Summer Fun

I have been on serious blogging vacation since our move so I dont know exactly where to start again. Lets see well as it turns out during all the moving and graduating surprise I was pregnant with another little one. It wasnt till we got to Indiana that I started getting all the morning sickness which I usually get at night for some reason but with this one it was more of an all day thing. Anyway most of that is gone now and I am due December 22nd :) Hopefully this pregnancy will go much better than the last one. As a nice little vacation for me Austin couldnt have come at a better time we spent 6 days in Mexico at Hotel Cataolnia it was beautiful. We sat by the beach and read probably at least 3 books each it was awesome. We went an an awesome snorkling adventure in the ocean and reefs and caves since I am pregnant we werent able to go scuba diving....which kind of sucked but there will other times.

Brighton has since turned one years old and has been having a blast playing with his 2 year old cousin Jocelyn they are so cute together and she is so tolerant. He also has a 4 month old little cousin Madeline and he continues to try to grasp the concept of soft and nice. They have been great playmates for him. He is cutting a ton of teeth and has almost everyone of them in or coming in. He is eating pretty much anything we eat now and is drinking sippy cups and his favorite drink is water the kid downs water like crazy. My dad came home from Mongolia for almost 2 weeks and it was so fun to see him. Austin loves working in the woodshop with my dad he also gave us a suprise cousin for 3 days!!! He sent Robert Landes over here for us to play with it was a great surprise we really were bummed we didnt get to see him before we left utah. Being pregnant again before I was able to get surgery on my back is a bit intimidating so I went to Dr.Rupert here he is my old bishop and he gave me some prp injections and I cant quite describe the pain that entails...I have has lots of surgeries and lots of pain in my line and its more painful than all of them combined and then some its soo hard to get up on that table knowing whats coming but in the long run it really does help me carry my babies.

 Austin starts work on June 20th in Iowa so we are getting ready for all that entails we bid on one house and luckily didnt get it because now we are bidding on a house 2x as big and it will be a great investment if we get it. I will put up pictures if we get it we should know here soon :) Here are some more pictures of the summer fun we have been having here in Indiana I will be sad to leave but excited to get all my stuff back :) Love to you all

We love to read and he loves Baldacci

Our Snorkling Adventure

It was so pretty there

He is 1 year old!

Chuckecheese on Jocelyns 2nd Birthday

He loves his pool

The Threesome :)

Brighton with Madeline

She is so cute I love my nieces :)

They love legos

At the childrens museum they wanted in

Brighton and Jocelyn in the pool

Alots Happened

Where to start....well my nightmare of moving all our stuff into storage is over the repetitive cycle of college for Austin is finally over we managed a 24 hour drive with our baby brighton to Indiana in a 2 day period and my son had his frist birthday and I found out suprise I am pregnant....again no idea how far along could be up to 2 1/2 to 3 months so but after all this stress we are super excited for our mexico trip here next monday we leave for beatiful riveria maya. But hhere are some pictures along our busy april. Brightons birthday was fun he hasnt been as happy last two days as he has some back teeth coming in for the first time but all in all he was an angel on the road trip here couldnt have asked any more from him being tied down in a car seat for 2 days but he loves the open yard here in Indiana and his two little cousing and he is even getting used to Sadey my brothers yellow lab dog. Theres alot more room out here for him to crawl around and be adventurous. We are enjoying being here in Indiana and love the break before we start the next phase of life in Iowa.

First Haircut and Tangled Love

Just a quick upload we have recently learned that Brighton is in love with the song I see the Light from Tangled we can just repeat it and repeat it and he just stands and stares he loves it. Also he was getting a lil pony tail action going on with his hair so I took him in for his first haircut so that I now know how to go about cutting it myself. AND the good new Austin got his job offer from John Deere so unless some amazing job that Austin is wanting more than John Deere comes in before the 11th we will be heading to Cedar Falls Iowa!

Aquarium Trip

I woke up saturday so excited to go to the zoo then I looked up the weather and it wasnt exactly zoo perfect weather so after first session of confrence I took Brighton and Shaun and Sarah to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. Brighton LOVED it he got to splash his hand in the sting ray area it was way too deep for him to pet then or anything. The kids area was fun for him too they have little fish tanks at their eye level and he was not happy when after 20 minuets I had to take him away but by far his favorite was the penguin attraction they have a huge tank and the penguins were great they were jumping in and out of the water and swimming and racing in front of him and he was so happy he would clap everytime they swam past him. It was a great trip and makes me even more excited to take him to the zoo in the next week or two and we will go all the time when we go to evansville for a month but our zoo there sucks in comparison to the Salt Lake City zoo they have a baby elephant! Elephants are my favorite!

