the new favorite (for now at least)

I feel like you have to be in the right mood to be able to blog.
Lately I keep telling myself I need to, but just haven't been in the mood.
So while I feel like I'm in the blogging mood now, I better go with it while it lasts.

One of mine and my sister's Christmas present was that I would get to stay longer at her house.  It was my favorite present and I'm so glad I got to stay as long as I did.  I absolutely love those two little boys and I had the hardest time leaving.

While I was there I became the new favorite now that MEGGIE was gone.  I loved hearing Jackson say, "Lynsie...I need you.." or "NO. I want my Lynsie to do it." There is no competition when Meggie is around, he always wants her. So you can imagine how lucky I felt that he actually wanted me to do something.  Then after a few days I think he became too used to me having around and I was no longer special as I once was.  But without fail he still wanted me to play with him, and I'll take that any day.  We played trains, cars, and mr. potato head {definitely my favorite} As we were playing I found the mustache and took it and pinched it between my lips and nose to keep it up. I told Jackson to look, and he started laughing. Like that real cute, gigglely laugh that you know is too funny to be real, but it is. So he found another mustache and wanted to do it too, but he couldn't figure out how I got it to stay. I went and got some tape, so that we could get it to stay on him. I said smile to take a picture of him, and he lays down and does this pose for me. What a natural.
He is such a character and says some of the funniest things you'd ever hear.  He picks up on everything, what you say, what the movies say, and what the tv says.  Like one day he said what we thought sounded like "super ladies!!" and we laughed and asked him, what? He then said it again, "super ladies! i saw it on the tv...(as he points to it)" Cassie and I just laughed way hard... Maybe he was saying Single Ladies??? He also says lots of things from CARS, and UP. Which always made me laugh.  One other thing that kills me every time I hear it was on this video Cassie took.  Jackson and I were in his old room playing in the dark and he left me to go get his head flash light.  Cassie was in the living room filming Cannon being all cute and happy.  Jackson walks out and asks her whats she's doing, she says that she's just playing with Cannon and says that he's getting so big! He then shouts out.."HE CAN WALK NOW?!?!?!" (just a reminder Cannon was only 2 months old) Like I said, always making me laugh. He definitely kept me entertained, and I definitely had to keep him entertained too. I guess it was part of the deal.

I also made some new burp cloths for Cannon that turned out so cute.  I'm sure that his mom appreciated more than he did, but I was glad I could do and make something that she didn't have to time to do. He is such a sweetheart and I loved to hold him.  I loved spending my sister time with Cassie, even though most of the time Jackson needed my undivided attention. {When we would all be together and if I was telling Cass a story or something, he would tell me no talking, or tell me to just talk to him or vice a versa if Cassie was talking } Thanks to Jordan we got to go out a couple of times to be just sisters together. I wish she didn't live so far away so that we could do that more often. Cassie= my best friend. Sadly the time came to go home and I didn't really want to. It was weird coming home to a quiet home and not hearing my favorite words from a little tiny voice.."lynsie, i need you" And I'm still missing them.  Thanks for letting me stay so long, and thanks to Jordan for putting up with my "silent grumpies" I can't wait until the next time I get to see you guys next.

2009

I cannot believe that this year has already come and gone. It feels like not to long ago I graduated, and it's almost been two years since. It's crazy how time flies so fast before your own eyes. Anyway, I just wanted to share a review (mainly for myself, and to realize how blessed I truly am) of what a great year I've had in..

...We all have our first of something. Quite a few of mine happened this year, so here are a couple...

.first year of college. accomplished.

.first real boyfriend.

.first kiss.

.first time skydiving.

...A few of my other favorite things that happened...

(in random order)

.making new friends.

.teaching swim lessons for a second year.

.and getting a good tan because of it.

.going to TEXAS.

.becoming an aunt for the second time.

.the many trips to stg.

.in-n-out in utah.

.skydiving in hawaii.

.boating with the Jensen's.

.swimming with dolphins.

.very much needed skype video calls.

.and talking with just Jackson for a good half hour over the computer.

.birthday celebration in cancun.

.and everything that was included with it.

.lake powell.

.jeeping.

.marriage of a best friend.

.having my own room at school.

.roommates=new best friends.

.old roommates=many lunches out to catch up.

.missionary.

.becoming best friends with his twin sister.

.thriller.

.cleaning the sink at angie's.

.learning to drive stick.

.lori's annual halloween party.

.volunteering at special olypmics.

.20th birthday in disneyland.

.christmas in texas, with family.

What an amazing year, one of my bests that's for sure. It's sad to say goodbye to it, but there will be plenty more great experiences to come. And I'm so excited for them. Thanks to my family and friends for everything they do for me, and making this year one to remember.

so long 19, hello 20

(this is a little late, but with finals here.. I've been a little too busy to find the time to do it, until now)

How can one feel so much older when they celebrate their birthday at disneyland?  

I was lucky enough to be in disneyland on my birthday!  This year my birthday also landed on Thanksgiving Day.  It was by far one of my best birthdays yet.

We drove all the way there the day before (hats off to my mom for driving all the [LONG] way, and not getting frustrated when I got us lost about twice, and making us driving in circles since we didn't go as far as we should have. THANKS MOM!!) In 2009 Disney celebrated their 150th birthday, so they let everybody in for free on their own birthday. They give you a pin to wear that says your name and that it's your birthday. Then every worker in the park says Happy Birthday to you as they pass. It's the for sure place to be if you love all the attention.

