My Funny Valentine

That frank Sinatra song has been stuck in my head for the past couple of days. That's the only line I know so I've been serenading Chris with made up lyrics- his favorite thing I do :)

But anyways, we celebrated valentines early since I'm working that night, and it was lovely getting to spend time with my one and only.

We had a spontaneous date on Tuesday to boondocks to play some games and have dinner. They got into the holiday spirit and made a heart shaped pizza, too precious!

 

 

 

Then yesterday Chris surprised me with a mani/pedi appointment! He's the best. It was so relaxing, AND when I got home the house was spotless, what more could a girl want?? Oh, chocolate obviously :) I hinted at that one.

 

 

 

Then I gave him his gift- a little something for the five senses: cologne, candy, a coupon for a duet recording session, a back massage thing, etc. I thought it turned out pretty cute. 

 

Then we got ready for our date! On an unrelated note- tunics really are a pregnant girls best friend. They are SO comfy!

 

 

We dropped the babe off with some friends and had a delicious meal at one of our favorite places, La Jolla Grove. 

 

 

I love Scarlett, but it's nice to get out just the two of us every once in a while. It was a perfect day with my love!

Suprise 1st Birthday Photo Shoot

Happy birthday to this cute 1-year-old!!

I was so excited to take this handsome dude's first year photos.

Is he not adorable?!

 

 

My favorite :)

Very own cake to smash into = pure happiness.

 

 

Happy birthday Landon!!



Happy V Day!! {24 weeks}

24 weeks- happy viability day, little man!

You can survive outside the womb at this point, and that is a huge milestone to reach.

 I don't know if I subconsciously try to avoid thinking about the reality of a baby

 until after this point just in case something were to happen,

but this week I've really gotten into baby mode.

Everything little boy has been on my mind:

 what I want his nursery to look like,

 the fact that I should probably buy him at least a few articles of clothing,

and most importantly, WHAT is this little dude's name going to be.

 I get so tired of looking at "top name" lists and reading the same ones over and over,

especially since I don't really want a popular name.

Suggestions are more than welcome :)

I'd like to say that I'm handling this pregnancy beautifully,

 but I gotta be honest, this last month has kinda kicked my booty.

 Mainly due to one annoying problem that I have which is pelvic pain.

I had it with Scarlett closer to the end of my pregnancy,

 but it's already worse than it ever was with her.

Some days I can hardly bear weight to walk.

I want to be healthy and tried doing a mild elliptical workout last week and that just about killed me. So then I get down on myself for feeling like a fat blob that can't do anything,

 as well as a bad mom cause I can't play with/pick up Scarlett nearly as well as I used to.

It's all very discouraging.

Especially since I went to a chiropractor yesterday only to be told that there's basically nothing I can do and that it'll only get worse the farther along I get.

Great.....

BUT, other than that I feel pretty good,

apart from the expected heartburn and clumsiness and pregnancy brain.

Baby seems to be doing really well and that's of course the most important thing.

It's going by so fast and that makes me happy because we can't wait to meet this little guy!!

Miller Maternity

I had the privilege of doing my first maternity photo shoot

of our good friends, Anai and Dustin.

It was such a blast!  It's probably my new favorite thing to do :)

Pregnancy is such a beautiful time and I was so excited to be able to capture it.

Here are some of my favorites!

Thank you, Millers, for putting up with the bitter cold,

and thanks to my wonderful hubs for doing most of the editing!

 

 



Price is Right, Perfect Cruise, Pregnancy Update

So since baby boy is due in May, and then Chris starts dental school in August,

we figured this was kind of our last chance to have a little time to ourselves

before things get crazy.

(Chris's mom was on winter break and was so sweet to babysit Scarlett)

SOOOOO...

my one request was to go to The Price Is Right.

It's been on my bucket list forever, but we've just never made it happen.

So I said, that's it, let's just do it!

We were able to score some pretty last minute tickets and away we went.

We had fun making our T-shirts (or should I say that Chris made them haha)

I was pretty dang proud of my clever idea :)

(Too bad no one at the show even acknowledged it!!  What the heck?)

