rock n roll!

Bella's rolling over now - she cracks me up and we love her lots.

a myriad of things...

It's a big weekend in Ohio - OSU is playing USC as we speak and since it's mandatory if you live here, I'm on the bandwagon. O - H - I - O! Tomorrow the Browns face the Steelers (which for you Denver folk it's equivalent to a Broncos/Raiders game) Justin personally made sure Bella had her Browns cheerleader dress ready...

We did the Race for the Cure this morning. Technically it was Bella's second race because I was about five weeks pregnant last time we did it. It was a little rainy out but it didn't stop us - Justin made a cover for Bella's jeep stroller out of a hanger and a trash bag (a perk of marrying an engineer!). I think this is going to be a tradition for my family... one of my best friend's mom had breast cancer (she's officially a survivor - SUCH a champ!) and it's something cool I like to do for them. plus, secretly I love pink. haha!

At the mall today I was giving Bella a bottle in the family lounge and this woman plops down across the room and starts breastfeeding her baby. I'm still breastfeeding Bella, I have nothing against women doing it (even in public if necessary - I've done it), but I do think it was a little unnecessary to do it in the open lounge when they had two rooms specifically for nursing moms. In fact, a man walked in with his stroller, saw her, apologized embarrassed and walked out. I believe in a woman's right to do it, but when a place is provided, it bothers me she didn't take it. Plus, I knew Justin was on his way in with Starbucks for me and it would make him uncomfortable to see another woman doing it, and it just irked me. If anyone's going to make my husband feel awkward, it's going to be me! haha! Seriously thgough, the room was less than five feet from her! Plus then she insisted on carrying conversation, and I just wasn't feeling it. Basically she didn't go behind the curtain because she's a social feeder - I just think it's inconsiderate to others.

Speaking of being irked... I'm going to make a public service announcement for Cleveland drivers: just because you flip on your blinker - you DO NOT have the right of way! every day without fail I'm cut off by someone on my drive to/from work. It makes me daydream about my dream car again.

We finally found a church that we like! It's a solid drive, but at this point we're willing to drive to Colorado each weekend if that's what it takes to get us to church each Sunday.

update: I'm not sure I'm good at even being a bandwagon fan - I laughed through the entire game through each turnover and missed fieldgoal of the OSU game... but I still cheered and high-fived my husband (yeah, unfortunately we're high-fivers) at each first down.

My Buddha Baby

seriously not trying to be sacrilegious here, but I simply cannot resist...

Bella is now over 16 lbs... can you tell?! haha - she cracks me up!

take me out to the ballgame

In the summer time I usually don't care what level of baseball I'm watching, I just want to go to a game. (granted I will always prefer a Rockies game to anything else) After high school, during the summer of Mandy, she and I would even grab dinner and take it to the little league fields and cheer for whichever team was losing when we walked up. just to be there is usually enough for me. it's something about baseball and summer...

my little turtle will have to get used to attending baseball games - her first one was an Indians game last month. we were supposed to go to a Rockies game when I was in Colorado in July but unfortunately it didn't work out. this was a solid second choice though. Here are some pictures from the game - my friend's mom took them while I was being paparazzi with my cell phone. please excuse me and just love on her a little!