News...

So a few days after we had moved into our home here in Taylorsville, I had gone to the dollar tree to grab a few things, and one of those "few things" was a Pregnancy Test.  After having my daughter I had told my husband that I wanted to put in birth control, and 6 weeks later I did (I put in the IUD- Mirena).  Earlier this year me and Fehi started thinking about whether we wanted to try for another one.  At this time I was working at WIC, so every time a newborn baby would come I'd get "baby hungry", and then I'd want to to slap myself, because really who gets baby hungry with a 2 year-old and 1 year-old at home??? lol, (I do!) hahaha. Anyhow, there were reasons why I wanted to have another baby, and reasons why I didn't want to, and my main reason for not wanting to (as selfish as it sounds) is because I really didn't want to have to loose all that "baby fat" again (though, I feel like I've gained it all back since March anyways! :( boo! ) Long story, short, after I gave birth to my daughter (she was ONLY a month old) someone had asked me when I was due, and I about broke down, and the next day for a month my husband and I would walk 5 miles on the trail everyday.. and yeah, now I feel like I'm back at square one.. ugh.

Anywayz, got off track there, so back to the pregnancy thing.  I had decided that if we were going to have another child, I wanted to wait to take my IUD out when my daughter turns one.  Her birthday was April 2nd, and my appointment to take my IUD out was on the 9th (talk about great timing right) lol.  After taking it out, it was like I was playing the waiting game.  A few of my friends call me a "fertile beast", but I always was worried wondering if the IUD had messed me up or not.

When I took the pregnancy test the box clearly says "wait 3 minutes to read test, do not read after 10 minutes"... But my impatient self starred at it from the start thinking I'd get an immediate answer.  At first when it showed only one line, I was kind of bummed out (but this was only within 1 minute of starting the test lol)... So I sat there for like 30 seconds wondering why if the test was "negative" why I hadn't got my monthly "gift", and then all these possibilities started to run through my mind, ultimately I was blaming the IUD.  Then I basically was going to walk away (kind of dissapointed), until I read the box again and it said to wait 3 minutes.  So I sat there, and waited, and slowly but surely another line popped up....

So... I'm pregnant. I've told a few people (outside of my family).. I went and took a "confirmation" test at Pioneer Hospital (where they give free pregnancy tests) and it did come out positive it's settled more that we are having baby #3... I wasn't too sure about the first day of my lmp, but I gave them a good guess of what I think.. so we're looking at being about 6-7 weeks pregs right now, and due sometime in February of next year.  We're excited, but I know I definitely need to stay active this pregnancy.  It's funny though cause though I'm trying to exercise more (thanks EMZ) and I'm trying to eat better, it's not showing any difference in my weight. lol. Oh well, I'll still continue to go to EMZ as long as I can (I may have to relax on my dance moves haha), and hopefully this will be a good pregnancy! :)

We MOVED!

I know it's probably not new news for some of you, because I was more than ready to share my excitement on facebook. Lol. But I'll share my excitement, again! It's been 3 years, but I'm glad to say that we're finally on our own.  On Memorial Day my mom called and asked us if we would like to continue to pay the same amount of rent as we did as his parent's house, and pay utilities, and move to my Uncle Sake's house in Taylorsville.  The long story is that my grandparents earlier this year, came up and bought a house in Herriman.  My uncle Sake and his family then moved to that house, and for some time they were paying both mortgages on the Herriman house, and on the Taylorsville house.  He was going to sell the house in Taylorsville, but after discussing it with my mom, they decided that she could pay for the house, once it's paid off then it'll be her house.  And that's why she called us, to come and live in the house, pay part of the mortgage and utilities, and she'll pay the rest.  The following week, we painted on a Tuesday night, moved in on a Wednesday, and we've been in since.

Here's where we're at now... Don't mind the trash cans lol

I can't tell you how wonderful it feels, it was weird at first, because I kept thinking "really? we're never going back to that room again?" and I only say that because my husband and I agreed that once we move out, there's no going back, mainly because we more than likely won't get back our huge room we had there, and without that we really wouldn't fit half of our things in any other room.

Anyhow, I'm really grateful for my family for helping us.  My grandparents stayed an extra week to make sure we were moved in and we were ok, my grandpa made sure the water was running before he even stepped a foot out of the house. My Aunt Paea would drive from Saratoga Springs, pick up my grandparents in Herriman, and then drive to Taylorsville to help us.  She even came and brought her suburban and we packed most of our things in there because we were running back and forth in our little camry to move things.  I'm also grateful to our brother-in-law Tonga Katoa, because at the end of the day after fitting almost everything else in our little car, and in my Aunt's Suburban, the only thing we had left were our small fridge, huge bed, and couches.  Later on that night after work he helped my husband move those things, bringing them in his big Sears truck.

