Spring. I loathe you. Always have. Always will.
Tulips and bunny rabbits and allergies and day light savings and 80 degree days paired with freezing nights - WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO WEAR??!!
side note - the ONLY good side to Spring is Rita's opening for the season - obvi.
anywho - this is my least fav season out of the 4.
Winter - hoodies, snowboarding, Guinness, stick trees, and during winter mother nature gives us permission to be lazy because by the time you warm up your car and scrape off the inch of ice encasing the windshield - the gym is closed anyway.
Fall - MY FAV! mesh shorts and hoodies, Punkin Ale, campfires, colorful leaves, mashed potatoes, family time, windows open with cool breezes, the ability to eat slightly more than you did during the summer without feeling guilty thanks to not having to wear a bikini every day.
Summer - we get the beach and we all look marginally better than we do during the other 9 months of the year thanks to our stellar tans (spray or natural - you look better than pale)
Now in 2013, Spring has shown me once again why I hate it. We go from a pleasant sunshine filled 55 degree day to a hot, humid, suffocating stretch of 85+ degree days. This weather is NOT wanted unless my ass is in my beach chair at the ocean's edge while I spend my days worrying about tan lines and what flavor of Kohr Brothers I want rather than getting swamp ass while standing - as I did today while wearing a DRESS. Fancy, huh!?
This heat wave may have even killed the dog. He hasn't moved in the past 30 minutes but then again he is probably remaining stationary on purpose since he is laying directly in front of my fan stealing every cool breeze that comes by.
All I need now is for him to start passing gas and have that whack me in the face to add to my discontent with this wretched season.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Weekend review in pics
An amazing weekend.....
A surprise party for my bestest....YAY! SSURRPPRRIISSEEEE!!
the bday girl and her amazing-party-planning-wife...
beautiful friends.....
and the FOUR of us :) baby bumps!
a bit of laziness with the pup...
Couldn't resist buying a few things for beanie and squishy..(this was Erin's doing - she refused to leave the store without these outfits...so that means it doesn't count as ME spending money ;) Can't wait to see the girls in these outfits this September!)
and I refused to come home until we got our daily Rita's fix...(that mango flavor...im addicted!! AND our bambinos are the size of mangos this week!)
aaaannnd finally - our weekly bump pic!!! 19 weeks!! so amazing :)
A surprise party for my bestest....YAY! SSURRPPRRIISSEEEE!!
the bday girl and her amazing-party-planning-wife...
beautiful friends.....
and the FOUR of us :) baby bumps!
a bit of laziness with the pup...
Couldn't resist buying a few things for beanie and squishy..(this was Erin's doing - she refused to leave the store without these outfits...so that means it doesn't count as ME spending money ;) Can't wait to see the girls in these outfits this September!)
and I refused to come home until we got our daily Rita's fix...(that mango flavor...im addicted!! AND our bambinos are the size of mangos this week!)
aaaannnd finally - our weekly bump pic!!! 19 weeks!! so amazing :)
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Gender Reveal!!!!!
The time has come!!!
I can finally post the long-awaited-and-anticipated gender of our bambinos!
We have known for a a short while now and had to wait to tell a few people in person before posting and I do have to say that while waiting to tell others in person is beyond hard to do (hence my busting at the seams), it is BEYOND worth the wait and the suspense to see their reactions!!
We had gift bags with gender specific booties in each bag...was so suspenseful waiting while they would pull out the tissue paper....and peer into the bag!!
Here we go!
Any final guesses!?!?
THE REVEAL!!!
TWO BABY GIRLS!!!!!!!!!
It STIll feels surreal!!
A few friends have asked if now it feels more "real" since we know the gender of our bambinos...and I think it definitely does make it more concrete feeling but I am still on cloud 9 about this whole pregnancy that EVERYTHING feels surreal. Each night when we listen to the heartbeats, it feels surreal. When I go into my closet and have only 3 shirts that currently fit me to pick from, it feels surreal. When people ask about the babies or rub my belly, it feels surreal. It all feels surreal...amazingly surreal.
One favorite memory that I keep reliving over and over is having my niece read the ultrasounds to my sister that the doc had written the genders on. My niece got to the "I am a ....." and paused. My sister emphatically saying, "SOUND IT OUT! SOUND IT OUT!" I think my niece only got out the sound of the letter G before we all started screaming paired with tears! Then to calm down - and have her read the other u/s! More tears! Was absolutely amazing :)
Now we are referring to the beanie and squishy as our 'twin baby girls' or just 'the girls'....or even more commonly as 'holy heck...TWO baby girls!!!!'
