Gender Predictor Test

I just took a bunch of gender predictor tests! I know they aren't accurate at all, but it's fun to at least see. The first one was a Chinese test which said I would have a girl. Then I took one based on Old Wive's Tales and again it said girl. Then I took the heartbeat test and it said boy. Then the ring on the string test said boy again. I took another one based on Old Wive's Tales and that said 47% chance of it being a boy and 52% change of it being a girl. So....who knows? I have had a feeling that it's a boy, even though I really am hoping for a girl. I guess we'll have to wait and see!

Rehoboth Beach with Friends

Our annual beach day was another success! This time we were in Rehoboth Beach, DE. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day! I'm sad we have to wait another whole year to go back.

Pregnancy Brain

I have really been struggling with something lately...wait, what was I saying? I totally forgot.
Yup, that's is how my brain is officially working. I'll be mid-sentence and FORGET what I was saying. I feel like a totaly space cadet.

Friends: Top 10 episodes

The One where Ross Finds Out Season 2 Monica helps Chandler lose weight. Phoebe's boyfriend won't sleep with her. Ross tries to get a cat with Julie. Rachel has a date, get's drunk and leaves Ross a message saying that she's over him. Ross and Rachel have their first kiss.
The One with the Prom Video Season 2 Joey buys Chandler a bracelet. Monica has to ask her parents for money. Everyone watches the video from when they got ready for the prom (which is the first flashback episode). Ross and Rachel officially get together after the video.
The One where No One's Ready Season 3 Joey sits in Chandler's chair. Chandler then hides Joey's underwear so Joey puts on all of Chandler's clothes. Monica get's a message from Richard and can't figure out if it's old or new. Ross is in a hurry to leave and is freaking out that no one is ready.
The One with the Jellyfish Season 4 Phoebe is really Phoebe's mom; Rachel writes Ross an 18 page letter and they get back together, then break up. Monica gets stung by a jellyfish.
The One with the Embryos Season 4 Phoebe gets Frank & Alice's embryos emplanted. Ross makes up a game between Rachel & Monica and Joey and Chandler to see who knows each other better. The girls end up losing the apartment.
The One with All the Kissing Season 5 Ross continues to try and mend his marriage to Emily. When Chandler accidentally kisses Monica in front of everyone before leaving for work, he tries to recover by kissing everyone. Phoebe starts getting irritated by everyone's London stories. She ends up going into labor at the end of the episode. Rachel wants to tell Ross that she still loves him.
The One where Everybody Finds Out Season 5 Ross tries to get ugly naked guy's apartment, Phoebe finds out about Monica and Chandler and tries to mess with them and seduce Chandler to get them to admit it.
The One In Vegas Season 5 Chandler decides the only way to mend his friendship with Joey is to fly out to Vegas and visit him. Phoebe is determined not to be left out on another adventure, so everyone winds up going. Monica runs into Richard at lunch and Chandler finds out and they have a fight. Rachel and Ross come a day late and Ross thinks her naked time in her apartment is for him, this ends up starting a prank war on the plane. Joey finds his hand twin. Monica and Chandler decide to elope in Vegas but Rachel and Ross beat them there.
The One with the Rumor Season 8 Monica invites an old friend from high school over for Thanksgiving dinner, unaware that Will started a "We Hate Rachel" club with Ross. (Will is Brad Pitt) Joey tries to eat an entire turkey by himself, and ends up having to change into Phoebe's maternity pants. Chandler and Phoebe pretend to watch football to avoid helping in the kitchen.
The One with Princess Consuela Season 10 Monica and Chandler visit their house, which is in escrow, where Joey is comforted about losing his friends by the 8-year-old girl who presently lives there. Phoebe learns that she can change her name to whatever she wants, which turns out to be Princess Consuela Bananahammock. After Mike changes his name to Crap Bag, she decides to just be Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan. Ross gets tenure at his job. Rachel's boss is sitting next to her at an interview, and she loses her job. However, she runs into her old friend Mark, who offers her a job in Paris.

More baby movement!!!

Saturday night I was on the couch trying to get my baby to move again and it DID!!! I felt it a bunch, it was awesome! Then it woke me up a could of times moving. I felt mostly moving, and a couple of teeny tiny kicks. So cute. Viper was probably just fighting back cause I kept messing with it but it was good to feel some more movement. The midwife said I wouldn't feel consistent movement until about 20 weeks, but I might feel it occasionally. I felt it again in church Sunday morning. I still haven't been able to show Josh, I keep putting his hand on my belly and NOTHING happens.

