Valentines and my belly

Hi! I have been really lazy lately and haven't posted anything but now I will! Also, I don't really like to post just my ramblings online, I like to have pictures so you all can see what I have done and now I have pictures! Speaking of pictures, Jennifer told me about www2.snapfish.com, which is something that Curtis uses. I don't usually have a car and so I never want to send any pictures to Walmart to get them developed because who knows when I would finally pick them up! So I looked up this snapfish this morning and uploaded some pictures and they are going to be sent to me! It is awesome! Rather than having to pick them up at the store I just get them in my mail box! Curtis, you are amazing for finding this! If you read this at all... Anyway!

So, if you recall, I got my hair cut quite some time ago. Like a month or so... I can't remember. I finally remembered when I was having a good hair day to get some pictures. I have also had a request to post a picture of my growing belly. I figure I am finally to the point of showing so I will take a picture every week. That way I can have some memory of this pregnancy...

Isn't my hair nice? I like the face I made so I chose this picture to post! It was a good hair day. I know the closet in the background kinda makes it hard to see half of my hair but you get the picture. It looks nice and I love having short hair! Long hair is just too much of a hassle...

This is my first belly picture. I don't like how I looked.

In case you are wondering, and you probably aren't, I have only gained like 22 pounds so far. According to my books that is right about where I should be for weight gain so far. I really thought I would gain a lot of weight but I haven't! It makes me happy because I am affraid that once gained, it wouldn't ever come off!

This was on Valentines Day. Don't I look festive? I had to work Saturday and it was a long and boring day. Then Chris picked me up from work and we went out to eat to celebrate the holiday. We went to Pizza Hut! The reason we went there was that every place we would have gone that was a bit nicer was packed. Texas Roadhouse (Chris really likes it there) was a two and a half hour wait. I said no way so we left and were just going to come home when I saw Pizza Hut and we both like it there and I have been wanting a pizza so we went! It was nice because there was hardly anyone there and the waitress was awesome and the food was tasty and I think it made it a nice evening out. 

When we got home I gave Chris a Valentines present. I usually wouldn't do this but on Monday when I had a doctors appt I went to Ross afterwards and found a ballroom dancing book and DVD and thought they would be nice to have. We have tried a few times to dance again like we used to but we just can't remember any of the footing or the moves in general so we kinda gave up... which is really sad because I like to dance. So I got it and maybe this week if I am lucky he will take me dancing! 

Other than that stuff, not much has been going on in our lives. We watch Lost, we are in the second season. Chris never saw it and since I like to watch it he started to watch it so we could bond. He is good about stuff like that. Like reading books that I really like so that we can talk about them if I want to. Its cute! We have been getting a lot of free baby stuff and maybe in my next post I will show you what I have gotten so far! I need to finish but I hope you are all doing well!

Bored

For those of you who don't remember, I work at Premier Real Estate Group. On Saturdays I am usually the only one here. The realtors come in and out all day and sometimes other people show up but for the most part Saturdays are really slow and I don't do much. I try to find things to do but my role is mainly a receptionist. I do a lot of filing... Anyway, during the middle of the month the only thing that really happens is people are checking out keys to go view properties but at this time of year things are a little on the slow side. No one likes to move in the winter! So I sit here and answer questions to the best of my limited ability and check out keys! My life is so exciting! While I am at work, Chris sits at home and plays games and works on his project and can do what ever he wants! He likes his Saturdays. They are his "alone" time.

Anyway, today it is such a nice day out and I wish I wasn't here. It is warm enough that Chris and I could go the park and play... except that I don't do too well running around anymore. My belly muscles don't like the impact. Oh! And I never said it before but we are going to be having a baby boy in May and his name will be Dallin (TBA) Davenport! And now my other news! I can finally tell that what I feel is him moving! I have been feeling it for a few weeks now but I was never quite sure if it was really him or not so I just waited and now I know it is him moving around inside of my belly! Its exciting! Certain times he seems to be a bit more active or when my bladder is really full and so at that time I tell Chris and Chris says he can feel him moving. I am sure they are really light movements but it is neat that we are to that point. It makes it seem just a little more real.

On to another topic! My hair is getting really long and I hate it. I don't like the long hair on me, I used to but now I am just tired of it! So on Tuesday I am chopping it off! I am going to get the same hair cut I usually get because it looks fine as it grows out and since I don't get my hair cut all that often I think it is a good idea to get a haircut that grows well. I am looking forward to it! My neighbor, Jen, is going with me. It is the hair school down around where she grew up and she can have her mom or mother in law watch the kids while we go get our hair done. It will be lots of fun! I don't leave the house much during the week since our green car is dead so this will be a nice change of scenery.

