So I know I am incredible behind on posting on here. Which is a shame, because between week 20 and now, week 22, I have majorly grown. Lucky for me, it has all been growth in my upper stomach, so all my pants still fit just fine. The main difference is the rise in my shirt. I still feel like it just looks like I ate way to much. So if people wanna touch, prepare for me to take offense, and punch you. So once again, I will be splitting up my late updates into several posts.
So now for the first one, I will take you back to Valentine's Day weekend.
Ahhhh Valentine's Day. For the happily coupled person, this is such a great day of joy to look forward to. Not so much when you are the pregnant half of the coupled duo, and your other part is deployed. The most you can look forward to is the hopes that he somehow will manage to get an email through, and that your overly driven hormones won't cause you to go on a drive by rampage on all love birds skipping down the street in bless.
So needless to say, I was a little concerned on how my emotions would take a turn on Love fest weekend. Thankfully though, the wives on this boat are an amazing support group. They planned a group get together of about 14 of us wives at Koto's for February 13th, and Lexi and I made our own plans for Feb 14th. So a weekend of dread turned into a weekend of fun.
The outfit I wore to Koto's is the same thing I wore on Christmas, and that I took the Xmas pictures in. You can really see how it fits differently now. Koto's was amazing food as always. This time I splurged the extra dollar and got steak. I got squirted in the face with a little doll that makes it look like he is peeing on you. It was just water though. I was supposed to catch it in my mouth, but I had soup in there, so it ended up on my face. At then end of our dinner, the manager was completely rude to us though, and asked us to hurry and leave. I could understand her doing this if we were lolly gagging, but some of us were still eating dessert, and others still waiting on getting their cards back. I get that VDAY weekend is a big weekend, but we paid a lot to eat there, and don't deserve to be rushed out. Lexi was the only brave one in the group to say something, and the woman just stamered out apologies. Her embarrassment was totally worth it. All in all, it was definitely a good night.
You can really see the pop here 20 weeks & 5 days
Front View
A close up of Koto's outfit
Then the next night was Valentine's Day. I went to the gym with Lexi in the morning, then came home, showered, scrunched my hair, and Lexi & I went to Providence, RI. Providence is an hour away. We had pre-bought movie tickets in our town for 950 for the movie Valentine's Day, so we figured if we left at 5pm, we would have plenty of time to drive there, eat, and get back to the movie. The goal meal place was Cheesecake Factory. I have never been there, so was stoked to try out what all these Northerns talk about. We did not take into affect though, that every party of two would also be out on Valentine's Day. By the time we got to Providence, and found an overly priced parking garage, we came to discover Cheesecake Factory had a 2.5 hour wait time. So we started to walk the street looking for another place. After being denied any access to one other place, bypassing a urberly disgustingly fancy looking place, we ended up at a place called Joe's. Their wait was 1 hour to 90 minutes. We decided to chance it. However I dragged Lexi over to the bar area. A lot of restaurants have first come, first serve at the bar. To our luck, this bar seating also had table. We weren't even there ten minutes, when I spotted a couple get up, and claimed their table.
The waiter was awesome and very funny. He was also shocked to discover I was pregnant [Oh yea he got tipped extra for that] Towards the end of our meal though, we realized we were quickly running out of time, so we asked for their special [chocolate covered strawberries and a special whip cream] Unfortunately, it being that darn Vday holiday, there were already out of it. So we pouted bc chocolate covered fruit was what we were really excited for. So we asked if they had bananas, or grapes, or any fruit they could dip. The guy laughed at us, knowing we were pregnant, and went to see what he could do. He eventually brought his manager over to talk to us. At this time, I went to the bathroom, and came back to find Lexi in a story of us ending up at Joe's. The manager misunderstood her though, and thought we came an hour JUST to eat at Joe's. So Lexi went with it. Haha. She said oh yeaaaa my husband and I came here, and I wanted her to try it. Problem was Lexi had never been there, but she didn't want to offend the guy by saying "Well this was actually our last choice". The guy was so flattered with us though, that he had someone go get strawberries, and made us the dessert on the house. By the time this was all done though, we were incredibly late to our movie. So we just got our tickets refunded, and went and watched the movie, I Hate Valentine's Day at her house.
My Vday Outfit with Lexi
Had to scrunch my hair to save on time
Same outfit I wore on New Year's Eve. Little different looking on me now
Why hello there suddenly larger belly!
20 weeks and 6 days pregnant
See how high my belly is now?
A close up
This one I sent to David in a care package.
Those duck lips are an attempt at kissy face
Happy Vday from Teddy & Me!
Doesn't Teddy look so amused?
The next day for lunch, we did go to Providence, RI again for a Valentine's Day redo. We went to Cheesecake factory, and I gotta say, it was worth it. 21 pages for the menu, and two pages alone for different types of cheesecakes! I got an upside pineapple cheesecake. Then we went to the Imax theater to watch the movie Valentine's Day. Excellent movie as well. Some spots had Lexi and I tearing up, which when you watch the movie, you would totally guess where. I also love the comfort of the Imax theater. The theaters here are absolutely ridiculous. The price of a ticket is $9.50. The seats are all one level, and hard as rock. The kind of seats you find at the dollar theater in TX. I think I will boycott them from now on. The Imax theater was huge, with surround sound, seats that go high up, with padding, and can recline, and have cup holders. Plus military discount baby. My ticket was only $7!
So Valentine's Day Weekend wasn't the bust I was expecting it to be. I still would rather have had David home, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices to insure a better future. We will have lots more valentine days together, and this time they will include our little girl!
I am still waiting on my own Daddy to send me some Vday chocolates. Ahem. Get on that. That's your job as Daddy, to forever provide me with chocolate. Haha
But now I will end this Vday post... bc I have a doctor's apt coming up. Expect more updates soon
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