Things I've learned

since becoming pregnant....

1. When your Mom says "You won't show until 6 months!" don't believe her (see photo below)

2. Your belly is not the only thing to grow uncontrollably (see top of the photo below)

3. It's amazing how fast the bond between you and your baby grows, within minutes!

4. Being constantly tired like you've stayed out partying until 3am and got up at 6am is not fun, especially when there was no partying involved.

5. People don't want you to lift things more than 2 pounds, and I've got to say, I'm ok with this ;-)

6. Everyone has an opinion on what you should have done, what you should be doing, what you should do in the future.  Newsflash to everyone, just because it's your opinion doesn't make it right!

7. The shirts that you thought were so big that they would for sure last your whole entire pregnancy even though they are regular shirts somehow must have shrunk in the dryer or something

8.  Dogs get more cuddly :-)

9. You miss your family more :-(

10. The top questions you get from people are:
1) When are you due?
2) Are you going to find out the sex?
3) Have you thought of names yet?

The next 5 months are going to FLY by!

Twins..don't get too excited

 All I can say is I'm glad I'm not having twins!

Washington D.C.

I'm SO excited to be going to Washington D.C. for the first time ever!!!  We are going in a few weeks, but we'll only be there for 2 full days + one night.  I want to do and see as much as possible, but I know it's NOT possible to do and see everything that I want to do. 

So, my question comes....what should we put on our To Do list for our trip??

For the love of dogs....

Someone had a link to this article on their Facebook page this morning and it just reminded me (like I need a reminder) of how much I love Lily and what a great dog she is.  The article is all about the heroic actions of dogs saving family members, entire families, and even strangers! 

I know that if anyone ever tried to hurt me, or Jeff that she wouldn't let that happen.  I always wanted a small little dog, but Jeff wanted a lab so badly that I finally said "ok".  Now I can't imagine not having a lab as part of our family.


If you're thinking of getting a dog, please don't forget your local animal shelters.  There are so many unwanted dogs and puppies out there, and especially bigger dogs are harder to adopt out. 

How could you resist a face like that?

Announcement!

I've been MIA, but I have an excuse.  I've been super busy!!  Head over to my new site and check it out http://www.victorialind.com/.

Love Story

I must say, Netflix is really one of the best inventions ever. Today I was flipping through our Instant Download movies and I saw Love Story included.  If you haven't seen the movie, it was made in 1970 about a well off Harvard school boy and his girlfriend, the daughter of a baker.  His father disapproves, disinherits the son, blah, blah, blah, long story short girl dies, father feels bad, son is sad, the end.

Here's the Victoria official review of the movie:

I'm not sure if I'm watching the wrong movie and I somehow missed the classic must see movie that critics call the greatest love story of all time, but the one I watched really, really sucked.  The acting was bad, like super bad and what was with all of the pointless scenes that didn't add anything to the movie.  The entire thing was pretty confusing.

The worst part however was the ending.  First of all, WHAT was Jennifer sick with?  I was so confused and curious that I Googled it (while I was watching the movie) and found out that I didn't just miss something, they really never say what she is sick with, and no one seems to ask!  Also, get this, in my Google search, I found out that there is a movie term named after the "illness" that Jennifer has in the movie and it's named after the actress herself.

The Ali McGraw disease "Movie illness in which the only symptom is that the sufferer grows more beautiful as death approaches."  

The best part is the tag line "Love means never having to say you're sorry."  Hmmmm.....I'm going to have to call BS on that one. Love only means you should apologize quicker. 

So now I've moved on to Julie & Julia and it's actually got me in the mood to cook!  I better get on it fast before the urge disappears.

3 years!

Wow!  I cannot believe that 3 years ago today Jeff and I were GETTING MARRIED!  It seems like just yesterday.

We had an awesome wedding.  We got married at our favorite place, Purdue, with all of our favorite people in attendance.  It was so cool, and unfortunately will never happen again, to have all of the people we love the most in the entire world all in the same room, and the best part was there were there to direct all of their attention to me!  Oh, and Jeff too I guess ;-)

We got married at University Church, on campus.  We wanted to get married ON campus, like outside at one of the fountains, but there was a Presbyterian youth conference at Purdue that weekend and there were over 3,000 kids crawling all over campus.  When I found that out I thought it'd be better to use a church, and we were lucky enough that the church on campus someone canceled their wedding and it opened up for us.  Sucks for them, yay for us!  The only downside was the sanctuary was not air conditioned.  Thank the Lord it was in West Lafayette, IN and not Houston, TX.

Our reception was wildly inappropriate, but was a ton of fun.  Our cake was the most beautiful wedding cake I've ever seen.  My niece caught my bouquet and all of my friends were mad, while the garter landed on the floor because none of the guys wanted it.  People from the reception next door came over to our reception because it was more fun, and that one had a live band!  We were supposed to be out of the room by 11pm and I think it was after 12 before it was cleared out.  I've said many times that I wish we could do it all over because it was that much fun.

One word of advice for brides to be, EAT SOMETHING (and maybe go to bed before 5am).  You don't want to be like me and toss your cookies at your own reception, in the trash can outside the door.  Thankfully my photographer was holding my veil back instead of taking pictures!

Jeff I love you so much, I'm so lucky to have found you!  MUAH!