bad blogger

Yep, missing out on 3+ weeks of pregnancy updates makes a bad mommy blogger indeed. well, it's a good thing i'm not a mommy blogger then, right? anywho, here are some things:

thing a: know that i fully intended to take a week 25 & 26 picture. but week 25 came around and i looked at my belly and said "you look the same". and then i took a nap. week 26 came around and i had a camera in my grasp, but we got busy celebrating a wedding. i do have a week 27 picture. you may say "hurray! i love watching molly's body distort!" sorry to disappoint, but the belly isn't very visible due to the fact that i cropped my girlfriends out of a baby shower picture [see thing b] and it's not really belly-specific. and here's the final word on your weird obsession with my body -- i am again without a camera/photographer [see thing c], so pictures rely on my ability to hook up the skype camera to the computer and snap them of myself (from a distance. using magic.) so, go ahead and calculate those odds.

thing b: i got to have a vacation! it was my only summer vacation this year (no betty or coronado, although without the wine would it really have been a vacation at all?) I joined michael in flagstaff for some quality yarborough/lemoyne time & a wedding. it was Very Much Fun. then michael came home to take care of the pup and i hung around Hotel de Wiedel for a week. you guys, that's a great hotel - fully stocked maxi-fridge, big screen tv, wifi, pool, and amazing staff. you've got to stay there if you get a chance. also, my mom & sister threw me a sah-weet baby shower. see photographic evidence below

i fully expect my mom to download the pictures she took of all the wonderful gifts baby fenner & i received. (editors note: that is a joke and it's funny because i'm not sure when was the last time my mom transferred pictures from a camera to a computer. love you mom!)

the un-cropped photo of me & my lady-friends

the only decorations. honestly, do this streamer/balloon combo. sooo easy - see how proud ashley is of her work?! also, the food was amazing!

kristina ordered me up a rad cake. it had a little owl and a hidden TARDIS! plus it was super tasty! shout out to jen-jen for knowing how to cut that bad boy.

no games, but we did have a calendar for people to guess when the baby will come & write a card to baby fenner. plus a "create a onesie" station.

thing c: i came home, michael got called out to a fire, and our town started burning to the ground about 4 hours after he left. you may have seen information about the waldo canyon fire on the news (i'm not sure what's going on in other parts of the world. do you still get to watch 'so you think you can dance'? all i get is news anchors repeating the same 4 pieces of information every 12 hours). the fire did a mega-jump over a few ridges into an area where the homes back right up to open spaces. and, as it jumped, firefighters said "crap, we've got to drive over there!" but they can only drive on roads and fire gets to fly like a bird. and, as firefighters scrambled over to the area, the wind said "oh, ho ho! i'm going to blow like a megabeast and light this shit UP!" and it did. and then it burned everything it could, like wildfires do. the town said, "everyone in this area get the eff out of here!". i said "but, that is very close to MY house? do i need to get the eff out of here?" no one gave me a very definitive answer. so i cried and then ignored it and then packed up all our most valuable things and then worried and cried a little more and then sweated myself to sleep.
happily, yesterday was a better day for both myself and those who oppose wildfires burning down their town. and it seems as though today is as well. i'm still at home, but feeling more confident i can stay here (as long as it doesn't get too smokey or hot). 


thing d: baby fenner is good. moving around (although he's very stingy & didn't let many people feel him move. maybe the heat put him into a womb-coma) and starting to make my stomach make waves. i'm good - sleep & aches aren't awful. development-wise, things are more of the same. yay! we didn't miss much these past few weeks!

so. fun things have been happening. don't you all wish you could have adventures like me? 

the saddest thing (for today)

sorry about the no-post last weekend. michael & i had been putting off pretty much every errand/chore/task for about a month, so we had a lot to do. also, we forgot to take a picture. and then michael left for his backpacking bachelor party in az today, so i have no camera. you'll all just have to wait for more pictures of my ever expanding stomach. i know how you so dearly love it.

anyway, this is really about the saddest thing. and here is the saddest thing: michael left this morning for az, right? well, cooley and i proceeded to have a typical weekday, but around 4pm he gets pretty antsy. wandering, licking, wanting to play with weird toys. i say "do you miss michael?" his ears perk up and he runs to the window to see if michael is home. and then, he pretty much hangs out by the window for the next 5 hours. poor guy. i always tell michael that cooley loves him more, but he doesn't believe me. i better take some video this week of cooley's pitiful window watch, waiting for him to come home. 

 and, maybe, that's not the very *saddest* thing. but i'm pregnant and it makes me a little weepy. so it's the saddest thing for today. 

the two best friends that anyone could have

this is what cooley looks like when you get home.

when i was looking for a picture of cooley & michael, i found this one from christmas 2 years ago. ah! why do they get bigger than this?!