ahhhh summer!

Summer in Iowa can be SO beautiful!! This weekend was about the nicest weather anyone could order up: around 80°, partly cloudy, light breeze, and low humidity. Perfect for a biking and camping trip! I had no trouble completing the 50 miles to the campsite yesterday - I kept up with everybody just fine and I didn't get sunburned. I even felt like if I needed to bike in order to get home today, I could've, even after sleeping on the ground. But I didn't bike, I drove, because I'm taking it easy, remember. :) I'm flying high right now after a relaxing, fun weekend, and I have my hubby back so that makes it even better. If only it weren't almost time for my Sunday-night blahs, life would be pretty perfect right now. I used to get very anxious on Sunday nights, sometimes to the point it would ruin a weekend, butI guess I'm past caring now, and I just get a little blah instead. If work is terrible tomorrow, it's not that I'm not trying hard enough throughout the week, and that's all I can do anyway.

Travis listened to the baby's heartbeat this afternoon, just by putting his ear to my belly. It was so cool!!! I'm getting pretty annoyed with the daily emails from WhatToExpect.com as they run out of subject matter (and include 90% of their information and hilarous sidenotes in parenthesis) (see, it's annoying, isn't it??), but I'm glad they suggested that he listen. I was afraid he'd just hear gas bubbles and my heartbeat, but he said it was loud and clear, twice as fast as mine. What an awesome moment, watching him listen to our kid's heart. I had been feeling bad that whenever he tries to feel movement, it's as if Baby knows it's him and holds very still. I don't think he really knows what the massive position-changing getting-comfy movement really entails, because he always misses out on that. But he got in on the heartbeat, which I can't do, so that was really great.

I'll try to post another picture of me tomorrow, because right now the camera is full of pictures from Trav's trip to Luxembourg. The first thing he said to me when he hugged me after he got back yesterday was, "You've gotten bigger." Good - cuz I feel bigger!! All this food must be going towards something.

Oof!! :)