The Latest and Greatest

Well,  Here's an update on recent on-goings. I am currently 19 weeks and 3 days along in my pregnancy. Friday March 1st marks my 20th week and half-way point! woo hoo! Pretty excited.  Josh and I have an ultrasound and doctor appointment that day.  The plan is to keep the gender of Baby Janos a secret...but we'll see how I do on Friday when I can SEE my little munchkin! I might not be able to control myself.  Either way, if we do find out, we're not telling..so don't ask! :)  I refer to it as a "he" because I have a hunch that it is a he and...secretly, I hope I'm right. Of course no matter what gender our baby is, I'll be overjoyed and love it the same! So..just be warned. me referring to the baby as a HE doesn't necessarily mean anything!  Here's a photo of me at 19 weeks. You can see my bump!  I have a couple of photos from earlier, but what's the point in showing them when I don't look any different in them than I did before?! 

Pickles wanted to be in the picture too!

 I'm feeling a burst of ambition today, so I think I'm going to look at wedding photos and finally pick out a few to place in the frames that my auntie AJ got for us for our wedding. (finally)  the living room upstairs is coming together and it needs some art on the walls. I think now is the time to focus on the energy I have and make good use of it!

Diana came to stay with me over the weekend. It was fun to have her around. She's been doing great with all the chemo and everything that she's going through, so she felt like it was time to come visit her bestie (that's me) for a bit of a vacation.  She got plenty of time to hang out and relax while I was at work on Thursday and Friday. We got manicures and pedicures on Friday night and Saturday we slept in and laid around all day!  We finally got enough gumption to go to the grocery store and get food for the week on Saturday night...then Sunday she did puzzles while I helped Josh clean. It was nice to have her here. I missed her.  She brought me a ton of maternity clothes and other goodies that she can't/won't use again. I feel pretty lucky to have such an amazing friend. I'm glad she was able to come spend some time.  

Well, that's about all there is to report from Plymouth, MN.  I hope you're all doing well and taking good care of yourselves.  Hope to see you soon!  Lots of love!  ~ M

Nothing New Here...Except the Couch!

I don't have a lot to post about, really.  Last weekend I was surprised by my beautiful cousin, Brianna and her hubby, Chris.  They were in the area (kinda) celebrating her birthday...taking a road trip...and they decided to come up and visit! I felt bad, we didn't have any furniture for them to sit on...but now...now we do!

This past Friday we got a new couch and I've spent my entire weekend on it. It's been awesome...even for 2.5 hr naps. Here are a couple of pictures of it. You'll have to come sit on it sometime. We're going to get a coffee table and an end table with lamp for the one side (where it meets the kitchen linoleum) so it's not complete, but slowly our home is coming together.

Anyway... made monkey bread this morning for breakfast, made enchiladas for lunch/supper and took a really long nap. i think my day is complete.  when's bedtime? I'm exhausted. :)

hope you're all well.

xo