the Cullen Family! They just rocked, I love the kitchen sceen! So funny! (Truth be told I also felt akward in that sceen!!) But the Doctor was cute! Loved his wife! And the kids were pretty sweet too! I loved the "black vampire" (sorry, I know I don't know names!!) he was pretty cool! I loved the fight sceen in the ballet studio, just totally different! I liked how you could also feel the sexual tendsion between Bella and Edward. Wow can you say I sometimes felt I soundn't be in the "room" with them!! As you can tell for someone who never read it, it was a pretty dadgum good movie!

So for all of you on "TEAM EDWARD" - Ya more power to ya!!!

And for all of you on "TEAM JACOB" -Ya more power to ya!!! (I hope I see more of him in the next film!!! {Don't worry my mom already told me he has a big part in it!})

So I say go and see it! Don't keep your hopes up if you have them set high if you have read the books, that is never a good thing cause there will be forsure a let down somewhere! They just can't fit a book into a movie, unless it's like a western or something!!

Anyways, my beloved "Twilight fans" I'll say this .... Wow! That is pretty fun!!

What takes up my time some days ....

2008-11-20T14:46:00.000-08:00

So I've found a new love, besides my husband, kids, family, ect.

This is the site, www.thepioneerwoman.com

This is where I want to be one day!! Ha ha I know it's hard for me to even think about me being somewhere like that too!! But in all honesty that really is what I want!

Ok let me explain here. My friend Jenna had told me about this site and I just happen to forget and then ran across it. Anyways, as I've been reading about her and her family and life I just sit and gasp at everything! This is what I want! This is what we, Brandon and I, want. The ranch life! Oh my crap I couldn't believe it! And her and her "Maralbor Man" are just like Brandon and I!! It's kind of weird! But I love it, cause I now know that I can make it out in the boondocks of anywhere, she really is inspiring, you feel like you can do anything after reading it! Well i do! But it was just crazy! She was a city girl and married a cowboy, um .... well that stroy really does sound like someone elses I know!! ( It's mine and Brandons if you were having trouble thinging about it!)

So this is our new insperation, this is making us want our cattle ranch even more! Oh to see the pictures of there kids as young as 3 on horses bringing in the cattle! Oh man amazing and then just all the fun they have but she is still very ... um ... I don't know anything better to say than updated! Still "with it" I guess you could call it.

Anyways, for some of you that have wondered what the heck we are doing this is what we are shooting for. So now I have someone to look up too and follow. WONDERFUL! I love it! (Side note: Her husband is amazing, really read her love story with him, um yeah it's so unreal and wowing) So I just though I would share that with some of my fellow readers out there. ( I've been doing so good at posting lately! I'll reward myself with a Coke when i'm done) So there it is. My new love! I would love to met this people one day! Wow! Or atlesat see there ranch! Anyways, just sharing and I hope some of you will enjoy her also! She is very funny also! But yes yes, I want to get on our ranch faster and faster! Oh how I hate waiting ............

I've gone Country ... back to my roots ...

2008-11-17T12:32:00.000-08:00

Ok so I admit that I am "Country" I love having cows all around me and the "long" drive out to our house and that I have to drive to church every Sunday and thursday cause it's not close enough to walk! But what I really love that my daughters are country! It's in there blood. I've not really taught them to love what I love or even like what i like, cause if I did i would not be watching kid shows all day!! But they have just all of a sudden taken a huge interest in "western" Hadley mainley.
Taylor will kind of do what Hads does but she is her own personality too and she also loves the country life!

But here is the main part of my story. Just a week or two ago Hadley started to talk .... alot more than usual. She is shy around people at first but she is getting better. And just out of the blue she sarted to say Cowboy to me. And it was cute and i didn't think much into it. Until Brandon and I one night decided to watch one of our favorite movies. And now it's a staple in the movie watching with the girls, more or less a rquest to watch it.

I love this movie for reasons like George Strait and the music. But all of a sudden my daughters have taken lots of interest in the movie. Hadley now comes to me and says
"Mommy I watch Cowboy Show"
And I will have to turn it on and she will sit and watch the whole thing. Well the best part is the other day in the car we were listening to country, do I really listen to anything else?? Anyways the song by Brooks and Dunn called "Cowgirl Don't Cry" came on and Hadley started to sing it!! It was the cutest thing I've ever heard!! She says it so cute too! She will say Cowgirl and Cowboy and I love it! She will come to me and say "Mommy I want Cowboy hat" and her and Taylor will both have to put on there Cowgirl hats, but they will sit and watch the movie like that!! It's so cute and funny! I love having cowgirls. Hadley the other day to my mom on the phone told her that "she marry cowboy!!" Oh my I was laughing so hard! It was very random but so dang cute nd my mom was all, "your gonna marry a cowboy? well we'll have to see about that" Oh man she was laughing it was so cute! It's a wonder people have kids cause they really do say the cutest things!!

So to this post I'm letting my kids know, you can still love the city, trust me I still love the mall and going to Downtown Salt Lake, but keep your roots! Nothing feels more like home to me than the 10 to 15 mins I drive to get home from the freeway and passing all the fields and how the houses are spread out and seeing horses and cows all over the place. How my neighbors and I are separted with fields and no one lives accross he the way from us. Just a field, that now has cows in it! Ha I just can't escape them!! But it may seem far, but it's really not that far! It's just wonderul! And I love it! I love being able to stay home and be a mommy to the best girls ever. What a wonderful blessing that is to our family. We are truely blessed even in this time of worry and hardache, I really do have to count our blessings. And I'm so glad we are self employeed! I fear for what we might be like if otherwise! Anyways, just thought I would share what I've been up to the last couple of days with us. It's so fun. I can't wait till they are a bit older but right now I take each day as it comes! Thanks girls for givin me something to laugh about everyday! Even when you do wake one another up from naps, or in the middle of the night, I love to have to still cuddle with me. Um .... speaking of getting woken up .... someone just woke some one up! I'll chat later!
PS I'm still working on the picture thing too! I haven't forgotten!!

One ... Two... Three ...

2008-11-12T18:17:00.000-08:00

Oh goodness So much has been going on, where to start? First off our computer has some kind of virus or something so we bought a laptop and I love it! But the only crappy part is all my pictures are on the other computer!! But I have loaded some onto the new machine! So I'll get some up! But life has been going so good! Oh we are just moving right along and it's a wonderful feeling. I just know that Satan is working his hardest with us right now, but we are fighting threw it! We are on the way to go to the Temple and it's such a wonderful feeling. But that is when he will work his hardest on you, at least that is how it feels to me. But I love my calling! The ward we are in the Youth are so amazing! I look up to them. They have such strong spirits it's crazy! I taught my first lesson to the laurals and I was a baby - serious I was crying at everything! Ug, it was such a hard topic for me too! The one on Loving Yourself and Others. Ya I swear that lesson was more for me than them! But I did feel better the next Sunday when one of the girls gave her Testimony and she talked about what I had said. So I know that someone took it into there lives!!! Otherwise I never want to leave! I love hanging out with the girls and getting to hang out with the leaders! I so can't wait for Camp! We have already joked about some of us there! So this is wonderful! And I'm feeling like more of the ward too! That is a bonus too! But the ward is amazing! And I know we will meet every one in time! So that is that, I'll keep ya posted on the temple too!
The girls have been so much fun lately! With Halloween they were so funny! Hadley is talking so much more and she says the funniest things! They were Fairies for Halloween and they looked so cute. But honestly I just couldn't decied what they were going to be. The last two years I've had it all picked out and this year I just wasn't feeling it. I would like something one day and hate it the other. So hopefully this is the only year I'm like that!! Ha ha we'll see! But we had a good time anyways. We went to my mom's school carnival and had a blast there, spent alot of time at the fishing pool!! And then of coures the slide they have every year! It's great! And the Soda game - the ring on the bottle! I've always won and did again this year also!yes I rock! But I love taking the girls to the school to show them off! I've known everyone since my mom has worked there and everyone that is new gets to know us also and they love to see the girls so it's great! And good perks too! But for Halloween we went to our old ward in kaysville - my parents ward- and did the truck or treak and made out like bandits - seriously that has to be the best idea ever! In like 20 mins you get all the candy that you would in about an hour!! And it's not freezing! I can remember so many Halloweens with Jenna and we were so cold! Ug! But now it's super quick! After the kaysville we went to our wards Trucnk or Treat and man can I just say they know how to do it in Hooper! We got dounts and apple drink and people bring horses dressed up it's so awesome! Oh yeah did I mention that it's in a field too? You just park right in the field! It's so funny! I love it! Can't wait til next year - we are already talking about what we are going to give out and what we are going to have in the truck and decking it out! Ya it's sweet!
Brandon has been keeping really busy. With the mowing season done and the Christmas Lights ahead it's just crazy! It's nice to have him home for a bit longer in the mornings and home earlier at nights! It's hard but it's good. So if you know anyone that doesn't want to get on the roof to put up the lights and then take them down, give us a call and we'll see what we can do! (We joke that we rise our lives for lights!! Ha ha! Crazy!)
The girls are good. They have started to play with each other more with out mom right there! They are so dang cute! taylor has 2 more teeth to break threw and I'm done with teeth coming in! FINIALLy!! thought that would never end! But we are starting to potty train both girls!! What a treat for mom! But it's still on the up and down stage! Hopefully it will get going faster! But they are doing so great I love these girls so much! They have the funniest personalities! They are so different and so much the same its amazing! They are so fun! And wearing the same size clothes! If I let them!! Hadleys are still a bit too big on tay but she trys! I can't wait til they get older and I just have to buy like two colors instead of two different sizes! But the hand me downs have been nice, they are still in style! Can't ask for better than that! But they are super good and nursary is becoming less of a chore on sundays, they are starting to stay and only cry the fisrt 5 mins or less! I love it!
But otherwise things have been good. I'm kind of bummed cause I've been trying to find THanksgiving decor and haven't been able too! It's nothing but Christmas! So I'll just have to look harder or faster or earlier next year!! I am super excited for Thanksgiving! I get to have it at our house! I get to be the mommy that cooks everything and works so hard just to have it done in about 30 mins!! But I can't wait I'm so looking forward to it! I love it! Nothing says Family like cooking and Thanksgiving! I'm also really excited cause I'm almost completely done with Christmas Shopping!! I have my things saved for Black Friday but for the most part finished! I'm so just going to cook for the Holidays!! Oh ya and relax! But anywho. There is a bit of an update and I'll chat later!

