Please Don't Have Any Fun With Out Me!

So I had to laugh at the picture Andrea posted of us from Halloween from 3 years ago.  We were living in Las Vegas, and everyone there thought we were LDS members.  No joke, we were asked weekly if we were Mormon missionaries.  When we would tell them no, they would just say that we struck them as being so "innocent."  It was kind of annoying at the time, but looking back it was probably a good thing to be perceived as innocent in "sin city."  Right?  So for Halloween we went to a party, and we ended up winning the costume contest that night.  Everyone there already thought we were Mormon's so when they figured out that we were not, the joke was on them.

I am incredibly jealous that I will not be in on the fun visiting the Rantz family, but unfortunately a road trip for us would take a little longer than a couple of hours to make it up to the Pacific Northwest.  I am thinking it would take us 4 days...Don't have any fun with out me!

Well, today I am officially 20 weeks-half way there.  I feel like I have been pregnant forever.  It is not as if I am uncomfortable or anything, but when thinking back about when we found out in November-that seems like a lifetime ago!  So the baby is the size of cantaloupe, and I am finding that I don't enjoy the produce section at the store anymore.  Looking at a cantaloupe makes me cringe.  The baby is beyond the size of anything that doesn't make me say "ouch!"  I know that I am certainly not the first woman to go through this, and I am sure I will work this out one way or another-but ignorance is bliss sometimes!!!

So I am about to confess something that will make me an even bigger nerd than I already am...tomorrow is the big garden show here in FW, and I can hardly wait.  I feel like it is Christmas Eve.  I am meeting my dad there in the morning, and we can geek out about all the seminars and plant things they will have there.  I am most excited about the rose seminar.  I planted 4 new rose bushes (two of which are yellow in honor of my state), and I can't wait for growing season to officially begin.  I am making Rob "scalp" the yard this weekend.  Poor guy.  He puts up with my yard/flower obsession, and even more so now because I can't lift half of the things I used to be able to.  Scalping is an incredibly dirty and time consuming job, but it makes for a beautiful green lawn all summer long.  Yeah!!!!  Warm weather is around the corner.

By the way Andrea, I am perusing my pictures to find a great one to share...I don't know what it will be, but it will be a good one!

Tuesday Tip on Thursday

So my new favorite dish is anything with Bison.  (That is right...I love buffalo meat.)  I have never been adventurous with meat, but I have struck up a friendship with our butcher at our grocery store- and he swears by it.  I had been toying with the idea of trying it because it is actually leaner than chicken breast, and my husband actually has a mild allergy to red meat-so I am always looking for a meat he can eat that has plenty of iron for me.  (By the way, I don't eat other gamey meats.  I can't touch venison, elk, etc.)

The first time I prepared it, I made it in our crock pot with celery/carrots/onions and one of those lipton onion packs-cooked it on high for 6 hours, and it was amazing.  I am not great in the kitchen, so for me to produce something that is fantastic is amazing in itself.  I am making another dish with it as we speak in the crock pot.  Since work has picked up again, I don't have the time to cook these days....so the crock pot does all the cooking these days.

So next time you are in the grocery store and are feeling adventurous-try bison.  It really tastes just like beef, but is healthier than chicken!

So this blogging this is proving to be a challenge for me!  So to my blogging friends, I applogize.  I started back to work right back after Christmas, and I spend all my time on my work computer which I can't use to blog...Big Brother is watching!

So I think I only have 5 Tuesday Tips to come up with, and then my blogging will be caught up.  Let's see...where do I begin?

So this whole pregnancy thing is pretty funny to me.  I feel at times as if I am taking crazy pills!  I never thought I would love elastic waist pants in the way that I do.  I actually said out loud that I never wanted to go back to pants that have zippers and buttons.  (I was then informed that the elastic does get old.)  I then had to remind myself that I want my husband to think that I am sexy after all is said and done, and full elastic pants are not the way to do it!  

The other surprising thing for me is how much men in general love pregnant women.  I have been spending my time with a bunch of orthopaedic surgeons these days, and they have never been nicer to me.  Normally they ignore my presence until they need something from me, but now I feel like I walk around with a halo over my head.  I LOVE IT!  Poor Rob did not make it to the door of a restaurant the other day fast enough to open it up for me, and he was actually scolded by an elderly gentleman.  He said something about looking out for his wife and unborn child...Rob looked like a deer in the headlights!  Poor guy, had I only not been in such a hurry to sit down and eat-he would have made it to the door before me.  

We have decided to wait on finding out the gender of the baby, and I am really starting to get curious.  While I know that I am only 17 weeks, another 23 weeks is a long time to wait!  Even still, I will hold strong, because I want that experience at least once.

So here is my Tuesday Tip #1 on Thursday:  Wear Elastic Pants...they are a great form of Birth Control.