tagged - 5 things

I just deleted the entire post right before I was about to post it...very lame! I'm sure you all know how that feels. Let's see if I can remember the 5 things I don't think anyone knows about me... This is for you, Jamie!

1. I love to be at the lake, but you'd have to push me into the water...I HATE getting in water! (deep, dark water)

2. When I was little (probably 4 or so), I had a bucket of chocolate in my room from my Easter hunt the day before and I wasn't supposed to eat it before I had breakfast. Talk about TEMPTATION. I went to the kitchen after eating my fill, and my dad asked, "Did you have breakfast?" and I said, "YEAH! CHOCOLATE CEREAL!" I got in big trouble; what parent lets a little chocaholic have a BUCKET of chocolate candy in her room!?

3. When I went to Brazil, one of my favorite thing was cracking the crab shells to get the meat out of their hairy legs- AAH! sounds really gross, but the meat was too good to care!

4. I want to host a Travel Channel show like Samantha Brown's - how fun would that be!? Your job would be to stay in nice hotels and experience different cultures and food!

5. As for dreams Jamie - I have an annual dream about the Running of the Bulls where I run into an old wood/cement house with my famiy and shut a wooden door and run up wooden stairs and try to hide from a scary, mad, big bull that's tearing through the door and about to run up the stairs when I wake up - ah!

Now it's someone else's turn!

experience of a lifetime

Today I had the most awesome experience I've had in quite some time. While I was driving to Chili's with my neighbor she asked if I would be able to go to her doctor's appointment with her for an ultrasound. And since I wouldn't mind being pregnant right now, and I want to work around medicine, I figured, "WOOHOO! my first baby ultrasound!" So I told her I would be able to. We went to her appointment and when the doctor started I was in disbelief at what I was seeing!! She is only about 22 weeks along, but the baby is about 12 inches long and 1.5 lbs (not even very big). No matter the size, I was still able to see the baby's facial features very clearly and he was moving his arms and rolling around - he looked VERY comfy in that space! I noticed it was a boy even before the doctor told us - yes, told us. Holly wanted it to be a surprise and was VERY upset when the doctor told us, "look! your husband will be happy if he wanted a boy!" :O I felt so bad for Holly! Then the doctor turned on the heart sounds - I teared up and it wasn't even my baby. There was something so spiritually amazing that this little person was growing inside of my friend - and that someday I'll have a little someone relying completely on me. It was very humbling and it made me want to be pregnant right then and there :P But only time will tell. ;) don't get any ideas! :-

I just wanted to write a note about how amazing I thought it was; it made pregnancies so much more real to me. I was so glad she asked me to go with her today. To say the least, it was life changing.