Where in the world?

Let's play a little game. It's called Where in the World is the Giant? I think this game will grow more popular as his AF world takes off.

OK, so I'll give you three important hints.



One. Think green. Think lots and lots of green.


Any guesses already? Nahh....


Two. There is a mixed medley of sand and water and hills. Oh my.


Getting closer yet?? Think hard.


Three. The final clue. Hope he's dressed appropriately. I hear they are real sticklers about that sort of thing. I hear a jacket is pretty special there too.


Any guesses yet? Well....
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The giant will be at......





Recognize it? He's at THE MASTERS! To you golfies out there, you know how exciting this is. To you non-golfies (like me- ahem- like I used to be- sorry hubs I'm trying) it is very difficult to get tickets since they are typical passed down only through family lines of club members. This year, the Giant and the Giant-dad were given tickets through a cousin that inherited them.

Wonder what his take on this guy will be, since he's been quite crowd friendly this year.

Watch for husband on tv. He'll be the giant amongst the crowd! What a life... as for me... I'm staying home and knitting a baby blanket- so exciting. Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down

I found this trend on some other people's blogs and thought I'd join in on the fun today. This is my short list of thumbs up and thumbs down.

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Thumbs up to Sandra Bullock for continuing to take the high road that so many celebrities somehow ignore or have dissolved over time. Amiidst all the scandal and allegations of her husband's affair, she remains a poised and personal women, determined to keep her private affairs private. When she could so easily slam her husband in the media, she refuses to stoop to the tabloids level and that merits her a thumbs up.


I'm adding Kate Gosselin to this list for one reason, she is embarrassing herself for her family's future. People criticize her a lot, and I'm not saying I'm all Team Kate but let's face facts. Yes she has made tons of mistakes, but she has 8 kids, who wouldn't make mistakes? Her life now is a single mom providing for her family any way she can. So, I say, soak up the money in the limelight while it's on you Kate, because I have a feeling it might just be coming to an end soon.She'd never be able to go back to nursing and Lordy now we all know she will NEVER be a professional dancer. But, keep at it Kate, even for just my pure amusement at your two left feet :)


Thumbs up to peapod being the size of an avocado right now! I love avocados! Just had to throw that one in.

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Ignore the drawn out Today show parts, but this Nike commercial bothers me. It's gotten a lot of mixed reviews, but I say booo! My personal feelings for him aside, I think it's creepy that the voice is Tiger's deceased father and frankly it just doesn't get my sympathy vote! But, he's a golfer. It's what he does. Let him do what he is good at- hitting a ball around. That's all I have to say on him.


I had to add her to this list too, because her dancing is attrocious! I am horribly guilty of watching her dance only for the laughs, but its like watching a trainwreck that you can't help but stare at! I hope she stays on the show cause it wouldn't be half as entertaining without her. But, her dancing still gets a thumbs down.


Tiki Barber shame on you. You get a big thumbs down. Don't care the reason. Don't leave your wife of 11 years who is EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT with your TWINS and has 4 other young children with you! But, sure as all, don't leave her for a 23-year-old blondie intern after you made it a habit of trashing your father for leaving your mother and family in a similar situation when you were a kid! Anyone smell a h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t? Goodness gracious! I liked him! He's a Roanokeian! How can you not?! Must be the Wahoo in him- (insert Go Hokies for affect!)
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Ok, that is the close to my Thursday Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down. Did you enjoy it? Maybe I'll do this again if you did. And, there Giant and T, there's my post for the day. Come again :)

Upchuck Day

Sorry my friends for the graphic title, but that is my life today. Today has not been a good day in the "holding down food" department. Are you tired of hearing me complain about morning sickness yet? Well tough- cause I'm tired of enduring it but that's not stopping it, so you dear reader might have to suffer the gruesome details of pregnancy with me a little while longer. You still love me though, right?! I promise eventually I'll write about other things besides my lovely queezy stomach. Just be glad that that's the side effect I've chosen to write about, instead of other lovelies :) I think I'm about to have to call Dr. Big Sis and find out if I can become immune to my Zofran because, man, my little magic no-more-throw-up dissolvable pills are not so magic anymore. I guess I wouldn't be so alarmed if I knew I wasn't getting too dehydrated. I am gulping bottles of water today in an attempt to help. I do NOT want to end up back at the hospital getting IV fluids to rehydrate my "dry as a bone" body like we did weeks ago. We can thank the loving giant for this glamorous picture... already sent on his phone to lord only knows how many people for a chuckle at my expense.

On to other things that I have no pictures downloaded yet to prove, we went to NC this weekend for an Easter visit with the giant's family. Almost all of his was there, some of which we hadn't seen since our wedding a year and a half ago. Hard to believe how fast time flies. Aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, grandparents and new nephew were all in attendance! I missed my family of course but his family is so wonderful to be with that we both really enjoyed our short visit.

His younger cousin Christian is the manager of a large chain of Raleigh tanning salons (super upscale with huge beautiful black and crystal chandeliers (zgallery.com) that I keep refering to today as I dream of where I'll put them in my mansion one day!) I think these are them.Seriously... in a tanning salon...amazed? So anyways, back to my point. Knowing i'm preggo and seeing how terrifyingly ghostish I was, she offered to take me to her salon and give me a FREE spray tan! I couldn't get the words YES out of my mouth fast enough. I panicked afterwards for a moment because I thought I pulled a Ross (click the link) but I woke up this morning and looked beautifully even so I think I psyched myself out. Thank. You. Lord. Didn't sleep well last night freaking myself out of what I'd look like in the morning...an orange marshmallow danced in my dreams.

