party by numbers

as i stated in my last post, my parents are in utah and will be for about a month!  lucky brett! 

and like always, i am LOVING having them here.  they dote on their grand babies like there's no tomorrow. they help me out so much and as usual, whenever my mom cooks for us i get fatter and fatter but i ain't complainin.

they've only been here for about a week and we've done so much already.

join me as i take us through our week's events, number by number.

1. we ate scrumptious sushi at the happy sumo and had froyo at juicyberry.

2. brett and i attended our first progressive dinner in our ward.  if you don't know what that is, it's where you go to different houses for different courses.  we traveled all over our ward boundary to have salad, soup, grilled chicken (which was so good i hoarded some in an empty bread bag and stuffed in my purse for the rest of the night,) baked potatoes, and finished off the night for dessert and play-dough ice cream, which is what i contributed for the night.  and how did we travel to all these homes for grub?  by hayride of course!  yeah our ward is that country.

3. everton's just a n00b.

4. we had a party for my dad and erin's birthday and had a mix of filipino and mexican food.  and no party is complete without those addicting lumpia rolls.

5. we invited my best friend charlene, her FIANCE adam, mitch and jenny (who is having a baby girl in january) and kyla and travis were able to come up from where they live now, cedar city, ut. it's crazy how much we've all grown since high school, we're all married/getting married, having babies, and working grown up jobs.

6. so erin had only stayed with us for about 3 weeks and we had waited the entire time to see if she would get accepted to ldsbc.  then the friday before classes were to start she finally got her acceptance letter to ldsbc.  saturday we all went to slc to get her an apt, sunday we helped her move in and she was on her way. she found a great group of friends that make her so happy and that makes me happy.  and they all came over to party and celebrate erin's birth.

7. i just love my cute parents and their homemade mango ice cream. yummm

8. the decatos (charlene's fam) and the jones have been together for about 10 years now.  holy crap! and our families keep growing and growing.

9. my poor little poohead was pooped by the end of the party.

10. my parents took everton and hazel on a brisk walk on the second day of fall.  my parents reported that everton held hazel's hand protectively while dragging his foot in the dirt.  and then they had asian popsicles that we got from the asian market.  turns out everton ate the entire popsicle and hazel ate half, while everton ate the other half of hers.

11. while kyla and travis were here we went to the brigham city temple dedication and it was beautiful.  i can't wait to do a session there sometime.

12. kyla, travis, and baby hazel had to go back to cedar city.  but no worries, we'll be seeing them again soon.

13.  and lastly, everton finally got his stitches out!  i had to anaconda squeeze him so he doesn't squirm as much for the doc and i think that's what he fussed more about.  but the doc was fast and everton's cut looks great.  and everton got a delicious dum dum lollipop which he never fails to bite part of the stick off along with the candy resulting in me digging in his mouth for the part of the stick.

and that's the end of the party for now!  thanks for joining.