The Desi & The Tony

6 Months!!!

2012-03-07T08:36:00.002-08:00

Holla! We made it six months! ... not that I ever doubted we would... just fyi. I love you Tony and your silly sense of humor which so perfectly matches mine. I love watching ellen degeneres hidden camera prank videos in bed when we are falling asleep. I love eating dinner together and blessing it like a real grown up family. I love watching our shows together. I love running up the stairs because I know you'll start chasing me. I hate when you put cold water bottles on my bare skin but I still love you. I love watching you play soccer and scoring goals like yesterday. Huzzah for the win! I love trying to convince you to have babies now every day. I love that you said we could go to Disneyland. I love that I can't fall asleep without you next to me. I love love love your silly dances. I love your new SNL laugh. I love talking like David Beckham and his no fumbs. I love finding post-its. I love when you scrape my car off when you have to leave first. I love watching NBA games. I love going to ReAL games.. can't wait for the first married one! I love ST. I love holding hands/arms while we pray at night. I LOVE that smile. Pretty much I love everything about you. YDB!

Sorry for the cheese fest

kthnxbye

Clover, Josh and Mel had a bday!

2012-03-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

We had lots of birthday parties this weekend. First was Clover who turned the big 1! Combined with Josh who turned the big 33. She seriously is so cute and such a good baby. We have massive amounts of photos on our camera but I just have a couple for now from the cellular.

Yesterday was Mel's bday and we had a family dinner with some presents. Mel earned herself a shopping spree from the kids and she did her famous "rumpshaker contest winner pose" from the last time she had a handful of cash.. We enjoyed lots of inappropriate jokes and laughed til it hurt.

I have frozen jelly on my head as tony and I were wrestling and I smacked my head against the wall with a lot of force. Did I have tears on my face as we opened presents? .....maybe. Besides that it was an excellent evening.

We also babysat during church for Tatum and Clover. Let me tell you.... church during nap time with two babies can be difficult. Tony had clover asleep just after the sacrament went around... Tatum had other plans. Either way that was the fastest church has gone by for me. I just got a kick out of people thinking that all the sudden we had two kids when they'd never seen us with any before.... needless to say we needed a nap after church.

and I have this creepy gerbil calendar... there was one really funny pic and I couldn't find anything else so I got it.... then after i opened it I realized I just looked like a weirdo so every month if it's not funny I add something to it.... this month they got turned into sherlock holmes and watson. I think it looks like it was printed that way if I do say so myself. Here is the before and after. Dinner for schmucks... apparently.

kthnxbye

2012-02-27T07:45:00.000-08:00

This weekend was a fairly good one. Nothing too crazy but some good times. Friday we watched the celebrity all star game and then..... I can't remember. Saturday we were all sorts of crazy that morning and we ran to my mom's to drop off and pick up some stuff then ran to Rio Tinto to pick up our season tickets!!!! They gave us matching season ticket holder scarves... fancy! But they smell super weird. Then we were able to go to our family friend Kirk's father's funeral. What a nice service. What a nice man. I didn't really know him very well at all but they had me tearin up. And we got to see this beautiful baby and his baby blues.

Emily and Jason gave us a ring and invited us out for dinner at Texas Roadhouse and some dessert. WE LOVE THESE GUYS! Lots of laughs! Jason and Tony have only met twice and for some reason they just can be silly and I love it. Emily is sporting a baby bump and is due June 12... hoping for June 15! That's my birthday if you're lost. Don't forget it.

OH yeah... I remembered. Friday we went to Tony's cousin's wedding. Very sweet couple.

That's her dad not her husband if you got creeped out.

And then Saturday we got home and watched the skills challenge, dunk contest etc til the wee hours of the morning. I was pretty proud of myself for staying up late. Sunday we went to church with my mom and she was trying to trick us to stay as long as she could get us and it was pretty hilarious.... "I'll make you breakfast" then after breakfast "josh and clover will be here in an hour" I told her we will probably just head home "do you guys want some chocolate chip cookies?" haha she is the best.

Last night we watched the All Star game... congrats to the west for winning and shout out to Jazz man Jeremy Evans for winning the dunk contest! Then we had the messam childs come over for some dennis the menace and homemade popcorn... always a treat! We are blessed to have fun people in our lives.

kthnxbye

Catching up

2012-02-24T12:15:00.000-08:00

Lately we haven't been doing much. I have been under the weather this week with the sniffles.. gross. Last Sunday we gave a talk in our new ward. We were the only two speakers so we both had ... 20 minutes? each. I took about 12 and Tony was a rockstar taking up the rest of the time. I had one fan in the front who laughed at ALL of my jokes. God bless her. I think Tony should do public speaking professionally. We had tony's family (+ Dom) come over for some good old fashioned support with my mom and then we had dinner after church. I made it and they ate it... what a good group of people.