Well, I am sure everyone is bored with this reading so I will stop but I hope you all are doing well!

Old memories

The other day I was bored and so I went to one of my favorite websites to pass the half an hour before Chris came home. It is Veoh.com and you can find many old tv show favorites on there. I will warn you, it isn't just for kids and there can be lots of risque stuff so just be aware that there are lots of videos that are not... family friendly? Anyway, I was looking up Merrie Melodies! You all remember those wonderful things, right? In case you don't here is what they looked like. 

From there I started to look up Bugs Bunny cartoons. I know he was a not nice bunny but I always liked him the best. He was the wittiest, the funniest, the coolest... And he always came out on top. The next morning I woke up and watched cartoons because it is what cool kids do! It was fun to watch those old shows that I haven't seen in years. 

That started my trip down memory lane. Every day I sit there and try to think about old t.v. shows that I loved and books I used to read and places I used to go. It is easiest to remember the shows though. My parents have a bunch of shows on tapes that I used to watch all the time and so I have been looking them up, trying to find them so that we could burn them onto DVDs for future posterity! Not to mention there are a bunch of cartoons and t.v. shows out there that I don't think I would want my kids watching because the humor is older than it should be in those shows. Where as look at me! I watched Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes all the time and I turned out just fine! Anyway, my trip down memory lane. 

The first show I looked up was Reboot. It was this really dumb (now that I have seen it again) Saturday morning show that I liked. I watch it now and I wonder how I ever even understood what they were saying because they use a lot of techno language instead of normal words we would use. I watched a few of those and it brought back other memories! Like Pepper Ann! That show was towards the end of my Saturday morning cartoon days but I still liked it. 

Another t.v. show I looked up was G.I. Joe. I don't remember actually watching any on tv but my parents did have the tapes with a few of them on and so I looked those up and that was fun. That then spurred me to look up a cartoon movie of Voltron that I loved when I was younger. Alas, I cannot actually find the movie, just a bunch of episodes of Voltron. After looking up Voltron I remembered some japanese t.v. shows we had on tapes. Dynaman and Goggle V (I always thought it was more like gunguru but that is how I found it online). Those ones were actually on Veoh and so I am seriously contemplating trying to find the ones we had taped just to continue my walk down memory lane...

I know they are mostly t.v. shows or movies that I remembered but it is easier to find those online. It is way hard to find books online that I used to read. There was this one called Something Different about ducks... thats all I remember and that the kids in the book went to the beach. The first time I ever finished reading it was in Austria at that cabin we rented that had that huge wood stove or whatever that heated the whole house. I was so proud of myself because it was my first big kid book I had finished. Then there was this Bobcat book that I loved but I have no idea what it was. There was also this other one that I can remember the picture on the cover but not what it is about. So, you see? It is much easier to find old shows that you remember. Are there any out there that you all remember?

A Belated November

I figured that the first thing I should do is write about the month of November. Then, maybe when people email me pictures of our fun Christmas I can post those for the month of December as well but for now, we will just stick with an update in November.


This is just a picture to show how well Chris knows me. We don't buy many fruits because they are expensive and less filling. Though lately we buy oranges and I eat them like crazy! Like 6 a day... Anyway, one day he came home from work and had this beautiful boquet of fruit for me! A happy customer sent it to his work and everyone had nibbled at it but when he brough it home I put some serious effort into eating the delicious fruit. It is hard to see but there were a couple pineapple flowers left and those were my favorite. I even took it to work the next day and finished it off. It was wonderful! He brought it home because he knew how happy it would make me!


This is a picture of Chris and his two brothers while we were having our Thanksgiving a week early at his grandparents house in Virginia. It was really the only picture I had that was useable because I believe everyone would just use Katies camera to take pictures... Not sure. But this was the boys opening their Christmas ornaments from their mom and on them it says Moms Favorite or something like that. I guess that means they are all Peggys favorite son.



This was Chris in the airport. I think it was the Pensylvania airport we stopped at but I can't remember. I just thought it was a cute picture of Chris. It is funny how many pictures I have of him just sitting in the house or somewhere on his laptop... I guess either that means he is busy or he is bored with me. Not sure which...


Since we had Thanksgiving a week early in Maryland we decided that we would also have our own Thanksgiving. Above is the picture of our table with all the food and sparkling cider ready for the eating. Below is our "churkey". I went and looked for a small turkey but could not find one so I just bought a small chicken and called it a churkey. It tasted better anyways...

So that was our November. Chris and I worked and had fun together and then we went to Maryland for Thanksgiving. It was a very rushed trip but it was a lot of fun. I was always so tired though because I wasn't out of that phase yet with my pregnancy. I am doing much better now and have much more energy than I did a month ago! Keep watching my blog for the Month of December update!