I can finally post the long-awaited-and-anticipated gender of our bambinos!
We have known for a a short while now and had to wait to tell a few people in person before posting and I do have to say that while waiting to tell others in person is beyond hard to do (hence my busting at the seams), it is BEYOND worth the wait and the suspense to see their reactions!!
We had gift bags with gender specific booties in each bag...was so suspenseful waiting while they would pull out the tissue paper....and peer into the bag!!
Here we go!
Any final guesses!?!?
THE REVEAL!!!
TWO BABY GIRLS!!!!!!!!!
It STIll feels surreal!!
A few friends have asked if now it feels more "real" since we know the gender of our bambinos...and I think it definitely does make it more concrete feeling but I am still on cloud 9 about this whole pregnancy that EVERYTHING feels surreal. Each night when we listen to the heartbeats, it feels surreal. When I go into my closet and have only 3 shirts that currently fit me to pick from, it feels surreal. When people ask about the babies or rub my belly, it feels surreal. It all feels surreal...amazingly surreal.
One favorite memory that I keep reliving over and over is having my niece read the ultrasounds to my sister that the doc had written the genders on. My niece got to the "I am a ....." and paused. My sister emphatically saying, "SOUND IT OUT! SOUND IT OUT!" I think my niece only got out the sound of the letter G before we all started screaming paired with tears! Then to calm down - and have her read the other u/s! More tears! Was absolutely amazing :)
Now we are referring to the beanie and squishy as our 'twin baby girls' or just 'the girls'....or even more commonly as 'holy heck...TWO baby girls!!!!'
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Checkup
Yesterday, we had our scheduled monthly OB check-up. All went fantastic!
Our nurse was COMPETENT this time and easily located both heartbeats. Both babies sound perfect! She reassured me that we had TWO!
The doppler she used was much more advanced that our at home monitor and she did not even have to search for the babes. Just plopped on a big squirt of the lube and found them immediately. I think this proves that Erin deserves major props as with our doppler you really need to be right on top of the bambinos in order to locate their heartbeats - well done, Er!
I am measuring about 22 weeks prego which for being 18 weeks prego w/ twins is right on track.
Gaining weight a bit slow but nothing to be concerned about. In the past 4 weeks, I gained 3 pounds. She would like to see me gain 1 per week soooo....time to eat! Okay by me...now if I can just find a healthy dish that I LOVE (outside of chocolate chip cookies, vanilla bean ice cream, nilla wafers, and chocolate cadbury eggs - sweet-tooth much?) Last night I gobbled down an impressive-to-me amount of broccoli but that was purely done to make room on my plate for spicy twirly fries.
Still feeling so lucky that we have these two bambinos cooking away :)
Will do our gender reveal post soon!!
Our nurse was COMPETENT this time and easily located both heartbeats. Both babies sound perfect! She reassured me that we had TWO!
The doppler she used was much more advanced that our at home monitor and she did not even have to search for the babes. Just plopped on a big squirt of the lube and found them immediately. I think this proves that Erin deserves major props as with our doppler you really need to be right on top of the bambinos in order to locate their heartbeats - well done, Er!
I am measuring about 22 weeks prego which for being 18 weeks prego w/ twins is right on track.
Gaining weight a bit slow but nothing to be concerned about. In the past 4 weeks, I gained 3 pounds. She would like to see me gain 1 per week soooo....time to eat! Okay by me...now if I can just find a healthy dish that I LOVE (outside of chocolate chip cookies, vanilla bean ice cream, nilla wafers, and chocolate cadbury eggs - sweet-tooth much?) Last night I gobbled down an impressive-to-me amount of broccoli but that was purely done to make room on my plate for spicy twirly fries.
Still feeling so lucky that we have these two bambinos cooking away :)
Will do our gender reveal post soon!!
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Gender
A few semesters back, I was fortunate enough to work on a project that centered around gender identity in schools. Specifically looking at the early elementary years, how to arrange your classroom centers in a non-gender biased manner.
How can I as a teacher stress that it is encouraged and acceptable for boys to play in the kitchen area just as girls can play with the trucks? Not an easy this to accomplish!
How to sort your students in alternative ways than boys on the left - girls on the right? We should be focusing more on methods such as, 'anyone wearing jeans over here and shorts over there' to help show our students from a young age that gender does not always serve as the boundary.
This is a topic that I find beyond interesting which made researching it for 3 months, writing a 15 page paper on the topic, and presenting on it quite enjoyable and painless.
