Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Jury duty and Omaha (no relation)


(Linds being squished by baby bellies)

I am actually sitting in the El Paso County Jury room right now hoping that I will not be called back for a trial. There is only 1 judge left to go so I am hopeful my name won't be called, fingers crossed prayers in action. At least I am sitting next to 2 very nice people, one is a woman who had to serve on a jury when she was 8 months pregnant! Can you believe that, they actually picked her, and I thought I would be off the hook, she had me beat by 2 months!

I went to Omaha this weekend, it had actually been almost a full year since I had been there. My friend SC was having her baby shower and I would have been there for anything. It was great being with a pregnant friend, our due dates our only 3.5 weeks apart which is so much fun, just being in the same stage of life together.

On Friday SC Treated me to a “Mommy to be Pedicure” at Xenon and the girl who did my pedicure was a friend and a former small group student. What a pleasant surprise it was, and she is getting married! I can't believe that one of my little 9th grader small groupers is getting married now! Well, she isn't little anymore, but still, so exiting.

Saturday was baby shower morning. We picked up SC's mom and headed over to the Anderson's house where the shower was held. The decorations were so cute, there was a cake made out of diapers, towels, and sparkles, not edible of course. We had brunch food items, the monkey bread was my favorite, and we all got to decorate a onesi or a bib for the mommy to be. My onesi said “ O positive ?” (for those of you who don't understand that refer back to my O positive blog).


(the diaper cake)

As SC unwrapped her gifts we were all captivated by the cute girl clothes, I mean how cute is it that babies get boot cut jeans now, I mean come on! And S.C. continued to unwrap more and more clothes, and more clothes, boy they weren't kidding when they said “you get so many clothes when you are having a girl.” Don't get me wrong, clothes are great, but throw in a bottle or pacifier or something the baby might actually need. S.C did get some great items that were much needed, but next time I go to a baby shower I will be sure to get one of those “not so cute items” that she may actually need.

Saturday afternoon I had an appointment to get my hair cut by Ali, I actually haven't found anyone in Colorado yet, terrible I know, but I am picky and my hair is difficult. Well, the thing is I went to my appointment and Ali wasn't there! Ahhhh, nooo, I had been looking forward to her cutting my hair for almost a year. She had actually come down with a virus, yucky. What are the chances, the one day I am there, she is not, so sad. I had my whole hair washing scheduled planned out for the weekend based on when I was getting my hair cut, and not getting it cut threw off everything!

Overall I had a great time and loved that I got to see some great friends, LC, SC and SB (love ya girls!)



Maya meets Maya



Oh, Jury update. I did get called back to be a possible juror for a trial, I was almost the very last person to be called before everyone got dismissed, of course. Then when they were picking the jury, I was the last person to be sent home, I don't have to serve, few!

Monday, February 4, 2008

pregnancy and pedicures

Monday, January 28, 2008

Chubby?

So today I was slightly insulted by someone I know. We can call her girl X. Girl X had not seen me since mid December so obviously I am looking different that I did back then, I have a baby belly now, as I like to call it. Well, when she saw me today she looks down at me and says, " Oh you are looking Chubby."

Chubby! Are you kidding me, you just called a pregnant woman chubby! Not to mention that fact that she just had a baby so she should know of all people not to call a pregnant woman "Chubby." It is not even a matter if I am really chubby looking or not, its that fact that she called me such a thing! I didn't know what to do I kind of fake laughed, ha, and walked away.

More appropriate terms could have included:
"You are showing more"
"You have a baby belly"
"I can tell you are pregnant now"
"How cute, you have a belly."

"Chubby," "Fat" "Too many burgers lately," are all things that you shouldn't say to a pregnant women even if she does look fat!

I am just wondering why she had to say that to me?

Saturday, January 26, 2008

26 weeks



Baby Maya: An illusion, a dream, from Maia, meaning "the great one/a brave warrior"

26 weeks!

Sorry guys, I have messed around with this for picture a while, and it keeps coming up the wrong way even though it is correct on my computer.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Weddings, family, and baby







I have been bad about blogging.... I have just been waiting for Brett to Download all of our pictures, so that is my excuse, it's not a good one.

January has been full and so much fun! Jacob and Noelle got married! It was a beautiful wedding, and Noelle looked so amazing! They are a great example of a couple who had patience and waited for God's timing. We were able to enjoy lots of time with family, including a late family Christmas, skiing for the boys, a family bridal shower and the release of Fran's ashes. Fran was definitely missed at the wedding.....it was a hard time for Dan.

Brett and I also hosted a few of the groomsmen and their wives at our house, they were easy to please a very helpful. It is always fun to have people from Omaha stay with us (you are always welcome here).

My brother Jordan was just here also. I just dropped him off at the airport this afternoon. It is always fun to have him, he's a great brother and I love that he visits!

Among not so fun things, I spent 3 hours driving home from Denver with my friend Lynae in a random mini blizzard, yeah..... snow + Jenni + driving = anxiety. I don't think the baby likes it either. One good think out of it though, Lynae and I really got to talk a lot a get to know each other better and she is an awesome girl and I love that she is a hygienist!

Baby girl is doing well, I think we have a name for her, "Maya Rose," it's about 97% certain. We don't mind telling people and it's ok if you don't like it, because she is ours :O) I just had a check up today and the Dr. said everything looks great! I had to drink this hawaiin punch glucose thing to check for gestational diabetes, it wasn't that bad except that I had to pee and wait for an hour. Maya loves to have dance parties in my belly at night, so I know we will already get along. It is so much fun to have her move inside of me, it makes everything so real and I have so much joy thinking about her. Only 3 months left!

Upcoming exciting events in February:
-I am going to Omaha for Sarah's baby shower
-My 26th birthday
-I am going home to California
-Jury Duty, it's not really exciting, but it kind of is now because Brett got summoned for it also HA!