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EXTRA EXTRA!! Read all about the Christensons!

2011-08-31T11:25:00.000-07:00

All righty folks, I know that I'm not the most diligent person when it comes to keeping in touch with people who aren't right by me. So this is me apologizing and giving the much needed update. :)

Sooo first things first... apparently there are some of you out there who don't know that we now have two dogs. Her name is Mika (meeka) and she's a ginger!! Ahhh those red heads ;) we got her back in Jan about 3 weeks before we moved to Jacksonville. This one is not shy at all like Suki, she very much wants to know whats going on in the world. She's actually brought Suki out of her shell quite a bit. Now the common ritual for guest coming over is Mika barking like mad and Suki wagging her curly tail with her ears back trying to jump on whoever is coming through the door (as long as she knows who they are). Mika is the bigger one of the two and Suki is very jealous of that fact, in fact Suki's been jealous of her since day one ;) only child syndrome I suppose.

We have now been living in Florida since Feb and, drum roll................

We will be living here for the next three years at least! David will be going into 26th squad and he will be deploying in November sometime. He doesn't have his written orders yet so we don't know specific dates. He'll be finishing training this next month and then he'll have to go to Sear school and then off to deployment for six months.

Since we're going to be living here for the next three years we decided to buy a house!! :D we got a really great deal on this place. It's a brand new house; never been lived in before, about 2300 sq ft four bed three bath and three car garage. My kitchen is absolutely gorgeous!! I have two ovens on is convectional and I also have a convectional microwave and a ceramic stove top. :D It's a big open floor plan in the living room with lots of natural light!! We will be closing in the next 2-3 weeks with our interest rate for 30 months of 3.825!!! I think we did pretty good for our first house. ;)

Finally with that new house we traded in our chevy trailblazer for a new Kia Forte! Because we now live further away from base we decided that we really needed a fuel-efficient car. We get and average of 26 mpg in the city and 36 mpg on the highway, and thats a pretty modest estimate we decided. From our own calculation we get about 28-29 in the city and 36-39 on highway. Also because we are with USAA we got a pretty low interest rate for the car as well so we'll only be paying about $330 a month.

Wow... ok so thats all I've got for now. I have to go pack my house up to move and I will be posting a video tour once everything is in and looking beautiful. :)

Side note, we have a Queen bed in our guest bedroom so if anyone wanted to come a visit me and the pups while Davids gone and I'm all on my lonesome.... I'm just sayin... ;)

If anyone wants more updates just give me a call :) I'm always happy to talk! 580-231-2497

Love you all!

PS we are currently fostering a sweet little kitten who needs a good home, let me know if your interested. :)

I got my hair cut!!

2010-08-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

Ok so Mom and Dad Wilson came to visit us last weekend and we really enjoyed having them here! We went to the aquarium and saw a dolphin show which was really fun. We took them to the beach which they enjoyed and showed them NAS-CCAD (base) and of course they loved Suki. ;) She warmed up to them pretty fast and loved playing with Mom. They got here Thursday the 5th, Dad left Sunday because he had to get back to work, and Mom stayed until Wednesday. Mom showed me how to pick out squash and how to prepare it, and even helped me make a few things like a yummy casserole and a key lime pie. :D It was so good!!

While Mom was here she also gave me a hair cut! :) I hadn't had a hair cut since the beginning of December last year because I've been so scared to go to anyone. I hadn't realized it but Mom has been the only one to cut my hair besides two people. Amy was one of them and the other was a hair dresser of Amy's. One of the first things I told Mom to bring when we found out they were coming was her hair cutting stuff. I showed her a picture of how I wanted my hair to look and told her how long I wanted it. I told her I wanted it a little past my shoulders and while

saying that I was showing her a little bit below my shoulders. What I didn't know is that she didn't see my actions and she was thinking something else. About half way through I went to brush my hair out of my face and felt the length.

"Wow Mom, that feels really short." I said. I went to the bathroom mirror and sure enough it was pretty short. I told her to continue with what she was doing since there's no way to undo it now. The final product took about five to ten minutes to get used to but after I styled it I fell in love! I'm so happy with my hair now :D it feels light and wonderful and it's very very cute! Thank you Mommy!!!!

So here are some before and after pictures. Tell me what you think. :D

Before:

After:

I realize this one's a little blurry but it's a good shot of my hair.

Sorry :(

2010-07-22T09:04:00.000-07:00

I'm working on updating I swear! It'll be here....

within another two weeks...

and if it's sooner then yay me! :D

-L

Puppy!!!

2010-06-07T11:30:00.000-07:00

SUKI!!!!

Ok so Suki was born April 9, 2010. She's a Shiba Inu (a Japanese breed) and we've had her for a little over a week now. For the past month every moment I had to spare I was researching this breed and I think I have a pretty good feel for our new dog.

Female Shiba's usually will get anywhere from 17 to 20 lbs and about 13 1/2 inches to 15 1/2 inches tall however both her parents were smaller so she'll more than likely be on the smaller scale. A Shiba's coat has two layers, a thick soft under coat that protects them from extreme temperatures and a second outer coat that is straight and stiff (just like a husky.) Their coloring is usually reddish with white on the belly, in the ears, under their jaw etc. but they can also be a tan color, black and tan, and some odd ball are even white or cream.

Shiba's are very clean dogs, they have been described as cat in dogs clothing. Wikipedia says they try to avoid mud, dirt, puddles and such on walks and can often be seen licking themselves clean like a cat. They are very intelligent and independent dogs but are very loyal to those who earns their respect. They have a high bark otherwise known as the "Shiba scream" and usually only bark when they are excited or provoked or unhappy.

