What A TRIP

Our little excursion to Utah was nice, short and exhausting. I'm stressed out and jet lagged right now. Our flight the Utarded was horrible but the flight back wasn't as bad. My Nana's funeral services were nice but emotionally draining. We all bawled like babies. Wise was not a happy camper. He wanted me to carry him 279089 hours a day and cried alot. I didn't hit up the usual restaurants because I didn't have time...Ya know, Cafe Rio, Rumbi Island Grill, La Puente, Mimi's Cafe or Noodles and Co. Oh well. Oh yah, TACO TIME!! that place rocks.

Anyway, I don't like Salt Lake very much. There's no culture and full of weird Mormons or Anti Mormons. Those, I especially can't deal with. Um, they waste so much mental time and energy on putting down and trying to proof some one's beliefs are wrong. It's seriously so silly. I just didn't get a cool vibe there. There's alot of nice people and alot more young parents but there's alot of nice people here too.

Then there was some family drama and I just roll my eyes about that!! So STOOPID! Yes, double o stoopid!
I just sense that alot of people are confused and very narrow minded in that state. Blah. I'll never live there again. BUT~ we are considering St George. Boo yah...
I'll post pictures later gator,

Flying...

YES, I am going ot Utah after all. My uncle is paying for my ticket. Bless his heart. They really want me here and feel it's the right thing to buy my ticket so I can come. I can only take Wise with me. Prince and Boricua are staying here. The tricky part is; now I have to find someone to watch Prince while Boricua goes to work! His mom's health isn't well, so we can't rely on her. Eeek, hope we can figure something out! Prince can't vend for himself! I wish because it'd make things alot easier!
It's a blessing that I can go. I'm looking forward to seeing my family. Although, I'll go through some major separation anxiety not seeing Prince for 4 nights! MAJOR! I've never gone one night away from him yet. I'll be sad!

A death in the family...

I just found out a few hours ago my grandma passed away. My last one that was living. My grandpa is heartbroken. Of course it's sad. It is when anyone passes away. Even though we all know she is at peace now.
I'm just a little apprehensive because I feel it'd be right to fly out to Utah to attend her funeral and be with my family. But we don't have the money for a ticket rightnow. I feel really bad about it. If I am to be out there during her time of loss, I'm praying the Lord will bless me to find a way to fly out there. I base so much of my decisions and situations on Faith and if it doesn't go my way, I get so disappointed. I wish I wasn't like that. I'm hoping I can accept things with whatever way they go. I just wish and desire so much to go out the Utah.
We'll see.
Rest In Peace Beverly Marie Steele, aka Nana! I admired you and Grandpa! You guys were so much in love!!

Wise's Birthday

It's less than a month away! I have no idea what I'm going to do! I don't want to do a big party for him but I kind of feel obligated to because we gave Prince a big first birthday party! I'm pretty uuummmm.....on what to do!
Any ideas? I've got to come up with something quick!

He already works for us

Before

(it's packaging peanuts. They thought it was snow.)AFTER

He's actually a very good vacuumer! He does better than Mater!

The 'AS IF' Principle...

For those of you who went to BYU, probably already learned about this during Education Week. But I am enlightened by it just now! I think it's Brilliant!
You have the power to change your life by simply doing this: Relentlessly acting AS IF you were strong, humble, patient, confident, meek...etc...whatever you have troubles with, you will eventually BECOME it. It's works in reverse ways too. If you acy AS IF you were a worthless piece of garbage, I'm sorry to say but you will eventually become a piece of garbage. Pretty blunt, huh.
You must be RELENTLESS.
If you will treat your husband(or wife, or yourself, or whoever else) as if he/she posesses a certain attribute, over time he/she will begin to act AS IF he/she posesses that attribute. Eventually, that will become who he/she IS.
Apply it RELENTLESSLY to your life! See if you notice a change! I know I AM!

Migraine HAIKU

I suffer from the pain...
It goes on for days and days...
Please, something save me!

What my anniversary card said

...Dear S-----h,

...I love you alot. Let's have a good time.

Love,
Boricua.

How romantic! lol.

my typos...

I never read over my posts and they have immense typos! Sorry! I'm not an idiot! I swear! I'm just an idiotic typer!
xoxo

Sushi not fondu

The night was almost completely ruined due to the icey roads. We had reservations at The Melting Pot in Gaithersburg. By the time Boricua was home, he told me we needed to leave for the restaurant at 6:15 because of the roads. Well... it was almost 5:15 pm, my hair was still wet and my makeup wasn't on. I still needed to drive 15 minutes away to pick up the sitter. There was no way we'd get there on time! So, Boricua suggested somewhere up here. To my disappointment, I didn't at first like the idea because I was looking forward to fondu. So, I got mad, cancelled and stormed out the door! Then after thinking about it, I figured this was not the way I wanted to spend my anniversary. I called boricua and told him to get ready and picked up the sitters. We decided to have sushi in a private room here in Frederick. Things turned out GREAT! I swear, I'm such a baby sometimes. YUM! The Pheonix Roll. It's amazing!
We love sushi and the slippers you get to wear!



