Fall Fun

I have been feeling a little bit crafty lately, I think because I just got into pinterest, but here are a few things I've made recently.

Gotta love the block letters!

Halloween wreath

Yummy dessert. It's a chocolate chip cookie on bottom, them peanut butter, nuts, M&M's and icing on top. It was heaven!

Evan is 1!!!

I can't believe Evan is one year old! I know every mom says that but seriously, where did the time go? Having Evan in our lives this past year as been the most amazing thing. He brings so much joy and laughter into our home because he is so crazy and fun. We had his birthday party today at Garrett's dad's club house. It was quite the party. Just about all the family was there, from both sides. It's always pretty crazy when my family is there, but we love it. Evan got spoiled to death. He got tons of clothes and lots of fun toys. Here is a little update on Evan:

- is now completely off formula and bottles (Hallelujah!)

- love, love, loves his daddy. More than mommy but it's ok

- hates elephants

- is not walking yet

- has four teeth

- is terrible at taking naps

- loves Hot Wheels cars

- goes to bed at 7 and wakes up at 8 (most of the time)

- is in a forward facing car seat and LOVES it

- loves going for walks with his friend Kade

- talks constantly but it never makes any sense

- weighs 21 lbs

- wears size 3 shoes and 12mo clothes

Here are some pics. from the party:

This is a terrible picture because I waited until the table was destroyed before I remembered, but I wanted to get one of the decorations. I had a picture of Evan at every month from the past year as part of the center piece. It was cute at one point, I promise.
The cake!

This was the highlight of the party. He loved it!

Wasn't so sure about it at first...

I made his onesie to match his daddy.

He absolutely hated his party hat.

He didn't get the whole unwrapping thing.. We'll have to work on that so he will be ready for Christmas!

Halloween

This Halloween was pretty uneventful. Garrett had school so Evan and I went to our wards Trunk-or-Treat. Since I don't really want Evan to eat candy, we didn't go trick-or-treating, we just visited with or friends in the ward. When Garrett got out of class we went over to his brother's house and hung out for a while. Evan loved his costume! He was the cutest little froggy ever!!

Evan and his cousin Madden


Chillin' in the stroller on our way to the church.

Marathon and Stuff

Who us? Oh we've just been chillin'. Just doin' thangs. Taleesa's come out of retirement at the Pizza Factory--she's so thrilled to be back. Garrett (that's me--that's right baby, guest hosting like Alec Baldwin, you know--and I'm really utilizing the hyphen these days, it's kind of my thing, like dinosaurs and becoming an archaeologist was when I was seven) is working many a-job.

He is still at the Pizza Factory, he is also writing for the sports section of the Spectrum, and working a few hours in the writing center at Dixie State College.

Then there's Evan. This guy has three teeth and has maximized his scrunch face abilities. He is too lazy to walk, but can crawl up the stairs like you wouldn't believe. Well, we wouldn't be writing anything if we didn't have something to brag about, so we'll do that now.

Taleesa ran the St. George Marathon! She killed it. Garrett ran the race for his fifth time. Garrett probably would have had to walk the last fourteen miles had Taleesa not caught up to him. However, after Taleesa bolstered him for eleven miles, he had to be set free and fly home (had he stuck around, his wife would have beaten his time, as she crossed the starting line minutes after him--yes, chivalry is dead). Taleesa did really awesome for her first marathon of...we'll see...she ran through months of knee issues, and gritted through it all. We're very proud of her.

All this stuff's neat, but Evan pictures now dominate this blog, so we'll fill up the rest of this post with what the people really want to see.

WARNING: He doesn't always look this way.

I was a little hesitant to post these pictures, just because I hate looking at them, but I promised some people I would.  While Garrett and I were running the RRR, my mom was watching Evan for us and while he was there he started getting a rash.  It actually started the day we left and I told my mom to watch it because I noticed it was getting worse as the day went on. I wasn't too worried about it but by the time we were done running on Saturday it has gotten SO much worse, and kept getting worse until about Monday morning.  We took him to the doctor after the race on Saturday and they told us it was an immune reaction, which I guess is different from an allergic reaction,  from the antibiotics he was taking for an ear infection.  She said the rash was a result of his immune system going crazy and that it would probably last from 10 days to 2 weeks.  You can kind of tell my the picture, but the welts were big circles and inside the circles were either blisters or scabs.  The poor little guy looked so sad!  They didn't seem to bother him all the time, but there were times where he wouldn't stop rubbing his hands and arms on his stomach so you could tell they were really itching him. We decided to have Garrett and his dad give him a blessing on Sunday night because he looked so uncomfortable and was having a hard time sleeping. That night he slept great and woke up looking 10 times better the next morning.  It was completely gone by Tuesday. 

You can barely see them but the top of his head was bright red with blisters towards the back.

RRR

A few weeks ago, Garrett and I ran the Red Rock Relay.  It was a lot of fun.  Our team name was "Stars and Staches," and we were pretty much the coolest team there.  We all wore mustaches and dressed in red, white and blue in honor of 9/11 (the race was that weekend), and because Garrett loves America.  I do too, but not as much as he does :) He's crazy about it. Anyways... it was tons of fun but really exhausting.  We started at 8:25 Friday morning and finished at about noonish on Saturday.  The boys van was so fast that our van only got to sleep for about an hour, so we were very tired by the end. I can't wait to do it again next year!  

 We took 44th place out of 200 teams. 

 "Stars and Staches"

This is me after my first leg. I'm not exactly sure where I was running, somewhere on Cedar mountain, but it was in the middle of a thunderstorm! If you know me at all, you know that I HATE lightning.  I'm so afraid of it and I have it in my mind that getting struck my lightning is how I am going to die. I honestly though that was the end for me... but luckily it was not.    

Garrett looking very sleepy

Next up... the marathon!!! Yikes.. I'm so nervous

Silly Evan

The other day Evan was being especially silly, so I got the camera out and took these pictures. When I take his picture he usually just smiles but this time he was making the craziest faces..

Man.. he's the greatest!