News News News!!!

2008-10-02T09:55:00.000-07:00

Oh man I should be punished for not updating!! I get on everyday (just about) But I suck at writing!! Well to start out let me fill you in on what we have been up to this last month!!

First off we got some cows. 2 to be exact. They are so fun! I can't believe I have cows that is crazy! And to add to our "funny farm" we also added 3 chickens! So ya we have a good time out here! The cows are unnamed due to the fact that we are raiseing our own beef, I don't like to name things I'm going to eat, it's just kind of creepy! And the chickens are for fresh eggs! They are good. So it's pretty fun.

Second I'm so excited to have all of the holidays come! I've already got the house ready for fall/Halloween! I love being able to decorate! The house is looking great! We are still missing a few pieces of key furniture ie entertainment center ( we did buy one but it didn't fit our TV, the area was told to us wrong! Ug!) So we are still in the hunt for one, that still matches our front room. But I did take pictures! So I'll post those for you also!!

Third, I got a calling!!! Yahoo! I can't believe it! I swear they were going to put me into Nursery but no I'm in with the Young Woman! I'm in the Laurals! Oh I'm so excited! I told Brandon on the way to the church, I've always wanted to be in Young Womans or Camp! Cause all us girls know that those are the best! So with Conference this weekend it won't be until the next Sunday that I'm "offically called" But the Young Womans Pres is suspost to be comming over to "visit" so I'm super excited. They said there are only like 5 girls in that class, our ward is lots of older couples, the primary is like 30 - 40 kids, not very big. So it's going to be so much fun. I'm really excited and nervous too. But it's all good. The only sad part is that mutual is on Thursdays. I'll have to miss the Office?! Bummer! But oh well.

Fouth, I'm going to be an Aunt again!! And it's not from who we thought it would be. My sister Jenny is having a baby! I can't wait! It's going to be a girl, that is what I keep telling her!! I need another niece! We joke that me and her are the only ones in the family reprudcing! One day my brothers will jump on the wagon but not soon enough for me! But her baby is due in April. So we have told her the days that are taken already, the 13 (taylors) the 19 (my grandpas) the 20 (my father in laws) the 21 (hadleys) Gees what a busy month! The funniest part is she always said my kids will be so grown when I'm 40 that I won't have any worries blah blah blah. Well we told her that is what she gets for saying that! That she was done and all that. So in 3 years she will have a 16 year old and a 3 year old!! Ha ha ha ha!! Too funny! Luckily for her, we will be trying for another near the end of the year, so cousins will be close to play!

But that just about sums it up! Things are going pretty good for us. Just getting over colds or whatever is going around. The girls have been kind of sick and so have I but Brandon hasn't gotten anything. So who knows what is going on!? But I'm excited for the weekend and for Conference! And sad cause Brandon is going to be gone Elk Hunting with his Dad. But oh well the joys of marriage! I'll post those pictures too!

9/11/07

2008-09-11T15:27:00.000-07:00

With
the 7th Anniversary “TODAY”…... We all
need a reminder...

MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL

'MEET ME IN THE
STAIRWELL'

You say you will never
forget where you were when

you heard the news On September 11, 2001.

Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room

with a man who called his wife to say 'Good-Bye.' I

held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the

peace to say, 'Honey, I am not going to make it, but it

is OK..I am ready to go.'

I was with his wife when he called as she fed

breakfast to their children. I held her up as she

tried to understand his words and as she realized

he wasn't coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a

woman cried out to Me for help. 'I have been

knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!' I said.

'Of course I will show you the way home - only

believe in Me now.'

I was at the base of the building with the Priest

ministering to the injured and devastated souls.

I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He

heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes, in every seat,

with every prayer. I was with the crew as they

were overtaken. I was in the very hearts of the

believers there, comforting and assuring them that their

faith has saved them.

I was in Texas , Virginia , California , Michigan , Afghanistan ...

I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.

Did you sense Me?

I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew

every name - though not all know Me. Some met Me

for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought Me with their last breath.

Some couldn't hear Me calling to them through the

smoke and flames; 'Come to Me... this way... take

my hand.' Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.

But, I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day. You

may not know why, but I do. However, if you were

there in that explosive moment in time, would you have

reached for Me?

Sept. 11, 2001, was not the end of the journey

for you. But someday your journey will end. And I

will be there for you as well. Seek Me now while I may

be found. Then, at any moment, you know you are

'ready to go.'

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

What more can be said? God Bless America and God Bless Our Troops!

My Sweet Sin

2008-09-05T14:11:00.000-07:00

Ok so I love Coke, mostly Diet Coke, when I was pregnanent with Hadley for the last 4 or 5 months I would drink it like mad at work, at least one a day, sometimes 2. But some of my friends may know that back in High School we would go down to the local Chevron and get drinks and I would add Vanilla Surp to it! Wow devine! I still do it! But my new love, is this,

WOW! Is all I can say. I'm so in love with this drink! And it's a Zero meaning no CALORIES!! Yahoo!! Like I'm way worried about those anyways not but still it makes me feel better knowing that it is somewhat healthy!! Ha ha!! But really the after taste of the vanilla is wonderful! It's so smooth and really refreshing! I can't even discribe it!? Oh man it's wonderful! I so highly recommend that people try it. Cause it's like it's Coca-Cola but it's not, really weird I know but so true. I'm still a true diet coker but if this is avaivable I will most diff go for it. I do add the vanilla surp to my diet coke too! Ya I know but so good! This is my sweet sin, I'm so in love with it. My mom has it at her house and that is almost the first thing I go for there I have a frig case in my house and ya it's wonderful! For any of you Coke drinkers out there, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I so say try it cause it's great!!!

2008-08-20T12:27:00.001-07:00

Ahhh, finally!!!

2008-08-20T12:08:00.000-07:00

Ok here it is, pictures of the new place! Ah finally I feel like I can post something cause I've got some stuff finally put away. But we still have stuff to put away and boxes to get rid of!! It's amazing how much stuff you have! Half of my stuff is still in the storage unit!! And I don't even want half of it!! But we are still in the process of getting things for the house too. Like an entertainment center and kitchen table, we are using our patio table, it works well but still. And then stuff to decorate, wow I have so much wall space it's crazy! But I also get to make drapes and stuff like that, so it will take some time but I'm so excited! I love our house! And I have a dishwasher!! Oh man life rules with that!!! I love it! No more hand washing ug! But I do have some pictures of the house with our stuff in it, but they aren't that cute so I don't want to put them up!! Ha ha I know I'm too picky! The office still has Brandon's tuperwaer boxes in it and we still have arraenged things to our liking or all that crap. But I guess I will have to put them up too cause it makes the house look better, those pictures are kind of empty and hard to see how big everything is! But it's great! And living in Hooper rocks! It's so quite and peacful! The only bad thing I can say is I have more mosquitoes bites than I've ever had in my life, and if the wind isn't blowin some the flys can get really bad, we have cows as neighbors and it's kind of the parie!!! But it's amazing! We have to plan everything, well I do just so I don't drive every day!! But town really isn't that far and it's nice to drive out of our little town and into Syracuse or drive to our house, I love the drive, for the first couple of times I was like holy cow where are we moving too!! But it really is no big deal! It's great and the people are wonderful! We love our ward they are so much fun! And the nursery only has, get this, 2 or 3 kids and they are hardley ever there!! So they said that both our girls could come! Taylor still has 3 months til she is 18 months! But she stayed the whole time and even fell asleep on one of the leaders!! Oh it's great! I love it! It's different but a good different! It's just far enough that parents double think coming to see us, or they plan it better to see us, no just dropping in!! And still close enough that we can get out on the town! So enjoy these photos and I'll post more too!

opps my bad!

2008-07-29T15:24:00.000-07:00

Ok ok I've been so horriable at blogging, but I've got a good reason, well I think so. First of all we are moving!!!!!! Yahoo! Yep that's right this weekend is the big ol move in. So i've been packing stuff up and trying to deal with children in the mean time. I've kind of been keeping the move on the down low cause I didn't want another miss hap like last time!! But I'll talk about that in a bit. Plus Hadley has been potty training, she is doing so good, summer has to be the best time to do that I swear, she just walks around in her little undies and then runs to the bathroom! It's so cute! I love to watch her play in her panties! You get so used to them in a diaper that it's so weird to see them in "big girl undies"!!! And we've also just had alot going on in the family, doing all kinds of family things. So here is the short and sweet update. I'm gonna write some more once I have a bit of free time. And put up pictures of everything. So hello to everyone sorry I haven't had time to say Hi on your pages. I'll come by soon and chat with ya!! Love ya Lindz

Summer Fun!

2008-07-07T16:34:00.000-07:00

Well what else do you do when it's a nice day but go 4 wheeling. We love to do and it's even more fun with the girls, they love it! So we went and got them some bike helments, ya they didn't stay on for very long, I didn't even get a picture of Taylor with hers on! But we love the mountains and so here we are up on Avon and playing on the fence, as Brandon told the girls "You girls better get used to climbing these, were going to have some really soon!!" So funny! But I love it! Nothing better than being out doors to help celebrate the 4th of July!

