day 10-the end of feb

well it's the end of february and as you can see i only got to 10 days on this little bloggy challenge.

i was totally aiming to get to 28 days but i didn't realize all the little events we would have going on.

but it's ok, brett knows there are millions of reasons as to why i love him.

so i'm cutting it off to 10 days in the b-log.

DAY 10

i am SUPER in love with him cuz i know he's gonna be such a great daddy to our kids.

he and i recently put up the baby's crib and i asked brett if he thinks it's weird he's putting up a crib cuz it was totally weirding me out!  and he just said, nope.

i always let my emotions get the best of me and nothing ever really phases him.

which will be good having someone stable in our family, knowing how i'll be going crazy with the kids.

brett's really excited to have kids though.  when we talk about when the baby gets here or when he sees a little baseball outfit he just lights up.

MAYBE i've been watching too much 16 and pregnant where the baby daddys' usually don't give a crap about their girlfriend or newborn baby but i'm so glad brett cares and he cares A LOT.

i'm just so grateful i have him.

so check out the new crib!  it's a dark cherry sleigh crib and we got it at an AWESOME sale at target and it came with the mattress also.  the sale only lasted a few days so that's why we got it so early and decided to put it up right away.  that way we can figure his room out with more of the baby furniture/decor we'll be getting.

putting the crib up makes things SOOO much more real.  i smile really big when i walk past his room thinking about a baby boy in it........ a baby boy crying in the middle of the night making me lose sleep?  we'll see if i still have that smile then.

p.s. i think i'm breeding spiderman in my belly cuz holy crap, this kid can move!  probably web slingin from wall to wall in utero.

day 9-a blessing

DAY 9

i am so blessed, 

to have the priesthood in my home.

lately we've been pretty busy that i think it was starting to catch up to us physically.

last weekend we attempted to have a "romantic" date night, just the 2 of us.  my mom had just left and our besties, steve and gwen, from rexburg were gonna be stopping by that sunday to stay with us.  so we wanted to squeeze some time in for romance.

what we thought was gonna be a romantic night ended up with us waiting in line to eat at a restaurant for an hour and a half when they told us the wait was gonna be 30 mins (liars), me throwing up IN the restaurant after eating my delicious meal, then me throwing up later at home many more times that night.

WTFreak?

i thought i was completely over my nausea by now?

we concluded that it was some kind of food poisoning or a stomach flu, needless to say, that's another restaurant i've added to the list that have made me hurl and i don't plan on going back to for a long time.

that night was just horrible, my body started shaking because of all the dry heaving i've done.  there was nothing left in my stomach and i could not get any sleep.

i was starting to get worried about the baby and the fact that i wasn't going to get any sleep that night.

i was exhausted and in tears.

i woke up my sweet husband very early in the morning and asked him to give me a blessing.

and without a second thought he said yes.

he proceeded to give me the blessing and in the blessing he assured me that the baby will be fine and also that my sickness may go away soon so that i may get some rest.

after the blessing i barfed one more time then pretty much passed out and didn't wake up till about 2pm the next day.

i still felt really weak but ok enough to move oot and aboot the hoose.

steve and gwen and their sweet baby sienna had just arrived so i couldn't miss out on seeing them!

and during their visit we just relaxed and chatted the whole time. 

how grateful i am to have a righteous husband who honors his priesthood and is in tune with the spirit.  he is always willing to help someone in need and is always willing to give someone a blessing who needs it.  i love him so much and am so grateful i have him as the father of my children and the priesthood holder in my home.  

day 8-a fast february

WHEW.

i'm exhausted.

i feel like february has shot on by when it's only the middle of the month.

my mom's been with us since the 4th and left yesterday.

and i've been crying a lot.

i tell myself i'm going to see her soon in a few months for the baby's birth and my dad's coming out next month.

they have these free plane tickets to use up so they decided to come out here separately leaving behind the other to take care of my younger sis...

but i really miss my mom, she's been my buddy while brett was at work.

doing our nails, staying up absurdly late, watching movies and just talking and catching up on news from the fam and friends.

i love her so much, next to brett she's my best friend.

we've been eating SO good and she has taken us shopping to fill up our pantry and to add some cute decor to our new house.

also while my mom was here kyla and her husband travis were able to come up from manti a few times and it's just been so much fun and so loud when us girls get together.

i love my sweet family.

and the family's continuing to grow!

kyla's now 18/19weeks now and just found out she's having a girl!

a  sweet little girl for my everton to beat up.

just kidding, well we'll see.

news from our valentine's day-i had to go to the doctor to get the results from my glucose test.  and it came back normal!  my mom thought i was lying because she was shocked to see how much sugar i've been eating.  but what can i say?  mah child loves his chocolate and sour skittles,  happy valentine's to everton!  you're not a complete sugar baby.

another amazing thing my mom did was put together a little surprise baby shower while she was out here!

i love that woman.

it was just the sweetest thing.  she had brett make up a cute lie saying that we're gonna go meet one of his mission buddies in sandy before we meet up with my mom, who was staying at her sister's in spanish fork for the day.  then when we got to his "mission buddy's" house our family friends from back east opened the door and what did i do?  i started bawling of course.

