27th week. Fat and emotional.

I'm in my 27th week now. I'm not taking a picture this week... I basically look the same as I do in the last picture, except this week I just feel fat and emotional. These pregnancy hormones are kicking my butt.

We're moving in 3 days! I can't believe it's finally here! I have been so anxious to get out of this apartment ever since I've been pregnant. It smells! I swear there's mold everywhere and things are growing in the 1970's carpet and no matter how clean we keep it, it always smells like rotten potatoes and dirt. It doesn't help that I have these crazy super strength smelling powers now that I'm preggo.
I basically have the entire apartment packed up, I'm just sitting here anxiously waiting to get out!
Our new apartment is way better, and cheaper! It's 2 bedroom and has air conditioning. Hallelujah!

My mom and dad are coming to visit this weekend and John and I are super excited! While they're here, my friends are throwing us a baby shower. It's actually a BaByQ. (get it? like BBQ... cool huh?) Anyway, it will be really fun to hang out with my parents for a few days. Then next week we get to drive to Minnesota to hang out with John's family for a few days. His sister is getting married and then we're going camping!

I've been working on our wedding scrapbook lately. I figure I should do it now or it will never get done. It's pretty cute :) but it sure does make me emotional. I can't believe I'm already married and having a baby!

Happy Father's Day, John!

It's John's first Father's Day! no, I don't consider him a "soon-to-be father" (as everyone called him today at church) He IS a father and a very good one. He has a baby and he takes good care of him by taking care of me! I love it when John talks to my belly and little Eli kicks like crazy! He loves hearing his voice.

I'm so blessed to be married to such a wonderful man that will take care of our family. John is a hard worker and very loving. I thought a lot about how awesome he is as we were sitting in church today. When we first got to church, John whispered to two little boys sitting in front of us, that if they were reverent through sacrament meeting, he would make them something really cool. (they were probably more misbehaved than they would have been because they kept turning around to see what he was making for them, but that's okay) anyway, he made them little oragami army tanks. You should have seen the looks on their faces when he gave it to them. Those boys think John is just the coolest guy in the world... and they're right!
I love that a year later, i'm still realizing how cool my husband is. I know I married him quick (three months, barely knew him) but it was the best decision I've ever made. Definitely guided by Heavenly Father. It's a huge blessing to be married to a man that takes care of me. It's an even bigger blessing to know he'll be an amazing dad to all of our kids. John really has a way with kids. Our primary kids adore him. Today in sacrament meeting he waved to one of the 10 yr old girls in our class. Every little girl has a crush on John, but this girl especially gets so shy and cute when John talks to her or waves to her.

What an amazing man to make lots of babies with. And I'm totally leaving out the fact that they're going to be half asian, drop dead gorgeous BABIES! I'm so lucky....
I love you Honey! Thanks for being the Father of my beautiful babies!


I'd also like to say Happy Father's Day to my dad! He's so great! He taught me how I deserve to be treated by a man, so I have him to thank for helping me find a great husband. I love you Dad!

24 weeks!

Eli sure is growing! He probably weighs about a pound now. 

His kicks are a lot stronger now and boy does he like to swim around! I can't slouch anymore (which is a good thing) because he really gets up in my ribs and tickles me. I just love laying on my back and watching my tummy wiggle. It is our new entertainment. Forget about date night and going to the movies, we'll just stay home and stare at our tiny baby wiggling around in my tummy. I'm sure things won't change much when he's born, Eli will be entertainment enough. We're so excited to have him on the outside!

I'm finally starting to enjoy my pregnancy now that I don't throw up every single thing I eat or drink. (I only throw up occasionally now) I've only gained 2 pounds which is pretty cool, so for a few days I just ate every thing I wanted, no matter how unhealthy. I figured I deserved it after being deprived for 5 months. But now, after talking with my filipina friend, Nicole, I've decided to eat a lot healthier. We were chatting on facebook yesterday for about 2 hours and the whole time I was either eating ice cream sandwiches or smores. (yes, smores have been my number one craving) She helped me think of some healthier things to eat so now I'm really eating as healthy as I can. besides the 4 handfuls of reeses pieces I had for breakfast today.... ....moving on!

It's so nice to not be sick anymore, I've been able to keep the house clean and I've done the dishes for a whole week now! That's very rare for me, even if I'm not pregnant. But now that I don't want to just lay in bed for weeks, I'm getting very bored. I've been working on a few things but I really need ideas for hobbies. Let me know if you have any awesome ideas. (preferably something free or very cheap)

This is Eli's baby book I'm working on.

 This is a nursing cover I made so I can breastfeed in public!

church was great today, as always. Our primary kids were very good and the weather was so nice we had class outside. I also volunteered to play the piano for singing time. It was terrifying but John says I did great. Also, exactly 12 years ago, I was baptized. I'm super glad my grandpa baptized me, even though I didn't go to church until 2 years ago. I'm so blessed now in my life and I know it's because I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The best blessing in my life is to be sealed to my family. It's wonderful to know that as long as we keep our covenants, no matter what happens, we can be together forever. 

