:)

just got the last of my bridals back. i swear, this is the last set.

so. excited.
i love pictures. i love being nerds. and most of all, i love my husband.

Photo: 2nd Bridals. SLC. September 2012.

caricatures, epiphanies, and all that jazz

A few years back on our family trip to Korea, our family went went to Insadong, which is a pretty touristy place. While we were roaming the streets and window shopping, my family got our caricatures done at a little booth on the streets! It was so much fun and the Korean girl doing them did a great job.

Here they are:

My Dad and my Mom. Korea 2009.

 My sisters, Sonhee and Minhee. Korea 2009.

Our family laughed so hard because Sonhee's looked so much like her! 

And here's my caricature. Korea 2009.

(Note: For a Korean, I have really BIG eyes. No joke. Just look at my eyes in the caricature compared to everyone else's!)

Anyways, when Max and I had the opportunity to get our caricatures done at the Spanish Fork Harvest Moon Hurrah, we totally jumped on it! 

I was so anxious sitting in that chair waiting for it to be done! 

Here's how they turned out.

Left: Me, right: Max. Just in case you were confused. September 2012.

After having my caricature handed to me I was a bit confused. 

It was at that moment I had an epiphany: I look super asian. --Err, let me rephrase: Other people think I look super asian. 

What? My whole life I thought I looked like everyone else, but then I get this caricature that makes me look like Lucy Liu? I mean I'm flattered they think I look like that, but after getting my first caricature done in Korea, I thought I looked more like everyone else...I guess I knew I looked asian, but not THAT Asian [if there is such a thing].  But I guess not. At least not in America. 

It was an eye-opening experience to say the least. I wonder what else I will learn the next time I get my caricature done... :)

birthdays.

If you know me you probably know that
1. I like to wear bows in my hair
2. I am very trusting of others (aka gullible) and
3. I'm kinda s l o w at catching onto things... >.<

As I mentioned in my last post, I've had a surprise birthday every year of college so far.

Exhibit A: Surprise birthday party thrown for me in the dorms by my sister, Sonhee

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Photo: David John. Helaman Halls. September 2009.

 Exhibit B: Surprise birthday party thrown for me by my sister. Again.

Photo. Roman Gardens. Septemeber 2010.

Exhibit C: So when my sister was no longer at BYU I was SURE that I wasn't going to have another surprise party. But boy was I wrong. It's because I had the best roommates ever :)

Photo: Bel 16. September 2011

I also received the best birthday present EVER that year: Sonhee wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper. She flew out from California to visit me for a week before she left on a mission a month later. (Side note: she comes home in April--SO excited!)

Photo: my favorite birthday present ever. Bel 16. September 2011.

So after all of these birthday surprises, you'd think I'd expect it the 4th time around, right? Wrong. I really just didn't see it coming. Maybe I'm slow...? I told Max that we should just spend time together and go out to eat and not make a big deal out of my birthday. But my birthday celebration actually ended up being a week-long thing.

Monday: we went to tucano's with our birthday meal gift card. I love that place but I definitely can't eat there more than twice a year. I could eat their grilled pineapple f o r e v e r though :P

Photo: Tucanos. Birthday Lunch. September 2012

Wednesday (the day before my birthday): Max threw me a surprise party! (we had tests/meetings to attend on the day of my birthday, so he did it on Wednesday to make sure it actually happened). That sneaky boy ;)

Photo: Scoville Residence. Surprise Birthday #4. September 2012.

Thursday: On the day of my birthday, some of my chem 105 students somehow found out it was my birthday and got me some candy and a gerber daisy! I have the best students ever!
Unfortunately, Max had to take 2 tests that day and spend over 7 hours in the testing center and came home late. So we pushed my birthday dinner at Pho Noodle House to Friday.

Photo: Pho Noodle House. After eating a very very very spicy pepper. September 2012.

Saturday: we went up into the canyon to see the pretty fall colors. Max got me a new camera lens for my birthday, (along with Bang and Monopoly Deal) so I just HAD to get out and try out my new lens! Before we went I spent some birthday money to get myself a tripod and a camera remote! We had a wonderful picnic up in the canyon and had so much fun playing with my camera :)

 Photo: Provo Canyon. Birthday Picnic. September 2012.

