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

Beautiful Brighton

Lately I have started following my baby boy around with my awesome camera trying to capture some cute moments. SO here are some results of his bath time and my laundry day he gets restless waiting for me to be done but if I let him play in the warm clothes and his little laundry basket he can stay entertained for quite awhile. Love to you all!

Unfolding daddys clothes for me

Singing for Mom

So Happy

just crawling around

Austin calls this brightons quasimodo face :)

Love those 2 bottom teeth

Learning To Blog

Well since we have family that doesnt often get on facebook I decided I would try to blog so that grandparents and everyone can see how quickly our little baby boy is growing. He is now crawling and eating lots and lots of food he is eating everything except honey  for some reason they dont want them having honey till they are a year old. He has 7 sharp teeth and is pulling himself up on all the  furniture and trying to walk but loves crawling all over the place. Its definatly making us want a bigger place so he has wide open places to crawl. Coming up soon Austin is graduating in April and we couldnt be more excited and impatient. I am ready to start packing now its been a fun stage but we are very ready for the next phase of our life. We have a Mexico scuba diving trip coming up to look forward to which will be a nice vacation for us although I cant imagine being away from my Brighton seeing as I havent not seen him for one day since he was born. We just went to a WW2 Big Band Night at BYU for an early Valentines Day and I am all about big band music and everyone was dressed in period clothing it was just a great time. But here are some pictures of our recent life for those of you that dont facebook

 Brighton playing with Austins Mountain Dew can :)

 Eating cream from Austins twinkie Big Band Night
 
 Me and Sarah