A wedding!

So this last weekend we got back in the car and heading to St Joseph Michigan for Alex's cousin Chris's wedding. This was the first time that we've had all the Provan cousins together since Becky's wedding (back in 2008), so it was definitely a treat. The location, day and wedding were all beautiful, and in my humble opinion so were the cousins:

I couldn't really title this one "week 24 bump" since due to my awesome dress you can't really see the bump, but Jean took some other pictures that may be more showing. I'll post them once I get my hands on them.

Hard to imagine that our wedding was the same weekend two years ago - my how things change :o)

Congratulations Chris and Kindra!

24 week bump and Door Co.

Yup - I'm a little behind on here. Buy my yoga instructor keeps telling us to enjoy what we get done and let go of the stuff that we don't, so I'm not going to worry about. Instead, I'll catch up :o)

Two weekends ago we drove up to Door Co to spend some time on the lake and visit with Alex's grandparents over memorial day. It was supposed to be a rainy nasty weekend, but the draw of getting to visit and spending the time relaxing rather then cleaning/nesting was enough to set us off on the 3 1/2 hour car ride up there. The good news that with lots of stops and stretching, the back held up fine and the trip was easy. We ended up having great weather, a wonderful time, and even got a little spiffed up for an early anniversary dinner at our favorite bar up there that happens to have a GREAT fish fry.

Okay so maybe Alex wasn't as excited about the getting spiffed up part...

Regardless, we still had a nice dinner and a great trip!

Dress Intervention

Every girl needs a couple of friends that will smack them upside the head when they need it. Case and point - while in DC I was whining to Susan about how uncomfortable pants were. She calmly replied "well stop wearing pants". And so began the summer of dresses:

I actually wore two to work last week including the outfit above on Friday. I'm really happy that I'm going to be pregnant through the summer because I'm starting to love  sundresses, a lot. And the fact that maxi dresses came back into style? The fashion gods are kind :o)

My friend Molly and I went shopping today for a wedding I'm going to in two weeks. After convincing the boutique owner that yes, I was 5 months pregnant, she finally let me try on some maternity dresses. Turns out they didn't fit at all, but they were fun to try on. I ended up with a REALLY cute normal dress, that's cut in a way I should be able to wear it when not pregnant as well. Pictures will have to wait until after its debut at the wedding.  Now to find shoes.....

22 week bump and back update

In the DC post I whinned a little bit about my back - I have good news on that front. I met with a great physical therapist on Thursday and she was able to pinpoint the issue (a couple of joints not moving the way they should), and come up with a plan to fix it! I was a little scared it was going to be one of those "well, it will go away after the baby comes" things, but it sounds like that is definitely not the case. Hurray.

In other news, I think I am definitely "showing" at this point, and am starting to have fun with it:

Spring time in DC

Is awesome. And we have awesome friends there too :o)

Our weekend getaway was a wonderful. Lots of relaxing a lots of laughs. It's just too bad the boys had a terrible time:

One thing that's not so awesome - my back + a little too much walking + airplane seats. My silly back has developed a nasty little habit of spasming over the last couple of days. I've got an appointment with a PT who specializes in women's health on Thursday. Hopefully we'll be able to figure it out so I can get back to the feeling good part of the second trimester.

Last chance for light

Don't get me wrong, I am beyond excited for September, but I am starting to realize there are some things about my current life that I'm likely going to miss.  Today's example, packing light:

One of the things that Alex and I have gotten really good at over the last 7 years is traveling smart. We're heading to DC in an hour or so, and what you see is what I'm bringing for the trip (a backpack and a purse, the pillow stays here). Alex will probably do it with just a backpack. That way we get there, get off the plane and onto the train, and get to Susan's without worrying about lugging around a whole mess of stuff. Are we fashionable when we travel? No. But we're agile.

It will be interesting to see how a stroller and diaper bag change things...

21 week bump

So you may have noticed a lack of pictures of me on the blog so far...

I'm not going to lie, having spent the last 10 years of my life trying to keep weight off, it's been a hard adjustment to embrace putting it on. The good news it that I think I'm almost there :o) Today I felt really good at prenatal yoga, and even let Alex take a picture when I got home:

This is especially impressive considering last week they were making a new brochure for the yoga studio so they had a professional photographer in class, and I was so traumatized I had to call Rachel to calm me down about 10 seconds after class let out.

So in short I think I'm getting over the getting bigger thing, or maybe I'm just still on high from finding out that Baby Provan is going to be Baby Girl Provan.(Yay)