Baby Belly Photoshoot

My big sister Heather is an amazing photographer. She was just here visiting for a week and on our way home from the zoo on Saturday we stopped at the DC temple and she did a little photoshoot of me as a pregnant lady! Here are the pics!

Sister Visit

My sister, her husband & their adorable two yr old left us on Sunday after being here for a week. Now our house feels very empty and toyless! We had so much fun while they were here!

On Saturday before Ken (Heather's husband) flew out to Florida for a conference, we all took a trip to the park for a picnic. It was such a nice day!

Talia, Ken & Eric playing

Monday we drove to Silver Spring to visit Jacquie! We had lunch at our new favorite joint-California Tortilla, and mostly relaxed at Jacquie's house with a little shopping on the side. I had quite the traumatic experience at the mall with Talia. I was watching her while Heather looked in Gap Kids and she wanted to go on the "alligator" (escalator). It was the kind where only one person can fit on the step. Talia was trying to get on by herself but kept falling back when she tried to step on alone & I had the stroller with our purses in it. It was a disaster because I couldnt hold her up and take the stroller up at the same time. she decided she was going up whether I had the stroller or not so obviously i had to choose Talia over the stroller. We went up the escalator and the stroller stayed at the bottom with our purses. I was freaking out. I grabbed Talia, ran up the escalator and around the mall (of course the down escalator had to be on the other side of the mall) and back down and around to where the stroller was. Luckily it was still there. needless to say I was very out of breath and stressed out by the time i got to it. at least talia is alive and our purses weren't stolen :)

Tuesday we went shopping and got some maternity clothes and baby clothes and got my baby registry done at target. thank goodness for heather being there to help me because i had no idea what to register for! it was so nice to have someone to go maternity shopping with and baby clothes shopping with. yay for a pregnant sister!

me and Talia in front of my apt. with the pink flowers

Wednesday we went to my ob gyn apt. and i am pleased to announce that i have now gained 17 lbs! This is the only time that i will be pleased about gaining weight. haha After a quick stop by my work to resolve some issues, we ventured on to the outlets in pennsylvania! we didnt find any crib bedding at pottery barn but we did find lots of cute baby clothes!

Thursday we relaxed in the morning and picked up Ken from the airport that night. Then we took them to experience the deliciousness of five guys burgers and fries.

Friday night we went to the Cheesecake Factory (where else? this is becoming a routine in our lives)

Saturday we finally made it to the zoo! We made it there a little later than planned and i think all of the animals were retiring for the day because we didnt see much action. it was still fun though and we got a good workout walking around all day. on our way home we dropped by the dc temple and did a little maternity photoshoot. heather is an amazing photographer, and even though they were done after a sweaty day at the zoo i think we got some good shots! (i'll post some pics of the zoo and the photoshoot when i can get them from heather)

Sunday we said good bye and of course i cried. We'll miss our little visitors! Don't worry, they left behind a pajama shirt, talia's toothbrush and some little girl elastics for us to remember them by. Thanks for visiting us Olsen Family! We love you!

little talia doing the 'fishy face' i taught her :)

Weekend Adventures

This post is a little late, but I've been waiting to write until I could get a picture of my new curtains actually hanging up! But before I display that, I'll tell you about our fun weekend! We have had so many good weekends lately!

On Friday I drove to Silver Spring to see Jacquie! We had the best day, it was so good to be back together again and have so many adventures like old times. We mostly spent the day shopping (what else would we do?) in downtown Silver Spring, which I might add is so cool! We went to California Tortilla for lunch-so good! Then we journeyed over to Pier 1 which is where I found my beautiful curtains! Luckily I had my Jacko with me, because she spotted the deal. Here they are!

We also spent a decent amount of time in Ulta looking at all the make up and nail polish and smelling all the perfumes. We each got 2 new nail polishes (and painted our toes when we got home).
Then we went to Ikea and obsessed over our favorite room-the black and white room. It's awesome and one day we'll both have a room just like it. haha Later that night Eric drove down and we played a little guitar hero until Ryan got back from selling and then we all went to the Cheesecake Factory. It was an excellent day!

