BALD EALGES!!!

I never intended for this to become BIRDS OF PREY week on my blog but hey, what happens happens!

THE MOST AMAZING THING EVERY HAPPENED THE OTHER NIGHT!

Ok well the hawk was cooler but this was cool too. We went skating on Monday and Tuesday evenings @ a lake near here and the ice was awesomely smooth. Nick isn't very good at skating so I just have to post this video for laughs (notice the goggles and survival suit).

Well after the 2nd time skating out to the island, I saw Nick staring over to the side and I said, "You're totally gonna fall! Watch where you are going! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!!!" Yep there had been 2 bald eagles there the whole time! He figures they were probably there on Monday too. Totally awesome. I nor my family had ever seen them in Ohio before! I'll have to look up what omens birds of prey have. Or not. I might get scared.

Stephen Colbert....

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This was on last night and some of my students saw it! I had never heard of the guy!

17 weeks: Gotta be a Smurf!

17 weeks! Yay! I guess 18 weeks is officially month 5 so it is scary how fast things go! I'm sure going to be happy when winter is over though so I can get outside and do more things. 36 degrees today! Washed my car HALLELUJAH!

As you can see, it's a smurf in there for sure!!





I'm going to go ahead and link to a few of my favorite "pregnant right now too" blogs so you can see pictures of what I keep comparing myself too! These girls all seem the skinny / athletic type so they seemed like good comparisons. I'm over being worried! I know everything is probably going to be OK and I'm enjoying my last few weeks of being able to fit into my brown corduroys!

The Baker Bee

Road Worth Traveling

This Place is Now a Home

Face to Face with a REDTAILED HAWK

The most AMAZING THING EVER just happened to me. I've come to expect the unexpected when it comes to animals appearing outside of my bedroom window; my neighbors have quite the collection of weird pets / farm animals. However, this was no pet. I went in and climbed up on the bed to hang some pants on the curtain rod to dry. Looked out the window and there is a GINORMOUS REDTAILED HAWK just chilling out. SOOOOOO COOL! I was thinking maybe it got hit by a car or something because that is majorly odd for one to be just sitting on / near the ground. Well I snuck out to the living room to get my camera and came back in slowly to get a few shots; my favorite pic is where it is making eye contact with me! There's a bit of a blur because of taking the pics through a sunny window, but they are still priceless to me! Definitely a highlight of my year so far.

Loudonville IceFest

I love ice festivals and this is no exception. The last time my mom and I went down there two years ago, teenagers had came through the night before and smashed half of the sculptures. Well not this time, and it was AMAZING! They had 26 sculptures lining main street of this picturesque little town. Here's some favorites:

PHEW! Back to normal....

As you could tell I really value the opinions of two friends of mine, and when this husband / wife duo expressed shock over my most recent blog post, I interpreted it as though they were offended! I changed the subject really quickly and then thought about it the rest of the evening. Ran home and edited by blog. LOL.

Well, I INTERPRETED THEM DEAD WRONG!! Totally normal for me! With their permission, I will re-install my latest post and continue on with things :).

15 weeks: Am I even pregnant?

I knew pregnancy would bring on a whole knew onslaught of worries. Worrying about your future child, worrying what might go wrong in there, worrying about every little change. I have been good so far not doing much worrying, until the last week or so.

I've made the mistake of google imaging pictures of pregnant women at "10 weeks" on my 10th week, "11 weeks" on my 11th week and now "15 weeks". Trust me if you go to google and do the same, you will be amazed at how big some pregnant women are at 15 weeks. I know everyone is different and yada yada yada.

But then there are the blogs I read. They do the posting of weekly photos and there is notice-able change every single week it seems.

THEN I FREAK OUT AND START WORRYING MY BABY IS DEAD AND / OR A MIDGET AND / OR NOT GROWING.

At 9 weeks, I first started noticing my old stomach wasn't quite there anymore. There was a little bulge. Made sense because the books say the uterus is grapefruit sized by week 9. Well you can see for yourself here 6 weeks later I'm not showing much progress. And yes I'll still wearing my pre-pregnancy regular brown corduroys.

Gah.

Stay tuned...I'm pretty sure in 2 more weeks I'll be complaining because I'm too fat. LOL. Such is life!!