Saying Goodbye

I must say that the #1 thing I hate about living away from family is saying goodbye everytime you visit them or they visit you. It really takes a toll on ones heart! I wish I could say that it gets easier with time, but it doesn't. I must say though I like being on the leaving end a little better than the being left end. For some reason it is depressing seeing your spare bedroom once filled with someone you love ( and all their stuff) and then all the sudden looking at it again and it being empty. Whenever anyone leaves I always go sit in the room for a while, it is like you can still feel them there with you. Crazy I know.

Anyway I had say goodbye to all our family again yesterday and it was not fun! What made it even harder was that Greg is not coming home until Wednesday so I had to say goodbye to him too. Cheesy I know because I'll see him in a few days but he is the one who usually pulls me out of my "sad" phase when I have to leave people.

I'm back at work today and surprisingly I'm feeling very good. I'm sure by tomorrow I will be over my "little phase" and move on, but for now I will just have to wait out my homesickness.

Tomorrow or so I will have to write about my terrible flight experience! Let's just say "Delta" is not on my good list right now!

Happy 21 weeks to me!

For those of you who have been wanting to see what my tummy looks like, here you go!

Good times with Aunt Geri

We had a great weekend when Greg's aunt Geri came to visit us! I love having visitors come because it feels like I get to go on vacation too. We were non stop busy the whole time! We went to the Hershey factory, Amish country, downtown philly, and Greg and Geri went to DC while I had to go to work. Our camera wasn't working the whole time but here are some of the pictures that turned out.

Here we are at Chubbys. Geri got to try her first philly cheese steak.

Here is a close up.

And now my Internet is being stupid and won't let me download anymore pictures. So I guess I'm done.

It's a GIRL!!!!

Hello! We just got back from the Dr. office and we found out that we're having a little girl! I'm so excited! I always knew that it would be a girl deep down, so when the lady confirmed it I wasn't very surprised. Anyway so now after work I'm going to go and do what any mom that just found out she is having a girl would do, I'm going to go and buy something pink!!!

Baby update

I went to the Dr. yesterday and guess what??? I get to find out what we're having next Friday at 3:00!!!! I'm so excited! I didn't think that they would be doing an ultrasound for at least another month. I'll be 18 1/2 weeks by then so hopefully they'll be able to tell. Pray that the baby is in a good position. Any guesses on what it will be??

Yesterday when they went to listen for the heartbeat and measure the baby, he or she kept moving away from the little wand thing. We could hear the heartbeat just fine but it wouldn't hold still long enough to be measured. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come. The Dr. already says we have a trickster on our hands. We'll just have to see.

Oh and by the way, I'm sad to say that Greg and I are not going to be able to come home for Christmas this year. So sad!!! But the good news is that we are coming home for Thanksgiving instead!! So if anyone wants to take a trip out east for the holidays and keep us company at Christmas, you are more than welcome too.

Well better late than never!!

I know that it has been a very long time since I last updated this blog. In fact, I'm not sure anyone is still checking it because of my lack of posts!! Anyway I could come up with a long list of excuses why I've been gone so long, but the only one that will justify anything is because I'm PREGNANT!!! Yeah for me!

I've been pregnant for a while now (17weeks) and let me just tell you it has thrown me for a loop. I never expected to feel so sick and so tired and so unmotivated. BY the time I get home from work each night all I want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So that's what I've been doing. Instead of posting I've been sleeping. I'm usually a very social person and enjoy any chance I get for going out and doing things, but the past weeks I haven't felt like going anywhere. I must sayhowever, that I'm starting to get a little more energy here and there and I'm feeling much better. So hopefully I will start to post regularly now and keep you all updated on whats going on with our lives. IF you are reading this, thanks for sticking around during the long dry spell.

New York City

We had a very fun day yesterday going to New York City. We saw a little bit of everything and the weather couldn't have been better.

We took a ferry past the Statue of Liberty

Then we ate lunch in Central Park where Greg almost lost $80 to a guy doing a magic trick. A guy was playing the game "under which cap is the little ball?" after he moved it all around with two others without the ball. Greg just stopped by to watch, and after the guy did it, the person who was playing against him picked wrong. Greg was watching, and he knew which cap the ball was under. Just for fun Greg said, "it's under that one," while pointing. The guy tipped back the cap and everyone around saw part of the ball. The guy then said to Greg "You've won." Then he said to Greg, "You've won $80. Show me that you have $80, and I'll give you $80." Greg, thinking that if he just shows this guy $80, then he will give $80 more to Greg. So, he shows the guy that he has $80. The guy then takes it out of Greg's hand before he could react, and said "under which cap is the ball?" Everyone who had watched knew where the ball was, and that Greg had allready picked it correct. Greg pointed at the same cap as before, but this time when he turned the cap over, the ball was gone! And the guy wounldn't give Greg back his money. Greg was stunned because he had no intention of playing. He just thought that because the guy had told him that he'd won $80 if he showed him his $80, that it would get doubled. But everyone around watching knew that somehow the guy had changed the ball while everyone was watching Greg get the money to show that he had it, after he was told by the guy that he'd won. Greg was mad. Everyone around was stunned too. Greg told the guy, "hey, you know I wasn't playing your game. I had my money in my wallet. If I was playing, I would have had it in my hand." The guy still wouldn't give it back, so Greg made a big sceen around him, calling him a cheater and threatening to get a cop to come and get him for cheating people of their money. The guy realized that Greg was ruining his business, so he gave Greg back his $80. Greg learned never to associate with those kind of guys again.

This picture was taken just before all this happened. That's why we look so happy.

On a happier note, we also went to dinner at this amazing Filipino restaurant in Queens. It was so yummy and very cheap. I think that we will for sure be going back there.


This picture is from the last time we went to New York, but while were on the subject I thought I would share anyway. This is a frozen hot chocolate from the famous little store/restaurant Serendipity. Can I just say that it is famous for a reason. It is the BEST THING EVER. It made the list of my top 5 favorite things to eat. We waited 3 hours for it but it was well worth it. If you ever go to New York this is a must have!!!!