fam pics 2013

here are the rest of our fam pics that my best friend charlene took.  again, this was her first photo shoot and again, i thought these turned out wonderfully.

quick story though, RIGHT as we got to the location before the shoot, i ran out of the car and totally yakked up my kfc dinner.  and charlene saw the whole thing.  blehhhhhh.  well she's seen many sides of me throughout the years she's known me, so why not add pregnancy nausea to the list.  

my eyes got watery and swollen, and that's when the blood vessels around my eyes burst so some of that started to show through my makeup.  props to charlene for using computer magic to fix mah face!

  

thanks a ton to charlene!

on another note, we took everton to see his first movie in theaters, Planes!

he was mesmerized by the big screen and junked out on popcorn the entire time, good to know i have a future movie buddy to see films with that brett wouldn't care for.

5 year

5 years 5 years 5 years!

hitting 5 years of marriage sounds like a huge accomplishment to me.  5 years is longer than high school and i thought high school was dreadfully long!  but these past 5 years have gone by so fast, maybe it's b/c i'm wonderfully happier than i was in high school.

seriously can't believe we've been married for 5 years.  life has changed so much since we were married.  we would never have thought that we'd be living in tooele, ut with a toddler and a kid on the way in 5 years.  i'm still madly in love with brett.  of course you have your ups and downs in marriage but its the ups that make being married worth it and the downs are what strengthen it.  i love that he supports me and comforts/cuddles me whenever i need it. and i actually love how much of an excel nerd he's become.  he's such a cute daddy to everton, they love to wrestle and play cars together.  i'm sort of hoping this next kid is a boy so they could have another member to wrestle with. 

brett is my sweetheart.  it's so easy to forget that you still need to work on your marriage and your love for each other as kids, work, and life in general gets in the way but we strive to make time to spend with each other.  even if it just means cuddling on the couch watching netflix.  

to commemorate our 5th year anniversary and to update our family pictures we had my best friend charlene take some pics for us.  she's an up and coming photographer and i think she did amazingly for her first photo shoot.

totally snagged this idea from beloved pinterest.  i love progression photos so you'll be seeing this picture again in 5 years, with us 5 years older and we'll have been married for 10 years.  HOLY CRAP.

STILL IN LOVE!

there are more pics of my sweet fam of charlene's blog if you wanna see, but i'll post more pics when i get a hard copy of em.

so to celebrate our 5th year of marriage we honestly didn't really know what we were doing until the day of.  pregnancy is such an energy sucker so i was totally satisfied with just going to a nice dinner.

but even then we didn't know where we wanted to go.  cheesecake sounded so good so we were set to go to the cheesecake factory.  we dropped everton off with erin at her new apt in slc and set off for city creek.  

but of course, city creek's cheesecake factory was packed and the wait time was ridiculous.  this pregnant woman was HOUNGRY.  we decided that the wait time wasn't worth it and we were trying to figure out where to eat ASAP.  we eyed this italian restaurant nearby the cheesecake factory and decided to try it out.  i like trying new restaurants so i was excited.  it's called brio tuscan grille and holy crap we're so glad we decided to come here instead of the cheesecake factory.  the service was so good and the food was even better.  definitely coming back here again.

i didn't get my cheesecake but we got this evil piece of chocolate cake instead.  the fetus most likely fell into a sugar coma after this.

the date was wonderful and much needed.  i got worn out just walking to the restaurant and back to the car (maybe it was all that food we just stuffed ourselves with) so we called it a night.  we went back to erin's to pick up our bundle of energy and big points goes to erin!  she had changed her first poopy diaper.  it's always traumatizing changing your first diaper full of poop, at least i think it is.

big thanks to erin for babysitting  and for cleaning everton's butt!!

and big thanks, kisses, hugs, and cans of dr. pepper to brett for sticking with me for 5 years and here's to eternity more!

p.s. and happy anniversary to my adorable parents!

KNOCKED UP

well the time came for when brett and i wanted to add to our brood.

and indeed we did.

i'm 15 weeks pregnant, due at the end of jan.

i found out that i'm with child at the end of may.  my sister has been living with us for a few months now and when she got her monthly gift from mother nature and i didn't, i knew something's up.  and pretty much as soon as i found out i started getting texts and calls from loved ones asking me if i'm pregnant.  it's like the universe is in tune with my uterus or maybe it's because i was telling everyone that we were going to start trying as soon as our trip out east was over.  i most definitely believe/hope it's the latter.

we're ecstatic and everton has no clue what's going on.  i'm sure he does notice how much lazier his mom has gotten though.  we've attempted to tell him what's happening and he goes on to grunt and make car sounds.  HE STILL DOESN'T TALK.  but he has been throwing out a few words here and there.  anyways, this pregnancy has been a little different from everton's time in the womb.  i feel like as soon as i found out i was pregnant with everton i was sick right away and was sick the entire first trimester.  but this time i was like, ok awful nausea, when are ya coming??  lo and behold it did. yayyyy.  i was barfing everyday for 2 weeks and then it started to die down as i approached the second tri.  but towards the end there every time i yaked the blood vessels around my eyes would burst.  holy awful.  i'm still trying to make them go away.

