Today I had the opportunity to have the day off and boy was I sure happy about that!  What a gorgeous day to be outside!  First I started with my morning jog, which makes me feel so much healthier and better about gaining weight.  As I started my old man neighbor that’s ALWAYS outside playing with his little cows or planting in his garden said “hey be sure to run an extra lap for me”  I said “alright I’ll get right on that!”  By the way Ellie is getting so good at walking on a leash, she doesn’t pull on me at all, and let me tell you from experience when I had Roxy that makes it very difficult to go running!  Anyways back to my jogging story…….  As I was making my way back I was obviously tired…..obviously…..apparently it was so obvious that my old man neighbor says “you’re getting a little slower there hun”.  I responded with “yea my legs are so tired!”  All I can think of right now is how pathetic I probably looked while trying to “jog” when I could have probably just given up and walked fast than my “jog”!!!!!!!

Then part two of my day consisted of editing the wedding from the weekend, which I am already finished with!    That makes me super happy!  I hate the feeling of being behind, especially with editing because you feel like you’ll never ever EVER…………..finish!  So whew that’s done!  And I’ve got an engagement shoot in Dallas this weekend so I’ll be ahead of schedule!  Hopefully I can knock those out in a few days too!

Part three involved the doctors office, the doctor, myself, and finally the most important part…..the baby’s heartbeat!!!  :)  I never thought I would be the mushy excited mom (wow I just called myself mom)….anyways it is pretty exciting to actually hear that heartbeat truckin away!  It makes it all seem so much more real, which is good because every time I have an appointment I always have this lingering thought in the back of my mind that they are about to search for that heartbeat and they can’t find it, then the doctor tells me that she’s sorry but there’s no more baby….. I know morbid and horrible to think about but just being honest.  But no worries whatever it is boy or girl it’s very much active in there and getting big and strong with a heart rate of 143.

And finally to my picture for today.  I decided that since it was so beautiful I would spend some more time with Ellie outside.  Soon she won’t be the princess around here anymore and I hope she doesn’t get jealous and still gets all the attention she needs.  (If you haven’t figured it out yet Ellie is basically my un-human child).  Anyways so I thought I would be a little kid for a while and lay on the grass with her, I think she liked it.

Enjoy!

-erika

If you had a chance to do something outside today I’d like to hear what you did.  Leave a comment below where it says comments in really small print……thanks.