erin and i took lily on her very first trip to barton springs today! it is truly one of my favorite places in the world and i can't wait to actually share it with her.

disclaimer: when viewing the following pictures, don't try to adjust the color and contrast on your monitor... i AM that white.

woo hooooo!!

the three girls

ahhh.... floating feels so good!

out of curiosity, or perhaps just being sadist, i checked the weight classes for boxing online to see what class i'd be signing up for these days as the pounds keep packing themselves on. i was hoping to call myself a 'heavyweight' but was surprised to see you have to hit the 200 pound mark to claim that esteemed title.

as it stands these days, i'm apparently a "light middleweight". that just doesn't have the same ring to it... i'm hoping to make it at least to "middleweight" in the next 6 weeks.

if anyone wants to help me out, give me a call and we can hang out at amy's ice cream all afternoon. i mean, come on, a girl's gotta have her goals.

my favorite quote of the week:

"Hillary Clinton is dropping 'Rodham' from her name. Now if she'd only drop 'presidential' and 'candidate'."
-Stephen Colbert

for those of you out there wondering how sweet and romantic kevin has been since i got pregnant, i thought i'd share his latest outpouring of love.

i received this e-card in my inbox today:

in case you think you're having a bad day... at least you're not THIS GUY.

the 911 calls make for a nice added bonus ;)

katy's bachelorette party was this weekend! we had such a good time :)

most of the day was spent laughing

we started off at george's. (our favorite dive in college)

it was a proper reunion- complete with kappa wear!

the lingerie party induced more laughter...

everyone was having fun!

the cops almost arrested katy for being too single.

all in all, it was a blast!

on the way home we hit traffic in hillsboro and befriended 'paw paw' the leathery biker

mary and pooh are paw paw's bitches now.

for the whole album of weekend pics - go HERE and enjoy!

i don't know if you guys are ready for this or not, but i thought i'd let you know how hot i am in a bikini right now.

i mean i don't mean to make you girls jealous of my washboard abs or anything... but i know you will be. its just human nature. don't feel bad about it, okay?

7 months pregnant.... H O T!

i was also going to post my "before" picture, but its just too sad really, so i couldn't bring myself to do it. :)

today's vocabulary word is: sniss

sniss: verb
the unintentional release of urine while sneezing. created by combining the words 'sneeze' and 'piss'. aka. another lovely seldomly discussed benefit of pregnancy.

oh the things you learn in life that you wish you never knew... i'm a snisser. if i don't have fair warning that a sneeze is coming on, my panties better watch out. this has been happening with regularity since about week 25 of pregnancy.

the good news is, i think this will most likely go away once lily makes her debut. which would be nice because i am going to have enough diapers to change without having to wear depends myself.

so in the wise words of the old lady in the movie billy madison, "if peeing in your pants is cool, consider me miles davis."

following is an actual transcript of a conversation i had today in the elevator on my way up to the gym - this took place in the span of 7 floors.

guy: so, mom's working out huh? (pointing at my stomach)

me: well mom is trying!

guy: how long do you have left?

me: 8 weeks - i'm due in july

girl in corner: do you know what you're having?

me: a girl!

guy: i actually saw cocker spaniel puppies being born this weekend and man, those little things just suck on their mom like crazy. so good luck with that!

me: um..... ok thanks?

happy memorial day!

and a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to dad!!

i talked to dad this morning to wish him a happy birthday. when i asked him how '60' felt so far, he said his run was great this morning! i just laughed and said, "i imagine any running at 60 is a victory in and of itself!" he laughed and said "i was thinking exactly the same thing!"

i asked if he had any special plans for today and he said that his basset hound is taking him to whataburger for breakfast.

here are fun pics from the weekend:

the whole family

lucy's down with the homies

gotta love a baseball game in the rain

charlie shows off his new shirt

he's so tiny!

what a sweet big sister

as if there aren't enough things making me feel old these days now that i'm 7 months pregnant, i realized the advertisement for my new favorite radio station is "songs from today and back in your school days"

i officially listen to the new version of my mom's oldies station.

sad, but true. but just in case you're in the mood for some good dance music today, check out movin 107.5! :)

i wish you all could have been in my parents' living room about 2 minutes ago...

we are watching the finale of the bachelor and on one of the previews i spotted tessa's blue dress in the corner of the screen when he is proposing and i started screaming!!

then we re-wound the tivo and all three of us screamed in unison when we saw the dress again!

i hope we aren't wrong. bevin is a little skanky for my taste, from the tramp stamp tatoos to the cheeseball comments...



