Facebook

I joined Facebook this past week, and I have to say that it is incredibly addicting.  It never really interested me until my old friend Matt Richter gave me a hard time about it.  After listening to all the people that he has reconnected with, I had to check it out.  What is nice about it, is no one can see your profile until you "approve" them as a friend.  

The thing about it though, is that you are sometimes found by people you would rather not be found by.  For example, a shady ex-boyfriend that I would rather not ever think about found me and requested to be my friend.  I had no problem saying no to him, because quite frankly...I don't want him knowing what is going on my my life.  Truthfully, he is not my "friend."  I am sure that there are Facebook etiquette rules that I am breaking, but that is ok!

So Facebook is pretty addicting, but with the caveat that it opens the door to be found by ANYONE if they look hard enough!

Winter Wonderland in Texas

So this weekend I went to the Gaylord Texan with my family to see the ICE SHOW.  My parents kept talking about how cool this was, so we decided to give it a try this year.  And by cool, they were not kidding...the room was 9 degrees.  What the ICE SHOW involves is two ballrooms cooled down and turned into a winter wonderland.  They brought in these Chinese Ice Artists in October, and for two months they did nothing but shave ice into these amazing sculptures.  EVERYTHING is made of ice.  AMAZING!  They make everyone put on these giant puffy jackets, and it is literally snowing on you the entire walk through the exhibit.  (Remember that this is an indoor event.)

They had a huge slide room with Santa's Reindeer flying ahead (the man with his hands in the air on the slide is my dad-it was funny to see a room full of adults sliding down giant slides.  Everyone single person coming down had a look of pure joy).

I kept trying to convince Rob to lick the ice, but he reminded me that he had indeed seen A Christmas Story-so he had the smarts not to.

My favorite sculpture of them all was the giant angel and the nativity seen.  It was pretty neat.  So I think that we will make the trip back next year for another "cool" visit.

I Love Kumquat's and Grape's!

So I am back!  I am so excited about my new friends I have.  Thank you for all of the comments.  I am looking forward to being in the "club."

This week I have been all consumed with an appointment that took place at 2 this afternoon.  It is official-Rob & I are having a baby this coming July!!!  We saw a strong heartbeat, and we could not be happier.  

They somehow jipped me in regards to my due date though.  They decided to subtract 2 weeks off of my "pregnancy calender."  I was supposed to be 10 weeks tomorrow, but they told me I am only 8.  Bummer.  This means that my baby no longer is the size of a kumquat but of a grape.  I know I should be thankful that there was a heart beat, which I am...but I was not prepared to turn back the pages in my pregnancy book.  I am mentally past forming the tongue and eyelids-I was ready for skin and leg movement!

So as of this evening, I have decided to split the difference and say that I am 9 weeks.  Not very scientific, I know, but according to their math it is virtually impossible for me to be pregnant...I was traveling for work that week (sorry if that is a little TMI).

So I am not only in the blogging club, I am not also joining the mommy club!  Hip-hip-hooray for Kumquat's (or Grapes)!

So I broke down and joined the club.  I told myself I would not, mainly because I was dragging my heals in the sand about a previous "blog" experience, but in the end...I found myself obsessed with my friends blog.  Obsessed to the point that when I would go to read their blogs, and would find that they had not updated them yet...I would be sad.

I find myself having no words to say.  Maybe I am having bloggers block, or maybe I find myself being surprisingly self conscious of my writing skills.  Anyway, I am now in the club.  I look forward to learning how this whole thing works!