4 Year Anniversary

So Yesterday (May10th) was our 4 year anniversary. :) Every year on our anniversary my husband always brings me home breakfast from none other than Dee's lol. He knows that I love the croissant breakfast sandwich and cheese fries from there. :) So I woke up to a wonderful breakfast and a bag full of my prego goodies (donuts & chocolate lol).

After breakfast I got ready and started off my day with a mani/pedi at my fav. nail salon (A+ Nails). I always get my mani (full-set) from a guy named Tyson. He's seriously does the best job with my nails,  and they always last super long! Now the one who did my pedi.. ummm.. No comment. lol. Lets just say I won't go to her the next time, and I'll save the embarrassment of posting her pic. lol.

So anyways, after doing my mani & pedi, I did some errands and went to get Fehi's gift. I mentioned a few posts ago that I was thinking about getting him an iPad for our anniversary.Well I kept going back and forth about it, and yesterday I finally just got it for him. :)

I actually made a video/slideshow of pictures for him, and I uploaded it on the iPad to show him. I wasn't sure how I was going to give him his gift, so I decided to give it to him right before we left for dinner. I told him I had to show him something, and then I pulled the iPad out and  played the slideshow I made for him. It was funny because he took it but looked at it, and was like "Whose iPad is this??" and I told him "It's yours!" :) And he was just like "For real?!?!" hahahahaha... He was so happy and he loved the slideshow I made for him. (My husband loves to walk down memory lane, so he loved all the pictures and stuff.)

Here's the slideshow I made for him:

The song in the background is "Beautiful As You" by Wayne Brady & Jim Brickman.This song is special to me (us) because when I came up for the B&W ball,Fehi had left me for a second to hand the DJ a cd. This song came on, and he asked me to dance. We slow danced, and he sang to me in my ear.. And he talked to me and we made it official that night.

After giving him his gift, we got dressed and headed out. We had dinner reservations at the The Roof restaurant on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was so nice, and the view of the temple was beautiful!

not my picture, got it off google images, but this is basically what our view was like.. :)

It was funny though because we were both like "Wow this is so.. elegant." And because it's a buffet, I'm so use to just grabbing a couple plates, but it was so formal that we were like  "Maybe we should just get one plate at a time." lol The food was so YUMMY, but just being able to just talk was even better. We got to catch up on a lot of things, and just bask in our love for each other ;)

After dinner we headed over to gateway, then decided to go home and change into something more comfortable.

Me & My Baby Bump

Just killing time while Fehi got changed...

After we got changed we decided to drive up to where our eternity started.. the Bountiful Temple...

It was so wonderful to sit and reminisce the day we got sealed in the temple. When we got up to the temple Fehi read a letter he wrote for me. :) It was just so lovely and wonderful. We were able to think about our past 4 years, our goals, and our future goals and plans. We decided that we would make it a tradition to set different goals for ourselves, our marriage, and our family so that the next anniversary we can look back and know we accomplished our previous goals.

I'm so in love with my husband, and am grateful for all he does. I know he knows it, but I've made it my personal goal to make sure he knows and feels it everyday of our marriage.

Oh and if your wondering why there's no pics of him, well he was a little camera shy lol.

Last Final Today.. Thank Goodness!!

So today is my last final for my Psychology class! Woo-hoo! This calls for a celebration! Maybe me and Fehi will go on a date after our class. ;) That sounds like a good plan! lol. Since my grandparents are in town, why not take advantage of the extra babysitters lol. Next week Thursday is our 4 year anniversary. :) We usually don't do gifts, though sometimes I gift myself lol (mani's/pedi's/shopping) lol but this year I'm thinking of surprising my hubby.  He works so super duper hard for us, and he never asks for much in return.  Shoot, he doesn't even really see his paycheck, he just let's me handle all the finances and when he needs something he'll let me know.  So this year I want to give him something, a nice little toy.. lol.  He's been wanting the iPad for quite sometime, well we both have, but we've always held out thinking the next BEST iPad was going to come out.. but I think I'm just gonna get him it.  Shoot... I hope he doesn't read my blog and ruin the surprise lol.  Anyhow, we'll see I have about a week to plan for it :).

Anyhow, wish us luck on our last final! :)

30 Weeks Down, 10 to Go! & School Stuff...

What a BIG belly! lol

So I've hit my 30 week mark! Ah! I can't believe it. I swear I just got pregnant!! It's exciting though to be counting down in single digit weeks! Last week I did my glucose test (orange drink) and it was fine.  I downed it in like 10 seconds, lol. I actually liked the drink better when it was carbonated (of course I would lol).  When it was carbonated it tasted like orange soda, so I had no problem drinking it, now it just tastes like a melted otter pop.

At my appointment I was a little nervous about getting weighed.  Because I've been consistently loosing weight, rather than gaining, I knew at some point in my pregnancy I'd have to gain some weight.  So at my appointment I hopped on the scale and as I suspected, I gained 5 pounds! Ugh! lol.  But then again that means I've only gained 5 pounds this pregnancy. I'm hoping that for the remainder of my pregnancy, I gain only a max of 5 more pounds. LOL. I know such wishful thinking, but I think it can be done.  My theory is I was already overweight to begin with, so let's try to stay as close to my pre-pregnancy weight as possible to when it comes to finally loose it all I won't be starting that far off from my pre-pregnancy weight.