So far with Suki we've noticed that she's very nervous around strangers but once she's been around them for a few hours she'll warm up to them by allowing them to hold her but she doesn't show them the same affection as she does Dave and I. She didn't bark for about three days and when she finally did we got so excited that she now likes to bark when really playful and to get our attention. She has been good with potty training and the few accidents she has had were our fault (like leaving the bedroom door open at night or not taking her outside regularly.)

She's on a weird schedule right now where she sleeps most of the day and then gets really active at night but we're trying to break that habit. She's a very smart dog, she knows that the leash means we're going outside and how to sit for a treat. We're still training her to chew only on her toys, (they're very mouthy dogs and no that doesn't mean they mouth off Mom Wilson :P ) but she does enjoy playing with almost all of

her toys. We fed her a scrap of meat fat the other day to see how she would react to it and now she loves just sitting patiently by us when we eat. She's really good at begging right now because she's just so darn cute!

I'm defiantly the alfa dog and she's very good at following most of my commands (at least the ones she understands) and she loves playing with Dad because he lets her bite (more or a nibble) him... but she still gets a little nervous when David is speaking loud or laughing. She's still in the mind set that men have cooties or something b

ut it's understandable because she's so tiny and men are so big and have really deep scary voices and such.

We have a lot of dogs in the neighborhood and she's terrified of all of them right now. There is a really big husky that lives next door and when he's not outside she loves to go over and sniff the place out and mark her spot but as soon as she sees him she runs away as fast as she can. The other day I saw him lying down next to his house and decided that it was time for Suki to introduce herself. I held her so that she wouldn't try to run away and we approached him slowly, she was sniffing things out the whole way over, I suppose he was impatient with our pace and decided that he would come to us at that point. Now this guy is pretty darn big and looks very much like a wolf, even I got a little scared of him. He pokes his nose right up to her and she freaks! Ha ha I wish I had recorded it because the growling noise she made was so funny. Needless to say she's slightly reluctant to go over there anymore, but she did interact with another dog which was medium size and even though she was

still nervous she did very well with the latter.

Ok I suppose I'm done bragging about my baby now... time for pictures!!! :D

This is Suki at 5 weeks

again 5 weeks

sleeping with daddy

saying hi to mommy

going for a walk

ya I know I'm super cute

I'd get up to eat but...

to tired to walk

my favorite spot

besides under the bed

not sure how to control my feet yet... I guess this works though

she likes to sleep with her legs out stiff

car ride :)

I lurv my kong

she fell asleep while playing ha ha!

mom, look what I can do!!

bye for now everyone!

Side note: I tried to get some videos of her posted but it just doesn't work. We'll try again later though.

Love,

Lindsey David and Suki!

House tour...?

2010-03-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

I have been trying and trying to get this video tour of our house up for you guys to see and it just won't work. I have about 7 different videos of my house and none of them work for blogger I guess. So then I tried to put them up on youtube and it didn't want to work there either... :( Maybe one day I'll take a bunch of pictures of the place so that you get the general idea, or maybe blogger will stop being dumb and let me put some videos up one day. For now, I'm sorry to say, I've given up on it. It's starting to make me very frustrated...

Anyway, I just wanted you all to know so that you don't keep going to my blog expecting something to be there lol.

I'll post something interesting again soon.

David had his solo flight!!

2010-03-23T20:18:00.000-07:00

K everyone here it is! Davids been working really hard and it's paying off :) He had his solo today and it went awesome! He was so happy when he got back, and you can see it in all the pictures :) So this is mostly going to be pictures because I don't know how to explain what exactly went on and I'm sure if David tried to explain only Tom and Kristin would get it ;) I will

tell you however that it's a tradition to throw the guy in a big tank after his flight. The point is to get him in the tank before he gets back to the flight room or each person in the class owes him 3 cases of beer (or in Davids case it would be Mountian Due or something non alcoholic lol). This however does not mean that you won't get tossed in, it just prolongs it :)

Also right before he does his solo he goes out with an IP and then comes back drops him off and does it all by himself. Thats why you'll see him taxi in and out twice in the photos.

So without further adieu..... Davids Solo Pics!!! :D

Daves flying!!

2010-02-18T20:20:00.000-08:00

After all the waiting that David's been doing he's finally flying! He's already had his first two flights now and he's still getting used to the air sickness but he loves it. The next few months will be busy busy for him. He's actually off studying right now. Of course I'm taking care of him by making breakfast (even at six in the morning) and giving back rubs to help him relax. Also I try to always have a hot dinner ready for him to come home to. I think I'm kinda getting used to this wife thing. ;)

He's just started into what they call the "15 days of hell." David will be doing about 12 hour days every day plus studying on top of that for the next few months. Hopefully I'll still have a sane husband after this is over ;) really this is going to be a rough few months and we can use all the prayers we can get. On a side note David would like to apologize ahead of time if he starts rambling off random flight info while in a conversation with you... :)

Picture time!

Going for round two of flying! :)

Riding out to his plane

Dave in his "G Suit"

Going through things with his IP (his instructor pilot)

David and his IP preflighting the aircraft (with the walk around guy.)

Doing his interior inspection

This is the plane he'll be training on (T6)

Look at how happy he looks :)

Hope you enjoyed. Love you all,

Dave and Linds

P.S. Pics and videos of the house will be coming soon, once I have it spotless. ;)

Weekend get away

2010-02-12T06:47:00.000-08:00

We went out to the Haley ranch again (same place we took our engagement pics) and enjoyed riding horses as often as we could! We could to help moves the cows to different pastures and racing as often as we could. :) That place is so beautiful and fun and the Haley's are great hosts! We love visiting them :) Dave and I took some horses that grew up together so they were very competitive and they loved racing each other. It was pretty funny to see, one would be in front and the other would have to pass them up. It was lots of fun though to just let them run!! :D

Here are some pictures and videos of our adventures.

