What We Have Been Up To

I have been neglecting the blog a bit this week but that is because we are in the process of moving. I think I mentioned that in the last post, but I just wanted to clarify once more. Right now we have been moving up all of our stuff to our parents house as we are in the process of looking for a place. We got out of our lease down here in San Diego a month early and our final day is tomorrow. So we drove down here early this morning from San Clemente and Zack went to work to train the new lab researcher for a few hours while I am at our studio cleaning up the place! I am avoiding anything with heavy chemicals so I have had a magic eraser in hand for the past two hours and let me tell you...these baseboards look amazing haha. We are just going to clean up everything today and get it spotless and then do the final walk through with our landlord tomorrow and then we are done and up in San Clemente! I have been absent from the blog for a while due to moving and birthdays and just a crazy hectic week!

This is my day today just cleaning up, renting a carpet cleaner, and scrubbing away! I will be posting a 14 week pregnancy update hopefully tomorrow, but it will likely be on the day that I actually turn 15 weeks... :(

I can't wait for things to go back to normal! Moving is a pain and it sucks up all of your time!

XOXO

Sydney 

I've Popped! & What we are Up to!

Around 11 weeks I was still feeling just kind of bloated and I was still able to suck my stomach in every now and then if I wasn't super bloated and you couldn't tell anything was going on down there. But a few days into the 12th week I woke up, and normally I wake up with a relatively flat stomach, and there was this lil' baby bump! I cannot suck it in at all anymore, there is no hope. I keep trying but when I do there is just this little beer belly that just sits there while my upper abdomen sucks in just fine haha. I feel like I have lost a lot of muscle strength in my lower abdomen it is a weird feeling!

So I will just show you the picture of waking up I think at exactly 12 weeks and then a few days later (yesterday) when I was at the gym and I had my little baby just hanging out working out with me.

Haha, not the cutest looking belly, just looks like I have a beer belly, but after breakfast and drinking some fluids it kind of evens out into more of a rounded little belly and not so much of a lower abdomen belly. Yes, it was laundry day again, hence the halfway taken apart bed. I'm just either getting unlucky with the days that I take these mirror shots or I am just extremely impressive and just super on top of the laundry...I think that we should agree to go with the latter.

Yesterday I went to the gym and here is the little belly friend with me. I normally go to the gym everyday or I will walk Oak around the neighborhood for an hour or so or do some HIIT workouts at home. If Oak doesn't get a walk during the day he for sure gets one at night. We never miss a day and it is also really good exercise for myself to walk a lot while pregnant. It is a low key workout and Oak holds me accountable ;). It has just been so hot out we normally stick to walking him at night. 

Last night we decided we would head up to San Clemente for the weekend until Monday. Zack has a friend's graduation party to go to and we were going to have to be up here anyways. The reason we are staying until Monday is because I have my ultrasound appointment later in the morning on Monday so we figured we would make a weekend of it up here. Fortunately it has cooled off. I do however love the heat when 7PM rolls around and we don't have to be bundled in sweatshirts like we normally do being so close to the water. Above is a picture I took when we were driving up to San Clemente last night. It was a pretty sunset and thought I would take a second and snap a picture!

Sadly there have been a lot of fires between San Diego, Oceanside and San Clemente. All you could smell in the air last night was smoke. Hopefully the families that had to be evacuated are safe and hopefully this more moderate temperature today calms things down.

I will be updating the blog probably on Monday with the rest of our weekend festivities as well as the ultra sound! In the mean time if you follow me on instagram you can have a pretty good idea of what we are up to! In the mean time enjoy your weekend!

XOXO

 Sydney 

What We Have Been Eating and Catch-up in Pictures!

So this past week has been kind of a hectic week, mentally. So I have not been too good about posting on here, but things are up and running this week so I am back to posting! I did receive my Frank's Coffee Scrub in the mail last week and I have used it twice and oh my gosh its amazing...seriously my skin is sooooo soft. It is definitely messy! But so worth it. It smells like coffee, chocolate, orange goodness...I know that sounds like a weird combination, but it smells great. I will do a more thorough review on it this week.

For now here are just some pictures of what we have been eating and some pictures that have been sitting on my camera roll and posted on my instagram...just to get caught up to date with everything!

Some Valentine's Day Lovin', I tortured our puppy by putting one of my floral headpieces on him, he hates anything on his head...he was our little Valentine this year! We also made homemade chocolates and chocolate covered marshmallows for our Valentine's day. Our first Valentine's day we shared together in high school Zack made me a box of home-made chocolates in this giant heart shaped box he decorated himself so I wanted to do that again this year just for fun. 