2008-07-07T16:26:00.000-07:00

And now on to the rest of the wonderful day!!! So the parade was great, the clouds came out and it rocked! We had so much fun - until the kid got ran over, right in front of us I might add. And that was only durning the water fight, which wasn't as great as past years, maybe it was just me. But we had fun and Brandon and I totally enjoyed our day with the girls. We all took naps and had a BBQ and just enjoyed the family. The girls were so cute! I loved the new bows I got them! And at the fireworks, man Hadley was craken me up! She laid down on the sheet and had her blanket and she laid her head in it for the first 10 mins of the fireworks then she thought they were ok and would watch them with us, but Taylor, that girl, so funny, she was sittin with me and she would clap her hands after each one but then after the first 5 mins she wanted to sit with my mom and she fell asleep! Wow that is amazing! And stayed asleep! Too funny! But we had quite a fun filled day and ate Ice Cream Sandwiches when we got home and then went to bed! I love the 4th it's just so American, like Apple Pie, and Baseball Games. I'm so glad to live in this free country and to have the things we do! God Bless America Land That I Love! Hope you all enjoyed your day as well!

The 4th Starts with a Run!

2008-07-07T15:35:00.000-07:00

Well I love July 4th (I've come to find out that lots of people love the 4th, which I think is a good thing!) But we started this awesome day with our "Family Run" Me, Momma, Jenny and Adam all did the Kaysville Run for Reading! And it was really fun! I only did the 5K but everyone else did the 10K (don't ask them why, they still aren't too sure why they did it!!) But it was kind of fun to run around Kaysville in the early morning and run passed all the things that I normally drive pass and never really see. I really enjoyed my run, but I have to say the hills are killer in Kaysville, 200 North sucks to run up! Ug! I'm so proud of my mom, she did so good. And she wanted to quit after her first 2 miles, but she didn't, my sister was there to help her out! And she finished! She is such a trooper! She started to cry after she finished saying I'm never going to do that again! It was so funny, but she said she will but she just was trippin herself out while she was running. But Adam, man I wish I had his track skills. He finished it under an hour! In 54 mins! I could't believe it! He was awesome! But the funny thing was seeing all these people that I went to high school with, that were in track, and still running these things! But I do have to say that my mom got to see one of the people who inspired her to want to start running, and it was Dennis Molyneaux. She has always wanted to do a Marathon and him and Dave Beavn did them and so that was pretty cool! So that was the start of our awesome day. Oh yes my husband and children were still sleeping while I was running this! They were there in spirt. Thanks guys! I did take a minute and some seconds off my run, I guess that is pretty good.

Surprise Gifts Rock!!!!

2008-06-28T23:43:00.001-07:00

Well just when I thought my husband couldn't get any better he goes and does this.

Met the newest members of our family Blake and Jake!! They are brothers. And as I'm asking about them Brandon tells me that they were the last ones in a litter of 6 and he couldn't take one and only have one left, so he decided that EACH girl needed one (yes, needed one, my 1 and 2 year old needed a cat!!!) But they are so cute and Taylor is so funny with them, she freaks out and has to see them all the time! It's so funny! Hadley is just content with them and will pet them every now and again but she is good with them! I love them! I couldn't believe it! We have pets, and not just one, but two! Brandon said, well we are going to be buying a house so this will make us forsure get our own place!! Ha ha ha, like this was a real push to get our own place!!! What a funny kid! But he loves his girls and so he had to get two boys! I think he is starting to fill left out!! But he is cute with them! He named one and I named one. Jake is the one with more white and Blake is the one that is more brown. They live in the basement right now and they get to come upstairs while the girls are asleep! They are so funny! I miss having a cat! The more gray/white one is more mine, he reminds me of my last cat that I had for 20 years! So yep, my husband sure loves his girls! What a funny dad! Here are a few more pictures of the kittens!!

I love you Brandon!!! Thanks for keeping us on our toes!

Welcome Summer

2008-06-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! It finally came! And now it's nice and HOT! But here is some of the summer fun we've been having:
Fathers Day
Well, let's just say, don't order your fathers day gifts online! Mine came the Tuesday after fathers day! Sorry Brand! But he still loves what I got him! He called it his "Cowboy Fathers Day!!" Funny! But I got him the Chris LeDoux Box Set he's been wanting! And 2 movies 8 seconds (I cry everytime!) and Pure Country! That is what I get for marring a cowboy!!! But I love those things too, so it's a toss up!!! Oh ya and he bought himself and new CD for Fathers Day too! It's George Straits new one and it's ok not my most favorite, but it works.
Summer Days
Well my sister has a pool at her apartment/townhouse so we hang out at the pool. Nice for the tan, but sucks having kids and the pool! Hadley will go and play with the other kids, either in her floaty or they will hold her (Travis is way taller than the 5 ft, it's nuts) but Taylor, oh man she like the floaty for like 5 mins likes to be held for another 5 and then she wants you to dip her in and out of the pool or hold her by her arms and put her half way into the way so she can climb with her feet on the wall! She is very stubborn! (That is so from her father's side!!) But otherwise it's pretty fun! They do have a good time and the girls even have cute little tan lines! Funny! Don't worry I do sunblock my kids, maybe not myself but them yes. (I have pictures of all of this, but I got a new camera for mothers day and I still haven't loaded the CD for it! I know I'm a slacker!!!I'll do it today!!! Plus I still have some on the other camera too!)
Home
Well we aren't here too much, for one the landlords that own this place don't care about it so everything is going to crap! We have a swamp cooler (whoever invinted this didn't think it out very well!!) But we can't put the water on to "cool" off cause it leaks into the house! Ya totally sucks! So it gets nice and stuffy and hot! We are outside or thank goodness for Jen and her house, she has AC!!! So we hang out at her place!!! I've just set up the girl's pool, I lost the plug that held all the air in it! And had to ask some kid at Ace Hardware for something that would hold the air! What a joke! So that is all fun but the girls like to step on the sides and let the water out! Oh man, then this afternoon I asked Hadley what she did with her plate of food, she threw the whole thing into the POOL!!! UG! Plate and food! (for some of you that are going to have kids, this is something you get to look forward too!) But my girls so LOVE hot dogs! It's so funny! They will walk around with one and eat it as they play! Weirdos! That is from there Dad's side too!!! But because my honey is self employeed and the boss he has late hours, leave home by 7 am return home by 8 or 9 pm! Ya I know! (I'm gonna blog about this one too!) But we eat dinner at my sisters house which is pretty nice, we all chip in some for it all and we eat after we get home from the pool. Oh yes the number one thing that I love about summer time, my children are so tired at the end of the day! That they just crash! Amazing! Sometimes as early as 9pm! That is great!!!
Weekends
Well weekends are mostly family days, Saturday and Sunday. We spend with Brandon. And lately it's been at family reunions or up in the mountains! It's so fun! The girls love the outdoors! We haven't gone camping yet with them, but everything else oh yes. We've done the smores thing, wow that was messy but a blast! And there favorite 4 wheeling. They love to get on a ride! It's so in the blood! And we've been up to see Brandon's dad alot. So we look forward to weekends. Oh yes, I try not to give away too many of our "finds" but this one is too good to keep! So how many times do you go to parks and find that stupid bark or whatever and your kids want to take there shoes off and play? And you wish there was sand? We have found our "beach" and it has swings! Like real swings! It's in Mt Green and it rocks! There is sand a play toy swings lots of nice grass water and tables! Oh it rocks! The girls love to go! They play in the sand and love it! We bring sand toys and our umbrella from our table that we stick in the sand! We really feel like we are at the beach, minus the ocean and the hummity! But it's so fun! Totally worth the drive, plus the kids fall asleep on the way to and from sometimes!!! So great time for ma and pa! Those are our weekends so far!!!

Well I'm going to put up the pictures cause they are amazing! And so fun! I can't wait to see what else we do this summer!!! Oh yeah, did I mention I LOVE SUMMER!!!!??? It rocks!

Moving!!! Ya not so fast

2008-06-12T13:21:00.000-07:00

Ok so as some of you know we were moving, yes were. Well here is the story I hope you don't get pissed like I did.

Well it's Wednesday the 4th of June, we are going to sign papers to move in get keys ect. Super excited and the guy (who will remain annonomous (sp?) so people don't egg his house or something wrong like that) calls us and asked if we could come over at 9 instead of 8. So we agree and are like of we will finish eating and pick up ect. So we pack everyone in the car, telling the girls we are going to our new house, we are going to be moving, blah blah blah. Well Brandon and I are so excited we pull onto 200 N and head West! Yahoo moving to west kaysville! Over the new bridge we go pasted the park turn and turn again. Well we pull up in front of the house and people are outside, grandkids we think. It was an older couples house. So we ring the door bell looking around and what we need outside and how fun it's going to be and the guy comes to the door and we come in, stand in the entry way and pretty much stay there.
He starts to ramble about something that is embarrassing or something (we are thinking because it took so long for them to finish there new house and all that crap) well anyways, (here is the super annoying part!!!!!!!!!!!!) The guy pretty much sold the house from under us. The people that were renting the house while they were on there mission had built a house and had just sold it and wanted to buy theirs. So he told them that he already had renters for the house and then they said they would give him above market value for it (they must of really liked the house) so he decided to do what was in his best interest. So he "felt bad" so he was going to match our deposit oh wow thanks pal. I'm at this point confused tryin not to cry holding my child and we leave. Put the kids in the car seats and Brandon saying well I didn't like the house too much anyways, so it's ok. I'm running wild with emotion and I buckle up and start crying my eyes out. I was so looking forward to moving and having our own place and just starting our family. And now my dreams had been taken away again!!!!! So Brandon is still trying to tell me that it's ok it wasn't ment to be we will find something else, it wasn't that great of a place blah blah blah! And I'll I'm thinking is " It was a great yard lots of room in the house, a good place to raise the girls, it's a safe town, close to the freeway close to everything else and now I don't know what to do, we'd seen lots of good rents come and go because we were waiting for them to close on there house and being really good and cool about it and then he throws that at us. Oh man for the next two days I was so pissed the house went to hell cause I just didn't care and was so mad. And then I had my "come to Jesus meeting" and I was ok, still hurt and upset but oh well what can I do about it now.... nothing.
SO now we have decied to give us 2 months to find a house to buy, and if a good rent comes up before then we will take it otherwise we are buying a house, I don't want to have to deal with you can't do this or this or this or that crap that guy told us. So there it is, sorry for all of you who were excited for us to move to West Kaysville and stay close and all that but now I'm not sure where we will move too! Honestly I told Brandon I don't care too much what town I move too. I'm just so mad! Grrrrrr! So hopefully something will come up that is for us.
But here is the funny thing, on the 2nd I drove by the house and I looked at it and thought, ug maybe I don't want to move there. And on my way home I said Lindsey you can't think like that, so don't drive by again!!! And I didn't then on the way to sign in my head came the thought, I wonder what would happen if we just didn't show up! Can you believe it!!!!????? I was actually preping myself for what was coming. It's like God knew and was trying to tell me ahead of time. But silly me, I told myself nonsence. So anyways, that is the story with that. Ben and Jerrys and me are still good friends, Brandon went and bought me some, I took a couple bits, but I really only like it when I'm happy! Ha isn't that funny!!! So......
THE SEARCH IS ON!!! Here we go..... wish us luck!!!