Since we found out the genders of our bambinos, we have planned on amending a few choices on our registry to reflect more gender specific items. Nothing major - a few pacifiers, pacifier clips, receiving blankets, and a few outfits.
While I do think kids should pick whatever style they want, I totally am gender type-casting my bambinos already! But with all these damn clothes that are so freakin cute - how could I not??
Once they are older and have their own opinions, of course they can wear whatever they like, within reason, but for now, I'll indulge in the adorable-ness of gender specific clothes for our bambinos.
But I'll be sure to remember....
How can I as a teacher stress that it is encouraged and acceptable for boys to play in the kitchen area just as girls can play with the trucks? Not an easy this to accomplish!
How to sort your students in alternative ways than boys on the left - girls on the right? We should be focusing more on methods such as, 'anyone wearing jeans over here and shorts over there' to help show our students from a young age that gender does not always serve as the boundary.
This is a topic that I find beyond interesting which made researching it for 3 months, writing a 15 page paper on the topic, and presenting on it quite enjoyable and painless.
Since we found out the genders of our bambinos, we have planned on amending a few choices on our registry to reflect more gender specific items. Nothing major - a few pacifiers, pacifier clips, receiving blankets, and a few outfits.
While I do think kids should pick whatever style they want, I totally am gender type-casting my bambinos already! But with all these damn clothes that are so freakin cute - how could I not??
Once they are older and have their own opinions, of course they can wear whatever they like, within reason, but for now, I'll indulge in the adorable-ness of gender specific clothes for our bambinos.
But I'll be sure to remember....
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Hatched
Seriously, these may be the most amazing onesies ever!!
I can't wait to see our lil ones wearing these!!
A huge thanks & hugs to a special friend for the gift :)
I can't wait to see our lil ones wearing these!!
A huge thanks & hugs to a special friend for the gift :)
Monday, April 1, 2013
Busting at the seams
HOLY HECK - it has been an amazing few days.
Literally, busting at the seams for a few reasons:
1) this growing prego bump!
2) the over indulgence in Halloween candy (HAD to leave that typo - Halloween? Really? How about Easter? to my brain - you are missed)
3) the excitement over finding out the GENDERS OF OUR BAMBINOS!!!!
We are beyond psyched ... it still feels surreal. I have to wait a few more days to post on here what the genders are as we have a few more friends we need to tell in person. I'm sorry for the teaser but the excitement is over-whelming so I had to mention that we found out. I have spent over 24 hours on etsy planning out the newborn photo apparel and loving every onesie I come across!
We had an u/s Friday and the babes are doing great!!!! Both measuring a half pound and look healthy and perfect! I was slightly worried that the babies would be too small - Maybe because I have not gained that much weight yet and according to the books I should have gained a good deal more than I have but all is good - thank baby jesus!
During the u/s the doc switched to a 3D ultrasound which we were NOT expecting and it was beyond words amazing. One of our babies was doing the sprinkler (getting dance moves from his Mama Erin) and the other kept covering and uncovering their eyes. So wonderful.
Another u/s in a few weeks and a doc appt check up this week.
We were 18 weeks yesterday which is basically our half way point...time to focus on keeping these babes cooking until mid-August!
Baby bump!
And here are our lil ones at their u/s on Friday (17 weeks 5 days)....I am still in amazement!
Literally, busting at the seams for a few reasons:
1) this growing prego bump!
2) the over indulgence in Halloween candy (HAD to leave that typo - Halloween? Really? How about Easter? to my brain - you are missed)
3) the excitement over finding out the GENDERS OF OUR BAMBINOS!!!!
We are beyond psyched ... it still feels surreal. I have to wait a few more days to post on here what the genders are as we have a few more friends we need to tell in person. I'm sorry for the teaser but the excitement is over-whelming so I had to mention that we found out. I have spent over 24 hours on etsy planning out the newborn photo apparel and loving every onesie I come across!
We had an u/s Friday and the babes are doing great!!!! Both measuring a half pound and look healthy and perfect! I was slightly worried that the babies would be too small - Maybe because I have not gained that much weight yet and according to the books I should have gained a good deal more than I have but all is good - thank baby jesus!
During the u/s the doc switched to a 3D ultrasound which we were NOT expecting and it was beyond words amazing. One of our babies was doing the sprinkler (getting dance moves from his Mama Erin) and the other kept covering and uncovering their eyes. So wonderful.
Another u/s in a few weeks and a doc appt check up this week.
We were 18 weeks yesterday which is basically our half way point...time to focus on keeping these babes cooking until mid-August!
Baby bump!
And here are our lil ones at their u/s on Friday (17 weeks 5 days)....I am still in amazement!
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