This is me ridding May: (she didn't want to go as fast when Snip wasn't around plus she

kept trying to eat.)

And this is David ridding Snip: (He's the Haley's fastest horse)

Love from the Christensons!

Road Trip!

2010-02-11T14:38:00.001-08:00

So the Saturday after the wedding we left for our home in Enid Oklahoma. I must say it's the best honeymoon I've had yet, then again it is the only one I've been on... So even though it wasn't much of a honeymoon we still had fun :) We stopped by Four Corners on the way and say a lot of interesting advertisement along the way. Even though we were supposed to rotate driving every so often David drove the whole way. It took us two days to get there and we arived home at 2 Monday morning. We unloaded the next day and took and inventory of all the presents and finally we were home. :D It took exactly a month to get completely settled in but it's our home now, and we're happy.

Pictures!!

Wedding stuff :D

2010-02-11T13:51:00.000-08:00

Ok so I know that it's been a while (over a month) since David and I were married, but I'm finally putting all the links to videos/photos. YAY!!!!!! :D

All photos from photographer:

http://whitneylewis.smugmug.com/Weddings-2010/Lindsey-and-David

Photos from Dawnae:

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=1e4777654d42cac0&sid=0Abs2jlu0Zs2L1o

Ceremony video (it's kinda hard to hear, sorry):

http://www.youtube.com/user/peacheskmw#p/u/5/3kuV_Vr5QqE

First dance:

http://www.youtube.com/user/peacheskmw#p/u/4/lfBE6CVZ4So

Thats all of the big things that I have. Either of those youtube links has other videos if you want to view those as well but it's mostly just more dancing. Anyway I hope you all enjoy them and we love and miss you all!!

Dave and Linds :)

2009-12-13T20:24:00.000-08:00

So umm I'm kinda late in posting this but uh I'm officially engaged now! :P

David proposed to me on Thanksgiving morning. He woke me up kinda early saying we were going to go horse back riding. So after getting the horses ready we rode around the Haley ranch for a bit. They have a lot of land out there and it was just amazing! Cold, but amazing ;) So I was kinda expecting it because I knew he had to do it before we went to Thanksgiving dinner (we were going to take some of our engagement pics there) but he kept on taking me to so many different places that I wasn't sure if this was it or not.

Finally we got to this ridge and it was overlooking most of the ranch and it wasj ust stunning, while I was looking out I heard David unzipping his jacket and my heart started pounding!! I knew this was it. I looked over and there he was just smiling and holding this little black box in his hand. When I think about it now I know I should have written this sooner because I'm not really sure of my reaction but David said I mostly couldn't stop smiling lol.

He said, "Babe, you already know you're the girl of my dreams and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, so will you marry me?" and he then opened the box and WOW! Can I just say that my ring has to be the most beautiful ring I've ever seen (no offence sisters :D)!! Of course I said yes and he put the ring on, there was a few exchanges of kisses and then my horse tried to take off cause I guess she didn't want to be there anymore lol, but I was so proud of David! He did an amazing job with picking out the ring and how he picked to propose to me!

Anyway, here are some pics for you to enjoy... even though I'm kinda late lol Happy late Thanksgiving, Merry Christmass, and an early Happy New Year everyone!

Love David and Lindsey

Pics:

2009-10-28T11:16:00.000-07:00

Ok so for most of you this isn't really big news cause everyone knows except for the McCollaums but I have some huge news! So everyone knows that David got baptized and stuff in Sept. so he was in an interview with his (now old since he moved) Bishop and he mentioned something that took both David and I by surprise. I had never heard of a Bishop counseling what he just had so we decided that I needed to check with my Bishop and see what he said, and sure enough both Bishops seemed to have the same idea. So now that your all on the edge of you seats trying to figure out what this counsel was...

da da dahhhhh!

I'm getting married January 1, 2010!!

The Bishops both seemed to think that since he's baptized and he's well on his way to becoming a great priesthood leader and since we both intend to be married in the temple eventually we should just get married. We will be getting married in Utah because most of my family is already here and Davids family is kinda scattered all over at the moment lol. Then once David has been a member for a year we can both enter into those temple covenants and be sealed for all time and eternity. Which will probably be happening once he's finished advanced so that we can come out to Utah for the sealing (so like maybe next Thanksgiving of Christmas).

Once we're married I will be moving to Oklahoma (I can't spell it without thinking of the musical :P haha) in a small town called Enid where David will be continuing his flight training at Vance Air force base. We think we'll be living on base and he's estimated graduation date from Primary is some time at the end of June. We're hoping that I will be able to find a job for that short time and I have better chances than before because they have a program where on base they help the spouses find jobs. Since my last job will have been a call center type job (and according to my "Predictive Index" results I'm well suited for that) I'll most likely get a job where I can answer peoples questions all day, that's what David thinks at least. From there, depending on what platform he gets, we'll be moving again and we hope it will be to Corpus Cristi Texas.

