To my Favorite Cousin-in-Law...

You're the one who's taught me how to punch (non-girlish),
You're the one who cares so much about my family and I, always asking questions and making sure that I'm in 'serious mode' telling you EVERYTHING that's going on. Your caring heart means a lot to us!
You're the one who has remained a faithful "Nick is better than Jessica" fan with me. (We make some pretty awesome home music videos!!)
You're the ONLY one who is a better picture taker than myself....someday that will change. =)
There's a lot I could say about you, favorite cousin-in-law, but I'll end by wishing you a
very HAPPY BIRTHDAY JON!!!!

I hope your day is fabulous!

Life is good!

Heyyyyy everybodyyyyyy!

Just felt the urge to write an update as I sit here in my pajamas at 1:20pm!!! Isn't it wonderful being lazy? Granted, you don't want to make a habbit of it, but everyone deserves a lazy pajama day once in a while. Actually the reason being is I had a NASTY head cold this morning so I took some medication and tried sleeping it off. It seemed to have helped.

Well, I am hoping to have some baby pictures on here soon. My cousin Ashley is due on the 31, but she has an appointment this Friday and if the doctor's feel like it's time, then they will induce her. And if she has it on Saturday it will be on her BIRTHDAY! That'd be one sweet birthday present. Or she could wait til Sunday and give me a birthday present. Either way, we are excited for the baby boy to arrive!!! I hope I am at the top of her babysitters list because I love babies!!!! Let's hope that my next post is a picture post!!!

God is AMAZING!!! I've been asking him to use me in whatever way, shape, or form he wanted. I've been trying to SURRENDER 100% to Him and it's been pretty rewarding. God is showing me through other people of things He's doing in my life and how He's using me to bless others. It's pretty darn sweet that's all I have to say!!! I'm not trying to highly portray myself, I'm just letting you know that God really does use people if you ask for it!!!! I truly believe that me not going to school this year has made my relationship with Him grow even more. So everything happens for a reason my friends!!! God is perfect. His plan is perfect. And that excites me!!

Thanks for reading!!!

Love you all

Oh, What a Beautiful Sight!

It's nice to finally be able to drive past gas price signs and smile!! :)
Keep on going lower!!

My Weekend Visitors

It all comes and goes by so quickly. Last night Miss Adelyn Rae came to visit with Grandma Bonnie while mom and dad got to enjoy a holiday party back in Lakeville. This morning Shannon and Jon headed to Brainerd for a hockey tournament where Lakeville PeeWees played against HIBBING's PeeWee team first round. Let's just say that Lakeville kicked our booties! Yes, Jon's team that he coaches beat Hibbing 10-1. Darn cities teams. :) J/K, JON. Anyway, they had to head to Hibbing after the game to pick up their little precious princess and take her over to her GREAT-GREAT grandma's 90th birthday party in Nashwauk. All 5 generations will be at the party!!! Pretty crazy stuff. At least I got to spend some time with both Adelyn and Murphy last night. And Murphy is here until tomorrow! He chose not to go to the tournament (or maybe he wasn't invited?) so he is heading back to the cities tomorrow with grandma Bonnie. Adelyn gave me a (unrequested) wake up call this morning at 6:50AM. While she was eating I gave her a little pep-talk of how FUN it is to sleep in on Saturday mornings and she will someday not take her sleep for granted. :) But she just sat there while laughing at everything I was saying and dancing! She did end up going back to sleep until 9:15 so she must have been listening! :)


I'm normally not up at this late hour!

Adelyn's Famous "I Can't Believe it's not Butter!" expression




If you look close you can see my bottom teeth!

Can't forget about the Murphsterz!


It's been a long day...

I've Been Tagged

A - Available or taken? available
B - Best friend? (s) Brianna, Stacy, Shannon, Willy's, and many many more!!
C- Cake or pie? cake
D - Drink of choice? Diet Coke w/Splenda
E - Essential item you use every day? Car (thanks Shan!)
F - Favorite color? purple
G - Gummy bears or worms? If I had to choose, I'd pick worms. But I like both!
H - Hometown? Hibbing
I - Indulgence?
J - January or February? January
K - Kids and names? Lady Lyn--half golden retriever, half yellow lab. 11 years old!!
L - Life is incomplete without? God, family, and friends
M - Marriage date? June 7, 2008: 06-07-08! ha....in my dreams! :) OR I'll settle for 12-11-10
N - Number of siblings? 3 brothers--Michael, Brian, and Joshua
O - Oranges or apples? apples
P - Phobias or fears? spiders & dying (even though i shouldn't be scared...)
Q - Favorite quote? Do Unto Others as You'd have Them do Unto You
R - Reason to smile? God is near to all who call upon him. He will never forsake us. That makes me smile!!!! :D
S - Season? spring
T - Tag three or four people. Brooke, Jenni, and Natalie
U - Unknown fact about me? I won an award in 5th grade for having the best handwriting. haha
V - Vegetable you don't like? peas
W - Worst habit? chewing my fingernails and cracking my knuckles
X - X-rays? teeth, appendix, and wrist
Y - Your favorite food? anything pasta--CHICKEN ALFREDO, spaghetti, tortellini......YUMM!!!
Z- Zodiac? Aquarius

Fun in the Sun!

