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we're going to west virginia.  

i haven't been home for 3 1/2 years so i plan on soaking up as much time with these people as i can.  except for my brudduh-in-law, travis, he won't be coming.  and it'll be the first time in 5 years since all 3 of us girls have been home together.  everton will get to see extended family he hasn't even met yet.

of course we've all been hanging out here in ut, but this time it's on the east coast, baby!

BUT, if you'll really miss me, you should follow me on instagram to see what shenanigans the caldwells are up to on the east side.

@moboadobo

i'll see ya when i see ya.

sugar detox, a giant sized Easter post

the caldwells are exhausted.

this weekend was full of driving all over ut, seeing so many people we love, and sugar sugar sugar!

on friday we spent the evening visiting with my old college buds, carmelo, his wife autumn, and jones in slc.  

it was mostly a brasilian dessert party so brett enjoyed speaking portuguese again.

then bright and early on saturday morning, everton got to experience his first Easter egg hunt.

when everton first picked up an egg, he examined it, then threw it back on the ground.  realizing he had a basket with him, he proceeded to throw the eggs into it instead.  he was a pro finding all the eggs (i didn't exactly hide them super well.)  and then, he opened an egg and realized that there was treasure inside, 2 jellybeans in each egg as a matter of fact.  and he ATE them all.  our living room was littered with open eggs and our son was left with a colorful mouth and characteristics similar to a rabid animal.

later on that day was my friend matt's wedding reception/luncheon in sandy.  it was so awesome seeing lots of old friends.

us with charlene and adam!

that night i opened a package of peeps when we got home.  everton can hear you open anything that has sugar a mile away.  he and i devoured them.  then i realized that we didn't really have dinner yet, so essentially, everton had peeps for dinner.  i'm that kind of mom.

the next day was blessed Easter Sunday.  first event of the day was driving to ogden for my friends, mitch and jenny's baby blessing of their baby charley!  jenny is matt's sister so we got to see our old friends again.  it was pretty much a harpers ferry ward (my old ward back in wv) reunion.

everton spent a majority of the blessing luncheon on the hill squatting.

my old bishop, mitch's dad, from harpers ferry ward.  he's my fav bish.

hf ward ladies.  the one on the left lives out here in ut so we get to see her and her fam a little more often.  and check out photobomber jenny in the back.

jenny is the creator of baby charley, i love her.

such a gorgeous mom and babe.

everton was not impressed with mitch's bubble blowing skills. i love everton's man with no teeth face.

it's official, i need another one of these.

i love these people!

during the luncheon, everton just ate a chocolate covered strawberry and a few tomatoes from my salad.  at least he got some good nutrition in right?

after the fabulous blessing luncheon we swung on over to slc to pick up erin then stopped by at the birrells in lehi for an Easter dinner.  they're sort of our adopted parents since our parents are on other sides of the country. and we're so grateful to them for inviting us over for dinners.

everton barely ate anything for dinner.  he was more interested in the swedish fish and the dessert.  that little poop.

 they also had a little Easter egg hunt for the kiddies.

everton doing what he does best, stuffing his face with candy.

then we finished off the night by hanging around the fire pit, eating dessert.

ernie and i.

this weekend couldn't have had more gorgeous weather.  but with great weather comes great allergies... 

we all got home and everton crashed from all that sugar in his crib.

and here we are today, monday.  everton is on a sugar detox.  only water and bread for him today. jkjk but seriously, i hid the rest of his Easter candy and will give it to him little by little throughout the next few days.  he can't talk so he can't whine for what he can't see.  buahahaha.

today is a super lazy day for me.  the only things i'm thinking about doing is either watching the hobbit for the 200th time or catching up on the vampire diaries.  now i'm about to go hide and eat my last delicious cadbury caramel egg and try out my party cake peeps.  

hey i said everton's on a sugar detox, not me.

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an Eggcellent Easter Eggstravaganza

i am loving the fact that everton is getting old enough to enjoy things besides food.  holidays are a blast with him.  even though he can't do EVERYTHING that comes with every holiday that older kids can do, it tickles me being able to share some traditions that brett and i have done as kids with our everton.

i love love Easter.  dyeing eggs and binging on peeps is my thing.  we thought that it would be fun to dye eggs with everton for family home evening.

poor everton though, he got in trouble probably more than he had fun.  it did say on the box that this kinda stuff isn't for kids under 3.  he wanted to get his hands on and in everything.

sorry bud, we'll try to let you make a mess next year.

but everton loved eating some of the eggs afterwards, which is really my favorite part of egg dyeing. 

my Easter bunny.

SNOWARRHEA 2

utah couldn't control its bowel movements and it's been having snowarrhea probs.  i love the fact that 2 posts ago, i blogged about how wonderful the weather was and how i was ready to welcome spring.  FALSE.  utah lovingly reminded us that winter still has its evil grappling claws sunk into it.  it is technically spring but we are in utah but it sure as heck doesn't feel like spring.  I was looking back on earlier posts and indeed, last march we had a snow dump. 

 click here for post and for cute pics of my snow bunny last year.

in an attempt to make an "unimpressed" face, brett just happened to capture a chunky snowflake passing my lips, making it look like i was honkin something out.

winter, you can just leave.

