My New Venture!

So, I'm TOTALLY excited! I finished my training last weekend & am rip-roarin' & ready to go! I am officially a Spa Specialist & Image Consultant & am SOOO excited to be doing this! I host spa nights for friends & family of anybody that wants to do it. It's free to do & you get to try out everything it takes to have a In-home Spa for yourself. I love it because all of the things we use are AMAZING & actually incredibly affordable. I love girly stuff for sure as well! haha. But, yeah, the holidays are actually a perfect time to have a party cause I've got a lot of cute baskets & sets for Christmas presents. It's just a little hard getting up & started. My mom has been out of town & my little sister has been gone too. I would LOVE to practice on people I know. It would be a lot of fun! Let me know if you want to host a party. I would REALLY appreciate for sure! I just need a little help getting started. The hostess gets free, cool stuff too! Anyways, let me know if you're interested. It'd be really fun! :)

The Newest Addition to Our Family!

Baby Lukas Benjamin Boston was born just shy of being a December baby on Sunday, November 30th at 10:29 p.m. He was 8 lbs 11 oz & is absolutely beautiful! Meggan went in to be induced at 7:30a.m. Sunday morning & after a little over 15 hours of being in the hospital, Baby Lukas finally made his grand entrance into the world.

He couldn't have come at a more perfect (well, besides perhaps coming a few hours earlier..haha). But, everyone was ready for him to come & meet us. No one could have been more happy than his new mommy.

The Before Shots!

haha. She's so cute!

Big sister Kate was practicing too! Man! She looks like a total natural!

Her little world is about to be seriously rocked! haha. Had to bring this 2nd one back cause it makes me laugh.

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Lukas Benjamin Boston is here!!

Kate & Mommy

She's gonna be SUCH a great big sister...just like her Mom. :)

Here's the new family of 4!

Gammaw & Gampaww greeted Baby Luke when they came to bring Kate up to the hospital. They look so happy. They are SUCH pro's now! Aunt Corn & Uncle Yosh came up to meet Baby Luke too. Oh how Kate has trained them well.

They are so happy. What a beautiful family.
Though Adam & I didn't get to go to St. Louis this Thanksgiving or be there when Baby Lukas was born, I just want to say that I miss you (my family) DEEPLY...Forgive me for being so um, nostalgic, for lack of a better word, but all of this is kind of coming to my head as I'm sitting here a little teary-eyed, my first Thanksgiving away from my family.

...How grateful I am for today for beautiful new born babies that were with their Heavenly Father only an instant ago. For sweet nieces whose giggle on the other end of the telephone can make you laugh & cry & smile all at once when you're away from family. For a younger brother who has chosen to stand for what he believes in and set an example for a new baby boy of a young man that honors his priesthood at the young age of 13. For a younger sister who has turned to the Lord & to the scriptures for complete direction in her life & is really coming to understand who she really is. For an older brother that stands at the head of his beautiful young family with strength & love & a tender heart. For a husband that is strong & has a compassionate heart who will lead our family back to the presence of our Heavenly Father as equal partners. For a mom that has taught us who we are & whose children we really are and carefully nurtures & completely feels for each of her children & is not only a mother but has become a most precious friend. For a dad who loves the Lord first & has always put his family before any other desire or obligation in his life, who has taught us to be not only an eternal family but best friends. And especially right now for an older sister who has been my best friend & who I've shared everything with since I was born, who has been the best example that I could have ever had, who I've watched & tried to follow as she made right decisions as she was younger, as she dated like she was supposed to, as she was married in the temple for time & all eternity, as she began a family & taught her sweet daughter "I am a Child of God" & "I love to see the temple, I'm going there someday", & who, I'm certain, will teach this new baby & any more that follow who they are & what their divine nature truly is. I'm grateful, sister, for who you are & what you mean to me.

Creative Juices are FLOWIN'!