Two days later my mom and my little sister Ila flew up.  My mom wanted to make sure we were settled, and also she wanted to bring Ila, so she can stay with me for the summer and help out with the kids.  Saturday morning, we went to some garage sales and scored a day bed and futon for $60.00 (with mattresses included), and also a bunch of dishes along with some frying pans, and baking pans for $12.

Here's the day bed, I also bought the sheet and pillows from D.I. for I think $7
(I have yet to put the futon up, when I do, pics will be on it's way) 

They were also able to get a fridge for us for $100 (I think).  My uncle Sake gave us their old table, and they had only one chair, luckily I found 2 more chairs (exactly the same design, only different colors) and bought them both for only $5.

They gave us the white chair, and I bought the other two (green & brown) for $5 at a garage sale

I've been going to Savers and D.I. a lot lately, and I tell you, it can really get addicting looking at things for a house.  At Savers, as I was looking through the furniture area, which if you've been through it, there wasn't much to see, but tucked away in the corner under some other furniture I saw an end table ( I think that's what you call them), it was really nice, nice color also, the only thing wrong with it was some scratches on the top of the table, but for $5.99, I thought it was worth it!

The picture does a great job of covering the scratches on the table, but for $5.99, I thought that was a steal!

Anyhow, that's just a few pictures of the things we bought, I have yet to take more of the futon and day bed (next post).  It's been fun trying to find new things to furnish the house with, and it's funny cause now I wish I were that stay at home mom so I can enjoy the house, but it's ok... After the summer I'll get to do more work with it.  One thing I definitely want to do is have a bbq in our backyard.

Good sized deck, especially for entertaining! :) 

right side of the yard, don't mind the grass.. Mr. needs to cut it this weekend! lol

Left side of the yard

I Wanna Be a Millionaire.. So Frickin Bad...

Well kind of, not really. I could careless to be a millionaire, but how I wish things were different financially.  I mean, I look at my situation and then look at other people who are in much much worse situations, and that makes me realize that hey it's not so bad after all. BUT, still it sucks.  A couple months ago we decided to dedicate our tax return to paying off our credit card debt, and that's what we did! I was so happy, I mean who wouldn't be right? All we had to worry about was our rent, phone, car, and insurance, that's it. Then 2 trips to Hawaii came up (of which we used one credit card to pay for one of the trips- which was my uncle's wedding) and now I feel like I'm back in the hole, and I absolutely hate it.

However, I guess it could be worse right? We're never late on payments on anything, back in Feb. when we checked our credit scores, they were amazingly good, and on everything that showed up in our names all the history showed that we were never late, and never missed payments on any bills.  I guess I'm just getting a reality check (BIG reality check) that we need to recheck our spending habits.  We KNOW what we're suppose to do, but yet we do it half way, or don't fully commit.  I guess I have to admit that I feel most responsible for this because I was the first one to swipe our credit card (after we paid it all off- I know, naughty naughty!) and really my husband has allowed me to take care of the bills, but when it comes to eating out or getting things we never really stop each other from doing those things.  So I don't want to be a millionaire, but I do want to be debt free, and comfortable.  So though it'll hurt to have to pay credit card bills, once again, we have to face the consequences of our foolish spendings, and I've learned a great lesson and am already starting to budget things out, and realize that we're in no shape to be wanting more than what we actually need!

However, good news for today (as I made my usual $50 payment to my student loan at the University of Utah), my loan which started at $3,000+ is now at $900+ remaining on the balance.  This makes me SOOOOO happy, because now I feel like hey, if you used just one paycheck you could PAY THIS OFF! Though I highly doubt we'll do that, I'm just happy to know that we could kill this off in a couple of months, I might just up the $50 payments to pay it off quicker.

Also, in good news, we might be moving to Taylorsville.  All the details are still up in the air, but it's a possibility.  I hope *crossing my fingers* that everything works out and by the end of the month we are out. This is what has gotten me thinking about our finances, because we sat down, discussed where we're at and if we could afford to move out, and thankfully the answer is Yes. But there's still other people to talk to, and agreements to be made in order for this move to be finalized (more details to come later).

