We're Back!

After a 4 day trip across the country we are back in South Carolina! We left San Jose on Monday afternoon to get a few hours in so we could try to beat some of the snow that came on Thursday. We were lucky enough to find a Chick-fil-a in Barstow, CA that night! I cannot stress enough how good Chick-fil-a is when you haven't had it for 6 months! I think the baby agreed because he/she was kicking like crazy after dinner :)

We did see a little snow outside of Memphis down to Atlanta, but the roads were fine. We finally made it home on Thursday night-just in time to get a pizza and watch the National Championship. After settling in for a day and getting some errands done we headed out to celebrate Andy's mom's birthday on Friday night at California dreaming. Then we were off to Columbia for the weekend to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. It was great to see everyone, and to meet the new little edition to the Lippard family (Santa brought Stefanie and Katie a morkie-yorkie/maltese)

In the past couple of weeks I feel like my belly has really started to harden and poke out a little bit. I've been meaning to keep better track of how I'm growing, but it hasn't been much until lately. So here's the first of my "belly pics". This was taken at exactly 20 weeks-half way there!

@ 20 weeks:

*feeling more like myself

*feeling the baby kick ALL the time-especially at night. Andy even felt a kick once

(everyone likes to joke that "there's a little kicker in there")

*a new found liking for ketchup--never really ate it before but I think I'm liking it because it's sweet--or because there is a half-Andy baby in there and Andy puts ketchup on everything

*already having some trouble sleeping-getting up a couple times a night, and early in the morning sooo hungry!!! But overall feeling pretty good!