Us being very reverent and using photo booth in church... gotta get the best one of my mom off of the ipad

Monday it was so nice to sleep in and not go to work... unfortunately Tony still had to. I went to lunch with Portia and we went to a couple of shopping spots. We were laughing because I found these ridiculously large shoes (vertically large) and me being a semi-giant already put them on and portia was so short... when she put them on we were the same height.

Wednesday Tatum and Amanda came to visit me at lunch! Tatum is so cute and I love watching her walk in her new shoes... she kills me.

And a highlight of this week... Tuesday tony had a ridiculously late soccer game and I was feeling like a sick kid so I stayed home and when I woke up the next morning I found this post-it on my phone. What a funny boy when he said "sorry I don't have better handwriting"... I love him.

kthnxbye

Vday APp

2012-02-17T07:55:00.000-08:00

On valentines day after work tony had told me he needed to prepare my gift for a minute... an hour later he comes down and says it's not really working and he has to wait for it to load. I'm thinking he is loading a you tube song and he's going to do like a little performance! That would have been great. Well one hour after that he finally brings me my phone with a new app on it... one that he made himself! Why is he so smart?! Here is a little looksey of what it was....

So if you will be at a ReAL game this season come look us up because we will be at every single one!!

I wanted to get Tony a treat and I went with my friend LIndsey to a yummy chocolate place downtown only to find "fancy" chocolates. Tony doesn't usually care for fancy food. I wanted to eat one of everything there so I got him a chocolate caramel apple and I bought myself these so that I wouldn't ask for a bite!

OMG they were GOOD! And I ate them...ALL. It was rough to decide which one to save for last.
And last but not least... this beautiful face to leave you with....

kthnxbye

VDAY

2012-02-14T07:51:00.000-08:00

so I just gots to give the shout out to my favorite husband! I love you and I'm so glad you are mine!

Love you long time!

kthnxbye

how the weekend works

2012-02-13T07:39:00.000-08:00

So this weekend went something like this..... Somehow, I'm seriously still amazed, I got Tony to take me to see the vow. Do I cry easy in movies? yes. Did I expect to cry in this one? yes. Did I? yes. But the reason was different than what I thought it would be. Being married and watching it makes the story so much different. While it was so ridiculous and cheesy to do I cried about how much I love my husband and how awful it would be if he didn't know who i was.... hahaha. But seriously the big surprise of the movie was it made me appreciate my marriage. Is channing tatum a bad actor? kind of, but he's pretty so he got the role and I thought he did ok. Tony has been really nice and not said how ridiculous he thought the movie was... so far.

Then we went to Baskin Robbins and I got 3 scoops... yes 3! and i ate all of it and was happy.

Tony did not want to take a picture... this is after I accidentally poked him in the eye with the corner of my phone.

Then saturday we had ryker and afton over for a sleepover! We played the wii, made some brownies, and watched a movie... gma Dez was the first one asleep as usual. Then came Sunday morning... 9:00 church ... in Mapleton (an hour drive) this was a challenge. They did not want to wake up. Heck, I did not want to wake up. But we did and while leaving 20 min late we still made it just in time for the sacrament. HOLLA! My cute cousin Kyle came home from his mission. HEY LADIES! He seriously is great.

On the way home we made a quick pit stop to see my gma and gpa Taylor. They have moved in with my aunt Cherie since my grandma had a stroke and grandma loved telling us about the new room they are building for her. So glad we were able to stop .. THANKS TONY!

and last but not least we got to babysit Clover and Kiron earlier this week for josh and cheyenna's anniversary... Once again we played some wii. I just got a picture of this great face.

RIP Whitney Houston.

kthnxbye

Happy Birthday Ryker!!

2012-02-09T07:38:00.000-08:00

So today is Ryker's Birthday ... He is 7!! I love this baby boy... who isn't a baby anymore. I can't believe how stinkin' big he is. But let me tell you.. this boy is the most athletic child you will ever meet. Soccer, football, basketball... you name it and he's fantastic. So glad that this cute little bugger is in my life! Love you Ryker!

wish you had model children?.. me too

kthnxbye

Dinner with Friends

2012-02-02T12:10:00.000-08:00

We have had the lucky opportunity to dine with friends the past few months and haven't shared any photos... here goes.

3D Beauty and the Beast night with all the Taylor family ladies

California Pizza Kitchen for Jess' Bday


Breakfast at Mimi's to celebrate the brief return of Felipe

I just love all my friends and all the food I get to eat with them.

kthnxbye

Paula is making me LOL

2012-01-18T07:39:00.001-08:00

So I got this in an e-mail from my mother today and I can't stop laughing. Enjoy.......

kthnxbye

On a lighter note..

