16 weeks (sorry I'm late)!!!!

As of last Thursday we are now 16 weeks along!  It seems like the last few weeks have really flown by.  I feel like I've gone from early pregnancy, to really being pregnant now.  I think the biggest part of this has to do with me actually starting to show a little bit, and just generally feeling a lot better.  I still get tired easily and need to eat at the right times, but I feel like I'm getting better at knowing my limits and I have good people around me to help as well.  Here is the belly pic from last week....

This past week was absolutely crazy, but I'm glad it is now behind me and I can go back to "normal life".  The past 2 weekends Pete and I attended 2 different crawfish boils.  Last weekend was at a friend of his from college's brother's house in Katy, and this weekend was at my friend Alison's house.  Both were a lot of fun!  I am thankful that my doctor is so relaxed about whole pregnancy diet and didn't have any concern over me eating the little "bugs".  I have to laugh because people have such preconceptions about what a pregnant woman can and can't eat.  I know they mean well, but sometimes I just want to say "take is easy!"  Here is a picture from last weekend with Andrea (my sister-in-law), John (Pete's brother), Monroe (Pete's friend), Pete, and me.

Then, as I mentioned before I was "on the road" or maybe I should say "in the air" all of last week.  The trips to Santa Barbara and Oklahoma City were productive, so no complaints here.  While I was out of the office it sounds like some big changes happened at work.  My boss is moving to Chicago, and another guy (who I was actually in Cali with) is taking his position.  I'm not sure of all the details yet, but I'm a little anxious just because it is one more big change to deal with.  I have faith though that everything happens for a reason and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will turn out to be good for me and the other people I work with.  Pete and I have been talking a lot about my nervousness of being a working mother.  I know thousands of women are successful at being both every day, and that I can be too.  There are sacrifices to come when it comes to how my time gets divided, but I'm thankful for a supportive husband and employer and I have faith that I can do it all or at least the strength to know when I can't and to get help.