Where did Summer Go?

2008-06-05T13:13:00.000-07:00

Ok its June 5th and it's FREEZING! It's been rainy and cold and this is weather we get in the spring, not summer!? Ug this is such a cramp in the family! The kids stay inside, and make even bigger messes they want to go outside SO bad but can't. It's a joke! Who prayed for rain? Ug! I want to go swimming and play outside with the girls! Not sit at the window and look out! The girls look like the two kids from "The Cat in the Hat". They have this bench that is under one of our windows and they both stand and look outside! It's so funny! But so hard! This is the hard part about being a Mom, when you want to go outside and so do the kids! Someone really should write a book on "Watch out for this as a Parent!" Oh ya we are also in jeans and hoodies! Whatever! I should be in my swim suit sittin in the kiddie pool with my girls!!! Grrrrr! (As you can tell i'm so upset about this!)
I just want to know
WHERE IS SUMMER???????!!!!!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!!!
Blah!

Movies

2008-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

So we had a girls day yesterday and My Mom sister and I went to the movie. My mom's treat! Yes! But we went and saw "What happens in Vegas" Oh my goodness, this movie is so great! I think every couple that is thinking of getting married should see it and everyone that is already married should see it! You can relate to so much! And sometimes you want to pull some of the pranks they pull or say some of the things they say! But we were rolling with laughter! It was great! I so loved it! So this is just a great date night moive! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!!!

I found you ...TAG your it!

2008-05-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

Yeah I got the "tag" so here it goes!

Each person has to list 6 facts about them
List at the end of your posting who you have tagged

1. I hate cleaning up after people, really it sucks. Well just mostly dishes. I have to wash them by hand and I hate that. I can't wait to have a dishwasher!!! Plus it takes up alot of time to have to hurry and wash them and try to take care of the girls. Yuck! I like to have a clean house, really I do but when people just leave crap cause I'm suspost to pick it up, oh talk about I go on strike! And then everyone suffers!!!

2. I'm so in love with country music and everything country. I can listen to other music and I enjoy it but there is just something about it that I love! My heart is really country! I love the city and playing I'm a city girl but there is just something about being out in the wild and under the stars and not seeing anything but God's great land that just melts me! I can't wait til I can wake up and sit on my porch and watch the sun come up and ... wow. Just amazing! I truely married the right man! He's so country ... I love it! He wants a ranch and horses and cows and everything that comes with it oh ya and land. So I'm all for it! It's gonna be so fun! It will take time but that's ok. Somethings are worth waiting for! Yes!

3. I love summer! Really I do. This might sound bad, but I'm glad I've not been to the temple yet, tank tops rock! I love just getting tan! Love it! Don't get me wrong I want to go to the temple way bad but I'm going to enjoy my tanks as long as I get! Plus I love laying out! And this year is even better cause the girls love, love, love playing outside, like ALL day!! So it's pretty nice! And camping in the summer is great! I so love camping and 4 wheeling and hiking and boating, what's not to love about summer?? Well sometimes the heat, but I can get over that. Summer is great! So excited to get out and camp and everything that goes with it!

4. I love to cook, bake, anything like that. I could sit and watch the Food Network all day! And the craft shows, honestly! I love them! I get so involved in them and think to myself! Hey I can do that! I love throwing parties and everything that comes with that! It's such a thrill for me, I call it my "high". So great! Such an addiction and gives me great ideas!

5. I can tune out crying. Really I can! It's so weird but even in the car. When both girls are throwing fits I can just not hear it. If other people are in the car they sit and talk to them and try to find out whats wrong, most of the time they just don't want to be buckled in. Sometimes its cause they dropped a toy or drink. And sometimes it's cause they are tired and about ready to fall asleep!! They are so funny. Brandon doesn't understand how I can tune it out but I just can. Even when I'm not driving. Crazy!

6. I love decorating, crafting, scrapbooking, ect. If I'm in a bad mood, or fighting with someone and I'll leave to cool off, guess where you can find me ... at a craft store. Really it's so crazy, one night I went to 4 different stores!(I was really mad) But it's just my element. My thearpy. My heaven! Weird but so true! I love making all kinds of crap, really sometimes I just make stuff to make it! But I love being able to get things for my house and decorate the girls room and mine and oh it's wonderful! I have a sewing machine and I don't remember how to use it! Like thread it and all! And I so want to use it! I want to make some quilts and blankets but I don't know how, one day I will. And I want someone to help teach me how to quilt and to that cool stuff! I love it! I will have a HUGE craft room one day just for my "crap" as my family and brandon call it sometimes!!! Ha ha ha ya sometimes it is just crap laying around but that's ok I still love it! Ooooo this makes me want to craft something.

Ok, so I finished, and I could go on but it said only 6 so sorry! But I have to tag 6 people, so:
1. Whitney
2. Jen L.
3. Kim
4. Jenna
5. Lindsey I.
6. Kristi

She be runnin ....

2008-05-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

Ok I actually did, I did the Ogden City Marathon, well not the whole thing but I did the 5K. Which was so much fun! I did it with My mom, sister and brother Adam. The funny thing is ..... I didn't train for it!!!! Ya I ran it in 36 mins. Which was amazing for me! I swear it was going to be an hour, but well I guess I was faster than I thought! But I had so much fun and so did my family that we are going to be doing the Kaysville 5K on the 4th of July! Oh i think I've found a part time Hobby!!
But running that thing was nuts! I couldn't believe how many people were there! But my goal the whole time was to beat this one girl! Ha how funny is that? I had to stay ahead of her which was hard at times. But I stayed in the back, I had told my family I wasn't going to kill myself on this but enjoy it and just jog. So my mom was always in front of me and when she would start to do that fast walk thing and I would come up next to her I would be her buddy and stay by her side till she was ready to go again! It was fun and I'm so proud of her! For being 50 and doing her first race, she got 35 mins! Wow that is so cool! My brother what a stud! He finished in 25 mins! Wow that rocks and my sister finished in 30 mins! They did so good! It was fun but so cold where you start at, up at the Timbermine in Ogden, man that wind is freezing! And it was only 7 in the morning! Wow early! But running down the road to the finish line was so awesome! And to see my babies and Brandon standing and cheering Mommy on was awesome! Brandon was so proud of me and was just so excited for me! It was great!
But did I get really any sleep the night before ... no. I was so nervous it was crazy! I couldn't believe it. But now that I've done my first I think the others won't be so bad! But I'm going to train some more now for my next one! I'm so excited this is so much fun! Crazy, but fun! I'd like to work up to a full and a half and a 10K, so maybe next year I'll do the half, who knows. But if you ever want just something fun to do with your family I highly recommend this, cause you can walk it too! Yeah I've never really been a runner but this was pretty cool! Rock on for music also! I would have died without it! But I'll put up the pictures once I get them, they are on 4 different cameras!!! So to all you runners out there, this one is for you!
Here is the link to the site where they took my pictures and you can see me! My number was 8740 or type in my Last Name (watch the spelling) MANSCILL. Peace!

http://zazoosh.com

Surgery?

2008-05-08T11:45:00.000-07:00

My Dad is amazing! I love him so much! He is such an example to me and just the greatest Dad ever. Well for the past year and half or so he's been having pain in his left shoulder area and he finally went and got a MRI or something like that on it and found out he had bone spurs. Very painful. Bad enough it hurt to hold my girls and to use it and sleep on it, just not good. So he went to two Doctors for there opions and what to do about it. Well he picked one and decided that today, Thursday the 8 of May 2008 he would have the surgery. So at 9 this morning he was getting his surgery. Well my mom called me to let me know what was going on and she told me that everything was good and they fixed somethings and he was still in recovery and they weren't able to go back yet, but then she told me that they had to cut off his wedding ring. I started crying on the phone. This just hits me really hard cause for those of you that know our family, my Dad hasn't been able to take his ring off since they were married, 30 years ago, 31 in June. But his fingers had grown around it so it really couldn't come off, he can spin it around but ya it was stuck. And it was just so hard to hear that they had to cut it off. I don't know why it killed me so bad, it still does. I guess I just always looked at it for strenght whenever something hard has come up in my life. My Dad didn't want to have it cut off but they said in order to do the surgery it had to come off. He was really upset from what my mom told me and she wasn't too happy about it either. She told me she had it in her purse and that for there Anniversary she would be getting him a new on. That is hard for me I guess cause I think of Wedding Rings as the start of something together with your other half. And so I don't know it's just weird for me. But I guess things like this happen. And I'll still look at the new one for strengh also. But my Dad will be in a sling for 6 weeks and he has to sleep in the recliner for awhile. But this is a good thing cause it was really painful for him and now he will be better!!! yahoo! I love my Daddy! He is my hero! Now get better soon!

Juno... who knew....