i'm probably one of the easiest people to surprise cuz there have been so many clues slapping me in the face this whole time and never thought anything of it!

like when my best friend, charlene, who's serving a mission right now, wrote me telling me to have fun at my baby shower (not knowing it's supposed to be a surprise).  i asked my mom what she was talking about and she played it off saying that charlene mixed me up with another alyssa from her ward who's also having a baby soon.  or my fav was the fact when we were walking up to the party house there was a car with a west virginia license plate and i again didn't think anything of it.

gullible gertrude right here.  

it was just so much fun seeing old friends and getting sweet little gifts and outfits for my baby boy and eating good food of course.

my mom even invited my darling west virginia friends, some of which are living in utah now and some were just visiting from back home.  yup i had guys at my baby shower and wouldn't have had it any other way.

DAY 8

reason of the day as to why i love brett-

 he always likes to surprise the crap outta me and he loves me and the baby so much he endured his first baby shower and cheesy games.

and pretty sure it was also my guy friends' first baby shower too and they made it even more fun and loud.

we played the guess what kind of chocolate is in the "poopy diaper" game my cousin katy brought.

and the "let's see how big alyssa's gotten" game and surprisingly my friend matt got the measurement perfectly right!

that's a little weird...haha

baby everton's pimp suit.

charlene's parents the decato's.   i love them SOO much!

my cousins scott and katy.  they'll be moving to tooele soon so i get to have some family around!

i'm just so grateful for the love and support we have gotten from friends and family.

and am especially grateful for my mom for throwing me this amazing party/baby shower. and thanks to those who helped my mom out!

and check out this BEAUTIFUL baby shower cake my cousin katy made for me!!

she doesn't have a business or anything but loves making creative cakes and cookies.

she's so awesome.

then we gave it a c-section and chowed down.

i'm so happy with my life.

day 7-i love brett cuz.......

                                                    

he's my PERMANENT valentine

 

and he LIKES it.

.28 weeks.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL YOU CUTE PEOPLE.

XOXO.

day 6-the dorkasaurus

DAY 6

i love my sweet lover cuz no matter how much of a dork i was/am/will be...

he'll ALWAYS stick by me.

day 5-ambitious brett

DAY 5

i admire and love brett so much for his ambition and dreams.

he doesn't settle for less than he deserves.

one night as we sat across from each other on the floor (we get our couches in tomorrow) talking about this and that, brett brought the question up as to how long we wanna stay here in tooele.  i actually don't wanna stay here that long and neither does he.  it all depends on how things go at wells fargo.  he talked about how he wants to really work his way up in the banking business and build an awesome customer base.  it always impresses me how dedicated he is to his work, just as he was dedicated to his schooling.  he wants to build really good relationships with everyone, knowing that that's what's going to help him in the future.  he's such a good sport at waking up early and getting ready for work, i, on the other hand, am the biggest whiner and complainer when i have to wake up early.  def something i'm gonna have to get used to when we have kids!

i'm so grateful for brett and for his job.  brett wants to take care and provide for his family and i love him so much for that.

i love him for the goals he gives himself to accomplish within a certain time frame and that he's always pushing me to make goals for myself.

i'm just so proud of him and i can't wait to see where he and his job takes our little family!

i trust him completely

brett can you just at least take us to where it doesn't snow or gets cold as much?

thanks doll ♥

day 4-family love

DAY 4

#4 reason as to why i love brett,

is that he loves my mom!

WHO IS COMING TONIGHT FROM WEST VIRGINIA!!!

brett marrying into my family has been a bit of a culture shock for him and he's been trying really hard to get used to the way my family does things.

that's just what happens in a marriage, you both come from 2 different families and you learn about how your spouse's fam did things,

and marrying into a filipino family can be even more different.

brett's been really good learning about the crazy ways of the jones' and knows how much my family means SOOOOO much to me!

so i love brett very much cuz he loves my family,

which is just uber important for me that he does!

so yeah my sweet and hot mom's coming to visit!!!!

i haven't seen her since last july and i'll be seeing my family more often this summer due to all the babies bein born in the family.  this summer they'll be coming out 2 more times and we've all been trying to figure out births and baby blessings.  it's gonna be so hectic yet wonderfully family filled.  we decided moving out here to utah wouldn't be a bad thing cuz that way my parents could come out here more often to visit my sis and i.  i just hope this year alone doesn't make them too sick of utah to visit us.

but right now my mom's able to come out and she's bringing out a ton of baby clothes she's been buyin and collectin.

this is what my dad wrote about my mom on facebook,

"Try experiencing shopping with a soon to be grandma for soon to be grandbabies....ay mama mia! Worse than her shopping for shoes and purses"

yup i think she's very excited to be a grandmama.

and i can't wait to show her my big belly!

and i honestly can't wait for her to cook for us, and when i say us, i mean me.  jkjk

she's my best friend and we're gonna go shopping, stay up late chatting, watch movies, and drive brett crazy!

