21 weeks

Here is my belly at 21 weeks.

Baby

Can you tell what it is? If not, you're welcome to call me to find out.

Today is the Day!

We find out this morning if our baby is a boy or a girl!!!! Joel thinks it's a girl and I think it's a boy and double pizza is on the line.

I Love You More Than Work

This is how much Joel loves me.

I Love You More than Work
by Joel Ackerman
For my wife, Jamie, so she knows she's always number one

Call me Marie Callendar,
I love you more than pies.
Call me Ron McDonald,
I love you more than fries.
Call me Haagen Dazs,
I love you more than ice cream.
Call me the Green Giant,
I love you more than beans.
Call me Country Crock,
I love you more than spread.
Call me undertaker,
I love you more than dead.
Call me Tropicana,
I love you more than juice.
Call me pagan pantheist,
I love you more than Zeus.
Call me Aunt Jemima,
I love you more than syrup.
Call me circus clown,
I love you more than cheer up.
Call me Merriam-Webster,
I love you more than words.
Call me ornithologist,
I love you more than birds.
Call me Keebler Elf,
I love you more than fudge.
Call me bitter old man,
You're better than curmudge.
Call me pure Italian,
I love you more than silk.
Call me a fresh cow,
I love you more than milk.
Call me wake-up caller,
I love you more than phones.
Call me human body,
I love you more than bones.
Call me marching ants,
I love you more than picnics.
Call me Oriental,
You're better than chopsticks.
Call me Mr. Thirsty,
I love you more than drink.
Call me weirdo pervert,
I love you more than stink.
Call me the zamboni,
I love you more than ice.
Call me Oriental again,
I love you more than rice.
Call me shopaholic,
I love you more than sales.
Call me Ishmael,
I love you more than whales.
Call me carbonation,
I love you more than fizz.
Call me Yogi Berra,
"It ain't over 'til it is."
Call me Captain Kirk.
I love you more than Spock.
My name is Asher Lev.
You out-do Chaim Potok.
Call me Leslie Knope,
I love you more than parks.
Call me commie bastard,
I love you more than Marx.
Call me Tracy Turnblad,
I love you more than Link.
Call me Descartes,
"Therefore I am, I think."
Call me politician,
I love you more than lies.
Call me the thigh-master.
I love you more than thighs.
Whatever you may call me,
I love you more than work.
And if you say I don't,
then I'll call you a jerk.

Heartbeat

Joel and I finally went to the midwife today and we got to hear the baby's heart beating!! It was soo amazing! The midwife said everything looked good and it definitely IS okay to sleep on my stomach. She was asking about family illnesses and I think she was impressed at what a healthy family we have. So in exactly four more weeks we go back in to get an ultrasound to see if it's a boy or a girl. I feel like it's a boy. I want a girl but I still feel like it's a boy, so it probably is. Either way it's pretty awesome!!

Engagement Photos

Joel's younger brother is getting married next month and so we were looking at their engagement photos, which inspired us to find OUR engagement photos and take a look at them again. Joel's older brother was visiting and had never seen them which made me realize that I didn't actually show anybody, I don't think, the engagements that we didn't use. We had a good laugh looking at them and hope that you will too.*

*Disclaimer: These photos are very entertaining. Please do not use them for any "awkward engagement photo" websites or anything like it.




















This first one is a great one. We are in a cemetery and Joel is actually SITTING on the giant ball of a headstone.
















This next one was also taken at the cemetery, but in a different part. This was taken way at the back at what is essentially a dump. This is where they dispose of all the trash and dead flowers that people leave on graves. We also have a nice industrial themed background and of course a perfect touch of class with the caption spray painted there on the cement.




















Here we have your classic front cover of the touching movie involving the girl's ghost coming back to quietly guide and direct the troubled lover back to a life of do-gooding and peace after her tragic death by car accident ... caused by him in a drunken stupor. Classic.


















And last but not least we have the traditional peek-a-boo engagement photo but with the added bonus of the remains of the burned out tabernacle in the background.

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