Monday, March 28, 2011

"get to know me monday." - w.4

so i have quite a few questions that were left unanswered from my "ask my anything" post way back before our hawaiian vacay.  i've been meaning to answer them because they were all really good ones, so i'm gonna pick a few & answer them each monday for the next few weeks.

amy r. asked {via email}:

"is there anything about your pregnancy that you regret doing or not doing?"

so there's really not much i would change.  i feel like i worked out a ton, i didn't go crazy with eating crap but still indulged plenty, i kept going to work until the day i delivered, & i tried to enjoy every moment.  i took belly pictures every week & blogged about my pregnancy, too.

when i think about my next pregnancy & what i might do differently, i plan on eating healthier because i've heard your body doesn't recover quite as quickly with your second pregnancy.  i want to do weekly belly pictures & updates again & i don't think i'll be in as big of a hurry for it to fly by.  this time i know how much work the baby is once he's outside of the belly!


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emily asked:

"how did you & sam meet, & how long did you date before getting engaged + how long were you engaged before you got married?"

oh man, this should really be a series of posts in itself {which i really wanna do some day}, so i'll keep this short & sweet.  sam & i met while going to washington state university.  we lived in the same apartment complex & had some of the same friends.  i would notice him walking by my apartment everyday on his way to get the mail & i found ways & reasons to "bump into him."  now i would say i merely strategically placed myself in places where i could strike up conversations with him.  but, i have friends who use words like "stalker", "creeper", "psycho"... whatever, it worked.  he eventually asked for my number, we started hanging out, that led to dating, which led to marriage, baby, & the rest is history!

we dated about a year and a half before getting engaged.  but ya know what?  i was ready to marry this guy after the first date.  not joking.

we got engaged october 2005 & were married december 2005.  yup, two month engagement!  i'm living proof you don't need months & months to plan a wedding.  ha!


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amanda asked {via email}:

"how do you organize your photos?  do you have a system?"

i don't have a system, i have iPhoto!  having an iMac makes it easy peasy.  all my pics get dumped into iPhoto & then are grouped as events.  it's pretty sweet.  but when i take one & edit it for the blog, i save it in a "blog pictures" folder which is subcategorized by date so i can go back & find the picture later according to date of post it was in.  make sense?  it works... until i can think of a better way to do it.  haha.


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ok, that's it for now!  i'll answer more questions next monday.  if you have questions, go ahead & ask 'em in the comments or send me an email & i will try to answer them in the order they've been asked.  i'll just keep on doing these posts on mondays as long as i have questions to answer!

thanks friends.

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18 comments:

  1. I got giddy when I saw there were no other comments and decided I had to write something this time instead of just lurking!

    I still have yet to hear the full dating story! Some day soon, k?

    See you tomorrow morning!

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  2. Wow, a 2 month engagement! That's awesome. I did about 7 months and I thought that was tough. I can't picture having a really long one, though. I would be too antsy to get the show on the road :)

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  3. haha that is awesome to know. I got engaged in Feb and married in May. =-) Glad I am not the only one. Awesome. I enjoyed the lil story on how you met. Really cute.

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  4. I love your Q&A! I think I might do this, too. I just hope people ask me questions. :)

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  5. This was so fun! I loved your answers and its fun getting to know you!! Cute story of how you met Sam! :)

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  6. Always fun to remember those times...It certainly turned out great!

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  7. Wow I can't believe you were only engaged for 2 months! Charlie and I got engaged after three months but were engaged for 2 years (school). I would have married him after the second date though. Such a cute story! Can't wait to hear the full story!

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  8. I just found your blog a few weeks ago so this is my first time commenting. I can't believe you planned a wedding in such short of a time! Did you have a big or small wedding then? We were engaged for almost a year and a half!! But I really only set a date and started planning 6 months before

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  9. I can confirm that your body does NOT recover as quickly after the 2nd baby {although I also waited 13 years}...

    My hubs could also be referred to as, stalker or creeper... and got what he wanted in the end too ;)

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  10. Ha ha you STALKER! But there's nothin' wrong with that method, you got your man, right? :)
    And I use iPhoto still! I LOVE it. Mac's are pretty much the bomb.com.

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  11. I wanted an engagement like that. We knew we were getting married so I'm not sure why we waited so long!

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  12. Yay! I love question/answer posts!! I have a question--where did you get your brown boots from with the orange zipper on the backs of them?? I saw them on another blog and it was mentioned that they were from famous footwear but I can't find them anywhere on that website. Could you give me some more details??
    Thanks a bunch!!
    Amanda

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  13. 2 month engagement? That's about how long we had. :) loved reading this!!

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  14. Good to know what worked for you during pregnancy! you look great even at 9 months pregnant! I'm scared that when I get pregnant I will be too sick to work out.. That is part of the reason why I am starting to work out now. I want to be in shape when I get pregnant and hopefully keep exercising throughout my pregnancy. I also had like a two month engagement. I am not picky at all with things so it was really easy for me to plan a wedding in two months:) We dated for five years before getting engaged so I was anxious to just tie the knot already! haha. I hope you have a great day!

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  15. I just wanted to tell you I love your blog. The way it's set up, the way you show how Parker is growing, your birth story, Everything! I'm new to the whole blogging scene and to being a mother. I've looked at many other blogs but yours just stands out. Also your photography is amazing. Thank you for sharing it!

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  16. I <3 these posts! I had a 6 month engagement, and I would never advise anyone to wait longer. It can take over your life!

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  17. You were super cute prego! I actually had an easier time getting the weight off the second time, but I didn't gain as much weight and worked out a lot more during my pregnancy.

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  18. You guys are so cute! It's def harder to bounce back the 2nd time but you look like you didn't gain at all in your first pregnancy so you'll do great!

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