We enjoyed our own private room!

Our Anniversary!

It was cold, windy but the sun was out. We were well rested and excited! I was 8 months pregnant(and I hate every single one of my wedding photos. I look like a beached whale). Our ceremony was at 10:00 am. We held it in our ward chapel. It was a very small wedding. The ladies in Relief Society planned it for me and helped out. About 30-40 people attended. It wasn't fancy or formal. It was very quaint and simple. We had a pianist play. We walked down the aisle together. I had no family there. Boricua's little brother was the only one there on his side. The ceremony was very simple and lasted 10 minutes. We had a very small reception afterwards. The tables were decorated very cute and we had conversation hearts wrapped in twill for the favors. There was red roses and pink carnations. All were arrange in a very cute flower tin with a big purple ribbon. Each table had framed photos of David and me. There was purple fabric squares over white table cloths on each table. We had pink and purple plates and cups. Our cake was just a sheet shake with pink and purple flowers. We served fresh fruit with a raspberry sherbet fizz drink. It was very simple and sweet. There was absolutely ZERO stresses, zero worries and zero anxiety! We merely focused on our union and happiness! Afterwards, we had a romantic dinner at Tragara, in Bethesda, MD. We had a hotel suite set up for us in Germantown, MD. Even though I was big and pregnant, it was still wonderful. When I look back, I wouldn't have wanted my little wedding any other way! It was perfect. I'm glad I decided to do somethng very small instead of spend thousands of dollars and hours of stress to put together a big wedding. And the best part of it was; we were sealed together April 6, 2006. 14 months later. It was wonderful.

Married on this day, 3 years ago. It hasn't been very long but it feels like it's been forever! Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Those water looking spots on our invitation is from the wrong glue I used to glue in our wedding book. Oops.This picture was exactly one year ago. We celebrated over sushi. Our favorite thing to eat! I was a very pregnant woman!
A candid photo of when we just started dating in May 2004. We tanned alot, can ya tell?
A wedding photo
Our first slices of cake!

Forever more to go!

A very brief look on what our NYC trip was like...

About those 7 pounds...

Can't I deduct some for my shoes, my full bladder, my water retention and full bowels???
So maybe, I just gain 2 pounds!???
What do ya think?

Here's the deal...

I had Bone Marrow taken purely for research. There's nothing too terribly wrong with me. haha. Atleast not that I know of...
There's a research company called LONZA. They need alot of Bone Marrow donors for helping finding cures to certain diseases. Boricua and I both decided to donate Bone marrow. I figured it wouldn't be as bad as having a baby or getting an IUD... but it was worse. The sensation of it all. You literally feel the marrow beng sucked out of your upper hip bones. It's pretty disgusting.
On top of it all, we were compensated for the time and pain we gave. It's going to our St George fund.
I'm fine though, really. Other than I've got a little flu/cold thing rightnow and I feel like garbage. I've got the whole sore throat, coughing, phlem, fever, body ache, headache thing. It sucks.
Cath ya'll on the flip side!

I've packed it on!

Welp, it's just in: I've gained 7 pounds! I weigh more than I did at my 6 week postpartum visit after having Braxton! There's something wrong with this scenario...
Oh wait! It's from all of that Taco Bell and Coldstone Creamery! That'll do it for ya!
It's time to put the smack down on things. No more awesome food and yes more egg whites and tuna fish.
I'll keep you posted on my weight loss adventure!
xoxo
BTW~ I had bonemarrow removed today. It was the most aweful sensation ever. I'd rather have a baby or get a papsmear! YES! It was THAT BAD. I had it sucked out of each sie of my hips. It was so so horrible. I almost vomited. I get nauseous just thinking of it. My hips hurt and now I'm going to bed!

Catch ya'll on the flip side!

NYC pictures

Look at that big World down there!

Some pics of our NY trip. I wish we were there longer! I have so many pics but they don't do any justice. Especially the view from my cousin's apartment! Enjoy! Our first night there. Taking in the views! Awesome!
Morning view from my cousin's kitchen window.
A windy and cold day in Times Square.
Me and my beautiful cousin @ Rockefellar.
Eating some good New York Pizza @ Angelos next to David Letterman bldg.

You could actually see the building from my cousin's window. Central park and 5th ave was a hop up the street. It was awesome! I gotta go there again!