8 Weeks and Counting

Officially I'm due June 10, 2009. Which sounds so much farther away than saying that I'm 1/5 or 20% of the way done with the pregnancy. I try to be optimistic, which is difficult as your hovering over a toilet. However, I haven't had it too bad and the second trimester is just around the corner. Here I am at 8 weeks, (Sunday, Nov. 2nd) and this is my official starting silhouette starting point.

Da Halloweeners!

Our Halloween costumes were in fact inspired by our always-eye-catching mutt Bowser. I wanted to bring one of our dogs to the ward trunk or treat, but I just couldn't convince myself to dress up as Dorothy again and have 60-pound Toto. Therefore, the creative juices, such as they are, started to flow. Thankfully, some random person a few weeks ago asked me if Bowser was a Dalmation (a 110 pound Dalmation?!?!) and that gave me the firefighter idea. Since I'm a girl and wanted to have a 'family theme', I figured what better costume to represent our fiery relationship than for me to be a walking flame? Thence our costumes were born. We had a lot of fun and Ammon declares that Bowser was the talk of the event.