19 Weeks

Feeling a lot more movement from the baby. I think Diego will be able to feel it pretty soon. My tolerance level for people is at about 3 on a scale of 1-10. I lose my patients easily, but I try to keep it under wraps and not flip my lid. I'm dieing for Tuesday to get here.. I was hoping to have a name picked out for our child by the time we found out what we were having.. however, that's not going to happen. Who knows when our kid will have a name. Anyway, not much else going on around here. Diego has an exciting weekend coming up.. he finally gets to see Notre Dame play in person. They are playing in San Antonio on Saturday, so he is spending the weekend down there with Chubbs. They both love them some Fighting Irish. I'll be driving down for the game and heading back home.. no weekend away for me. Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween.

PS. I'm ready for the Halloween candy to go away! I'll be glad when the people at work put their candy bowls away! It's everywhere I turn, and I just can't resist.

Dreams of Velasco Place

This is just a little thing that I think is odd. Just about every night, I have dreams and most of them occur at the house I grew up in on Velasco Pl. Sometimes the dreams are scary, some are funny, some are just weird.. but I always know that I am at my old house. I don't always see the outside of it.. but, I definitely know that I am inside that house. I know at least one time, I had a dream of Diego and I walking around the block (he was stealing rocks out of peoples yards..haha) and the neighborhood was not the same, but once we got to the house.. it was my old house! I know a lot of people say during pregnancy you have wild dreams and that is most definitely true for me. Last night in fact, I made myself wake up because my dream was getting too freaky! Anyway, just thought I would share that with everyone.

On a related note.. I drove by the old house on Velasco the other day going to a friends house, and it's shitty. I feel like the whole neighborhood has gone way down hill.. the houses are painted weird and no one is taking care of the yards.. it's quite disappointing.

18 weeks

18 weeks (almost) down, 22 to go... I'm approaching the half way point! Not all that much going on with the pregnancy these days. Other than falling asleep on the couch every night before 9 pm. November 3rd is getting here, but not nearly fast enough. I can feel the baby now.. today in particular was an active day for the little one. Don't know what was going on in there.. but, I felt "him" all day! The name saga continues.. we have actually stopped talking about it. It's overwhelming.. we will come to a final decision sometime after the 3rd. I finally got some maternity jeans.. since it's getting cooler, I can't wear skirts and capris everyday. I can surprisingly still wear a lot of the shirts I had pre-pregnancy. I'm just rambling.. and that's enough for now! America's Next Top Model is coming on! ;)

Jenn & John's Wedding

Brad ( the brides brother) served as the officiant.. he did a great job!

He is walking out with their mother, Debra

Father Brad (ha!), John & the groomsmen

The Bridesmaids

We walked out to a Coldplay song,

sadly.. I don't know the name of it...

My dress seems so much shorter than everyone else..

I think because my belly is sticking out!

The flower girls

Lyla, John's daughter (the little one)

forgot to throw her flowers! ;)

The Bride and her father

walked out to Use Somebody by Kings of Leon

The kiss

Maid of honor & Best man

being introduced

(I look like such a chunkster! I hate it!)

The first dance

The cakes

John's motorcycle

Cutting the Cakes

Aunt Beverly & Mom

Diego and I at the end of the night..

someone had a few, can you tell! haha

At this point, my whole body was hurting

and I was ready for bed!

Wedding Day - The Before

Before the wedding started, some of us got there early to get our hair done and watch the TX vs OU game. The game was super stressful, but luckily Texas pulled through.. and didn't sour the day. We also hung out and set up everything for the wedding. I have lots of pictures to share, the pictures I took in the room we got ready in are super orange!

Setting up the tables

Center pieces

Have you ever seen my hair this straight! Ha!

Decided to step out of the box on my hair!

I got a Lauren Conrad braid..

Didn't know she was going to do this to the back..

but, I just went with it..

Almost finished with the curlers still in my hair.

Realized I never took a complete finished shot of my hair..

but, you can get the idea here.. it was a low pony tail on the side.

