12+ month pregnancy

me: What I learned on my run today: I definitely need new sports bras.
laura: Or you're prego.
me: Of course! You know what else I learned? Once you're married, your birth control stops working.
laura: And people accuse you of being pregnant all the time. True facts.
me: It starts when you're engaged. But if you tell people that your dress has no seam allowance for a baby bump, they stop for a few months.

Nothing Kinda

coworker: Oh, we kinda match.
me: What? We're both wearing blue?
coworker: No, our hands, our rings.
me: Umm, sure, ok...

me in my head: No our rings definitely don't match. they don't even kinda match. Why? Because my rings are my wedding band and engagement ring from my 32 year old husband, and your ring, is a promise/class ring you wear on your ring finger from your 21 year old boyfriend of 2 months.
Soooo, no. Our rings don't match.

Triple Crown

Today is the Belmont Stakes!
Oh wait, what's that? The horse that was a triple crown contender has been scratched?
Oh, never mind.

I'm actually glad the horse was pulled from the race due to an injury.  There are people who don't agree with any aspect of horse racing (though they are wrong, because it is awesome), but running a horse at the risk of a career, possible life ending injury is something I think is cruel. However, pulling I'll Have Another now means no one will watch the Belmont.  One of the reasons I love the Kentucky Derby is because it's the first in the triple crown.  The Derby is what starts it off. 

So, now we wait another year. Oh well!

Pack Light

me: Do you have pj pants I can borrow? I forgot to pack mine.
jeanne: Sure thing.
lb: You also forgot to pack a sweater to wear in church.
me: That I did.
matt: Wait. You forgot to pack pj pants and a sweater, but you remembered the dress to wear to church for the baptism?
me: Yep.
matt: How how did you forget pj's and not a dress?
me: Because I packed something like 4 dresses just in case.
matt: So... You pack like N?
me --pause--: Yes. I pack like your 2 year old.

Princess

Mike forwarded a coworker who couldn't make it to the wedding the slide show our photographer put together. (BTW, my photographer ROCKS. She not only did she have the slide show of photos edited, she also had all our proofs up in less than a week!).  The coworker had her 3 year old daughter with her that day and when she (the 3 year old) saw the pictures, she called me a "pretty princess."

Which is awesome. Because princess, especially from a 3-year-old, is pretty much the highest praise you can get!

Different

So I don't know why or can explain how life/this:

my favorite engagement picture

 

feels a little different than this:

one of my favorite wedding day pics (so far)
hint: I'm the one in the dress

But it does somehow. 

Our living arrangement didn't change, the dogs are still spaztastic, and I wear 2 rings instead of one now. On the surface, it doesn't seem that different.

But our stuff got nicer, dr soc wears a ring, and I go by mrs dr soc now, which does feel different somehow.  I can't explain what exactly it is, but just different. A good different. A comfortable different. A happy different.

Different's nice!