John Deere Green

To all those that are wondering how the job interview Austin had with John Deere with here it is :) It was my first time ever leaving Brighton overnight so that was a bit difficult for me and by the way separation anxiety is a very real thing. We were so lucky that Grandma and Grandpa Crosby were ready and willing to watch him during the days and Kyle was just great watching him and spending the night at our house so Brighton didn’t have to get too out of his comfort zone.  Our first flight was 5 hours delayed leaving salt lake city and they had cancelled our second flight into Waterloo Iowa thank goodness my dad got me a card that gets me into the delta sky rooms they were able to book us on the flight that went into cedar rapids so we had an hour drive after we landed. We drove to Waterloo from Cedar Rapids…and saw absolutely NOTHING the entire way there we finally pulled in to our exit and were on a main street with nothing on it and we thought we were in the most dinky hicktown it was hilarious! Getting in at midnight we went straight to bed since I had to get Austin to the John Deere Facilities at 7:30 for his first interviews.

 I joined him at 10:30 and we had lunch with the other Engineers that are in the (EDP) Engineering Development Program. It sounds like a great program for the new graduates to figure out what they want to do. They work 3 rotations around different areas of John Deere of their choice then after the 3 rotations they choose their more permanent job focus. After that we got to tour the engine research facility that had a lot of very impressive testing capabilities which was great to see but my favorite was the factory tour we went to after that we got a personal tour on a little gator with an ex john deere engineer that’s now retired and a tour guide. He knew what he was talking about and we got to the the engines process from beginning to end and it was just awesome! Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures on the tours. And after that tour we were met a community expert that took us around a town that we had yet to even see.

Turns out they have everything all the big chains and two or 3 malls they have a lot of new housing developments as well as tons of old historic places. They have very small but very picturesque downtowns that are all about community in the summer they have old Disney movies and other family movies played in the shell park and everyone takes out their families to the park for the outdoor movies and its free! They have festivals every month and live music and concerts and rodeos and its really close the university of northern Iowa and its just a very close knit small town which I love although even I have never lived in a town this small but the prospect of Austin working for John Deere and moving out on our own to a place neither of us has been before is a bit intimidating its also very exciting. It was a short and tiring trip and we missed our lil man but are looking forward to getting an offer from them by Wednesday or Thursday this week!!!!!!!!!! Only 26 more days and we are outta here!!!

Another Week Closer

Another week gone by which puts us that much closer to getting out of provo utah!!!! I finally got my moving boxes I was so excited and I usually hate packing but the day I got them I started packing up stuff we wont use for another year so many baby clothes in space saver bags gotta love those things. Austin had a job interview at Rio Tinto in Salt Lake this last week so that was a great experiance for him it will make him more comfortable with his interview in Waterloo Iowa next week with John Deere. I am so excited I get to go with him and see the town and I am super excited to see John Deere central dream come true for me :) Since it will only be two days and alot of flying and traveling we are going to be leaving Brighton here with family since it would be hard on him and us in turn. It will be good practice for me....leaving him first time since I had him to it will be hard even though its only one night but Austin said it will be good for me since we will be leaving him for 6 days to go to Mexico in April....cant imagine that but I can imagine the awesome scuba diving and no cell phone gaming :) thats part of the deal.

 We took Brighton to the park the other day for a walk and we took him down some slides and things it was so fun to see him happy and he loves seeing and playing with other children. We had a good time with Shauns birthday and I am so excited for St. Patricks day this week Brighton will have a great time and look just like mommys lil irish man :) Pictures will be coming of that later but for now here are some cuties of him.

Most Adorable Picture Ever

Puncturing Dads Eye

Just Hanging out

Dads Helping

On the Slide with Mom

Austin and Brightons Nightime fun

Adventures of Brighton

Well more news from the brighton homefront. He is absolutly everywhere and so much fun he still in his deafning screetching stage which is unfortunate but we are working on it day by day. He has enjoyed playing at the mall with the other kids and with visisting teachers lil ones as well he tends to like playing with girls more than boys which just makes austin super happy. As far as me and Austin go he got a call to fly to Waterloo Iowa for an interview with John Deere it would be amazing if he got a job there especially since everyone made fun of me for sporting John Deere apparel in high school and look at us now :) Anywhere still not sure when he flys out but we find out wednesday when he goes so keep them crossed for us. Hope you enjoy some of these videos of Brighton growing up and playing with his dad. All our love


Lindsay Marie

And again



Brighton Helping Mom Clean




Adventures in the Snow



Hes a little unsure

He loves to play in the dishwasher

Mommys hoping for basketball

New thing doesnt want us to put a diaper on him