2008-05-03T10:54:00.000-07:00

Ok so last night Brandon and I watched the movie Juno. I've been wanting to see it and he said that he would watch it with me cause I wanted to see it. And he did, I was very surprised, and he stayed awake the whole time too!
Anyways, I don't know why but I had heard alot about this movie from different people saying it was good, bad, dumb, etc. So I don't go off other people I have to see it for myself. Well I love the movie, not sure why but I do. In fact I was crying durning parts of it. Brandon would be like "Babe, don't cry" But I did and I think it's because I know how she felt in that movie! I so had some of the same thinking, people talking behind your back, people staring at my belly, etc. And I just knew what she was talking about when she "felt alone" like going threw it by herself not sure what to do. You get that when you have a kid out of wed-lock. Your not sure what is going to happen. But we knew we were going to be together so ... anyways, I just really enjoyed that movie. And I think anyone who is going to be a mom should watch it. You can just connect with parts of it, the waddle, the peeing all the time, the kicking, eating habits, etc. It's great. I will for sure now go and buy this movie. For those of you who haven't seen it, sorry, I would also compare this to Napoleon Dynamite, just the writing style and some of it, you like it or you don't. Really that is how I look at it. But ya, you never know until you see it! So I hope some of you will watch it!

One....Two....

2008-04-29T12:20:00.000-07:00

Ok ok I know I'm a slacker on writing, but I have been a bit busy, but not really. But I wanted to talk about the girls birthdays. Oh my heck they were so much fun. And I have to give myself props! I did so good on the invites and cakes and planning everything out! Wow, alot of work but so well worth it! I love doing this kind of stuff, as I told Brandon, I'm in my element with this! I was in the zone baby (while saying this you have to put you hands next to your face and point them stright and have a serious face!!) But Taylor turned 1 on April 13, 2008. And she was a doll! So freakin cute and so fun! She is such a big girl, she is trying to do things that Hadley does and it's so fun to watch! It's amazing how much faster the second does things than the first! But for Tay's party I had hers themed to be LadyBugs, and I made her a ladybug cake, it was really good. (I think I'll go into the cake business!!) But we had my whole family over and Brandon's family over and then our "boyfriends" across the street came over and it was fun we sang ate cake opened presents and just had a really good time. We played outside cause it was a nice day, oddly enough since this April has been full of wierd weather! But it was so fun! Hadley and Taylor then share the same age for 7 days and Hadley turned 2 on April 21, 2008! Wow a 2 year old, and let me tell ya they have the cute days and then they have the days were you look at them and say 'that's not mine" jokingly of course but they can get mean! But Hadley's birthday was on a Monday so we had her party the following Sunday the 27. And her's was a blast! We had it down at Barnes Park in Kaysville and it was such a nice day! The baby ducks were out and it was so fun! There was tonz to do, basketball, football, the playground, my sisters kids brang rollerblads and skooters, and the "ripstick" and we had a BBQ. So it was fun! Hads theme was Flowers and Gardens. And I had so much fun thinking of how to do her cake, I swear I changed what I was going to do 10 times. Serious. But I came up with cupcakes in the shape of a flower in the "garden" (dirt - pudding and oreos- so yummy) But all in all I still can't believe that my girls are so big! They can pretty much wear the same clothes and the only thing they can't share right now is shoes! lucky me!
But the girls are great they play with each other and have such a great friendship building already. I'm so glad I had them this close. They don't have any cousins that are there age so it's nice cause they will always have someone to play with. I would recommend this to people, it might seem nuts but really it's such a blessing, we are thinking of doing it with our next ones too. They just always have a friend and I like that. I love my girls. We also took them to the doctor, the same day appointments and they both got shots, oh man. That was so funny! Cause one would stop crying and the other would start up crying and then they would stop and the other would start, so funny! They are dolls! I love them dearly! I can't wait til we get into our home, cause they have awesome toys from the parties but we can't put any up yet! So it will be fun! Kids are great! They may seem like lots of work, and some days they are (go look at my front room and my kitchen floor! And the never ending pile of laundry!) But I wouldn't trade it for the world! Happy Birthday Girls! 2 and 1!
Who would of thought I would have a 2 and 1 year old?! Not me! I'll put up the pictures I got taken at the store when I get them back, but for now you can see the parties!
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One little egg ....

2008-04-09T09:41:00.000-07:00

Even thou Easter has come and gone faster than I know what to do with myself! I still wanted to put up some pictures and tell everyone Happy Easter (cause it's really suspost to be in April, I have no idea what decorations to put up in the house right now!?)
But can I just say I love playing "pretend." I love being the Easter Bunny and Santa, etc. It's just so much more fun when you have kids and you get to set things out ... ya some of you will know what I'm talking about and some of you are going to soon know what I'm talking about!!! (Yahoo, it's about time some of you starting popping out kids!!!) Anyways, we always leave a trail of plastic eggs from the door of the girls room to there baskets and it was so funny to watch them cause they just kept on playing with the eggs, not really following the trail I had made for them. So once we got them to stop picking them up and showing each other and not knowing what to do with them, we pointed hadley into the direction of her basket and she was so cute! She started to play with her golf set and then looked at her basket and her new out fit and then we played with the lawn mower! And Taylor just kind of took her time and wandered around not really too sure what was going on but she loves the stuffed puppy we got her and her new shoes, what a true american girl!!! So after all of that we went to church and then came home a took some pictures in our neighbors yard, and then took naps and went to Brandon's family Easter dinner, then back to our house for what was left of our family get together. And all in all it was so fun! I love Holidays and most of all the fact of what we really were celebrating, the Lord.
So to you all I say Happy Easter!!!! Even if it did come way too early!!!

The treats the Easter Bunny left!

Get all those eggs Tay!

She was just so excited she went the wrong way!

Tay and her puppy!!!

The GirlsPretty Princesses!!!

Hadley Paige

Taylor Lynn

We are now in the littlest pet shop age!! Yeah!

In one ear out the other..

2008-03-19T23:40:00.001-07:00

So I love the feeling when I'm right. This doesn''t happen very often with me. So when it does well I like to ... brag about it!! And on this special day it's with my husband ( I'm hardley ever right with him) So I had told him that how he was running some things wasn't going to work out so well and he told me "Don't worry it will work out and be fine don't worry about it"
Well today, God looked down on me and said " I love you Lindsey and I'm going to make your day"
I get a call from Brandon, we call each other alot though out the day, the perks of being self employeed. And he tells me what has been going on and well what he thought would be ok, wasn't. And me on the other end have a really big smile and the tone of " I told you so!"
So I give myself a big pat on the back and a hugh smile when I lay down tonight next to him! Ha ha ha, I'm right and you, well were wrong!

Sometimes, it helps to listen to your wife!!!! But I still love him!

When one pedel falls, another grows

2008-03-14T14:40:00.000-07:00

Well my Grandpa passed away on March 13, 2008. And it was really hard, but at the same time I'm totally ok because I know that he is in a good place and also with my Grandma. It's been 9 years since she passed away. So I know that it was a really good reunion. And well when I went to see him on Tuesday and talk to him, he couldn't talk but he was concious. And I told him things that I wanted him to tell those in the family that had passed away too things and then things for him to remember. And well I just had felt like maybe he didn't get my message. So I woke up this morning feeling so good. I had had a dream about him and he said all the things I had asked him to do for me back to me and reassured me that he will always watch over me. And it was such a great feeling. I know where he is and I know he is happy. And that he will always be helping me and my kids. It's hard to know that I only have one set of Grandparents left. But I know that this isn't the end this is only the beginning, well actually, this is the middle, and the rest is yet to come. And I will see him again. What an amazing feeling that is, if only everyone could feel that way and know for sure like I do. I love you Grandpa Jackson Kilgore! Always and Forever! Your Granddaughter Lindsey

You are amazing

2008-03-06T21:32:00.002-08:00

Some kids just know
December 18, 2007
Well I just couldn’t wash it off, it’s too cute. Hadley loves to color. We color in her coloring books and on any paper we can find, and we trace her hand and everything. She loves it. Well she has become a painter or artist, something along those lines. She has descovered that she has a big canvas in the house, the walls. Yes that’s right, she will take a crayon, marker ( washable or permant) pen, pencile, anything she can get her hands on and walk up and down the hall and color. Well I just said I’m not going to clean it off cause I did once but with in hours she was back to coloring. So I just leave it and we will paint over it when we move. But she is so funny cause she knows she gets in trouble when she does it and I even have her clean some of it up. But all of a sudden you will hear her coloring and you run and she runs and it’s funny. But we have hidden all the markers and things but she will find one, somewhere and then she just goes to town! Its great! I can’t wait til I have our house and I can paint the walls so that she can color on them and but that chalk board stuff on too! It’s going to be so fun!

Here are just a few picutres of Hadley by her artwork! And Cleaning!!

You will only live once ...

2008-03-06T21:32:00.001-08:00

One Fear to come true…
September 25, 2007
So I am a Mom, I have things that I never want to have happen to my children and then I have things that I do want them to do, but this was one that I didn’t.
We were on Vacation in North Carolina and it was Saturday the 8th of September, the day after my cousins wedding, that was so awesome, but the whole family had decided to go to the beach together, so I was with my aunt shelly, and we had to go and take the presents to Amy and Jamie’s house so my mom and brandon were in the Red car and Me the girls and Aunt Shelly were in the Escalade( ya we were riding in style!! I loved it! I want one!!) So we unload everything and my mom and Brandon leave first cause they had to stop and get formula and some things at the store so we set off to the beach and Aunt Shelly and I are having a wonderful talk, she is driving and I’m sitting next to Taylor, we are in the middle row, it has just the two seats, and Hadley is in the Middle of the back bench, and we are talking about family, why people do things that they do, how fun and hard it is to raise kids, just a fun talk, and we come to a stop and there is a red van in front of us and the next thing I know, BAM! We got rear ended! Yes that’s right I was in an accident with my children in the car! Can you say scare the shit out of me. I’ve never been in an accident before and now I’m in one with my children!! Man it was awful! My children are screaming I’m trying to stay clam but it’s kind of hard, and man Aunt Shelly jumps out of her seat, she is calling 911 and getting Taylor out of her seat and I’m getting Hadley out of hers, and in the mean time I’m trying to make sure they are ok, nothing happen to them. (We are on what they call the main road, cause it really is the main road on those Islands) and there are lots of people on the road, it was so weird cause normally there aren’t that many, but I jump out with Hadley and go over to the drivers side cause that is were the Medin is and a truck hit us, and a white car had hit him and we hit the red van, ya so crazy. The white car was a driver that was 20 and he never stopped, the truck was coming to a stop but wasn’t all the way, so we were the ones that stopped both of them! So every one is checking to see if everyone is ok and lucky everyone is. No one was hurt or injured, crazy. Well I call my mom and tell her so her and brandon come back cause they were ahead of us and then we call my Uncle Paul and let him know well, here’s the funny thing, my Uncle David is a Lawyer, and not just that he does the accident ones, so he was down for the wedding and at the beach with my dad, brother and uncle and the rest of the family so they all show up and oh man it was a mess, it was so crazy I’ve never been so scared before in my life! The cops said that if we weren’t in the SUV then we would of been in serious trouble, that SUV pretty much saved us from being really hurt! (Needless to say we have been thinking of getting me a car, or a Tahoe, well this just confirmed for us even more that with our children in the car we will get the Tahoe) But it was so scarey, this was one one of my worst fears coming true. But the Escalade wasn’t hurt that bad which is good for the kid cause that is an expensive car!! And to fix! But anyways, I’m ok but I still sitting at stop lights can hear the truck hitting us and the car slamming forward. I will have dreams about it also and I just know that I was blessed that day, someone was watching over us, and I know that if I wasn’t with my Aunt Shelly then something serious would of happened, cause she is so strong in her faith and had such a testimony and someone that I look up too, cause she’s not afride to say anything about our church and she is amazing, and my Uncle is the Bishop and I just know that we were blessed even more because of them. I’m just so glad that I have a family so strong and true to there faith and so loving and caring about there family. I love my family and I’m so grateful that we are ok.

