"Little" brother Bo goes to the temple

So those of you who know my family know my youngest brother Bo(he is 12 years younger). He was able last night to go to the temple for the first time to recieve his endowments so he could go on a mission. We are so proud of him words can not describe. It was such a wonderful opportunity to be there with him in the temple. I still as I write this can't believe Darrell and I even made it there after everything that went on last night. So let me take you back...

We were suppose to leave our house at 4:30pm yesterday to make it to the 6:30pm session. Which would have been a peice of cake if obsticles wouldn't have been in our way...LITERALLY! So I called Darrell at 4:15 leaving him the message of "we have to leave in 15 min WHERE ARE YOU!" He zooms in a few min later. Runs into the shower and gets dressed. We finally make it out to the car a bit later than expected but not bad. Drop the oldest kid off at the in-laws and head out. Well things are going fine until we are about 5 miles into Simco Rd and come accross a blockade of sorts. There is an ESI(you know the radioactive waste trucks)truck and traailer stuck in the snow drift off the side of the road. They have two wrecker trucks out there totally blocking traffic trying to pull it all out. THIRTY MINUTES we sat there waiting!!! BY this time the only thing I could think of was to have Darrell say prayer asking for us to make it to this special event. Like I said 30 min later we were finally off. I called my mother in law and asked her to contact the temple and see if they could locate my mother since she was in there and wasn't answering her phone. She finally called me back as we were getting onto the freeway and I told her to let them know that we WERE coming and would barely make the session. Darrell at "lightning" speed gets us there with only minutes to spare and we through the car keys at his sister who is waiting at the front entrance to take the other two kids who are still in the car. And we "run" inside, throw on our other clothes, and make it to the door just as everyone is getting ready to start. What an evening. I am so thankful for everything and everyone that made this such a memorable experience.

New haircut

Now that I am 30 I decided it was time for a new do. This last pregnancy I was so ill that I didn't make it to get my hair trimmed for a whole year! And so by the time I got around to doing something with it my baby is now 6 months old! So I made the decision to go with a new style on the longer side since I already had grown my hair long. By the pictures I don't know how well you can see the change in style.

Here is the before:

She cut 3-4 in off of the length, but gave me tons of layers and a style that would suit my pony tail needs. I can wear it straight or curled too. I have never had straight hair ever in my life so it is going to take some getting used to. Anyhow here is my after photo:

The BUS

So yesterday I spent all morning with my "bus trainer" or so I call her. We had to drive all the to the other side of the school district to meet with the school's mechanic. And when I say all the way I mean 45 min away from where I live. Yeah I live on the opposite end. Anyhow so there I was at 10 am having a _____ time crawling under the bus and looking under the hood at the various parts I have to identify for my final driving test. Yeah me. I am so ready to be done with this whole training thing. I personally think it is rediculous they make you drive 40 hours with an instructor before they let you transport children. I am 30 yrs old! I feel like I am in drvers training all over again like when I was 15 and got my license. But I guess you have to jump through the hoops to get what you want. So I took pictures of the various parts so I could refer back to them and study for my skills test. I will spare you with them though they are pretty boring. Anyhow I am almost done and I can't wait for it to all be over. Now I am just waiting on the school district to schedule my driving test, hopefully for next week. I could do it on my own but then I would have to pay to rent a bus just to take the stupid driving test. This way the school district pays for the fuel and everything except the testers fee of course. Anyhow wish me luck!

Homemade curlers

I got this idea off a blog I found through a friends blog. These are homemade curlers that are so easy to make. Expecially for those little girls who have heads to sensitive for regular sponge curlers.

You basically just make a tube out of a 4*9 in peice of scrap material sewing up one end. Then stuff it half way with stuffing and sewdown the middle holding the stuffing in. At the other end close it up and sew a button hole. At the stuffed end hand stitch a button. Then you just wrap the hair around it like you would any other curler and "button" it.



And when they wake up in the morning after a good nights rest(which they did) they will have beautiful loose curls. If you want more light curls I am guessing make the tubes smaller around. I am going to try some 3 in tubes next because the Lexi's hair turned out to be just a wave since she has much shorter hair.


