I LOVE FALL!

This time of year is one of my favorites! It's the start of all the fun holiday's. I love the cozy feeling of fall! Scott and I love to start watching halloween movies and drinking hot chocolate during the evenings (a nice cheap date!). We just finished watching, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It was a nice way to start off our holidays!

Paris, Rotterdam and Amsterdam!

Ok so we have been home from our trip now for 2 weeks. The day after we got home I got a nice cold and besides going to work I haven't wanted to do anything, including posting stuff on my blog. But I am starting to feel better now so I can finally get back to normal.

Well the first 5 days of our trip were in Paris! Paris was my favorite part. It was beautiful. I can't believe how much history can be in one place. We got to see alot of things in the 5 days there, but there was so much more I wanted to be abe to see. While we were there, we got to see the Eiffel tower, Notre Dame, The Louvre, The Moulin Rouge, a bunch of gorgeous cathedrals, eat at lots of Parisien cafe's and we got try to lots and lots of yummy pastries (100 times better than anything I have ever tasted in my life!) The only bad thing about Paris is that the people there feel the need to pee wherever they want to. If you ever go there and see a puddle on the ground, do not step in it! It's not water!

After Paris, we took a 3 hour train ride up through Belgium (I wish we were able to stop there, it was so beautiful!) and up into Holland. Our first stop in Holland was Rotterdam. I wasn't too impressed with this city, although it was really nice for Scott to be able to stop and see all the cool, modern architecture. It really just reminded me of New York or Los Angelas. We did, however, get to go on a really fun boat tour of the harbor.

Next stop in Holland was Amsterdam. Amsterdam was pretty awesome. I have to admit, I was a little nervous about all the things you hear about Amsterdam (the prostitutes and all the marijuana shops). Well they are there, but no one makes a big deal out of it, so it's not too scary. The first day we were walking along the canal and I looked up at one of the windows and YES! There was a girl in some nice little lingerie, luring men into her room. That was the first of many times we saw these girls. We had to walk through the red light district several times to get to our hotel. Red Light District is exactly how it sounds. Lots of big open windows with red lights over them. Luckily, the girls are covered with their little nighties, so we didn't see anything too crazy (thank goodness). One day we rented bikes and rode around the harbors. It was so pretty! My favorite part of Amsterdam was going to the Anne Frank House and getting to see where she and her family hid for 2 years from the German Nazi's.

Our trip was awesome! I really enjoyed every second of it! Although, I don't know how much I would want to do trip like that again while I am pregnant. I think next time I will wait to have no babies in my belly!




the yummy pastries in paris


us on the streets in paris



the louvre

notre dame

moulin rouge

us at a little outdoor cafe

the eiffel tower

scott by a bridge in rotterdam

rotterdam

cool church by the anne frank house

anne frank house

amsterdam

P.S Scott has all the really cool pictures on his camera so I will have to post some more later.

Belly Bump Update - Holy Cannoli!!

So here is pictures of me at 20 weeks and then again at 24 weeks. No one can say there is nothing there because you can definatley tell there is a baby inside. It is super weird to see the difference only 4 weeks makes. What really scares me is today a client of mine came in and said "Whoa! You have gotten ALOT bigger since I saw you last month!" LOL. Leave it up to a guy to make you feel really good about yourself.


20 weeks


24weeks - I know I look like crap in this picture. Don't make fun!

More Ultra Sound Pics - 22weeks

Here are a couple really cute pictures from my last ultra sound!

Here is the baby's foot! How cute! Although I can't tell it looks like he might have some extra toes in there (Hopefully not!) lol.

This is of him facing us. He looks like he is taking a little nap but you can see a little smile on his face.

He has his eyes open in this one I think. It looks a little more alien like. But he is still going to be one cute kid!

Paris, here I come!

I am sooooo super excited because I just bought my ticket to Paris. There is no holding me back now. Yesterday I thought I should call my doctor just to make sure it was ok that I went out of the country while I was pregnant. He said yes and sure enough ASU emailed Scott with all his flight information so we had to book my ticket right away so I could get on the same flight. We will be spending 5 days in Paris, 2 days in Rotterdam and 2 days in Amsterdam! This is my first time out of the country so I am a little nervous but very excited to experience something new!

Seriously?

Ok, I just got home from my doctor's appt. today and the doctor for sure set my due date to Dec. 12th instead of later in the month. He told me that actually makes me 18 weeks and 2 days along now instead of almost 17 weeks. This pregnancy just keeps getting easier and easier (I need to be careful of what I say or I am going to jinx myself). I seriously love being pregnant so far (except for the gaining weight part).

Oh! and I have been able to feel the baby kicking lately. It happened a few weeks ago but now it keeps getting stronger and stronger. Not strong enough for any one else to feel yet though. It is exciting stuff!

Wicked

Over the 4th of July weekend, Scott and I and his sisters, Kristy and Holly, went and saw the Broadway show Wicked! It was super fun and a really amazing show!