welcome mulch

so monday was harvest day. its another holiday that i think exists solely here in utah. its a special day set aside to go out and harvest yerself some deer or elk or whatever you want to shoot and kill and hopefully eat. i decided to extend the 3 day weekend into a six day trip to go n harvest me some baby gear. first stop: new york. where i didnt take any pictures. but had of course a super fantastic time, tho very little sleep. well there are some photos, but they all look like this:

lots of cute small clothes and whoozitwhatsits that rattle and blankets and amazing hand knit things and books of all sorts and fuzzy lambys ... cant you just hear all the "awwwwwww loookat this its soooo cuuuute!"s. and i cant believe all the people that came all the way to the upper west side from places like texas, florida, and brooklyn. seriously, that brooklyn trip is almost as long as the flight from jacksonville. my friends and family are the best. next morning i had a shuffle bus pick me up at 6 am and drive me around and around midtown in the still dark morning before dropping me at newark airport where i flew to: chicago.

my dad and brother picked me up and we had one of the. most. amazing lunches. ever. can i say: duck prosciutto. ! its probably in that "do not eat when pregnant" category, but jesus god it was so damn good and i havent died and charlie is still punching me from the inside regularly, so... there, take that, what to expect to not eat when youre expecting... i finally had a solid night's sleep at the family's lake house in the indiana dunes:

steel city quick stop mart gas station. welcome mulch 5 for 999. which if you didnt know, is a really good deal...

when i woke up the next morning, this was my dad's breakfast (the first, he had 3 more). we have perogis with sour cream, a bag of mini snickers and some ice cream... this was also his dinner the previous night.

dads porch:

and chicago division shower cupcakes. kinda got destroyed in transit. thats sups to be an airplane on the center cupcake.

and back to cedar city on monday. kb picked me up at the airport and we went directly to car dealership and signed a million papers and the next 4 years of our life away. yes, we reconsidered our reconsider and decided to get the nissan... im still recovering from all the traveling, too much too pregnant. so right now i think its nap time. happy friday!