As I said before this is mostly for the benefit for my long lost relatives in Italy since they are so hard to get a hold of on Skype and now Facebook as well. Also I though it might be a good idea to update my blog since that hasn't been done for a while now... :P

So ya I guess here's some pictures of the future married peeps :) and I hope everyone is doing well!
Love you all,
Lindsey

2009-07-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't written in a while but I've been fairly busy in my defence... so I just thought I'd share this with you all. I thought it was so cute and this song reminds me of when we were in Ohio with our pool (maybe the only memory of that place I have) and I loved this song! Watch this it's so cute! David found it, good job babe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXHazCH1BZE

K I'll try to write something soon but you'll all just have to live with this for a bit :D

Just an Update

2009-05-13T13:37:00.000-07:00

Ok so I guess it's finally time for another update. I've moved out of King Henry Apartments am now living right by UVU in a place called Wolverine Crossing. It's a nice place and I have my own room now (YES!!!!) so I don't have to worry about roommates keeping me up all night :P and I knew two of my roommates I'm living with now form High School. Lacey Call and Jentri Dean, and my other roommate's name is Ping Ping Wong, she's such a sweetheart :D so cute!

I also finally got job. Almost everyone knows that by now but just incase you didn't there ya go. I'm working at the same place Mike and now Amy is; Bluehost a web hosting company. I'm in the verification department and I get to call people and take calls all day! Wahoo... bla! No actually it's not that bad as long as I've had some Dr Pepper to keep me awake lol I'm just happy I have a job though. Also it looks as though I've done something right cause usually it takes them a month to see if they'll want me to stay or not but they've already given me more hours permanently and extra for the months to come! Yay me I'm so amazing haha. I've very happy with this job for now.

Also recently my boyfriend David Christenson came down to Utah for a week to visit me and meet my family. It was so much fun and really good to see him after more than 4 months!! He was so nice and sweet to everyone and from what I can tell everyone liked. Both Mom and Dad said that they could tell his parents were really great people cause they did such a good job on raising David. :D I'll give you a run down on what occured over the week:

First we ate dinner with my parents and then went back to their place to visit more and after Dave and I went to hang out with some of my friends. The next day we went to visit Emily and Eliot and the kids. Em, the kids and Dave and I went to subway and then to a park so the kids could play and we had lots of fun. Then we went back to Their house to put the twins to bed and visit with Eliot who told us his awesome elk story. Then we had to go cause I had to work. Next day we went to spend time with Camila and Isabel (Mike was at work so we weren't able to visit with him this time.) They also wanted to go to a park and we spent some time watching Isabel be the cute little girl she was. After we went back to Camila's and had some lunch and then sat on the couch while Isabel cuddled up next to David. She loved David as we knew she would cause every time she saw him on web cam she just sat there blowing kisses to him. Then she went down to bed and we visited with Camila until it was time again for me to go to work. We picked up Amy on our way over to Mom and Dad's because they were going to welfare square for the night and then to dinner later. Then David was dropped of at Amy's for them to hang out (they had already met cause of the book trips) until I got off. The next day we went to go help out Mom for a bit and then I went to work while David workout at my gym then we went to Kim and Brandon's to spend the night since we got there around 9:45. We had fun visiting with them and playing with Spencer a bit then he went to bed and we watched some funny stuff on youtube and then a really cool movie of Brandon's (I forget the name of it :P) Next morning they made us a really good breakfast and then David and I went shopping for Mom's mothers day present then I had to go to work while David went with Mom and Dad and Mike and Camila and Isabel to Temple Square (visit Mike and Camila's blog for some pics). David said he had a great time and after he went to help move some furniture at M&D's and then we all went over to Mike and Camila's to play Wii!! It was lots of fun cause Mike, David and I are all very competitive so we all won some and lost some (Camila wanted to read her book cause she was tired. Poor thing walked all around Temple Square being very pregnant!) Next day we went to Mike's ward for church with M&D then we went to M&D's place for a very yummy yummy dinner! Mom was such a sweetheart to make a very good Italian meal for us from scratch. It was spaghetti with meat balls and a really yummy salad that she copied form a restaurant and a really really good soup! Oh man it was good! Attending were Kim and Brandon and Spence, Amy, and Alisa and her boyfriend. Kim and Alisa both brought desert which were a raspberry crumble cake (Kim) which was very very good! And Alisa brought us some brownies :) it was a very nice dinner and after dinner David and I did dishes and we all visited for a while then David went to my place to watch a movie. He left the next morning at 10 :( it was very sad to see him leave but I was so happy that I got to spend so much time with him over the week! I just might have been the best week of my life!!

We didn't take very many pictures but here are some

of the few we did take.

Me and my love!

He's so amazing <3

Mommy and I :D

Daddy and daughter :]

makin' good food!

Leaving :(

Such a handsome man! ;)

Finale goodbye! I love him!

My Personal Philosophy

2009-03-31T17:18:00.001-07:00

This is a paper that I found on my parents computer. I thought it was very interesting and would like to share it with you guys. I wrote this my senior year in high school for my AP English class.

I am unique. I’ve lived most of my life knowing that I don’t follow the general flow of others. I’ve come to realize that my way of thinking is not that of what my parents, teachers, and even peers want me to think. My approach on things is very different from that of the average teenager. I’ve always rationalized my incompetence in meeting certain requirements to be my lack of enthusiasm or motivation, but more than once has the thought of my intelligence crossed my mind as reason and/or cause. I have beautiful features about me, but lack the self-esteem to be able to become anything great.

I like learning. To be able to understand how and why things work, and then to be able to explain to others with intelligent but understandable words is an amazing thing. Going into the minds of others to catch a glimpse of how they perceive the world and reading the many dreams, hopes, beliefs, and knowledge is an exciting voyage. I like being independent and knowing things for myself, but I like to have support, help, and others thoughts as well. I like observing things around me, and little details. I like the feelings of accomplishment and the relief of honesty. I like being able to express myself appropriately and I like attention for good things.