I just wanted to show off a little bit of what I've done, cause it's been a LOT of

fun working on it. To give a little explanation though...We have a loft apartment with 1 bedroom & 1 1/2 bath. So, the downstairs are done in our wedding colors (Adam's favorite colors) red & black & white & has been SO much fun to put together. I wanted it to look elegant, yet modern, clean yet still have a comfortable-still-your-home/sanctuary feeling to it. Now, the upstairs, that's my territory! haha. I was talking with my mom when I was registering for our wedding stuff & was telling her that I've ALWAYS loved blues & teals & aquamarine's & that those are completely my favorite colors, but it didn't match & I wanted the rest of the house to look good. Well, my mom being as wise &

 wonderful as she is & knowing me incredibly well, like she does, gave me the perfect advice. 

She said, "Lindsay...Your bedroom is somewhere that you should feel like your self, an escape from the world, your space. You want a blue room? Make it a blue room! ....Just keep the door shut when guests come over." haha. I LOVE my mom! So...that's what I did! 

It worked out even better because instead of it being all one level, the bedroom is upstairs, so it feels like a whole different apartment sometimes. I love it! So, I found the PERFECT color bedspread that was the perfect aquamarine color & bought the shower curtain to match with dark chocolate brown accents. I truly love it. So on to my creative juices...This weekend I finished my letters for our room. I painted wooden block letters to match our colors & hung them over our bed. Then, another little touch was Adam's doing. We have a fireplace, but no mantle & that was just completely unsettling to him (very cute..haha), so last night he found something he wanted to hang on the wall underneath the beautiful mirror Meggan made for us for our wedding that he hung up Saturday (another really funny story in its self) & so I hung it up last night & put up some candle holders for some color. I hung up a few little touches of things people gave up & I have been having so much fun with it. I have found such a great, unexpected love in decorating my house. More 

to come!

Trying to Make Our House...A Home...

So, I was excited this weekend. We found about an hour or two on Saturday after my practice & before his football game to put a little bit of our house together. These are some of the pictures I edited & got developed & was getting them wall-hanging ready. I also unpacked a few boxes, hung up a picture or two & filled up some bookshelves while Adam put it together our cabinet & end table & hung up a few pictures. It started feeling a little bit more like a home instead of a cold looking apartment. We even got our LONG awaited furniture in that somehow got lost in Vancouver for 2 1/2 weeks & finally got here on Friday. The problem is that we only got 8 of the 11 boxes. The other 3 got stuck in Los Angeles for some odd reason & should be here tomorrow. So, I'm SUPER excited about that. We ordered 2 futons & out of that we got: 2 mattresses, both end tables, our coffee table, the arms/sides to both, the cover that matches our decor & the only thing we were missing were all the connecting pieces to put them all together. haha. Oh well. When Adam told me I just laughed really hard. Such is my life...Ya gotta laugh at it though, right? There's nothing else you can do. haha. To say the least, we are looking forward to being able to get off the floor & sit on something much more comfortable. I'm excited!

I have decided that I love decorating our home. I love the little touches that go into making something totally white & completely empty into something that looks like Adam & I. I love being able to have COMPLETE & TOTAL creative freedom to do whatever I want to do with it & have come up with some fun ideas. They're nothing too crazy or extravagant, but they're a starting place. Can't wait to do more!

One Month...

Well, we've hit a month & a week now & are still going strong. Life has been ridiculously crazy busy since we got married & I'm most definitely looking forward to a Christmas break & our honeymoon in Destin. With Adam having to go to every U of M football game AND Men's Basketball game & all of my random gigs & concerts, it's been a lot of running around. This weekend, I'm singing Saturday night & Sunday afternoon for my concerts & I'll be so grateful when I get through this weekend. Yesterday, I actually got the chance to sing on Live at 9 on News Channel 3. Here is the first time we sang on the show. It was my first TV performance, so I was WAY nervous. They asked us to do this song & to say the least, it has gotten WAY better since this. It wasn't too bad of a TV debut though. I'm just the worst critic of myself. haha.

They asked us to come back. Yesterday was my 3rd time on Live at 9 this year & it has been a lot of fun. I was ridiculously sick last week, but it wasn't too bad. I wasn't really all that nervous, just really tired. Man was it early though! Phew... Here's the video if you want to check it out. It's about halfway through the video. Enjoy!

Live at 9 Monday, November 17

The Big Day!

