sickness ping pong

so about 2 weeks ago i had a horrible cold.

now the virus is in brett's court.

seriously since february brett and i have been getting sick off and on and frankly it's getting really annoying.

on one weekend one of us wants to go out but can't cuz the other is sick.

it's just been so weird.

is this a usual thing?

does brett just have pregnancy sympathy pains?  getting sick right after i do?

i know when you live with someone colds tend to get passed along to one another, but for real, we've been getting sick about a week after the other for a while now.

i don't know if we're just doing something wrong.

we've been keeping a reasonably clean home and don't feel like we junk out too often.

i feel so bad when brett gets sick.  i honestly don't like seeing him so helpless instead of active wanting to go out and about.  lucky for him though, he gets to take any medication.  i hate the fact i'm so restricted as to what i could take.  i miss my sleeping cold meds.

and i'm really hoping this sickness cycle ends when we have the baby.

i'd like brett to at least be healthy while my body's recovering after giving birth.

soooo anyone know what we could do?

i don't want it to have to come to kicking brett out of the house for 2 weeks or something.

speaking of body health, my body (as in the baby growing inside me) is outta control!

on sunday brett and i had to give a talk and right before sacrament meeting started i ate some sour skittles to give me a "little courage" and maybe some energy.

BAD idea.

the baby had major hiccups and kept kicking me in the ribs during my talk.  making me more uncomfortable than i was already.  i get SOOO nervous giving talks so the baby wasn't really helping.

i feel like i'm getting so big, life is just so much more uncomfortable.

people say i'm still tiny and that may be true compared to others but shoo i feel ENORMOUS.

currently i'm 34 weeks.

and i'm FREAKING OUT!!!!!!

i'm gonna give birth soon! ehhhhhhhhhh

on another note, we finally have cable!  and we got it for free using this atrocious thing.

it's an antenna and it looks like a medieval torture device.

but nope, it get us tv!  and maybe a few cuts if you don't watch how you hold it.

the southams introduced us to this and matt southam helped brett make it.

thanks guys for relieving my boredom at home.

a convenience yet a luxury

i just did my very first load of laundry,

AT HOME (and not in a trashy laundromat,)

for the first time in our marriage.

and it felt SOOOOOOO GOOD.

we recently got a washer and dryer set (for FREE) from another couple in the ward and we feel SO blessed to have them.

i've written about some of our laundromat woes here. 

the set may look like it's from the 80's but after not having a washer and dryer for the first few years of your marriage, they're the most beautiful things ever.

when i went to do said first load, for one tiny second i was like, 

"oh no i forgot the quarters!"

silly me.

a washer and dryer are definitely luxuries you never really think would be considered a luxury till you haven't had one in a while.

and my best friend charlene, who is currently serving in the philippines, has to wash her clothes in a bucket of water....

...just like my mom did growing up.

the washer and dryer came just in time before the baby.

we were starting to get stressed having to buy the big necessities while having to get baby stuff so it feels good to save that chunk-a-change.

i'm feelin pretty swaggin,

more like, panda swaggin.

i've been tagged

bahhhhhhhh i've been tagged!

and i've never been tagged before (i don't think...)

and i've been bestowed by my girl jill with this darling award, 

even though there's nothing really stylish on my b-log but i'll take it!

and i have to share with you 7 random things about me.

i know you'll find these exhilarating.

1.  born in CA, raised in VA, went to high school in WV, college in ID, currently living in UT with a QT.
2. played the french horn for 8 years.  i miss playing.
3. i'm in love with elephants, one of my dreams in life is to ride one.
4. another one of my dreams in life is to go down in a submarine and see the ghostly titanic.
5. secret guilty pleasure (well it's not a secret anymore)-keeping up with the kardashians.  any fellow DASH girls out there?
6. ultimate x-men NERD.
7. my middle name is MOBO.  fo real.

as of right now though, i'm not feeling too stylish myself.

i've ALWAYS had bad congestion/allergies and since being pregnant my congestion is a whole lot worse.

also i feel like since hitting my third trimester i've been sick with all sorts of things.  and right now it's my immune system caught in a holy war with the cold virus.  i wonder if i could get an epidural for my face?

i hate the fact that before i got preggo i was sick maybe once a year, now it feels like a constant thing.

but you know, whatever.  just sacrificing my body as a vessel for a human child that's to come in, like, 2 months!  holy. crap.

anywhoz i shall now bestow this stylish blogger award (and not my cold) onto a few of my fellow cute bloggin peeps...

my cousins TERRI and KATY

my girls KELCIE, RACH BEC HEP, and TATI

mornings are for the birds

i am super grateful i don't have to work.

and because i don't have to work and because i'm getting pregnanter and pregnanter (making up words) these days, sleeping has become more precious so i like sleeping in as much as i can.

and lately i've been getting REALLY ANNOYED at these birds "making music" in the mornings.  and this morning they seemed to be even louder.  i'm a light sleeper so i don't need one more thing preventing me from sleeping right now.

you see, when we first moved in we saw there were these nest things right at the top on the front of our house, RIGHT above our bedroom window.  we thought they were hornets nests and lo and behold, those nests houses demonic birds.  when they're flying around up there sometimes they hit our window and i'm always scared they're gonna actually go through it one day...just like in the movie-"the birds."

i was on a rampage this morning and i googled "how to get rid of annoying birds"

some hippy dippy people were like, "don't hurt poor defenseless birds"-bullcrap

some people were like, shoo, just throw something at it, bb gun it, get a cat (i have been tempted to throw a cat in the tree where the birds hang out,) put a fake owl on your house?, etc etc.

i also read somewhere that it's against the law to destroy a nest while it has baby birds in it or something?

sighhhhh i don't know what to do.

we're gonna maybe talk to our realtor about just moving the nests somewhere else perhaps.

and we better do it soon before i go on a bird massacre.

check these other pics out to see how certain birds can ruin our lives...

click here.

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.