I believe we all have to potential to become great. I believe that I will never fully understand everything I want to. I believe that everything is connected together and that it is important for us to know as much as we can. Knowledge is one of the most important tools in life, if not the most important. With that tool, mankind will succeed. If one puts forth the time, effort, persistence and sacrifice needed, then one is bound to become great.

I dislike assumptions. The world is too quick to make judgments that effect decisions. If we become so hasty that we can’t take the time to get to know people, then all the knowledge, persistence, dreaming, and hard work comes to nothing. If we can’t take time to look carefully, then some Einstein might lose confidence or ability to do great and wonderful things.

I plan to continue in life to the best of my ability. Even if I feel I am not capable of doing things, life goes on. Often times we hear the saying, “It’s the thought that counts.” I plan to make my thoughts into actions so that it truly does count. I can achieve success if I try instead of just thinking. I plan to take full responsibility for any of my actions and make them better if I have to. I plan to have a happy family, raise children, and provide them with love, care, knowledge, and anything else they might need. I plan to further my education both through college and personal study.

I dream of satisfaction. Traveling different places, learning new things, feeling many emotions, experiencing necessary achievements, and enjoying life. To be a skilled scholar and be an accomplished musician, to have the attitude of completeness and gratification for the knowledge I thirst for is what will bring me satisfaction.

I have independent and different ideas and philosophies. I am an individual.

2009-03-09T18:49:00.000-07:00

Here's the video... it was having difficulties uploading.

Me + Drugs = Very funny!!

2009-03-09T11:06:00.000-07:00

So the other day I was helping out my roommate Bella record herself for a class project. While going about preparing and editing her film, we stumbled across something I didn't even know existed. As we commence watch, becasue we're the curious little creatures we are, I soon realize that this is footage of me sleeping for an hour! It was filmed during the time I was staying at Mom and Dad's because I had just gotten my wisdom teeth pulled and they were taking care of me. Bella looks at me like, "You're some sort of freak..." and all I can say to her is, "I honestly don't remember this! I was on drugs for goodness sake." I've now decided that it's really really funny and hope you guys enjoy this as much as we did :) Oh and I did edit it for time's sake, I really don't know how'd want to watch an hour of me sleeping anyway! :P

Fun with family!

2009-03-02T19:52:00.000-08:00

Lately I've decided that I need to spend more time with my family and siblings because now that I'm older and understand SO much (:P) anyway I dedided that now that I'm not in high school and have gone through a little bit of the real world I can connect with my family in a different way and it's important for me to get to know them and become good friends with them now. So since I'm always over at Mike and Camila's I deceded that I'd start with Kim and Brandon because it had been so long that I had been around them. So about two weeks ago I went over and first off Kim and I made some way good chicken with a corn, beans, rice and tomatoes with some spices mixture. After dinner we had some fun playing around with Spencer. Gotta love that boy! He is so huge and he talks all the time and it's so clear too. He showed off his puzzle skills to me and I have to admit he was really fast at them, I was very impressed! He just flirted with me the whole itme and I was a bit suprised at times because he's such a boy but I'm not used to that ha ha. He would totally face-plant and get up and laugh about it! Soo not something girls would do :P After he got all ready for bed Kim and Brandon and I had out little fun eating ice cream (btw if anyone needs help knowing the proper way to prepare ice cream for your self, talk to Brandon! He's the king at it haha) and playing a fun little board game. I was a bit worried about the game at first because last time I played it with them Mom and Dad played it with us and it wasn't all that fun, but I soon found out that it was because they were so slow! Ha ha but we had fun talking and catching up and making fun of each other :)

So this weekend I went over to Emily and Eliot's house and we all had a lot of fun! When I first got there the twins were taking their nap so Randi had me all to her self for a while and she wanted to show me how she played her "V-smile". She was so cute and very good at it, I was impressed. Then the twins came down and things when crazy. We had a lot of fun taking funny pictures on my computer at first then I chased the kids around while Emily made us some dinner. Randi loved it so much she kept coming up to me all night saying "I got you!" and then taking off for me to chase her :) cute little girl. After dinner and even more playing with the kids it was time for bed and then Em and El ganged up on me and told me their opinion about school ;) it gave me some stuff to think about and I appreciated their concern for me. After that Em and I went down and I helped her out with making some of her hair bow's. She does such a good job with them I'm really impressed with all the work she does! While we were doing that after a while David called and Emily took over the parenting job for a bit and wanted to interview him, I should mention though that it was David's idea though :) So she asked him her questions and then after we had a good laugh about it but I thought it was super funny that both were so keen on having the interview :P The next day we al went out shopping for different stuff for Emiy (I have no money so I didn't even bother looking at stuff, I mkostly just tried to keep the kids entertained) and we spent all day doing that. We stopped at a Carls Jr for lunch because it hd a play pin for the kids and the girls had a great time climbing around it. Randi got scared in part of it though so I had to go up and get her to help her out. I must admit I was pretty jealous of the kids cause it was one of the coolest play pins I'd ever been in, but after taking the twins through it a few times to go on the slide I realized why they make those for little kids only :P When we got home we were all tired so the kids shared some little kid dinner and then had part of the adult food which we ordered from a Mexican place and then the girls when to bed. Emily and I then went to the movie Push. It was pretty good but we both agreed that it was missing something... but all in all we had a great time.