2012-01-17T07:50:00.000-08:00

Wow... I swear I was not posting my insecurities of life to receive feedback but so many people have made me feel so special. Thank you so much for all of your nice words! I am so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life!

This weekend we got to go on a double date with Portia and Andy.. and Gracie! I love that Gracie loves us as much as we love her! We went to Porcupine Grill(e) which is always a treat.... and then to subzero for dessert. YOWZA.. hurt so good

We also got to babysit Tatum last Monday and this just melted my heart a little bit... can't wait for mine!

Just watching Toy Story

Have a happy Tuesday

kthnxbye

One of those days

2012-01-16T11:22:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a sad ending.... I spent 5 hours making a meal that turned out to be... disappointing. Tony was a trooper and even had seconds. I kept telling him to stop since I could taste it and I knew it wasn't that great. God bless him.... because after that the tears came about how good I am at being mediocre and nothing else. I was mediocre at dance, hair school, less than mediocre at math, not very good with grammar and punctuation in writing papers, I can't seem to figure out Excel at work sometimes when it should be easy, I tried being good at running but every race I've done I come in last out of my friends, I'm not ugly but I'm mediocre, all my best friends got 4.0 and I was always lower 3.7. etc etc.

So I climbed in my bed sobbing with a brownie covered in peanut butter and chocolate chips. I just cried while Tony suggested we watch a movie. As I was crying and telling him to just pick whatever he wanted with my mouth full of brownies I realized how pathetic I looked and started laughing... and crying harder at the same time. It was possibly the strangest feeling I've experienced. I didn't even know which one it was... it was literally both. Tony picked Princess and the Frog.

So today... I applied for school. I CANNOT stand when people ask me why I don't do hair. I get that it is a valid question, I do.... But sometimes the reason someone doesn't want to pursue something is not something they want to share... with everyone, because everyone asks that question. So now I can say that I'm trying school.. will I actually follow through and register for classes? I'm making no promises but I'm taking a step in the right direction. I already have some credits due to concurrent enrollment so I'm going to run with that. Goal now is just to better myself.

All I have to say is I love God. He has never made me feel not good enough. After princess and the frog we watched that show Beyond and back?? where people die medically and have an out of body experience and then end up being revived. Most everyone has similar experiences of an overwhelming peace and feeling of love and seeing angels etc. Last night as we listened to an episode (I took out my contacts so I listened while Tony watched) and these people talked about how much love they felt and one guy mentioned how cool it was to him that god thought he was important enough to have that experience... I cried some more.. in my pillow. I don't know, it was just really touching and I was an emotional magnet. I just feel so grateful for my testimony... as well as my mother.

My mother has never once made me feel less than the best. She cried when I made Dance Company because she had seen me crushed before. She let me put my honor roll certificates on the fridge. And when I called her this morning she told me all the wonderful things about me that she could think of. She has no idea how wonderful she is. I think I learned this "stupid feeling" from her. I hear her say it a lot and it's just not true. I call her anytime I have a question and I can't think of a time when she didn't know the answer! She is the funniest person I know and the most beautiful mom... seriously my friends have crushes on her.. right Jim? She has been through things that most moms couldn't have made it through and she does it with a smile. She cares about her kids even when we don't deserve it... like really don't deserve it. Can't tell you how many times I have caught her crying and praying in her closet for her kids. So shout out to Paula for being the best person that I could have to look up to.

Shout out to Tony for being patient and so smart and talented and pretty... no wonder it's hard to feel good enough :) I'm a lucky gal! and to you... the lone reader... you is kind. you is smart. you is important.
aka watch/ read the help.

The Christmas One

2012-01-10T07:43:00.000-08:00

I finally got some photos off my camera so here goes.....
On Christmas Eve we had our annual sweater party over at Danielle's and Tony's family was able to come which we loved! We played Dance Central and ate some grub and played minute to win it games. I will have to find some video from Amanda on those....

Christmas morning we had our own little partay- we were laughing as Santa brought us pretty much the exact same stuff in our stockings. We opened a few gifts.... YES MY FRIENDS... I KEPT THE SECRET FOR A WHOLE MONTH!! Tony had NO idea I got him an ipad. It was fabulous and he loves it... sometimes more than me.

Then we headed over to church with the Messam fam and enjoyed a very long sacrament musical program. Then breakfast with the Taylor fam and presents. These kids are too funny. Kiron was a favorite for me this year. He would get SO excited to open his presents and kept struggling to get the tape off. My favorite sentence was "Oh wow Santa wrapped this one real good!". Tony got an old school Lakers nightie jersey. Looks great ;) and a best buy card to get an ipad cover from Jake and Amanda. I got luggage, menu planner.. yay?....and a change counting piggy bank thingy and shampoo set from Danielle!

