Happy 4th of July

Well because my life has essentially been consumed by studying for the bar at this point I spent the majority of the 4th of July studying while Jed went into work for a few hours and then tried to escape from the crazy heat wave we've been having here while playing with Darwin.  And honestly, even though I was studying it was such a nice change of pace to have Jed home throughout the day to chat with at lunch and to keep an eye on Darwin.

That evening we went to a friend's house for a barbeque, chatting, and to light off some fireworks.  Here is Jed enjoying the show (notice that it is fully light, but the fireworks still looked good). 

After that we headed home and decided to stay in that night to be there to comfort Darwin because all of the firework bangs that had been going on throughout the week leading up to the 4th scared him to death so we knew it would be a bad night for him.  I hope your 4th was just as lovely (really I hope you didn't have to study so it was even more lovely)

16 Weeks

16 weeks into this pregnancy and I'm feeling good.

Whenever I tell people I'm pregnant they immediately ask how I'm feeling and the answer is always just great.  It's kind of funny but when you wait like we did until the second trimester to tell people you're (at least I am) already in the feel good phase so you feel fine now and no one knew what the heck was wrong with you when you actually weren't feeling good for the first couple months. But c'est la vie.  Even for the first few months I really didn't have a bad time with this pregnancy and aside from a little nausea if I didn't eat at least every 2 hours and some major fatigue I felt fine;  no spending all day throwing up for this girl.

So as requested by my sister, above is a "belly" shot of me at 16 weeks.  Everyone keeps telling me that I'm not showing which is basically true.  But while it's true I don't really look pregnant I am definitely getting rounder - I guess it's that fun stage where no one can tell if you're pregnant or just putting on the pounds.  You can judge for yourself though: here's a comparison picture:

 Me at 12 weeks


















My pouchy but not actually looking that pregnant belly at 16 weeks

Thinking of Christmas

It may just be June, but already I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about Christmas.  Not because I'm someone who usually plans that far in advance; it's practically a miracle if I ever get the decorations on the tree and if presents are all purchased by the day before Christmas Eve. No seriously - last year we never even got our tree decorated.  We bought it and put it up in the front room and it just sat there bare until we left to spend the holidays in Georgia.  But this year I have a special reason for thinking ahead to December because this December Jed and I will no longer be a family of two.  We are so very excited that sometime around December 6th we will be adding a little boy or girl to our family and I can't possibly think of a better Christmas gift than that.

Look Who Else Graduated

Alright so it happened a month ago, but I still felt like my graduation from law school deserved a post. As of now I am officially done with school ... forever! Now if only I didn't have to spend the next two months studying for the bar it could actually feel like I was finished.

Look Who Graduated

Yes it's true, Darwin graduated from his puppy class last week. He even has his certificate on our fridge to prove it.

And speaking of graduations, mine is coming up so fast. I've already ordered my gown and my announcements came in the mail last week. Now I just have to actually finish and take care of that whole pesky finding a job business.

Law Review Alumni Banquet

Thursday was finally the first annual University of Cincinnati Law Review Banquet. Several other members of the LR and I have been working on this thing for what feels like forever now and it finally all came together Thursday . . . and I think it went really well. We had close to 150 people there and got to enjoy a nice cocktail hour and then dinner and speakers. Especially considering that this is the first year that anyone has attempted to do an event like this I think it went great. (Sorry, I don't have any pictures from the event - I'm afraid I was a little too busy to take pictures.)

Say Hi to Darwin

Say hello to Darwin our adorable new sheltie puppy!