AHOY!

i come from a family where my dad urged us girls to do something in music.  i went the band geek route and played the french horn through middle school, high school, and college.  my sisters kyla and erin were band geeks too but they could also sing.  and they are AMAZING singers.  they were in our high school's pop singer club, which i like think of as a somewhat glee club.  my sister erin has such a strong voice that when we were little i would get mad at her for singing louder than the actual music.

she goes to ldsbc and is in a band called ahoy, captain!

erin is the co-singer and plays the keyboard.

they are such a fun band and brett and i got to see them play down in provo!

our aunt was able to come too and she and i were amazed looking up at erin sing her little heart out.

click THIS LINK and THIS LINK to listen to and download their fantastic songs!

special thanks to my best friend, charlene for babysitting everton!

AHOY.

SPRING, COME ON DOWN!

i realized that since my last post life has consisted of: hibernating at home, snow, i got a cold, everton has been bouncing off the walls due to the ants in his pants, and we've been catching up on downton abbey, there is no meaning to life after that season finale. 

and then there was yesterday.

it got to a windy 60 degrees here in the salt lake valley.  

the sun was just smiling at us, saying, "come on out ya'll."  i'm assuming the sun has a southern drawl.

and everton and i embraced it.

we wore light sweaters and went to playgroup.  i love going to playgroup.  it just sucks that we have 1 car and i have to wake everton up at an ungodly hour to take brett to the bus stop.  but we had the car and we had things to do.  playgroup is a perfect time for everton to get out of the house, play with different toys, and for us women to chat it up.  and what did everton do at playgroup?  he slept on my chest the entire time.  i guess yesterday's playgroup was for me then. 

i'm so excited for spring to officially be here.  i want to cuddle with spring, wear bermuda shorts and light t-shirts.  i want to rescue everton from our boring house and take him to every park tooele has to offer, which they honestly suck, but he doesn't know that.  spring does mean having to get hopped up on allergy meds for me but it's SO worth it.

spring also means that we get to go back to west virginia in april!  i haven't been back home for 4 years.  and i have a lot of family members that haven't even met everton yet.  

so c'mon spring, i welcome you with wide open arms.

p.s. holy crap i just realized that today is the exact day when brett proposed to me on that blistery and icy night in rexburg, FIVE YEARS AGO.  holy crap.

discovery.COHEED.v-weekend

discovery

the day before valentine's my friend tati invited me to come with her to the discovery gateway center thang at the gateway mall.  i've always wanted to take everton there but didn't know what to expect.  before i sorta thought he'd be too young and not interested in what they had.  but going this time was a great decision. also, tati knew of a deal where if you brought an old jacket or blanket that day they'll let you in for free.  it's a hands on kids museum and everton was in love.

everton was more interested in anything with wheels.

he definitely loved their water play area.

they had a ton more there; like this bird house with a slide as an exit, a ball area, a grocery store, a construction zone, a little farm, and even a good sized play house full of common household items, kid sized of course.

with valentine's being on thurs, brett and i couldn't do much with his work schedule so we had a date planned for saturday.  so on thurday we ate a ton of chocolate and watched downton abbey, our current obsession.

COHEED

then on friday my sister erin and i got to see one of my all time favorite bands, coheed and cambria.  i saw them back in '07 at warped tour and was THRILLED knowing they were coming to the great saltair, which is about 15 mins from where i live.

the concert was AMAZING.  i forgot how much i love the bass speakers pounding in your chest.  i love being in the middle of a hot, cramped, and sweaty crowd while singing along with the singer, and in this case his name was claudio.  he has majestic hair.

if you've never heard of them, this is my ultimate favorite song of theirs...

what a great bonding moment i had with my little sis.  we were both weirded out about the fact that we were at a rock concert together.  we both got scratched up, bruised, our hair yanked, i got kneed in the back, and we woke up super sore the next morning but it was SOOO worth it all.  it was wonderful.

v-weekend

saturday was valentine's date day with brett.  erin was gracious enough to babysit for us (but thankfully her awesome roommate, britnee, was there, erin still sucks at changing diapers)

brett and i went to see les mis, which may i say, is one of the most beautiful movies ever?!?!
afterwards, we went to my favorite sushi restaurant and then got some fro-yo.  we went to the movies and to the restaurant early enough before it started getting too busy being valentine's weekend and all.  it's always nice to spend time with my man without the little man. and thankfully everton did great with his babysitters.  thanks erin and britnee!

everton helped me make red velvet cheesecake cupcakes and helped eat one too.  

this year's valentine's was just fabulous and busy.

i am extremely fond of my husband and my son.