a Tiffany blue bridal shower

my best friend charlene is getting married!

on black friday in fact.

and i get to be a bridesmaid for the first time!

so i wanted to throw my BFF an awesome bridal shower, cuz she did the same for me when i got married.

charlene loves the movie breakfast at tiffany's and i thought it would be a fitting theme for her bridal shower.

well, the theme is really tiffany blue.

and it was a classy party.

i had won a customized card giveaway from 281 Fourth Street a little while ago and it was perfect timing for the shower.  She designed it beautifully and exactly what i wanted.

my 4th-ish time attempting cake pops minus the pops part this time.  and i found them to be a heck of a lot easier to dip in the chocolate.  and the cake pops maker from babycakes that my mom gave me helped out too.

i think these sweet little "tiffany" blue boxes were my favorite to put together.  

seriously, oriental trading, zurchers, and hobby lobby are my fav party supply places.

charlene's future sisters in laws helped out with the rest of the appetizers and i'm so grateful they did.  

and these blingin diamonds filled with reese's pieces are inside those sweet little blue boxes.

the gorgeous bride to be and i

the bride's loot.

we interviewed the bride.

she stole a kiss from the groom, adam, when he stopped by.

see those blingin rings they're wearing?  it was for a game where each lady gets 1 ring, but there was a buzzword where you couldn't say the word ADAM.  if you hear someone/someone hears you saying adam you get their ring or they get yours.  charlene's mom won that game.

and we also played a fav game of mine where you're blindfolded and you have to dig through rice to find as many tiny safety pins as you can.  charlene's mom won that game too, what the heck.

then it was the bride's turn to open presents!  even adam got to join in for a present.

and i got her these and then some.  no, i can't show you what i got her silly!  but she was indeed a blushing bride.

we look like we're attending a sexy funeral.

but it was a sexy bridal shower and it was over.

now it's wedding (and turkey) time!!!

last halloween tidbits

after all of our halloween celebrations this month, it still wasn't actually HALLOWEEN yet.

to prepare for our halloween we stuffed ourselves with cookies and milk

and then got onto pumpkin carving, which is something brett and i haven't done since we've been married.

i picked out an AWESOME stencil and we got to work.

everton was curious

and disgusted.

our finished work.  can't tell what it is?? it's mah favorite dude, loki.

and speaking of loki check out what my awesome friend jill made!

i love him.  seriously, jill is amazing.

also since brett and i have been married, we haven't been too into decorating for holidays.  in rexburg we just had our small apt and now here in tooele, i feel like people just aren't into halloween as they were out east.

but my mom helped me out and halloweened our house...and we were pretty much the only decorated ones in our area.

and what kind of halloween is this?? wearing shorts?  it was seriously such a beautiful day.

and i won this sign in bunco awhile back!  glad i already had some kind of decor.

can you tell it's loki now??  i love this pumpkin.

so halloween night came and we got a whopping 12 trick or treaters.  seriously what's wrong with kids these days?  turns out a lot of my friends would just take their kids to the nicer neighborhoods in tooele or to their parents' neighborhoods.  i can TOTALLY understand that.  if i wanted to trick or treat for heroin i could just go across the street.  we didn't take everton out, he got plenty of enough candy from the ward's trunk or treat.  we finished out the night by putting a sugar filled abu to bed and watched obama's america, 2016, which was horrifying enough for halloween.

ttyl october, we're onto november, the month of giving thanks and stuffing our faces with turkey.

a magic carpet ride...in tooele utah

the annual halloween festivities has come around again to tooele.

first was halloween bunco night.

(this time sans princess jasmine's eyebrows)

i seriously love these girls.  and i ended up winning most buncos and got a $20 gift card!  princess jasmine gave me great arabian luck.

then the next day was our ward's trunk or treat partay!

and this time, abu came along.

my mom, aunt, and sis erin came along, which was nice to have extra hands to wrangle sugar filled abu and we binged on chili.

i took abu through the row of trunks to fill up his bucket with candy he can't eat and it was so thrilling to see his reaction to ward members giving him sweet treats. but every time he got a lollipop he dug it out of his bucket and started sucking on it, wrapper and all.

erin was a sassy punkin, i cuddled with aladdin and an octopus, everton disapproved of his greedy auntie erin digging through his newly won treasures, my mom, aunt, and erin loved snuggling abu to keep him warm.

i got to wear my costume 3 times and it's time to retire princess jasmine this year.  she's starting to bloat from all the chili and she's been stealing candy from abu's halloween bucket.

p.s. everton tuned 18 months today.  and does he say "mama" yet?  nope, just "ashes." the lazy bum.  i'm still not too worried.  he has his 18 month appt on monday and we'll see what his doc wants to do.  and he can now officially be in nursery, even though he's been going since 15 months (and he freakin loves it!)   everton is getting more and more active and tells us his opinions of things through his cute sneaky face.  i love my abu.

aladdin, jasmine, and abu hopes everyone has a great and safe halloween!

early halloweekend

i am so excited it's halloween season.  i always dread the autumn chilliness but do get quite excited for halloween.  the inner little girl gets released and i get to dress up as whomever i darn well please.

i don't get to go trick or treating anymore but that's what having kids are for!  but as of right now, brett and i went to a friend's adult halloween party this past weekend and i decided to do another disney theme, like last year's halloween, and this time brett was able to join the family awesomeness.  

