I'm going to Twirl

It's Time!

Time to announce the news officially. The news that I've been waiting since the Saturday after Thanksgiving to share.
Ryman and I are very excited; I'm 16 weeks 3 days as of today and will be 17 weeks on Saturday. Our estimated due date is July 28th and although I've been very nauseated, sick at all times of the day and have carpel tunnel like a 75 year old, I'm happy as ever to be pregnant!

The beginning was scary, with the extra ultrasounds and the waiting, but seeing the heartbeat and watching the little one squirm and kick all over the place during the genetic testing during week 11 makes it all worth it.

Our little one likes to wave! The below is from 10 weeks 5 days.

And here we are at 11 weeks 5 days (this machine was much fancier and as a result we have somewhat fancier pictures!) Here we are again with more waving ;-) & the second photo below- both hands are up! We're thinking he or she likes to give double high fives, but it's just a guess.

We have an appt this Friday and I'm hoping to have more pictures to post afterwards. I've been unsure about when to post and then tonight after we got home from dinner at our favorite restaurant (and after I threw up the entire meal minutes after walking in the door) it just seemed like the right time.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I hope you got to show love to those closest to you today.

Matchy Match

Well hi! It's been waaay too long since my last post and because I took a ridiculous picture of myself today to send to my husband (to prove that I wear the glasses he got me for Christmas) I thought I'd jump back into it and say HELLO!

I hope December was warm and fuzzy and filled with Holiday goodness and I hope January and all of it's back to the grind has helped you have a great 2012 so far.

In our little world, things are changing, we're moving in about 5 weeks, we're working more than ever and trying to stay as happy and as positive as possible. I'm clearly extremely bored on a Saturday and doing silly things to keep busy like matching my lipgloss to my sunglasses. 

Have you done anything ridiculous and then documented it for everyone to see recently?

More wonderful ridiculousness to come soon.

It's been 30 Days

Today is the last day in November and I did it! I completed NaBloPoMo and wrote a blog post for every single day in the month of November. Thank you for sticking it out with me through my random posts about whatever and my blurry iPhone pictures of really nothing at all.

I'm going to try and keep the writing up and keep the blog more active than it has been previous to NaBloPoMo - but I also want to give your inbox a break, so maybe I'll have something interesting to share in a few days.

I thought all day about what today's post should consist of and came up with nothing. Then tonight getting off the train in the East Bay, I saw the glow of the skyline looking back over towards the bay and it was stunning! My phone didn’t do the best job of capturing it, but at least you can get an idea about what it looked like.

Thank you again for hanging out with me this month. YOU make me happy and I want to hug you.

Hibernate

I promise that picture posts don't mean I have nothing to say. It's almost the opposite, but these two silly photos (silly in that they are nothing special) are very telling because these short days and long nights have the Tolentino household doing mostly this.

Yes, I tried to take a nap- even with my boots on & the husband's attempt to get me up resulted in him using me as a body pillow. Do the long nights and cold weather make you more tired than usual? I feel like I should be hibernating.

Change Monday

We are dorks and there is seriously no way around that little and very obvious fact. As you can tell I'm running on a little bit exhausted and a little bit really exhausted tonight, so a photo post it is!

I hope the last Monday in November was good to you, go take a silly picture if it wasn't. It will help remind you not to take things so seriously. Just looking at this photo reminded us and totally changed Monday.

Starting with Tea

How much caffeine do you have every day? I’m trying to switch to tea because I’ve been getting caffeine headaches like crazy. In an attempt to LOVE my tea as much as I love a latte, I took this picture of my chamomile today. It was good, yes, but I must have put a little too much lemon because it was also bitter (I refused to add a packet of sugar). I’m also trying to drink more water and less diet coke… I know I sound nuts, but I’m tired of not being as healthy as I possibly can be.

Making little choices that will hopefully over time make a big difference, is what I'm going to try and do. If you were going to give up something small to try and be a little healthier what would it be? A little less salt or sugar, a half an hour less of TV per day? It makes me laugh out loud to think that I’m starting with a tiny cup of tea, but we've all got to start somewhere!

The Day <3

I hope your Saturday was as great as mine was! Today my husband actually had the entire day off from work to spend with me and I really must say it was probably one of the best days we’ve had together in a very long time. We didn’t do anything super fancy, we didn’t spend a ton of money or do anything particularly out of the ordinary, but I’m happy to report that in one way or another today was a game changer for sure.

