Beach day... Sorta

Today was supposed to be our beach day, so we decided to take the ferry across the harbor to Coronado. They built a new stop for the ferry that's a 5 minute walk from our hotel - score! Well, until we got there "early" at 11:30 to find that our "12:00 ferry" was actually the 11:25 ferry... I had been looking at the wrong place!! We watched it leaving and realized that if we speed-walked (1.2 miles!) we could make it to the actual 12:00 one... So that is what we did. Later realized we had mad sunburns and I have blisters on my toes, but we made it - sat down on the ferry at exactly 12:00 on the dot, I kid you not.

Thus began our happy, relaxed day at the beach. Hot, sweaty, tired, and kinda grumpy. When we got there, we found out that the Coronado Beach was a little over a mile down from the dock (seriously?!). Having JUST done that, we decided to park it on the little beach by the dock... Not terribly beautiful, not picturesque, but it was a beach dammit!! We hung out there and read/occasionally splashed around in the freezing cold water (That was expected and therefore not disappointing) for awhile until it was time to head back.

I make it sound like it was horrible, when really it wasn't... But I'm a planner and I like things to be the perfect little image I built in my head. It was a fun day (and I honestly enjoy pretty much anything as long as I've got Tim), but it was a bit of a let down.

Ah well! The rest of the evening was spectacular. :) We walked to this little place called "DCompress Downtown" for our massages (which I booked about a month ago... See? Planner.),
and it was amaaaazing! Pregnancy massage? LOVE!

Then we went to "Blue Point" for our anniversary dinner - so yummy! I had a 1/2 lobster and a filet mignon, and it was delicious! I also ordered a glass of Pinot noir (no judging!!) since it was a special occasion, and I'm well into the 2nd trimester. Gotta say though, wasn't really a fan. I think that'll be my first and last glass of wine til the baby is here, actually I only had about a third of it - just didn't really like it! I don't think having a small glass of wine or a beer occasionally when you're pregnant is bad, and I know there are others who most definitely think otherwise! I don't care - this is MY blog. :) That being said, I just don't think it's for me - neither the taste nor the minor aftertaste of vague guilt. The rest of our dinner was delish though!

Tomorrow? Zoo day!! And possibly a museum, though today's treks really took it outta me - kinda just want to spend a good part of the day on the "meditation terrace" that is apparently on our floor of the hotel... We shall see. :)

Goodnight!

Day One!

Today was our first full day in San Diego - we started it off by sleeping
In til 10 (even with the time change!) and then walking to brunch at a really cool little place called "Mission."

We headed out to La Jolla this afternoon to hang out and go on our Segway tour!! I always made fun of those little tours (they do look ridiculously nerdy), but it was awesome! We had so much fun. :)

We're actually on our way back to the hotel right now after a yummy dinner of lobster mac & cheese and fish tacos. We decided against renting a car or taking a cab everywhere this time; instead, we are publicly transporting! We got 3 day trolley/bus passes (only $14 each!) and it's been great so far! We're on a bus back from La Jolla right now... I could honestly get used to this, I hate driving and parking!

Tomorrow is looking like a beach day, followed by massages and our anniversary dinner at a nice seafood place around the corner from our hotel - yay!

Can I move here now??

Back in SD after four years!

Just got to our (super awesome) hotel in San Diego! We're staying at Hotel Indigo in the Gaslamp Quarter - it is SO cool!! I think I'm just going to do little updates from my phone instead of a big one when we get home.

Its 4:30 here, so it's nap time for this pregnant girl, and then headed out to find some yummy fish tacos! Ahhh I love it here so much, I wish we lived in San Diego!!

Happy 4 Year Anniversary!

Happy anniversary to the love of my life and my best friend!  We've been together for seven years and now married for four - amazing how the time really does fly when you're having fun!  When you look at the grand scheme of things, even seven years doesn't seem like that long I guess, but I can hardly even remember what life was like before Tim!  I probably say the same things every year on my blog, haha.  :)  I'm going to change it up this year and do a little review, starting from when we met...

