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| | Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | | 10:53 pm |
what belly?
Okay, so a few of you have asked about my lack of belly pictures this pregnancy. Some of you will remember having such pictures thrust upon you when I was pregnant with Sam (:-)), meticulously taken every week. Well, we have been taking them. And at first I wasn't posting them because I just looked pudgey, not pregnant. And lately I've been not posting them because I look way pregnanter (it could be a word) than I am. I'm 15, almost 16 weeks, and I look a solid 20. But enough excuses... the full bunch of pictures are in the album in Picasa (there's a Slideshow button right above the pics, great fun)... here are a few highlights for your amusement. :-) 
looks like a big difference already, but it's a combination of fun early preg bloat, and the fact that my heels are touching the wall & weren't in the first.
And on a completely different topic... we're less than 24 hours from the Grey's Anatomy premiere. Yay! :-D | | Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | | 9:27 pm |
ultrasound
Had my doctor's appointment today, and all went well. Baby's doing well, heart beat at 159 per minute. Measuring well for this week (I'll be 13 weeks tomorrow). They stuck my finger(s) to do a blood test that's new, they didn't use it last time. Took ages, one of those where they have to fill in the circles, 5 of them. They do something like it for newborns- I disliked it somewhat less than Sam did (hm... disliked it less... sounds backwards... my amount of dislike was lower?... I didn't hate it as much as he did!). Still have a couple sore fingers though. (I know, boohoo :-p) Anyway, here's the real reason you've read this far... pictures of baby #2!  I left this next one sideways, since the profile shows better that way. (if you look at this one upside down? even a mother's eyes can't find what you're looking for :-p )  (this was originally posted on my Wordpress blog... I forget to update over here :-p | | Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | | 6:04 pm |
Good day!
So here we are, back at home, all settled in. Sam and I finished our crazy long excursion, and while most of it was fun, we are glad it's over! We weren't quite back to normalcy though, as today we had lots to accomplish. Let's start from the end and move towards the beginning, just to shake things up a bit (and give my poor memory some help.) We managed to catch the vet, even though they were closed, to pick up Charlie from his teeth cleaning. Apparently we've always dropped them off on Thursdays, since that's the one day during the week they're open till 7. ??? Somehow that seems less likely than them just screwing with us, but it turned out alright anyway. AND Charlie didn't need any teeth removed or major work done, so it wasn't as painful (for him or our wallet) as it could have been. Our reason for being late was completely out of our hands, and the mad dash drive to get there was made all the more pleasant by our... Brand New Car!  Well, new to us anyway. It's a 2005 Dodge Caravan. Yes, that's right- we're officially mini-van owners. But it's black! (which I've only ever seen 1 black mini-van before, and it somehow made it look more SUVish? Or I'm telling myself that anyway). And it has power side doors, all sorts of gizmos we haven't figured out yet, and it's pretty cool. Well, it's functional anyway, and going to be needed come March. Cause that's when we get our... Brand New Baby!  Yes boys and girls, that was the first part of our big day- a visit to my doctor. After trying for a couple months, we found out on June 30th that Sam is going to be a big brother! We waited till seeing the heartbeat on the ultrasound (a brisk 135 beats per minute, perfect) to tell (most of) you. Everything's looking great, and we can expect another little sweetie sometime around March 12th 2009!  Sam doesn't understand the idea yet, but he did help me tell Daddy! I put this shirt on him the day I got a positive test, and then waited for Ryan to notice when he got home from work.  I'll try to take a pic of Sam wearing it tomorrow and post it as well. He hasn't really gotten to wear it except around the house, but now that the WORLD knows... :) So, now you can go back and check my blog entries for little clues I've dropped for you... like this mention of poppyseed chicken, which was so rockin' because it was a CRAVING.... or this warning about the perils of grazing, which were also cravings (no caps, less strong)... and then of course there is the entry I posted the day we found out, which stated that "perhaps something wonderful that I can share with you will happen tomorrow." :-) So now you know, if you read my blog with a fine tooth comb, you may get early info sometimes! :-) For those that are wondering, yes, we are doing belly pics again. I'll try to get them in an album soon, and I'll start posting them here as they get taken. I'm feeling fine- a few cravings, as mentioned, and I did have a bit of nausea this afternoon. Though I think that was actually because I was hungry, and the car buying took ages. Sam & I were both cranky by the time we drove off the lot. Fun for Ryan! That's it for me for tonight folks- I hope you enjoy our news as much as we enjoy sharing it with you! My next appointment is middle of next month, the 20th I believe, and we get another ultrasound in September! Fun! | | Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | | 2:02 am |
| | Sunday, July 6th, 2008 | | 9:52 pm |
an update!
