How it all began!

Before I get started, I will say that yes I do know there are about 50 pictures on this post! I also know its a long post. So, with that lets get started!

I went back and read my very first post, and thought how vague it was. I want our kids to know how we met, and how we got to this point in our lives. I never really knew my parents story, and I wish I did! This post is more for me, Chase, and our kids, but feel free to read it! Chasey was such a good sport about this, and totally helped write "his side" of it! So, grab a Diet Coke and enjoy our story!

LYNDSAY'S VERSION

I remember everything, so bare with me... this could be long!

I was living in New York nannying for a family. I had been there for almost 2 years. I loved EVERYTHING about it! The city, the boy I nannied, my bosses ( most of the time), the branch, Long Island, just everything! I had been "dating" a boy, but he had recently moved to Utah to go to school. The week after he moved Chasey moved to New York from Florida. His cousin Bowen was in the branch, and had asked that I invite him to some of the activities. Seeing how I was the activities leader, and a pretty dang good one at that, I agreed! The only problem was that Chasey was living with our Branch President, and the only phones that got service out there were Verizon. We tried to call and text him, but we could never get through to him. The first time I saw him was at church. I thought he was cute, but thats about it. He was there with his ex girlfriend, so that made things kind of weird. At first we thought she was a new nanny, so we were nice to her. Then we found out who she was, and stopped talking to her. Rude, I know, I've repented! I left for Utah that week to go snowboarding, so I didnt see Chase for a week or so. Not that I cared, I had only said hi to the kid. I got back, and Bowen asked me again to text him, so I did, but still no luck getting through to him. It was a couple weeks later when my bosses were out of town, and I had a few people over to their house. Chase came, and let me just tell you, I was not impressed. I thought he was obnoxious and annoying. The next night he came over again. Let me just fill you in on the travel time in NY. No one lives close to each other. If you live within 40 minutes of someone you live close. Chasey lived in Port Jeff, which is a good hour and a half. So, for him to come over both nights was telling me he needed friends and was pretty bored! The 2nd night my friend Little Linds was there. She started getting ready before he came. Another sidenote... there are NO boys in NY, so anytime there is a new one its kind of a big deal. Sure, you have your pick of the nice Jewish boys at the Y, but come on now! So, she was getting ready, and I told her, " Dont bother getting ready, this new kid is annoying!" I stayed in my Farmingdale sweatpants, black T, with my hair in a messy bun. I did not care to impress him at all. At that point I was jsut doing what Bowen told me to do, and that was to make him feel welcome. A few weeks past, and all we heard about from Chasey was how much he missed Florida, how boring NY was, blah blah blah! Fianlly I just said, " Then go back home. We are all sick of hearing you complain about everything." He kind of stopped after that, and I started to like being around him more. We started texting more, hanging out at sports night, going to dinner... of course Little Linds came. I didnt do much without her! One of the first things we did was go to Sports Plus with the branch. It was a fun night with everyone, and I got to know Chasey a little bit better! That night we went back to our friend Hillary's house, which was on the other side of the Island. Chasey came which was great, but then that meant I had to drive him the 2 hours back to Port Jeff that night too. On the way to Hillarys we had a good talk, I guess. He mostly told me why he moved here, and why he broke up with his girlfriend, and what he liked to do. Thats also the first night he informed me, and then showed me that he didnt have a belly button. I was kind of frieked out first, but then got used to it. Luckily my friend Shae came with me when I drove him home later, so I didnt fall asleep driving back to Farmingdale! Oh ya, just a little sidenote... Bowen and Chasey are cousins. Shae was dating Bowen at the time, and now they are married. Okay, so things kind of countinued like that for awhile, just hanging out with everyone and texting each other. I got over his obnoxiousness, and learned that he just likes the attention. No, I'm kidding. He is just very outgoing, and I love that! One night we went to dinner ( Me, Chase, and Little Linds). Chase told us he was going to Florida in May to see his family, so we took the oppurtunity and invited ourselves to come. It was only March, so I think Chase thought we weren't going to really go. Nope, we went!!! K, so we went snowboarding in March, and had the best time. We were 2 of 5 people on the mountain that day. It was awesome! We started the traditon of snowboarding and Olive Garden that day. We would board all day, and then go get all you can eat soup and salad and Olive Garden. Some how Chase and I both had the same days off, so it worked out nice! The drive to the resort was about 3 hours, so we had alot of talk time on our boarding adventures! Come to find out later on, Chase wanted to kiss me the first time we went, but chickened out. I still give him crap for that! If we didnt snowboard on our days off, we did something else. We made a list of things we wanted to do before the summer was over, and tried to do one thing everyday off! One day I drove with Chase to Albany to fix a table. Chaseys uncle makes furniture, and some guy had bought a table from him in Albany and needed it fixed. That was the day I really fell for Chase. I'm not too sure why, but I did. I loved that he could build and fix things. I loved that he looked sexy in his wranglers. I dont know why, just something about that day made me REALLY like him! That same day we drove home through Times Square. Totally out of our way, but it was on our list! We played Cupids Chokehold. That song will forever make me think of NY and Chasey! Then my birthday rolled around. Just when I thought everything was going good, it wasn't. For my birthday we were going to eat and out dancing in the city. Well, earlier that day Julie and Little Linds had totally decorated my room so cute! When Chase came over he said, " Whats all that crap in your room for?" I told him it was my birthday, and he paused. He tried to convince me my birthday was the next week. So, ya he totally forgot my birthday. I was pretty bummed about