The Fair and The Festival

So here is my weekly update.

Friday night we went to the Orange County Fair with our friend Andrea, it was really fun and the first time I have been.
There was lots of fair food (cotton candy, funnel cakes, ice cream). I had a nice big corn on the cob and Jason had some kind of BBQ meat with potatoes.
There were some other interesting foods there - deep fried twinkies, deep fried cheesecake, deep fried snickers, deep fried avocado and my personal favorite, a Krispy Kreme donut with fried chicken in it, I am not making this up and I took a photo to prove it! (Check out the third sign at the top of the booth - if you click on the photo you will get a nice big version)






We also got to look at lots of different exhibits, including a giant 3000lb horse - it was so big but the pictures don’t do it justice because you cant get perspective of how HUGE he was. Just picture Jason standing next to a horse and it still being more than a foot taller than him.

Then this week we went to do another cultural thing (a little more cultured than the OC Fair). There is an art festival in Laguna every year called the 'Pageant of the Masters', part of the festival is a nightly performance of the 'Festival of Living Pictures'.
Now, I am not a huge art buff (although I do appreciate art) but this is the COOLEST art show you will ever see. Basically they take works of art and recreate them with real live humans. So they make a giant back drop, and place the characters in the picture, they then hold the position for about a minute or two. It's hard to explain how amazing it is, but the people posed in the pictures are painted and dressed to look EXACTLY like the real work of art.
I have included a photo of the last supper from the festival (yes this is the one with the people, not a picture of the actual painting), this is the closing piece every year.


So, we have had a fun week. My baby update is that this week I am 13 weeks. I have still got morning sickness (so much for it going away in the second trimester - I am still hoping), but apart from that am doing well.

Yes, I’m pregnant – why did we wait?

By now you will have worked out that yes, Jason and I are THRILLED to be expecting our first baby.

Some of you may be feeling a little out of the loop thinking, ‘but I didn’t know they were planning on having kids yet’ or ‘why did they wait 3 months to tell me?’ well the simple answer is that we didn’t really want the world to know we were trying because I had been told in the past that I may have difficulty getting pregnant and we didn’t want to share our news too soon because its fun to have special secrets between family and we wanted to test our parents patience… just kidding.

So now you understand here are the details…

• Our baby is due late January/early February a few weeks after our 5th wedding anniversary… I am sticking with Jan 31 as my due date because I don’t want to wait any longer than that.
  
• I have been having some charming morning sickness so please pray that this miraculously disappears as my first trimester is over.
  
• I do not look pregnant yet but am doing the rubber band around the button trick with my jeans.
  
• We are hoping to find out if we are having a boy or a girl but this won’t be for another few months.

We will be attempting to blog semi-regularly and posting lots of photos as things progress. Please feel free to pass this link on to anyone who was not included on this email because I have lost their email over the billion email address changes I have had in the past few years.

Thanks for praying and we love you all!