 



 

We had to wake up at like 4 AM (well at least I did, you gotta get lookin your best if you're gonna be on national TV, right??)

Then we had to take off by 5, because of dumb southern CA traffic, ugh nothing makes me more upset than having to allot like 3 hours to make an hour and a half trip.

And we used all three of those hours, it was stop and go the whole time and we ended up having to run from the parking garage to the studio to make it in time.

 

So yes, there was a lot of waiting and it was a long day.

3 hours total of waiting in lines and then 2 hours of filming.

But I kid you not, and I don't want to sound dramatic, but it was one of the funnest days of my life.

Chris and I agreed that it was our favorite part of the whole vacation.

It was just so cool to see everything behind-the-scenes and to meet Drew and George.

George talked to me by name before the show started, and I got to shake Drew's hand.

Not to mention getting to sit in the front row!!!

Ah, it felt like a dream and was so exciting, I highly recommend it :)

 



 

Oh, really quick funny story.

You see our beautifully written iconic name tags??

Well I was so excited to get mine and keep is as a souvenir, and then we get to the front

of the line where the guy was writing them...

and it turned out sooooo bad, like you could hardly even read it.

No offense, but it looked like a 3 year old boy wrote it.

I was so bummed!

And then we got further along and this other guy was like "what the heck, why do these all look like crap??"

and he wrote ours over again, and then later on we saw him going up and down

the rows of 300 people re-writing every single one.

Hahaha, it was so funny, and I felt so bad for that guy who got fired from his name-writing assignment.

But I was glad to get my cute name :)

 

Next on our "babymoon" was a little 4 day cruise!!

It was just a quick Catalina/Ensenada cheapo one, but I was just so excited to get a break

from the babe, have some good entertainment, and eat as much food as I wanted. :)

PS- is my husband adorable, or what?

 

 

Blurry but beautiful sunset with the Queen Mary as we took off.

 

Oh yeah...what a stud muffin!!

He wasn't prepared for a picture, but I love it :)

 



 

I wasn't too excited about Catalina, but it was so cute!!

We took a little golf cart ride around, and it was just relaxing and quaint :)

I loved it.

 

Of course, I went straight for the little candy shop!

These are my favorite places, and we got to watch taffy be made.

 



 

Overlooking the ocean on our golf cart ride.

In the background, there was a funeral procession going on.

Apparently the week before there was a huge storm and they lost a Harbor Patrol officer,

so that was kind of neat to see how they paid their respects.

 

 

I was expecting a little more from Ensenada, to be honest, haha I wasn't too impressed.

But that's ok, it was still fun!

We took a bus ride to the main market where there was also this big blowhole.

I was more excited about the shopping, but the tour only gave us like half an hour for that.

Kind of a bummer.

 



 

We did get the most delicious tacos though!

K, little rant, I was pretty livid at Ensenada.

Literally the only thing that I had my sights set on buying was Mexican candy.

I have a slight obsession with any hard candy covered in chili,

and we couldn't find it ANYWHERE!  I left mexico without any mexican candy,

it was a sad day.

 



 

Once home from our lovely cruise, we just kind of relaxed, it was so nice.

And one day we went to the Wild Animal Park with a couple of friends and their kids.

Scarlett was loving it.

And I realized how much I can't keep up with her with my growing belly haha.

 



 

I am now 21, almost 22, weeks along!

Hmm, I think the biggest news, if I haven't already written about it,

is that I took my preliminary glucose screen and passed with flying colors!

Hooray!!

What a load off my mind.

I'd been trying to be sugar-free until I knew if I was diabetic again or not.

I'm still trying to be better about sweets, but it was nice to indulge a little bit.

I test again at 28 weeks to make sure everything's still good.

Other than that, things are going pretty smoothly.

He's just been making his presence known and is like a little ninja in my belly.

And everyone can tell now that I'm prego.

I'm just trying to enjoy this second trimester!

It's always my favorite cause I don't feel sick and am not too huge yet.

 



 

Had to add this little gem.

Scarlett's been the sweetest and her new favorite thing is giving LOTS of kisses,

including her newly learned forehead kisses.

Melts my heart :)