One down too many more to count!

2008-03-06T21:30:00.000-08:00

1 Year!!
August 22, 2007
So Brandon and I celebrated our 1 year Anniversary this past weekend. And it was so much fun! We decieded not to go to Bear Lake cause it was going to be bad weather so we went back up to Park City and man that was so much fun. We left Saturday around 2 and got lunch then drove up to Park City, Brandon likes to take the “back way” going threw Weber Canyon and Morgan so for ext. and then we checked into our Hotel and then we took a nap. That is what happens when you have kids! You just want to nap! But it was nice to just lay there together and just be the two of us. But after about 2 hours or so of “playin” and sleeping we wanted to go into “old park city” down were all the shops are by the ski areas. So we window shoped for about an hour or two and by this time we wanted to eat dinner so we walked up and down the street again deciding what to eat. So we decied on a Pizza place and we sat up on one of the balconys that over look the street, and that was so cool! It was so much fun! But it was starting to get cold so we then went and got Cold Stone Ice Cream, Brandon had never had that before then we went back to our room to go and sit in the hot tub and swim in the pool before it closed. Well that is when we found out that his Grandpa died, so it kind of put a damper on the evening but we knew it was for the best, so anyways, we went to the pool and hung out there for about an hour and then came back to the room, our room let me add was 2 queen beds so it was kind of funny, cause we decided to mess them both up so we jumped on both of them and it was so much fun! But then we got in our jammies and just cuddled most of the night, I wasn’t feeling too hot my stomach was really hurting from all the food we ate that day but it was a nice sleep, we both were just tired and just ready to go to bed, so we did. Well we woke up around 7, so much for sleepin in and we just stayed in bed until like 10 or so we of course “played” around so that was fun then we showered, together by the way (can’t wait to get our own place so we can do it some more! We love it! Oh Brandon washed my hair! Yeah that is romantic! And hot!) Then we checked out and went right over to the outlet mall, which was just down the road, and we went shopping for the girls and for us! I love shopping even Brandon had fun pickin out some of the clothes for the girls! He does have great taste, and in picking things out for me and him too! Then we went to eat at Ruby Tuesdays, and they put us in the same booth we sat at the year before! But that was so good, salad bar and a light lunch! Yummy! Then we went back up to the Older part of town up to the Alpine slides, we did them last year too! And it was so much fun! We got to ride the ski lift up just the two of us and we got our picture taken and we bought that! And then we raced down together and it was a blast! We have so much fun together it’s awesome! But we really missed the girls, Brandon would ask what I thought they would be doing and wondered if we should call, but I said no, it will just make Hadley cry, she does it even when my sister watches them and she calls me. so we knew we would see them soon.
But it was so fun, I swear when we went last year on our Honeymoon, it was like we were nervous to be with each other but this year, man it was a blast we joked around and we just well loved our time together, we talked about everything and we exchanged gifts and got our gift as a couple, a clock for our wall when we move and it was fun. We decieded to go back up later this fall and spend some more time up there, and do some more shopping for us! But as we joked, “One down, infentiy to go!” Wow, I love that man! And he loves me! What a wonderful beginning to a long life together!
PS I’ll post our pictures on here too.

This is us at Dinner. It was Yumo!Here we are taking a Picture before we head back home!Ok these were the funniest pictures! We took them ourselves (as I'm sure you can tell) but in everyone I was always standing close to the camera and Brandon was way far behind me. This was the only one that kind of worked out!! Too funny!Gotta love Park City. So much fun!!!

Just for us

2008-03-06T21:29:00.000-08:00

Reflecting on a year
August 6, 2007
Well I can’t believe that time is almost here, Brandon and I will celebrate our 1 year Anniversry on August 18. And I looked back today at everything we have gone through, not only the fights, and love, but just the fun times.
Yesterday, while we were getting ready for church, I had to smile at how my husband has grown. My shirt was wet from where my hair was laying on it while I put on my makeup. Well as I’m getting the last things ready, ear rings, necklace, Hadley’s clips to finish her hair, Brandon picks up the blow dryer and tells me to hold still (while he has his tooth brush and tooth paste in his mouth) and he dryed my shirt for me. It was so romantic. And incredibly sweet of him. He made sure the whole thing was dry. He then told me “I would of finished faster but I was holding down the cold button while I was drying it.” Funny boy! I love him so much, and I’m so glad that I’m just his and he is just mine, we couldn’t fit together any better. He tells me all the time, “I couldn’t of asked for anything better. You are the only one for me. We are perfect.” And it’s then that I love him even more. The kisses just keep getting better and better, and making love (sorry it happens) is the best! We have grown so much and I love him. I do. Some people say they are in love, but until you have been what we have been through, and still had each other to hold on to, and you have your moments that just live in your memory forever. That is when you know it’s love. When he talks to me about our Grandkids that we could have in 20 years or so and what he wants to do with them and places he still wants to take me and things we still look forward to doing. Goodness, you can’t help but get giddy and smile. My husband is the greatest father to our children. He will let me sleep some nights and get up with Hadley when she is crying and won’t stop. And I’ll wake up a few hours later and find them on the couch sleeping, with Hadley in his arms. It’s the most amazing thing in the world. He does so much not only for me but for my family and for his. They don’t see it alot but it takes alot for him to help and to show them that he does love them. I love it. I see it all the time and it’s amazing. I can’t wait to see what the next…… well…….. forever will bring us. We have our bad times, but we have more good than bad. It’s like some say you have to have the bad to get to the good. plus the make up is the best part!!!!! Ha ha ha! I love that! But a year! Wow, that has gone by way too fast! It’s amazing how fast life goes once you have children or married for that fact!
I can’t wait to go away with him for the weekend and to spend time together and to just be us, and to sleep together without having to throw our clothes back on cause Taylor has woken up to get a bottle or Hadley’s teeth are buggin her. To just lay with each other and breath the same air. There is nothing better than that. I look forward to our time with our children, but I also look forward to our time of Mom and Dad, Husband and Wife. Our trip to Bear Lake will go by so fast but it will be so worth it!
I love you Brandon, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever.

Funny Hubby of Mine

2008-03-06T21:28:00.002-08:00

Sex at the Doctor Office
April 6, 2007
So let’s just start by saying - not something you hear every day and mostly by your OBGYN!!!
So Brandon and I go to my doctor appointment this last Wednesday and he is checking me to see how much farther I am and moving up my due date. Well I haven’t progressed much and my doctor is surpised that I didn’t go into Labor that passed weekend (ya so am I!!!!) But anyways he’s talking to us asking questions about how I’m doing and what we have been doing to help move things along. Well this is when you know that you shouldn’t bring your husband to your appointment.
Doc ” So have you been jumping on a tramp?”
Lindz “No, my bladder wouldn’t be able to hold anything in!!”
(Ha ha ha from everyone)
Doc “So no walking or playing outside?”
Lindz “Oh yes we do lots of walking, she just doesn’t want to come yet I guess”
Doc “So you know there are things to help like running, jumping jacks, ect.”
Lind “Ya I know”
Brand “Ya we haven’t tryed any of those things yet”
Doc “So you haven’t been having wild crazy sex?”
(The look on Brandon’s face at this point is priceless!!! If only I could of recorded it!)
Blank stare from Brandon
Brandon “Well I have been trying to get her to play Basketball”
WHAT!?!?!?! What the hell does that mean? And no you haven’t!! (this is what I am thinking besides laughing my guts off inside my mind)
Lindz “No none of that recently. Maybe we should kick it up a notch!”
Laughing (Lindsey and Doctor) Brandon is still schocked that he asked if we have wild crazy sex!!
Oh this is just a priceless moment.
Bottle of water: $1.25
Gas to Doctor: $5.00
Doctor Co Pay :$25.00
Having your OBGYN ask your husband if he has had wild crazy sex with his wife: PRICELESS

Something Sweet??