This is my mom, and the flower girls.

(I hate my fat arms!)

Our bouquets

Jennifer's bouquet

The Bride and her brother

Our friends

Reno & Allison

Diego & Aunt Clonda

Aunts and Cousins

17 weeks

Next week I'll remember to wear different pants :)

Jennifer's Bachelorette Party

Warning!!

An open mind is required to proceed.. it's all in good immature fun.

Saturday, we had Jennifer's bachelorette party. This is the first, and most likely the last bachelorette party I will throw.. so, I wanted to go all out.. and make it the best I could. I think it was a success! Luckily my mom was also taking pictures, because I didn't get to take as many as I would have liked.

Penis/Sex balloons

Willie name tags

The tiara...

Bridal party tags, that my mom helped me make

My attempt at being funny and totally gross at the same time!

We started out with an italian dinner... and then dove straight into Pin the Macho on the Man

the one game I participated in

the final results

I passed out goodie bags.. filled with novelties and such. Then we went to the front yard for the pinata.

The Pintata

The pinata was kind of a failure, because it didn't actually break. Maybe because we were using the extention to the vacuum cleaner instead of broom stick. So, it eventually just fell to the ground, I broke it open and poured the candy out.

After that, we went inside and Jennifer opened her gifts... a wide range of gifts!!

We moved on to the final activity of the party..

and decorated penis cookies.

Earlier that day, my mom rolled out and cookie cuttered several cookies!

No penis is a perfect penis!!!

cookie decorating options

Being creative is hard work!

The final results!

I heard one guest say: This is the best penis party I've ever been too!

That makes the hostess feel great!!!

A little later on.. we went downtown.

This pregnant lady could only hang for a little bit, but hey! I'm just glad I made it to 3 bars after I had been on my feet all day with no nap.. staying up until 12:30! That's pretty much unheard of around here. Plus I had to work the next morning!

16 Weeks

I'll be taking week 17 tonight or tomorrow..

15 Weeks

I'm finally starting to show.. so I started taking my weekly belly pictures

Another Appointment

Went to the doctor today. It was an interesting event. My doctor and her husband (who is also an OB) moved across the street and joined Austin Regional Clinic. I liked it a lot better when it was their own private practice. I always got called back in 5 mins, and I felt like I had their full attention. Today, I waited forever.. and this appointment was set up with her husband because she "wasn't there"... come to find out she actually was there, don't know what that was about. Anyhow, her husband was very nice and I was ok with him. However, it just seemed so hectic there.

For the good news... My blood pressure was great! The medicine is working! For some reason, I never remember the bottom number, but the top number was 104.. at my last appointment it was 154. So that was a relief. I got my flu shot, ouch! Heard the heartbeat again, it wasn't as pronounced as the last time I heard it, but he said it sounded good. 150 bpm. The best part was setting the date to find out what our little one is. I'm so damn anxious. Nov 3rd can't get here fast enough, we do have a lot going on this month.. so hopefully it will be here before we know it.

And for a final thought. I officially think... it's a boy. The feeling has finally come over me, and I just really think it's a boy now. This whole time, I've gone back and forth.. but now, I just have that feeling.

Jennifer's Bridal Shower

Back on the 19th of September we had Jennifer's Bridal shower. It was co-ed and was in combination with the UT game.. the bridal shower was first, and then everyone stuck around for the UT game. It was fun hanging out with the family and meeting Jennifer's friends that I always hear about.I t was a little different since I've never been to a bridal shower where the guys were involved. We played an interesting game of... girls make toilet paper wedding dresses for the guys! that was a blast!

My mom and I decorated my cousin Brad, and to our surprise.. we were the winners! I think it was the veil.

Too bad Diego was sick that weekend, and missed out. I would have loved to see him in a tp dress!! Up next the bachelorette party.. that one should be interesting..

The good sports

The winning dress

Which I am surprised.. I thought the guy to the right was a little better

Present time