Thanks for reading! 

18 weeks! Almost half way there

So I thought I'd do a little update of our lives. I have a hard time remembering who all might read this blog so I don't know where to start... I'll start with the obvious stuff. We live in St. Anthony Idaho now and John is going to school at BYU-I. He started last week and so far he's been super super busy. He's loving it though (to finally be doing math again) and we're very excited that he only has 2 more years left! John is working at lowe's in idaho falls so he's gone for most of the day which leaves me home... doing basically nothing.

 I'm 18 weeks pregnant now which is pretty great. Morning sickness has gotten a little better but is definitely not over yet. I have a feeling it won't end for me. i sometimes feel like my body is just trying to kill me. Mom says my body is just trying to get rid of that foreign object (my baby) which MY BODY created! Well jokes on you body, you can't throw up a baby, so deal with it. I basically spend my time being sick all day so I don't have much of a life. I can't wait til my little baby is here! Being a mom is all I've ever wanted to do. I started feeling the baby moving 2 weeks ago which is very cool. It makes being sick worth it to know this is really happening, we're really having a baby.

My goal of learning filipino is not going so well. My rosetta stone pooped out and doesn't work anymore. so that's on hold for a bit.

I have an odd obsession lately with Minnesota. For about a week or 2, I've been begging john to take me back to live in Minnesota. I really can't figure it out but i'm guessing it's just my pregnancy hormones. I have a very intense feeling that's kind of like home sickness. For those of you who don't know, I kind of hated Minnesota, and I couldn't wait to move here to Idaho. i probably just hated living with my in-laws (which is never a good idea). But thinking back to our long drives to church and the green fields and the humid warm summer air.... aaaahhhh... i want to move back.

I'm having a baby!

So I changed my blog name to my HALF asian adventure. Guess why! I'm creating a half Asian inside of me right now. Well actually, the "creating" took place a few weeks ago ;) (thanks John) Now he or she (I think its a HE) is growing inside of me.
John and I are just thrilled with this awesome new experience. We have actually been trying to have a baby since we got married, not only because we wanted to and feel its right, but also because my doctor said I should.
you see, I have endometriosis, which is actually a pretty common disorder where the lining of the uterus starts to grow outside of the uterus, causing sores and scar tissue. It's extremely painful in some cases. I've had it for years and its progressively gotten worse. I had surgery for it in September, which didn't seem to do much except give me ugly scars. Supposedly pregnancy will get rid of it, or at least lessen the symptoms. Unfortunately for me, these first 6 weeks or so of my pregnancy have been extremely painful. I've had several tests done though and everything seems to be okay.
Well now that you're all caught up on my physical health, I wanted to tell everyone about my big goal. I want to speak tagalog (filipino) fluently before the baby gets here. That is all.
thanks for reading!

Newlywed Funnies

Sadly, being married isn't all about the afternoon delight or quickies before work... sometimes it's stressful, sometimes you do stupid things, and sometimes you just drive each other crazy.
Married life can be fun.... if you find things to laugh about. Turn around the bad situations and make them fun
Here's an example:

John and I are making dinner together the other night. we're going to have pork blades and mushroom gravy with potatoes. My favorite meal! so we're just havin a good ol' time and after I poor the milk in with my mushroom gravy and my potatoes, I decide to smell the milk cause the side of the jug look funny, ya know, with the chunky milk stuck to the side? yeah... YUCK!
So i still need a little more milk for the potatoes... what do i do? grab the left over heavy whipping cream in the fridge I had used for pie a few weeks ago. "this'll work, right?" I pour it in and then decide to smell that too. oops.
all John says is... "I used that milk on my cereal this morning"
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.... we laughed.
and then
We went shopping for milk after dinner.




Find reasons to laugh.

First week of work + wedding stuff

I started my new job this week. It's going really well! I have training for the first 8 weeks so it's just like going to school. I now remember why I used to ditch class so much, I get SUPER bored. I need to be challenged to stay entertained... but I'm just glad I'm catching on and not feeling lost. Everyone at work is super nice and I've made a couple of friends.
At first I was pretty upset that this job was ruining our wedding plans but now everything is working out and I'm really excited again. We have a new wedding date planned at the bismarck temple on August 6th. There will be 3 receptions. One is right after the wedding in Bismarck, then there will be one in Thief River on August 20th , and then one in St. George on November 26th. I was just looking at the plane tickets for November... and it looks like we're going to have to drive... :( I told John I would never drive to Utah again.... lame! but it'll be worth it :)

So my goals for this week are:
#1 Finish sewing my wedding dress. If I do it now and screw up, at least I'll have time to fix it. I really don't want to be stressed about it anymore.
#2 Finish invitations! Now that we have our date set again, I can finish them real quick and get them sent out.


I have a date in an hour. Trying REALLY hard to stay awake :)