So now that I've had 4 surprise birthday parties, I do NOT think I'll have a 5th one. Because who has 5 in a row, right? But then again...oh whatever. we'll find out next year.

Photo: Provo Canyon. Picnic. Happy :) September 2012.

story time: when it all started (II)

[like i said, i'm terrible at blogging. here's the rest of the story]

So after our fun night of games and scrabble, I boldly invited the boys of UP1 to come to Fall Fest with the Belmont 16 girls. I told Dave when I saw him in the tutorial lab, but apparently boys don't tell each other things, because when I brought it up while working with Max a few days later, he had no idea.

Anyways, eventually we all went to Fall Fest for fingerprinting and a good dane party. I almost died laughing just seeing Max and Dave dance. If you've never seen them dance before, you really should sometime. it's epic :P After two slow dances with Max I pretty much decided that he was great, to say the least... For the rest of the night we went to UP1 and played some nertz. I'm pretty sure I won at least one of the games, if i remember correctly.... :)

 Photo: Wilkinson Center. Fall Fest 2011. Finger painting.

Photo: UP 1. Nertz time!

A few weeks later, Max took me out on my first day: baseball. As one who grew up with only sisters, I had never played and was scared for dear life that I would get hit by the ball. Thanks to Max's hitting skills, he almost did hit me me in the face with a ball. good think i ducked though. (i'm sad to say i didn't have any pictures from our first three dates--oops!)

I thought the date went great, but was sad to hear he took out another girl on a date the very next day after our date. Lame, right? so I gave up on the matter and moved on with life. My sister surprised me for my birthday and we had the UP1 boys over for another surprise birthday party. (Side note: somehow i've gotten a surprise birthday party thrown for me over the last 4 years and have REALLY been surprised every time.. you think i'd catch on by now...) It was fabulous. Max and Jason came over the day after to help me finish eat some birthday cake, and as he left, he asked me on our second date: kneaders french toast breakfast.

I had never had kneaders before. we decided to go in pajamas before the first session of conference. the food was super delicious and spending time with him was great. I watched the first session of conference with him and his roommates at UP1 and then left to go up to SLC with my sister to watch the rest of it. That night after priesthood session, we had another game night of gibberish scrabble! (and yes, I was definitely falling for Max at this point :) )

Photo: October 2011. Bel 16. Working on our Spanish.

Sunday night we had a movie night after ward prayer at Bel 16. We watched toy story 3 and from the minute the movie start, max's hand slowly creeped over to mine. But it took him almost the whole movie (like 2 hours) for him to actually grab my hand. at one point i just wanted to grab his hand because he was going so slow for goodness sake! but eventually it happened. and then we started dating. and then 3 days later he went on a trip to NY with my roommate Rylee to see the cast of Psych.... but that's another story to tell another day :)

Photo: October 2011. NYC. With Lassie. My boyfriend and my roommate.

Photo: October 2011. 30 Rockefellar Plaza. NOTE: I am not present.

Sometimes people ask me, do you like New York? Well, that's funny. Because. I've never been. 

But let's not talk about that... >.< 

Maybe my husband will take me one of these days... :P

Two weeks into dating he told me that he loved me. I gave him a big "thank you!...." (i mean who doesn't like being told that their loved? it was my first time someone had told me that so it was pretty exciting) But i said i liked him a lot, and told him i'd let him know when i loved him...later....maybe...eventually? it was kinda weird...but still cute at the same time :)

Photo: October 16, 2011. At a Thai Restaurant with the 'rents. The night that he told me he loved me. 

7 months later we were engaged. and 10 months later we were sealed for time and all eternity in the timpanogos temple. and to day we have been happily married for a whole 2 months and 8 days! Oh how time flies :) but enough of this mushy gushy stuff. i'll try to make my next posts more recent and more exciting!

Photo: Timpanogos Temple. August 4, 2012. With the best friend :)