our best (most interesting) new york pictures!

Our view from our hotel room...fabulous! Funny thing is...we live beside a cemetary in Elkin! The massive amount of graves in this cemetary was quite unbelievable, though.

Hmm...random...outside our hotel again. Don't get me wrong, though, we were actually in a great hotel...outside the city, easy commute to the subway, and very safe!

Statue of Liberty!

Our big heads blocking the Statue of Liberty!

Wanna-be Statues of Libery!

way to go me!

I'm so proud of myself for posting 11 times in September that I decided to send myself on a trip to New York! ....Well...I am proud of myself and I am going to New York, but the two are separate ideas! It would be cool if I could just reward myself with vacations all the time, but this is good enough for me.

Justin and I are heading to a music conference at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this weekend. We are flying up Wednesday then riding back on Monday with some friends of ours! I'm so excited!!!! We're going to do some touristy stuff on Wednesday and Thursday and then enjoy the conference during the weekend. We get to sing with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir on Sunday so I will be so pumped up and I have a feeling that this is the weekend I could actually feel Baby Blakley move for the first time! How could he not with all the excitement?!

We're planning to see Phantom of the Opera, eat some New York style pizza (my idea!) and see what else we can get into (that we can afford). I'll miss you blogging buddies over the next days, but I'm sure I'll check in because the internet is everywhere and I can only stay away from it for so long!

intro to pregnany 101...

That's right...I guess I've been clued in to pregnancy slowly since I have only been sick one day total (sorry, y'all) and since I'm liking the idea of these new maternity clothes so far. I got a little more integrated into pregnancy last night,however, at our favorite Elkin Mexican Restaurant La Fuente. We walked in (like we do many Sunday nights) and request a table for two. The host guy looks at me and smiles saying, "2 and a half?!", which I thought was pretty funny. I was obviously in a maternity shirt, so I wasn't offended. For that moment...

Then I really laughed because we got to our table and he puposefully moved the table over some so that there was a little more room on my side!! HA! I could've been offended, I guess. It really was courtious, but I was just amused. It's probably a good thing it's my 2nd trimester and not my 3rd. (Atleast from what I've heard from you post-pregnant ladies!) More stories to come, I'm sure...I already don't really appreciate the tummy touching!

As soon as I posted, I remembered another story! ...the ladies at my office in Mt. Airy are already planning how to rearrange the office furniture ...because I'll soon be too big to easily get around the filing cabinet in our work room! Good thing I've been in a great mood lately!!

pregnant erin....18 weeks

Alright people...here's what you're missing (those who don't live close by!) I'm getting pretty big! I do like the new maternity clothes I've found, though...I feel so spoiled with new clothes!

Contrary to popular belief...

Even though the poll results were 70% girl vs. 30% boy....we're glad to prove the 70% wrong! We're so excited to be expecting a boy! Everything looked good today...it's definitely a boy! AND he has so far proved himself to be just as lazy as me and Justin. He refused to move!! Thankfully, I have a patient and generous ultrasound tech. She kept trying to get good pictures since the candy bar and coke I had didn't seem to wake our baby boy at all. So...we're gonna go again tomorrow morning and hopefully get some really good pictures...so check back! We did see him moving his mouth today...he's already singing!!