We then made it back to the Messam fam for scones and presents. Luckily, we are really good at eating so much food. We got some money to put into savings which was a really big help from Pat and Mel as well as Tony's uncle Junior and Curt! Amanda hooked us up with some clothes as well as Mama Mel. Tony got an electric shaving set thingy. We were so lucky to be spoiled by all of our family!

Then after a fun day of family we headed back home and were pooped! We have our first family ornament to put on our first tree next year. We got lucky and already had a tree decorated for us this year.

Tony's 12 days of cheesy christmas I gave him

hope you had a merry ho ho

kthnxbye

New year goals (not resolutions)

2012-01-05T07:31:00.000-08:00

1. Have family prayer together every night
2. Read at least a chapter of scriptures together ever night
3. Attend the temple at least twice a month
4. Complete p90x sometime in the year or just get ridiculously fit
5. Get preggers.... if tony will agree... then i can skip the fitness ;)
6. Save lots and lots of money
7. Learn to cook... well. Already started with TACOS!

8. Tell better jokes
9. See more friends more often
10. Be happy snitches!!

kthnxbye

Sick Kids

2011-12-30T07:27:00.000-08:00

The day after Christmas we were both lucky enough to have the day off... along with everyone else but still it was nice. We mostly just watched tv in bed because cleaning has taken up a lot of time lately and it was nice to just relax. My mom came over to wash some of her undies because her water got turned off on Christmas Eve for three days! yikes! As soon as she was leaving I told her I got really nauseated all of a sudden and I semi got the "you never feel good look" I usually get. So I went and cemented myself to the bed with a serious tummy trying to come up my throat feeling. Tony was a gem and cleaned out the drain in the shower and we poured down some lysol to make it smell pretty and the smell was giving us a little headache and he said his stomach felt a little funny too. Yes, Tony actually didn't feel well.

So ..... just before midnight I wake up ... run to the ladies' room and up came my dinner, about an hour later my lunch, and a little later my breakfast. In between Tony was losing his in about the same order. I think one of the worst decisions when you are sick is which side to put on the toilet and deciding which would be worse to clean up.... so I threw up in the garbage can and left it there because I had no strength... dear Tony took it out. Yeah... that was pretty great of him. We are just ... becoming so close, in the most romantic way, vomit and #2. TMI?

We woke up wondering who was trying to kill us. We both stayed in bed and made our 3 day weekend a 4 day one. I'd like to say it was enjoyable but it was mostly sleep and Popsicles and tylenol and sprite. Yesterday we both felt about 80%-100% and started eating real food and all that jazz... really exciting.

Christmas to come soon .. pictures are on my camera not my phone so please hold. Until then I just have this...

here's hoping to a good new years smooch

kthnxbye

celebrity look alike

2011-12-22T08:04:00.000-08:00

tony put on this hat and all I saw was...

kthnxbye

Adieu

2011-12-19T07:51:00.000-08:00

We said farewell yesterday to Tony's grandparents as they left on their 18 month mission in Sweden. We will miss them lots!

They have been very very good to us- they even are letting us babysit their house while they are gone. We are moving TODAY! We got to do a mini version of Christmas with them last Saturday and had scones for breakfast with the whole family and then opened up some presents.

the wrapping paper fight

grandmas clover was a hit! She is the cutest! Everyone loved her


Clover was so lucky that she got to come with us. She fell asleep every time in the car and woke up at a different house.

In other news, our dearest matthew and brittany got married which is really exciting.... and Ian has a really cool moustache.

and Ryker had his very first jr. jazz game. He is probably the best dribbler of any of the kids... as most of them don't bother dribbling.

Tony trying to re-enact Mission Impossible. I told him where to stand bahaha.

kthnxbye

10 chains left!

2011-12-15T09:15:00.000-08:00

so a couple months ago someone gave me some sparkly christmas paper cut up in strips.... it was a little early to do it but what else would I do with christmas paper strips?! I made a very very long train which mindy featured on her blog...

and OMG look at it now! Only 10 chains left! Mindy and Libby hate christmas songs and christmas actually so they love when I sing a christmas song every morning as I rip one off. Touchin' Lives!

Merry Christmas in ... look to the right and you'll see how long.

kthnxbye

Festival of the crazy kids and the white elephant

2011-12-13T07:50:00.000-08:00

Last week I went with my mom to take the kids to the princess festival christmas edition. It is all for charity and is all volunteer work which is pretty nice. They put on a little show for you and try to teach you that christmas is about giving and sharing and helping. We played "I Spy" on the way home and when the kids would start fighting over whose turn it was my mom would say "I'm going to be kind and give my turn to Afton" and then I never wanted to play so I would give my turn up to one of them. Then the kids started joining in and Afton and Ryker gave their turns up for each other! EPIC! However, it didn't last long when Ryker said "I spy a big baby in the car and her name is Afton"... we tried. The best was Kiron who would tell you exactly what he spied... "I spy can you guess that red car up on the sign right there" or "I spy can you guess the red and blue circles that blow the hot and cold air inside the car"... we were cracking up!