I will be sure to post Easter pictures as soon as I upload them from my camera. I'm good about taking pictures. I'm horrible about uploading them. I'll try to get better...too late for april fools again?

To end for the day (because it's now past time for me to go home), I leave you with a picture of our god-daughter Jessica with her first set of Easter bunny ears we sent her. Enjoy! Isn't she a cutie?

I got the go-ahead

Even though "we" are keeping it off facebook until her big announcement, cause you know, things aren't official until they are "facebook official," I get to send out the first loud CONGRATULATIONS to one of my lifelong best friends (and one of my beautiful bridesmaids) Angela on her engagement! Her beau popped the big question last night and, well, I just couldn't be more excited for her! So....CONGRATULATIONS ANGE and NATHAN! July will be here before you know it, so we gots to start planning my friend! :)

Happy April 1...DC Palooza cont'd

Big news today!!! We're having twins!

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April FOOLS! ;) Breathe Mom... breathe...! Gotcha?! Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? Alright...

On to the real post...

OK, I can breathe again from underneath all the end of month papercrap... for the moment. Switching mindsets and hopping back into DC memory mode. Lets see- we ate and walked and ate some more and museumed and walked and walked and ate and slept and museumed and ate yet more and more and left. That pretty much sums it up. OK, for those who want more details: First and foremost, DC was an amazing weekend! The only thing missing that would have made it better was T! The giant and I met my parents' at her Arlington house (now being rented out while my sis and bro-in-law pretend being Californianers for a couple years). We met there so we could leave the parents car and drive our car into the district together. One car means less parking tabs and one very less-road-raged-and-frustrated-from-driving-in-a-big-Yankee-city-where-people-don't-know-how-to-drive father :) Not to be too overly dramatic or emotional, but oh man that short drive down her street made me SO sad. We pulled up in front of the house and I was so hoping to see her pop out of the front door, but sadly, nope. No action whatsoever at that door. We would know. We sat there for an hour waiting on Mom and Dad so I continued to just stare at the blue door. Sad yet?! But, most of that sadness went away as soon as Mom and Dad's little minicooper pulled around the corner! It was off to The Melting Pot for dinner thanks to a birthday surprise from the pretend Californianers. THANK YOU! So, have you ever been? It's my fave! This is my official endorsement. Who doesn't love a little fondue in their life?!

Man, I could make a whole post on why I love the Melting Pot- but I will spare you for now (keeping that one in the back of my mind for a slow post day!)

Back to DC Palooza... We stayed at an old DC charmed hotel, the Hotel Harrington on E & 11th. Great location! We walked and walked and walked to everything. We parked our car night one and didn't touch it again until we checked out Sunday. I miss the city life for that one main reason. Saturday we got up and made our way to and around the White House which was a few blocks away. Took some pictures amongst the crowds- see previous post for mentioned pictures. Oh I forgot to mention it just happened to also be the cherry blossom festival the same weekend- thus loooots of people out and about in the sunshine. We made our way to the National Geographic Museum which was what inspired this whole trip in the first place. The exhibit was fascinating, but no pictures to prove it. Dang museum rules on no cameras allowed. Husband, the history buff , enjoyed it so much. I think the museum was mostly for him and the city was mostly for me. I'll take it! We also went to the International Spy Museum on Sunday before we left. Its the one museum that I've never been to in DC but have always wanted to go to. It was not a disappointment! If you haven't been, you should go. It takes a few hours to get through and costs a pretty penny ($18 a person), but we enjoyed it. Cross that off my list of things to do in DC before I die.

The giant and I must have been on a mission to make the parents try new food because we only ate at one place that they had ever heard of, Subway. I mean, who can turn down Subway for a quick lunch? We ate at places like, well Melting Pot of course, then Gordon Biersch for Saturday dinner which we all loved, and Austin Grill (Tex-Mex) for Sunday lunch, and then finished off the weekend with yet another surprise from the sis at the Red Velvet Cupcakery! Mmmm I'm still stuffed. Sooo much food! I figure that's just a sign of a good weekend. Peapod treated me pretty well most of the weekend too, shocker! Thank you Zofran medicine. However, she is back in full force again- but at least we did well for the weekend.

Easter is just a few days away which means two important things. One, our God is good. Two, lent is almost over and facebook will be back up shortly. Be impressed! I have never actually made it through a lent for the whole entire 46 days- they say 40 but its a little tricky so I forget about those extra days without. So, I'll be seeing you back on facebook shortly. Although, I think I'll be leaving peapod off of there for a while FYI. Too many reasons why to explain here. If you want to know specifics, you can message me. Anyways, we're off to the inlaw grandparents' on Saturday to visit with all of the family and (the highlight) to see our new baby nephew Matthew. What are your Easter plans? Any easter egg hunts? I used to love those things! The golden egg! Not to mention that I love easter also because Cadbury eggs are my favorite candy of all time!

Anyways, I'll leave you with some Easter pictures to make your day a little better :)

This one always makes laugh.

Pudgy little cadbury egg! Is it weird this makes me a little hungry for one? Picture by Anne Geddes.

Picture by Anne Geddes.

Doesn't this just make you want a little easter baby? Picture by Anne Geddes.

Happy Easter Everybunny!