it's gonna be so awesome.

day 3-my protector at the laundromat

DAY 3

i think laundromats are scary.

the one we used in rexburg was not, but the one here in tooele is.

we don't have a washer and dryer yet and those are what's on our priority list of big things to buy.

but it's just so hard cuz i'd rather buy cute baby things!

we have to do at least a load of laundry every week and i feel like it costs a million dollars to do so.

there are so many creepy people there and when brett comes with me to do the laundry i am INSTANTLY relieved and feel so much safer.

and that's another reason why i love my man.

i feel so safe and protected by him no matter where we are.

pretty sure if we were in the jungle he'll be slashin jungle cats for me.

hmmmm, maybe not.

but he's my macho man!

cute thing he did this evening...

as we were driving home from said laundromat our wedding song came on, yellow by coldplay.

and like i've stated in this past post it makes me teary everytime, and that's not my pregnant hormones.

anyways, he started singing it to me and it just melts my heart everytime. 

day 2-the rescuer

DAY 2
today we went to go register at target for some baby treasures...
such as bottles, nipples :) swaddlers, bathtubs, baby butt pastes, baby traveling/furniture stuff thats just way too expensive for anyone to really get for us but we REALLY like the colors so the registry's become more of a wish list, basic clothing such as onesies, and some other sweet and tiny little outfits, etc, etc.
holy crap, you always hear that having a baby is expensive but when you're actually gonna have a baby, then you REALLY REALIZE how expensive they are, and our kid isn't even born yet.

brett had the day off so i dragged him he gladly came along with me to go register.  while registering i couldn't help but think of when we registered for wedding stuff and how i was especially giddy, thinking about the place i'm gonna live in with my soon to be hubby and all the cute stuff that's gonna be all our own!
baby registering, on the other hand, was still exciting, yet a little overwhelming,
"i really like this cute outfit, but what the heck size do i get?"
"ok, this aisle is freakin full of just bottles and nips, and i see there's numerous sizes of everything!"
"ohhhhh this little shirt and pant outfit is SOOOO cute!"  (then i do a squeal and and close my eyes for a second thinking about a cute little boy wearing it, then brett rolls his eyes.)  and pretty sure i did that whole routine for every cute outfit i saw.

exhausting i know!  i get easily stressed, even about the littlest things, and brett is always there to save me.

which is the reason of the day as to why i just love that man.
he started getting a little scanner happy and just started scanning what felt like everything, at least in the bottle/nips section.  i thought it was funny and he helped make me not feel like it was a life or death situation as to what brand or size bottle we get.
i easily get overwhelmed just about the dumbest things and he's always there to comfort me and tell me it's not a big deal at all and he helps me figure out the simplest solutions to my problems.
he's my shoulder to cry on and then he's my partner to figure things out with.
i love him so much for the patience he has with me, he knows who i am and knows i tend to freak out too much.


he has also helped me to build my confidence up for when i am stuck in a dither and i don't have him right there with me to help me out.  i try to figure things out for myself and have learned that i don't exactly need to depend on him ALL the time.
i know i'm gonna stress and freak out when the baby comes but it's such a comfort to me knowing brett will be right there with me, learning about baby stuff as we go, and telling me it's ok when the baby isn't doing what i expected.  also knowing we're having a boy i'm sure brett will be comforting me a lot b/c i'm sure our baby boy will probably be really rambunctious.
i'm already nervous.


maybe our registry is full of non needed items due to scanner happy brett so if someone happens to check it out, let me know?  cuz i honestly have no clue what we're doing.

28 days-day 1

not talking about the sandra bullock in rehab movie, nor the freaking scary zombie movie with the cute cillian murphy but about the even more cute man in my life, my lover husband brett.

my uber creative friend KARLY created this idea of writing everyday for the whole month of february as to why you love your lover, she even made this cute button


 which you can get by clicking on it, leading you to her blog...

and i'm gonna try to stick with this challenge.

i must warn you, it's probably gonna be GUSHY, and MUSHY, and WAY TOO LOVEY DOVEY.

and you may wanna barf, but that's ok, i'm not writing for you, but for my sweet husband.  and pretty sure because it's the love month.

so let's get rumblin!

DAY 1

i love my lover because as he's been going through this pregnancy with me he's been so caring.  usually when i don't feel like cooking and we decide on a cheap hot and ready pizza from little caesar's we ALWAYS get pepperoni.  i hate pepperoni and not wanting to deprive brett of his pepperoni pizzas i usually compromise and just pick em off.  i LOVE cheese pizza, some things in my life i like eccentricity, but with my pizza it's either gourmet or go cheese!

but lately i get quite bummed when things don't go my way (it's the preggo hormones, it's aiight) so last night brett went and got me a CHEESE pizza!  its was so delicioso.  then we watched a movie and ate a ton of popcorn.  i was just so happy!

i'm not saying that i love brett because he gives into what i want, but because he does little things here and there that make me tremendously happy and makes me feel that he really does give a crap about me.

MAHAL KITA