Halloween Fun

Halloween

Halloween is always a fun time of the year. I am not a big fan of getting dressed up myself, but I love seeing the little ones take on a new character.

This Halloween, I was able to spend the day with my boyfriend, Scott. We started the day off by attending the ASU Homecoming Game. So much fun! We both came back bright red. Of course he was back to his normal color by the next day and I am still red as I write this. We met up with his old mission companion and his girlfriend. We had a blast! We of course had to stop by Chipotle for our after-game dinner before stopping by my house. We were at my house long enough to run down the street to see my little brothers dressed as pirates before we rushed off to pick up Chelaine and Robbie for the zoo! The zoo was doing a Halloween night full of haunted houses. It was a lot of fun. Of course, I was always the one screaming because the crazy people always chose me to scare or to chase after! On our way home, we stopped by sonic for a refreshing drink :D I had a blast, I hope your Halloween was just as good!

Don't I have the cutest brothers?!?!

Chelaine and Robbie

Ready for the game!

At the game. We get into it.

For Kolleen

My friend Kolleen requested I update my blog with a post about the "mushy details" not many know about. Honestly, there isn't much of that. Scott and I met in August when my friend Shawna brought me to Scott's house for a movie night. I continued to hang out with that group of friends and Scott and I became really close. It wasn't until he went on a couple dates with someone else that I realized how much I liked him. I was so jealous and had no idea why! We had our first date 44 days ago and I've seen him every day since then. Of course there are more details than this, but I'm sure you don't want to hear about them! :)

Getting to Know Scott

Since most of my blog readers are family, I'll give you a brief introduction. Scott Persons is one of three kids. He has an amazing family. He served a mission in Canada and returned this passed June (his blog is http://captaincaunuck.blogspot.com/ if you want to blog stock him). Hopefully he will be attending ASU next year for Construction Management. He loves the lake, music, and his family. He is honestly the most caring person I've ever met. Oh...and he'll probably kill me for this post :)

Preview

I finally bought my own car (2002 VW jetta) :) I'm just waiting for my personalized plates, then I'll post pictures. I'm super excited.

FABRIC!!

I stopped at JoAnn's today to buy LITTLE squares of fabric for my interior design project. All I needed was little samples for my presentation board. I loved the fabric so much, I bought a yard of each. And that's why I stay away from JoAnn's...

Doesn't this fabric make you want to decorate? I even got paint samples...

This was my favorite :D

Tyler and Tatum Got Hitched!

This post is LONG overdue!

Tyler and Tatum were married in September. They had a beautiful wedding reception after they were sealed in the temple for eternity! I am so lucky to have ANOTHER great sister-in-law! We have been very blessed :D

P.S. Kolleen: If you are reading this, the post you requested will be up next Sunday :D

A Day Of Fun

So...I've needed to post these for way too long! My family, the kids I nanny, and the Wilson family met up for a day of fun at the YMCA. They had lots of blow up toys for the kids to play on. It was a great way to get out of the heat but still run, jump, climb, and yell without getting hot and sweaty :D

Emery taking a little break :D

Brennan and Dawson taking a quick picture!

Logan!

Emery at the top of the slide. She's adorable!

Wade. Probably one of the cutest preschoolers my mom has ever had. I miss our lunch dates with him!

I'm sad I didn't get a picture of his older brother Reid. These kids are the cutest!

Our First Fight

Isn't he precious? This little guy turns two this thursday!

Some of my favorite things he says:

"I Love You ZeeZee"

"ZeeZee, Guess What!"

"Oh Dee Dosh" (oh my gosh)

"Oh Puppies" (he uses it like a cuss word, and quite often)

"Swiper no...Oh man!"

"Hasta La Vista"

"See you Aligator"

"Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for day, bless food, boom boom pow, boom boom pow..."

And today, he said something not so sweet. However, it made me laugh, really hard.

I was talking to my parents in the car on the way to Fudruckers. It was just Mom, Dad, Logan and I. Apparently I had been talking too much.

"ZeeZee, stop talking!"

My Last Year As A "TEEN"

Today, I begin my last year as a "teen". I didn't really think turning nineteen was a big deal. Of course, eighteen was a HUGE deal (being able to buy cigarettes, rubber cement, and porn-my everyday needs...?). Today I realized, the REAL world is coming up, whether I like it or not.
To be truthful, I'm delighted.
I'll be starting a new chapter in my life. A mission, marriage, kids, being a fan-freakin-tastic interior designer, and whatever my Father in Heaven has in store for me. So...watch out world. Here I come!