He also surprised me with three roses that looked like rose/peony hybrids. I love the pastel and green in them, he knows me well;)

We celebrated my sister's birthday at Carbonaras in San Clemente, an Italian Restaraunt. Her birthday was the 16th....she turned 20, so weird! So for a few months her and I are only 1 year apart (number-wise). 

Now here is just a bunch of food/meals we have had recently over the past week...

Yummy Garbanzo Bean Salad

Tso Chicken and Rice

Matzo Ball Soup

Orange Tomato Pizza 

Vitamix Banana "Ice Cream" and Tea 

So those were just a few meals that I had taken pictures of in my phone camera roll...

Now, this past weekend Zack and I cleaned the house Saturday morning and took the puppy love on a walk around the neighborhood, we then had a very uneventful cozy, tv show marathon day. It was pretty foggy on Saturday around afternoon time and we just wanted to re-cooperate from a long week laying on the couch cuddling and cleaning up the house. 

On Sunday we took Oak to my school to walk him around there, down on the cliffs to play at the mini dog park overlooking the ocean. I also had to do something in lab at school really quickly so we got that done in the morning. Then it was work out time for me while Zack made Cheese Blintzes (Gluten Free) they were sooooo yummy! Then I got laundry done while he did his work out...

I studied a bit and then we watched some tv before heading to bed!

Nothing too exciting this past weekend. I will be posting about the Frank's Coffee Scrub so look for that this week:)

-Sydney- 

Christmas Coziness- Our Home Decorated!

So last week I decorated for Christmas, yes I know it is early, and last week it was even earlier. I couldn't wait, I just had to! I was kindly reminded on my instagram that I had beat Nordstroms to decorating;) a proud moment...

So while I should have been studying I opted for decorating instead! 
 I included a few pictures of how we decorated our little place so far:)

I really hope to keep adding a few more things!

It has been a while since I have posted anything on here and that is because it has been hectic lately, we have been getting ready to go on vacation to Kauai this coming Thursday! We will be posting tons of pictures I am also gonna post a few of our meals we have been eating lately (that are gluten-free of course) so look out for those!

Meanwhile, take a peak at some Christmas craziness!!!

Merry Almost Thanksgiving ;)

Sydney 

Our Extra-Long Weekend!

HEY READERS!

We had a long weekend that started on Thursday last week...in short, I cleaned the house, did laundry, packed our stuff up in the car and drove up to San Clemente on Thursday afternoon around 2:30 pm. We went to visit my mom's boutique and see my brothers and then drive over to my dads house. Zack, Oak, and I stayed in the spare room at my dads house. 

Friday morning, we woke up, had breakfast with my dad, got ready for the day and went and walked around del mar where my mom's store is located. I got my hair trimmed next door at the salon and Zack walked Oak down to the pier. We then went to visit Zack's parents and went to dinner with them. We were exhausted and just wanted to sleep in our own bed so we drove an hour back down to our house in San Diego to sleep!

We woke up on Saturday morning, got showered and ready and all three of us jumped back in the car to head back up to San Clemente to watch my brother's soccer game that started at 1pm. We love watching him play and it is always more enjoyable when it isn't so hot out! Especially for those poor lil' guys out on the field. 

So here is kind of a few pictures of what our weekend entailed....

Zack was hosing down my mom's patio and Oak, being the water-hater that he is, hid in the bushes...totally camouflaged. Can't even spot him;).

Trying to sneak a picture of Oak and I at my Dad's house on Saturday morning....wasn't gonna happen. This pup senses the camera and bails!

Driving back up to visit our families on Saturday morning and to watch my brother's game. Giving the puppy some lovins'.

Oak facing the wrong way guarding Zack and I at my brother's soccer game.

Just a quick picture as the boys are all on the other side of the field:)

Saturday night, Zack, Oak, and I came back home and Zack and I watched some of "This is the End" and we stopped it half way through and went to sleep because I was exhausted. He had already seen it, but I hadn't so we finished it in the morning. Seriously, so funny! I love all of those actors and it was hysterical!!!

Sunday morning, we woke up and finished the movie, got ready, went grocery shopping, put groceries away, took a nap (which we never do) and woke up and just relaxed, had dinner, all those relaxing Sunday chores....you know how it goes. Then we got in bed around 10:45 pm and Zack started Iron Man 3 on his lap top. I swore I was going to go to bed, but I had to watch it. I made him stop it about an hour into the movie so we could finish it tonight! Haha!

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