The other highlight was when we had to ride the train through the mall and Kiron started yelling out Merry Christmas and waving to every single person that we went by.

and the photos of the blessed event.....

We also went to our Elders Quorum white elephant party with Shane and Danielle and they had quite the gifts there... fanny floss, a sexy time clock, and this wonderful purse made out of whitey tightys which had a chocolate stain in the bum....

We made out pretty well considering... I think our neighbor wanted to fight me when I wouldn't trade after they said time up...

6 days til we move!! carazay!

kthnxbye

The Happenings

2011-12-08T07:04:00.000-08:00

This last week I got to spend some much needed time with some friends. I got to finally meet little Asher who belongs to Julie. Julie and I have some excellent plans for the Nordstrom christmas party... assuming they really are inviting us.... we would be the hired entertainment. Stay posted with fingers crossed on that one. Love spending time with Julie and most definitely miss working with her every day. She is one of the few people who genuinely laughs at my jokes. Thanks jules.

Then I went down to do Portia's hair on Saturday and Tony and I got to play with her little girl Gracie who was CRACKING ME UP! She has started saying the funniest stuff... kills me. She was putting on my make up and I turned to say something to Tony and she grabbed my chin and turned it back to her. She is growing up way too fast.

We also got to spend some time with friends at Katie and Trevor's little christmas gathering. Only picture I got was of Trevor carving his very first turkey. Shout out to the epic moment!

and last but not least we finished off no shave november... and by we I mean Tony.. Don't worry I did not grow myself out... this is getting weird so I'll stop.

kthnxbye

I'm in trouble

2011-12-05T08:01:00.000-08:00

So i don't know what it is... but babies are everywhere. and i want one. Tony says "not now" and the more I ask the longer it will probably be. I'm so excited to be a mom! I love kids and Tony will be the greatest dad. We are everyone's favorite aunt and uncle of course. We are even Tatum's godparents. I can't wait to have possibly the most beautiful child ever, thanks to Tony. Let's all cross our fingers it doesn't have to wait five years. And if you missed it before... here is our virtual child "bon qui qui"... yes, I pulled a Kate Hudson.

Don't think I will do scary spice's hairdo on my kids but come on... our kids will be cute!

kthnxbye

turkey time etc

2011-11-28T08:16:00.000-08:00

On Thanksgiving morning I let Lindsey talk me into doing the 5K Turkey Trot in Draper. I had been eating like poop and had not been running in a few weeks so I wish I would have been more prepared but 30:46 was ok since my goal was just to not have to walk and I did it. Even though some people like Paula can walk faster than my jogging pace that day.

We had a good thanksgiving and got to spend it with both of our families which is an added bonus of having them all so close. Didn't get any pics but you know what they all look like anyways ;)
We decided to do black friday at Target which opened at midnight. We waited outside from about 10:25 to midnight and it was a bit chilly but probably the warmest thanksgiving we have seen in awhile so it could have been worse!

We got our vacuum for a screamin deal and Tony let me get a beautiful new camera which i am so excited about! yay for deals! I then went to taipan with Danielle at 6 AM and we got lots of cute stuff for our tree... which will probably just be for next year. Shall be a test of patience and I'm not good with those but I'll try.

Our tiny christmas nook

and we had a fun day Saturday with Danielle, Afton , and Mack getting some more shopping done and we went to see Muppets... really wish I had a picture of Danielle and Mack both asleep in the movie and Danielle in the classic head straight back- mouth open pose. Mack is getting so chubby and is seriously the best baby ever! We are going to miss seeing our kids every day! Only three weeks til we move!

Hope you all had a fabulous thanksgiving!

kthnxbye

thankful times

2011-11-22T13:20:00.000-08:00

I'm grateful for in no particular order

husband
family
friends

another family
rain
movies
tv
books
technology
gospel
job
indoor plumbing
soap
down comforters
down pillows
coupons
giftcards
cars
airplanes
cellulars
pictures
music
artsy fartsy
laughter
adrenaline
healthyish body
braces
treadmills
comedy
crying- helps the dry eyes
kissing
hugging....
love
life
hot showers
forgiveness
notes
treats
steak
computers
education
clothes... uggs shhhhh
holidays
parties
dressing up
photo booths
trips
beaches
disneyland!
flowers/gardens
beautiful decor... that i can't buy
hailey

a lot to be thankful for... try it :)

kthnxbye

This thing is fun...