I started my day off with the love of my life, Logan, saying "Happy To You ZeeZee!". He's so adorable! Then, I headed off to class. My communications instructor was ten minutes late to a fifty minute class. He walked in, lectured about how time is a "guideline" (thank goodness he thinks so, I've been late to his class twice now and it's only the second week). Then he passed around the role and a project sign up sheet and dismissed us, making my fifty minute class only about fifteen. Booya!
I then returned home to have double chocolate muffins. YUM! Then off to work. The kids made me the cutest gift EVER and got me beautiful flowers!!! Take a look:

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSAY
We hope your day is fabulous even though you had to come to work. At least next week you can take 5 days off while we are gone. We know we can be tough with all our snickers but we appreciate your abilty to take things in stride. I'm sure when payday comes it's hardly worth all the whoppers we give you. We sure love all the fun things you do for us. Thanks for loving us even though we usually act like nerds. We know it's a lot of work being a nanny to the 3 musketeers!
♥ Emery, Brennan, and Dawson"

After work, I had the best part of my day. Date night with Mom. We saw Julie and Julia. Adorable movie! I loved it! Thanks Mom :]

And now, I'm off to bed. Thank you everyone for all the birthday texts and calls! My inbox was overflowing with Birthday Texts. It was awesome!

Funny Conversations with Jacob

Jacob doesn't always come home with the best school day report. Today, his conversation with Dad was pretty amusing :]
I don't remember exactly how it went, but here are the basics.

Mom: How was your day at school? Did you get in trouble?
Jacob: Yeah, I had to sit on the wall at recess.
Dad: I thought you said you had a good day?
Jacob: No, I said I had a good day at recess.

Yay for Alec!

Okay, for those of you who have been checking up on my blog lately have probably seen that this has been the post from you know where. I think I've updated it about five times. Somehow, my computer knows just how to delete everything I've written. Needless to say, it's been a blast.

So onto the story of my dear friend Alec.

Alec was able to get baptized on August Seventh. What a wonderful experience :] For those of you who don't know the story, please allow me to share (as I repeatedly press the save button).
Alec and I met at Stu Co convention ealier this year. I know, what kind of geeks go to Student Council Convention? Let me tell you this, I am proud to say I do!

When we got home, we started to date. He called mormonism voo-doo worshiping (in his joking yet semi-serious way). I was in charge of an upcoming mutual activity called Standards Night. For this activity, I was supposed to plan a fireside teaching and expressing the wonderful standards that our church holds. Naturally, I grabbed his phone, put an event on his calendar named "Voo-doo Worshiping with Lindsay" for the date and time of standards night.

Surprisingly, he was ready and willing to come along. Now..the pressure's on!

I started to get nervous thinking of who I should ask to speak. Now it wasn't just a bunch of youth sitting around, it was a bunch of youth, with a potential convert in the crowd! I prayed and prayed. I finally got my answer. Remi and Cole Stoneman and Justin King! Perfect. They would speak about Temples, Gratitude, and the Word of Wisdom. Lovely. It was going to be a good night.

The night came around. I was rushing for everything to be perfection. Speakers? Check. Special Musical Number? Check. Prayers? Check. Bishop? Check. Programs? Oh no...

Normally this wouldn't be a big deal. But for some reason I flipped out. I knew I needed those programs for something.

The night before, I had typed out a very detailed program. It had excerpts from the For The Strength of Youth pamphlet. So big deal if we didn't have them? Heavenly Father was there to prove me wrong. So, I rushed, got the programs printed and folded, just in time to pass them out and get started.

All during the program, Alec was reading that program. He would hide it from me and my friend Taylor. If we would look at him while he was reading it, he would tuck it under his leg like we couldn't see it. Haha....

And then Remi spoke about Gratitude. It was an amazing talk. One line that she said was something like, "I know I am standing here tonight saying exactly what someone needs to hear. I don't know who that person is, but I know Heavenly Father is helping me tell them what they need to know." Well, that went right passed me.

A few days later, we broke up.

And a few days after that, I got a phone call. From Alec.

He reminded me of what Remi said in her talk, and insisted she was talking about him. Come to find out, Alec had been secretly reading the Book of Mormon on plane rides to see his dad in texas, at home, at school, wherever he had the chance. He told me he couldn't put it down. I think his exact words were, "Crap. I think this stuff is true."

He's been going to church nonstop since then. He's been taking the missionary discussions as fast as they could give them. He's been showing people he's changed, trying to make a difference in the world, and trying to prepare for a mission so he could bring even more souls unto Christ. What a great guy, right?

Remi and Cole were my institute teachers for Mission Prep. On the last day, I shared my story about Alec. Cole chimed in sharing a pretty amazing second half of the story. Cole said he and Remi had been praying for an experience to help someone find the Gospel. As a couple days went by, Remi felt like she needed to be an inspirational speaker (which she would be fan-freakin-tastic at!). Then they got the phone call from a man asking them to come be their inspirational speaker. Supposedly they had heard about Remi and Cole and how awesome they were at it. Funny thing is, they had never done it before! Hmmm...

