Day 5: Lindsay and Chris

Day 5 I am thankful for my big sister Lindsay (and her husband Chris).

Because she's 11 years older than me, we've never been the closest. We do love each other, though. I love to travel up in the summer and spend a whole day with her and the boys. Most times I can send her a random text and she will know exactly what I'm talking about. She is an amazing mother of 2 beautiful boys and a girl on the way. I am so proud of everything she's done and I'm glad that we're growing closer as we grow older. Love you Linds!!

SUMMER (in a nutshell)

Hello blog readers! My summer went WAY too fast, and I spent a lot of time with people I love. Therefore, I didn't get a whole lot of blogging done. Here's my summer in a nutshell.

I worked four jobs: Twin Lakes Grocery and Grill, Lynch's Bar and Grill, Rockwell City Pool, and I was a co-coach for the Rockwell City Area Swim Team. Let me tell you, it was a busy summer. I worked so hard because I'm saving money to go to France with my best friend Mollie next summer.

Although I worked four jobs, I still found a little time to have fun. I spent a lot of time with this boy:

I also spent as much time as I could with my family, including the two cutest boys in the world! 

I worked at TLGG with some awesome girls like this: 

At a place like this: 

I coached a team full of energetic, crazy swim team kids like this: 

  

  

With two of my best friends: 

I worked at the pool with a bunch of goons like this: 

     

Doing weird stuff like this: 

I went to a few family weddings. One was my cousin Brad and his new wife Megan's. I went to that one by myself, but I saw lots of family there that I haven't seen for a while. 

My great Aunt Zeta

My cousin Danielle

The second family wedding was my cousin Joe's (my Aunt Sharon's son) and his new wife Steph. It was such a fun wedding! My whole fam (sisters, etc.) were home for the wedding. A few photos: 

Connor and I at the wedding. Nice photobomb, Shelby. 

My sis and me :) 

 

Aunt Sharon :) 

My sisters and me with Aunt Sharon. 

That boy of mine :) 

Although it was a busy one, it was also a great one. Hopefully next summer I can cut down to 3 jobs ;)

                                   

May 18

Happy 30th Birthday to my big sis, Lindsay!

Tate's graduation party was tonight. So proud of him!

I left his party to head to the golf course for Friday night couples. Curtis was my partner..we had a good time!

May 14

Spent the day at my sister Lindsay's house babysitting Connor today. Watched some tv, took some naps, etc. etc... My parents came up after work to till their garden for them. Here's the day/night in pictures :)

Brotherly love

Connor likes to comb his own hair

Kaden was helping Papa and his mom plant the garden. 

March 18

Saturday night was looooooong. I got up and went to church with mom & dad. Lindsay and the boys left before we went to church because they had to get back to make soup for their Fire Dept. soup supper. After church, mom made breakfast. We all kinda hung out. I read-a lot. and then took a long (much-needed) nap. I was supposed to go to work buuuuuut I forgot to call and check my schedule so I didn't know I was supposed to work. Oops. Around 6 I left with Lance and Zac to go out to their friend's house by the lake. We sat around and talked and then later went to Woody's for supper. When we got back to town I had to see the new pets that Lance bought... Oh these boys......

They're holding chickens. And the chickens are currently living in the basement of the Sedlacek/Higgins/Passow residence. 

Dinner Dance

Saturday, March 17 was the Rockwell City Rotary Club's annual Dinner Dance. My mom is the president of the club, so she planned pretty much the whole thing. We spent Saturday morning and afternoon baking desserts and setting up tables for the event. Both of my sisters came home for the night and the whole family (minus Kaden and Connor) attended the event. We ALWAYS have a great time. We kept that tradition up! Some photos from the day:

Setting up: Kaden was a big help in moving the walls! 

We had some down time, so Kaden and JD hung out in the chair. :) 

Love them. 

My sisters made me put on this hat. They thought it would be a perfect fit because I have a tiny head...

There are MANY more photos from the night that I will soon be posting to Facebook. :) 

February 24

Friday. Faire la fête! We had another Up-Close day today so I worked that table with Lindsey again. Due to my injury, I didn't participate in the Interlude this time, but I did take a picture of everyone else doing it!

 

My French class was cancelled because of the snow-Flavia must drive from somewhere. I went to my 11:00 class, and it was really boring, like usual. I had lunch with Katlyne, Danielle, Chloe, and some of Chloe's friends. (different Chloe than P&W band) After lunch I was in my room all afternoon because we showed our room for the Up-Close day tours again. After that was over, Jen and I went to get Scratch cupcakes. YUM. We came back and I did some homework before we ate supper with Tiffany. After supper I got a Skype call from Kaden, Connor, and Lindsay. :) Kaden told me that Connor was being annoying. When Lindsay asked Kaden what annoying meant, he said "Annoying is when you drive people crazy." What a funny guy. I had to cut the conversation short because I had to go to the women's basketball game to hand out ribbons, etc. for the Pink Out game. I left at halftime and then hung out with Jen. We had a good time! 

Crack.

Lindsay was right. The Hunger Games is like crack. If I didn't care about being too tired to function, I would've stayed up to finish it last night. But, alas, I knew I had to work today so I limited myself. But it really is like crack. Everyone should read it.

Shit My Sister Says

Shelby read the Hunger Games first, told Lindsay to read them, who then told me to read them. I'm still on the first book because I'm always hard at work studying ;)
Last night Lindsay texted me. "How far are you in the Hunger Games?" I responded with "Not far" and told her where I was. Her response? "Keep reading. once the games start you won't be able to put it down. It's like crack."