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 :)

Recent happenings...

John's Family became US citizens

I watched.

yes, I'm wearing a snuggie...

Then we celebrated with American cake!

The ceremony was in a nice little town in Minnesota called Pelican droppings... I mean, pelican rapids. For some reason, I thought it was called pelican droppings the entire time we were there.... so I was walking around saying "Pelican droppings is such a nice little town."

John and I bought a car! We said goodbye to daisy (a yellow mazda) and got Tifa/Oba-maniqua (a black toyota corolla). I'd post a picture but all ya'll could just google it.... or sumthin.



Also, I passed my drug test... phew... so I'm all set for work on Monday! w00t w00t.

Today is Ate Joan's birthday (my sister-in-law)

John and I made a cake!



It's an ipod... oh... and we thought she was 28... but she's only 27. whoops...

AND BEST OF AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! WE NOW OWN A MICRO-FREAKIN-WAAAAVE!!!!! Thank you MOMMY!

I wonder what someone would think if they could see John and I right now.  We are pigging out on soda and potato chips, we've probably burped (really loud) like 20 times, and we're singing our lungs out on the karaoke thingy. Today's a good day. John keeps saying I'm scaring him... and every time I burp, I beg him to still love me.
Guess what we're supposed to be doing right now? Preparing our talks for church on Sunday. We're both speaking. I've never really done this before so I'm a little nervous, even though I'll only be speaking in front of about 10 people in our branch. I'm sure I'll figure something out and John is just pro. He's not nervous.

Last night I made lasagna for dinner. I really stink at cooking. I would really really really appreciate it if all ya'll sent me some easy cheap recipes (: cause i'm starting to feel really bad. I made John sick with my lasagna... he's lactose intolerant people!  He's mentioned it before but i didn't really think he was serious... I realized he was when he ran to the bathroom last night after eating my super cheesy lasagna. So let's include some lactose free meals in those recipes eh?

Some of you might be wondering what our new plan for the wedding will be. Well, we don't know yet. We will know on Sunday. Our best idea now is to go to the Bismarck temple. It's 6 hours from here so we could just do it over the weekend. There's a lot of disappointments that come with changing locations... like I've wanted to get married in the St. George temple since I was 10. Also, my grandparents won't be there and my parents will have to fly here. Kiiiind of a bummer. But at least I still get to be married to JOHN!!! yay! I can't wait :)
Oh, and we are NOT registering at bed bath and beyond like everybody else does. It's lame. we already tried but we look at the towels and say, "how do we know if they're soft?" or "who's gonna wanna spend 20 bucks on one towel?" I'd so much rather just have money to buy the cheap stuff at walmart. Just send money... What?!?!?! I didn't say that... :) Is it really that bad to ask for money instead of presents? what if we end up with two of the same thing? what if we just don't like what people give us and we won't use it anyway? what if we'd rather have money to pay off our debts instead of fancy stuff for our apartment. So please, if you are planning on buying us gifts, just save time and send us the money you would've spent on the gift :) makes more sense right?

Everyone comment on my blog :) thanks ya'll.

Some times it's good to procrastinate...

I just got back from Texas yesterday. We stopped in Kansas to see my amazing brother and sister in law. Chris and Rachel are the best. I love family. 

So it's good to be home.... I just found out I got a job at Digikey! yay! So I get to quit my lame job at Kmart. Double yay! But here's the thing... I start in two weeks and I can't take any days off for 8 weeks. If you do the math, that ruins our wedding date.... triple not yay... 

We have no idea what we're going to do now but the wedding date IS going to be changed. I wish I could let everyone know when it'll be... since everybody needs to be getting their days off from work and such. 

so the reason I say it's good to procrastinate is because.... we haven't finished our wedding announcements yet! but that's perfect! we would have wasted money! yay for not wasting money! :)

Despite all the frustrating things in our lives right now... We are still super duper in love! and very very happy!