When it all started - yes, of course it is scrapbooked  :)

Sexy and funny - I immediately liked him when we met in Breckenridge!

Blog entry, January 17th, 2005:
(ha! Baby Proffitt is due on January 17th, 2013 - how funny!)
"Skiing was awesome (as expected). Met some cool people on the trip (considering that Andrea was the only one I knew beforehand)... even someone that I have a mad crazy crush on now. But sadly, he's in love with the other girl that went on the trip. Sniff. Oh well, a crush isn't so bad, and I got a little kiss, so I'm happy!"

I think this is the earliest picture I have of us together... we look so young, ha!

Then came our year of uber-long distance, when Tim lived in Raleigh, NC and I was still finishing up school at OU.  I went out to visit him several times, and he came here... we made it a point to see each other about every 4-6 weeks (the longest only being 7 weeks and feeling like an absolute eternity!).


Blog entry, Friday, July 15, 2005:
"I really really miss Tim.  =(  Lots of times I'm okay - I miss him, but I'm fine.  And then sometimes, my heart hurts.  Now is one of those sometimes."

Visiting in NC, wearing my new clothes I had to buy, because the airport lost my luggage for a few days :)

Blog entry, Tuesday, August 2, 2005: (recapping a trip out to NC to visit)
"We have so much fun together!!  ...even though we sat through two horrible movies that we actually saw AT A THEATER (Must Love Dogs - thanks to me, and Land of the Dead -  thanks to him, obviously)...  even though we drove 4 hours to go to the beach, but it rained, so we only stayed 30 minutes, annnnd even though we probably were in the car for about 20 hours or so (at least)... we still had a GREAT time.  Yes, I'm gonna say it - and yes, I will probably regret this when Tim reads this... but he is kind of sometimes, sort of well... amazing."

Ahhh, I was SO glad when I finally graduated and Tim was back in Dallas - I moved down as soon as I graduated (like, literally the next week).  Almost two years of long distance was more than enough!  After my first year of teaching (and my only year as "Ms. Logsdon"), we got married and the rest of our life began... 

Since that day (the best wedding ever!), we got our first "married apartment" (sounds like "merry department" and caused some confusion when we tried to tell people about it), moved to Dallas when we got our condo, got our super awesome kitty (our first baby) Lucy, and now have sweet little baby Proffitt on the way!!  What a great seven years it's been, and I'm so excited to see where the next seven will take us!  Happy anniversary to someone who is kind of sometimes, sort of well... amazing.

More news!

This isn't news to some of our friends and family, but it will be for others...

After a lot of consideration (ok, not really... I knew what I wanted to do, but actually doing it was a lot harder than I ever thought it would be), I've decided to quit teaching for now and be a stay-at-home-mom (a SAHM... for those really into acronyms and cool lingo and being in the acronym/cool lingo/nobody else knows what we're talking about club).  

I can't believe I really did it and that this is really happening!  I resigned at the beginning of July, and I'm not sure that it's really sunken in yet...  I am so excited to get to stay home, and I think I will love it (though I know it will be super challenging and a whole different kind of "hard" than I'm used to).  However I am so sad to leave my East family.  They really are like my family here, and some of my very best friends I have since moving to Dallas, I've met at East.  I'll also miss teaching - I think last year was my favorite year of teaching I've ever had, and next year was looking to be even better.  And while that makes me kinda happy (go out on a high note right?), it makes me kinda sad too, because I didn't leave with a "whew, I need a break from this!" - I left with a "wow, that was an awesome year, and next year is going to be even BETTER!  I love my job!!"  :/

However some things have happened since I resigned, which make me feel as though everything is working out just how it's supposed to.  Check out this awesomeness:

• Someone that has been at East longer than I have has wanted to teach 7th grade science for awhile, so she will be taking my place!  I was so worried I would be putting people in a bind since I had to wait so long to make a decision (just couldn't chance quitting before 12 weeks), that this made me feel so great!  Not only did it work out well for my principal, but my friend got the job she's been really wanting - PERFECT!
• This person also just had a baby... she will be taking her maternity leave the first 5 weeks of school, and will be needing what?  A long term sub!!  Who might that be?  ME!!!  Now I get to go back to school (in my old room, teaching my old class) when school starts and have a "job" til October 1st (and then sub wherever/whenever after that).  She doesn't have to make sub plans for a class she's never taught, and I get to see my Easties everyday AND get long-term sub pay, which is much better than regular sub pay.  Again, PERFECT!!
• Right about the time I'm going to want to not have to be tied to a full time job, I'll be able to choose the days that I work - that way if I'm feeling bad or have a doctor appointment, I can just not work that day, no biggie.  And when I start getting really uncomfortable, I can just be done altogether.  Ahhhh Perrrrrrfect!  

So while I'm incredibly sad to leave Coppell and especially East, I feel like everything has just fallen into place so wonderfully.  I am so excited to get to stay home with our little one when he/she gets here - I think this will be an amazing new chapter in our lives, and I am so excited!!

Oh how I will miss my awesome 7th grade team - LOVE you guys!!

Baby Proffitt!!

Well, I haven't posted in awhile, because all I've wanted to write about was our exciting news, but we wanted to wait to let everyone know.  So I've had to sit on it for what seems like forever, and now it's FINALLY out there!!  Considering the losses we had this past year, I just wasn't comfortable with people knowing until I felt really, really in the "clear."  I felt pretty good after our 12 week appointments, especially after getting to actually SEE Baby Proffitt for the first time:

Awwww!!!

We told our immediate families and very close friends that we see all the time (they were getting suspicious anyway!), but finally felt like we could share the happy news after my 16 week appointment this past Thursday.  After what we've been through, it's hard to believe it's really happening this time!  This is real, this is happening!  Aaaaggghh!!!!  I am so excited!!  So I'm going to try not to be annoying and post things constantly on Facebook (especially because I know that there are others out there with struggles like what we had this year, and I know how hard that is), so this is going to be my outlet.  My blog is where I'm going to gush and post pictures and just let it all out, so you have been warned... if I'm being annoying, at least I'm not subjecting everyone to it!  Only those who really want to know... mainly my family I think.  And Andrea.  :)


Sooooo with your fair warning in hand...


Here is me last week at 15 weeks!  Not much of a bump yet... hoping it gets more obvious in the next few weeks.  I'm totally okay looking really pregnant, it's this in between phase that's tough.  

We are definitely finding out the gender - I just don't think I could wait that long, I'm way too impatient.  And I feel like I've had to protect my heart so much during this pregnancy - I'm just now starting to relax and really enjoy it and allow myself to think about things more... I think I need to know if we've got a little boy or girl in there so I can bond better.  It will help make it more real for me I think, and I definitely need some help with that at times.  I'm getting better though.  :)  We'll get to find out (hopefully the baby cooperates!) on August 22nd, so I am just counting down the days!!  Until then, I bought a few things just because I couldn't stand to wait any longer...

They're so cute and tiny!!!

I also went to a "Just Between Friends" consignment sale last night - uh-MAZING!!  I tried to limit myself... only looked for maternity clothes, cloth diapers (more on that in a later post I'm sure), maybe a few gender-neutral baby clothes, and.......... a jogging stroller if they had one.  I figured that probably wouldn't happen, but I looked anyway, and what did I find??  A super awesome steal of a deal - a barely used (it seriously looks amazing) Jeep jogging stroller for only $120!  SO EXCITED!!!  

Lucy thinks it (obviously, duh mom) belongs to her...

Soooooo yeah!  That's some of my excitement from the last few weeks/months.  :)  I'll update again soon, because I have more fun things to share, but I've got to run for now.  A delicious burger at the Black Friar awaits me, and I must have it.  I neeeed it.  Really.