baby finds...

...and not in the ohmygoshijustfoundthecutestbabyshoesever kind of way. check these out, taken from this.

why eat the placenta when you can have it harvested, cured, and made into a precious toy for your child? new family tradition!

hot dogs kind of gross me out. i don't plan on ever feeding my child cut up hot dog (but i might eat my words on that one)

this one made me crack up because nate is a total cuff link wearer and i think sonograms are kind of weird. maybe this stems from the fact that our x-ray technician printed out the skeletal profile picture of our baby and handed it to us saying, "well, i guess you're having a girl." it looks like i'm growing a skeleton in there. no cute button nose, just creepy bones and eye sockets. disclaimer: i still love this child the same (a lot!) despite not having the traditional "it's a girl!"/three cheers/"here are 20 pictures of your fetus!" kind of ultrasound

and lastly,
what?!

jimmersed in the game

i tolerate basketball.

i never played growing up because we were skiers. we always went skiing as a family every saturday in the winter, meaning basketball was out. i liked the occasional game of p-i-g in my driveway, but let's face it - i'm pretty awful at basketball.

fast forward to nate. he LOVES basketball. lives and breathes the lakers and cougars. spends a good chunk of his life watching and reading espn columns. i try to get into it, but me getting into it translates into watching khloe and lamar's wedding on keeping up with the kardashians. i do love playoff games though, when the stakes are high. and i'll never say no to watching a game in person.

i get that the whole world loves jimmer fredette, and i'll admit that i've liked watching him play this season. but last night, i proved myself. nate was out of town. i had a highly anticipated netflix dvd waiting for me. instead, i watched the byu game. all of it. i cheered out loud and even clapped. AND i watched the sports center conversation after the game. all by myself!

i told nate he better be proud. that's a big step for me. i really do love watching jimmer. basketball, i'll give you a chance.

on to the third

bring on the third trimester! it's hard to believe that we'll have a baby here in less than three months. little miss likes to start moving right when i start sleeping. the other night nate said to my belly hey, settle down in there.

baby stores/websites still overwhelm me. society capitalizes on the new parent market with words like safety and need. there are way too many options for everything. can we have two choices? pink or blue? a or b? this or that? which is why we have nothing yet, except lots of ideas swirling around and some very cute outfits from a very sweet grandma in seattle.

strawberries are my craving of choice. now would be a great time to be living in california, but i settle for the best looking berries at costco. i never get sick of strawberries.

part of this photo shoot did not turn out...awkward neck creases that only i would care about or notice prompted me to cut off my face. but you get the idea...my toes are becoming hard to see.

green

chicago celebrates st. patrick's day the saturday before by dyeing the river green and putting on a parade downtown. we celebrated a friend's birthday too with a basketball game for the boys in the morning, then lunch on michigan avenue.

my coat is getting hard to zip - hence the michelin man look

no crazy drunkards by the river this year...just these beautiful friends

j + b

weddings are on my mind. i love love love weddings.
we are so excited for nate's sister and her fiance...

one of my favorites of these two