2008-03-06T21:28:00.001-08:00

The NICU……
April 17, 2007
Well I had Taylor this passed weekend and to say the least I’m at home and she is still in the hospital in NICU. I’m pissed. And I just am so annoyed that I don’t have her home with me. I hate going to see her and having the nurses around me and telling me what I can and can’t do with MY baby. When I have to leave when I can come and visit and how to love my child. I just want her home with me where she can be held and loved and taken care of. I hate talking to people about what is going on I hate having to say I’m home and she’s not and I just get so pissed. The most annoying thing is not being able to hold her. They have all these cords and IV’s in her and it just really upsets me. I don’t want her in there I want them to give me a real date when she can come home not a guess and well let’s see how she acts, she is going to act the exact same until she is loved and held and taken care of like a mom is to do. I just get so upset and I’m so hurt and I’m so lost and depressed that I don’t have my baby. I don’t even feel like I’ve had her cause I’ve not been able to take care of her. It’s very annoying and I know there are other people out there that have it way worse off then me with there babies but I get so mad and I start to think well maybe it was something I did while I was pregnant with her maybe I didn’t do something right or I didn’t get enough of this or that, I just don’t understand. Sometimes the best medicane is love. And only a mom or a family can give that. I just want my baby and I want a date of when she is leaving, no guesses or we have to see how she is feeling crap. A date and put it in stone also. I know that she is in good hands and well taken care of but it’s very hard for me. And even thou I still have my family and Hadley I wish that I had my family together that we could all be together. Not apart like this. I know that Hadley knows that someone is missing and I know and so does Brandon but I guess this is something we are to go threw together as a family. We have to make sure that we are strong and able to handle things. Even when they are unexpected. We will be together soon but to me it’s just not soon enough. I can’t even talk to my family that calls on the phone or call other family members to talk about what is going on. Cause when I start to think about it and talk about it I start to cry and I get really upset and I hate it and it makes me so mad. But I have to be greatful that it’s nothing too serious and they are just making sure that she will be safe and I don’t have to bring her back into the hospital once I get her home. I just wish it was sooner that she would heal and be with me. I love my babies and I want them all under my roof. I don’t like that one is not with me. That I can’t check on her anytime I want and I can do it by walking into the room. Not driving to the hospital. Needless to say it’s un fun. I just want her healed and better. And I guess this is the best place for a newborn to be. I love my children and I love my husband and I’m truly greatful that I have them to lean on in this hard time. They have been my rock. And for that I love them even more.

Here she is in her little bed! Cute little bundle of joy!

So this was the day to bring her home. Well when we got to the hospital and saw her we broke down. They had put in IV in her head, also meaning, she's not going home today. I couldn't believe it, another IV and it was awful! My poor baby.Nothing like Daddy and Mommy's love!
Oh yeah, nothing was really wrong with her. She had some liquid in her lungs that she had shallowed while I was giving birth. And so they started to say it was all kinds of things and ran all these tests, it was nuts. Seriously nuts. And then, we had her on a Friday,the 13th, and we were going to take her on wednesday home, well they had the IV in her arm on Tuesday afternoon and when they had taken it out she had developed a rash on her arm and some of her chest, from where the tape was so that is why they had to put her back on the IV, it could of been oh whatever they can come up with, when it was really nothing. And once they put them on the IV with the antibiotic they have to stay on it for 3 days. So thus the long stay in NICU.

To You ...

2008-03-06T21:27:00.000-08:00

My one true Love…
April 25, 2007
I’m in a point in my life where I just wonder, what would life be like if? I keep asking myself this. And you know what I don’t think I would want to change anything. Or if I did I would want to make sure that I still ended up where I am today. With my family.
We got to bring Taylor home finally on the 20th and durning those days while she was away we did alot of pondering. And after talking with Brandon about how our life has gone and what we have been put threw, we agreed that we are happy. We love our life and most of all, we love each other. I’ve never heard my husband tell me how much he loves me. Everyday since Tay has been born I always hear him tell me that he loves me and couldn’t live without me. And I’m just so happy that I have that to lean on. He may come off as harsh or un-loving or caring but he is. He is the most caring and loving guy I know. God has put us together and helped us in our struggles for a reason. We are ment to go threw things to find our strengh, not just in ourselfs, but in each other. I’ve seen a side to Brandon that noone has, and that is his love. His unconditonal love. He is such a blessing. And he wants so much for our family and works so hard for us. That there are days that if I think too hard about what he does that I will start to tear up. Never have I ever had anyone care that much to put so much on the line. I love my husband. I love that he wants to bless our children and to take me to the temple so we can be sealed. I don’t have to push or nag or drag him along. He is right by my side and we are walking down this path hand in hand step by step. We are together for a reason, and to some they may ask “how the heck did they get together? They are so different” She is such a “city girl” and he’s such a “country boy.” But that is the thing we have looked passed what people say, and the mean and hurtful things people say about my husband, and the rude and un-true things people say about me. Cause we have a love, a true love, that noone can break. So I say bring it on, if it makes you feel better then fine, but just know that we have moved on, we are getting on with life, we are happy. And no one can take that away from us. No One.
I feel that I need to say this, only because I’m moving on. And this is one way that I move on, I write, and I write what I feel. Which is the only and true way anyone should write. So to you I say “Goodnight”

We became ONE

2008-03-06T21:21:00.000-08:00

It all started back in November of 2004. I was having fall out times with my parents and they had “kicked me out” of the house, I had 2 weeks to be out. And so I was going to move with my cousin Mandy into a town house up in Ogden. And I was staying up at my cousins house in North Ogden, I have the best Aunts in the world. Well on November 16, 2004, my uncle Wes died. Just all of a sudden and so I was just stayed up at there house for sometime. I’ve never been really close with these cousins, until that year. And my cousin Chase who is 6 months older than me, decied to set me up on a blind date after all the funeral things, cause he had re-conected with an ex of his and they got back together. So he said that we would double and it would be fun. So I said ok, thinking hey I’ve had some really crapy luck this year, maybe it will get better. Well the day comes, and all I know is that my dates name is Brandon, well that week I’ve been hearing nothing but “oh Brandon, good luck, with him.” from my cousin’s and it’s not like a good sound in there voices. I guess Chase and Brandon went to high school together and worked together also. So I’m excited, despite what they say, cause I’ve never been set up on a blind date before, so it should be fun. But the day comes and about an hour before we are to go out, my other coz, Zeb, he is a year or so younger than me. Is like “did you know Chase told Brandon that you are ‘easy’ and so that is one reason he’s going out with you” Ya so pissed at him I didn’t want to go. But I decided that I would make this date HELL for chase and he would regret what he had done. So next thing I know this diesel pulls up in front and there is a knock on the door and Brandon walks in….
Background on Brandon: COWBOY! He was a bull rider in high school, in the FFA(Vice Pres), worked on the dairy, had dated a cowgirl for 2 years and was engaged to her and thought he was the shit.
So in walks Brandon, wearing tight pants with holes in them and thermals under, he had a nice butt in them. But just not what I expected. Cowboy, cowboy. Note he did not have on boots! he did have on “work” boots but not cowboy boots. Well Brandon again, went to school with my cousins (Chase and Zeb) so he also knew my Aunts other kids and well ya they all knew each other. I was thinking the whole time, HIS JEANS ARE TIGHTER THAN MINE! SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we leave to go and get Becki, Chase’s girl, and then to eat. Well I walk out side and guess what is sitting there, the truck I’ve always wanted, a Dodge Diesel. Oh my goodness nothing is sexier than that. And it’s got a lift and nice tires and oh man, let’s say it’s a good thing he had the truck, scored points on that one. But anyways, we pick up Becki and then I hear “So where do you want to eat?” What!?!?! Chase said they had it all planned out - no they didn’t. So we end up going to Applebee’s and I’ve not said much the whole time so far - cause I’m still pissed at Chase - well it’s a Friday night and it’s packed and noone had really stepped up to put our names on the list so I did. And I’m trying to “act” like I’m having a good time, but really all I can think is, I want to go home. So we get seated and I’ve not eaten here too much so i don’t really know what to get, well I ordered the Feista Lime Chicken and Brandon got the Take Two (They don’t offer that anymore) (oh these have become what we always order here now.) But I texted my sister that this date was lame and Becki wouldn’t really talk and so it was mostly Chase and Brandon talking. So food comes and we eat and try to make small talk, and after I think ok well they atleast have to have something planned for after - again No. It’s a so what do you want to do now. OH HELL. So Brand decieds to go out to Willard and go “muddin” So we all agree. Well Chase and Becki are in the back cab of the truck and I’m hugging the door (not really but that is what they said I look like) So Chase is all move closer to him blah blah blah, and we stop so that Chase and Becki can sit up front with us, So I have to sit right next to brandon now, I have to touch him!!!! But that was fun, the muddin, I really enjoyed that cause I’d never been. Well the night is starting to come to an end and we drop off Becki and we go to my Aunts house, cause Chase lives there and so am I at the time. Well he gets out and so it’s just me and brand in the truck and we start our small talk - well 3 hours later I walk into my aunts house to go to bed. We talked the entire time! And the whole time we are getting along perfect and he has just really impressed me with his life and what he wants to do in life and all kinds of things, I don’t say too much cause I didn’t want to sound like some girl that agreed on everything with him. But we exchange phone numbers and say we will go out again. Or something like that.
Well the next night everyone is asking how it went blah blah blah and Chase asked me do you want to go out with him again? I was like sure so what does he do CALLS HIM!!!! And says I want to go out that night!!!!!!!!!! FREAK! Well Brandon doesn’t believe him so I have to talk to him, and not wanting to be mean I say yeah I do so we do, it’s just the two of us this time. Brandon at the time just lived down the road from my Aunts house so he was there in like 3 mins. So we leave and take a “drive” Remeber he is a cowboy, so we head to the mountians and we go to Kosey Dam. And it was BEAUTIFUL! (Note: Our first date was December 3, 2004) So it was a full moon, snow on the ground, the dam was frozen over and not a cloud in the sky. And we park at the overlook, and me being the funny girl I am, am thinking, “great, he is going to try and kiss me! LAME.” So I was trying not to let it happen. And he is like I’m gonna sleep, so he lays his seat back, and I’m still thinking the same thing. So the end of that night comes and it’s late when we get home I mean we talked and I don’t remember about what but it was enjoyable. Well that week we text each other and flirt on that and we end up hanging out that next weekend and the next, and the next my family is making cookies at my parents house and we think it will be fun to go down and have brandon meet my parents, cause he hasn’t yet. So we head on down, like all of my cousins and we played a game while everyone was making cookies. And Brandon and I flirted and stuff the whole time, it was fun. (Note: By our 3rd date, which was that sunday after our first I knew I was going to marry him, I just didn’t want too many people to know yet!!) Well he meets the family and my parents and they hit it off GREAT! WHAT!?!? That wasn’t suspost to happen! They are suspost to hate my boyfriends! (Another note: we still have not kissed yet) Well Christmas comes and he goes with me and my family on Christmas eve to see the lights and my nephews and neice take to him right away! They love him and want to go in the truck with him. It was cute. So he does the lights with us and everything else we do on christmas eve. Well come Christmas Night we hang out again and he’s gotten me a GIFT!!!! Crap! Has Lindsey gotten him anything? No! So I text my cousins like what am I suspost to do? Cause I told him oh yours is up at Chases house, thinking they have something lying around or run to the store type of a thing for me. Well, he got me a CD, and Hoodie, and some candy. It was really cute and sweet. So we go up to there house and I give my cousins some money and tell them to find something for me, so they go to the gas station, Flying J to be exact, and they got him and shirt, a key chain with his name on it a calendar, some Stedson cologne and a fleece blanket!!!! OH my RED NECK GIFT! But it was a nice blanket, I still have it and I used it all the time!
Well that night we go to hang out with my cousins and there friends, which are also brandon’s from high school. And after that me and brandon go for a “drive” we ended up just parking and talking. And the topic of why we haven’t kissed comes up. And he tells me he just wants to make sure it’s right. And i’m looking at him sideways with my eyes and he asks me not to do that, and puzzled I ask why, and he says cause it makes me want to kiss you, and I say so why don’t you. Well ****Magic**** I will never forget that kiss and that moment. And neither will Brandon, we’ve talked about it many times. We both have never experienced a kiss like that. One that said “yes” well it was just a kiss nothing else and I swear it lasted like 3 hours it was perfect, the movie kind of kiss. Well we pull away some and Brandon looks in my eyes and says “yes, this is right. Being with you is right.” I’m still amazed at the kiss and how I feel inside and I got chills when he told me that cause I was hoping he felt the same also, and he did. And that my friends is how we started. We have been with each other almost, about a week and a half not, since then. We have been the best thing for each other and wow looking back it’s been wonderful. We have been the best of friends. We don’t hide anything from each other. And we have spent every night in each others arms. Nothing more wonderful than that. Oh Bliss, what a wonderful beginning!

