This is my real attempt at reviving the blog. If you noticed, I'm testing out this new look. To get things up to speed, here's what's been going on in the past 6 months:
In April, we finally had our wedding in Spain. After months of planning and anticipation, it couldn’t have gone any smoother than it did. Everything went according to plan and things left unplanned got easily sorted out. It was perfect! Some images from the wedding and reception venue at
Les Cols…
After the wedding, we had our honeymoon tour of Paris, Venice, Florence, with the final stop in Rome. We were back in LA by the first week of May. It took us quite a while to get over vacation mode. At least for me, I didn’t want to get back to the grind. But I was forced to make up for all the time I took off from work. Argh!
Besides work-related obligations, we were preparing for our local wedding celebration. In mid-June, we had our second reception, held at the
Smogshoppe. This was a much bigger production than the 22 guests we had in Spain. It was an awesome party and to be honest, the last few hours were pretty blurry. That’s why we have photography to remember it by. The day after the reception I was frantically looking for my wedding dress. I spent the next 3 days in search of it, until I finally noticed that it was hanging behind our bedroom door. Who put that there?! Apparently, a drunk bride did.
On a side note, I really tried to look for a reception venue in downtown that would hold 250 people and is not in a hotel. I thought the Farmers and Merchant’s Bank Building would be perfect, since D is a banker and I like old buildings. It would have been so convenient, but they told us the space has no air conditioning and it would be really bad to have it there in June. So weird that they were turning us away.
As July rolls around, we’re finally recovering from all the wedding festivities. And we’ve finally joined the masses in Facebook. I must be one of the last few people that got on that thing. Of course, as a newbie, I couldn’t stop looking at the stupid thing at least every hour. But I’ve managed to ease off of it quite a bit since then. I can’t really write as much as I can on a blog. Some things just need or deserve more wordage than others.
Such a case is when you find out you’re pregnant. In mid-July, I started having abdominal pains in the middle of the night. Jogahs took me to the ER at Good Sam. We got there a round 530 AM on a Sunday, and didn’t get to see a doctor till around 1PM. After a couple tests, I was diagnosed with normal pregnancy growing pains. That was the beginning of the First Trimester full of morning and afternoon and evening sickness.
Now that I’m in my Second Trimester, I feel soooooo much better. And just a couple of weeks ago, we found out we’re having a girl!
Since the beginning of my pregnancy, I’ve notice a lot of things in my surroundings. In the ensuing posts, that’s what I’ll be talking about…like my new favorite game of “pregnant or just fat”.
Now we’re all caught up!
oh wait...somewhere in the middle of all this, Suzy Bear moved closer to the beach. She lives with my brother now. Not that we didn't want her, but technically, she's really his dog. So if you see us walking around with just Dakota, don't worry...Suzy is chillin in cooler climates in a less urban setting.
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