Friends: Top 20 Episodes

I'm currently working on a top 10 list. To find that I will be using the following grading scale:
1. Did I laugh out loud more than once?
2. Can I watch this episode more than once back to back?
3. Are there many quotable lines from this episode?
4. Does this episode have commentary? (I noticed that many of my favorites do.)
5. Should this episode be in the top 10?
6. Did I think it would be in the top 10 before I started the marathon?
7. Does Josh give this episode a thumbs up?
8. Is there a cliff-hanger or shocking instance?
9. Are all the characters involved well in the plot?
10. Is this episode significant to the main plot of Friends?

Here are the top 20!
****1/2 The One with Two Parts , Season 1
*****The One where Ross Finds Out Season 2
*****The One with the Prom Video Season 2
*****The One where No One's Ready Season 3
****1/2 The One at the Beach Season 3
*****The One with the Jellyfish Season 4
*****The One with the Embryos Season 4
****1/2 The One with All the Kissing Season 5
****The One with All the Resolutions Season 5
*****The One where Everybody Finds Out Season 5
****1/2 The One with Ross's Sandwich Season 5
*****The One In Vegas Season 5
*****The One when Ross Got High Season 6
****1/2 The One that Could Have Been Season 6
*****The One with the Proposal Season 6
****1/2 The One with the Nap Partners Season 7
*****The One with the Rumor Season 8
****The One where Joey Dates Rachel Season 8
****1/2 The One After Joey & Rachel Kiss Season 10
*****The One with Princess Consuela Season 10

16 week checkup

Today I had my 16 week checkup. Everything looks good and normal! The baby's heartbeat is mearsuring at 120 or 130 which she said was normal. My uterus comes to my belly button now. They took my blood for the quadscreen test and also some general pregnancy tests that my first doctor missed. It was funny because the 4th vile was litterally going so slow that it was one drop of blood every time my heart beat. My right arm usually bleed great and she even commented that I was a good bleeder, and then she realized she forgot about a test. She said I could get stuck again or wait until next time. I just would rather get it over with and since no one can ever find a vein in my left arm, they took it out of my hand. They also looked at my diet and apparently I'm not getting enough calcium. I was even trying to eat more. They're not that concerned with my meat issues (I have barely been eating meat at all; it repulses me) she just told me to keep eating vegetables, eggs and beans.
It was cute to hear the babie's heartbeat again. I get to have my ultrasound between 18 and 22 weeks, so that is coming up soon! I'm so excited!

1st Baby Movement!

While I was swimming in Lake Ontario, I got hit by a big wave and at first thought it did some damage to the baby; then I realized I had felt the baby move! I think he or she liked it! I was really excited because Lake Ontario is the one place I've been visiting since I was a baby, one of my favorite places ever. I thought it was sort of poetic that it's the first place I felt my baby move. I did end up feeling movement one more time in the water, but that was it.

Family Camping

We just went on our annual family camping trip to Lake Ontario. It was pretty rainy this year, but we still had a good time. It was good to see everybody. It was Josh's first time up, so I was glad to show him around.

This is at the Barrack's restaurant. They're trying to pose for a picture summing up our "awesome evening" to make Diana and Jacob jealous since they weren't there yet, but I just love how much they're getting into this picture, especially Marisa.

Here's Grandma & Grandpa Ashley posing with baby Viper, giving us their blessing. (Oh, that is what we're calling the baby until we know what we're having. We're going to be surprised so it will go by "Viper" until the birth. That way we don't have to call it "IT" or "he/she" or "the Baby").

This is my sister's family. They were all dressed in camoflauge so I made them pose for a picture, even in the rain.

Here's the girl's covered in ice cream. I love pictures of kids with icecream all over them. Katy always ups the ante for ice cream pictures. I don't think anyone can compete with her.

Eating dinner in a thunderstorm. Good times.

Mia up to bat. Her first hit went pretty far, I was proud.

Marisa blowing bubbles. She puts it right on her lips. It's so cute.

Westcott Beach Overlook at Sunset

Diana and Jacob sitting around the campfire.

Time to pack up camp. :(

We went out to breakfast so we could pack up all our kitchen stuff the night before. I think we started a new tradition, it made it so easy. And the food was AWESOME! I ate everything.

Me and Cody. I used to babysit him when he was 3. Can't belive how big he is now!

Josh and I at Lake Ontario. Goodbye until next year!