A day in the life of ... ME!

2008-03-06T21:20:00.000-08:00

Well about me. I guess if you don’t know anything about me you will after reading this! I’m a pretty interesting person, I tend to think. I’ll start first with my family and then move into personal!

To start, well I was born January 6 1985 to Jesse and Sue. I was welcomed into this world by my sister Jenny, who is 7 years older than me (this may be important to know for future blogs, we have difficulties at times) my oldest brother Adam who is 5 years older than me and we butt heads at times but we get along pretty good! And my other older brother Nathan, who is 3 years older than me. And we get along really well. So this means that I am the youngest - to some this means spoiled, and un-liked by the other children. Sorry I can’t change where I was placed in line and I can’t change how my parents have changed over the years also (I’m kind of bitter toward this comment, if you can’t tell, my older siblings have made me come to hate this comment) I much like some of you have had my hard times with everyone in my family but we get along pretty good, cause like it or not I am stuck with them FOREVER!!!! So they of course are also stuck with me! Ha ha ha, what a fun trick God has played on all of us!!!! I laugh with him at times!!! I also have 2 nephews and a neice, Travis is 11, oh that makes me sound so old! Krysta is 9, and becoming quite the teen already, and my baby Hunter is 6. Yes I am an Aunt. I’m 22 years old and I’m just enjoying life! (The way it was ment to be)

But I was born in Norfork, VA and I lived in Manteo (Man-e-o) NC for the first 2 years of my life until I moved to Richmond, VA where I lived until I was 8 and then that Oct we moved to the wonderful state of Utah, where I reside, as of now. So people say that I’m a Utahn, whatever that is, but I consider myself a “tar heal” (meaning from North Carolina). I love when I get to go “home”, I call it home cause that is where almost 3/4 of my family is and my grandparents. I haven’t been back since my senior year, I went with my parents as a surprise. And I miss it every year, mostly in the summer, there is nothing like the beach and the ocean. If you have never been back “east” you are missing out. But I’m sure I’ll make it back very soon. But to move along in life. I graduated, just barely, from Davis High, in Kaysville. I found out the day of Graduation that I would be, ya that’s fun story, it may become a blog. But and since then not too much has happened, I worked at Mervyns, Convergys, for my Sister (her nanny), Living Scriptures (please don’t laugh, it payed the bills), and Bell Photography (that had to be one of the best jobs, I truely miss it), and currently stay at home mommy/ business owner.

Well personal time. I am a memeber of the LDS religion, yes the “Mormons” ( I don’t understand why people call us this, I don’t walk around calling other religions “Caths” or “Luths” whatever). I am married to Brandon Manscill (Man-sell) and I will tell the story of me and my husband in a blog, cause it’s kind of long. I was married on August 18, 2006. And I also have a daughter, yes we had her out of wedlock (meaning just what you think) We had Hadley Paige Manscill on April 21, 2006 and she is almost 1, and the best thing that the two of us have made! And I am expecting another girl any day now to be exact! Taylor Lynn Manscill, I’ll let ya know more when that happens. But we are so happy, and yes it is true, marriage is not what the shows make it out to be, but I love it! And kids, wow, what a wonderful gift from God, and I pray I don’t screw up being a mommy and teaching my children. They are work, but they are worth it! I highly recomend them! You learn alot about yourself and your spouse with them. It’s great! We will be going threw the temple to be sealed as as a family, hopefully, soon. We are excited about going and having our babies with us. I will keep you informed. But Brandon and I live with my parents, we have for over a year, but we are also paying off back debt. Which has been such a blessing. We help pay for things here at the house and we also have a nana who loves to watch her baby! That is so nice also! I’ve learned alot from my mother and father from living with them and having children. I truely have grown and so has Brandon. But we will be moving out at the end of June. We share a room with the ‘girls’ and that is hard and tiny and frustrating at times. But cool also at the same time!

I’ve had a good life, I’ve not done alot of things that I want too, but who is to tell me when I can’t do them anymore? I’m so excited about my life and my future and the trials (yes, I have to act excited cause I know they will suck) and the good and bad times. I’m so excited to have my own family and raise them with the most wonderful man, the man of my dreams, hopes and everything else I imaged when I was little. I can look back on life and wish things had never happened, like most people do, and I can look ahead and know that I am ok, I will make it, I am strong and I love my life. I like living in Utah and I’m excited to move around (again, another blog) This world has yet to see the end of Lindsey Anne Spencer Manscill. It’s just beginning! I love that I have the freedoms that I do and the knowledge that I have gained. This life has been amazing and I know this is just the start of me….

So maybe it's your turn!

2008-03-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Ive been tagged!

A - Attached or Single: Attached!!!
B- Best Friends: Brandon
C- Cake or Pie: Wow both good, but depends
D- Day of Choice: Any of them that my kids sleep threw the night!!! But I love Saturdays
E- Essential Item: Kids, purse, cell, and husband
F- Favorite Color: I love Black and Silver but I like Blue and Pink and Yellow
G-Gummy bears or worms: Gross! But I'll eat a few every now and again
H-Hometown: The Outer Banks, Richmond VA and Kaysville UT
I- Indulgence(s): Goodness, Ben and Jerrys? Well depends on what I'm doing and the mood I'm in!
J-January or July: Wow what a toss up January cause its my birthday month and July cause I love the 4th! It's my favorite holiday!
K-Kids: TWO! Hadley is 2 and Taylor is 1
L-Life is incomplete without: Food, gym,kids, husband, family, and the beach
M-Marriage date: August 18, 2006
N-Number of siblings: 1 sister 2 brothers 2 sister in laws and 2 brother in laws
O-Oranges or Apples: Oh depends on the season and what I what.
P- Phobias or fears: Wow now that I have kids, I seam to have more!!
Q- Quotes: Well I don't know, "I'm not the princesses and the pea ok. I just like to sleep good. Is that so bad?" - Me to Brandon
R-Reason to smile: Brandon, Hadley, Taylor, My Family, my life
S-Season: Spring and Summer
T-Tag friends: You! (if you haven't been already)
U-Unknown fact about me: I get upset really easy, and my feelings hurt too.
V- Very favorite store: I love Old Navy! Target, Vanity, and my new fav Charlotte Russe (great Jeans)
W-Worst habit: Oh who knows, depends on the day and who you ask!
X-Xray, ultrasound or mammogram: X-ray: No not yet Utlrasound: Many times (comes with the two kids) and mammogram: No not yet, I do do self check if that counts
Z-Zodiac: Capraicorn

So here we are...

2008-02-26T22:56:00.000-08:00

Well I guess this is a new blog for us! Yahoo! I had a different blog spot but I've decided to come over to blogger. So here is the start of our family. I guess to start out I should tell ya about us.

Well Brandon and I got married on Aug 18, 2006. And it was a wonderful day! I'm sure just like most brides, you look back and wish this was different or that was a different color. Ya I do. I've always told people that was like a pratice for me. Now I know what I like, dont like, do different ect. But anyways, we have two children, girls I should add at that. Hadley and Taylor. They are 51 weeks apart! They get to be the same age for a whole week! Lucky them! But they are a joy, not to mention a handful! But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Hadley will turn 2 on the 21st of April and Taylor will turn 1 on the 13th of April. Ya she was born on Friday the 13th. But it's only because she is our lucky baby! But we are in the process of going to the LDS temple to be sealed. We are so excited to have this happen! We can't wait! And we are also in the process of getting ready to move into our own house! Yahoo! We have been living with my parents, it's cool but it's hard on the family and marriage, honestly. So we are super excited to have that happen. But I know my parents will miss not only Brandon and I, but the girls! They have so much fun together and my daddy loves when he comes home cause they squeal at him when they see him! So cute! But other than that, I'm going to take some of my post off of my other page and post them on here! So for those of you that have read them, sorry, and for those of you who haven't well read them and find out more about us!