the whole thing, but got over it... kind of. We had a blast that night with everyone, but didnt end up going dancing. I kind of felt bad that we didnt get to go. Chase was so sweet about it though, it made up for him forgetting my big day! The next week he took me snowboarding for my late gift, and got me a sweet beanie. We countinued to hang out everyday for the next month. We went to the Temple together on Wednesdays, we went surfing in a huge storm, we went to the Mets game, snowboarding again, fell in love with Guitar Hero, took Chase sledding for the first time, bowling at F'dale Lanes, went to Florida, pretty much did it all! If I asked Chase what was going with us, he would say, " We are just really good freinds." I felt bad hearing this, until I found out he did this to all of his girlfriends. He would hang out with them, be with them everyday, kiss them, but then tell them they were just friends. Scared of commitment? I think so! In May my Grandpa passed away. I was leaving for a few days to go home for the funeral. the night before I left Chase and I went to the city with the branch. We went to the Temple, and then rode home just the two of us on the train. That night you could tell something was going on. Chase was acting nervous, and not really talking. Did I mention I looked WAY HOT?! We got to my house, and we were sitting there talking, when he kissed me. I knew it was going to happen, but didnt know why he waited until the night before I was leaving to do it? It actaully ended up working out great. I told him I wasnt going to hang out with him everyday and kiss him if we were just friends. We decided that over the few days I was gone to Utah, we would both figure out what we wanted. We talked evryday I was gone, but not about "us", just about everything else! I came back on a Wednesday, just in time for the best night ever... SPORTS NIGHT! Chase still didnt know what we should do. I didnt want to push him, but I told him again that if we were just friends then thats fine,but the hanging out everyday with just the two of us was over. He told me he wanted to be with me everyday, so that must mean he wanted to date. The rest is pretty much how a dating story goes... only we lived in NY, so it was ten times better! Chase really won me over a few times. One time was on the 4th of July. The branch had a party at the beach, but of courseI had to work. I dont know why I had to work, but I did. Anyways, as I was pulling away from the beach Chase came over and jumped in the car. He was coming to help me watch Danny Boy! I was so so so so so happy! Another time was one day after church. My bosses were in Texas visiting their daughter, and I had Danny. I was so tired! Chase took him for 2 hours, so I could sleep. Despite all our arguments, and occasional break ups, he really was a good guy. We had good times at the beach, both during the day and at night *wink*. We had a blast at Six Flags every week! We loved going to Coney Island, and just being together. Everything we did together was fun. One day we decided that we should pray about things, and have a fast. Should we get married or not? We took 2 days of not talking to each other to figure it out. Without a doubt we both knew that we should get married. Chase was 100% sure about it. He didnt have time to buy a ring obviously, so he called his sister and told her he was going to buy me a necklace until he got a ring. His sister told him that was a stupid idea.... grrrrrrrrrr... I was mad when I found that out. I think that would have been sweet. With that settled we needed to figure out what was going to happen after July. Did Chase move to Utah, or did I move to Florida? We decided on Florida. That was the plan until about 5 days before we were supposed to leave NY. Chase completley got frieked out about everything, and ran 100 miles the other way. At the last minute I was moving home to Utah. Looking back now, Florida would have been the worst thing ever. We both agree that things would never would have worked out if I would have moved to Florida. It was a blessing in disguise. I ended up driving from NY to Florida with Chase anyways, and spending the week there. It was a great week, and an even better drive! After that week Chase came to Utah with me for 2 weeks. He had already bought his ticket to come out for Bowen and Shae's wedding , so ya. It was a good time with him until the dreaded wedding day. We dont talk about Bowen and Shaes wedding at our house... it was not a good day. We were in Nephi, middle of no where, and Chase breaks up with me in the car! Are you serious? I have to spend the rest of the day with you and ALL your family, and your breaking up with me? Looking back now, I wish I would have left him by the turkey farms and drove back home! I didnt though, I stayed and had hands down the single worse day of my life! Shae, if your reading this, your wedding was gorgeous... Chaseys attitude was not! He was leaving ot go back to FLorida in 3 days, and they couldnt come fast enough! I wanted him GONE GONE GONE! Then the day came when he was leaving, and I thought I will probably never see this boy again. I was a little sad cause we did have alot of great times together, but I still couldnt wait for that Southwest flight to take him home! He didnt call or text me for the first 3 days after he left. I figured it was really over, even friendship over. I didnt sit around and cry about him. I had a date that weekend, parties with my friends, boating over Labor Day. I was going to get over him, and have a blast doing it. Well, it wasnt that easy. On my date, we texted each other. On the boat we texted each other. When I was with my friends we texted each other. I never dared call him in front of anyone cause no one liked him after what he had done. Poor guy! After about 2 weeks, he called and told me he missed me and he thought about me all the time, and really wanted to see if things could work. 3 weeks after that I was on a plane to Florida to drive cross country with Chase back to Utah. It took my family a little bit to like him again, and I had to learn to trust him again. We dated for about 5 months, and then got engaged. We were engaged for 4 months, and were married on July 18, 2008. That brings you to where we are now! I look back on our relationship, and just laugh. We had some ups and downs, but we learned from them all. I love Chasey so much, and couldnt imagine being with anyone else. He works so hard, and provides for our family. He has goals that he works hard to avhieve. He makes me want to be better at so many things! I'm so glad we stuck it out through all the hard times, so we could be where we are now!