Now it's picture time! I didn't take any pictures at Kim's except on my phone but I don't know how to transfer that so here are some of my fav's from Em's:

Randi, Kestin and I

Kestin, Randi, Emily and Kourtney

Emily, Randi and I

funny pic of Randi

"Oh no! Where did Lindsey's head go!"

Me :P

My sister is so peeerrty ;)

Kestin haha

Kourtney wasn't really into it lol

hummm :]
Me, Randi and Mom (Emily) Randi loved taking these pics!
The end :]

The Hair...

2009-02-08T17:14:00.000-08:00

Ok so I just realized that I didn't tell anyone that I'd cut my hair... well everyone has pretty much seen it by now, but just incase you guys forgot what it looked like or for those of you who haven't seen it, here ya go!

That's my "I'm a big deal" pose in case any of you were wondering. ;)

But here's the real deal pic :P

Jk that's not the real deal but I mean what picture am I not going to make a face in? Anywho, there ya go peeps. I'll try to think of something cooler to post about... just getting in the habit right now :P

lots of loves!

linny

...hum

2009-02-06T03:14:00.000-08:00

So just so you guys don't think I'm completely incompetent, I would like to shortly state that most of my posts (including this one) were written at 1 am or later. So obviously when I was grammatically incorrect it wasn't exactly my fault... well kinda but I have an excuse... cause my brains not totally on... Ah who am I kidding, when is my brain ever totally on? :) Seriously though... not my fault.

A new Roommate!

2009-01-27T08:46:00.003-08:00

So when I came back from my last book trip I walked into my appartment and everything was different. A little puzzled I went to my room and when I opened the door someone elses stuff was across the room form me! It was so shocking to me, Paige had only mentioned moving out once and I didn't even know she had left. No text message from her or a call or anything. Apparently she left a note to the other girls, but we all think she got mad at us for some reason... Anywho, my new roommates name is Madelaine (far right). She's lots of fun and we're all very happy to have her join our little crew. We are now L.A.M.B.!! :)

just in cause you wanted to make fun of me here's your chance :)

2009-01-21T22:43:00.000-08:00

so i totally forgot to post my pictures i took

i didn't have a chipmonk face but i still look pretty out of it haha

Day 1: (I'm in a tank top yes i know. remember this was while i was still under anasthesia...)

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

so there ya go :)

notice how i'm not smiling in any of them... wonder why :P

well hope you all enjoyed them

love linds

Can't sleep...

2009-01-19T23:00:00.000-08:00

This last Thursday, January the 15, I fianlly got the chance to get my wisdon teeth taken out. I was unusually excited for this because they had been through the gums and hurting me for two months now. Little did I know how fun things would really get.

The morning of, I awoke to Mom kindly (more like franticly ;] ) letting me know that we had fifteen minutes till we needed to leave. Not wanting to do a whole lot with myself since I was half asleep and was going into surgery so I'd look wierd after no matter what I did, I went to the bathroom to change, brush my teeth, and put on a little bit of makeup. Leaving ontime we head out to Salt Lake City for the building Wisdom Teeth Only.

Upon arriving we then are told that we're actually forty minutes late (miss communication issues) so we hurried through the paper work, I got an x-ray of my teeth with a really nifty mechine that rotated around my head! (I felt like a robot :P) Then I showed into the extraction room. dun Dun DUN!!!

I'm told to sit in the chair and get real comfy. Then my Doctor/Dentist/Man Who's Taking Out My Teeth explains whats going to happen to me while he tie's a rubber band around my arm. A little confused at why he's bothering with my arm when it's my teeth that are getting pulled I decided it doesn't matter, the Doc knows best. He then tells me to start skweezing my hand into a fist. I then realize that I am to recieve an IV for the anasthesia.

My heart jumps twice and does a backflip as I start to slowly skeez my hand, trying not to think of the needle that's about to puncture my oh so fragile skin, causing the tiniest bit of pain, but extreamly scarrie none the less. As I try to fade out the needle thats now only inches away from my buldging vain, I hear a voice somewhere in the background, "Now once the anasthesia's in your blood stream you'll start to loose concisnous in a few minutes. This might prick just a little bit..." Oh the horror! Feeling the cold needle pierce my skin! Sinking down into the wet blood! I start to cry out, then realize why I still tolerate shots. Geez that wasn't so bad. Hum, well thats an interesting wall... wow starting to get tired. Man I should have gone to bed earlier last night. Gosh I just can't seem to keep my eye's open... ok... it the... anas... thes...

...

"No no, they weren't a problem at all. Just the regualr garden type variety."

...

"I'll help you get her out to the car."

...

Ooo... where'd the lower half of my face go? Oh a text message, must answer...! K Lindsey just try to keep your eyes open for a little bit... hey, when'd I get in the car? Oh ya, phone. What's in my mouth? Ok, blood everywhere... not so fun. Just text Linds. Wait where's my Mom? Hum, parking lot looks familar. At least I kinda know where I am. K need to stop sticking fingers in mouth. Yes, David I'm out... but I see a dog that's so cute!! There's blood on my thumb... Ok Mom's back, she'll fix it! "Mhmmhdmmhmhd..."

"What?!"

"Hummammdmmm!!!"

"Lindey I don't understand what your saying. Just wait ok we'll be home soon. Here hold your meds."

I now am holding some sort of bag in my hands...? Oh kohlers, right, the store. Well that would explain where Mom was, but how'd we get here so fast I just got a shot. Well maybe David will fix it then. [blood on my thumb. its gross]

{I'm sorry. you did just get your teeth out though. That could be why there's blood on your fingers...}

Hum, well that didn't help me at all. All well keep texting! Must text. Or sleep... thats good too...

