Two posts in one night?? Why yes.

Since finding out about my pregnancy, I have been in pregnancy exile. Knowing you have a child inside, it makes you not want to be out. Plus, I should be taking care of myself. Why surround yourself around drinking when you can't do it? I will be the first to admit that I need at least one or two drinks to have fun. How else would I be able to put up with so many of you?

Finally, after hitting four months I decided to head out for the evening. Plus, I got most of my energy back. Not only was it for one night, I went out twice. Can you believe that?

I'll tell you, your life changes when you are in my state. No complaints, though.

So here's quick summary of the weekend :

Julia's Bachelorette. I was the warmest out of the group. I opted for comfortability over outfit. That and you can't really wear much when you midsection is growing.

David G's bday.

That's all folks. I told you it was a quick summary.

Quiet NYE

NYE 09-10 was a quiet one. Since I could not "celebrate" as we usually do, we decided to head out of town for the evening. We decided to go to a bed and breakfast in Brenham, Tx. We booked it for 2 nights, but only stayed one. I woke up New Year's day and was ready to go home.

So here we have our NYE celebration. Please try to contain your excitement:

Michael finally figured out why the tripod was not functioning correctly. Silly man. I have no idea why he is smiling. It was supposed to be candid.



Our NYE snack and read.



On our way to the breakfast part of bed and breakfast.

Currently reading

On top of my usual leisure sci-fi/urban fantasy reading, I am also reading:


I love how they refer to the baby as "model". Like it's some kind of merchandise. It's very informative, although, I have not read too far into it. Some info I already know from experience with other babies. Definitely when it comes to mine, it's going to be different. I actually have to take it home. When it cries, it comes to me. Not me handing it off back to the mom. I'm actually the mom. Yikes.

I'm excited and scared. Typical feelings, right? Right?

Perhaps once the house is in our grasp and we start registering it will feel more real. That or when I actually do start to show. I still look like I ate too much.

What's been going?

So it's been awhile. I don't like to post without pictures because quite frankly, posts are boring without pics. Would you visit my page if I didn't have pics?


So here are a few pics to sum up what has occurred since my last post. Click on the picture to get a full view:

Here we have Hannah's bday on Dec 1 at Hooter's. It was a cold and very rainy day.

Here we are at Julia's Briday Party at The Daily Review Cafe on Dec 5.

Here I am at Eddie and Jessica's wedding celebration on Dec 12 at Hotel Icon
And another one
Finally, at Michael's cousin's bday dinner at Beavers. Her name is Lysa, btw.

So yeah. Not quite so thrilling, right? That's what happens when you can't drink and your clothes start to get tighter and tighter.

It's all about the kids

Kids taking pictures with the grandparents.

Daddy in training.

Future playmates

Baby in a bowl.

With added fruit, we call it baby fruit bowl.

Kids were the main focus this year at Thanksgiving. Last year we only had one. This year we had 3, plus one who was born one day prior. So that's a grand total of 4! We surprised our family at Thanksgiving dinner that by next year, there will be five.

That's right. I'm contributing next year.

Opening Night

Here are two pics from the Cinema Arts Festival opening night last week.

I really enjoyed the movies we watched. "Me and Orson Welles" is worth watching when it comes out next month. It's a comedy set in the '20s. Zac Efron is in there folks. If that's the only way to get you to watch it.

We then watched "Teknolust" with Tilda Swinton. She played 4 different characters. She is unbelievable and quite tall. She's almost 5'11" and when she wears heels she towers. She looks just as great in person as she does in her movies. "Teknolust" is very feminist, so be warned fellas.

Pictures are courtesy of Annie Ray.

Cinema

The husband surprised me with by buying us both badges for the Houston Cinema Arts Festival this week. Yay! Tonight we are going to the screening of Me and Orson Welles at the MFAH. Followed by the post screening reception.

Later this week we will be seeing the Tilda Swinton movie. They won't tell us the name, though, because it's suppose to show have it's big screening at Sundance? Something like that. Anyway, I'm happy we are busy with movie screenings and not drinking.

Hopefully, I get take pics.

Lastly, I leave you with a picture of me and the husband at his birthday party. I had been waiting patiently to wear my March by Marc Jacobs dress. I found it at Barneys Co-Op in San Marcos. The belt was added to make it more fitted. The dress looks better in person.