Week 38: Fun with Family & Friends

Happy Weekend!

Recap of the week so far:

Thursday-Short work day which was nice.  My dad really wanted to eat lunch at the Reagan Museum so we ended up there.  Before we went in, we took a couple photos of my dad...

Lunch wasn't bad and we got a discount for being members (my dad bought me a membership for my birthday).  Afterwards we walked down to see Air Force One which was pretty neat.

Yay Fish-eye lens to help get the whole plane in the shot!

Then we walked around a little more, and I got a neat photo of the piece of the Berlin Wall they sent to the museum.

After we saw some more of the museum, I had to go to my weekly checkup.  So far everything is still good-I gained only one pound, blood pressure is good, was told I can take Benadryl and/or Benadryl Cream for my itchy belly (very minor case of PUPPS, kind of a rash due to stretching of the skin.  My belly is just super red, but no lesions or gross things related), and I'm not dilated.  And still measuring normal even though I feel like a whale.  Overall, good checkup!

Friday-Last day of work which meant everyone pile on everything all at the last minute.  Besides a quick visit in the morning to the President's Office for their weekly "Morning Holiday Cheer", aka free hot cocoa, coffee, apple cider and cinnamon rolls, I was swamped.  I slipped away for a quick lunch with my folks too which was a nice break, but man, I was busy up to the last second of work.  I even left later than I planned on, but I had to leave at a certain time since my folks bought tickets to see the Hobbit at the local movie theater.  My favorite coworker gave me a gift card to Macy's from the whole music department right before I left-and they instructed that it was for me, not the baby.  How nice of them.  But, I'm not going to miss work at all!

The Hobbit was suuuuuper long, but the fight scenes were cool.  I guess I'm just baffled on why they had to stretch it into a trilogy.

Afterwards my folks insisted they follow me back to Santa Clarita to have dinner with the hubby too.  We ended up at El Torito and had a nice meal.

This morning I met up with Jen for a birthday/Christmas breakfast (belated birthday for her!).  I found a yummy breakfast cafe in between our places.

After catching up on life, I ran last minute Christmas shopping errands and headed home to wrap presents.  Now it's time to relax on a warm Saturday afternoon (folks, it's 70 degrees outside.  Mid-December.  Not a bad way to go!).  Countdown remains, 11 days to go!