My end of winter thoughts

Once when I was a little kid I was walking to school with an edgy cool kid.  I thought I was pretty cool and so I said some comment making fun of another kid, I was trying to be cool.  This kid then said my head was shaped like a peanut and thus followed years of me being insecure about my peanut shaped head.  In college I learned that women's cheeks thin out as they age (the things you learn in college).  I was excited for this yet skeptical.  I had by that time gotten over my peanut shaped head complex.  The other day I looked in the mirror and realized what happened to my cheeks?  They are gone.  So if you are under the age of 25 and have a peanut shaped head, there is hope for you!  Hope I made someone's day out there.

My other thoughts as of late.  What do you wear this time of year?  Especially pregnant.  I'm dying to move into spring but it's still pretty cold even if 35* feels like 50* these days.  I waffle between plaids. vest, and sweaters and bright colors.  I know some people will think I'm crazy but due to wearing my brothers hand-me-downs till I was 16 I have kind of a complex that forces me to always be dressed perfect unless I'm adventuring then I feel like I'm in disguise and no one can see me so I wear whatever I want.  So buy your daughters cute clothes in moderation and they won't be overly concerned with what they are wearing right?

You know what totally might ruin my year?  Due to the cherry shortage last summer there are no dried cherries at Costco!  Saying I LOVE cherries would be an understatement and since I can't even get the little danties most of the year how am I supposed to survive without dried ones:-0?

Lastly and mainly so you don't think I think about shallow things all the time, I was thinking about my personal guardian angels in this life.  You know the people who are always sent to you at the right time and right place and it means just what you needed.  Some of them are very far away but just seeing their faces on instagram gives me a sense of peace and love.  Thank heavens for those guardian angels I mights still be meandering without mine!

What our Vday looked like

I started the day with one of my favorites Fruit Stew

Running late to dance class shirt is on backwards, spike-lee bun oh and there is the baby hello there!

TJ snuck this in the night before ahhh

then this guy woke up with a high fever :-(

after a nap during the The Tigger Movie we drugged Huds with ibuprofen and went to Qdoba where he ate ran and danced

this is a mid week shopping run, I promise we eat healthier than it looks, Huds threw a ball in when we weren't looking

So this was my Valentine's Day.  After a whirlwind to get dad to work on time Huds and I had both slept in and were a little out of it.  Thinking he was just tired we went to the gym for our normal routine.  When I picked him up from the kid center he ran to me with open arms, normally he just keeps playing, occasionally I get a hug or a smile, thinking he was tired from the late night and no nap the day before I put him down for a nap.  He zonked.  I had errands to run etc so after 3 1/2 hours I woke him up.  He really didn't seem ready to wake up so I put him back to bed noticing he had a fever.  A couple hours later he woke up when I checked on him.  He refused to do anything but snuggle so after some books we watched The Tigger Movie where we both zonked out till dad took a picture of us.  Then we woke up and I clocked Huds at 102* so I gave him some ibuprofen.  30 mins later regular Huds was back and since it was past dinner time we decided to take advantage of Qdoba's buy one get one free for a kiss deal.  Yep that pretty much sums it oh and we bought some ice cream at the grocery store.  

It got me thinking about love.  How you love someone so much more when you've gone through the hard times together.  I think of little Huds, those exhausting first few months, the nights I couldn't sleep worrying if he was breathing or going deaf or whatever my mind conjures in the middle of the night when my son has a fever and I'm afraid to leave him sleeping by himself.  Same with TJ and I, during times of sacrificing for each other and putting each other first, we grow together the most.  How realizing you would do absolutely anything for someone else at your own expense and not think twice makes you love them even more.  Funny thing isn't it?

Denver

After this trip to Denver I really missed civilization.  I wish I could have the city 15 mins away and still live in a classy little mountain town.  Today I told TJ I think I am a California girl, but I don't think that's true either.  I don't know where the perfect place is for me, I feel like haven't found it, not sure I ever will but I just want the perfect place to live and this is pretty darn close, all I can do is buy some good winter boots and coats and be grateful I'm not getting my food out of a dumpster or something right.  It was my first trip to a mall in over a year, besides City Creek and I must say I need to build up my shopping tolerance before I do that again whooh!

Artichoke Alfredo Pizza from Triggers in Idaho Springs, CO
Triggers is a Spaghetti Western eatery

Idaho Springs waterfall and water wheel see my Idaho Springs post, so many good memories

I hear this is a red neck fire alarm, car was running windows down and the other dog almost ate us!

Huds at the temple water fountain

my cute boys

the fam

Steamboat Springs

Last weekend we headed to Steamboat Springs to see some dear friends of ours The Taylor's, how I neglected to get a picture of the adult Taylor's I'm not sure, they are beautiful people and totally deserve to be in a blog picture.  We ate too much, talked to much, and stayed up too late watching Bones every night.

nice Sunday drive

sunset lighting the mountains on fire

pirate Hudson

Hudson wants a dog

The Ice Castles (it was pounding snow, Huds did not like that)

the coolest kids section of a library I've ever seen

first popsicle, sorry about the red eye

2nd time around

6 weeks

8 weeks see the horror in my eyes at my belly

6 weeks Huds

Here we go again!  Wee Connolly #2 due August 2013.  This pregnancy has been way harder than my last, I wonder if it's a way to prepare you for the child you are going to get.  Huds was super easy and he is the best kid in the world.  We shall see.  I haven't been blogging much because most of my posts would probably be about food aversions and the like.  Also the second time around you belly pops out way faster.  I was pretty open about it to people who live here, because it was kind of hard not to notice my belly getting big so quick.
One of the youth I work with at church said, "I was wondering why you were thicker in the middle?" I was convinced it was twins, but there is just one in there.

12 weeks Huds