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.

the laceration sensation

last night was a huge reminder to me that i have a rambunctious little boy.

my parents have been in town since saturday and we were spending some time at my aunt's house.  we were all in the living room and everton, being his cute clumsy self, tripped over air and fell right into the sharp corner of the coffee table.

my child started hootin and hollerin.  he started gushing blood and i was in a panic.  we were actually in a little debate as to whether or not everton needed stitches.  we decided that we should at least get it checked out.  thank freakin goodness my parents were there, to comfort me and to drive us to the hospital.  we were in spanish fork so we assumed they had somewhat of an urgent care center or something.  they did, and they were already closed, at 3pm.  what the freak kind of urgent care center closes at 3?  they definitely didn't have a hospital so we had to go to provo's urgent care.  the doc decided that everton's wound was indeed a laceration and that we would have to take him to the ER to be sedated and to get stitches.  and so we were on our way, just across the street.

a lollipop soothes all of everton's troubles.  but some ben and jerry's chocolate therapy ice cream would soothe mine.  my heart was in my stomach the whole night.  and the little piste han (filipino word for silly kid) was running around the waiting room and had fallen on his cushy diapered bum.  then some old dude was like, "now i can see how he cut his head."  you got it buddy.

my parents did an excellent job taming down any hyper energy everton had left over.

seeing him sedated wigged me out.  his eyes were still open but his body looked lifeless, it made me so glum and yes of course teary eyed!  everton got 5 stitches

but he was getting hilarious as the doc stitched him up.  at random times everton would raise up his little legs or arms and even started oohing and aahing.

after the procedure we had to wait about 30mins for him to get out of his loopiness .

question, is this real life?

when he was able to hold his head up and drink some juice we were allowed to go home.  we stopped by mcdonalds for a late night dinner and i gave everton a french fry and he started suckin on it like a straw.  still feelin loopy everton?  the accident occurred at around 7.30pm and we got back to my aunt's house at 12.30am.  oh how lovely waiting in hospitals can be.  we tossed everton in his bed and it was lights out everton.  thanks be to drugs for knocking him out.  i felt so bad for brett though, he was back at home in tooele and couldn't be there to give everton additional loves.  

the sorority girl.

 we're home now and everton doesn't know what hit him, well at least, what he fell into.

you be careful piste han!
did you know that when i was younger i slipped and ran into the corner of the wall busting my right eyebrow as well.  everton's such a copycat.

the muddy grandpa

my daddy is my superhero.

awhile ago his health wasn't exactly where it should be.  

maybe it was the heaping bowls of vanilla ice cream doused in chocolate syrup every night huh daddy??

and his doc had told him that he better get into shape or his health could take a turn for the worse.

and that's exactly what he did, he started eating healthier and working out a lot more.

i would be chatting with my parents via phone or skype around 10pm our time, midnight their time, and daddy's like, whoops gotta go to the gym, ttyl alyssa.
and then he tells the family that he's training for tough mudder!
and we were all like, WHATTTTT.  daddy you're gonna die!!
and then what happened?  he ROCKED it.
he went to the mid-atlantic event in MD (which we were not able to go to watch him) and he said it was so freakin fun and that he'd do it many more times.
pics courtesy of mah mom.

my parents are seriously so freaking cute.

there were 20 obstacles and one of them was going through dangling electrical wires, yeah ok.

and my mom said she's never heard so many curse words in her life as she watched everyone going through those wires.

and my mom had a blast watching all kinds of people, like this dude with a blow up doll attached to him.

and what's up??  the avengers assembled.  seriously so cool.

my dad's team that mostly consisted of cops.

he became a part of this team through a church buddy, who is a cop as well.  

my dad said that everyone waited for each other to finish an obstacle and supported each other the entire time.  i thought that that was just so cool.  my dad also wears hearing aids, which he could not wear throughout the event and couldn't hear anything at all, except for the electrical cords shocking him.  but yet the team was understanding and was able to communicate what they needed to with him. 

you go glen coco!

i'm SO proud of my daddy and am still in awe of the fact that he accomplished such an event.  he is already planning on doing 2 events next year, 1 out east and 1 out here in utah.

he has inspired everyone in the family to start getting fit and healthy.

and today brett, everton, and i ventured off to work out.  but things didn't work out for today so we came home and i finished off a carton of my fav chocolate ice cream.  maybe tomorrow i'll work on my fitness.

but for real, my dad is so hardcore.   

this 52 year old gramps is still a kickin.

FIRST WORD

my kid just said his first word.  i've been trying not to get discouraged that he wasn't talking for awhile, knowing that when he hits 2 or 3 years old then i'll start worrying.  but i am dying to hear him say, "mama" or "dada."  and then this late afternoon erin and i were singing a nursery song to him and he picked up on a word.  watch the vid to hear the word!


that's right, his first word is ASHES.  from the song that is supposedly based on the black plague.  i started crying of course, it was so cute hearing an actual word coming out of him and not car noises.  but for real everton?  ashes??  whatever it takes to get you to start talkin...

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!