Well friends. We all survived. My cute family made it through 2 years without our favorite redhead and we survived that massive party that occurred when we got him home!! I have a lot of thoughts to download into this blog so if you are someone that has hard time stopping reading something once you start make sure that you have got a second before you go any further.
My long week began last Saturday. I spent all day with various members of my family attending wedding festivities for my cousin. When we were done at the reception my parents took Per, My cousin Kilee and Me to dinner down in Salt Lake City. When we got done with dinner Kilee and Per came to spend that night at my house before heading back Sunday Morning. I woke up Sunday morning with the worst tooth ache I have ever experienced. It may have been the worst pain I've ever experienced in general. I could not figure out what was wrong to save my life and it was a very long day. After about 2 hours of sleep Sunday night I decided that it was time to call the big man and see if he could help me out. Papa Sam and my wonderful mother got to work trying to find me a dentists down here in SLC from all the way back at home. With some help from my Aunt Tammie in Sandy we found a dentist and made an appointment for Tuesday morning because I have late classes on Mondays. It was another nearly sleepless night Monday night but I got two or three hours and for the first time in my life I was excited to go to the dentist when I got up Tuesday morning. I got there at about 8 and it wasn't long before I was in the chair and taking X-rays. The Dr. finally made it in and said I needed to have root canal done but he didn't actually do those so he sent me to a specialist. Dr. Vahrenburg was great. He was a really nice guy and I felt a lot better when I left his office. Of course, I was still numb from Novocaine. So Tuesday night rolled around and because of my horrible tooth situation on of the cute girls I work with said that she would cover my shift at work. I was so happy and grateful that she did that for me. With my night free I decided to go over to my older sister Erin's house to see my San Diego-ans and the new baby nephew. It was great to see everyone and we had a good night talking and getting ready to get our brother back!!!
I went home and packed and tried to fall asleep. Again, I was not very successful at all but it was enough to get me through the day. I had to go to one class Wednesday morning but then I was out of there. I ran home quick, picked up my bags and headed to the airport. When I got there my parents grandma and some of my siblings were already waiting... That was one got of the longest hours of my life. We were all really happy to be there and together again but honestly we all just wanted Little Red back with us. It finally came time for him to be coming out of the terminal. We all went over and stood by where he would be coming out and waited some more. Finally we saw him come down the escalator and then all the tears started. I am thinking that the Lindley's are about as bad as the Rutledges when it comes to crying on about every occasion. All the nephews sprinted up to see their Uncle Zachy and the rest of us followed suit. I don't have my camera cord with me right now but I'll get it and upload the pictures as soon as I can. When we got all wrapped up at the airport we started our journey home. (Keep in mind my face is still pretty puffy but since I'm on cloud nine I'm not really thinking about it too much.) Per rode with me and we met the fam at Maddox for lunch. When we lunch wrapped up we started on the last 30 minutes home. Once we finally got there it was all good. We all hung out and talked with all the people that came to see Zach. It was a long night but we did eventually make it to sleep. Well Wednesday night was another rough one and I think that I wound up with 3 hours that night. At 6 o clock I got dressed to go to breakfast with Sam and Per at Angie's. After breakfast I had a nail appointment and then the day just got busier from there. We hung out with the boys. Went shopping to get Zach a phone and then eventually some clothes.... Someone took all his while he was away :P When we finally made it home Zach and my parents went to the temple while the rest of us had Fredrico's Pizza. I got all packed up to come back to Salt Lake because I had a test Friday morning and my tooth started to flare up again. I was in tears and was extremely worried about the drive home. When they got back from the Temple I asked if my Dad and Zach would wait a second before they changed out of their church clothes because I needed a blessing. Zach did the anointing in Spanish and then Dad gave me a blessing with the help of all 4 of my older brothers and brothers in law. It was one of the coolest blessings I've ever been able to receive and I'll remember it forever. I made it back down to SLC safely but had a night with 0 hours of sleep!! I got dressed and went to stumble through a chemistry test Friday which I of course had not studied for I had more important things on my mind for the past week. When I got done with the test I went back to my house to try to sleep a little bit. I got a little bit of a nap but then I had to go to work. I woke up a little early so I could go pick something up for my mom. I noticed when I got up that my lower jaw had actually swelled worse than when I had started this whole endeavor so I asked my mom to call the family dentist at home and get me and antibiotic. Friday night was the longest night I've ever had a work. My face was huge and painful and I had to close. I finally got done at work and headed home for Logan. I made it in at about 1 o clock in the morning and when my mother saw me see cringed and told me I looked like elephant man!! I started taking my antibiotics and It is now on its way down.
Saturday we had a baby shower for my sister-in-law Sabrina. It was good to see all the aunts and cousins! When we were done with the shower and had dinner we had a Harry Potter marathon because Zach hadn't seen either of the number 7 movies. We were up pretty late that night but I did get like a full 6 hours of sleep that night and it was magical!!!
Sunday was Zach's homecoming. He and I went to one of his teammate's from High School ball farewell in the morning. It was nice to get to hang out with him again. The funniest thing happened when we were walking out of the church. It was snowing and my brother being the wonderful man that he is was perfect gentleman and he walked me to my side of the door and opened it for me. I sat down and waited for him to walk over to the drivers side. As I glanced over to the car next to me I noticed a little old grandma looking over at me beaming and giving me a thumbs up as if to tell me that he was a keeper. I laughed pretty hard to myself. We went straight from the farewell to our home ward. Zach did great. He stood up there and just spewed wisdom for like 20 minutes without notes. I was very impressed. It took me almost a half hour to get Zach out of the chapel to go home but when we finally did it was good to be at home surrounded with EVERYONE!! My mom and I did the math and concluded that we fed between 120 and 130 people yesterday afternoon. After everyone left we took a family picture and started the clean up. I headed back to SLC at about 9 last night. I had a couple classes today and I have one more and work tomorrow. Then I'll be back up in Logan for Thanksgiving. All in all it has been a great week and I'm looking forward to the holidays with my family :)
