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Since I chose my word of the year! Remember? ( Embrace ) I never could have picked a better word if someone paid me. This year already has been full of embracing and building extreme faith. I have loved EVERY second of it! From every up and down that comes along with the first year of marriage and learning every new thing about each other, learning to cope with someone else's living space being directly apart of yours, learning to work things out because that's the only option there is, learning to communicate and LEARN something from every argument makes it less likely to turn into a fight or bigger argument. Then finding out that we are pregnant and embracing every emotion that comes along with that, because no, finding out you're pregnant is not all just fun and dandy. Its stressful, a bit scary, nerve racking, and just all together emotional, period. And now of course having to (wanting to) move closer to my parents, everything about moving is fun except MOVING! Th...

Already? I know. We have only been renting this house since August, 2013. BUT, the owner of this home would like to move back in to it. Don't worry! She didn't just kick us out...she contacted us about a week or two before we found out we were pregnant. At which time, we were discussing moving out of town, to Hawaii or Utah to go to school. So when she contacted me to basically say, we would LIKE to move in maybe as early as June but if that doesn't work for you than we can work something else out. Of course she also told me that I would not be penalized for breaking the lease. So I informed her then that we actually were talking about moving out but I would speak to my dad, who is helping us rent, and see what he has to say about it. So she said okay talk about it, think about it, and let me know.  When I discussed it with my dad we both agreed that if we wanted to be moving, out of state, and for school, that it would be good to get out of this house now and figure o...

Well. To my dear friends who get on often to check my blog I am TRULY sorry. This is the longest I have gone without updating since I've been married but I promise I have good reasoning. I did also try to get on once and give you some kind of update and ended up falling asleep at my computer. Pathetic I know. So here it is! I am pregnant! If any of you missed the announcement go look! And if you didn't go look again! haha I loved how everything turned out on Valentine's Day for announcing our new arrival! And the excitement for the most part has still not left me. I am now officially 11 (almost 12) weeks along and coming down from the morning sickness weeks. Whoever started calling it morning sickness is a liar. It's all day, nothing tastes good, sleep all day, sickness. Something interesting about me being adopted, (have you read that story?  Adoption ) is that I know almost nothing about my medical history and since the reason I was adopted was my parents not bein...

I can't even begin to explain to you how excited I am to go back to Tonga. I miss my family over there of course but even more so because I know how much my husband misses HIS family! I know how homesick he was when he first got here and when we were first married. It doesn't weigh so heavy on him now on a daily basis but I know that doesn't mean he stopped missing them! My sister-in-law, their oldest, is getting married in the Nuku'Alofa, Tonga temple in May and we get to go! We weren't sure if everything with Nu'us visa was gonna be ready in time for him to go but once again it all worked out perfectly! Thank goodness! We get to be there for about 2 weeks and help Nia with all of her wedding stuff! I have already sent a bunch of stuff off for her wedding like balloons, a dress and shoes. She is SO excited for her big day and I will probably be doing her hair! Which I'm so excited for! She has been waiting a long time for this day to come and it is finall...