When we got there we noticed that everything was decked out in Christmas decorations.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

(especially the decorations, if you don't believe me just ask my mom... every year I make her get out the decorations right after Thanksgiving, I would do it earlier, but she wouldn't let me)

So I was just eating all the adorable Christmas decorations right up, I absolutely loved it.

Since we were there on Thanksgiving we kinda expected to not be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but once again Disney stepped it up, and we had a delicious turkey, mashed potatoes, beans, stuffing, and a roll for lunch!

Not only were the street lamps and buildings covered in Christmas, all the characters had their Christmas outfits on! Two of the rides we went on were Christmas Style too.  The Haunted Mansion was turned into the Nightmare Before Christmas. It was so cleaver and fun with the twist they put on it.  It's a Small World also was redone.  All the countries were changed into holiday cheer, and they even did a mash-up song with Jingle Bells.  It was really cute, and I'm a little disappointed it didn't take pictures of the inside of each. While standing in line, we could tell that Small World was covered in lights and said that we'd have to come back at night it see it. So when we came back, as soon as we got there all the lights turned off. We didn't know what was going on. Then a song starts to play on the speakers, and it says something like.."Do you think it could snow?" And then they had projected lights and images onto the building to make it look like it was snowing. Of course Disney being the magical place it is, made it begin to snow. Like real snow falling from the sky, and melts in your hand type of snow. In 80 degree weather. (why can't it do that everywhere? and by that I mean Logan Utah...)

It was awesome! And once the little light show was over, Small World lit back up, and I got a picture of it!

I love the Santa hat on the clock face! So cute! :)

The crowd wasn't too bad for it being a holiday.  I mean there were a lot of people there but we didn't wait longer than 45 minutes for a ride.  We got to ride most of them twice, and we were being smart and got fast passes to Indiana Jones both times. Gotta love those fast passes!

We got to watch the Holiday parade with Santa and all the characters, but my pictures didn't turn out the best unfortunately.  We even got front row seats (technically we ending up standing) to watch the fireworks! And at the end, it snowed again. Amazing. What a great birthday, and a great way to kick my teenage years to the curb!

Thanks to my dad for making my wonderful birthday happen even when he couldn't be there.

 Best dad in the world!!

And thanks also go to my mom to for everything she does, she's one amazing woman!

Annnnnd, thanks to Derek for tagging along, and not complaining for all the girly things my mom and I wanted to do. You're awesome bro!

I'm an AUNTIE...again!

I'm now an aunt of TWO adorable little boys! My sister had baby Cannon on Wednesday November 4, 2009

 isn't he precious? I can't wait until Christmas when I can hold this sweet little one, and play with my Jackson boy!

So other events that have happened this past week was the Special Olympics held at Utah State. In my English class, we are doing service learning and have to do service for four hours. I noticed this was going to be here and knew thats where I would do my service.

This was taken at the Opening Ceremonies

My good  friend Alex was one of the coaches for the basketball team!

Me and Jamie after volunteering, what a good feeling to give up some of our time to help out!

Things I'm looking forward to this next week: thanksgiving break, my birthday, disneyland, and seeing my brothers (who would have thought i'd ever say that? haha). After thanksgiving i have one week of school and then finals! HOORAY!

it's halloweeeeeen time (ok not really, but that's what lori said)

This halloween, Aunt Lori had her annual halloween party. She is such an entertainer and it always is a blast! She had a haunted grave yard walk in the basement. You had to be blindfolded and hold hands in a train as we walked around. We had to walk the plank, then step on the treadmill and then onto the grave yard but we couldn't step on any head stones. Then when we could take our blindfolds off, we were in a room full of fog. She showed us her table full of eyeballs, a brain, and the witches brew, and even tried to get us to eat everything! Later we took Elephant Ava around the neighborhood to trick-or-treat!

Here are a look at some of the cool costumes this year.

A zebra, a two faced scull, a dcc, a wicked step-mother, a elephant,

and a boo baby (who was supposed to be the peanut, to match the elephant)

Awesome face painting Corey!

Thanks for a fun party Lori! We all look forward to next years!

.october.

so much has happened and so much have i been slacking. so much that i can't even remember what happened, and if i do remember it's only because i have a picture to prove it. it's pretty sad that i only have like 6 pictures from the last post, which was about my apartment. i think i need to start taking pictures of little things i do so i can have more, plus it's always fun to have pictures and those memories. so here they are. the 6 pictures i have.

Tamori's Wedding! isn't she beautiful?

best friends, now all with dark hair

Dinner with the roommates

plus a few extras

then we went to THRILLER! this creepy girl came over and sat on us

all of us!
Natasha, Jamie, Nicole, Ashley, Lynsie, Jimyl, and Ryan

ps. if you haven't noticed i dyed my hair and these are the only pictures i have of it. hope you like it. leave a comment and let me know! :)

my new place!

Ok i know i'm like three weeks past due on posting these but i've finally got around to cleaning, and taking pictures of it to put up! plus thanks to my mom i got a cute sticker clock, decor stickers that match and some new curtains to keep out the sun in the morning cause it gets really bright!

My cute bed, curtains and
stars (thats what Jackson called them when he saw them on the web cam)

thank goodness for spray paint.
this was a nice di special and it looked horrible,
we spray painted it and it looks a thousand times better!

My bathroom! Yup thats right, MY bathroom. its all mine.
(you can't see it but to the right is the shower)

My also spray painted night stand and clock!
(it actually looks like a face because of the velcro.
but it wasn't strong enough and in the middle of the night it fell off
and scared the crap out of me so i took it off so it
wouldn't happen again. I haven't got more velcro
to make it stay yet. but it's super cute!)

Thanks for my cute room mom and dad!