Okay, I haven't ever really kept up with my LJ, but I do blog, really I do! (lately) [[EDIT- apparently LJ is punishing me for not posting here in nearly FOUR YEARS, so it won't let my links work consistently- I've added them, by typing the stupid things out. Whee.]]Try my Wordpress ( www.wordpress.com/meagan42 ) blog for my current crap, and if you want a bit older crap, try my xanga. ( www.xanga.com/meagan42 ) Pics of my lovely little family can be found on my Picasa albums. ( http://picasaweb.google.com/Meagan42 ) If you really want to stalk me, here's my Twitter feed. ( http://twitter.com/Meagan42 ) And to show I don't discriminate against any other social networking sites, here's my MySpace ( www.myspace.com/mea359 ) and my Facebook. ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profi le.php?id=755445617 ) If you want to be buddies on some other site, if you search for me, I'm probably there. I make profiles everywhere, to see what all the hubub's about. Rarely follow through though. | | 9:52 pm |
an update!
Okay, I haven't ever really kept up with my LJ, but I do blog, really I do! (lately) Try my Wordpress blog for my current crap, and if you want a bit older crap, try my xanga. Pics of my lovely little family can be found on my Picasa albums. And to show I don't discriminate against any other social networking sites, here's my MySpace and my Facebook. If you want to be buddies on some other site, if you search for me, I'm probably there. I make profiles everywhere, to see what all the hubbub's about. Rarely follow through though. | | 9:52 pm |
an update!
Okay, I haven't ever really kept up with my LJ, but I do blog, really I do! (lately) Try my Wordpress blog for my current crap, and if you want a bit older crap, try my xanga. Pics of my lovely little family can be found on my Picasa albums. And to show I don't discriminate against any other social networking sites, here's my MySpace and my Facebook. If you want to be buddies on some other site, if you search for me, I'm probably there. I make profiles everywhere, to see what all the hubbub's about. Rarely follow through though. | | Tuesday, September 21st, 2004 | | 2:07 pm |
:-D
wow, poor little lj... was a frenzy of activity for a few days, and now left in silence while we beam on :-D all is going amazingly well... all parental units are supportive and happy for us, after being assured that the wedding won't occur until ryan's completed school. now it's merely left to him deciding if he wants to go to graduate school or not. i have, as he says, "buckled in" for a long engagement :), and i am, entirely content to wait as long as necessary, because his school is veryvery important to me as well. he is so brilliant, and absorbs knowledge like a sponge, and i'm such a geek, it turns me on to no end :-D we're able to talk about the wedding, whenever it may occur, and the budgetting for that, and the budgetting and saving for a house and the babies we'll have... everything's so rosey! :-D and we talk about everything! it's so amazing! i don't just let a comment that rubbed me wrong fester and upset me... i tell him about it, and we discuss, and it's better immediately! this is the healthiest relationship i've ever heard of, and it's as simple as me being as unscripted and honest with him as he is with me... and he's so receptive to that! he's such a good person, and has such a good heart, and it makes me want to be better, and motivates me to be better, and i love it :) so, wedding status for the time being is me doing all the icky things that need to be done before hand that are such a pain (re: guest list :-p), and i'm not really letting myself look at dresses and such, but i am signing up for theknot and weddingchannel and such thing... and so far, i've been able to stave off wedding planning fever - it's really... it's so different... i had the wedding with patrick, and it was planning, and it was fun, because i enjoy it... and i'm helping niki plan hers, and i've given a little advice to various others about theirs... but this.... it's an entirely different ballgame... the feeling... i've read about bridal consultants who go into it because of the romance and all that they enjoyed while planning their own... but that wasn't the case with me... i didn't romanticize it at all before... it wasn't about the actual ceremony & vows... it was about the party! and the dress! and the cake! and i wanted to do every single thing, i'd have made the cake if i was able :-p, but i did the flowers and everything... but with ryan... it's so different... i have no desire to do the flowers, and while the location and all the details are important... it's all secondary to what's really going on... and i want it to be romantic and beautiful, because THIS will be the day i will remember forever... and i know that no matter where it is or when or how much it costs... it's going to be amazing, because THIS is love... not puppy love or convenience or obligation... but love, the real thing... i've always been amazed at how sure ryan's been about me... but it is there... now that i've learned to open up to him, and not shut him out and put walls between us, to run towards him and not away when i'm upset... he's truly my soulmate... i realize that in depths that i never thought possible before... it's the most amazing, pure feeling. the consultant in me is going thru a list of all the things that need to be done, and thoughts on budgetting and guest lists and food and location and themes (oh! no! my heart, my heart found the theme, or at very least the wording for the invitations: "This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for and love." isn't that perfect? i read it and my heart skipped, and ryan reacted much the same :-D), but before anything can really be examined with any kind of detail, we'll need a date, and before we have a date, ryan has to decide if he wants to go to graduate school. he told me that he'd like to be married to me by spring of 2008, and it made me so happy that he's eager :) i, however, don't want him to rush the grad school decision... i want him to have the same amount of time he'd have to decide if the wedding wasn't a factor. if he doesn't need to decide until his last semester of school, then we'll decide when the wedding will be around december '05. maybe he'll have the information