2011-11-18T07:42:00.000-08:00

Marriage totally is a rollercoaster. We were pretty lucky and didn't really notice much of a difference from dating to being married except the sleepover part which was a bonus. That's what happens when you know each other for 2 years and live two minutes apart. I highly recommend it- nice transition. There are definitely some arguments but lots of silly times. Like this morning.... Tony's radio alarm clock wakes us up every morning to 92.5 FM. This morning Usher's OMG was playing and we just started dancing robotically. Then the chorus stopped and we kept getting dressed and the next chorus... more dancing without even planning it. It just made me laugh. I love that we are probably the two silliest people to ever find each other. This morning I weighed myself and came in to tell tony I lost .5 of a lb. and started doing the john wall flexed muscle dance... I think he loved it.. or was just smiling at my ridiculousness. I love that there is zero embarrassment between us... except when he catches me saying things like "notified" instead of "notarized"... I fixed it myself when he started laughing I KNOW THE WORD! I mix up words a lot lately and Tony is loving catching them. I hate it but if it makes him laugh... I'll deal with it. But really... I love this guy. I just really really love him.

kthnxbye

Messam Birth Celebrations!

2011-11-16T12:17:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Curis, Amanda, Pat, and Tony's birthdays this week at Bonsai! It was delicious! And can everyone just take a minute to look at Pat smiling with his teeth without being told!! It was fun to have everyone together and be laughing til it hurt. Not sure why I felt the need to bring asian persuasion to the picture but that's what happens when you get me laughing. Love that when Tony and I told Pat we want to be friends with our waiter he asked him if he was on facebook. He's not... nor did he seem to know what fb was.... but then again Pat isn't on facebook either.

Mel made cakes for all the bdays

Pat singing

Happy Birthday to the whole Messam clan! Love you all!

A couple pics from Tony's party at my house last week.

Tatum giving tony a card... trying not to let go.

In other news.... I died my hair pink... well it's reddish with some brown and only some people even noticed.

Tony is a jedi. Even though we had to stand there for 5 min while i directed him to make sure none of his jacket was showing... it is magnificent.

kthnxbye

flustered

2011-11-09T12:29:00.000-08:00

so tony had his birthday last wednesday and I took him out for sushi for lunch and we stayed home before he had to go to school and watched biggest loser... very fancy. I had a good time! I love Tony and I"m so grateful to have him ... even though he's getting old.

On Sunday we went to my family's house and had dinner and cake. I ruined the day a little bit when I started feeling awfully ill. Danielle came down with strep on Saturday and Monday when I woke up I had the worst sore throat of my life and I was feeling the weight of a sumo. I went to the instacare at 7 across from my work, in the hospital .... it didn't open until 8 so i cried a little inside and went across the street to work for an hour until it opened. When I went back they said my blood pressure was fine, no fever etc and I was thinking "great, I'm just a hypochondriac... again" I told them my sister had strep so they did a strep test.... getting swabbed with a giant q-tip when you can't swallow your own spit is an awful experience. While they went to go get the results of my test I had a mini-anxiety attack of nausea and went into survival mode. "where is the trash can? they don't have a trash can, just the hole in the counter. could there be a trash can not connected under the counter? I haven't eaten... maybe it would go down the sink" The dr returned before I blew chunks and .. sure enough it was strep... the pharmacy didn't open until 9! Who the heck is doing the scheduling for this place?!

so I went to the walgreens up by our house and stopped and got a smoothie at mcdonalds. I have a talent of being really sad and emotional when I don't feel well.... so I called tony in the parking lot of walgreens while I waited for my prescription and spilled my smoothie all over my cup holder, stick shift, and e brake since they filled it up too high... and didn't give me any napkins. I was crying so hard that Tony couldn't understand anything I said as I explained I was crying because my smoothie spilled and I couldn't clean it up and I was so tired, and I didn't feel good and I don't have enough pto to miss work and i'm highly contagious and what if he gets sick.....

Tony thought I was at wal mart, had spilled my whole smoothie since I said it went "everywhere" and was very kind and offered to come pick me up to which I replied... "i'm only two streets away from our house"
I finally made it home and watched 12 episodes of private practice on netflix. It was all very dramatic/ridiculous. Tony doesn't get sick... like ever. I get sick all the time... all the time. I need someone to take care of me, Paula was my former caregiver and a lot to live up to. Tony, Danielle and I were joking about our hypochondria (she thought she had spinal meningitis) and Tony admitted that he has a hard time being sympathetic to the nausea, acid reflux, sore throat, cough, cold, achy body... and all the other wonderful things I whine about since he doesn't know what they are like. This blows my mind. He can't remember the last time he threw up. I hope our children get his immune system, his smile, and his tan.

I had a dream last night that I was in the hospital walking around and they brought me up to a hospital bed with a full grown muppet and told me "here is your baby" and "it's a girl" ... pink muppet with yellow yarn hair. I still can't stop laughing/being creeped out. Maybe because I am so tired I keep having the weirdest dreams. I used to be really good at sleeping until we moved into our new room and now I wake up a lot in the night. I miss being good at sleeping. Hopefully when we move next month and are a little more permanently settled it comes back. I will make sure to practice.