Huh...? Hey don't leave me Mom! I wanna come. Ok Lindsey open door. Oh home... ya hi Mom why can't I walk?

"K Lindsey let's go inside and take some pills. Come on stand up, your too big for me to carry."

"Mmmhdaamuum."

"Lindsey I can't understand you just wait ok."

Wow, how did I get in the chair so fast...? Oh water! Yes my mouth is so dry, I can't wait... ok sippy cup's a little wierd but who gives. I just want that liquid down my throat... or all over my shirt and pants and table, that works too. Oh look... more blood. "MMMDHMDMUUM!!!"

"What is it? Ooh, well we'll just wash that up. Now try to close your mouth this time. Ya tip it up like that. There we go now, yes Lindsey I realize there's blood. Well stick out your tounge let me wash it off."

"Muuhmmdhum."

"Ok let get you in bed. Come on."

Geez this walking thing is harder than I remember'd. And why does the room keep spinning and jolting. YES! A bed. Oh sweet moses a TV. My prayers have been answered, I'm in heaven!!

As the days went on I progresivly got better. They day came (Jan 17) when it was time to go home. I had my list of when I needed to take my pills and what not and I was confident that I would be just fine. Arriving at my apartment I had a little bit of pain but I was happy to see my roommates again and finally feel independent once again. Taking my pills when I was supposed wasn't so bad that night. So trying falling asleep after a long long talk with my roommates wasn't a problem at all.

The next moning I awoke remembering all the times I sat up in bed that night. Suddenly feeling a stab of pain I realized why. Looking at the clock that read 6:30 before I left my room, trying not to wake my roommate, I stumbled to my drug stash. Ok I need to take this pill now with food, hum that could be a problem. What am I supposed to eat if I can't even open my mouth wide enough to shove a soft banna in it?

I look up to a noise and find Bella coming out, looking very tired, announcing that she needs to work on her lesson for Relif Society. Now on the couch with the computer on my lap trying to decypher what's written infront of me I grunt "good luck" to her and continue decoding my puzzle. Everything is spinning for some reason I really can't figure out but I just need to concentrate on something besides the aggonizing pain of my tooth. By my side is a bowl that once held a little strawberrie oatmeal, my make-shift ice pack, and the massive amounts of pills that are supposed to take this pain away. Deciding that this is much more than the avrage pain that accompanies wisdom teeth extraction, I look up that dreaded word... Dry Socket.

Dry socket is something that is more common among women and in the lower jaw. No one knows exactly why it occurs but the pain can very unpleasent for the patient. It can commence within 2-5 days of the extraction and will generally last from 24-72 hours. Some things however that could pertain to the cause are smoking, sucking through straws, of the proceedurd it's self.

Rembering the three time's I sucked through straws I decided that was my problem. I read more:

Sucking through a straw will creat negative preasure and can cause the blood clot to remove its self. Spitting will also cause a negative preasure. Avoid both after extraction untill the pain ceases.

Oh well thats jut great. It's not my fault I always had the urge to spit I mean come on there was blood in my mouth...

Some symptoms are extream pain in the area of extraction, a fould smell or taste, and pain that will run from the head down the neck. Often times the ear will start to ake also.

Ok well this taste deffinantly isn't something that I enjoy, and now I understand why my ear hurts. At least I don't have that pain running down the neck thing going on. Well I'm not going to go to church today... wow feeling tired. I think the pills have finally kicked in.

"Oh ya I'm not feeling good at all. I think that I have dry socket. It happens to sometimes after teeth are pulled and it hurts really bad. So ya I'm going to stay home today and hopefully catch up on the sleep I missed out on last night."

As my roommates left, heading to church, I got up off the couch and took more pills. Going to my room each step was torcher. It was like my mouth was punishing me for taking out my teeth that were hurting me.

"We were having fun with those guys. They were so wise and gave us all so much advice but you had to go and take them all away! You couldn't even leave one..."

Wow ok these pills are so effecting me... time to sleep, or try to at least.

The day went on and I continued to be in massive amounts of pain. It got so bad that one morning I had to run to the bathroom and hang my head over the toilet while I sat and dry-heaved for ten minutes. I decided that I needed a priesthood blessing. Dad was sick though and we kept having problems when I asked them to come down. I hadn't talked to my home teachers for about two months and wasn't sure if I had been reassigned or not so I called my favorite brother.

"Ya sure I'll come during lunch."

Oh joy! I was going to get better finally! I took a shower and waited to the time my life saver would come. He arrived and asked what was going on. I explained as best I could and then told him he was my last hope. After the blessing I thanked him and he invited me to lunch. I accepted, I'd been cooped up in houses for way too long. I was able to eat my lunch without much trouble and enjoyed spending time with my brother. He took me home afterwards and I spent the rest of the day happy and excited to be free of pills and pain.

It's now the following day, Monday Jan 20, and I'm proud to admit that even though there is still some pain, I'm no longer on pain killers and I'm feeling much better!

All in all I just wanted to post something and though this was just about the best thing to share :)

Hope you guys enjoyed the story and I promise that I'm going to be posting much more now.

Love linds

Ridiculously good looking baby.

2008-09-28T02:17:00.001-07:00

I would just like to say that this little girl deffinantly has the "blue steel" look down! :] Maybe even... MAGMA!!

work whatcha mama gave ya girl

2008-09-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

update on update... for some reason it cut off some of my pictures. i think it's cause i copied them from my roommate's myspace page but you'll just have to deal with that for now untill I get her to send me the actualy pictures :] love you all!!!

