It's been a while since I posted a belly picture so here it goes. This is me at 27 weeks 2 days - in my 7th month. Only 90 days to go before my due date!

I hope everyone had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving. I had a wonderful day. Unfortunately I am at work already today. I have to work 8 to 4:30 today and tomorrow. How much does that suck? A lot. I didn't even go to sleep until almost 1am because I was watching The Strangers with my husband and my oldest son, Jamie. I'm going to be so tired by the time I get out of here today - especially since I brought T-day leftovers for lunch.

My daughter's very first hair cut! I cut it myself last night. It was so messy and in her eyes all the time and I don't always have the time to put it in pigtails so....

Before:

After:

Hopefully it grows nicely now that it's been cut.

More Wordless Wednesday

My favorite thing about the holiday season, aside from spending time with my family, is making Kieflies! We've set the date for about 2 weeks from now. I'm so excited! I love Kieflies and I love spending the day with the women in my family to make them. Kieflie day is one of the best days of the entire year!

At the end of this week I will be entering the third trimester of this pregnancy - which means two-thirds of the way through. Woo hoo! Only three months to go! Before we know it, our new little bundle of joy will be here. I have to say.. pregnancy is normally a very long thing, but it's gone by pretty quickly this time. Maybe because I have a two year old at home. Then again, if I remember correctly it's the last three months that go by the slowest so I should probably just keep my mouth shut about it.

I knew that they would never be able to capture the book on screen, but I really didn't think it was going to be THAT bad. I actually regret seeing it. It was horrible and took away from the greatness of the book. I might just have to read the books again. Although... now I'm going to see the badly cast characters from the movie. The only person they cast perfectly was Alice. Oh, and the acting was atrocious. What a disappointment.

The light at the end of the tunnel... my weekend is almost here. I am so excited about going to the movies to see Twilight tomorrow with my mother-in-law!! I only hope there aren't a thousand teenagers in the theater. I'm crossing my fingers that since we are going to such an early show (11 am) that there won't be a ton of them there. A friend went to see it last night at the midnight showing and said she was surrounded by nothing but teenagers and she felt so old and every time a new character would come on screen they would all yell and scream. I am a pregnant, hormonal person dying to see this movie. I dare some teeny-bopper to start screaming throughout my movie experience.

It's almost the weekend! I have so much going on this weekend though so I won't actually be relaxing - which kind of sucks. But I will be going to see Twilight with my mother-in-law on Saturday (woo hoo!) and then shopping with my mom after that. On Sunday I will be taking my daughter to my great-nieces 2nd birthday party (with my mom also) and then a candle party at my mother-in-law's house that evening. It's going to be a fun-filled weekend! I can't wait.

Someone should have warned me not to read the Twilight series while I am pregnant. My hormones must have something to do with the reason I am so depressed about having no more books to read. I am so obsessed with this story and the characters. I know I'm not the only one. I've seen the shirts and calendars and other paraphernalia in stores, but I just can't believe how this series has left me feeling. As much as I love the books, I almost regret reading them because I just can't let it go. Every time I see a trailer for the movie my heart literally stops and I have to gasp for air. That's not normal. This is worse than a break up.

Gabby had her 2 year appointment with the pediatrician today. She got 3 shots and did very well. My husband said she cried more when the doctor was trying to listen to her heart than when she got the shots (she dislikes the doctor touching her as much as she dislikes Santa Claus being anywhere in her line of sight). She is 36.5 inches tall and weighs 29 pounds (90th percentile for height/75th percentile for weight). She doesn't have to go back for a year.

I haven't dropped off the planet. I just haven't had much to write about. I took my time reading Breaking Dawn although it still didn't take me long. I was done with it by Saturday and I have been going through withdrawals ever since. I miss reading the books. I'm sad that it's over. I'm happy with the way things ended. I just wish there was more to read. I really want to see the movie now because at least it's something to hang onto. It sucks that there will be years between each movie though. I'd like to watch the entire story all at once, but I know it would ruin it to try to fit it all into one movie.

