15 weeks and counting

 

There's a baby on the way in our family! 

I am just over 15 weeks and feeling great.  We are extremely excited and enjoying every minute of this adventure.  Nursery plans are underway, babymoon is booked, and names are being discussed.   And we have joined team green - we are waiting until birth to find out the gender.

Maybe you noticed the lack of posting this fall?  During the first trimester I never was sick but omg was I tired.  I was falling asleep by 8pm and the last thing I could even think about doing was staring at a computer after being at work all day.  And then when I have been on the computer I have been researching baby stuff.  So there will most definitely be posts about nursery decor and such in the near future and lots of pins on pinterest about baby stuff.

Save Room for Cake

Dan did a really good job making my birthday special, let's talk about the food... he decided on a French theme and it was the yummiest of birthdays.  He made crepes with homemade blueberry sauce for breakfast, got the good French chocolate to make my cake, filling it with Bonn Maman preserves, made coq au vin for dinner while we sipped with a fantastic bottle of red wine from Saint Emilion (one of the places we visited on our trip last year) and listened to the French Cafe station on Pandora, we finished of the day off with a bottle of clique veuve champagne and a slice of that deeelicious cake.  I have felt totally spoiled this weekend.

The Third Year

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated our third wedding anniversary.  I think that this year was the best one yet.

Since I am the designated family photographer in our house there tends to be less pictures that include the both of us.  Last August I decided to try a little project of taking a monthly photo of us.  I had a vision of cute, stylized photo sessions throughout the city... and reality was that more than a few months I had us setting up the tripod the very last day of the month.  The photo for January was taken at 10:30pm on January 31st!

But I think the collection is fairly reflective of our year and in the end that is what makes the photos valuable to us.  This is a project that I hope we keep up for many years. 

Guitar 1

Tonight is my first guitar class.  I am not going to lie- I have this dream of playing guitar/singing fun songs with my family in our waterfront vacation home after a day filled with jumping off the dock and sailing a sunfish.  The talent show scene from Dan In Real Life is so sweet... maybe this future family of mine will completely copy this and have a talent show too.

Blogger ABCs

The 'blogger ABCs' posts have been showing up all over the place in my reader this week so I decided to jump on that bandwagon and do one of my own.  It has been a long time since I did a post like this but it is fun to see random similarities with other bloggers so thought I would join in!  And because I rarely if ever post a pic of myself... here is a blurry one to start off my ABCs!

A. Age - 32

B. Bed size - Queen

C. Chore you hate - Putting away clean laundry, hand washing dishes.

D. Dogs - Always.

E. Essential start to your day - A cup of coffee and a warm shower.

F. Favorite color - Varies frequently but often seen are ocean or sky blues, pink (either a saturated or a pale, never the middle shades), grass or pistachio green 

G. Gold or silver - Silver

H. Height - 5'2"

I. Instruments - Flute and oboe but not since high school

J. Job title - Senior Marketing Manager

K. Kids - Yes, someday

L. Live - Two-flat, Roscoe Village, Chicago

M. Mom’s name - Marcia

N. Nicknames - T, Tara-bera

O. Overnight hospital stays - Never

P. Pet peeve - Don't have one.  Just kidding!   People who walk in a herd on the sidewalk and don't fall inline to share the path with others (you can see people coming towards you even if you are a huge group!), people who cross the street on a green left turn arrow (especially bad on Michigan Ave), people who stop at the entrance of a revolving door thus causing a traffic jam... (yikes, too many?)

Q. Quote from a movie - Every since watching Family Man during the holidays the quote in my house has been "What about my mary janes?" (but only at home!)

R. Right or left handed - Right

S. Siblings - Two older sisters and a younger brother

T. Time you wake up - During the week my alarm goes off at 6:01 and I am up at 6:19

U. Underwear - Always

V. Vegetables you dislike - Brussel sprouts... and raw celery

W. What makes you run late - Trying to do too much in the alloted time

X. X-Rays you’ve had - Teeth

Y. Yummy food you make - Banana cake

 
Z. Zoo - favorite animal - Animals in zoos make me sad.  But I love the ones that swim (penguins, otters, dolphins...) and the monkeys.