and let's be honest, being pregnant with a rowdy toddler boy really sucks.  my sweet everton loves to jump on me while i'm lazing about on the couch and his elbows and knees turn into little daggers digging into my body.  but bless him, i put on a pixar or some kind of car movie and he snuggles up next to me under the blankets, i love it.  poor kid though, since my parents left we haven't really been outside lately.  but i'm SOOO exhausted from growing a child.  hopefully i'll get more energized soon and we'll go out more.

we did get to go up to bear lake this past weekend and hang out with some of brett's fam.

everton did a lot better on the boat this time around.

everton did pretty well on the tube too.

so yeah, that's that.

my eggo is preggo again and we went to bear lake.

and i think everton will be an excellent big brudduh.

photo dump it to krumpit

it is summer.

i've realized that lately i've been blogging like, once a month.

we've been busy.

so sue me.

but it's aiight.

my parents went back home to wv so i have time now to get back on the ol' blog.

we're been having a blast in the sun; everton has been getting brown all over, besides his cute little bum.

so i'm about to dump a bunch of photos on ya on our latest outings.

SEVEN PEAKS WATER PARK-PROVO

we finally transitioned everton to a toddler bed and this was how his first night went.  the next day we got the biggest pool noodle available and tucked it under his fitted sheet. now he falls off the bed just some of the time.  he must be hurling himself over that noodle to fall off but if it prevents him from falling most of the time i'll keep it!

THE LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM-SANDY

my freaking adorable nephew, baby fox

4TH OF JULY

the pool in spanish fork.  

everton loves loves loves the water and loves going down the water slide with his grandpa even more.

 GLENN BECK'S MAN IN THE MOON SHOW

 it rained and hailed while we were in line, making our clothes and blankets SOAKING wet and freaking cold.  but Glenn Beck is lucky that his show made up for the coldness.  it was pretty dang good.

my sisters and i at baby fox's baby blessing.

the kid at city creek mall's play place.

darn his smile!

and the dump is done.

a jovial june

it is O-FISH-ALLY summer.

but poor everton, i don't take him outside as much as i should due to my horrific allergies lashing out the minute i step out.  but still, summer is my favorite season.  i love the heat, the tan lines, and the swimming we try to go out and do.

at the end of may, erin came with me to bunco and the theme was the 80s.  not having grown up in the 80s i took to the web to teach me about some 80s fashion.  i found the leather jacket at DI for $10!  SCORE!

my mom, erin, and i then went to slc on the 13th of june and met up with my dad's best friend and his fam.

then the next day, friday, brett, the kid, and i, headed down to richfield, ut for a family reunion on brett's side.

it was supposed to be a camping reunion, but i opted for the "glamping" route AKA we stayed in a hotel.  hey, there were lots of other family members doing it too!

it was actually nice just hangin out outside chatting it up with brett's family, my allergies didn't act up and the weather was glorious.  and pretty sure everton's dreams were coming true, he got to play in the mud, dirt, and rocks for 2 days.

he's sort of a loner though.  he mostly played in the dirt and rocks than with the other kids.

towards the end of the reunion they flooded the little field and the kids had a heyday playing in the pseudo pond, except for everton.  he was nammy pammy about getting into the water without his shoes, which were shoes that i didn't want to get wet.  sighhh maybe i turned him into a germaphobe.  or as my nephew likes to say, "he needs his man card taken away."

one of my nephews gleefully getting dirty.

some of my cute nieces and i.  seriously LOVE these girls.

then later that saturday evening, on the way back home, we stopped by byu at "the wall" where erin and her band, ahoy, captain performed.  i seriously love watching her sing.  she blows me away with her voice.  she used to annoy me when we were younger (let's be real, she still does) but i'm just so proud of her.

here's one of their songs and yes, that is TOTALLY me screaming her name, embarrassing her with no shame.

then when the show was over we scooted back up to tooele and we were almost home when we got a phone call from travis telling us that kyla's in labor!!  holy crap, we were almost home!  well, because it was getting really late and we had been driving all day, we continued on home.  but my mom and erin were still in provo so they were at least able to shoot down to cedar city in a few hours.  alas, they missed the birth by an hour.  they got to meet this little squishy though!

baby james fox cecil

erin sent these pics to my phone.  i still have yet to meet him!!  and i'm just dying to.

and the next day was father's day.  everton and i got our favorite gentleman some new ties.  perhaps it's cliche to give ties but lately brett's ties were driving me nuts.  he needed some new pieces.

nuts for nutella.

and i just thought you'd like to see this pic super enlarged, cuz it's hilarious.