the home stretch...

i am hesitant to even call this the "home stretch" because i have around 6 weeks left or so, but i feel these last weeks are going to fly by considering how busy work has been.

i compare this picture to the last one i posted.  i'm no rocket scientist, but i am drastically bigger these days!

i am still feeling good (aside from waking at 4 in the morning and not being able to fall back asleep) and am still able to exercise almost every day.  hopefully that means the baby weight will drop off quickly :)

Cameron's Birthday - 26!

I am a bad wife-blogger.  Cameron's birthday was all the way back in August and i didn't even document it!  he turned a whopping 26 years old!  We had a small little gathering at our house with some friends from work/church and some college buddies.  it was great fun.  we ate tri-tip, cupcakes, and other goodies!

we attempted to play a rousing game of catch phrase, but the dodger game happened to be on at the same time.  cam has this friend named "dodger dave." hopefully the name says it all, but in case it doesn't - he LOVES all things DODGERS.  the man couldn't even function while the dodgers were on t.v. - it was as if nothing else existed.  unfortunately, he was on my team and i really like to win at catch phrase.  needless to say, we didn't win.  i blame the dodgers.

for cameron's birthday gift, i took him to a dodger game.  he always wants to go to a dodger game, but this one was a little extra special.  we bought tickets in the "all you can eat" pavillion.  if anyone knows cameron, you know his affinity for food and the fact that he can definitely pack it in.  in this first picture below, he is on his fourth hot dog and i don't think the game had started yet.  the price was totally not worth it for an eater like me, but cameron certainly made up for my lack of eating.  let's just say the next couple days he didn't feel all that well in the tummy area.  he'll tell you it was totally worth it.

shiatsu massage...from the inside.

so, i am hoping we all know what a shiatsu massage is. if you don't, then i emplore you to consider getting one. i, for one, think they are fab. the more pressure the better. anywho - as you can see from the above picture, there are 2 appendages sticking out of this particular machine. inside those appendages are (what i imagine) 2 finger-like machines that move round and round in a circular motion, rubbing the pain out of one's body.

well, it seems that i have my own personal shiatsu massage going on in my abdomen from time to time throughout the day. unfortunately, this particular shiatsu is not the amazing-please-a-little-to-the-left kind one would get from a machine. the massages i get are always on the right side of my midsecton and never hard enough or rubbing on a sore muscle. if only he would do his shiatsu-thang on the right side of my back from the inside...now THAT would be the spot!