Yesterday catastrophe temple visit. We were late, semi tension in the car, I forgot my dress, then rented a dress and not the slip to which I discovered the dress was see-through, first we were late, then an hour early. But it was awesome to finally be in the right place at the right time and see tony's grandpa be sealed to his siblings and his parents. I love the temple.

storytime complete.

kthnxbye

Nyc/Halloween

2011-11-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

We finally got to take our trip to NYC and it was really fun to spend some time with Tony's bff Todd and his wife Jessica who are currently living upstate. They took us to all of the church sites around Palmyra which I have been waiting my whole life to do and I was not disappointed.

The sacred grove was so beautiful. I have a big place in my heart for the outdoor beauties of life thanks to my parents. We were the only ones there and it was at dusk and it was just.... well... perfection. We also got to go do a session in the Palmyra temple across from Joseph's house and that was pretty neat as well. Definitely a good experience!

We stopped at a mennonite store upstate and we found the Bible on one page. ...

Then we headed down to NYC in Todd and Jessica's car.... in the first snowstorm of the year aka one of the worst.

The car in front of us spun into the median and then continued on back over to us and luckily Todd was able to get out of the way.... cheap thrills. After 5 hours we made it safely to the marriott marquis in times square!
A fun place to stay, thanks to ms. Kelli Whitney for hooking us up.

Tony loves museums and so I took him to the Natural history museum ... this was probably the best part... i'm bummed we didn't actually buy these in the gift shop... probably a good reason to go back?

These are just the pics I took on my phone so not too many but you get the idea. We also went to the manhattan ward in the city and boy were we in luck! It was the primary program... tony had tears from laughing so hard. By FAR the best one I've witnessed. Thank heavens for children! Killed me.

Halloween was spent mostly in the airport but we got home and got a nap in before the family came over for trick or treating. I must say we have got a pretty good looking bunch.

Hope you had a happy halloween!

kthnxbye

Best-ish Saturday

2011-10-24T14:42:00.000-07:00

We had a fun weekend (minus my incredibly frustrating cough) with a "spa day" thanks to groupon, gardner village visit, ReAL game, and we finished it off with a birthday fire for Tony's friend Cade.

oh yeah.... i followed my first recipe and cooked a meal! it was ok.

Ryker's last game... we will miss our saturday morning soccer

first pedicure


Baseball at Gma and Gpa Jeffs was a success yesterday!

see you after nyc snitches!!!

kthnxbye

Pat's bday!

2011-10-21T08:03:00.000-07:00

Tony's dad Pat had his birthday this week and we went over for some ice cream cake and presents. Pat is so great and such a hard worker. Right after presents he got to moving furniture for the new carpet and painting. House is looking good! Can't wait to see the finished product. We got this epic shot of him posing which I will keep forever.

Curtis getting caught without a gift

mandapants

My Grandma Della had a stroke a week ago and tony and I went down to see her last Friday. The left half of her face and her left arm are still paralyzed but they had her trying to walk around the very day it happened. She is doing well with her rehab and physical therapy- I love her gusto! Keep her in your prayers please!

kthnxbye

insult?

2011-10-18T07:38:00.000-07:00

ok this is killin me a little bit. Someone... nay 3 someones found us by googling "ugly face actor" ??bahahaha

kthnxbye

party....s

2011-10-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

October 15 was a big day for us.... mom's bday, Tatum's first birthday party, and witches night out.
First of all.... I love my mom and I'm pretty sure you all love her too. I don't know one person that doesn't like her and that is a serious statement and one that I look up to. Happy birthday to the greatest mom I could ever ask for! And come on... she is just too beautiful.

Tatum was a rockstar at her party. Big turnout. Big present pile. Rockstar cake.

We took Afton to witches night out this year and she didn't especially love the dancing... maybe because she was half the size of everyone in a mosh pit of scary costumes... what's not to love?! But she sure looked cute in her "spider girl" outfit.

holding her head up at every stop on the way home... she was OUT

10 days til secret trip to nyc!

kthnxbye

Love your Body

2011-10-10T09:59:00.000-07:00

This last Saturday I did the love your body 6k with some friends at Thanksgiving Point. I was doing really well with my workout plan before I got married and then really started struggling running afterwards... I wanted to stay away from the stereotypical married and gaining weight. Unfortunately, I am a treadmill runner as my lungs hate cold air and running outside was a byotch. I didn't do it at quite the time I wanted but I still beat my 10 min mile goal so we'll go with that. I got 5th in my age group (kelsey got 2nd woo woo) and 40th place out of 644 people. Most people were just there to walk and hang out for 4 miles but i'll pretend like there was a lot of tough competition.