We had an amazing breakfast in SOMA (South of Market near downtown SF) and afterwards walked over to the international auto show, which seriously had my husband smiling from ear to ear. We picked up a few necessities at the store and browsed around Barnes & Noble for a good hour. The day was slow, relaxed and still packed full of wow, this is fantastic. Do you ever have days like this one where it seems like the world around you clicks and suddenly all the pieces fit right?

I know it might seem silly, but today and its seemingly regular stuff has made me over the moon happy- and I’m not going to question it.

Fancy Oatmeal from The Grove (we sat right next to the fireplace) that I wish would appear at my desk every weekday morning promptly at 8:30am.

I was VERY into the new beetle (VW holds a special place in my heart as the first words I ever said to Ryman were: 'Is that your red VW in the parking lot?' Good thing it turned out to be his, and even better that I had my white VW parked right next to it <3)

The Fiat was cute too, but not as cute as the VW. Apparently in this picture I'm very worried about checking my blind spot-? I can't think of any other reason why I wasn't looking at the camera...

I really can't pin point exactly why today was so great, (well maybe I can and I'm just not telling?) but I can say for sure that we needed a day like this and I hope the next time one pops up in your week, you relish in it a little longer than usual.

Flashback

Looking through old photos from last Thanksgiving I came across this one of Adam and I that I took while we were watching the parade on TV. It is obviously off center and ridiculous, but at least is shows that we have similar color eyes? Yes, I'm grasping at straws here, I know :) My sister's baby is just such a gorgeous little dude; I can't help but show him off a bit.

I didn't get to see him this year for the holiday and I think that's probably why I'm missing him so much. His big huge 3rd birthday party is on Sunday and I'll get to take hundreds of photos of him (-this is a warning-) so I'm really looking forward to it. Looking at this also made me realize how much he has grown in a year!

Children grow up so fast and things change so much in their little lives all around them. It's amazing how resilient they are and how they make it through without losing an ounce of cuteness. 

Last year-

Earlier this month-

Thankful

There is so much to be thankful for. This year it’s almost impossible to list it all. Our health, our happiness, our family and pups. The ridiculous amount of food we ate today, our jobs (at the best place to work in the bay area according to The San Francisco Business Times – yes I’m bragging and yes I know it’s impolite). Our friends and all the happiness they bring into our lives.

I think most of all I’m thankful for the future and the possibility and the unknown of what is just around the corner for us. When I asked Ryman what he is most thankful for during dinner tonight and he said that he couldn’t narrow it down to just one thing, so I guess his man answer is officially EVERYTHING.

While visiting with my mom and grandma this morning (cinnamon rolls were involved!) I saw my great grandmother’s old recipe card for spice cake and I just had to take a picture so you could see it too, it’s not as old as the recipe itself, but to see it in her handwriting was pretty awesome. My grandma and I sipped coffee and ate pumpkin bars and then my mom and I chopped onion and garlic and celery until there wasn’t any left. It was a really great morning.

Then it was time to head home and start the cooking, it was really fun to prep everything and put it all together, Ryman’s only job was the turkey and I took care of everything else. He also set up practically an entire studio in our kitchen and took hundreds of photos of me cooking. It was hysterical. Thank goodness for marriage cause I couldn’t have done it alone! We had a delicious meal, realized we made WAAAY too much food and the dishes are still sitting in the sink as I type.

I hope your day of thanks was as perfect as ours. I also want you to know how very thankful I am for you. Reading this right now is taking time out of your day to read what I have to say and it means a lot to me. Probably more than I’ll ever be able to properly express to you.  Please take these silly words at what they are, my mere attempt to show gratitude to YOU.

Pictures on TV

Today is another attempt at Wordless Wednesday. Two ridiculously mundane things happened today, brace yourself- I had an eggnog latte as a special treat to celebrate the holiday and then I watched Gone With The Wind after work while waiting for Ryman to get home. That movie is so fantastic that I just HAD to take pictures of it. The colors and everything were just so pretty. Not to mention romantic.

So even though they kind of look awful, I'm sharing them anyway :p I wish I had a way to make up for forcing you to read such a lacking post today. NaBloPoMo is really kicking my behind on days like this. Oh well, all I can really say is EGGNOG LATTE.