30.4 weeks at the beach.

On Saturday, after spending a long day painting and hanging curtains and a tapestry, the family (me, ty, mom, dad, and eric) went to North Clearwater beach for some sunset swimming. The water was warm but perfect. There was a lot of waves and staying afloat in them was excellent pregnancy exercise. At 30 weeks, my belly is feeling very heavy and uncomfortable and being in the water takes all of the discomfort away. That and my recent trips to the chiropractor. Sciatica was bad... chiropractors are amazing!

all of us minus eric.


mommy and me.


angles by tyler.
















daddy!


eric!


tyler <3


parents.


my father is a very talented photographer.

smooth.

I made the most delicious smoothie this morning. So delicious I need to write about it.
I used organic frozen berries, wheat germ, molasses (high in iron!), banana, and ice instead of milk or yogurt because calcium hinders iron absorption. It was so good I got multiple brain freeze enjoying it...

It pumped me up so much that I went outside and chopped down a bunch of dead plants left over from the winter. Now I think I need another smoothie...



I set up a new flickr account to upload all my photos on and then after I went through all of that trouble I actually remembered my old amateur photographer one(it was chance that I typed it in right...)
and now I have access to all of these awesome photo's and photo shoots that I did for people that I almost forgot existed!

I need to take more photo's!

Also note the poor quality of that smoothie photo. Soon I will have a new phone and much better pics and videos when I use it. I just cant lug around my Canon Rebel all day anymore...

I need more freelance work (that pays)... anyone have any suggestions?

memorial day.

Spent Memorial Day with Tif, Travis, Rocket, Tyler and myself of Travis' boat and on an island. It was lovely and extremely hot. Its two days later and I am still hot! Oh, but I was hot anyway...

I didn't take a camera close to the water or island but I did get these:

oldies but goodies.

brown and blue.




stranded in nyc.


fashion show.


failure to pose.


strange love.






seesters.

29 weeks

first mommies day / 26.4 weeks

I woke up to this awesome gift from Tyler...











































Then I went outside to find him building me a "jasmine wall" to beautify our back yard and as I was filling up my birdy seed feeder he took a bunch of pictures of me.



















































































































Tomorrow marks 29 weeks and I am now in my third trimester. She is really big in there! At the last midwife appointment I felt her head (it was head-down!) and my mom got to come and heard her heart beat on the doppler. I had my glucose test which meant I got to eat a king size snicker bar for breakfast before having my blood drawn. Yummy!

We are learning so much in our Bradley Method class and I am feeling more empowered and less nervous about labor. Hopefully, we will be able to get a level 2 ultrasound (just to clear up some things from the last ultrasound) but are having some trouble finding somewhere to get it done (hospitals request an OB to schedule it). We are waiting to hear from Gina (our midwife) about it.

29 week pics coming tomorrow!






and this is just a naughty Royal who got into the garbage but still has hope he got away with it! xoxo Royal...

jackie's new friend.

Tif and Rock visited the day after my birthday. Jackie is smitten... but so is Rocket. Also, Rock enjoyed swimming on the floor and rolling over with help from mom. A few days later he did it himself!