This is what I had for lunch…

It was one of those ‘If You Give A Mouse a Cookie’ moments… but with a pregnant craving twist.
See…
After you make scrambled eggs (you can barely see them under the apples) you’ll put away the eggs in the fridge and notice the mild cheddar cheese.
Yum.
You’ll cut a few cheese slices.
Then you’ll think, “Gee, apples sure go well with cheese!”
You’ll slice up an apple.
Yum.
Just before you sit down, you’ll rememeber the red grapes you just bought at the store.
Yum.
After you rinse the grapes you’ll feel like you need a bit of an energy boost.
You’ll remember the Large Regular Iced Coffee you got at McDonalds yesterday but didn’t finish.
You’ll pull the 32 ouncer out of the fridge and notice the cookie dough.
Gotta finish lunch with something sweet.
Cookie dough.
Yum.
The perfect preggo lunch.

You may be wondering what the perfect preggo dinner is.
I’ll tell you…

What did you crave when you were preggers?

Eli picked out this giftie for Daddy. He wrote “FOR, DADDY” Love, “ELI” all by himself.

Hot Hubby got off work at noon and we headed to Arby’s for lunch.

After naps we baked…

Get the cookies out already…

Eli was beyond stoked that Santa was going to eat what HE made!

Reading from Luke 2…

Cora was a bit clueless but went with it…

The kiddos picked dinner.

Eggs.

Toast.

Grapes.

Mommy didn’t want to do dishes so we used paper plates…

I bundled up all the yogurt lids we had been saving for breast cancer…

We read from the best pop up Christmas book ever…

Oh… and someone showed up before we went to bed…

For some folks just saying “I’m pregnant!” is enough.
For me, not so much.
I chose to tell my hubby with a little more panache… I mean… there are only a limited amount of times you get to do this in your WHOLE life.
With Eli, we had a date planned at Dukes in Huntington (one of our favorite local places). I snuck away from work during the day and gave them our wedding champagne glasses. One was filled with pink baby booties, the other with blue.
When we ordered our drinks they served us these instead…
Hot Hubby thought it meant we were having twins.

With Cora Jane, I ironed on this little phrase to one of Eli’s onsies (he was only 7 months old!) then put a jacket on him.

When Hot Hubby got home from work I asked him to take off the jacket. At first he thought it was a hand-me-down. Confused, he looked at me and I handed him a new book for Eli titled “I’m a big brother.”

With this one (YES, this one!!!), Hot Hubby took them to their usual Saturday morning Starbucks Daddy Date…

While I prepared a fun, VERY late Father’s Day Scavenger Hunt. (Our friends gifted us with an awesome mountain bike… something I had wanted to give Hot Hubby on Father’s Day but we just didn’t have the moo-la.)

The final prize was signed…

Blessing #3 will pop into earth in July!! I’ve just finished the 1st trimester.
As far as pregnancy symptoms go… (if you get sick while you are With Child don’t read on!)
I get a bit tired and my boobs get larger than life!That’s it.

The theme was Masquerade. We were dressed to the nines… OK… tens…

The food was good. But we all know I only care about dessert…

We got a caricature.

But I don’t think it looks like us.

Do you?

Brad looks stoned and I look like a tweeker…

Do we really look like that?

Don’t answer.

In case you don’t remember from last year’s party or the awesome Foreigner concert…

Hot Hubby and I love to dance.

So do our friends…

(of course I must preface that we are sober… we just like to dance)

Then at the very end there was bubble wrap.

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They cover the dance floor and you dance and pop till your hearts content. In case you wondered popping bubble wrap is everything you’ve ever dreamed of.

And so much more.

REALLY!

Every year my husband’s awesome company hosts a family party for EVERYONE.
I won’t tell you where he works, but…

Our first stop was a picture with Santa. There was a bit of a line so we ate… a lot!

(Santa pix are so awesome, they are getting their own post!)

One of the highlights of the par-tay is snow.

Real snow.

For sledding.

Throwing.
A real treat for us So Cal folks!

Yum!

More eating…It was a good day.

Santa.

Popcorn.

Train ride.

Cookies.

Pony ride.

Petting zoo.

AMAZING food.

You would cry too if you had to leave.

Wanna see some of the stuff I made this weekend for Project 320?

Yeah!What do you see?
(clockwise from far left)4 juggling bags, kids play oven mitt, 2 adorable kid purses and 2 vintage housewife dish towels.
Wanna be involved with Project 320? aka Wanna help me save a village in Africa.Details here!