CHASEYS VERSION

Not so long. I get to the point.

After a little persusion to move to NY, I did. I drove all my things to NY, and had no idea what I was doing there. I left my buisness and life in Florida to come to NY where I had nothing. The first time I saw Lyndsay was at church I thought she was really cute, but she left church with her friends to get pizza. I didnt like that. I wanted someone that was going to make me a better person, and who was stronger then me in the church. Lyndsay would leave every Sunday during my class to go get pizza with all the girls. I saw her more as the party girl, then someone I wanted to be with! I think Lyndsay felt sorry for me, because she invited me to all the activities. I started going to them, and really saw how outgoing and fun Lyndsay was. Thats what really connected us at the first. I eventually got her to stay for all of church too! I think the first time we really hung out, and talked was at Sports Plus. After that we just started texting more. In about March we went snowboarding. We were the only ones up on the mountain, and I thought about kissing her. I figured hey she's cute and nice, why not? I ended up not kissing her though. We were just really good friends, and I enjoyed being with her. I think the first time I realized I really liked her was when we went to Albany to fix a table for my uncle. She was playing with the peoples kids, and it just kind of hit me that I liked her. We had a good day that day, and things went up from there. I wasnt looking for anything serious at the time, just a friend. After that day I realized I liked a little more then that. We started dating, and we always had a blast together. One of hte funnest trips we took was with the branch to Kirtland. We had some fun times there, oh the picnic table. I thought she was so cute, and loved that she was very active. Thats one thing that I really loved about her. We ran 5ks together, played softball, and always dominated at Sports Night. It seemed like Lyndsay was always planning a party or get together with everyone. I loved that about her. At the end of summer we road tripped it back to Florida, and then spent some time in Utah. I didnt know if I wanted things to work, so I really backed off. I broke up with her, and I will admit I was a jerk. The good news is is that I realized I was a jerk, and moved back out to Utah to be with her. I figured that moving my life across the country was the best way to show her I cared about her. It was hard being out here at first with no family or friends. It got easier, and I fell in love with Lyndsay. In 9 months, we dated, got engaged, and were married. I love Lyndsay. She is caring, fun, outgoing, a great mom, and a great wife!

The night at Sports Plus. our team took first in Laser Tag

Attempting to surf in a huge storm. It didnt work out too good.
First time sledding. Chase had never been,so we took him to the golf course in Port Jeff, and went sledding. We couldnt find a sled, so we used a tarp.

Farmingdale Lanes. We loved bowling there. This night I totally flirted with Bowens friend, it really bugged Chase. Hey, we were just friends though, right?!

The first party Chasey came to was the PINK Party. You had to wear pink! Chase came in....

THIS!

Rollerblading. We tore it up!

First time snowboarding

Second time snowboarding

Mets Game

" You kids have fun!"

Easter 2007

My birthday in the city

Guitar Hero at Pres' house.

The Florida trip we invited ourselves on!

Go Yankees

Kirtland

Coney Island just night be the best place ever! The Cyclone in back of us was the best rollercoaster ever!

Times Square!

Packed up heading to Florida! Good-bye NY! That was a fun road trip!

Florida 2007Snorkeling.

"Chase, these will keep the sharks away."

Chaseys first experience at Utah Lake.

Utah

Chasey going back to Florida

Chase always makes me smile! I love how creative he is. He made his own Nacho Libre costume!

Its so good that we both love to do anything and everything.

Monster Trucks!

Just another adventure. This one was only about a mile long!

Easter

So So So fine!

Happy Birthday Lynds

Summer 2008

Bear Lake was alot of fun!

Wedding dinner

AfterI took out my endowments.

Its official!

Vegas

Sand Hallow

St. George

Florida 2008

7 peaks

Bees Game

We love fishing at Payson Lake

One of the last pictures we took before I got pregnant and so sick! Its been a great ride so far with Chasey. I cant wait to see whats in store for us!