No you did not read that wrong, I really have four older brothers, no it wasn't as bad as you may be thinking but there was definitely times I remember wishing that one of them had been born a girl.

Don't get me wrong I love my brothers and I'm grateful that we aren't the kind of siblings that fight over little thing. Yeah we've had fair share of "fights" but it's honestly because we know how to get on each other's nerves and all sets of siblings are that way.

Everyone might think the growing up with only brothers would make you more of a "tomboy", but not in my case. Yeah, okay I'm not scared to get my hands a little dirty every once in awhile but also not about to go to every single NFL games either. To be completely honest it's having four brothers taught me how to stand up for self and not take so much crap from people. Most importantly it take me how to be myself.

Each of my brothers has a personality completely different from the rest, some played every sport imaginable and some, still to this day have zero clue what actually happens during a football game (to fair neither do I).

When I was younger, they made high school look easy and fun, they made growing up look like fun, and I was jealous that because of this age gap I'd never experience any of that with them. Well I'll just say this: high school is not as fun as they made it out to be; and I was wrong.

I'm getting what I thought I wanted, just in a different way. Since all of them are past the college phase in life, I'm getting ready to enter it. I'm now the one that's having to take ACT and SAT, I'm the one trying to figure out what it is I want to do with my life, and they're there for me, because they've been there. I don't know how many times I tell one of them the reason I don't want to in Kansas for college because I know there's nothing here for me, and he sits, he listens, and gives me his advice about what I should do.

I go to one of my brothers for more advice then anyone else. It's easy to run to a sibling because they aren't supposed to judge you, they're supposed to be there for you and help you. There's times I question what I would have done if I didn't have one of these crazies to talk to. They're really the most logical people to go to because know what it was like to be a teenager and know how nerve racking it can be. They know the choices I have to make, because that made the same choices themselves; it have been a few years ago, but its still the best advice I could get.

That is a blessing in itself, that I have four older brothers that know what I'm dealing with and can tell me how they felt during high school and trying to decide on college.

Another thing that you're bound to learn from your brothers, is that there are really only two seasons during the year; football season and getting ready for next football season. You'd think a girl who had a brother play football in college would know a thing or two about the sport, NOPE. I can tell you who the quarter back and the kicker are, but I you mention the nickel back defense I'm automatically thinking of the band and by the point I'm just a lost cause, sorry.

One very important thing about growing with four guys that consistently use you as an arm rest, punching bag (I'd hit back don't worry) and/or maid, is that you know to not let people walk all over you. You learn real quick how to let a person know that you put up it and that they can leave if that's a problem. I kind of fear the day I bring home my fiancé, let's just hope that everyone's in a good mood that day.

I know when I tell people how many brothers I have they usually say that they're sorry and it most be terrible, it isn't. Yeah they might be a pain in the butt sometimes, maybe 80 percent of the time, but I know that if I didn't have them someone else would.

I would not trade the bickering, the car rides, the getting a racecar stuck in my hair; yes that actually happened and I still don't trust my brothers with racecars to this day. But for all the pranks, if you could really call them pranks, I wouldn't want to call anyone different from these four my brothers.