aladdin and jasmine was this year's outfit of choice.  and pretty sure this was my 3rd time being princess jasmine in my life. the amazing jill did my makeup and hair.  and check out those eyebrows she gave me!

this was the second time i was the arabian princess, in 11th grade.  yeah ok.  check me and my bedroom slippers out.

 brett is definitely not the type to dress up in costume but he was such a good sport and i love him even more.  he made a darling aladdin.

so aaron, jill's husband was bob ross and jill was his happy little tree.

this was the sexy cheesecake i made for the partay.  brown sugar pumpkin cheesecake with a chocolate shortbread crust.  but it wasn't lookin good with the whip cream melting all over but it sure did taste sexay.

matt the fashion disaster, danny as the guy from how to train your dragon (which i haven't seen yet so idk who he really is,) aladdin, ben the wizard, and aaron aka bob ross. 

tati the fashion disaster, nat as the girl from how to train your dragon, kelsey as the cute witch, jill the happy little tree, and yours truly.

LOVE MY FRIENDS.

stay tuned for abu!  he'll be making his debut this weekend at the ward's trunk or treat.

pissy day

so i've been dog-sitting my parent's dog tootsie this week and will continue to do so next week while my parents are down in cedar city visiting my sis, kyla.

i love the toots, but i'm not used to having to take care of a dog and child at the same time.  

toots has to take a dump?  i have to put the harness on toots, haul everton out with me in his pjs, and venture off outside to watch tootsie do her business.  and then picking the poop off the ground is a feat in itself.

tootsie was whining at 1am last night so i had to go down and tuck her back into bed.  later at around 8.40ish am, brett's been long gone to work and tootsie had to piss.  i took her out quickly then got everton from bed.  i just slightly touched his back and poop was smeared all up on it.  

oh ok newborn.  cleaned him up and got the dog and child fed for breakfast.

fast forward to lunchtime.  

everton hasn't been eating lunch or dinner lately.  becoming anorexic everton?  cuz i love your chubby thighs and your hanging over your pants belly.  so him not eating always stresses me out.  and it's not like i'm feeding him anything really new.  not eating and grumpy?  off to take a nap you go.

and you know what, i'm feeling that i need a nap too.

i lock the baby gate behind me as i go up the stairs and i tuck myself into my delicious bed.

and then i took a blissful 2 hr nap.

FALSE.

tootsie was whining again and i could hear everton chanting for a whole two hours in his crib.  i was in my bed seething.  i was dying for a nap.

i got restless everton from his crib and got started on folding laundry.  

everton helped me out by throwing the big pile of socks into the air like someone just got married. 

that, i didn't mind, it was pretty adorable.

when i was finally done with laundry everton and i went downstairs and i flipped on the tv.  clueless was on, THANK YOU!!  so i got to relax a little bit.  everton was entertaining himself with some toys and toots was doing her usual thang of licking herself inappropriately and such.  i was on the computer and up comes on my twitter feed the LDS church tweeting, "have you counted your blessings today?"

crap, i'm such a jerk.  i wanted to cry.  here i was stomping around, being momzilla, while other stay at home mommies are most likely dealing with bigger problems other than lack of a nap or you know, they have more kids than me.

so then i started to think, well what are my blessings today??

brett always kisses me goodbye before he leaves for work, even though most of the time i'm sonked out.

just seeing everton's smiling face ALWAYS warms me up.

when tootsie looks at me like puss in boots from shrek.

(tootsie really isn't that bad to have around)

everton dancing to the hot dog dance at the end of micky mouse clubhouse.

everton's laugh.

whenever everton says ashes, and that's still the only word he says.

when brett comes home from work is a tremendous blessing to me.  "get your kid honey!"

the chocolate ice cream in my freezer is also a great blessing.

i need to take a pause everyday and thank my Heavenly Father for all that i have.  and to realize that there are people out there in the world that have bigger problems than i do.

and right now, these...

aren't really problems.

the semi-annual filipino fireside

as many of you know, i'm half filipino!

[yes daddy, i know that rhymed.]

and i went with my parents this past weekend to the semi-annual filipino fireside in slc while brett and everton stayed at home.

just a quick lesson in filipino geography, the philippines is located south of taiwan and east of vietnam.  and my mom is from kalibo, the capital of the aklan province (see fat red arrow.)

my parents met while serving in the manila, philippines mission and that amazing love story is a whole 'nother blog post in it's own.

i've never been to the philippines.  but i hope to go one day with my family and learn more about my heritage and to do some genealogy cuz i can never find anything here on the filipino side of the fam.

ANYWAYS,

back to the filipino fireside, i've never seen so many brown people.  shows how often i've been to san fran. 

the fireside was lovely.  they had some mission presidents and RMs who recently served in the philippines give their testimonies and then light refreshments in the cultural hall.

 i realized that wearing heels made me about 2 ft taller than everyone else.  the gym was packed and started getting hot and stuffy due to a million filipinos gabbing.

i don't know who the last 2 ladies are on the right.

my mom's new buddies.  the guy on the right served in aklan and can speak my mom's native dialect, aklanon, which is pretty rare.

i do not know who these people are.

filipino represent!

the parents.

it was a pretty fun night.  

and i'm super proud to be filipino!

teal the cows come home

it was everton's first sunday in a while not wearing a romper or khaki shorts to church.

so OF COURSE i had to take a ton of pics and blog about it.

a very sweet awkward smile.

everton is not impressed

so long sweet summer.  i think we're ready for fall!

i think.