Take me out to the ball game

We recently went on a little date night with our friends. We started the night by eating at a yummy Mexican restauraunt. The place we ate at is the closest thing we can find to Cafe Rio. I'll take what I can get out here! Afterwards we headed over to Haymarket Park to watch the Saltdogs baseball game. It was the perfect day to be outside in the sunshine and watch the game. It wasn't humid or windy either...very rare for Nebraska! The game was even accompanied by an organ playing in between. Hilarious! My favorite part was the giant snow cone that Chad and I shared. Even though we made a mess trying to share it I still LOVED it!

Our lawn seating was the best! Got to love the green blanket that is older than we are. Mom you might recognize it. haha

Cute Traci and Matt. We had a blast with them!

I thought the huge baseballs were cool and Chad loved the bright green truck so a picture was a must.

Oops! Looks like Chad's got his eyes closed in this one.

These two were twinners in their little plaid shorts.

20 weeks

We're half way there! Here is a picture of me and my bump at 20 weeks. Really my belly looks huge to me in this shot! I know, I know it's only going to get bigger..but to me it still looks big. It's been so much fun to start to feel the baby kick and move around. I still have two more weeks until I find out whether we're having a boy or a girl (which is killing me to wait this long) but I'm curious to see what you all think the baby will be. So post your guess and in a couple weeks we'll find out if you're right. :)

Baby bump

I had to post about this great new website for maternity clothes that my friend from high school started. It has really cute maternity clothes that are very affordable. I've browsed around a bunch of other sites online for maternity clothes and so many of them charge an arm and a leg for stuff. It's ridiculous! So for any of you that are interested here's the site: http://www.milanmaternity.com/. It really is a gem so check it out!

Speaking of maternity clothes...guess who's started to get a little baby bump. Last week all of the sudden one day it was there. It seems to have happened overnight I swear! For now I can still fit into all of my normal clothes, but who knows how long that'll last since I'm 19 weeks now. It's just a small bump, but my doctor says that everything is going good so far and that makes me happy. I am still trying to keep up with running by doing 2-3 miles a day. It's not even close to what I was running right before I got pregnant, but I figure it is better than nothing at this point and I hope to be able to continue doing it as long as I can during my pregnancy. I would love to be able to run outside in the sunshine, but there are a couple of factors that keep me indoors on the treadmill. One: It is getting so blasted humid and sticky here it's hard enough to breathe just walking around. Two: When I run I almost always only make it about a mile and a half before I have to take another bathroom break. It's pretty annoying when you are used to being able to run for a long time without having to worry about that, but it's just how it goes when your pregnant right. So for now my days of long summer runs outside are over.-That is at least for this summer that is. I'm planning on running a couple races next year and I can't wait. I'll have Chad get a picture of my baby bump to post on here soon.

4th of July: Part One

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. I was determined to have a fabulous 4th of July weekend jam packed with fun in the sun. But here is what happened instead:

Friday, July 3rd: I had the day off and was excited to have a day to relax and hopefully play at the pool. Around noon we decided to go hit up the pool. So all decked out in our swim attire we stroll over to the pool. It's a bit windy out, very cloudy, and not warm at all! What's the deal?! We made it to the pool and sat on our lawn chairs for a few minutes looking around deciding wheather or not to stay. We were the only ones there and it wasn't warm at all. It was pretty funny actually. After about 5 minutes of sitting by the pool we heard thunder and we were out of there. I was majorly bummed. No pool day for me. Friday night we planned to go see fireworks. Going to see fireworks is one of the reasons why I love the 4th. I love laying on a blanket under the big sky, hearing the loud booms as the fireworks burst in the sky. LOVE IT! However, this year I didn't get to see my fireworks. A huge storm came in instead. It poored and poored! Within 5 minutes of the start of the rain storm the streets were starting to flood and the grass was all flooded. Insane! Then the lightning and thunder started. We had some lightning that hit in our complex causing the power to go out and blew out the door entry key thingys so you couldn't get in our building. So the fire department showed up. Let's just say it made the night pretty interesting. So instead of fireworks we stayed home and played games with Matt and Traci. We had fun playing games, but I was still bummed out about not getting to see the fireworks.

Saturday, July 4th: The above picture is what it looked like all day...gloomy! I woke up and Chad went on a cereal run for me.(I'm addicted to Lucky Charms lately) He came back and about a minute later was gone after rushing in and telling me he was going to Seward with his friends. Seward is this tiny little town about 30 minutes West of Lincoln (literally in the middle of nowhere!) that has the biggest 4th of July celebrations in all of Nebraska. Parades, fireworks, carnivals, craft booths, bands, food, you name it they had it. I figured while he was gone I would go for a nice run outside and hopefully go to the pool. I headed out on my run and about a mile into it the rain starts. Seriously by this time I was fed up with the crappy weather on the holiday weekend. I had to run back to our complex gym to finish up my workout. Chad came home later and we went back to Seward so I could join in on the festivities there. This town has only 6,500 people that live there and they have thousands of people that drive out to their little town just for their celebration. They had a fabulous parade that was by far the funniest small town parade I've ever seen! The parade was complete with tractors, horses, and old Crysler Labaron convertables to parade around their beauty pagent winners. Plus they even threw out great candy like Starburst, Skittles, bubble gum, Sweet Tarts, and great suckers. Oh and my favorite part was that they had snow cones there! You can't find them anywhere here! I asked a couple people at work where to find snow cones and they didn't even know what they were. So deprived! Having the snow cone seemed to make up for the rest of my 4th of July let downs. Here are a few pictures from Chad's morning in Seward.

The firemen having a water contest

Cute Chad by one of his favorite things

Chadly participating in a bubble gum blowing contest