Meghan and Ariana are coming to visit!!!!

So my 3 years at college basically consisted of softball and homework. When I wasn't doing one of those two things, or when I was procrastinating, I was with these girls. Ariana and I lived together my last year and Meghan might as well have been our other roommate, since I was either at her house or she was at ours.

Ariana and I are hilarious! We totally have the same sense of humor, and we crack ourselves up. Our year living on the "other side of the tracks" in Savannah was awesome, although I think we would go ahead and pay for the more expensive apartment in the nicer area if we had to do it all over again. I don't really miss the trains going by in the back yard, my car getting broken into, or our apartment getting robbed.

Me and Ariana at our all sports banquet our senior year! Ha. We had calendars made for softball that year and each girl on the team was one month. We made shirts to wear to practice and I spent a couple hours making these sashes instead of working on my senior collection because we though we were hilarious!

Meghan and I are pretty much the same person. We were the team moms, the "responsible" ones on the team. I guess we were just too old for our own good. A fun day for us consisted of doing homework from 9:00am to noon, getting lunch at B&D Burgers, doing more homework from 1 to 3 or 4, then going to Marshals or TJ Maxx, and then going to Chili's for margaritas and dinner. Meg would make me sit and do my homework, and I would distract her from her animating.

Me and Meghan at some sort of
Softball related banquet

Both girls came to Florida for my wedding, Ariana from Georgia, and Meghan from California. I was so grateful to have them here and I can't wait to see them again.

Ariana and Meghan both live in California now, Meg lives south of L.A. and Ariana lives in San Francisco. Way too far away from me! I wish I could visit with the all the time but life has happened. I am working on convincing Meg that California and Florida are really similar, and that she should move here, no luck so far.

Maybe life will bring us back together, hopefully sooner than later.

Us three at my Bachelorette party at the Savannah Sand Gnats game. Basically a long fun evening that I have no desire to repeat again.

They will be here for 2 days! Jan 19th and 20th! I am soooooooo excited. Can't wait to see them even if it is only for 2 days.

26 Week Belly/ Art

So we finally hung up the butterfly canvases that I painted. They looks really great! I can't wait to see the finished room. We have a fair amount left to do, but we still have 14 weeks or so. We started painting the dresser that we bought off of Criagslist. It is supposed to have a crackle finish with brown showing through white, we will see when it drys.

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26 week belly, side view

26 week belly front view

My First Breakdown/ belly

Everything is going great so far. 24 weeks down, 16 to go!

I had my first official crazy pregnant lady breakdown. It was pretty much ridiculous. Dane and I had his work Christmas party to go to at Rockledge Gardens. It was a casual party most of the people were still in their work clothes, just pizza and beer.

Well I start to get ready and what happens? I have NOTHING to wear. My jeans don't fit me and all the shirts I have are from my sister who was pregnant in the summer. So I somehow come to the conclusion that I can not wear a summery shirt (even though it is 80 degrees outside) and jeans that don't fit me. If it was one or the other it would be fine, just not both.

So what do I do you ask? I start crying, and I mean bawling. I can't stop, even though I know that I am being totally stupid. I keep telling Dane how "I don't want to be a crazy pregnant lady, I am so sorry."

I finally stopped crying, even though I still wasn't dressed and ready to go. I was sitting on the computer thinking, trying to figure out the solution to this huge problem, and it starts all over again. The tears start flowing and I simply cannot figure what we should do.

Needless to say Dane says come on lets go, and I get in the car and make a quick trip to Ross, to find something to wear. I ended up getting a really cute dress for $15!

Long story short, I have know idea why my head was processing this "problem" the way it did, all I can do is blame all those stinking Publix commercials that started the flow of the water works earlier in the day.

Side view 24 weeks

front view 24 weeks

Tropical Storm Fay, BOAT RACE

So during Tropical Storm Fay, a couple months ago, our street was flooded so we couldn't go anywhere. What better to do than have an aluminum foil boat race? We used and old pizza box, some aluminum foil, tape and staples. We actually spent a good half hour or so building our boats, and probably another half hour playing outside in the rain. Here is how it went:

Dane's finished boat, very nice, stable, little sail

My boat, not very stable, but huge sail to catch the wind

on your mark... get set... go!

my boat sank right away, as you can see Dane's
actually worked! not bad. Cooper making an appearance while
trying to push me in the water

my dripping wet boat, Dane's boat, still sailing!

Belly and Paint

here are some belly updates, and i am standing in the baby room so that is the wall color. Dane says it seems like we should paint fish on the wall. We love how it came out. and it looks great with all the bedding and crib.

20 weeks, My shirt is not very tight so I look lumpy

quilt, walls, contrast of the door/trim against the walls!

22 weeks from the front

22 weeks from the side!

I feel like i get bigger every day. I am still in that weird maternity pant fit funny but my jeans are too small for my belly stage. So I pretty much am really glad for the warm enough for a dress weather!