Wedding Pictures

Well, Adam & I were married in the Memphis TN Temple on October 11th 2008. These are a few of my favorite wedding pictures to share with you. The day was perfect. I was calm as a summer's breeze as they say & everything was absolutely perfect. My mom had the gym looking incredible, Amy (my cousin) made my gorgeous cake, my uncle David performed our sealing, Meggan & Ben & Kate came in town, my best friends Loni & Megan McCord flew in & marrying the most perfect man for me in the whole wide world. It was perfect. I wasn't nervous at all & besides the sealing & when I danced with my dad, I was able to hold my emotions together the rest of the time. It was great. More than anything, it was a fun party with lots of laughs, lots of music, & lots of love. There were tons of friends & family there. It was really great. My band came & played & I even joined them for a couple songs to sing to Adam. When I sang "Piece of My Heart" by Janis Joplin though (per Adam's request), I think I blew a few people away or at least shocked them most definitely. I don't think they'd seen that side of me before. haha. All in all, it was an incredible day!

Break from Decorating

The week before the wedding, Kate had been in town for a week & I hadn't seen her yet & I was DYING! So, I waited for her the day before we got married at the church & couldn't help but play on the stage with her. It's so funny. When we're together, I can't help but laugh at her & do all sorts of stupid, ridiculous things, not caring how I look, just to even get a little giggle out of her. It is SO much fun! She's my little friend!

Oh how silly I look, but she is SO dang cute!

She made sure I had fun & wasn't stressing out the day before I made the biggest comittment I'd ever make in my whole entire life. Thank goodness for this girl!

Haha. I love this girl SOOO much!

She is the best excuse to take a break from decorating in the WHOLE world!

Decorating for the Big Day

All I basically had to do was tell my mom the colors that I wanted (which were just Adam's favorite colors) Red & Black & she basically took care of EVERYTHING else. I wanted magnolia's because it reminded me on my Grandma Kennedy's house & I wanted her to be a part of it all somehow & it brought back really fond memories for me. The red accents were just beautiful with it as well. I don't know how my mom made magnolias work with roses, but it all looked INCREDILE! The roses I wanted just cause they are elegant & beautiful. So, mom took that & came up with everything else on her own. All I had to do was say "Yes, I love that" or "Maybe this other thing" & then do what I was told. My mom let me pick everything, but she came to me with the most amazing ideas & creations. It was incredible & so much fun. She can take anything that might look simple & small & add a few things to it & make it look gorgeous! It was perfect. There were so many people that helped with everything & I'm so grateful for friends & family that love & care about Adam & I. I love all of you so much!

This is the table center pieces that my mom made for each table. we put the crystals together on wire & everything. It was beautiful. They had that whole gym decorated in a night & part of a day. My mom is incredible.

Oh the Bridal Showers!

I feel so grateful for the many, many bridal showers Adam & I were thrown by those people that love & care about us. We are so grateful for all of them. They were VERY much needed. I'll put more pictures up of the other ones, but this is the last bridal shower I had. It was my "special things" shower hosted by my 2 sweet, yet conniving sisters. Oh how I love them both, but as these pictures will tell, they made it their duty that night to embarrass the stew out of me & it definitley worked.

We played games & opened presents & they all shared advice for me. It was a lot of fun that night. We played a game where you have to lick the doughnut that's tied to the string without it breaking & whoever won was supposed to prove who the best kisser was. Of course, I won!

Then, there was another game that I didn't particularly enjoy, but oh how they laughed at me while I was trying to do it. I'll let you figure it out yourselves, but my reaction was hilarious now that I look back on it. Here's that game...(By the way, I did good.)

You want me to do WHAT?!
Awwwkward!! haha.
Yesss! It's OVER!


All in all, it was a LOT of fun that night & I'm so glad I got to laugh & spend some time with some of my closest & dearest friends. Thanks Meggan & Cortney!

Engagement Pictures

Engagement Pictures

The morning of & the week before, Adam & I broke out & had probably stress related zits everywhere it felt like & it was so early in the morning that I look Chinese in most of them, but hey! with Alan Purser's photography skills & a little photoshop action ANYONE can look good! haha. They turned out pretty good.