Saturday we went to the driving range with our friends, the Cherry's! Here are a few pics (that I stole from Serena's page).
Chris helping Lane with her swing. (Eric's taking pointers for when he has to teach ours)

Chris & Eric

Then we went and got some delicious sushi (cooked for me and Serena). Later that night we went to dinner with our friends, the Mcdowell's, at Strapazza which was very tasty and then we ventured over to watch the UFC fights with Kye & Aaron again.

So that was our fun filled weekend. Tonight my sister Heather, her husband Ken & their little girl, Talia will arrive-so there will be many more adventures to come (but they probably won't make it to the blog for a week or two)

nail update

because i know you're all dying to know. (but mostly because i'm really bored at work) so it's almost been 2 weeks since my goal not to bite my nails and i must say i've done pretty good. none of my nails are massively short and they all still look fairly decent. there have only been a few mishaps when i havent had nail clippers near where i had to do a little 'evening out'.
so i should have my elephantastic pink nail polish now, right? wrong. the stupid stores are always out of the colors i want. why do places like ulta and sephora only carry like 2 of each color when opi comes out with a new line? it's unacceptable. so i'll have to keep checking back which is annoying when i deserve my reward.
i must admit, i did buy cajun shrimp (another delightful color from rip-off opi) before my week was even up so maybe this is my punishment. :)

2 Birthdays & a Visit

This weekend we celebrated Eric's Mom & Brother's Birthday's. On Saturday we went to Bonefish Grill for Kye's Birthday. Here we are with our bang bang shrimp-the best appetizer ever, it is sooo yummy!

On Sunday we went over to Eric's parent's house for his mom's birthday. Here is the cake we made her! (complete with a little pregnant belly action)

Sunday night we had my bff Jacquie & her husband Ryan stay with us. They are going to be living in Maryland for the summer while Ryan manages an office for Pinnacle! We can't wait to spend more time with them, it was so fun seeing them again! We didn't take any pictures while they were here but here is a pic of us with Jacquie at their wedding last December.

Bad Habit

habit: nail biting

goal: no biting for 3 months*

yesterday i removed 9 white tipped acrylic nails. 9 because 1 came off on its own which led to the removal of the rest. i don't feel like going to get them done again so i am going to try really hard to salvage them. my nails suck and they break/tear/split really easily. i'm not sure if this is because i've always had a nail biting problem or if it is genetic. either way it's annoying. so far i have applied clear nail polish 5464454564 times today, picked it off and reapplied it.

*also today my mom told me to find out if you can have acrylic nails when you go in to deliver your baby because she took her friend for surgery and they made her remove hers. does anyone know the answer to this?

for these 2 reasons (being too lazy to get them done again & possibly not being able to have any during labor) i need to let my own nails grow.

if i can go 1 week without any of them getting shorter i am rewarding myself with this little treat.

it's called elephantastic, it's from the spring/summer 2008 collection and i want it. bad.

Cute Husband, Baby Stuff & Fight Night!

Eric is so cute. He just randomly came home with roses for me on Tuesday, it was so unexpected! I made him pose with them & I told him to look like he was proud of himself. haha
We also went to pick up our stroller Tuesday night! Our first big purchase for the baby! (well my parents' first big purchase-thanks mommy & daddy!) I had to pick a unisex one which was really hard because unisex usually means it looks more like it's for a boy than a girl, but I finally found one that I really liked! Of course the second Eric saw it he said it was definately more girly, but I think it works for both. This picture doesn't really do it justice, it looks way prettier in person. This past weekend was really fun, Saturday night we got takeout at Chili's with some friends and then got coldstone. We watched Into the Wild at their place, it was nice to just visit and relax!

Last night we went to Eric's parent's to watch the UFC fights with Kye & Aaron. Aaron brought pizza's-one with jalepenos which they were obsessed with trying to get each other to eat and Kye made his famous, delicious crab cakes! It was fun hanging out with the boys and I actually don't mind watching the fights!

I know this post is really random, but I guess I had some catching up to do! Yesterday after work I didn't feel like going straight home so I stopped off at Target and just walked around-which is never a good idea because I ended up spending a little more than planned. We put up a little glass shelf in our bathroom a few months ago and I never found anything for the top shelf so I ended up getting a few things for it. I think it looks cute and helps our ugly apt. bathroom be a little more attractive for now. :)

I also discovered a new body wash-dove grapefruit & lemongrass-i love it! Anyways, enough randomness for now...