A Crisp Spring Day

Hey friends, long time no post! I have been enjoying every minute of my husband being home. It's nice living with my bestfriend again!! I also have been head deep into The Hunger Games. After hearing so many of you rant and rave about it I had to jump on the bandwagon. I don't regret it one bit :p. I read the first book in one day, the second book in an evening and am now having a hard time with the third. I am finding it a little bit slower than the first two. J & I also saw the movie the other night and we both loved it, but of course the book was better.

Today J & I went on a little walk down Middlehead with our friends Anne, Michee & of course Noah. It was not a warm day compared to what most of you lucky bums are experiencing. But the sun was out and that was good enough for us.

I have hiked this trail probably about 50 times and it doesn't ever get old.

23 Weeks Pregnant

Ugh again, sorry about the self portraits!
 
Size: The baby is the size of a mango and is weighing in at one whole pound!!!

Weight: I was jumping for joy when the doctor weighed me and I gained a whopping 6lbs!!!! I was waiting for a big jump and this was it. I am positive weeks from now I won't be as thrilled about gaining weight but right now I am quite proud, and the Dr. was quite pleased.This means I am up 11lbs. Pretty  average I think. I swear I am gaining all my weight in my boobs. I am ready for them to stop growing, they seem to grow weekly with the belly. I can't even imagine how huge my utters will be when the milk comes in... sigh. Oh and no one told me how dark your nipples get. OMG mine are nearly black!!

Symptoms: Nothing new here. I am loving this stage in pregnancy as I am noticeably pregnant and not just tubby. I have all of the energy I had before. Except I can walk miles on the beach but if I am walking up a hill, I am gasping for breathe.

The baby is kicking soooo much now. I got to visually see a kick a couple of days ago and it was quite freakish.

Stretch Marks: Just a couple on my hips but I am sure I had them before. I also just noticed yesterday my Linea Nigra appear. That's that dark line that grows from your pubic area to your belly button. It's very faint and hasn't made it all the way to my belly button yet. I wonder if my "sunning" my belly made it appear more because I noticed it the day after.

Cravings: Fruit & Chocolate.

How do you like my new spring/summer dress? I bought two maxi dresses at Winners the other day and I plan on buying more. Sooo comfy. I will be living in them all summer long.

If you haven't noticed I put a little poll on the top right side. Please vote girl or boy. I would love to know what your guesses are :)

I Will Lead You Through This Wonderland

Tuesday's Tunes

Of Monsters & Men- Yellow Light
They remind me a lot of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. I only started listening to them a couple of months ago. My other faves by them are Dirty Paws & Little Talks. Check em out.

Sunday @ The Ski Hill

Unfortunately I wasn't able to give Ski Cape Smokey a go this year, I had fun visiting & listening to friends at the hill for the final day of the season. Noah was really rocking out :p

Getting green

Hope you all had a great weekend and was able to eat, drink, wear green & be merry. It's kind of fun being the sober person at outings now because it is fun to laugh at everybody else. I promised myself not to be one of those boring pregnant ladies who wants to just hibernate and stuff their faces. Well, living here there isn't much opportunity to do anything else to be honest lol. So when the opportunity arises to put on some heels and go dancing, I'm game. This St. Patrick's day I went to a girlfriends house and then  headed to our town pub for a bit. They opened for one night to get everyone out and messy. We had a lot of fun :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

I feel like I wasn't missing out

haha, def not

The boys rocking out

Catherine & I. I was sporting green tights too not just the lei

Special Moments

With all of this exciting talk of pregnancy, I didn't finish off my wedding posts!! There isn't many left but I left out one of my fave parts. The dances!!

My cousin Rhianna Rae Saj sang Simple As it Should Be by Tristan Prettyman. She modified a couple of the lyrics to fit J & I better. It was perfect. I have always LOVED this song. Jon and my relationship is totally as simple as it should be. Well we seem to surround ourselves with chaos, we are always busy with something but our love is simple. We are bestfriends and we get to spend forever together. Lucky us.

And then there was the Father/Daughter dance. My dad didn't pick a song for us so I played every slow song on my ipod and could not, for the life of me, find one that was fitting. I went on youtube and by fluke found Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman. I thought it was perfect for my daddy and I, but I also knew we are both sensitive messes and this could be dangerous. I was right, we were blubbering messes. As was my brother as you will note in the background.

Good Heavens You Boys, Blue-Blooded Murder Of The English Tongue

Tuesday's Tunes

Jamie T - Sheila
Love knowing the words to this song and pretending I am a hardcore English rapper ( I only know half of the song, but still)