...as an addendum to this post i'd like to add that when the bachelor told bevin she was going home my mom started singing "u-g-l-y, you ain't got no alibi, you ugly!"

just in case anyone was wondering where my 'crazy' comes from... meet vicki donovan, bevin hater and serious apollo anton ono fan

and now for the senseless moment of the day:


haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator

you decide: freudian slip or wishful typing?

(cnn incorrectly captioned blair's resignation speech)

kudos to jay for finding this one!!

thanks to the picture-taking-wonder also known as erin tyrrell, i have a bunch of cute pictures from the weekend to share!

the donovan family

what a sweet big sister!

proud aunt... again!


sleepy charlie

lucy and i had a slumber party at GaGa & Moon's house

silly girls

moon let us play in his pool!

morning on the porch

lucy was full of smiles!

artie and patsy show me some puppy love

i don't know if i can blame this on pregnancy hormones or this being my first 'pseudo' mother's day, but i love this commercial.




for the record, i am fully aware of how cheesy i am... but it makes me tear up everytime i see it!

its a BOY!!!!

welcome, charles henry donovan

born 11:48 am, may 10, 2007
8 pounds, 11 ounces

i will have better non-camera phone pics soon!! :)

jet is here!! tiffany had their sweet baby boy on thursday and we got to meet him in austin on friday.

i just snapped this pic of casey sitting on the stairs looking out the window...

doesn't it look like he's having a great laugh??

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

i really hate to perpetuate stereotypes, especially when they have little basis in reality, but today i am literally barefoot and pregnant.

about an hour into my day my right flip flop broke. my cherished $5 gold k-mart flip flops that, believe it or not, i get compliments on ALL the time... they died!! : (

to really understand the gravity of the situation, i must say that when i emailed my sister this information, she actually closed the door to her classroom at school and called me to see if i was okay. the girl has called me from work maybe 5 times EVER and this warranted a call...

so not only have i been walking around barefoot all day (including trips to the bathroom, just call me 'britney' from now on)... but after lunch my project manager walked up to my desk and said "Hey! You're pregnant and I need chocolate - do you know where any chocolate is?"

i replied with an indignant "well i don't think its fair to assume that just because i am with child that i would have any idea where any chocolate is!"

as he turned to walk away and continue his search, i let him know that there are reeses peanut butter cups in a glass jar on the bookshelf in christi's office.

dammit. i just can't win today! :)

have you ever thought you were about to let out a s.b.d. (silent, but deadly) fart in your cube at work and when it comes out its anything but silent.... so you are left wondering who is at their desks around you and if anyone else heard it?

me either! who does that kind of stuff? gross! :)

this weekend was bea's first ever trip to austin. she had a blast!

the two of us girls (well i guess all three of us technically) went on a walk saturday morning and i took this pic:

a contemplative bea imagines her life among the cacti and bluebonnets...

it was such a productive weekend, but was incredibly tiring! aaron and lindsey hosted us thursday night and bea got to get some of her energy out with her new buddy, stoneleigh the lab :) even though it was a busy weekend, we got to squeeze in a trip to our favorite spots and ate at z tejas, maudies, AND hyde park grill!! yumm....

i have SO much to look forward to...

i wonder what kind of day its going to be when you wake up with the pointer sisters' "neutron dance" stuck in your head...



i wish i was kidding... happy wednesday!

ps - bonus points to anyone else who can spot balky from 'perfect strangers' in the video.

today's post is dedicated to miss mary michelle martin, who was kind enough to take me on a date for my anniversary and who is always looking for a giggle:

an oldie... but a goodie....

