22 weeks

The past few weeks have been Great! FREE of sickness and I have really enjoyed it. I am pretty sure this past week that I just woke up one day and had a belly. It felt like it all of a sudden appeared and now it is obvious that I am pregnant. I had 4 random people come up to me at work in a single night asking if I was pregnant! Since I feel like "the bump" appeared out of nowhere, it is a little weird to see myself in the mirror. I felt so unsure of myself the other day. haha. I had people basically bash me for saying that. You have to understand though... I have (obviously) never looked this way. I have been the same size for a loooong time. I know that I am not "fat" and plenty of people tell me how great I look (thanks), but it is still so weird to see myself look this way. I'm happy though and wouldn't change it for anything.

We cleaned out the nursery this weekend. It has basically been somewhat of a storage room since we moved in & Wes uses the closet in there for his coaching clothes. Those will have to stay b-c there is no room anywhere else and well, Reed doesn't need much of a closet anyways. :) I am still searching for a changing table- they are quite expensive. The one that matches our crib set costs more than the crib did! No thanks. I have found some bedding that I like and got so excited the other day as I was scanning through and found it for SALE $123!!! With my 10% off for being a new customer = $113 I immediately started clicking online in order to purchase and clicked confirm only to find out they were out of stock! Whaaaat?! disappointment. Hopefully more will come in soon. Everywhere else this bedding is at least $250, so you can understand my excitement/disappointment. I also bought some signs to start painting for Reed's room!
This was a door sign given to me by a good friend who helped me to pick out NINE hostess gifts for a shower! Not an easy task.... She was such a big help and then gave me this! How sweet and super CUTE!

Spaghetti Pie !

One of my FAVORITES !!
Sounds Weird and doesn't make the best presentation, but oh so good! It does not come out in such a pretty pie piece right out of the oven.. it has to settle a bit if you are concerned with making it look pretty. It never looks pretty when I eat it because it is just too good to let settle, haha. This picture was actually taken today when I got out a piece from leftovers. A lovely co-worker introduced this recipe to me, and I came home to find it sitting right there in my BHG cookbook! There are several variations to the recipe, but I have used the same one each time I've made it. Here is the recipe from the Better Homes & Garden website:

http://www.bhg.com/recipe/pasta/spaghetti-pie/

I made some small changes.... I chose not to use cottage cheese, which I am sure tastes fine, just a personal preference. I instead used 1 cup of ricotta cheese and I mixed it with a small dollop of light sour cream so that it would spread a little easier. I also used hamburger meat over sausage since that is what I use to make my normal spaghetti. Enjoy! ;)