More Wyoming Pics

Give Us Our Money Back!

So Wyoming is pretty famous for, you know, its mountains, lakes and scenery. And wanting to embrace all the Wyomingness of the place, Sarah Jo, Jesse and I made the trek out to the Teton National Park. We drove up, greeted the gate security guard and told him we wanted to have lunch at Jenny Lake Lodge.
What a surprise, then, to find out that after paying $25 to enter the park - let's repeat that: twenty-five dollars - we drove up and found out that NOTHING was open!! All the restaurants were closed, the visitor's centers were closed....the whole park was completely deserted. The only living thing we saw was a squirrel....I think it was a squirrel.

The really sad thing is that the lakes were deserted too :( At least the mountains and trees were still there!

So Jesse and I decided to take on the mission of GETTING OUR MONEY BACK. I mean, come on - it was a matter of principle! We played good cop, bad cop (jess was the good cop - let's face it, she's nicer than I am and). This is us in the background talking to the gate guard. I'm the one with the huge belly (hard to miss).

I played the pregnant card hard. In fact, I think it was my grumpy line "look, I'm pregnant and hungry and we told you we wanted to go to the park specifically to eat and you should have told us that nothing was open," that finally got the guard to give us our money back.





Hurrayyyy we got our money back. And then spent it on pizza :)

Cambridge Summit III

Nine years ago I met these fabulous friends while doing a study abroad program in England. They are so amazing that it would be hard to describe them with any justice in a short blog entry, but I'll try. Sarah Jo is an amazing writer, mother-extraordinaire, former college literature teacher and ex-navy wife (she and her husband recently got out - hurray). And Jesse is a screen writer in LA, personal assistant and probably the smartest person I've every met. They are amazing. Needless to say, I always love our "Cambridge Summits." This year was SJ's turn and she chose Jackson Hole.



Wyoming was stunning. We stared at dead animals mounted on walls, walked around the cute shops, discussed everything imaginable and ate the best breakfasts EVER at our B&B.








And, being 8 1/2 months pregnant, I slept a lot.

World Series Bound!

SOX vs. ROX
I'm torn - but my allegiance lies with one of my best friends, Paps.

Other "Paps" I love...?
This guy and this guy.

My Buddy and Me!

To celebrate the eventual Red Sox's ALCS win tonight over the Indians (*knock on wood*), I thought I'd write about a great weekend I had with one of my best friends, Jonathan Papelbon.


Paps and I met at Toys 'R Us about a month ago. We have so much in common. We both love the Red Sox, we're 26 years old, we have cute wives and love pink polo shirts.

So while our wives were out buying fabric or baking pies or something, Paps and I had a night full of manly merry-making.

Paps and I rocking out.


What better way to display our machismo than through Candy Land!

We love all the same comic books. But Amber doesn't like us staying up late reading them.


We sneaked out for Slurpees, but were wary of Amber catching us coming home.



















We're both pretty hardcore Hold'Em players, but with a '06 ERA of 0.92 and a 1.85 ERA in '07, you're not going to close out a hand against this guy - even if you're holding a full house, like I am.

Paps and me talking to our women. LL Cool P.

We had such a grand day, we just couldn't sleep. So we watched the rain fall.

34 weeks and counting

this is a picture from a few weeks back - but wes and i just haven't taken any pictures recently and i wanted to blog. i'm 34 weeks now and getting pretty tired these days. if i walk around too long my back hurts, if i stand too long my feet hurt and if i sit too long my butt hurts. it's a no-win situation. but feeling holden move around more sort of balances out the more negative aspects of being so far along.

today holden had the hiccups and it was awesome. wes doesn't really believe he can have hiccups - but he's not the one that has the big, hiccuping kid inside him - so my vote counts more.

wes and i have been rearranging the house to make room for holden. he now has a crib and a changing table and his own room - attached to ours. we had to move wes' "man's room" into the guest room - but wes can still be manly in there.

we are so excited about holden's room's theme. we'll take pictures when it's ready and show you our cool idea (if it all works).

holden's baby shower

my friends threw me (well holden) a baby shower about a month 1/2 ago but i was just BARELY able to wrest the camera from wes today - so these pictures are a little old. but the party was really fun. we went to mimi's cafe, had brunch and talked and i (well holden) got loads of presents!