Literally. Sparta's weather was way better than Hib-towns. Granted, it was kinda rainy and foggy one day, but I would much rather have that than this dreaded white stuff! After driving in Superior, I officially don't like snow. I wasn't that fond of it before...but now I for sure don't like it. :) The day we left Sparta it was SUNNY and nice!!! Anyway, as I've promised. Pictures from one crazy-always-to-be-remembered road trip.
We even came up with our own cheer as our motto for the trip there and back! Unfortunately I am not able to share it due to certain reasons. :)



Resting in Superior. Had to get out of the snow...


LEVI BROBERG! The last time I saw him before this trip was when he was 5 months old. Now he has almost perfected his walking skills!!


At a light show in LaCrosse. Muy bonita! It was sure nice to hang with 'old friends' again.



Brittany, Pastor Aaron (notice what sweatshirt he was wearing!--in honor of the hib-towners), and Sydney. I love this picture.


Mugsy Baby


before heading back to Hib-town.

It was a GREAT weekend!!! Thanks Willy's and Brobergs for everything you did. We love you.

A Road Trip to be Remembered Forever!

Happy 2007! The ending of 2006 certainly had it's up and it's downs, that's for sure. On Friday three lovely ladies and myself woke up bright and early and hit the road for Sparta! We made an early morning run to Caribou Coffee to load up on the SUGAR before our what we thought was going to be a 5 hour road trip ahead of us. We made a pit stop in Chisholm to pick up another one of our buddies, took off to Hwy 5, then Hwy 37, then finally Hwy 53. All was well thus far! We made it to Duluth with no problems. Weather was AMAZING. Until we hit Wisconsin. The weather in Superior wasn't cooperating with us the best. We ran into a couple little mishaps from Superior to Sparta, but the weather eventually got better and the rest of the trip was smooth sailing....after we found our way back onto the right track. We all were hungry around 12:30pm. We see a sign saying the number of miles until Ashland, so we all agreed we'd wait until that town since we have all heard of that town before. As we were driving I kept noticing signs that were only saying "East" instead of "South." The thought occurred to me that we may be traveling in the wrong direction, but I wasn't going to let the girls know that quite yet. Didn't want them worried. We arrived at a McDonald's and I decided I had better look at the map just because of the 'certain feeling.' Ashland was on the right of my map. Our route was on the left of our map. OOPS!!! I ended up not taking or turning on the wrong Hwy. After I looked at the map in the parking lot and saw that we were lost I said "UH-OH" out loud with the response of my three amigas saying...."Uh-oh what?!" "Are we lost?" "What now?!" I decide I had better call Mrs. Williamson and get this all straightened out. I said something along the line of "Hey Mrs. Willy.... I think we're in a town we're not supposed to be in. I am kind of embarassed to tell you where we are." I saw how far away Ashland was from Sparta on the map and since we were already off schedule, didn't want her to know that we would be even later than expected because we were LOST. She looked on her map and graciously helped me with clear cut directions as to how to get back onto our route. Only took us about an hour to get back on Hwy 53S............but little did we know we had hours to go from there!!!! To make the story short, we were supposed to arrive in Sparta between 1 and 1:30pm. Our gang arrived there around 6ish. Let's just say this weekend was full of firsts for everything! The way there was kind of crazy. But being in Sparta was amazing. It was so wonderful spending time with our wonderful Williamson and Broberg friends!!! Mr. and Mrs. Williamson went above and beyond for us and totally made us feel at home! Of course, the time went by way too quickly. Before we knew it, it was time to repack our bags and hit the road back to Hibbing. But we definitely made a lot of memories and had a GREAT time there! The way back also ended with a bang. Good news--we didn't get lost!!!! It didn't take us 9 hours. We were about a half hour away from Superior when we past that bright shiny police car. Amber knew she was speeding. Unfortunately, Amber didn't see the cop car coming in advance or else she would have slowed down way earlier. Amber slams on her brakes (smart, she knows). Amber drives passed the cop. Amber sees the cop turning in the same direction as her. Amber is worried at this point. Amber sees pretty red, white, and blue lights come on. Amber realizes she is being pulled over. Amber was given a 'stearn warning.' The cop told Amber how much she would have paid if he would have been mean enough to give a ticket. Amber is THANKFUL she just got the warning!!!!
I was only 29 days away from a perfect 4 year "no getting pulled over" streak. Darn. Oh well. We all just laughed at how this road trip turned out. There was definitely a first for a lot of things, but it really added to the trip. What's a road trip without the problems, right?
Pictures coming soon!