Crossing the finish line!

kthnxbye

One month!

2011-10-07T07:09:00.000-07:00

Today is our one month anniversary! I don't think I have ever celebrated an anniversary for anything... except my birthday of course, so it's a big day. Don't worry I won't write on here every month that it's another anniversary. Marriage has been pretty darn good. We are getting lots of practice with children and living in a tiny space. We aren't going to know what to do with ourselves in December when we have a whole house to ourselves!
Here are some pics in case you missed the big day.....

kthnxbye!

Footloose

2011-10-04T07:42:00.000-07:00

Tony's uncle Larry hooked us up with some footloose sneak peek tickets and even gave us two extra. We were so glad that Emily and Jason could come with us since it has been WAY too long.
Anywho we got to get free shirts and had a fun time being VIP. We also got some frozen yogurt after in the very posh place of Gateway.

23 days til birthday trip to nyc ... shhhh
kthnxbye

SURPRISE!

2011-09-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

So I am the worst secret keeper ever of surprises! I made it all the way with the Lakers game surprise and I planned a trip a few months ago for Tony's birthday this year and kept it a surprise.... until last saturday when i so nonchalantly let it slip out. "I have this dilemma that i want to ask you about but I can't because it's about New York........ $h!+......"SO SAD! But keeping it a surprise was more for me than him since I love surprises. So now he knows that we are going to the Big Apple for his bday! I am so excited! We don't get to go for too long since I'm low on time that I can miss work but it will be a great adventure. Tony hasn't been for quite some time so I am going to take him to my favorite places to eat thanks to miss Hailey. 30 days!

I heart christmas in NY... this year will be Halloween... close enough.

kthnxbye

Growing up

2011-09-26T12:18:00.000-07:00

Hey I have proof that I can cut squash up.... I know, I'm becoming a wife.

Don't worry.. Danielle did the actual cooking afterwards. I tried my best.

women be cookin.
kthnxbye

Melanie Sperry

2011-09-22T13:29:00.001-07:00

Consider this a legit shout out!

Family Time

2011-09-19T08:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my parents had a BBQ in our backyard since the good weather is quickly leaving us. We had everyone together except Jared who I think was working and was missed. I love, LOVE, these babies!

Amanda, Jake, Tatum

Messams!!!!

Cheyenna, Clover, Josh

Afton, Danielle, Ryker, Shane, Mack

Granny and Bumpa

Mack is starting to smile and even though we couldn't catch him... he still has just a cute "idle" face. Notice Afton's blue cookie face... followed by Mack's blue kissed eyebrow.

Next we need to get some pics with our Messam family! Time to plan an outing, I love me some of those!

We are married kthnxbye

Wedding Day Sneak Peek!

2011-09-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

So it was pretty much the best day! We got some fabulous weather and a great turn out. Thank you to everyone who came! It's hard to have it over with but it is nice to start a new life together in our very tiny humble abode. We don't have any pictures back yet but I do have a couple from the beautiful Katie Dahl to share. Enjoy... stay tuned for more!

kthnxbye

love, mrs. messam

Temple Tour 2011

2011-08-31T10:23:00.001-07:00

Busy week ahead of us. The highlight will be the part where this girl I know is going to agree to hang out with me forever. Did I mention this girl is my best friend? Yeah, so I'm getting a sweet deal here. We get to hang out and have sleepovers and make French Toast and watch The Office and chick flicks make fools of ourselves together and watch the Lakers and just be in love. FOREVER!
I'm pretty excited about that. This is going to be made possible by the blessing of having little slices of heaven here on earth. If you didn't know, I'm talking about the temple. And we get to go to five of them in the next couple of weeks.
I'm calling it Temple Tour 2011. (At least give me a courtesy laugh on that one, please.) We're visiting these temples soon:
Thursday: Draper Temple for our endowments.

Saturday: Jordan River Temple for my sealing to my parents.

Wednesday: Salt Lake Temple for my sealing to my best friend.

Honeymoon: San Diego Temple

Coming home: we'll be right down the highway from the Oquirrh Temple

This is gonna be fun.

P.S. I love you

Licensed to marry

2011-08-30T06:59:00.000-07:00

So we got one of these...

and then we got two of these....

and in two days we are going through the temple! So crazy that it is already here. Picking out the garments was a surreal experience yesterday. I feel like I'm still just a little kid. My temple dress has shoulder pads and that's how I know I am officially an adult (I will be taking those out) So we are down to 8 days and it is going by slowly/fastly. Just excited to party on the 7th! Especially with these guys......

And last but not least I have this guy from my gym who stresses me out and everyone else in the gym beyond belief. He is just panting away while he runs too fast for his own feet. I'm always nervous he is going to fall off while being slightly entertained. don't judge me.

kthnxbye