Hungry?!?!

I thought I would share some of my "new loves" these pregnant days... FOOD! Here are a couple of food choices that I prefer and a couple of things I don't think I can ever eat again.

WARNING: If you are pregnant you might want to "skip" this post.  Not responsible for the outcome after you read it or the sudden urge to jump in your car and dive into a double cheese baconator or BBQ sandwich and potato salad!

I love pickles, pickles, pickles (can't get enough of them!!!), Chick-Fil-A (always loved this place but especially love it pregnant), fruit (any and all!!), french fries, Baconator at Wendy's (ha ha), Blue Bell No Sugar Added Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and caramel sauce, and of course dipping sauces (weird I know, but I love to dip my fries in Ketchup and/or mustard). Last week I couldn't get enough BBQ. Funny how certain cravings just take over and I can't get them out of my head until I finally give in.

Here are a list of foods I don't like anymore and probably won't be able to eat for a LONG long time because it brings back bad memories. Here are a few... lettuce (you don't want to know!), salad dressing, baby back ribs and milk.

In case you are wondering what will be my first meal post pregnancy it will be SUSHI and a huge Dr. Pepper (if allowed). I've waited almost 9 long months for both and I know I deserve it :)

Days of Our Lives Hope Brady

I came across this picture just now and forgot that I was going to post it back in November.  Sorry! The days just seem to get away from me.  Anyway, as you can see, Kristian Alfonso aka Hope Brady was at the Nutcracker Market here in Houston selling her jewelry line.  My mom, sister and I got some of her pieces.  They are actually really really pretty.  You will see after Christmas when Santa brings me mine :)

In case you are wondering, she is just as beautiful in real life as she is on Days of Our Lives and really down to Earth and sweet. Too bad her eyes are closed in this picture!

Christmas Cookies

Last Thursday Lane and I decided we wanted to bake cookies for all our friends and then surprise deliver them (I was craving cookies!!).  Well, let's just say the thought was there :) We went and bought all of the ingredients, icing, sprinkles, cookie cutters, gift boxes...etc.  We met Jenn and Katelyn over at Lane's house around 10 and baked sugar and gingerbread cookies until almost 5.  We made sooooooooo many cookies and took our sweet time decorating each and everyone perfectly. They all looked really cute. 

Lane's mother-in-law is the "Martha Stewart Sugar Cookie Icing Queen" and told Lane we need to put them in the oven (not turned on-- just storing purposes) for 24 hours to let the icing set. Welllllllllll, let's just say that might not have been the best idea on our part.  The next day I got this text from Lane concerning our cookie adventure.  LOL. Jonathan had come home and turned the oven on and burned all the cookies to a crisp!! So sorry girls... we really had good intentions, we promise!

p.s. I'm still trying to recover from how tired I felt after we baked all of those dozen cookies- I was pooped!

34 Weeks and Hicups

Sorry I'm been a little slow posting the last couple of weeks.  My days have suddenly gotten a lot shorter thanks to the baby :)  I'm pretty much done for the day around 2 (just like the 1st trimester).  I don't know how to explain it, I feel like I am running around in circles and not accomplishing anything.  I'm exhausted all the time... LOL 

Now on to the little one.... she weighs 5 pounds right now and is about 18 inches long!!!! Can you believe that? She weighs as much a bag of sugar.  It blows my mind that I have a 5 pound baby that is about to drop out of me.  This last week I felt her "drop".  She's getting really low and pretty much taken over my bladder.  It feels like I go the bathroom about every 30 minutes.  When I went to the doctor last week he said she's already in the correct position (head down). Yeah!

Many of you have asked how I am sleeping these days. I have been sleeping pretty well up until this week. I've gotten used to sleeping on my side which was a challenge since I was a tummy sleeper before :)  This week has been a little bit different.  I am having back pain and have been waking RJ up to rub my back (he loves me right now, won't you??... ha ha).  This week especially (between bathroom breaks) I have been worrying about all the things on my "to do list".  Is this normal?? The nursery isn't finished completely and it seems like there is so much on the "list" that I can't get it all done especially with Christmas holidays coming up and us going out to the Moses' for a couple of days. I'm afraid I am going to be completely exhausted and stressed before she even gets here!!! RJ just doesn't understand.  People keep telling me that this is the time to relax and enjoy time with my family and RJ before she gets here but I can't do that because I still have too much to do.  I'm just hoping she waits until her due date to get here (I'm going to need all that time to get ready... ha ha).  So many of my friends have delivered around 36-37 weeks.  Hopefully that won't be us because that's only 2 weeks away, RJ's Big 30th birthday party and CHRISTMAS... yikes!

On a happy note, she is kicking and moving around like crazy.  My stomach feels like a popcorn machine :)  I think she's trying to turn around but obviously there is not enough room to do that anymore.  As Lane would say, "Her hotel stay at Mama's House of Love" is coming to an end and she's about to be evited soon... LOL"  In the meantime, I'm going to soak in the little moments while they are here.  She has had the hicups lately and it's too cute.  This is what I want to remember about my pregnancy :)

Now Booking for Holiday Parties! :)

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

County Jail

What a day! No, neither RJ nor myself were arrested today but we did spend the day at the county courthouse. You see, RJ had some business downtown  and I decided to tag along. What an eye opening experience. I saw people of all kinds. For some reason, I kept "beeping" as I went through the security check point. I got patted down twice and still don't know why I kept setting it off. I couldn't take off my rings because my fingers were swollen but the lady didn't think it was that.  

Now on to the interesting part. So I decided to sit for a while and take a load off when all of the studden 3 armed guards and a really mean looking tatooed guy in an orange jump suit (big black letters that read COUNTY JAIL on his back) and handcuffs passed within one foot of me. I about jumped out of my skin!!! I was talking to Ashley Rhodes on the phone at the time. I was scared to death and there was no place for me to hide. When he finally passed, I called RJ to come sit with me and told him about the "colorful" person I had just saw. Just about that time, 5 new Harris County orange jumpsuit prison mates walked in chained together and surrounded by guards started walking towards us. It was straight out of a scene of Shaw Shank Redemption!! I ran! Literally!! I left RJ in the dust.. Lol (sorry RJ- but every woman/man for themself!!) the good news about all of this is none of the inmates were murderers or anything (or so says the security guards). We
were in the family court building and all the inmates were there for not paying child support.

As usual and right on the dot, the baby girl and I got hungry at 11 so RJ and I walked down to this mall downtown (I didn't even know there was an indoor mall downtown called The Park) and ate Chick-Fil-A. So yummy!! On our 10 block hike back to the courthouse we noticed all these police cars SURROUNDING my car!! It was such a crazy day full of 1st!! We still don't know what was going on but there was a guy being arrested and put in the backseat of a police car.

As we speak, I'm sitting here at the courthouse just waiting for the next crazy thing to happen. What a wild day!

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