hair thoughts

OK. I know this is old news, but can we just take a look at Emma Watson's hair? I'm sure you know that she recently cut off her long wavy locks for this chic pixie:

I was thrilled when she cut it. I think it's adorable and sexy and I wish I were brave enough to do it myself haha!

Here it is growing out:

On another note, here is another Harry Potter star:

3 years!

Today is our anniversary! Brandon and I have been married for 3 years! I am such a lucky girl, I have the best husband ever!! He is a wonderful dad to Portia, and so sweet to his pregnant wife! Plus, he's pretty cute too!

Here are some of our wedding pictures!

Me and my Carrie-sister.

Dancing with my dad.

pregnancy brain

It's makin me crazy!!

Yesterday morning, I woke up feeling exhausted. I have been having a harder time sleeping lately. I blame it on the fact that I have to pee 30 times a night, or the fact that I am roughly the size of a barge.

Anyways, I woke up groggy and wishing it was already nap time, so I could lay back down. And then pregnancy brain set in.

At nap time, I was browsing the web, and happened across a cookie recipe that I thought sounded wonderful! Rocky Road Ice Cream Cookies. I had all the ingredients, so naturally, I printed the recipe to try it out.

Brandon walked into the kitchen to ask if I wanted to lay down for a nap, and he found me wild-eyed and wielding a whisk. He later said that he thought I'd lost my mind. I told him of my cookie plans, and he left me to my choco-mallow crazy-fest.

I made the cookies, following the recipe loosely. Quite loosely.

When I baked the first batch, I started to recognize my "improvements" probably weren't the best. The first 8 cookies had turned into a giant melty goo-cookie; the marshmallows had melted and expanded in the oven, and it didn't look appetizing. I tried a bite. It didn't taste very appetizing either.

But I thought that I couldn't let the rest of the dough go to waste, so I decided to tun it into brownies. I added a few more ingredients, and put the remaining disaster-mix into a brownie pan, and back into the oven it went!

Again, not a good plan. This time, the marshmallows formed a crust on top of the mixture, and frankly, it looked like poop. By this point, I knew that I had had a lapse in food judgement, and didn't even bother to taste it.

Portia then woke up from her nap, and I was mad at myself for not spending the last 2 hours asleep, like any normal human being would have done.

Brandon laughed with me, and we reminisced about my cooking mishap while pregnant with Portia, when I tried to make spaghetti sauce from scratch. For some reason, it had flour in it. A lot of flour.

my love affair with blueberries

I mean real blueberries. Fresh blueberries. Really fresh blueberries. So blue they're black, so juicy they burst when you touch them, hanging off the vine fresh.

If you've never had the pleasure of going blueberry picking, you've never tasted deliciousness, my friend.

When I was young, my mom would take us blueberry picking each summer. We would get up at around 5 am, to get to the patch at around 6, before it gets too hot or before the old people come out and steal all the good berries (It's always old people at blueberry patches; most teenagers aren't keen on spending 4 hours hunched over a row of bushes at the crack of dawn on a saturday, why I don't know. We always were). We would lather on the sunscreen, as we are pasty folk, and head out to the patch!

Sometimes we would bring our own buckets, sometimes we would use the ones the patch provided. We would then each pick a row of bushes, and go to town. You go down the row and pick as many blueberries as you can, and eat them out of your bucket while you go. It's hot, and there are some pretty weird bugs, and Carrie and I would usually end up arguing about who was invading whose bush or who had more berries in their bucket or something, but it was heaven.

You go home with enough berries to fill the freezer (literally), and to eat for the rest of the summer. My mom would make pies, we'd put them in vanilla ice cream and cereal, or just eat them by the handful.

One of my favorite ways to eat them is just to reach into the freezer and fill a bowl, frozen blueberry popsicle bites. YUM!!

Here's the other thing, not only are fresh blueberries the tastiest thing ever, there are a ton of health benefits too. For example, just a handful of these guys is packed full of Vitamin C and antioxidants, and they are very low in fat and calories.

Les poissons, les poissons, hee-hee-hee, haw-haw-haw!

Portia is 2 now, and she is starting to get interested in movies/shows besides Barney (hallelujah)!! This is what we're watching today! It's one of my personal favorites.

She calls it "fishy show." Cute.

we have good taste

Watching this movie with Portia:

Muppets from Space

Zoo day

I know there's a lot of pictures, but here you go!!

Today we went to the zoo!

Brandon thought he would show the belly. Ignore my weird hair.

23 weeks!

This poor cricket was stranded on top of that rock, with 4 snapping turtles circling beneath him. Poor guy.

Look at daddy!

This caribou couldn't decide if he wanted to go out or stay in. It was pretty hot.

Everywhere we go, Portia finds a little boyfriend. This little guy was pretty cute.

The OKC Zoo has an awesome children's area! There's a little stream that the kids can play in and also a splash pad. Portia LOVES it!!