on it before then, and if he decides not to go, it'd be nice to know a month or two before december, so we can begin saving and preliminary planning, but i'm entirely content to wait until he's sure of what he'd like to do. the wonderful thing? i know he'll get all the information he needs, then weight it all out and make a decison - he won't just fly off half-cocked in any one direction. and now he's more comfortable with factoring in other peoples opinions (ie: his parents, and me), but not having anyone's word be law... he makes his own decisions, and i love that :-) i'm so proud of him :-D! alright, that's the status of things right now... i still haven't gotten to tell the story of the ring buying, but i'm relaying this information at least 5 times a day, so you, lj, will have to wait :) you'll get all the other info though, as close to when it happens as i can get it here oh, speaking of events, i took the ring in to be sized today... those things come standard as a, i dunno 6 or 7? and i was sized today at a 5.25 :-p and i'm going to pick it up on thursday when i go out w/audrey, and then friday morning? i'm going to dallas... kyle's bday is this weekend, and it'll be the first time they've seen me since the engagement, and the ring at all. so for the first time, i'll truly be down there as their daughter-in-law to be! :-D kyle's already calling me sis... in-law :) like the boys did with ryan :) it's fun :-D i'm so excited to be part of that family... :-D!!! i get to marry ryan! ~(future) meagan friedman ~ :-D Current Mood: still in engagement haze :-D | | Sunday, September 19th, 2004 | | 9:24 pm |
~most amazing proposal in the world~
wow, my mind is in a million places at once :) i want to update my profiles and my journal and maybe make a little something else on the web... but i unfortunately only have two hands and one computer :-p, also people want pictures of the ring and details given via IM & phone & in person... everyone's so happy! but okay, back to the retelling :-D so we were looking at the pictures of abby, and everyone came in from the porch, and ryan asked me to go outside with him. we did, and we sit on chairs facing each other. he has a wonderfully romantic speech that i later found out he'd rehearsed many times en route :-D... here it is, directly from the sweet wonderful romantic man's mouth: "Meagan, from the moment we met you've be a shining star in my world. You brighten my whole life. My darkest days have been the ones without you. You lift me from the lowest lows to the highest highs. I need you in my life and I love you so very much. You complete me." at this point, i hadn't grasped what was going on, just that he was being so wonderfully sweet, and right then he got down on one knee... i nearly fainted right then... and he continues "Meagan Renyae Jones, will you marry me?" okay, gotta insert this here... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my exact reply was "yes, yes i will, yesyesyes" (it felt like i said yes fifteen times :-D, and even if i had? that wouldn't have conveyed the magnitude of the feeling) and much hugging and kissing... it was the most amazing moment! that wonderful man, he put so much thought into making it absolutely perfect, and it was, it was so beautiful. and something that made it so, was the fact that we didn't pick out a ring until the next day. while he was asking, it was just about him and me. no ring to distract, it was entirely about the feelings and gravity and strength of the moment and the connection. *~heart sigh~* so amazing :-D okay, proposal complete, next leg of entry will contain the amazing ring story :-D and reactions of family members & friends :-D ~mFr~? monogram? or just ~F~? :-D such wonderful things to think about! :-D Current Mood:  ecstatic | | 10:43 am |
and i said yes!
important part to mention, the answer :) it was soooo amazing, and i'm going to try to transcribe the last 2 days, but i don't know that i have the words to do fully convey what's transpired :-D plus my mind's oft awol :-p so bear with me :-D first off, he surprised me friday night. the family & i had gone to tulsa to see the new baby, and ryan was supposedly (:-p) working on homework and then playing magic with gene :) but we get back from tulsa, and i walk in and am here not 2 minutes, and moma & gma are saying something about a black car in front of the house, and just then ryan texts telling me to come look at the moon :-D so i ran out side and was sooooooo happy to see him! he was quite smothered in hugs and kisses, and quickly forgiven for promising that he wouldn't come this weekend (he says "I can't ever promise to stay away from you" :-D! and he made himself feel a little better by not saying the word promise, just "yeah"ing that he did :)... at the time, i was going to make him actually say it, but something made me let it go at an assent :) ) so we hugged and kissed outside for ages (in front of an audience apparently :-p everyone was on the porch), and then came in to get some water ('s hot outside!) and i showed ryan the pictures we'd taken of abby. he was oddly distracted though, and i wasn't sure why. i expected a deep reaction, seeing me holding abby, and it wasn't there. i didn't say anything, because he'd been real quiet lately anyway. (argh, the rest will be updated when i get back, i'm in the process of telling the whole world [where's a rooftop with a megaphone when you need it??], and i've just told patrick over the phone, and he's asked me to come meet him at ihop in okc and talk. it's public, so it shouldnt' be a problem, and maybe i owe him that much? plus a little of the rubbing in... hm, snippet jumping ahead... daddy says "that's how it's supposed to be done, btw", speaking of ryan's proposing on one knee and everything being romantic and wonderful and the ring being gorgeous... but more on reactions as we come to it... oh yeah, need to include ryan's pre-showing up emails to family... hm, which i haven't actually seen yet, so might need to wait anyway... :-D okay, i'm gonna go, and will continue this wonderful romantic weekend recap :-D) ~Ryan's fiancee *beam*! ~the future Mrs. Ryan Friedman *beam*! ~the future Mrs. Meagan Friedman *beam*! ~the future Mrs. Meagan Renyae Friedman *beam*! Current Mood: engaged! :-D |
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