Anniversary

one year

I have been awful at blogging. Seriously, how do other people do it? I admire them. Anyway, Jon and I celebrated out first year of marriage together about two months ago and to be honest, time completely flew by and I still can't even believe that I am married to this wonderful man.

I heard a lot before getting married that the first year of marriage is the hardest. Bullcrap. Maybe it is if you and your spouse never knew each other before getting married. But we both knew each other inside-out- and head-to-toe and there was nothing difficult about our first year; living with Jon has been a blast. I am not saying we don't ever argue or get butthurt at each other, but there was nothing difficult about it. Jon is the neatest, cleanest guy ever, he can cook, he can fix anything, and I really mean anything- it's really amazing to have him around. He is also super smart and he can have educated convos about anything but he can go on and on about biochemistry and pharmaceutical drugs.What I love about him the most is that he is funny and makes me laugh a lot-- he makes all these funny faces and voices and impersonations and he is just LEEEEENDO. He is also a great father to our baby Chewy and Grandma and Boner. I am still completely in love with my little gold nugget, and I am just so excited to spend more years to come with him. I am excited to experience human parenthood and buying our first home and just excited for the lows and highs of life!

There is nothing better then to be able to live with your lover and share everyday stuff and experience new things together. I am so glad he chose me to be his life and eternal companion and I am extremely grateful to have him as mine. Jonathan is truly my best friend and a great husband and I cannot imagine my life without him (this is not a suicide statement)

So to those who are a little scare of marriage, don't be. There are scarier things in life like human trafficking for example. So as long as you know your partner and you are both willing to work at it, it is possible! 

My next blog will probably be when I give birth.

-Jessica 
 

life isn't always picture perfect, so deal with it

Hello!

This is my first time writing a blog and I am excited to start!

I remember seeing my older sister's blog but I always told myself that I would never be that "type" of person.  Whatever that means.  But after reading her last blog about Best Friends it hit me that I can write about whatever the hell I want! Thus starting "Thegovegang".

I am in an interracial marriage with Jonathan Gove and couldn't be happier about it (Interracial couples rule! Don't agree? Let's fight about it.). He tells people that I told him that I was an undocumented immigrant after we got married and that the only reason I married him was for "papers". Oh how I love my husband! The truth is that I married him because I freaking love him with the passion of a million burning tortillas! And for those of you wondering, no I am not in this country illegally, I was born in the beautiful state of New Jersey in the city of Plainfield or the "Queen City" as it used to be known for.  When I was two years old, my mom moved back to her native country, Guatemala, and we lived there for seven years. We came back to Plainfield in 2000 and have been there ever since, until January 2012 when I permanently moved out. Jonathan is from beautiful Encinitas, California.  He was born and raised there (actually born in La Jolla but same general area).  Our future human babies will hopefully have the same luck as Jon; be born and raised in Southern California.
  I have two awesome sisters Sandra Pleites Laurentino and Thelma Pleites. I love them both so much! We all come from a wonderful hard working mother, Thelma, who means the world to all of us! Our father is a work in progress but I am sure he'll come around, who wouldn't with such awesome girls right?

I also have two other sisters from totally different parents, Bianca Banegas, my best friend since High School and Anya Komar, my Russian beast who I met my first day as a freshman at BYU-I, she is now currently serving an LDS mission in Romania!  

Anyway, now I am blessed to have a second mother and father; my in-laws Lisa and Barrie Gove. Jonathan and I are proud parents of a demon-possessed Umbrella Cockatoo named Precious and a mysterious breed puppy named Chewy.  They may or may not be mentioned a lot in my future blogs.