Palm Springs

This weekend, we headed out to Palm Springs with our friends Keith and Carmen. We were able to stay at Carmen's parents' condo so it was a nice free weekend! We left Friday night and actually had nice weather Saturday morning. We laid by the pool and swam some laps and it felt so good in the sun! It was SO hard to not lounge in the hottub! Also, because I'm pregnant mainly in the winter, I don't have a maternity bathing suit. So, I dug through a box of my sisters' old stuff and found one in there to wear. I didn't try it on before we left because I honestly thought it would be WAY too cold to do any bathing suit wearing! I ALMOST put in one of my normal bathing suits just in case but didn't! So, Saturday morning, it's sunny and we want to go to the pool...I put on the suit and quickly learned that elastic somehow deteriorates over time! It was one of those things if you pulled too hard, you heard the brittle elastic break. Luckily, this hot number of a bathing suit had a skirt attatched to it! So, the loose, "did she just poop her pants?" bottom was covered up and I held my head high and went out to the pool! In the pool, it just continued to get looser and looser and I was more and more thankful for the skirt! In the end, it worked... it covered what it needed to, and I got to swim but I will NEVER wear that again!

Watch out Mrs. America Swimsuit Competition...this is one hot number!

Eric dominated on the golf cart!

After a relaxing morning, we dropped the boys off at a casino and then did a little shopping...I wasn't looking for anything in particular and made no purchases but it was still fun. We went to Black Angus for dinner to use some gift cards (thanks Keith and Carmen!) and went home and played some games. We left this morning and stopped at my parents for a quick visit and then headed home! It was a nice, relaxing weekend and we all had a great time!

Our only group picture...Keith, Carmen, me and Eric

So much to say...

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying their 2008 so far. Last week it was back to reality as school started up again. It was actually a good week back but just having to wake up again everyday was a little tough. Our Christmas was a good one! We celebrated Christmas Eve at our house with Eric's family and then had Christmas dinner with them Christmas Day. We didn't celebrate Christmas with my family until January 4, when all my sisters were back from their in-laws. On Christmas Eve Day, we had our 20 week ultra sound. It was so much fun to see so much more than the first one and we resisted any temptation to find out what our little pumpkin is! It is moving more and more and it is so fun for Eric to be able to be more a part of it all, actually getting to feel it kick.

The profile of our little pumpkin

Truly Eric's child..."pull my finger!"

Little legs and feet

Over our break, we also went to Las Vegas with our friends Chris and Kelly. We had a really fun time getting away and Kelly and I had a great shopping trip along with learning to play a little blackjack...with the boys coaching us! I don't think I would dare sit a table by myself to play although I did do pretty good! We have also had fun starting to get things a little bit ready for the baby's room. Our second room has been our office, guest room, junk room for the last 2 years so we were able to get organized and get things ready to be painted in there. Eric also painted an old dresser white to match the other furniture so I can continue to keep some of my stuff still in there! We also registered so things are starting to feel so much more real! It's so fun preparing for the arrival. I'm at 23 weeks now and I feel like time is flying since Christmas has passed! Here's a pretty horrible picture of me but you can kind of see my growing belly...I feel like it is so much bigger than it looks here!