They agreed to speak. I'm sure they did a wonderful job. Yet Remi still didn't feel like that was it. Then they got my phone call. And because they spoke, they were able to help Alec come to the Gospel. In fact, Remi sang at Alec's baptism because he felt she had helped him that much. Awesome.

It hasn't been an easy road for Alec. I'm so proud of him. He's awesome!

By the Way... Luke Frampton was able to baptize him. Luke reported to the MTC last week. He will be serving in the Baton Rouge Louisianna Mission. He'll be great!

YIPPPEEE!!!!

Alec's getting baptized tonight. All I can say is YIPPPEEE!!!!

Starkey Reunion

My lovely Mom has learned to blog! Now, I won't have to post on the family blog. So...I will be posting any family activities on this one. If my mom and I post the same things, sorry! You'll just get double the Bennett fun!

We just returned home Monday from an awesome weekend in Winter Park, Colorado. We absolutely loved spending time with our family and meeting all the new additions. We missed all those who weren't able to come, but embraced the moments with those who were there.
Some of our favorite activities were volleyball, card games, our eleven mile bike ride, catching up with relatives, and the nice weather :]

I couldn't choose which picture of all of us I liked better, so you get both :]

I've Been Tagged

A-Z's All about ME

Mom tagged me and gave me a hard time about not doing it. So here you go Mom :]

A-Z's All about ME...........
A – Age: 18 *forty days until I'm 19!
B – Bed size: Queen...I think.
C – Chore you hate: Cleaning the bathrooms
D – Dogs' names: Minnie and Howie
E – Essential start your day item: Shower
F – Favorite color: Red
G – Gold or Silver: Silver or White Gold :]
H – Height: 5'2 1/2"
I – Instruments you play: piano like forever ago. I want to learn how to play the guitar!
J – Job title: nanny
K – Kid(s): Some day :] And I can't wait! My kids will be adorable :]
L – Living arrangements: Glendale, AZ with mi familia
M – Mom’s name: Linda
N – Nicknames: Lindsay-loo, Loopers, KevinTylerAmberKylieWhitneyJacobLoganLINDSAY (When my mom slurs all of our names together)
O- Overnight stay in the hospital other than your birth: almost all night for a car accident when I was eight. Or at least it seemed like it.
P – Pet Peeve: When people don't think before they speak :]
Q – Quote from a movie: It's that can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars over the fence, world series kind of love... (Can you name the movie?!?!)
R – Right or left handed: Right
S – Siblings: 4 Brothers, 3 Sisters
T – Time you wake up: anywhere between 8-10. Haha. It's summer!
U- Underwear: Boy shorts! So comfy.
V- Vegetable you dislike: Cauliflower
W – Ways you drink your coffee: When I mistake my ovaltine for Papa's coffee.
X - rays you’ve had: All over. That's what 4 car accidents will do to you.
Y – Yummy food you make: My favorite at the moment is Hawaiian Haystacks. I've had it three times in the past two days.
Z – Zoo favorite : ELEPHANTS!!!!

Now pass this on to 3 other friends that you want to get to know better...so here goes! I'm tagging:
Bethany
Stephanie
Claudia

Texas, ya'll! #3

Frog Legs

Just for kicks

Here are all the things that I have tried eating for the first time on this trip:
-Frog Legs
-Sushi
-Eggs Benedict
-Escargot
-Crawfish
-Crab
-Sashimi
-Sopapillas
-Redbull
-Oysters
-Squid
-Muscles
-Oysters Rockafeller

And I'm sure there have been some others that I have tried but didn't make the list.

Thanks Marla, Bill, and Alec for being patient with me! (:

Texas, ya'll! #2

For some reason, some of the botanical garden pictures from the last post didn't show up. Here are the rest!

The Alamo:
On Tuesday, we were able to see The Alamo movie at the IMax, and also visit the Alamo. Then, we went on a boat tour of the River Walk. It was all very cool.

Texas, ya'll!

My good friend Alec and I have been visiting his father and step-mom in San Antonio. We came here last Friday and and leave for home this Friday. I absolutely love it here. It's been so much fun. Marla and Bill are the nicest people. Here are just a few pictures of our trip so far:

The Caverns:

The Botanical Gardens:

Well...we are a little confused. The arch said the Chinese Botanical Gardens, then the plaque said Japanese Botanical Gardens. So who knows :]

My "HOLY CRAP DO YOU SEE THAT WATERFALL?!" face

San Antonio Temple:

Most of these pictures were taken by Alec. He did a great job.

Every Girls Dream

I can't wait for my happy ending! I LOVE this music video. It's so fun!