For Posterity…

…and not because I necessarily want to remember what it’s like to put on 20 lbs.

Some of you may remember this post when my dear friend Jackie took photos of me and I had only two weeks to go until Reese was born.

Yeah, sad that I am as big now as I was then and I still have 9 weeks to go. Yay for second babies!!!!

In all seriousness though, I didn’t want to have my photo taken all that much this time around, but I thought that baby #2 would feel snubbed if she didn’t have even one good photo of me while I was pregnant with her. So baby girl, this one is for you. It didn’t hurt that Jackie insisted and she has amazing skillz with a camera! I mean really– who else could make me look like this after a full day at Gilroy Gardens with 20lbs of extra weight to lug around in the 90 degree weather?! Yeah. SKILLZ.

Reese’s first date

Reese’s friend Luke took her out on the town Saturday. This was the result:

Video.

Photos.

A Full Summer

To say that life has been crazy lately would be a big understatement. There have been days that I dread, and few that I have looked forward to. I thought it was time for a nitty-gritty update, and sadly I have neither the time nor the creativity at the moment to write a flowery or poetic post. This makes me sad. I have always loved blogging. It makes me feel like I have returned a bit to my high school days when I used to keep notebooks full of my thoughts and writing. I love coming up with witty phrases, interesting titles, and epic ending lines. Somehow that has been lost to me in the last few months (possibly because this baby insists on sucking every ounce of creative energy out of me). So boring me will be updating you all today in a scattered-sort of way.  Welcome to my brain these days!

Bittersweet 9/11

Obviously the news today is all about remembering 9/11.  For me, it’s bittersweet every year since it is also Meghan’s birthday.  Anyways, I thought I would share my favorite media response in the aftermath.  Whatever you may think of Jon Stewart, give it a chance if you have 8 minutes to spare.

Jon Stewart’s response to 9/11

Girlfriends

Tonight I couldn’t go to bed without first writing a small note about how lucky I am to have such great friends. I feel so overwhelmed this week with the amazing women in my life who have chosen me for a friend. I am all to often surrounded by some of the most talented, smart, warm, generous, and put-together friends and in that moment I think- “Why in the world would these women want to spend their time with me?!”. They are fabulous in too many ways to name and I feel lucky to have so much support and advice from people in my life I know will always be there for me. I love this time in my life and the friendships that have come of it. I’m so blessed.

Thanks girls; for listening to me chatter on, for inviting me out, for making me feel important and for liking me despite all my obvious flaws. I don’t know what I would do without you!

Slacker Blogger is Back

Hello Friends,

You may think I have fallen off the face of the earth, or that I suddenly became famous and forgot you all, or maybe I contracted the swine flu and died, or I discovered the secret to happiness and ran away with the hubs and the babe in tow…

The truth is much less exciting.

I’m pregnant. I’m lazy. I’m cranky. I did not want any or all of these three things to dominate my blog posts over the last three months. So rather than bore you all with my incessant complaints, I have chosen to remain silent with only the occasional photo and short comment. I apologize my sweet readers. I have missed you.

So I am currently working on the longest blog post EVER to recap our crazy summer. It will be fun, it will be filled with photos, and you won’t want to miss it, so stay tuned.

But just to prove that I am not dead/famous/some impostor, here is a lovely photo snapped by my amazing FIL last week. Love it!