Happy Mardi Gras!

When I think of Mardi Gras, I think of King Cake, New Orleans, beads, Bourbon Street, etc…. Last year one of my co-workers and his wife purchased us a King Cake from a New Orleans bakery. It was fantastic! As the story goes, whoever gets the baby that is hidden in the King Cake is supposed to buy the next King Cake. Well, Buck and I came up with our own version…..you see, Buck got the baby in the King Cake last year and we ended up with a real baby! So, this year when a different co-worker of mine shared a King Cake with us I said I was not allowed to find the baby. We don’t need babies that close in age! As I was getting things ready for Little Buckaroo this past weekend I actually stumbled across the little plastic baby from last year’s King Cake. It is for sure going in the baby book!

We have weekly visits with the dr. now and yesterday everything checked out fine. We go back next Tuesday for a progress check and ultrasound. The dr. wants to make sure my placenta has “moved” out of the way and to check on the kiddo. I can’t believe my ticker says “21 days to go!” The dr. commented that Little Buckaroo won’t be arriving anytime soon. In the words of Steph, “if he's anything like you, he'll be fashionably late.” HA! Let’s hope he is fashionably late because his Daddy and crew are working away on home sweet home.

And this one is for the girls….we may not be in New Orleans (except Jen) to celebrate Mardi Gras, but our picture is! Some of the girls hosted a fantastic bachelorette party for me in New Orleans in September 2007. Being the typical bachelorette party and wanting attention, the girls dressed up as devils and I was the bachelorette angel the Saturday evening of our trip. We had drinks at Pat O’Brien’s Bar that night in the French Quarter and our picture taken in front of their “fiery fountain.” Fastforward a year when Jen submitted our picture into a Pat O’s photo contest celebrating 75 years in business and WE WON! We won as best picture for the 2000’s!! So, last January 2009 a group of us met up in New Orleans to view our poster-sized picture now hanging in Pat O’s and redeem our free VIP party. Good times, good times. If you are ever in New Orleans, swing by Pat O’s and give a nod to our picture. Here is a picture of us with our winning photo....we are famous!