Lake Compounce is a small amusement park across the street from work. Every year they rent it out for our company picnic. Free rides, food, and games amounts to a lot of fun for all ages!
Quickie slideshow (click Info On at the top for captions)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Two Seconds Of Fame
In honor of my ESPN anniversary, I went searching again for the SportsCenter commercial in which I was an extra about five years ago. Pat was in it too but he was off-screen, unfortunately. I hadn't been able to find it on the internet until now! I am hidden directly behind the referee the WHOLE TIME except for the last two seconds when he moves away completely and you can finally see me eat my chip! Enjoy!
Dear ESPN
Dear ESPN, Today begins the seventh year in our relationship. We've grown a lot together and have had so many great experiences and opportunities. I'm proud of what we've accomplished. You've introduced me to some amazing people. Here's to another year of fun, wackiness, challenges, and excitement. You make me crazy sometimes but I love ya! Happy anniversary.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
BabyGap Home
I recently read about the new BabyGap Home section of BabyGap. Pat and I are Gap fans so I perked up at this news and spent some time browsing the website. I'm pretty unimpressed though. It seems they are basically partnering with other brands and selling that stuff. They only have a few original items. The selection is tiny: just a handful of bath items, blankets, and some toys. Will have to give this a thumbs down and just stick to buying cute clothes from regular BabyGap.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Month Eight
Month 8 begins this week!!! Isn't that the craziest thing? Two more months but maybe even less since my mom tells me my brother and I both came a smidge early. I am due on my brother's birthday and I think it would be cool to hit that date.
This past month was quite productive. I crossed off most baby-related things from the to-do list. Many thanks to my mom who went nuts shopping and took care of all the miscellaneous purchases on my list. My friend Karen has loaned me a few useful items as well. There are a two or three big things left to purchase but that's kind of it. My favorite "mommy" purchase so far is the diaper bag, I love it! I can't tell you which one it is, it will definitely give away the baby's gender! Pat rearranged our bedroom to make room for everything. I thought it would be a really tight squeeze but it's actually looking quite organized and more spacious than I imagined. I also stocked up the garage with "adult" stuff like shampoo, toilet paper, water, etc, to minimize the need to buy those in the fall. I feel like I'm preparing for a hurricane. We have meetings set up with two pediatricians that were recommended to us and hopefully we'll like one of them.
Baby class is going well. The best part so far was the hospital tour. That made everything seem very real. The maternity ward is totally renovated. Four of the post-partum suites have full size beds and flat screens and internet access. Pat and I have to snag one of those rooms! The nurse told us to have our baby on a Sunday which is their least busiest time. But she also said that autumn was their most busy time anyway so we'll see. The normal, non-suite rooms are nice too.
I'm doing well physically. Not getting much sleep but I'm kind of used to it now. It's good practice for later. I bought my first maternity clothes this month which are super comfy. I had been using the AWESOME Bella Band up until now.
New house is doing well. We met with the condo association lady who went over the rules and regulations and insurance and warranty info. BORING. We were supposed to get a "gift" at this meeting and we didn't even get that so Pat was even less impressed. Ha ha. We will get a pre-sheetrock tour in September. Hopefully it'll be early September so I can go too.
I think that's it! Going to try and take it easy for the next two months. Didn't do any new-house-related packing but... oh well. Will leave that up to Pat I guess.
Two cool photos from our recent ultrasound:
Noshing on its toes:
Talking or singing or making bubbles or something:
This past month was quite productive. I crossed off most baby-related things from the to-do list. Many thanks to my mom who went nuts shopping and took care of all the miscellaneous purchases on my list. My friend Karen has loaned me a few useful items as well. There are a two or three big things left to purchase but that's kind of it. My favorite "mommy" purchase so far is the diaper bag, I love it! I can't tell you which one it is, it will definitely give away the baby's gender! Pat rearranged our bedroom to make room for everything. I thought it would be a really tight squeeze but it's actually looking quite organized and more spacious than I imagined. I also stocked up the garage with "adult" stuff like shampoo, toilet paper, water, etc, to minimize the need to buy those in the fall. I feel like I'm preparing for a hurricane. We have meetings set up with two pediatricians that were recommended to us and hopefully we'll like one of them.
Baby class is going well. The best part so far was the hospital tour. That made everything seem very real. The maternity ward is totally renovated. Four of the post-partum suites have full size beds and flat screens and internet access. Pat and I have to snag one of those rooms! The nurse told us to have our baby on a Sunday which is their least busiest time. But she also said that autumn was their most busy time anyway so we'll see. The normal, non-suite rooms are nice too.
I'm doing well physically. Not getting much sleep but I'm kind of used to it now. It's good practice for later. I bought my first maternity clothes this month which are super comfy. I had been using the AWESOME Bella Band up until now.
New house is doing well. We met with the condo association lady who went over the rules and regulations and insurance and warranty info. BORING. We were supposed to get a "gift" at this meeting and we didn't even get that so Pat was even less impressed. Ha ha. We will get a pre-sheetrock tour in September. Hopefully it'll be early September so I can go too.
I think that's it! Going to try and take it easy for the next two months. Didn't do any new-house-related packing but... oh well. Will leave that up to Pat I guess.
Two cool photos from our recent ultrasound:
Noshing on its toes:
Talking or singing or making bubbles or something:
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