No compaints though at least Lexi wore them all night. That is more than I can say for our attempts with her and the sponge ones!

Merry Christmas Lemon style!

Living out here on the farm always makes life interesting and Christmas this year was no exception. Every year we take turns spending holidays with each family. This year we were to go to the Carringer's for Christmas Eve and the Lemon's for Christmas day. Well plans changed as they usually do around here. My sister Summer was blessed with a baby boy on Dec 23rd at around 8pm. And so started the changing of plans. Then Darrell along with his brother Chad were on their way home from Bliss getting hay in the trucks when one of them decided to stop working. And so poor Darrell was left to try and fix it while the three kids and I made our way to Grandma and Grandpa Carringer's for Christmas Eve not knowing the horendous storm we would later be faced head on with. It was a pretty uneventful evening with just my parents, Bo, myself, my three girls and Summer and TJ's two girls. We decided to take the presents to the hospital to see Summer and the new baby and so the girls could all open their presents from their cousins. Or trip to the hospital was shortened drastically when we found ourselves in a huge storm. So we quickly opened gifts and the kids and I headed home. It had to have been the worst drive home of my life. The snow was blowing so hard I think I wasn't driving faster than 35 mph. Not to mention I didn't dare pull over to "plug" Lilly for fear of getting stuck in a snow drift like some others I passed. And so for over an hour we got to listen to her scream at the top of her lungs, since Lindsay couldn't find the binky.

Exausted when we finally got home we all crawled into bed!

But the next morning the kids stumbled out of their beds to the sound of Grandpa Lemon insisting that Santa had not dropped off a gift for them and that they should call him! So he got "Santa" aka Chad on the phone and demanded that he tell where the girls presents were. "Santa" said for them to look in the shop. And so Darrell and Grandpa walked over to the shop as the girls hurried to get their pants and coats on. When in the distance you could hear the motor of their new FOUR WHEELER!!!

And so began another crazy day on the farm! They imediatly pulled our their new digital kid cameras that Grandma and Grandpa Carringer had given them the night before and started snapping away and anything and everything. Here are a few more photos of mostly Lindsay on there new four wheeler. Her first solo ride IN THE HOUSE! And them sporting their new helmets(mom's stipulation). HOpe you all had a Merry Christmas too!!!

Baby "Weky" turns 3!

It has been quite the last few weeks for our family. The oldest two girls got the flu shot for the first time in attempt to not get the baby sick with the flu. I have thoughts about how well this keeps one from actually getting the flu. And so for the past two weeks we have all been sick off and on except Lilly...until today.

So back to the birthday. Luckily on November 22 the kids were well and Lexi celebrated her birthday the next day on Sunday since my brothers were in Reno for the BSU game. I never realize how large just Darrell and my families are until we all get together for something like this and I have to feed like 30 people! So I made some lasanas and salad along with my mom bringing the rolls and we called it good. My sister in laws Kameron and Chelsey were kind enough to pick up the cake when they were in town to see Twighlight, so that saved me a trip.

You are probably wondering about the baby "Weky" part. When Lexi was born Lindsay was only 21 months old. Although she spoke very well for such a small child she couldn't quite say her "L" sound. So she would go around calling her baby sister "Baby Weky". Which we still find hilarious since now Lexi calls Lilly, "Wiwwy".

It was a fun evening filled with lots of food and family!

Apples, apples and more apples...

Well as we are getting farther into autumn the leaves are changing, and the temperature is getting cooler. Along with this the apples are falling off the trees too. And so I find myself with more than we can eat. Which is good because mothing is better than fresh apple pie on a cold night! Whip up some hot chocolate in the Cocomotion and we have ourselves on heck of a dessert ready to watch a movie. So I find myself once again using nap time as a catch up time for my endless chore list. Lindsay however is getting a little old for nap time so she decided she needed to take some pictures of mom peeling the apples. Note this is a 4 yr old as the photographer! Please don't mind my messy house in the background. Like I said I have an endless chore list these days.



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