That's another thing I'm excited about... exercising! Ok, well shame on me, I should have already been exercising throughout my pregnancy, but I count work, school, house chores, and especially my kids as my forms of exercise. I was looking through old pictures of myself, from after I had Kesaia and I had lost my 20+ pounds and I started to get a little depressed lol.  I hope to go back to that. From looking like that (picture above) to this lol:

 So these pics I've never posted before.  These were taken almost 2 years ago. I remember we went to the mall and I seen a dress in macy's that was of course like $120 or something like that, but I wanted to try it on.  Before this I never tried on anything to see what size I was.  Before Fehi I was a size 14, then with all the weight gain I was at my biggest: an 18, then I got down to a 16, and so after working all summer long to loose the weight, I decided to try this dress on in a size 12. And it fit! And I was so excited! lol.  Well now I can barely fit a thigh into a size 12 lol.  I'm hoping to get back to this again, and maybe even see a size 10.  I can't even remember when I was ever that size, and I don't know if it's possible because I've always been a size 12-14, so we'll see. So anyhow, I'm def. starting my prep work for motivation to get moving once this baby comes out.

Anyhow, and as an update to my last depressing post about school... I have my last final tomorrow then it's break time for us. :) This semester has been stressful for us, I'm not exactly sure why, maybe it's all the changes that's been going on, but it's def. been stressful.  My husband just started working part-time at Costco a few weeks ago, and so it's been especially difficult for him to handle everything between working a full-time grave job, part-time at Costco, being a full-time student and then his duties at home.  It's been helpful having my brother here to help us when we have school, and also as a back-up for when we both can't be home, but I've been contemplating my roles of motherhood and my role as a student.  Both are very important to me, but we've been thinking that it's probably best that next semester I stay home with the kids.

This semester we were lucky to have my brother come stay with us to help out with the kids while we were at school.  So now that time is almost up, and he's going to be leaving back to Hawaii soon.  I'm actually kind of ready to send him back. lol. Not to be mean, because I'm very grateful for his being here to help us out, but I'm ready to have my house back, and just be our little family.  And more importantly get my bills back to normal (utilities, etc. but especially my FOOD bill lol).  I just found out that he might be coming back afterwards, and yeah I don't know about that lol. I told my husband, Uh NO! lol. Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones, but I explained it wouldn't be necessary for him to come back.  I'm going to stay home with the kids next semester, and so we wouldn't necessarily need him to stay.  On top of that, since he's been here we haven't asked him to get a job or anything, and we've given him money almost every check.  And my husband is a generous giver, he'd give 100's at a time if he could (or if I let him), whereas I would give maybe 40/50. lol.

So yeah, I don't know how I'm gonna break it to him.. but it has to be done. lol.  I rather he stayed home in Hawaii and helped my mom out, then coming here and eating up all my food and not doing anything here lol. Ok, enough of that cause I feel like I'm being a witchy sister right now. LOL. However, I am happy to be sending him home, and bringing my little sister up to stay with me for the summer.  I guess I'm more excited for her to come, cause 1. she's my SISTER and I'm tired of living with all these mens, and 2. I'm def. more closer to my sisters than my brothers and now I realize I can't live with my brothers (sorry bro's lol). Oh and 3. she listens and doesn't talk back (ahem... something a certain 21 y.o. could learn lol).

Anyhow, I'm just glad to have figured out what I'm gonna do next semester.  I keep telling Fehi that though school is important to me, our kids is my first priority.  My husband works hard to provide for our family, and I need to be there to take care of them.  So though it was hard to come to that realization that I would probably have to stay home with them next semester, that option is settling right with me each day.  I want to be able to enjoy my time with them, and watch them grow up, as well as them knowing that their mom was there for them as they grew up.

Anyhow, I can't believe it's May already! Next week Thursday is our Anniversary! and I have a nice gift in store for my love.  He deserves it so I hope to pull it off. I'll keep you posted! :)

Where to Go for our Anniversary??? Hmm...

So I was able to bid 2 weeks of PTO ("personal time off" not "paid time off" as my husband says it should be lol) and I got May 7th - 20th off for PTO, but will be off until the 23rd because of my regular days off.  So with the 2 and a half weeks off from work that I'll have, I've been thinking a lot of what we should do during that time.  May 10th will be our 4 year anniversary and we were thinking of going to Indianapolis to visit Fehi's mission.  Here's a few pics from his mission:

A companion of his drew this picture of him

I would love for our little family to be able to go there and be able to see where he served his mission.  I know next to marrying me, that was the next best experience in his life. ;) lol.  And it's been 7 years since he's been there so I know he's excited to go as well.

But my other reasons for wanting to go is because of the food. :) lol.  Yes I've been watching food network a little too much, especially the ones about places with the best food. So I've been planning (in my mind) to go to New York, and Philly and go find all those diners and places with all those yummy food.  I've never been anywhere near the east coast, so to even go out there would be exciting.  So we'll see what happens.  We still have at least another month to plan it out.  Any suggestions are welcomed! :)