Also, to add, our kitchen (well the kitchen here at Fehi's parents house) has been in renovation for at least 1, maybe it's been 2 months now.  So for that amount of time there hasn't been a place to cook, and so we've had to get food else where (fast food, etc.) and quite frankly, I'm sick of eating out, and paying for it (it's REALLY expensive!)  So today I decided that we're going back to the basics, and we're going to try to cook something on this one burner (plug-in) that we have.  So for dinner I made us rice & hot dogs, with chili.  You really use your imagination when it comes to cooking on a single burner.  I cooked the rice, stuck the hot dogs over it and closed it, allowing the steam to cook the hot dogs once the rice was almost cooked.  Then I opened the cans of chili (which was alright) and just stuck that on the burner and let it warm it.  Wasn't the GREATEST meal ever, but it wasn't that bad at all and hey it only cost $2.72 to feed our family.   If we move to Taylorsville, this is what I'll be most excited for, to COOK my family a meal.  I can't wait!

EMZ Crew!

This was when we received the Select25 Award from Select Health (5/13/11)

If you've been there then you know what it means to be part of the EMZ Crew a.k.a. Early Morning Zumba Crew.  I've been attending these free classes for I believe about 3 months now, but the beginning of this class started way before I joined.  Sinai Pauni teaches this class, and every now and then we get guest instructors like Jocie DeCorte, and our own B & B (Beti & Betsy).  This morning we started off our Memorial Day getting in a dose of EMZ, and I loved it! A few weeks ago, thanks to Teuila, we received (well the crew but mostly Sinai) a Select25 (from Select Health) Award.  It was amazing to see everyone that ever came to EMZ come and join in on the festivities. We made shirts, and did a few numbers and of course ate! No worries, it was a "healthy" breakfast.

Front of EMZ shirt I made for our Select25 Award

Back of the Shirt

I absolutely love EMZ and wish I had kicked myself to go earlier, especially since it's literally in my back yard, but I'm glad to see the progression and growth with our EMZ Crew.  Now instead just Wednesday & Thursday Morning here in Glendale, there will be classes all week at different locations too. So I'm pretty excited, and will have to really make an effort to attend these classes at other locations.

Next month all of those who attend Zumba, who want to, will get the chance to participate in a flash mob to Beyonce's "Let's Move" (it's her campaign for kids to be active and healthier), and I've gotten the opportunity to help teach our EMZ Ladies this dance along with Beti, Betsy, and my sil Lupe.  This has started something that I've been thinking about.  My husband asked if I would like to become a Zumba Instructor, and at first I was like "No... I could never.." but since being up on stage for that one number, and recently watching Beti & Betsy do their thang on stage, I've kind of been tossing around the idea.  I haven't quite made up my mind yet, and I'll be taking a Zumba class this coming up Fall, so hopefully as the summer rolls on by I'll make up my mind as to whether it's a go or not. I mean, I'm already bugging my husband with every song I hear, telling him "Babe, we could do this in Zumba!" lol... So keep posted for that, hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day today! 

In March, after EMZ

Yes I was eating a Donut while warming up.. and it was delicious! lol 

Select25 Award- EMZ Crew with the BIG check

Morning of Select25 Award Presentation Guest Instructor Jocie DeCorte came, she always kicks muli, big time! lol

Doing Beyonce's "Let's Move" routine at the Select25 Award presentation

Lupe, Myself, Beti, & Betsy with all the kids doing "Let's Move"

EMZ Crew= Love it!

Doing "Let's Move" again

Memorial Day (5/30/11) EMZ Plank lol

and I'm back!

As mentioned in my previous blog.. I suck at blogging, but have decided to make a real effort at blogging again. When I was younger I wrote in my journal constantly. I distinctively remember starting my first journal at my first girls camp when I was 12 years old.  I had loved girls camp so much, that I wanted to write down all the fun things we did, so I started a journal to keep those memories charted. I found myself writing in my journal everyday, and I really did find it to be so relaxing, and relieving for me.  I could say anything I wanted in my journal. At times the nosy older sis would read what I wrote, at the time I'd get mad, but if you think about it back then it was so nonsense to get mad over it. lol. I mean really, did it matter if anyone knew who you had a "crush" on, or who you disliked ( oh the joys of being a teenager lol)
My habit of writing in a journal slowly started to decline when I started talking to my husband, and we got married and now 3 years into our marriage, I'm actually really bummed that I still haven't taken the time to write down the greatest moments in my life (the day i received my endowments, the day we got sealed, the birth of my children, etc.) and though I can't go back in time and write down everything on the exact day it happened, I'm glad that I still remember those important events that have happened in my life, and I'll probably take a couple days to write about them.
But here's to the start (again) of blogging... let's hope we keep up with it this time! :)