i have been trying to finish this month's book club selection like a mad woman this week since we meet today and actually immensely enjoyed the book - which i wish i had the discipline to read and absorb slowly but instead had to quickly devour and in the process probably missed out on some of its value.

i read this passage the other day and it just struck a chord with me:

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it.

eat, pray, love by elizabeth gilbert

bea is a total slut for anything remotely soft that she can sit or lay on. i'm not even talking about the couch or a bed (which would clearly be her first choice). this girl will create a makeshift pillow or bed out of just about anything.

i'm folding clothes right now in my living room and turned to throw another clean towel on the stack i had going and this is what i saw...

gotta love her.

while i get ready for work, i tend to leave the back door open so that the dogs can come and go. i found bea hunting a squirrel this morning....

first she hides to stalk her prey...

a view of her crouched position from the front...

the squirrel taunting her from a tree...

close up of the squirrel in question...

after a fruitless mad dash toward the tree, which of course sends the squirrel packing to the neighbor's yard, bea contemplates what went wrong...

i was having so much fun watching bea it occurred to me that i didn't know where casey was. i found him burrowed under my unmade bed covers. i love the look on his face when i pull back the covers to see him...

guess what?? the girl who just moved into the office in front of my desk went on vacation last week!!

who gives a crap, right?? right!! why do i know this?? because apparently she thinks that now that she is in an actual office (and not a cube like us lowly workers) that she can talk at any volume without the sound traveling past her door.

i'm not kidding. i do not know this girl at all (though i can say if you are going to lighten your hair to that shade of blonde, you really need to follow up with the eyebrows) but i do now know all about her vacation. i've heard about 5 times that the altitude was crazy and how 2 glasses of wine made her really drunk up there! i've heard about the triathlon that was in town and the great scenic pictures that she took. i now know all about how expensive the food was and how she'd love to go back!

i have learned all of this from sitting in my desk chair... while speaking with my indoor voice.

folks, we have another double digit "first"! (and no, thankfully i'm not talking about my bra size this time.)

check out the countdown up there!! 98 days to go and counting... can you believe it?!!

today is a dark dark day.

no i'm not talking about the ominous weather. and no i'm not talking about the fact that its friday the 13th.

i was in a good mood when i stepped IN to victoria's secret to be fitted for new bras. i've known for weeks (okay, maybe months) that my bras were no longer fitting. a trip to the mall with my sister last week confirmed my secret shame as she laughed and laughed in the dressing room at the way i had stuffed my new pregnant boobs into my previously great-fitting bra.

my mood when i stepped OUT of vicki's was distinctly more sober. yes, the bras fit great, yes they were ridiculously priced as usual. but there is just something about a double letter bra that makes a girl frown on the inside...

yes, you read correctly. we're in the double letters, people. 3 months to go and lets all cross our fingers that the girls stop while they're ahead!

i had my monthly doctor's appointment on friday and had a 1 hour glucose tolerance test.

meet my arch nemesis:

ahh... the generic orange "glucose drink #050". how i remember you fondly. you tasted faintly of melted orange popsicle mixed with flat mcdonalds orange soda.

first of all, outside of a cake eating contest with a really great prize, i'm not sure if there would be any reason in life to ever consume this much sugar in a) one sitting or b) such a short period of time. it is an odd feeling.

secondly, i was all about the challenge. as you know, i tend to be a teeny tiny bit competitive (who me?!!) and my body was ready to kick this glucose test's ass. it was actually even doing a little bit of shit talking... "don't you MAKE me prove i love sugar!!" "oh you think you're gonna make ME change MY diet?? i don't think so, glucose drink!"

an hour after grimacing on my last swallow of orange nastiness i had my blood drawn too see how effectively my body had broken down the sugar and got the results yesterday. i passed with flying colors!!! woohoo!!!

i celebrated with easter candy and a heaping serving of my mom's homemade banana pudding. its like i said... don't you MAKE me prove i like the sugar!! :)

casey and bea are such world weary travelers...

(can't you hear casey humming "on the road again..." a la willie nelson??)

what a busy weekend!! i spent friday in austin with kevin and helped host a wedding shower on saturday.

here are some fun pics: