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Preggers...

Yes....I have definitely gained lotsa weight this pregnancy...as you can tell by my ever so chubby fingers:)!!!!! But here's a little preview of being preggers!!!!

Cali Trip!

We finally made it to our Cali Trip! We got a great deal through Southwest and after credits and what-nots, we pretty much only paid $70 for the both of us. Our hotel at the Marriott was free too coz of all of our rewards and the only thing left was a rental car. The bad part of the trip was our flight on Monday was cancelled. We were supposed to fly through Reno and arrive in Cali by 1pm but I guess Reno got like 10 inches of snow and so all flights to Reno were cancelled. They put us on a later flight with a stopover in AZ....lame! We ended up arriving in Cali at like 7pm. What a waste of a day! When we got to the rental car place, they gave us a convertible. Now we're prob. the only 2 people in the world who did not wnat a convertible since we alreday have our cool little scion! We asked for a 4-door but the only thing left was a mini-van so we took the convertible. Hey at least we can say we've driven one now:) We stopped by a chinese restaurant for dinner (it was just ok) then to Marriott to Check-in. Once again, they upgraded us to a 2bedroom suite....not that we needed one...but I love Marriott even more now! The next couple days were spent eating good Asian food, going to the outlets and shopping malls out there and relaxing in the hotel watching HBO....lol! We came back on Friday but wished we could be there longer. We should have booked a longer trip...but isn't that always the case with vacations? The funny thing was the weather was just a little chilly but all the Californians were like "THIS IS SO COLD...YOU UYS MUST BE FREEZING..." and so on. Californians...move to Utah first before you say it's cold when really it's just Fall weather you're experiencing:) lol....

We went to the Tech Museum in San Jose. We thought it would be filled with cooler high tech, next generation gadgets and what-nots....but it was more for the kids I guess:) They did have some cool stuff like this robot that can form your name with blocks. The videos on the TV screens were funny though...pretty early-nineties with some eighties hair wrapped into it. The cool part was the Imax dome that they had. It was a true Imax theatre and it was pretty darn cool. We saw an under the ocean feature. The water sounds were so relaxing I think I dozed off the last 5 mins of the film. Don't get me wrong, it was a cool feature...but with the dark room, bubbling water sounds, it was almost spa-like without the massages!

Attempting one the task I saw the contestants on Survivor do. I remember thinking this is so easy...why are they so slow. Hmmm...not as easy as it looks! :)

Tim, being bored, while waiting for me on one of my many bathroom trips! Sorry babe!

Banana Leaf food....spicy and yummy!!! Well worth the lunch wait! There was a really annoying lady the table next to us though. She was telling everyone how to eat the food. Really? Just eat the food...not special way of doing it!

Daimo, our fave. restaurant in Richmond, CA. We used to go there all the time when we were living in Emeryville. Of course we ordered out 3 fave dishes....like always:

Real Chinese-style sweet and sour pork. Sorry not Panda-express style!

Tim's favorite: Honey Walnut Shrimp! They raised the price on us though!!! Those Asians!!!!

Roast Duck!!!! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!

Wishlist!

I saw this on the Williams Sonoma Catalog that came in the mail yesterday. This is the description:

From the French company renowned throughout Europe for baby food–related products, this compact countertop appliance makes it easy to prepare fresh, healthy meals for baby – from start to finish.

-A steamer, blender, warmer and defroster in one compact appliance.
-Steams vegetables, fruits, meat and fish in less than 15 minutes, preserving vitamins and flavors.
-Purees or blends foods to the desired consistency.
-Quickly reheats or defrosts precooked foods.
-The machine has no traceable amounts of BPA.
-Recipes included.

It looks fantastic but for $149...I wonder if there's anything out here similar, better and cheaper. It looks really cool though! Then again I have to figure out if I would actually make my own baby food or just buy the cute Gerber bottles:) Thoughts?

Nursery Colors!

So I'm not going with a giraffe theme in case you were wondering. I just like the colors in this collage. I did get the bottom right alphabet poster though and that's my inspiration for the color theme of the nursery...tangerine, gray with accents of blue! I didn't want to go with the traditional blue and white nor the green that most boy nurseries usually go for! I wanted something fresh + modern!

New Happenings!

It has been a crazy past month! Lots of new decisions and changes in our lives. We decided to truly and really start our own business. We've been wanting to do something like this for a long time but due to other job committments and prob. that procratination got the best of us, it's been delayed and prolonged. However, we recently decided that this is what we need to do and if not now, when? We're in the process of creating and launching new educational products. Once everything is set and stone, we will release it on our blog as well! It is a little scary to take the risk but at the same time, we are so excited and filled with optimism about our product. I've been private tutoring kids for a long time and have done lots of reserach into American public, charter and private schools. The curriculum, especially for elementary aged kids is horrible. It makes me worried about when I have to send my own kids to school. Hence our business! Anyways, more of that to come later!

In other news, we also found out that Baby Huang is a BOY! Tim was like "SWEET!" at the ultrasound. I guess it's every guy's dream to have a boy! I'm super excited too except for the fact that we now need a cool boy's names and boy's names are so difficult to think of! Well, at least for me! So if anyone has any suggestions, pray suggest galore! We did an ultrasound and got a DVD copy of it. The baby was stubborn as he had both arms over his face most of the time! Guess stubbornness will forever run in our family! We've been busy clearing out the garage first. We finally got shelves to put all our storage items in as well as a nice shoe rack for our shoes...well mainly my gazillion shoes....although I did throw away a bunch. We also labelled all of our storage totes so now it looks nice and it makes me happy:) The garage still needs more work, but at least we got the majority done. I also cleared out the room meant to be the nursery. It's about 75% done! Again, it feels good. However, this also means a nice big trip to Ikea as we need more bookshelves for our library area as well as a new baby dresser! I don't think Tim is too excited about all the fixing ups he'll have to take care of! :)

A Little Better!

So the morning sickness has now switched to "I'm hungry and MUST eat right away or I'm going to be real sick"! It's tough to make sure you don't overeat when you're constantly hungry!!! I suppose I should probably buy more fruit as well. I found the stroller, car seat, and crib that I want but won't get it till we know for sure if it's a boy or girl. In fact, we haven't even been in the mood for clearing the room for the nursery or much baby shopping. I suppose it's coz we don't know what baby is yet! I'm almost 17 weeks now so just about 3 more weeks before we find out. We can't wait! The house had been in a disaster movie for the whole 1st trimester! I finally did a HUGE spring cleaning or rather "Summer" cleaning the day before. It felt good to have the house spotless although my back was pretty sore after. But I felt like I got a good workout, which let's be honest, lazy me hasn't been working out much at all! No worries...I think I still look ok:) Lots of ppl. have asked if I get weird cravings. Strangely no, although I have a BIG aversion towards red meat and one particular chinese restaurant although the food there is fabulous. I think it's the smell. Weird!

Tim's been real busy with work. With the summer being over and all, there's lots of preparation for the new year. He's excited that yard work is now reduced to once every 3 weeks.

Not much else has been going on.... we'll keep everyone posted in about 3 weeks time. After that, I'm thinking there should be lots more postings with pics of new baby stuff and the nursery as well!!!

Our BIGGEST M.I.A. Excuse.....

So this time...we really have a GOOD excuse from being off and away from EVERYTHING...especially our blog. Well....I'm preggers and we're excited about it. 10 things I have to shout out about pregnancy:

1. Morning Sickness should be called Morning/Afternoon/Night Sickness...seriously does it ever end?

2. You may not be able to hold any food but you'll still gain weight....what??????

3. You're too sick to even think about shopping....now that's a wonder!!! But I'm sure Tim's happy about this one:)

4. You have all the excuse in the world to eat whatever you want...IF you can even think about eating...and yes I think about eating all the time even if I can't eat!!!!

5. Mountain Dew is HEAVEN!!!!

6. My dog still has no qualms about walking all over me!!!

7. If only A.C. was free.....

8. Why the heck are ultrasounds so fuzzy? :)

9. Thank goodness for Brick Oven and White Clam Sauce!!!!...every Friday....

10. Nicole Shum is freakin' acute at detecting pregnancies! There should be an award for people like her!!!