yessi222's PhotoBlog

home sweet second home

2013-05-24T03:16:06Z

Aaaaaalmost getting the house to look just the way we want it. I like it so far :)

another graduation

2013-05-18T17:10:37Z

High school graduation (2001) was a blast. I was ranked 16th in a class of 480+, so standing at the very front of the line was kinda cool. It was also the one and only night my parents let me hang out with friends until midnight! Junior college graduation (2003) was cool also, although I have to say I don't remember it much. It was exciting to know I was on the right track. College graduation (2005) was absolutely amazing. I laughed, I cried, I felt accomplished, grown up, I was anticipating greatness all around! My entire family showed up for it and Ben's family did as well; it was perfect. Grad school graduation (2006) was... well I don't know, I wasn't there. As soon as I finished my last exam and turned in my final papers, I packed up my junk and moved up to St Louis before the ceremony even took place, and 2 weeks later I was a married woman. The diploma got mailed to me and although I never regretted not doing the ceremony, I do wish I had a picture or something... shoulda taken one when the diploma arrived in the mail, haha! So this time, for my second Master's degree graduation ceremony, I kept going back and forth as to whether or not to participate. It seemed like overkill, I mean, come on, what kind of nerdazoid gets 2 Master's degrees and brags about it? I was really undecided up until we were driving up to the arena, to be honest! But once I was standing in line and zipping up my robe and holding my name card in my hand, I was glad I was there. And the prego hormones made it all the more emotional ;) To life!

knocked up cheesiness

2013-05-15T14:04:48Z

Well now that everyone knows, let me get all this cheesy stuff out of the way. Being pregnant for the first time is totally bizarre. It's kinda like I'm part of this Mom Club except I don't have full access yet and I'm just kinda peeking in and still part of the other Non-Mom Club and kinda being a double agent or something. I've been showing my bump when it's convenient, like when I'm trying to close a sale and the buyer is a Mom Club member, but definitely hiding it other times, like when I'm ordering my eggs sunny side up at ihop (oh put a sock in it if you're about to criticize). I'm learning all these things about Mom-dom and then reporting back to Non-Moms, sometimes rolling my eyes at the silliness that goes on in that Mom Club. I feel super blessed to be pregnant, don't get me wrong, and I feel SUPER DUPER blessed that I haven't been sick at all (Mom Club members love to overshare every gross first-trimester experience, I'm learning), but I'm definitely a little scared of what's about to happen to me. To my body, which is looking all lumpy already, to my life, which up to this point has been pretty carefree and kinda selfish, and to my Cat, who will now have to deal with TWO boys constantly tormenting her. OH and to my friendships/acquaintances, because I know the transition from one Club to the other does not go without repercussions, as I have been the victim of friends switching memberships in the past and forgetting all about the members they left behind. Well, here it goes! I've thought a lot about whether I should start another photoblog for "pregnant Yessi/mom Yessi" and keep this one for "regular Yessi moments", but after taking a lot of things into consideration, I have to accept that my life is about to drastically change whether I want to keep a separate identity or not. So as much as I would hate for this to become a "mommy blog", I can't guarantee that it won't, because it's a record of my life just the way it is. And this is what it is... knocked up for now :)

Knocked up.

2013-05-15T02:03:10Z

It's true! It's a boy!

Go Mean Green graduate!

2013-05-12T01:21:12Z

pink blooms

2013-04-29T11:19:08Z

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." ~Robert H Schuller

Birthday portrait

2013-04-21T22:33:01Z

We went out and celebrated Shannon's birthday a day early, and I took the opportunity to snap a family portrait. One of the final touches needed at the house :)

on turning 29 (again)

2013-04-19T00:21:54Z

Yeah so I turned the big three-oh (AKA "29 again") back in February, but I hadn't really talked about it. So here's my rant. It didn't seem like such a big deal in January, when I was living my life as a busy 29 year old with a promising new job, new house, and really everything going just fine. SUDDENLY, [*dramatic music*] it was February 1st and I realized I was only one day away from having lived a whole three decades. And somehow all the great things I had going for me seemed insignificant and I started feeling suffocated by the fact that I have very few friends (like... 2, seriously), my family is far away, my ovaries are shriveling up, I still can't cook, my creative outlets are limited, I haven't been to Europe, and am I getting fat??? Oh it was terrible. I had an emotional breakdown of epic proportions. Thirty. THIRTY. No. Unacceptable. I deleted my birthday from Facebook [side note: no one remembers your birthday anymore if it's not on there. Besides my family, only 2 friends from high school remembered and sent me a message], cried all day, ate a whole cake my sister in law got for me all in one sitting, cried some more, and freaked Ben out to no end. Even the sushi dinner he took me out to was no match for the continuous waterworks. It was kind of a terrible day. A little over 2 months later and I'm coping a little better. Life is awesome right now! Why am I letting a number tell me whether or not I should enjoy it? I thank God I've had a very wonderful life so far... many adventures lived, many mistakes made, many lessons learned, so much still left to explore about myself and the world. Ok that's all :)

in the details

2013-04-17T14:54:43Z

Housewarming party soon! (finally!)

layover

2013-04-15T00:46:52Z

What fabulous luck! Daddy had a 2 hour layover in St. Louis on his way to Atlanta and Ben drove me over to see him at the airport. Love you, dad!