sports illiterate

growing up i was blessed with a daddy who wasn't too into sports.  and i decided i would marry a guy who didn't care about sports either.  false.  i married someone quite opposite, someone who is obsessed with the texas rangers in baseball and the dallas mavericks in basketball.  but i still love him to death.  

i am what i consider to be sports illiterate.  i'm sure brett has explained to me numerous times exactly what that one guy is doing with the ball and where he's taking/throwing it.  and when i was in marching band i just sat on the bench while my fellow band mates were screaming their heads off during the football game.  it's not like our team was good anyways.  i have never had team spirit. 

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT OF MY LIFE-

in my sophomore year of high school, we were playing some game in gym class that involves a ball and a bat and i was going to run for a girl up to bat who had a bum leg.  she hit the ball and i started to run...towards 3rd base.  i heard someone yell, "what are you doing?!?"  i stopped, became horrified at what i had done, then ran into the weight room and cried and cried.  SOOO embarrassing.  i did have some friends who ran in and comforted me, which i was super grateful for.   but for real, i felt so stupid.
fast forward to today, our stake had a little softball game going on for the adults and i actually wanted to check it out.  my friend tatiana convinced me to go and it was so fun!  and it was even more fun not having a bunch of judgmental high school kids watching your every move.  it's not like i played like an all star but it felt good being active and having brett and erin there made it even less embarrassing.

and erin and i came away from the game with millions of mosquito bites.  yay!

this is my sexy leg.  the bites look like they're from that movie, the mummy, where those scarabs burrow into your skin.  hot.  i get eaten alive by mosquitoes when i step outside.  but what can i say?  they only like me for mah body.  

back to sports, i do hope to become a hot baseball/football/soccer mom.  thinking about everton in a little uniform makes me want to die.

a new addition to the family

my sweet baby sister, erin, just moved from west virginia to utah!

which is something i never thought would happen in my life.

but erin was felt that a change might be in order, and a dramatic change at that.

going from wvu to hopefully ldsbc.

she'll be staying with us till she can get settled in slc.

i've been loving having her here.

when my sisters and i were younger it was her and kyla that were buds and pretty sure all i did with erin was punch her in the boobs.  so i'm very excited to hang out with her more instead of abusing her... 

and let's be honest, i'm also REALLY excited about having a built in babysitter.  except she just refuses to change poopy diapers, we'll be working on that.

4 year

holy smokes!  it's our 4 year anniversary!!

the number 4 is such a small number but when you REALLY think about it, 4 years sounds like a LONG time already.  i'm still super duper in love with my husband.  we're still learning things about each other and still trying to understand one another at times.  he's been the best teammate i have in the adventures of parenting.  he's my sweetheart whom i cherish and love soooooo soooo freakin much.  

so to celebrate our 4th year of marriage this day, brett went to work and i took everton to get his immunizations shot.  yay for everton!  then i plucked up some courage and drove ALL the way to salt lake city!  it takes about 40ish mins and i find that driving on the freeway is really intimidating.  but i REALLY wanted to go on a date with my husband and that meant braving the slc traffic.  AND I DID IT.  my palms did start to sweat as i drove on the freeway but i did it.  i'm a wiener i know. i thankfully made it to brett's office, we left everton with one of brett's coworkers, and embarked on our anniversary outing.  we went to chili's for dinner to be cheap then the cheesecake factory for dessert to splurge.

WORTH IT.

brett got that oreo filled cheesecake 

and i got the ultimate red velvet cheesecake.

and our anniversary celebration isn't over yet.  we FINALLY get to see the dark knight rises this sat and we're gonna try to get massages next weekend.  HOPEFULLY.

i'm still in love with my man, still bloated from all that cheesecake, and still crazy about everton.

life is AWESOME.

happy anniversary to my sweetheart. 

thanks for the great date!

a teeny update

it's been a little while since my last post.

we've had a few things going on here and there but nothing of monumental proportions.

well there was everton's 15 month appt where we found out that he now weighs 23lbs (90th percentile!) and is 31in long.  so that's good news to us that he's healthy and is continuing growing.  and that other time when i rummaged through a bag of random stuff that my mom had given to me back in april and found $60 from some 16th birthday cards and graduating from high school cards.  so that was pretty awesome. 

other than that, it's just been me and ol' everton while daddy's at work.

we've been busy watching micky mouse clubhouse, staying in our pjs, feeding our faces, reading the same winnie the pooh book that everton insists on over and over, and taking naps.  it's the repetitive life of this stay at home mom but i freakin love it. 

everton is growing right before our eyes.  and i'm so grateful i can stay home to see it.  besides brett, everton is my other bestie.  he's too smart for his own good, he can climb the couches and open the cabinets (we baby proofed the chemical cabinets.)  he's still not talking but he gives sloppy kisses, gives excellent high fives, folds his arms to pray, and we just recently taught him how to fist bump, yeah we're teaching him the important things in life.    

i lub him, he's too awesome.

"He was so deadly, in fact, that his enemies would go blind from over-exposure to pure awesomeness!"

name that movie.