Fun Fact

My Aunt Vicky gave me this really cool book called "The Pregnancy Journal" . You have a "day to day guide to a healthy and happy pregnancy". It's been really fun for Bryson and I have a book to track with the day/week of pregnancy and read a little fact, tip, or advice for each day.

I thought I'd share a very interesting fact that I read this week:
"By the time the baby is born, the fully developed placenta covers 15-30 percent of the space inside the uterus and will weigh 5.5 pounds! The placental tissue itself weighs a mere pound and half, but it takes 4 pounds of blood to keep it functional."

and you wonder why pregnant women get so big and are hot all the time :)

Happy New Years Eve!!

Home Sweet Austin!

After 9 days at my parents house in Houston, we are finally back home in Austin! It felt like a short visit and the drive back felt somewhat normal...but it sure does feel real nice to be back in our cozy home. I'm pretty tired right now and wondering how will I make it through a week of work after having such a long vacation, but here are some highlights of our holiday:

-Kimmy and Ryans wedding!
-Not having to cook!! and being feed delicious food my Dad made for us!
-Ice cream! I seriously think I had a few scoops everyday! oops! and go figure my next doctor appointment has to be this week, lets see what the scale says :)
-Sleeping in!
-Hanging out with Kim and Nick...and surprising Lindsey at work next door!
-Realizing that playing Frisbee 34 weeks pregnant is really hard. I can throw, but if the disc isn't thrown exactly to me, bending down is tough when done in repetition.
-Christmas day. My sister and her hubs, Matt, and their dogs finally got home and we had a good time just visiting with each other.
-AVATAR 3D. oh.my.word. if you haven't seen it. GO SEE IT! Amazing, amazing, a-mazing! after the movie Bryson said "I feel like making a banner saying "go see avatar" just so people know to go see it".
-Teaching my family how to play settlers of catan! we played 2 games in one night!
-Giggle fest. This morning Bryson was making me laugh so hard that it made him laugh and we could not stop laughing, all the while I'm brushing my teeth! Also there were tears rolling down my face! I haven't laugh that hard and long in awhile.

The Newmans

This weekend was the wedding of Ryan and Kimmy!!! It was a beautiful beautiful day!! Since I've been married, I just really enjoy weddings and especially when they are close friends. I think because I know what it means/is like to be married and I'm just so happy my friend gets to experience the joy that God has created in a marriage. Kimmy and I have been friends since about 7th grade, so it was really cool to see her as a bride and remember memories of us growing up. They had a Vietnamese wedding with a Tea Ceremony in the morning (where the Grooms family brings gifts/food and there are speeches from the fathers), then the church ceremony (it was cool cause it was a full catholic mass and half was spoken in Vietnamese) and then the Reception at Kim Son (we had a 9 course Vietnamese meal, and then cake and dancing!) Congrats to you two! Love you very much!

Here are a few pics....
Tea Ceremony

Ceremony


Reception...I didn't get too many, but the cakes were beautiful, especially the awesome Rubic Cube Grooms cake...you can see it in the corner of the pic.


And this is the CYP girls! :) We've all been in each other's weddings and our "last" one is Kim's in 3 months! woohoo

Comments

Today at work was a day of interesting/funny comments about my preggo belly! Seriously I see my co-workers almost 4 times a week and then I mean customers..you never know what they are going to say...

(girl) Co-worker #1- "I mean I know I saw you yesterday but you just look bigger today! I can just tell your shirt is a lot tighter than usual"

My manager- I was telling a story about how I just got flipped the bird for the first time driving the other day. and he said "you're like a care bear, you can do whatever you want!" ...I don't know if he was referring that my physical appearance resembles a care bear or my personality....

Customer (last week)- She nearly started crying when she saw my belly and then started telling me stories about her 11 year old daughter. Then as I re-enacted the story to my other manager he said "she probably nearly cried because she thinks your 17"

Co-worker #2- As I walk by "when are you due again?" "January 28" "oh wow you look like you are about to pop"


All my coworkers are so sweet and it's been fun to share this experience with them! I'm gonna miss them a little during maternity leave. They've told me they forget sometimes that I'm pregnant cause I'm not acting crazy like our old manager was. (they dont see me at home....j/k..kidna :) I think customer's reactions are the most funny (especially this skinny lady came in with her 3 year old and told me when she was pregnant she gained 80 lbs!!! 8-0!) Anyways I have 6 more weeks *hopefully* of pregnancy, and it only gets better :)

Old

You know you're old when you and your husband and 3 friends spend a Friday evening watching travel shows on PBS and dateline.

I'm not going to lie, the travel shows were pretty interesting :)

Rules

Okay so I'm trying to follow some new rules I've set for myself. Of course I break them, but I'm trying...

1. No using my cell phone while driving. "The risk of having a traffic accident while using a cellular phone is the same as that while driving drunk, according to a study appearing in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine." I've been trying to do this for the past month and it is H-A-R-D!! Because of time/life/schedules it is so much easier to make a phone call to a friend while driving somewhere, you have a time limit, its just enough time to catch up and well it makes the drive go faster. But it is so distracting to drive and be on the phone. On the news and through friends so many people have accidents while texting/using their cell! And the fact that I'll be driving with a little girl in the backseat soon, I better start driving more safely.

2. Read one book a month! I love to read, but sometimes I just get lazy and forget I like it so much. Since I finished "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" back in October I've been on the move. I've read "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld. I really liked this book. It had an interesting take on a wife married to a wealthy political man. And well there were some parts in the book when I asked myself "am I old enough to read this?!" But overall even with the inappropriate parts, it all came together for a good novel. And then a friend gave us "BabyWise" and I've been reading that off and on to learn about feeding/sleeping routines. But currently I'm reading "The Time Traveler's Wife". I'm not even half way through but I've already cried. It's really good!

3.Composting and Recycling. We started a compost in our backyard 5 months ago. Mostly because Bryson had extra pallets left over from sculpture installation. And well it's so easy. Since we cook a lot at home we always have left over scrapes of vegetables, heels of bread, egg shells..etc. We just throw it out the door in the compost. We've been able to use the soil to plant and help our friends garden to grow. Also recycling has been a hobby for us. There is so much we would normally throw in the trash that you can recycle instead! Composting and Recycling has really cut down on how much trash we are throwing in the landfill.