6 Months Pregnant! And Other Stuff.

6 months pregnant today!  Woo hoo!

Da belly.

Let me check through my first pregnancy belly pics and see how far along I am compared to the first time.

Here's the 6-month mark the first time around.  Similar, but not quite.....

Here's 25 weeks from the first time around.  I'd say that's just about identical.

So maybe I'm just about a week off now compared to my first growth scale?  With the exception of my love handles and back fat.  And I think my boobs as well.  All of that is definitely larger this time around.  Of course this time the first time around, I was still running regularly.  I had another month of running in me, actually!  Not so much this time.  The "no running" combined with my daily afternoon snack of cake icing something sweet has taken its fat toll.  But that's okay.  I'm okay with all of that.  BECAUSE I'M PREGNANT AND I CAN.

Speaking of running.....that reminds me that I need to register for the Country Music Marathon by the end of the month to get the best price!  It goes up $10 after September 30th (then an additional $20 after December 31st).  Not that it matters if it costs me $10 more, but since I KNOW I want to run it I might as well pay the smallest amount possible.  Half marathons are NOT cheap - especially the ones that are a part of a popular national series (which this one is).

Once Baby #2 gets here and I'm hardly working at all, I'm thinking paid race entries would be AWESOME gifts!

Another half marathon I've been wanting to do for 2 years but haven't for this reason or other is the Berry College Half Marathon in Rome, GA.  I have read/heard that it is a gorgeous run on a gorgeous campus that boasts to be "the largest campus in the world".  It's too bad that it falls at the end of March......I think that would just be way too early for me to even attempt.  They do offer up a 10k as well, but that's a long way to drive for a 10k.  Ah well.  Maybe the Berry College Half will be a goal for 2015!

Pic of an Old Mill on the Berry College campus.

Or maybe I'll just be feeling super spunky come March and sign up for it anyway as a last minute idea.  I REALLY highly doubt it, but one can think big!

Another goal I have after Baby #2 gets here is to finish my tattoo sleeve.  It's been a work-in-progress for YEARS and it is PAST TIME to finish it up!!  That requires even more money than half marathons and a babysitter for many hours at a time (cough, cough......you know who you are, Mom).  I'd like to finish it before the wedding in May, but we'll just have to see if that works out. 

Delano?

I'll wrap this blog up with a pic of my nugget, because he's 13 months old now and thinks he's hot stuff!