top 10 ways you know you're growing plump...

10. your pants no longer meet in the middle for buttoning.
9. you feel a bit strained when you have to bend over.
8. carrying a carton of milk from your car to your house makes you a little winded and sore.
7. you're asked what day you are due.
6. each step creates a mini earthquake on your backside.
5. you have more chins then a chinese phone book (and all current photo's validate that fact)
4. everytime you buy new clothes you go up at least one dress size
3. you tell yourself this is your last dessert and promise to start eating healthier!
2. you hear "or what, you'll sit on me?" as a response to all requests

and the number one reason you know you are no longer your thin nimble self....
1. your fortune cookie relays this message...

(p.s. my thumbs have always been that chunky and are not an indication of any current weight gain)

the wedding continues

here are all the pics we snapped of the wedding so for all those who wanted the down low of what we did in vernal here you are. i hope you do enjoy!!!!




and the parts we left out are pretty funny too, so I thought I would share.
first, james was listening to music on the way down to vernal and borrowed Matt's headphones only to take them out a half our later and realize the plastic ear piece had wedged itself deep into his ear!!!! panic!!! so needless to say we went on a hunt for a pair of tweezers pulled over and john used his trained hands and light touch to tweeze the ear piece out of James inner ear canal. phew!!!!!

and no event could be complete with out some sort of bodily liquid flowing from one end or another due to a laughing fit. I did something to make poor Matt laugh, (while he was sitting on my lap I might add!), and the fool, who was full to the brim with cafe rio, blue candy, water and pretzel's laughed, choked and then barfed all over the chair, carpet and himself! but not on me! nope I saw the first droolings of tiffany blue spit and pushed him up and off me so fast it was all a fuzzy blur. I of course ran to my mother who was standing dutifully in line representing the family at their finest!!!! whoops! Matt reeked of barf for the rest of the evening! it was quite the feat to hold ones breath and smile if you happened to be standing by Matt in the pictures!!!!

created creative

lately I've learned a lot about my genetic make up, the diagnosis, I'm a pessimist! say what? me the radiant beam of light that warms up the room as soon as I step my golden foot in the door!! yes, my pearly whites and glowing countenance = pure joy. blue birds should be twittering around my head at all times.

but truthfully, all the sunniness I bring is really just left overs from James, who's genetic make up bytheway is created of optimism! and I'm not just saying this to gloat like sappy wives tend to do when they blog. the guy really is all sugar and spice minus the girly pansy part. ask anyone. hence the reason my family, extended included, prefer his company to mine. But I won't mention anything about his glowing countenance because there's enough hype over shimmering men right now and I don't want anyone nicknaming him Edward.

I'm hoping with our mix of pessimism and optimism our kids will come out realist. what do you think? maybe I could produce a little family of Vulcan's that would teach us how to view the world logically and also how to trickily spread our fingers forming a perfect V shape, blessing us with longevity and prosperity! (this may be a little too optimistic for me, but I think James would get a kick out of it)

Fortunately I won't have to go to such extremes, even though our children might come out with pointy ears. I've just decided to try as hard as a true pessimist can to view things a little more colorfully. for as Maya Angelou said,

life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art; to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. we need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
- Maya Angelou

now don't get me wrong, I didn't go out and buy a pair of rose colored glasses and will not become strictly naive, I'm just going to try and accentuate the positive, (that's right, you read me correctly) to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen, and know that life can still be a party and I can still live long and prosper regardless of my unexpected, but amusing surroundings.

And as an Added bonus here are some colorful life moments that have just happened,

eternal posterity was refreshed, welcome Alesha to the Wilcox family

four goons exuding hot vibes in Tiffany Blue ties and suave black silk vests

an oldie but goldie grandma winegar that looks ravishing in blue!

bright cheery faces that laughed and and smiled as we danced the evening away.

I found color comes through many a characteristics and emotions, not just tangible things. The evening was joyous. and the party continues on into the weekend over in Vernal, and you know we'll certainly find some color there, even if it comes in the shade of manure!!!