2008-09-08T15:56:00.000-07:00

Bryan (Brandon's little brother) and I had some good times over the summer! :]

K so Denise was so encouraging that I decided to update again :]

I'm in college now and living down in provo and an apartment complex called King Henery Apartments. It's a nice little place and I love my roommates! My roommate that I'm sharing a room with is the one next to me in the last picture. Her name is Paige and she's my age and going to UVU with me so we get along great. We're both crazy and love Chris Brown!! and the same type of music and we get along really great. My other roommates are Alisa and Isibella or Bella (yes like Bella from Twilight) as we call her. Alisa is half Japaniese and is going to BYU and really reminds me of Camila in a lot of ways :]. Bella is black and speaks four different languages and is really funny. She is engaged to be married on June 6th and is also attending BYU.

UVU is a new experience and I must admit I'm already behind in one class but only because I got really sick and ended up being at mom and dad's for the day but I'm pretty much caught up now so don't worry everyone I am working hard to do good in school. Amy always checks up on me being the wonderful over protective sister she is :] and I love her for it! Also I think everyone will be very happy to hear that I've finally quit KFC!!! It was really really hard to try to get up there on time with the busses so I just got sick of it one day and quit. I'm now going to be working very happily at Pudding on the Rice :] Brian was very nice to offer me a job and I start tomorrow. For those who are interested I'm only gong part time and I'm takin two classes. I'm in Intro to Film which is a prereque for any film class that I want to take. English 1010 might sound pretty easy but trust me it's plenty hard when you take it from Amy's favortie english teacher :] she gives us a "small" paper to write from the "small" amount of reading that she gives us each day. Really I enjoy it though! In case anyone is interested no there aren't any boys or men in my life at the moment haha who needs em right? :] I mostly just hang out with friends when I can and go to school and work. So not so different from what I did in high school but much more enjoyable!! Oh and I've also been doing a little bit of modeling with Brian :] I'll have to post the pictures when I get them. Well I'm off to study and then go make dinner and have roommate FHE :] love you all and thanks for visiting my blog!

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here's some more pictures in case you haven't seen me in a while (in othere words here ya go little italians :])

kinda a wierd pic but i'm the one on the end haha

PS if you guys haven't noticed I don't really know how to work this picture thing so bare with me till I figure it out :]

for camila

2008-07-06T21:48:00.000-07:00

yes everyone i graduated and i would like you to know that the only reason that i'm posting on my blog right now is because i'm over at mike's and camila and she's forcing me to post... she has me in a head lock right now... it's kinda uncomfortable... she's pretty strong for being the little person she is. ha :] jk she's not forcing me. im not in a head lock. she's just holding me hostage hehe k so right now i'm just working for the summer and in the fall i'm going to go to uvu with amy my beloved sister who had promised me to do all of my homework and essays during my first year... well not really but that would be nice if you did amy!!! :] so ya kfc is still a blast. but i'll inform you all so that my job doesn't seem as crapy as it sounds i'm at a position where i could be considered as a co-manager. yup thats how good i am. ha ok picture time :]i got a mac book (well mom and dad gave me a mac book) so i'm able to take cool pictures of myself and then make them even cooler by editing them all cool like and ya... cool :]

here are a few samples.

I'm a Senior!!

2008-01-02T09:47:00.001-08:00

Year 2008 everyone! so the holidays were nice everyone. thanks for making them great. Dawnae came over for Christmas and it was fun to have her here and she took a lot of pictures. In fact she took some of my senior pictures for me and i thought i'd show them off :] so have fun. there are a lot of them and yes i already know i'm as white as the snow. no making fun... :] enjoy.

very desired update :]

2007-11-04T19:20:00.000-08:00

so ya i don't know if even any of my family even know that i have a blog. but ya i do :] i started my blog like right after amy did and ya. anyways... here's an update on my life cause i've pretty much been out of touch with all of my family for the past few months!! which is really sad cause i miss my fam but ya. so school is going crazy. it's hard work but lots of fun. i think that i gained more from it this year than i have any other year. i don't know if thats because i'm a senior and ready for it to be over so i appreciate every little thing that gets me closer to graduating or if i'm just paying more attention. either way i've enjoyed it a lot. KFC is always a blasts... actually i like working there because of the people i work with and now i'm a manager!!! yahoo!!! lol so now i get to close every Tuesday (which coincidentally happens to be the busiest day of the week due to the fact that we have our Tuesday chicken fried stake specials) but it's pretty nice because now i just have to deal with angry customers and money and the employees. but the cool thing about it is that i'm the first one at our little American Fork store to become a shift supervisor in so short of time. and now i even do Saturday night books (which is basically the whole week and takes a lot longer and is much more complicated) so apparently i'm pretty dang valuable to them :] plus both of my bosses love me which make like all the more better hehe.
now for the moment you've all been waiting for...
PICTURES!!!! :]

just and update on what i look like because i haven't seen any of you, with the exception of mike and camila, in forever. but ya :] well thats all for now. but i'll post another blog when i get the time. love you all and hope i'll be able to see at least some of you soon.
&hearts' linny rene

the boating trip

2007-08-08T08:52:00.000-07:00

now that mom has a calling in young womens she thinks that she's a kid again :] her and i went on a boating trip with the young women and i was the only one to get in and out of the wake. anyways, mom attempted to go knee boarding and she almost got up but for some reason it just didn't happen. but i'm positive that she could have done it if she just kept at it. all and all it was a lot of fun for the both of us. as you can see

2007-08-08T08:44:00.000-07:00

so i've recently realised that i rather enjoy going hiking. and aparently i don't like the trees... no i do like them. that one was just in my way :]