DOGS UP FOR ADOPTION

Anybody looking for 2 adorable dogs? I have some you can adopt. : )

Today I had the pleasure of a frantic neighborhood tour. I was getting ready to go run errands this morning when I heard our maid yelling my name (by the way, she speaks about as much English as I speak Spanish). I come out of my room and see her ushering Scotch into the house via the front door. I had put the dogs in the back yard so she could clean the house so I didn't understand why Scotch was in the front yard. I went out back and noticed that our gate was wide open and that Brandy was nowhere in sight. At this point, I am almost in tears b/c I'm afraid she would run down to Hwy. 17 and get run over, or that somebody would find her and think that she was so pretty and sweet that they would want to keep her. After running around the neighborhood in my flipflops and then driving around in my car calling her name, I realized that the phone number on her dog tag was mine and that I had forgotten my phone at the house. Thankfully, I had a message from some nice man who had found her and put her in his back yard.

After retrieving Brandy I realized that both of my dogs were completely covered in dog poop and smelled horrible. Scotch is very easy to bathe because he jumps in and out of the tub on his own and stays very still and knows when he needs to put his front feet up so I can clean his tummy. Brandy, on the other hand, is horrible to bathe. She's too scared to jump in and out of the tub, so there I am, 34 weeks pregnant, lifting a 75 pound lab covered in poop in and out of my bathtub. So after cleaning my dogs I realized that I was going to have to clean myself again. All the energy that I had for the day had been used by 11:30 this morning. At least everyone is clean now. . . I think they're preparing me for my upcoming poop-filled days!

CRAZY HORMONES

Look at me - 2 posts in 2 days - I'm already off to a good start with this whole blogging thing!! No pictures or anything fun like that, but I thought my crazy hormones might be entertaining to you. As many of you know, my temper has become as short as a pinky toe since I've been pregnant, with much of it being taken out on our poor neighbor - he seems to know all the wrong buttons to push. But it has officially gotten worse. I took a call at work today from a lady that made me so mad I almost had to take my clothes off because my whole body was so hot and sweating from fury - normally she would have irritated me, but I was so mad that I started throwing papers and staplers off my desk and my boss had to come in and try to calm me down - good thing he has a good sense of humor. The whole time this is going on, I knew that I was totally overreacting, but for some reason I just couldn't stop. I'm not sure that I've ever had a tantrum like that in my whole life, especially not over something as insignificant as a lady who was disputing money she owed.

On to my emotions. . . On Monday a friend from work brought in a piece of dutch apple pie that she made - she let me have a couple bites and it was the most delicious apple pie I have ever had in my life. She told me she had one more piece at home and that she would bring it on Tuesday and split it with me. I saw it in the refrigerator Tuesday morning and couldn't get it off my mind for the rest of the day, but of course I didn't want to bug her about it. I went to get a drink out of the refrigerator around 2:30 and noticed that it was no longer in there. I asked her why there was apple pie in the morning and no apple pie in the afternoon - she had shared it with one of the other people at work instead of me!! At this point, I literally had tears in my eyes and went into this other person's office and yelled at him for eating my portion of the apple pie - by the way he's fairly new to our firm and I really don't know him and I'm sure that he thinks I'm a lunatic. I then went downstairs to my office and actually cried because I didn't have any apple pie to eat - not sobbing crying, but definitely a few tears shed. So this wonderful friend who made the apple pie called me at 8:00 this morning and told me that she had made an entire apple pie for me and brought it to work today. That apple pie for breakfast made my day - at least until the phone call from the lady that made me throw a temper tantrum.

I think it's time for Andy to lock me in the house and stop letting me out because it's past the point of being funny, it's actually kind of scary.

MORE MATERNITY PICTURES

Now that Andy is staying so busy with work, I will have to take over some of the blogging. I'll do my best to keep it updated!

A few weekends ago our friends Jim and Heather were in town from Atlanta. Heather is a photographer and her pictures are always beautiful, so I asked if she minded taking a couple of maternity pictures of Andy and I together. The pictures turned out beautiful!! If you want to see more of her work, please go visit her website at http://www.hdportraitsonline.com/. Of course, if you are anywhere near Atlanta, we have now given you two very highly recommended photographers that you will have to use for your next pictures! If only we could convince them to move to Charleston...

I will try to take some pictures of Grady's nursery very soon - it's turned out so cute and has become one of my favorite places to hang out - the dogs and I can often be found "playing" in the nursery. : )

SPELLING

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33 WEEK BELLY PICTURE

OK Jen, here are more belly pictures. Quit whining would ya. Look at Morgan's first baby in the background.

CHARLESTON SHOWER

Our Charleston friends gave us a couples baby shower. It was awesome to get to see everyone and to be able to share the shower experience with the husbands. The shower was catered and the food was awesome. The stack of gifts almost took up half the living room and the shower gifts were one of a kind. I have attached pictures for those of you that could not make it. Thank you to everyone that could come and a special thanks to Jim and Heather for coming all the way from Atlanta to spend the weekend with us.

Heather took some great pictures of Morgan and I while she was down. I will post them as soon as we get the final version from Heather.

Thank you Brian, Ryan, Jason, Elissa, Gillian, Kayce for such an awesome night and for being such good friends to both Morgan and I. You guys are going to make great baby sitters.