The Engagement

For those of you that know me pretty well, among other things you are pretty aware that I am really hard to surprise & keep secrets from. Mostly because most people are terrible liars & I can read them pretty well. So, a week after we had ordered the ring, we were back at home & seeing each other every day still & things were back to normal. Well, except for the fact that it was EXACTLY a week after we had picked out the ring & I KNEW it was already supposed to be in & ready for pick-up. Well, that night we were both really tired & he had to go give someone a blessing so it was a little bit of an off-night. Long story short, it didn't happen that night. So, the next night was temple night & he had told me he didn't care what we did afterwards, so I assumed it wasn't gonna happen that night either. Well, that night when we were walking out of the temple, we were the last ones to leave & he grabbed my hand & lead me around to the back where all the benches are. We read our patriarchal blessings to each other & both cried & had a warm feeling cover us & everything felt very right & good. So, after I got myself under control, he got down on one knee & asked me to be his for time & all eternity. Of course I started crying again & I said "Of course!" It was a beautiful night & the most perfect proposal I could ever have imagined. We shared a piece of our hearts with each other & promised forever from that moment on. It was perfect. I'll never forget that night.

The Final Test

So, after tons of dates & the long awaited first kiss...One night after a long week without him (he was busy helping at a band camp)...I realized how much I loved him & that I couldn't possibly imagine him not being in my life. Little did I know that he had felt that way before he kissed me & knew he didn't want to kiss me unless he was sure of something. So, the words came out of my mouth before I even knew that I felt that way & from that moment on, the idea of being married for time & all eternity actually felt like a reality & I had found a man that made eternity still feel like not enough time being with him. The last test though was a trip to St. Louis with my family, just to see how he meshed & also to introduce him to Meggan & Ben & Kate. Well, that weekend was fun & as you can probably imagine, Adam passed with FLYING colors of course & even got a little competitive with the boys. Everyone loved him & it was a GREAT weekend. This is actually us on Meggan's car watching fireworks on the 4th of July. That was the day that we went ring shopping & picked out my engagement ring. What a GREAT day that was!

Dates, Dates, Dates!

So, Adam & I went on date after date & saw each other almost every single day since our first date & just couldn't stand to be apart. It wasn't just all infatuation as you might think, but instead we both found not that we weren't complete people without each other, but that when we were together, we became something greater than we were or could ever be by ourselves. The timing was just perfect...And in that, I mean, it wasn't in either one of our plans & slapped us out of nowhere. It was perfect. haha. Everything happened when it was meant to & we both felt good about being with each other from Day 1. We were more compatible & more perfect for each other than we could ever or would've ever picked for ourselves. Thank goodness the Lord knows what He's doing. I'm grateful for him every day.



Now, I know you're probably about to vomit from too much cheese...(cause frankly, I used to be quite the cynical single woman myself...actually it wasn't too long ago...) So, I'll move on...haha. He taught me how to hit at the driving range, we went walking at parks, looked at mission pictures, ate Mexican, sang along to the radio, went swimming, made a few trips to & introduced Adam to Jerry's snow cones, and saw each other almost every day. No matter what we did though we had a blast & couldn't get enough of each other. The conversation was incredible & to this day we laugh all the time.

The Beginning Of Us...

Well, I know it's been a long time since I've updated this thing, but I'm sure you all know why, so here's what we've been up to.

Well, this is Adam... He's in the band at University of Memphis

He plays the clarinet. He has a great enthusiasm for the band.

This just makes me laugh.

Anyways, so he's been in the Singles Branch for a few years & so was I, but we didn't ever talk at all the either one of us remember until back in May. When we all went out after Temple night, I just remember his quick wit & clever comments impressed me right off the bat. The next night he came & heard me sing with some mutual friends at a concert of mine. I wasn't sure at first just cause I had basically given up on guys & was tired of dealing with the drama of it all & a friend of mine liked him, so that also just screamed drama, so I left it alone for a while. But then...what do ya know? That friend actually suddenly moved away. A mutual friend set us up, we went on a double date with them & had a blast just talking & laughing & finding things in common & the conversation was intelligent & just easy. We hardly talked to our other friends at all. After that night, he asked me out again & Then, like they say....the rest was history.