My wonderful husband just came home from the grocery store. Yes, I'm happy that our house is filled with food now, but most importantly.. he bought me the 4th book, Breaking Dawn! I won't be getting any sleep tonight.

I'm totally obsessed, I know. I finished Eclipse yesterday and I'm dying to get my hands on Breaking Dawn. I had my husband run to our neighbors while I was still at work yesterday to borrow it, but he had bad news when he emailed me back: she had already loaned it to someone else! I don't know what I'm going to do. I may just have to go out and buy the last book. It will be impossible to wait for that person to return it so I can get my hands on it. My husband calls these books literary crack... and he's not far off. I think I'm going to need a twelve-step program after I finish the final book.

I was so bummed when I got to work because the co-worker that was supposed to bring in Eclipse (the third book in the Stephenie Meyer's Twlight series) called into work today. Luckily my neighbor is reading them and has all four books! My wonderful husband noticed that she had the first one in her hand and started a conversation with her about it. Now I have Eclipse in my hot little hand and will start reading it as soon as I get back to work today. Woo hoo!

Hi, my name is Neptunebaby and I am an addict.

I'm proud to present my daughter's nails painted for the first time ever. I thought it would be a pain in the butt, but I have some of that quick dry nail polish so the job was done in minutes.

I read New Moon yesterday. The entire book in one day. My husband wasn't thrilled that I blew off the shows piling up on our DVR, but I just couldn't put the book down. Now I have to wait for Eclipse. I am going to go crazy all day with nothing to read! This is seriously starting to become disturbing.

Yesterday was horrible. I had to train someone at work so they were sitting with me all day. It was shear agony. The biggest reason? I couldn't read. I have been sucked into the world of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. I have had the book with me for months and never had the urge to pick it up - no matter how many people begged me to start reading it. "Once you start, you won't be able to stop!" They promised. I finally decided to start reading it Wednesday night because I was bored at work and boy.. were they right. I finished the first book in less than 48 hours and proceeded to beg a co-worker to bring me the 2nd. I was so excited when I walked into work this morning to find it sitting on my desk! These books are like a drug. I've only just begun the 2nd and I'm already afraid of getting to the end of the fourth too quickly. I don't want it to end.

Happy 2nd birthday to my beautiful daughter, Gabrielle.

Her 1st day here:

6 months old:

1 year old:

18 months old:

and now 2 years old today:

More Wordless Wednesday here

My supervisor is an asshole. I emailed her at around noon requesting my mid-year stats (that she never presented to me as she should have) to complete the interest form for the sales team and she never even bothered to email me back! She left for the day at around 5:30 pm and didn't even acknowledge me. How rude is that?

So, I just got back to my team yesterday and I am already filling out an interest form for our sales department. I feel horrible doing it because I feel like I might as well go up to my supervisor and tell her I don't want to be on her team, but that just isn't the case. I love my team and the people on it, but I'm not all that happy in customer service. There's not a lot of potential for bonus money where there is a huge amount in the sales department. Who can't use more money? Besides, the people that call for "service" are calling because they got a bill they don't agree with or a rate increase or something else that has them pissed off and wanting to yell at someone. I'm tired of having to kiss the asses of these angry people. I want a new, rewarding challenge. I am an insurance agent and I should be selling insurance, not fixing things that someone else screwed up or explaining why someone's insurance went up when they got a DUI. Uh, it's pretty self-explanatory.

My special assignment at work is over and I am now back on my regular team. It has been such an adjustment moving back. I was only gone for five months, but I feel like I am starting all over again. It's the strangest thing. And it's been a very long, busy day. I'm ready for it to be over now.

We celebrated Gabby's 2nd birthday today. Her actual birthday is on Wednesday, Nov 5th. We had such a great time and she was so happy and loved every bit of her party. Here are some pictures of our day. We took 75 pictures so I'm obviously only going to post a handful here.

Here are some pictures of the kids from our Halloween adventure last night.

Gabby and "the boy next door" who adores her..

Dad and the kids..

Playing in the leaves..

Trick or treat..

Thank you..