Thanksgiving!

Don't you love Thanksgiving?  The food, the being close to Christmas, the food, the vacation from work/school...also the good food? :)  This is a holiday where we end up celebrating food, which isn't a bad thing, especially when you're pregnant and finally have a sorta excuse for pigging out as much as you normally do.  At least that's how I feel.

Since we are far from family (sadness!) and so are some other couples in our ward, we invited one of our couple friends, Chris and Lacie, over to join us.  I made ham (tastes better and is WAY easier than turkey), rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy, and pie.  Well, pumpkin pie and a pie crust for this easy and tasty chocolate cool whip pie that Morgan made.  Super easy: melt some chocolate chips, mix with cool whip, mix in some more (unmelted) chocolate chips, put in pie crust.  Easy, and SO good...and would be just as good without the time-consuming pie crust, too.  Just sayin'.  Chris and Lacie brought stuffing, green bean casserole, apple cobbler stuff, and drinks.  Behold the food:

This is the regular food, at least.  No picture of the dessert, though - we didn't care about cameras by that time :)  Also excuse the blue-ness of the picture of Morgan- not sure why that happened.  

And here are our guests:

Chris and Lacie are super nice and like playing games too, so we're good friends in the ward.  We used our nice dishes and serving bowl and gravy boat (thanks to Morgan's parents and grandparents!), and it's fun to have special-occasion dishes to use.  We ordered new silverware (since we have been using my plastic-handled Walmart silverware), but it won't be here until tomorrow probably.  Or else our table would have looked even nicer :)

And I got my hair to look halfway decent for a picture (but not my face...the blurriness is my fault, as I tried to take my own picture.  You notice how that usually doesn't go so well?):

Still long enough to do stuff and look cute with my round face, but not too long-and-straight to look good with my pregnantness.  Perfect!

In conclusion, yay for Thanksgiving food!  And new haircuts!  Except not together - having hair in the food would not be something to be so thankful about.

baby bump, weeks 23 and 25

So yes, I'm still behind in blogging...oh well :)

I'm 25 1/2 weeks along now, and getting to the end of my second trimester.  And also getting tired more easily - these stomach muscles (what little of them there are :) ) are not used to holding up an extra big bump in front!  And it will only get bigger...lovely!  I've grown a lot, it seems, in the past couple weeks; compare:

exhibit A- picture of me at week 23

and exhibit B - at week 25

See, I look bigger, right?  Well I (and my muscles) think so, and our votes are the ones that count :)

Oh, and also I got my hair cut, which you can sort of see in the week 25 picture.  It is just so straight and was getting so long that it looked weird with my ballooning figure...at least I thought so, and my vote seems to be a majority in recent polls :)  I'll get a picture up of my haircut, which I think is cute, when my hair decides to cooperate and look good in a picture.  That will be soon, I hope.

Um, but my hair makes no promises.

Baby bump, 20 weeks

So I'm told I'm a little behind on blogging...which is probably true (guilty smile :) ).  Today I am 22 weeks, but this picture is from 20 weeks. 

I think I may be a little bigger now - I'll have to have Morgan take a picture in the next day or two and post that, so as to compare :)

I'm due March 1st, and I'm at the very end of my fifth month.  So I could be having a baby in 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 months!  Crazy and also awesome.  I'm a little past the official halfway mark, and it seems like it's gone by both slowly and quickly.  Isn't life always like that?

Our baby!!!!

So...we're having a baby!  And he is a boy, or so we are told.  This is baby Beuford (per Morgan's impulse naming suggestion...hmm, he may need to work on those impulses...).  Don't worry, we don't have it in for the kid, and we'll choose a better name before he is born.  Or maybe shortly after his birth - we will see :)

We're so, SO excited, and I think he's the cutest thing ever :)  Evidence #1:

One year older

Hey, it was my birthday yesterday!  Yay!  So I turned 27...and also I realized that I'm now in my late 20s.  Um, that sounds old.  You know, early 20s is ages 20, 21, 22, maybe 23, and mid 20s is 23, 24, 25, 26.  But once you reach 27, you are no longer qualified for that title - you're in your late 20s now.  Maybe it wouldn't sound so old if Morgan was 27, too, but he's only 26 and thus still in his mid 20s.  I'm robbin' the cradle, people!

My birthday was great, except for the waking up early part.  On a Saturday, my one day to sleep in.  Sigh, thanks a lot, body.  Then Morgan wrapped my presents (once we could figure out a place in our tiny apartment where he could wrap them without me seeing), and then I immediately unwrapped them.  Wrapping paper is kinda a waste of money, right?  Especially for immediate family presents...I suppose for bridal showers and such it's more necessary.  But it does add festivity to things :)

Anyway, Morgan got me some things I had suggested: popsicle molds and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and The Office trivia game.  Good stuff, especially the Office game - we've played it twice now, and reminiscing about awesome scenes and episodes is more fun than it might sound.  Then came the free IHOP breakfast-for-lunch - thank you IHOP!  And at night we went to the final Harry Potter movie - which was pretty good, and may convince Morgan to actually read the books!  I know, I don't know how he lives a fulfilling life without them.  But that may change soon.  We will see...

And, Morgan made me a cake!  Per my request, it was chocolate with chocolate frosting...and the frosting can came with sprinkles, so why not?  Thus, a cake covered with sprinkles.  And tall candles, in number 27, since I'm in my late 20s and all.  

The spread-out arrangement of the candles made it hard to blow them out...and I'm can't say I succeeded on that count :(  But I'm sure this upcoming year will still be great, thanks to my wonderful husband :)